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Podcasting

Podcasting

I make original, independent shows as well as podcasts for brands.

Currently, I”m a full time senior producer with AT WILL MEDIA, where I develop and produce shows for brands like Audible, Marriott, and Morgan Stanley. I’m also co-creator and producer on a show called Creative Fuel with artist and writer Anna Brones. Below you’ll get a taste of some of the projects I’ve worked on since I picked up podcasting in 2016.


She Explores

I’m the host, producer, and editor of She Explores, a show that showcases women’s experiences in the outdoors as they overlap with their everyday lives.

Launched in June 2016, sunset in 2023.

 
 
 

She Explores released over 200 episodes and 4 mini-series featuring hundreds of women and their stories of spending time outside and traveling. It covers themes like mental health, entrepreneurship, thru-hiking, conservation, outdoor careers, sexism, harassment, motherhood, racial equity, and grief. It’s had over 5.5 million downloads to date.

 
 

When I started the show, I knew very little about podcasting, but I loved listening to them. I taught myself the basics and have been growing my skillset since. Some episodes are edited interviews with narration to push the conversation along. Some are more produced and recorded in the field with ambient sound. Some are centered around a theme with a variety of voices sharing their perspectives.

Below are a few I’m particularly proud of.

 

Where We Walk: What Youth Have to Teach Us About the Appalachian Trail

As part of a 6-part She Explores miniseries created in partnership with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, this episode of “Where We Walk” features a teacher who is using nature as a classroom, a mother who started to see her daughters as adults and equals through hiking the A.T., a volunteer who took the initiative to start her own youth hiking challenge, a teenager who understands that the future health of our planet is in our hands, and a 6-year-old who feels just plain happy outdoors.

I hosted, produced, and edited this episode.

Learn more here ->


Arielle Shipe - Voices from the GoPro Mountain Games

Produced in partnership with the Vail Valley Foundation, I worked with field reporter Gabaccia Moreno to gather tape at the GoPro Mountain Games to help share the experience with those who couldn’t be there.

I produced, hosted, and edited this episode.

Learn more here ->


Voices from PGM ONE

What changes about the environmental movement when people of color are both the leaders and the audience? We teamed up with REI to send writer Amanda Machado to the third annual PGM ONE Summit in Philadelphia to answer that question firsthand.

I co-produced and edited this episode which is hosted by Amanda Machado. I love working with and mentoring folks who are new to audio!

Learn more here ->


 

Creative Fuel

I’m also the co-creator and lead producer of Creative Fuel, an independent podcast about the inextricable role creativity plays in our everyday lives. It’s hosted by my co-creator, Anna Brones. Season 2 is in the works!

Learn more about the show.

 
 
 
 
 

Ads

 

Podcast ads should be compelling, little episodes in themselves, but they’re not always. I think the best kind of ads are both fun to produce and to listen to later.

Here’s one of my favorites: