You recorded, edited, and published the episode, probably shared it once (maybe twice in a good week) … and then you moved on to the next one.

This wash-rinse-repeat approach is common, but it’s turning all of us into content machines.

Bodies of work don’t expire. Treated deftly, they grow in value over time. Unfortunately, capitalism has trained us to be so focused on what’s next that we forget about what we’ve already made.

The “always be publishing” pressure is real. The algorithm rewards fresh content and so we keep producing without appreciating our library.

But for most of us, episodes we recorded one or even five years ago are likely still relevant, and ripe for continued recognition.

5 ways to make your catalog an asset

1. Build a “start here” list. Pick a few episodes that would make a stranger immediately get what you and your show are about. Link to it in your bio, newsletter footer, and welcome email. Give new listeners a map and a warm welcome.

2. Bring old episodes back. Once a month, feature a past episode in your newsletter and share why it’s still relevant, why you love it, what’s changed since you recorded it. Your newest subscribers likely haven’t heard it. Curate their experience.

3. Pitch your archive to guests. When you invite someone to be a guest, send them a couple of episodes in advance that are relevant to the conversation you want to have. It shows you’re serious and gives your back catalog a second audience.

4. Repurpose a resource. Pull quotes, frameworks, or moments from past episodes and turn them into a downloadable resource. There’s probably a lead magnet hiding in your archive right now.

5. Let your catalog do the welcome. Build an onboarding email sequence that drips your best episodes over the first few weeks. This gives you a reason to stay in their inbox before you’ve published a new episode.

Get creative and treat your back catalog like the goldmine that it is. Communicate to the world that you are a creative whose work has lasting value.

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🚨 Featured show: Audio Branding

Jodi Krangle has been making the case for sonic branding since 2019, and the podcasting world is finally catching up.

“It struck me that sound should be given a lot more attention in advertising, marketing & branding than it was,” Krangle says. So she built Audio Branding: The Hidden Gem of Marketing. Now 300+ episodes in, she's spreading the word that what we hear shapes what we feel, buy, and believe.

The show won a 2024 SOVAS Award for Outstanding Podcast in Career & Business (the voice actor Oscars, for context). Jodi is proof that a niche, well-executed podcast built around genuine expertise is its own kind of superpower. 🎧

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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• One has a book deal and 120K Instagram followers.

• The other runs a grassroots organization, has been doing this work for 15 years, and has never been on a podcast in their life.

Who do you choose?

Typically, the first person is more likely to get the booking.

The credential reflex

A title, a book, a follower count all function as shortcuts when you’re a one-person operation trying to fill a calendar without spending 40 hours vetting strangers online.

But when we default to credentials, we’re relying on a system that has historically excluded the very people whose perspectives are most needed.

Academia, publishing, and social media algorithms all have their own gatekeeping problems. When we treat a PhD, bestselling book, or blue check as proxies for worthiness, we bring their biases into our shows.

We end up with rosters full of guests who have been given platforms before. A Black woman with a TED Talk gets booked. A Black woman doing the same work without the TED Talk doesn’t get the email.

We’ve diversified the credential-holders we invite in, but we haven’t questioned whether credentials should be the filter at all.

Progressive spaces replicate the very gatekeeping we reject through unexamined habits.

A different approach

Instead of “who has the credentials to speak about this?” try “who has the experience? Who’s been closest to this work? Who’s been saying something true that nobody’s amplified yet?”

• Ask your community who they learn from, not just who they follow

• Build a running list of potential guests from newsletters, comment sections, local organizations, and mutual referrals

• Treat a guest’s lack of prior media experience as a feature, not a liability

The guests who’ve never been on a podcast before are often the most honest because they’ve not yet learned what they’re “supposed” to say.

Your show is a platform

Every booking decision is an editorial decision. It reflects and shapes what your audience comes to understand as worth listening to.

You built a show because you believed certain voices deserved more airtime. Make sure your booking process delivers on that.

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🚨 Featured member show: This Might Get Creative

Ever wonder what really goes on behind a brand? This Might Get Creative is where real business owners pull back the curtain on their wins, the lessons they’ve learned, and the moments that made them who they are.

Hosted by designer and branding expert Svenja Lyon of Lyon Creatives, this podcast gives entrepreneurs a place to be seen, heard, and celebrated.

“Every great brand starts with a human story, and this is where we tell them,” Lyon syas.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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Maybe the topic that lit you up two years ago feels restrictive now. Or the format starts to feel like a treadmill (and you hate treadmills). Or you’ve changed and the show no longer reflects who you are.

Even so, many of us keep making the thing we said we’d make, even if it’s draining us.

There’s this pervasive idea in podcasting that consistency = success. Post every Tuesday and don’t confuse your listeners with change.

But sticking with something that’s no longer aligned is just stubbornness. The people who love your work don’t care about format or even topic. They love your voice and how you see the world.

A pivot toward something more true? The real audience will follow. The ones who don’t were never your people anyway.

What a Pivot Looks Like

A pivot doesn’t mean burning it all down and starting from scratch. It means adjusting the container so it better holds what you’re trying to say. That might look like:

• Shifting from interviews to solo episodes (or vice versa)

• Narrowing your topic or widening it

• Changing your release schedule to something sustainable

• Rebranding with a new name and/or focus

• Taking a season off to retool and returning with a different format

The key is being honest about why. Tell listeners “this is where we’re going, and here’s what’s going to be better about it.”

How to Pivot Without Losing People

1. 1Name it early. Transparency builds trust. Don’t quietly shift and hope no one notices. Tell your audience what’s changing and why.

2. Give them a bridge. If you’re pivoting hard (new name/topic), create a few transition episodes that connect the old version to the new one to help people acclimate.

3. Invite them along. Frame the pivot as an invitation, not an announcement. “I’m evolving and I’d love for you to come with me” is different than “this is happening whether you like it or not.”

4. Accept attrition. Not everyone will stick around. That’s okay. You’re only trying to keep the right people.

Your podcast is allowed to grow and evolve with you. You don’t need permission.

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🚨 Featured Show: Untamed Leader

Leadership is a sacred art, and host Lauri Smith guides “loving rebels” ready to lead from the radiant pulse of their purpose on Untamed Leader.

Originally launched as Soulful Speaking in October 2024, the show was born from Lauri’s mission to transform how we think about public speaking, shifting it from fear and conformity to transformation and soul. In late 2025, the words “Untamed Leader” kept drumming through her mind, and a pivot became clear.

Now, the podcast weaves together three essential leadership threads—vision, creativity, and voice. Through heart-to-heart conversations, breakthrough coaching moments, and solo reflections, Lauri explores what it means to lead from the inside out — untamed from every version of ourselves we were taught to be.

Listen: Untamed Leader

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They hosted sold-out events across three continents, partnered with big names like NPR and Edison Research, and built something people genuinely needed.

So why shut down? Kudos to co-founders Tangia R. Al-awaji Estrada and Maribel Quezada Smith for bravely saying that running a community well requires sustained time and energy they no longer have.

It takes resources to maintain the infrastructure needed for communities like theirs and ours. The podcasting industry claims to care about amplifying marginalized, but very few are willing to actually fund the work.

“The industry benefits enormously from communities like ours, but the infrastructure to sustain them long-term requires arduous work and significant financial investment. And frankly, it’s not enough to ask our creators to pay to make up this difference,” Estrada and Smith said.

The industry benefits. The founders burn out. The work stops.

This isn’t a failure story

BIPOC Podcast Creators didn’t fail. It succeeded at what it set out to do, and then its founders chose to stop before they collapsed under the weight of doing unpaid or underpaid labor for an industry that should have been resourcing this work all along.

People talk endlessly about “diversity in podcasting.” They celebrate when BIPOC-led shows break through. And applaud when a major network finally greenlights something that isn’t hosted by a white guy.

But who’s funding the community infrastructure that makes those wins possible? Who’s paying the organizers, the connectors, the people who spend hours every week answering DMs from new creators who just need someone to tell them they belong here?

We know this tension intimately because we run on equitable dues and a couple of paid subscribers here. We have 50 members. BIPOC Podcast Creators was serving thousands, and you can’t run something that large on fumes.

What’s being built instead

This is why we’re so excited to share that Anna DeShawn, an OG member of FPC and a longtime community organizer in the podcasting space, is building something designed to outlast individual capacity.

DeShawn is building a searchable database and discovery platform built specifically for Black and Brown hosted podcasts. It’s a directory where creators submit their shows and listeners can actually find them. The goal is 500 podcasts in the database by the end of June.

This is infrastructure, something that can keep running even when the founder needs to step back.

What we owe each other

Communities aren’t meant to be held together by one person’s unpaid overtime. But that’s how most of them work because the industry hasn’t built the infrastructure to do it any other way.

BIPOC Podcast Creators is closing, and that’s a loss. But the fact that they’re closing deliberately is a gift. They’re naming what so many others just quietly stop doing.

The question now is whether the rest of us are paying attention.

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Brittany Biggett-Heeren hosts Matrescence in Wellness | A Podcast through Perinatal Wellness, a show that refuses to separate clinical data from lived reality.

Brittany bridges maternal health policy, wellness research, and what it actually feels like to be pregnant and postpartum in a system that wasn't built for you. As a Black woman navigating her own pregnancy in the United States right now, she's sharing her journey in real time, and what gets left out when we talk about "maternal health" without naming race, access, and power.

This is the kind of show that makes you feel less alone and more informed at the same time. Listen here.

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True community is a political act.

It’s people organizing around shared values, mutual care, and collective power. It’s the thing you build when institutions fail you. It’s showing up, holding space, and choosing each other when it would be easier not to.

In the last few years, community became a podcasting buzzword. Growth experts told you to build one. Platforms promised tools to “activate” yours. Sponsors wanted “authentic integration” with your “tight-knit listener base.”

And if you didn’t have a thriving community? You were missing the point or doing podcasting wrong.

Too often, they don’t mean community. They mean audience. They mean a list to monetize, a group to message, a source of free content. It’s the aesthetics of connection without the mess of actual relationships.

Community costs time, vulnerability, resources, attention. It’s not “engagement,” and it’s definitely not something you build to benefit someone else’s bottom line.

The extraction economy

Here’s what’s actually happening: Brands want the trust you built, but they don’t want to pay you for that time, energy, and care.

They want you to introduce their product to people who trust you (your listeners, members). They call it partnership or collaboration, but what they mean is: give us access to the relationship you cultivated, and we’ll give you exposure, a small affiliate cut, or nothing at all.

It’s the same move, over and over. They want the benefits of community without doing the work to earn it themselves. So they ask you to do it for them, for free.

And they dress it up in language that makes you feel like saying no means you’re not a team player.

But commodifying care is not community building. It’s extraction.

Taking it back

Real community requires reciprocity, not just you giving and your audience taking. It requires you to protect the people who show up, not to just extract value from them.

If someone’s asking you to “leverage your community,” they’re not talking about community. They’re talking about creating an unpaid sales team.

If a platform promises to “help you build community” but you don’t own the member list, the content, or the infrastructure, you’re building their asset, not yours.

If a brand wants access to your community but won't pay you fairly for what you built, they're asking you to hand over your most valuable asset (trust) for nothing.

So here’s the move: When a platform asks you to build community on their terms, ask yourself who owns it when you’re done. When a brand pitches "collaboration," ask what they're paying for access to the people you spent years earning trust with.

Community isn’t a strategy.

It’s the entire reason some of us are here in the first place. The institutions weren’t built for us, so we built our own tables.

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🎙️ Featured Show: Mystique Femininity

Mystique Femininity is for women who've hit the point where performing stops working, where being "strong" became a cage, not a compliment.

Host Christian Sismone created the show during a transformative rebirth phase, channeling the depth and wisdom she felt was missing in content for women today. The show cuts into the real shifts women face in their 30s and 40s: the unraveling, the recalibration, the quiet upgrades no one applauds but everyone feels.

It's candid, confronting, and made for women who want evolution without the aesthetic hashtags. “Doing this show has been one of the hardest undertaking to be intentional and honor the integrity of operating in the feminine,” Sismone says.

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You didn’t mean for it to happen. In fact, you’d love a more diverse lineup. But when you look at who’s responded to your call for guests, these are the people who raised their hands.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: “That’s just who pitched me” is not a good enough excuse.

The myth of the neutral inbox

Relying exclusively on people coming to you is not a neutral booking process. You’re running a system that rewards people who already have access, media training, and time.

White guests (especially men) are statistically more likely to pitch themselves or to have publicists who pitch on their behalf. They’re more likely to have been told their ideas are worth sharing, to have been published or platformed before, and to see a podcast invitation as something they deserve rather than something they need permission to accept.

Meanwhile, many BIPOC creators, disabled creators, and immigrant creators are waiting to be invited. Not because they lack confidence, but because they’ve learned firsthand that showing up uninvited doesn’t always go well.

And here's the part we don't talk about enough: If your show, brand, guest lineup, and community all signal "this space is for people who look like me," then people who don't look like you won't pitch. When most or all of the folks you platform are white, the message is clear whether you meant to send it.

If your process is “I book whoever emails me,” you’ve built a system that reproduces exactly the inequities you probably oppose.

What equitable booking requires

Reaching out to, rather than waiting for, guests isn’t just more work. It’s a different orientation entirely. It means:

• Keeping an ongoing list of voices you want to hear from, not just people you already know.

• Searching for creators in communities and platforms you’re not already part of.

• Reaching out with a real invitation, not a vague “let me know if you’re interested.”

• Being willing to accommodate different time zones, accessibility needs, or scheduling constraints.

• Following BIPOC-led podcasts, newsletters, and collectives so you know who’s doing the work.

It also means getting comfortable with the fact that some people will say no, or not respond, and that’s okay. Outbound booking has a lower conversion rate than inbound. That’s the cost of doing it right.

It’s about strategy

If you’re reading this and realizing your lineup skews white, we’re not saying you’re a bad person or a failed feminist. You’re operating inside a system that makes this the path of least resistance.

But you can choose a different path. You can decide that booking guests is not a passive process. You can treat your guest lineup like editorial curation, not just whoever showed up first.

Your guest list is always a political statement, even (or especially) when it’s accidental.

The question is: what do you want it to say?

If this resonated, please re-stack this post for the podcasters in your network who need to hear it.

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🎙️ Featured Show: Ripple FX

What happens when you build a business across six countries for seven years? You collect stories and see how one conversation or aligned action creates waves that reach further than you ever imagined.

That’s the heart of Ripple FX, a podcast exploring how human connection, mindful living, and aligned entrepreneurship create ripple effects that transform our lives and communities.

Gina Oliver started Ripple FX two years ago as a way to hold space for the connections she’d made along her entrepreneurial journey. It became something bigger: a showcase for the insights, stories, and wisdom of heart-centered creatives, entrepreneurs, and women navigating their own paths.

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Trauma-informed interviewing isn’t a certification or a checklist. It’s an orientation toward your guests that starts long before you hit record.

A pre-interview conversation does more than confirm the Zoom link. It’s where you tell guests explicitly what topics you’re planning to cover, invite them to flag anything they’d rather not touch, and ask if there’s anything they want to be sure does get said.

If you're covering a topic involving a community you're not part of, ask your guest directly if there’s language you should avoid or terms that have shifted that you might not know. Don't assume your research is current.

Then there’s the moment every host eventually faces: a guest goes somewhere unexpected. They disclose something painful, something personal, something you didn’t see coming. The instinct is to keep going, but you’re allowed to pause and say, “I want to make sure you’re okay continuing.” Consent doesn’t expire at booking.

Post-production is its own ethical terrain. If a guest said something vulnerable in the flow of conversation that they might not have meant to make public, consider sending a clip for approval before releasing the episode, especially guests who are newer to podcasting.

Most hosts never think to ssk guests if there's a reason a particular episode shouldn't drop at a specific time (an anniversary, a legal situation, a personal moment they're navigating). This can deepen trust.

Check in after the episode goes live. A quick, "how are you feeling about how it came out?" costs nothing and can surface issues before they become problems.

Finally, remember to care for yourself. Holding space for heavy content repeatedly takes a toll. Build in decompression time (even 10 minutes) after hard interviews.

Good interviews are a craft. Ethical ones are a practice.

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🚨 Featured member show: 3h2-Humans Radio Show

For more than a decade, Lynn Quinn has been exploring what health, happiness, and humility look like in the information age on her show, 3h2-Humans Radio Show.

The show is built around a framework she developed herself: four zones of communication she wanted to share with the world, for free. Consciousness, connection, and cutting through the noise are recurring themes.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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📅 May in FPC

Coming this month, is joining us to talk about how to make your podcast a valuable part of your marketing funnel, Brandon Drake will share strategies and systems for improving networking, we’ll have a session on making a podcast sound powerful without over-polishing, and spread the love during our quarterly like-a-thon event.

Want in? Apply to join the Feminist Podcasters Collective

A Sounds Profitable study released late last year confirmed what many of us already felt in our bones. Only 8% of women podcast consumers become creators, compared to 15% of men.

Women aren’t quitting podcasting more than men. They’re just not starting.

When you layer race on top of gender, it gets worse. A USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report found that just 6.6% of hosts in the top 100 podcasts are women of color.

There’s also burnout data, which hits different when you see who’s carrying the weight. A 2025 independent podcaster survey found that 49% of women podcasters cite monetization as their biggest challenge, compared to a third of men.

Women are also significantly more worried about the shift to video, which is pricing out audio-first creators. Women also carry a heavier burden than men when it comes to being visible online (judgment, harassment, stalking, etc.).

The podcast industry loves to celebrate itself as the Great Democratizer of Media. Anyone with a mic and a message can have a show! While technically true, “anyone can” and “everyone does” are two very different things.

Structural barriers quietly shape who feels welcome to start, persist, and get paid.

This is exactly why spaces like Feminist Podcasters Collective exist. The data is crystal clear that the deck is stacked, and swimming upstream is easier when you’re not doing it alone.

If you’ve been putting off launching, growing, or monetizing your show, let these numbers serve as a permission slip to be annoyed, to keep going anyway, and be part of the change that proves them wrong.

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🚨 Featured member show: Meet Me at the Spot

Holly Eckelberger has been a sexual health educator and activist for years. In 2023, she got fed up with TikTok’s algorithm telling her how to do her job.

The result is Meet Me at the Spot, a show for real conversations about sex, relationships, and everything in between. “We break down stigma, celebrate bodies, and learn how to embrace sexual health with confidence and joy,” Holly says.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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📅 Coming up at FPC

Still to come just this month, we are hosting a Pitch Fest to help our members find amazing guests, and Haley Hatcher is joining us to talk about how to make your podcast a valuable part of your marketing funnel.

Want in? Apply to join the Feminist Podcasters Collective

Unfortunately, “for now” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

NPR is one of the largest podcast publishers in North America. Its shows introduced millions of people to the format. Now it’s under attack.

The message being sent isn’t subtle. Certain voices, perspectives, and kinds of journalism are inconvenient, so let’s not fund them.

The logic used to defund NPR is the same as what’s always pushed under-recognized voices to the margins. It’s the logic that says, “your stories don’t deserve resources and your audience doesn’t matter.”

Indie podcasters know this feeling well. We may not be facing defunding orders, but because we’ve always operated in the gap left by institutions that weren’t built for us. We built our own microphones because no one handed us one.

Independent podcasting isn’t a backup plan for public media. It’s the infrastructure and ecosystem that exists because institutions fail, because funding gets cut, because some stories are always deemed too risky or small to be worth protecting.

If NPR eventually loses its fight, the question isn’t just “where will people get their news?” It’s “whose voices get erased?”

We already know the answer.

That’s why we we’re here to support indie creators like you. We need you to keep making things because your voice matters.

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🚨 Featured member show: PsyberSpace

If you’ve ever rage-closed a tab and not known why, or found yourself unable to explain why the news feels different in your body than it used to, made this show for you.

PsyberSpace® is a weekly psychology podcast that helps you name what you’re seeing and feeling, understand the science behind it, and figure out what to do next. Leslie started thinking about the show in 2022 and launched it in early 2024, just as the world was getting harder to make sense of.

“I wanted to help people find the language they needed to understand why people, societies, and companies do the things they do,” she says.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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📅 Coming up at FPC

There are a half-dozen events on the calendar in April, including a community discussion about AI, BIPOC Lounge, Pitch Fest, and Haley Hatcher joining us to talk about marketing funnels for our pods.

All programming is member-only. Want in? Apply to join the Feminist Podcasters Collective

That work matters, deeply.

But we want to make room for something else, too… sometimes a podcast is two friends who decided “we can do that” and then did it. Just for fun.

Podcasting can be about reclaiming the right to take up space with your voice for no reason other than because it brings you joy.

There’s something quietly radical about a show that refuses to justify its own existence with metrics or mission. A podcast that says: we started because we felt like it, and we keep going because we love it.

We’ve been conditioned to believe every creative project needs a growth strategy. But what if some podcasts are just for the people making them, and that’s enough?

Not every show needs to be building toward something or trying to monetize. Sometimes the thing it’s building is just the friendship, the laugh, the weekly excuse to sit down together and talk about something you love.

That’s worth making.

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🚨 Featured member show: Flick’n’Beans

Longtime friends and bandmates Wendy Parish Konen and Bridget review one movie (flick) each week over coffee (beans) — with plenty of swearing, laughing, and dog panting along the way. Sometimes other friends join in.

“Bridget and I are both the kind of people who see something and go ‘I can do that,’ so we did!” Wendy says. “And we haven’t missed one week since.”

They started in October 2023 and haven’t looked back. Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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📅 Coming up at FPC

We’ve got a half-dozen events on the calendar in April, including a community discussion about AI prompts, BIPOC Lounge, Pitch Fest, and joining us to talk about marketing funnels for our pods.

All programming is member-only. Want in? Apply to join the Feminist Podcasters Collective

💬 Your turn

Hit reply: Is there something you make only because it makes you happy? Let us know!

Weeks blur. Seasons stack up. And suddenly you realize you haven’t paused to ask whether the show still feels aligned, sustainable, or even enjoyable.

That’s what a quarterly reset is for. Not a big overhaul. Just a moment to notice and adjust.

Step 1. Look back honestly

Take 10 minutes to reflect:

• What felt energizing this quarter?

• What felt heavy or draining?

• Which episodes sparked the most meaningful responses (not just downloads)?

• Where did I feel most like myself as a host?

Step 2. Check your capacity

Be honest about how much time and energy you actually have right now. What else is asking for your attention (work, family, health, rest)? How can your production rhythm better respect your life? Start there.

Step 3. Reconnect to purpose

Why does this show exist? Who is it really for? What do you want listeners to walk away feeling? When things get messy, this is your compass.

Step 4. Choose 1 or 2 small adjustments

Resist the urge to change everything. Instead, pick one or two small shifts (lighter release schedule, shorter episodes, planned break, simpler workflow). Small moves are sustainable moves.

Step 5. Define enough

Before jumping back into things, define success for next quarter. Consistency, joy, connection, or just continuing all count as wins to strive for.

A reminder

Your podcast doesn’t have to run like a media company to matter. It can evolve as you do. A quarterly reset is a way of staying in conversation with your own work rather than simply allowing momentum to make decisions for you.

🚨 Featured member show: Just Like Nana

Amie Penny Sayler launched her show, Just Like Nana, on January 30, 2026 after a personal passion project.

“I built out my family tree and learned that I have lots of Nana Elizabeths … 45 to be exact,” she says. “I’m writing their stories and share them on the podcast.”

The show deals with ancestral trauma and healing, and includes Sayler’s own stories alongside interviews with experts like mental health professionals, neurobiologists, authors, and more.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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• The Manosphere is Raising Boys into Fascism on Messy Liberation with Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown

• When Discomfort Becomes. Conflict on Feminist Founders with Becky Mollenkamp and Faith Clarke

Here’s how to grow a community that actually reflects the world you want to see.

Who are you not reaching (and why)?

Before you chase new listeners, audit the ones you have. Most podcast hosts give you demographic data. Look at it honestly.

If your show is about housing justice but 80% of your listeners are homeowners, that’s a signal. If you’re covering immigration and your audience is geographically concentrated in coastal cities with low immigrant populations, that’s a signal too.

You’re not doing anything wrong. Algorithms, word-of-mouth networks, and search have biases baked in. Your audience reflects the path of least resistance, not the limits of who your work could reach.

Once you name the gap, you can start closing it.

Accessibility isn’t a bonus

This is the unsexy part that makes everything else possible.

Transcripts. Every episode, every time. This serves Deaf and hard-of-hearing listeners, non-native speakers, people in sound-sensitive environments, and more. Tools like Descript, Otter.ai, or even Claude can get you 80% there (then clean it up). Publish it on your website and link to it in your show notes.

Captions on clips. If you post video clips, caption them. Most social platforms auto-caption, but check the accuracy before you post. Un-captioned video is invisible to a huge slice of your potential audience.

Plain language show notes. Jargon-heavy summaries exclude people who are new to your topic or coming from outside of dominant cultural contexts. Write show notes like you’re explaining to a friend who doesn’t know what you do.

Consider language. If your community includes non-English speakers, even one bilingual episode a year, a Spanish summary, or a translated transcript signals that you see them. You don’t have to do everything, but doing something is meaningful.

Go where the community is

Think about where the community your show serves actually gathers:

• Neighborhood groups on Facebook and NextDoor

• Discord servers for specific affinity communities

• WhatsApp and Telegram group chats (these are huge in many immigrant and diaspora communities)

• In-person events: community meetings, cultural festivals, library programs

• Newsletters from aligned organizations (offer to swap features or write a guest piece)

Genuinely participating in those spaces (and occasionally mentioning your work) builds trust and reaches the right people.

Rethink your metrics

Downloads are a platform-friendly metric. They don’t tell you whether the right people found you, whether your content created change, or whether anyone felt seen.

Some alternative signals worth tracking:

• Reply rate on your newsletter. Are listeners writing back? What are they saying?

• Community growth. Are people joining your Discord, Substack, Patreon, or wherever you’ve built a home base?

• Meaningful sharing. If someone shares an episode with the caption “this is literally my life,” that’s worth more than 500 passive downloads.

When you stop optimizing for downloads, you start making better decisions.

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🚨 Featured member show: Captivate the Mic

Launched in Oct 2024, Captivate the Mic helps entrepreneurs, leaders, and speakers become more confident, compelling, and visible—without forcing confidence or chasing perfection.

Hosted by international speaker and comedian Elaine Williams, the show blends storytelling, humor, and real talk about what it actually takes to be seen, heard, and impactful.

“I wanted to interview cool people with inspiring stories so that the show would be entertaining, inspiring but also so that the listener could walk away with a few actionable tips,” Williams says.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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AI-generated podcasts are here, multiplying, and platforms are building infrastructure to support them. Companies like Inception Point have built rosters of more than 100 AI personalities whose characteristics, voices, and likenesses are crafted specifically for podcast audiences.

Voice AI has crossed the threshold of being pretty much indistinguishable from human, according to those building it.

Unlike YouTube, Meta, and TikTok, Spotify isn’t even taking steps to label AI-generated content. Listeners there can’t tell the difference between your very real show and a shitty AI one. Not yet, at least.

What does this mean for us indie creators?

Who AI pods hurt

This isn’t a neutral development that equally affects all podcasters.

AI-generated content is cheap to produce at scale, which means feeds are about to get a lot more crowded with content that costs almost nothing to make.

The creators who will feel that squeeze first are those of us without institutional backing, big marketing budgets, or algorithmic advantages.

The AI podcast surge won’t attract premium ad rates, but it will make an already noisy environment noisier. And that’s a direct threat to discoverability for indie creators.

Even worse, the algorithmic systems that already fail to surface historically underrepresented topics won’t suddenly get better at distinguishing authentic community voices from AI ones. In fact, they may get worse.

Spotify has introduced features for creators to clone their voice and translate their content into multiple languages to increase reach and revenue.

That sounds like a tool for human creators, but the platform has a financial interest in blurring the line between “your voice” and “an AI version of your voice.”

Some podcasters are already cloning their voices and handing their podcasts over to AI entirely. Popular hosts with large followings are doing this openly, framing it as innovation.

What gets lost in that framing is power asymmetry: a creator with 13 million followers can hand their show to an AI clone and their audience will follow. It’s not the same for a creator with 200 loyal listeners built on trust and authentic connection.

The platforms benefit from volume. You benefit from depth. Those aren’t the same, and the platforms aren’t optimizing for you.

The good news…

AI can produce competent audio. It cannot have a complicated relationship with its topic or be changed by a conversation. And it certianly can’t make a guest feel genuinely heard.

The listeners who find your show because you give a damn won’t be satisfied by a synthetic replacement. Your job is to make sure they know the difference, and to keep giving them reasons to stay.

• Be visible as a human. Put your face, name, and story front and center in your show description, social presence, and episode intros. Don’t let your show feel like anonymous AI content.

• Tell your listeners. You don’t have to be alarmist, but consider saying plainly that your show is made by a human for humans. Listeners who care about that will appreciate knowing it explicitly.

• Build off-platform community. A newsletter, Discord, Patreon—choose a way to be in direct relationship with your listeners independent of platform algorithms. If Spotify’s feed becomes a synthetic wasteland, your community should be somewhere it can find you anyway.

• Don’t race to the bottom. Everyone has to make choices about how they use AI for things like transcription and editing. But don’t use them only to create more, faster, cheaper. Your show’s volume matters less than it’s mission and your pace and peace.

The bigger picture

The creators most threatened by AI-generated content are people from marginalized communities, whose voices were already hardest to find.

The arrival of cheap synthetic audio doesn’t just compete with indie creators economically. It muddies the waters of trust and authenticity in spaces where trust has always been hard-won.

You built something real. That still matters. Make sure your listeners know it.

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🚨 Featured member show: Healing is the Best Revenge

A podcast for survivors and the people who love us, Healing is the Best Revenge approaches conversations about healing, coping with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), survivorship, self-love, and community care with radical vulnerability.

“So many of us feel alone in the aftermath of abuse and violence, and I hope that I can help fellow survivors feel less lonely on their healing journey,” says host (they/them).

Started in June of 2023, Healing is the Best Revenge shares affirmations, pep talks, encouragement, support, and advice for your healing journey and recovery process.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here. Or, follow Karina on Instagram or subscribe to their newsletter.

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For most podcasters, even well-intentioned ones, the list tells a story they didn’t mean to tell.

Homogenous guest lists are rarely malicious. Booking guests is time-consuming and sometimes awkward, so we default to people in our existing networks or those who pitch us.

The problem? Shortcuts are downstream of existing inequality.

Build a guest list before you need it

The most practical thing you can do is maintain a running document of potential guests. Not a static spreadsheet, but something you add to whenever you read a great thread, hear someone speak at a community meeting, or get a recommendation from a listener.

Include people who’ve never been on a podcast. People with small platforms. People who write primarily in languages other than English. People whose credentials come from lived experience rather than institutions.

When it comes time to book a guest, you won’t be starting from scratch. You can choose from a list you’ve been building with intention vs. reaching out to a friend.

Go beyond “podcast famous”

People with podcast experience are easy to book. But someone who’s already been deemed “worthy” other podcasters likely means the same biases we’re talking about.

A few ways to find people who aren’t in the podcast circuit:

Read comments and replies. The most interesting, knowledgeable people in any online community are often the ones thoughtfully engaging in the margins.

Go to community events. The person who asks the sharpest questions at a town hall, mutual aid meeting, organizing call, or cultural festival often has more to say than the person on the main stage.

Ask your listeners directly. “Who should I be talking to?” is one of the most underused questions in podcasting. Your existing community often knows whose voice is missing.

Follow the citations. When you read a great article or report, look at who’s quoted or who the author says shaped their thinking. Those people are often more accessible (and more interesting) than the author themselves.

Make guests feel safe, not just invited

For guests from marginalized communities, especially those who haven’t been on podcasts before, an invitation may not be enough to make them feel comfortable bringing their full selves to your show.

Some things that matter more than most podcasters realize:

• Send questions in advance. This can help guests who may not know the format, who process better in writing, who have anxiety, or who have been burned before by interviewers who asked one thing and meant another.

• Be clear about context and audience. Guests from communities that have been misrepresented by media may rightly be cautious about where their words end up. Give them enough information to make an informed choice.

• Tell them what you won’t do. “I won’t ask you to speak for your entire community” or “I won’t sensationalize your experience” is worth saying out loud.

• Give them editorial input. Allow guests to flag something before it goes live if they were misquoted, misunderstood, or said something they’d like to revisit.

• Follow up after the episode. Share how it performed. Thank them again. Keep the relationship going. Guests from underrepresented communities are not a resource to extract from; they’re people you’re in relationship with.

Final thought

Your guest list doesn’t have to include everyone. It has to be honest about who holds power and who doesn’t, whose expertise is validated and whose is dismissed, who gets to tell their own story and who has always had their story told for them.

Your guest list is political. The only question is whether you’re making those choices consciously.

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🚨 Featured member show: Still Becoming: Women Unmuted

This show features honest, real-life stories from women who have survived, failed, started over, and questioned everything along the way. They’re stories of courage, resilience, growth, and the quiet moments that change everything.

“These aren’t highlight reels. They’re legacy stories told out loud,” says host Dr. Julie Marty-Pearson. “Because when women unmute their stories, something powerful happens. We remember and reclaim who we are. We help others feel seen and heard. We give permission to speak, to share, and to be fully human.”

Marty-Pearson started Still Becoming podcast on January 10, 2026 in response to feeling overwhelmed and angry by the state of our country and world. The show is for every woman and non-binary person who needs to feel support, understanding, and less alone.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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Let’s talk about the listener journey: Discovery → Trust → Engagement

Discovery is when someone stumbles onto your show after a search result, a recommendation, a shared episode, a lucky algorithm moment.

They’re curious, but they’re not loyal or invested. They’re deciding.

Trust builds when they feel something real.

A moment of honesty that they don’t hear elsewhere. You name something they’ve been feeling but can’t articulate. Your guest conversations are relational, not transactional.

Trust is emotional before it’s logical. And if you keep showing up in ways that feel human, you move toward…

Engagement.

They subscribe, reply to your newsletter, share an episode with a friend, join your community. They start to feel like they’re “part of something.”

That’s the journey.

Why this matters

If you only focus on discovery, you’ll chase downloads, stress about growth, and constantly feel behind.

When you design with the whole journey in mind, however, your show becomes a relationship, not just a broadcast.

Questions to ask yourself

Take a few minutes and reflect:

• How do people most often discover my show right now?

• When a new listener presses play, what experience are they having in the first 10 minutes?

• Where am I intentionally building trust through tone, transparency, or care?

• Do I give listeners clear, gentle ways to go deeper if they want to?

• What signals tell me someone is moving from listener → community member?

There are no perfect answers here. Just awareness.

Small shifts that make a big difference

Don’t overthink things with a complicated strategy. Try one of these:

• Add a short “orientation” moment for new listeners (“If you’re new here…”).

• Tell listeners why you make the show, not just what it’s about, to invite them into a mission.

• Invite replies instead of just downloads.

• Share behind-the-scenes context occasionally.

• Name your values out loud.

Podcasting is slow work. Relational work. Cultural work.

It’s not about how many people click once, it’s about how many feel seen enough to stay.

The next time you look at your stats, remember that discovery opens the door, trust keeps people in the room, and engagement builds something that lasts.

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🚨 Featured member show: Business as UNusual

Moving beyond standard advice, Business as UNusual is for the independent thinkers and changemakers who know that business as usual doesn't work for them.

Hosted by Aicila, a Business Cartographer and strategist, this show explores the unconventional practices driving leaders who prioritize people and the planet alongside profit.

We dig into the innovative strategies of guest founders and explore the Energy Equation™, helping you balance Momentum (the drive to finish), Creativity (the spark of ideas), and Connection (the fuel of collaboration).

“If you are ready to redefine success and find a rhythm that sustains you, tune in to discover what’s unusual—and essential—for your own venture,” Aicila says.

Listen wherever you get podcasts, or find it here.

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Your Turn 📧

What’s one thing you might experiment with this month to support your listeners’ journey? Hit reply and share!

Most podcast advice is built for shows chasing tens of thousands of downloads or tens of thousands of ad revenue.

That’s not the reality for most of us.

If your downloads live in the dozens, you’re not doing podcasting “wrong.” You’re just doing a different kind of podcasting, and it deserves its own definitions of success.

What benchmarks make sense when you’re an indie creator who’s not trying to build a media empire?

♻️ People who come back

If 20, 40, or 80 people listen regularly, that’s a roomful.

Imagine those folks sitting in chairs, showing up week after week to hear what you have to say. You’d feel a sense of responsibility to prepare and engage. You’d recognize the relationship.

Retention, not reach, is often the best signal of resonance.

🫶 Meaningful connection

You don’t need a flood of DMs to know whether your show is landing.

Success can also be a thoughtful email or a listener who says, “That episode stayed with me.” Write those moments down so you can remember them in the moments that your brain tries to trick you into quitting.

Indie podcasting is relational media. The goal is meaningful (not mass) attention.

🎨 Creative satisfaction

Not every show is a growth engine. Some are creative canvases.

Your podcast is working if you feel proud of it, you’re learning or thinking differently because of it, recording feels like expression, or you’d miss it if it disappeared.

Creative fulfillment is a valid metric. Full stop.

🛌 Sustainability

If your show fits your energy, capacity, and season of life, that’s success.

Can you make episodes without burning out? Does the cadence feel humane? Are you resourced enough to continue?

A sustainable show beats a “high performing” show that leaves you drained and miserable.

👏 Contribution

Some podcasts exist because they add something to the greater conversation, even if the audience is small.

Your show is “enough” if it reflects your values, supports your community, or documents ideas that matter to you.

Impact isn’t always visible in metrics dashboards.

A word about money (or the lack of it)

Most podcasts will never make money through ads. That doesn’t make them a “hobby” (in the dissmisive sense).

Your show is doing real work if it supports your broader work, builds relationships, serves your community, or rings meaning to your life … even if never directly earns revenue.

We need to normalize podcasts that aren’t monetized in traditional ways, and hosts who aren’t motivated solely by money.

Cultural work has value beyond revenue.

Questions to redefine success

• Why did I start this show in the first place?

• Who is it really for?

• What would “enough” feel like?

• What do I want my relationship to this show to be a year from now?

• If downloads never grew, would I still want to continue?

A gentle reframe

Capitalism conditions us to believe anything short of a #1 show is failure. But dozens of real humans choosing to listen to your show is powerful.

Your podcast doesn’t have to be big to be enough.

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🚨 Featured member show
Unpacked: Culture Chronicles

Hosted by Danielle Marshall, a strategist and executive coach, this is a podcast for real conversations exploring cultural differences, similarities, and the ways we bridge across them.

“I started the podcast in Jan 2025 to bring to light cultural conversations that people often want to have but yet don’t for any number of reasons,” Danielle says.

The show dives into how culture shapes our lives, relationships, and workplaces. Episodes feature guests from diverse backgrounds, sharing unique experiences and insights into navigating cultural dynamics.

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Your Turn 📧

Hit reply and tell us what is ENOUGH you and your show.

Bad Bunny didn’t just sing, dance, and collect his paycheck. He wasn’t willing to be complicit in oppression, erasure, and harm by pretending things are “normal.”

That’s an important lesson for podcasters. No matter how small it may be, your podcast is a platform, and that gives you the opportunity (or the responsibility) to meet the moment.

Choosing silence, neutrality, or “business as usual” is a choice.

And it’s a choice that almost always benefits those already in power.

That doesn’t mean you must turn your podcast into a political manifesto, or comment on every news story. But it does means being true.

It might look like:

• Being explicit about where your show stands, even when it costs you comfort.

• Saying no to opportunities that require you to dilute your values.

• Measuring success by care, connection, or impact (not downloads).

• Letting conversations be messier, slower, more honest.

• Protecting your capacity so you can keep showing up at all.

For indie podcasters (especially Black, Brown, queer, disabled, and otherwise marginalized creators) this has always been the work. We’ve never had the luxury of pretending our lives aren’t political.

But even the most values-aligned shows can drift toward silence as they worry about alienating audience, upsetting advertisers, or maintaining access.

Bad Bunny didn’t change who he is to “fit” the stage. He used that stage to tell the truth without apology.

That’s the invitation for podcasters. We cannot shrink our work in the name of safety that was never really there.

Your podcast doesn’t have to save the world, but you do get to choose whether it tells the truth.

Yours in solidarity,
Becky of Feminist Podcasters Collective

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Your Turn 📧

Hit reply and tell us your favorite moment from last night’s big game. And if you didn’t watch, then tell us what you were doing instead!

If that’s you, your problem isn’t discoverability. It’s that you’ve been taught to focus on growth instead of deepening connection with those who love your work.

Casual listeners, no. Chosen listeners, yes.

Most podcast growth advice assumes there’s an endless stream of casual listeners sampling episodes the way they scroll TikTok. It assumes you can hook them if you just optimize enough.

That’s not how indie podcasts work. And it’s definitely not how podcasts under 100 downloads work.

If 20 or 80 people are showing up episode after episode, they aren’t casual. They’re choosing you in an attention economy designed to exhaust them. That is trust. And trust is not easy to multiply at scale.

First, a mindset reset for small podcasts

Before talking tactics, we need to consider our mindset. Because if you’re defining success the way the industry tells you to, no amount of practical advice will ever feel like enough.

Try this thought experiment.

Imagine 20 people sitting in a room listening closely to everything you had to say. Or 50. Or 100. Really picture it. Actual humans making eye contact, nodding, reacting.

Most people wouldn’t feel disappointed by that. They’d feel nervous. They’d want to do their best. They’d feel the weight of being listened to.

Podcasting numbers flatten that reality. They turn people into metrics, and make it easy to forget what attention actually represents.

When you have fewer than 100 downloads, you’re not failing. You’re operating at a human size.

Capitalist podcast culture tells you to program for “future you,” the version of your show that is bigger, shinier, and more legitimate. A liberatory approach asks you to build for the people who are already here.

This is where parasocial relationships matter. Podcasting creates closeness through voice, repetition, and shared time.

When you speak like you know your listener, when you reference past episodes as shared history, when you let your show feel specific instead of explanatory, you deepen that bond.

You don’t need to impress strangers. You need to serve the people who already said yes. Once that mindset is in place, the practical choices become much clearer.

One listener is worth more than 1,000 hypothetical

When your numbers are small, every listener is a relationship not a metric.

Instead of asking “How do I get more people?” try asking different questions.

• “How do I invite the people who are already here into deeper connection?”

• “How do I make this feel like a place, not a broadcast?”

Practically, that can look like asking one real question per episode instead of five rhetorical ones. It can look like inviting replies even if only two people respond. It can look like sharing listener feedback on air so participation feels normal and welcome.

This isn’t a failure to scale. It’s community formation.

Niche down emotionally, not just topically

“Women in business” is a category. “People who are exhausted by pretending their work doesn’t affect their bodies” is a connection.

For shows with fewer than 100 downloads, emotional clarity matters more than topic breadth. Ask yourself who feels seen by this show. Ask what experience you are naming that usually goes unnamed. Ask what relief this offers.

Loyalty comes from resonance, not reach.

Stop optimizing for algorithms (they aren’t paying attention anyway!)

Apple Podcasts is not waiting to reward your consistency. You do not need to publish weekly if it’s burning you out. You do not need to flatten your voice for SEO. You do not need to add video if it adds unpaid labor you cannot sustain.

Sustainability is a strategy. Care is a business decision.

Treat your podcast like a relationship, not a funnel

When you have fewer than 100 downloads, this is the best time to decide what kind of space your show is. Is this a kitchen table or a lecture hall? Is it a refuge, a rally, or a thinking out loud space? What do you want listeners to feel when they finish an episode?

Those answers matter more now than any growth hack ever will.

A podcast does not have to grow indefinitely to be worth making. It can support your thinking. It can serve a small and specific community. It can exist because it matters, not because it scales.

If your podcast reaches fewer than 100 people, you’re not behind. You’re practicing a form of media that values presence over performance. That’s something worth protecting.

And if you want support from people who understand this version of podcasting, not the bro-growth one, you’re exactly who Feminist Podcasters Collective exists for.

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Host Sandhya Sudhakar of Self At Work and her guests will leave you with a renewed sense of inspiration and practical tools you can implement in your own life and career.

“I wanted to give people both inspiration and tangible tools to make changes in their career,” Sudhakar says.

Today's workplace demands a lot from us, but our identities and well-being shouldn’t be up for negotiation. The truth is, embracing your individuality can actually be the key to building a successful career where you can thrive.

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HIT REPLY 📧

We’d love to hear from our “small” creators! Hit reply and tell us what having fewer than 100 downloads per episode means to you.

Substack is framing it as a win for long-form, independent media. There are upsides, but…

A TV app says: video is not optional. It says: the future audience is passive, algorithmically nudged, and consuming content in longer blocks.

For creators already doing video or livestreams, this might feel like a welcome expansion.

But for under-resourced creators, this may bring about a familiar anxiety: Is audio becoming the lesser sibling again? Is expensive production budget a requisite for being taken “seriously” or to be “discoverable”?

When platforms prioritize video-first strategies, the creators who get rewarded tend to be celebrities, media insiders, people with capital, and people whose voices are already “credible” to dominant culture,

Video isn’t inherently bad, but it’s also not neutral. From a liberatory perspective, the question is: Good for whom? At what cost? And who gets left behind?

Substack’s framing leans hard on independence and creator freedom. And Substack has enabled many writers, journalists, and podcasters to build direct relationships with audiences outside of social media algorithms.

But we we have to talk about the Nazis.

Substack has knowingly and intentionally continued to profit from and platform Nazis and far-right extremists (including anti-trans hate), defending those decisions in the name of “free expression” and commercial neutrality.

They are prioritizing revenue over harm. Full stop.

So when we hear Substack talk about “the future of independent media,” we have to ask: Independent for whom? Safe for whom?

At the same time, no corporate-owned platform is without harm. They are all embedded inside systems of extraction, surveillance, moderation failures, and political compromise.

There is no ethical purity prize waiting for us at the end, which brings us to an uncomfortable truth.

We’re still on Substack, even with our reservations.

We at Feminist Podcasters Collective are often forced to make imperfect choices. We have serious concerns about Substack, but are here for now because it allows us to:

• own our audience relationships,

• avoid algorithmic dependency,

• publish long-form work that doesn’t have to “perform,”

• and communicate with our audience for free because we currently have zero budget for a better email marketing platform like Kit.

We’re operating in a world where every choice involves harm tradeoffs, and pretending otherwise only helps the platforms avoid accountability.

So how do are we approaching Substack TV?

Here’s what we’re holding as this rollout lands:

1. You don’t need video to be “real.”
   Audio remains powerful, intimate, and accessible. If video feels aligned and resourced for you, great. If not, you’re not falling behind.

2. Pay attention to what gets rewarded.
   Watch who Substack promotes in this TV ecosystem. Patterns will tell the truth faster than press releases.

3. Let your values (not fear) guide your choices.
   Don’t chase formats because you’re scared of disappearing. Build in ways that sustain you and your community.

4. Keep naming harm.
   Using a tool doesn’t require your silence. We can benefit from infrastructure and demand better from the people who control it.

5. Support each other off-platform, too.
   No app or platform will replace the power of mutual amplification, shared resources, and community care.

The bottom line

The Substack TV app reflects broader pressures in media toward video, consolidation, and legitimacy-seeking.

Our job, as liberatory podcasters, is to stay awake, ask better questions, and refuse the lie that there’s one “right” way to be visible or valuable.

Liberation isn’t about a perfect platform. It’s about building power, connection, and sustainability despite imperfect systems, and pushing those systems, relentlessly, to do better.

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Underrepresented people talk about the extra layers they navigate in this a campfire-style interview series hosted by .

Although Gold has been openly gay for 20 years, including at work. But she shared her story on LinkedIn only when she recently started her own business as a professional coach. Friends said, “I had ZERO idea you went through that.” They were grateful to hear the stories and to identify their blind spots as cisgender, white, and heterosexual.

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HIT REPLY 📧

We’d love to hear from you! What’s your take on Substack TV? Good, bad, or we’ll wait and see? Hit reply and tell us what you think.

On one hand:
🎉 Podcasts at a major awards show!
🎉 More cultural legitimacy for a medium we love.
🎉 More people realizing podcasts aren’t just “cute internet side projects.”

On the other hand:
😬 It only adds to the push toward video-first pods.
😬 Nearly all the nominees were rich white celebs with big corporate contracts.
😬 It turns an intimate, scrappy, community-driven medium into another red carpet for people who already have one.

Awards don’t just recognize culture — they shape it.

Visibility matters

There is something genuinely affirming about podcasts being treated as “real media” alongside film and television.

For years, podcasters, especially independent and women-led shows, have been told we’re “niche,” “amateur,” or “hobbyists.”

More attention on podcasts can mean:

• more listeners discovering the medium,

• more advertisers taking it seriously, and

  more leverage for creators asking for fair pay.

We’re not mad about that part.

But visibility for whom matters just as much as visibility at all.

The video problem

The Golden Globes didn’t add a podcast category so much as a video-first, celebrity-backed, studio-produced, audio-adjacent content category.

Let’s be real: this move further cements the idea that the “best” podcasts are filmed, slick, visually optimized, backed by money, built for platforms that already privilege fame and capital.

It quietly tells thousands of incredible audio-first, narrative, experimental, community-rooted podcasts: you don’t quite count.

Yay women?

A woman taking the trophy (Amy Poehler for Good Hang)? Yes. We love women winning things.

And also: Amy Poehler is a celebrity with name recognition, a built-in audience, a big contract, and a financial runway most podcasters will never have.

That doesn’t make the show bad. It does make the playing field wildly uneven.

When awards repeatedly go to people who already have the most resources, it reinforces the idea that success comes from talent alone. It fails to acknowledge how privilege, capital, and access shape outcomes.

Then there’s the nominee list: All white. Mostly celebrities. That tells us exactly whose voices are being elevated when institutions decide what “excellence” looks like.

Sneaky extraction

Big institutions love emerging media right around the time it becomes profitable.

They didn’t show up when podcasters were self-funding, building community on Google Docs, and doing labor-heavy work with no safety net.

They show up when there’s prestige to borrow and money to be made. And when they do, they bring their existing hierarchies with them.

So… good or bad?

Um…both? This moment can legitimize podcasts in the mainstream, attract new audiences, and open doors for some creators.

And it can also narrow the definition of what “counts,” reward fame over craft, and push the medium further toward capital-intensive, celebrity-driven models.

Which is why we matter.

Independent podcasters. Women, queer folks, and podcasters of color. Audio-first creators. People building something slower, smaller, and more sustainable.

The Golden Globes don’t get to define the future of podcasting on their own.

We do…by what we make, what we support, and what we refuse to disappear just because it’s not shiny enough for Hollywood.

And if the industry is going to borrow our medium? We must keep telling the truth about who actually built it.

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“I saw a gap where most stories were being told from celebrities and experts,” says host Amy Stone.

Through these authentic stories, listeners find validation, motivation, and inspiration for navigating their own path through modern life.

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The last word

What show do YOU think should win a Golden Globe? Hit reply and let us know.