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How They Made It

Sometimes indie creators really do hit it big. Hear how some of your favorite independent podcasters and video creators got their start—and the turning point that changed everything.

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Jazmine (JT) Green on making space for BIPOC audio creators
Jazmine (JT) Green on widening access for BIPOC audio creators, why pipeline problems are usually access problems, and what has actually changed.
What Fresh Hell podcast hosts Margaret and Amy on pivoting toward what works
What Fresh Hell hosts Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson on 800 episodes, talking about your kids on air, and how a parenting podcast has to evolve.
Podcaster Mary Knauf of Ocean Dreams on working within your limits
Mary Knauf on making Ocean Dreams inside real constraints, scoping a show to what you can sustain, and how she decides what gets cut each episode.
Weight For It's Ronald Young Jr. on making each of your episodes a little bit better
Ronald Young Jr. on producing Weight For It around a day job, keeping each episode self-contained, and sustaining a personal narrative podcast.
Proxy's Yowei Shaw on life after a podcast layoff
Yowei Shaw of Proxy on building an independent show after a podcast layoff, what independence costs, and what she would tell someone facing the same.
Fern & Matt of Five Conversations Before Sleep on making audio fiction as a couple
Fern Diaz and Matt of Five Conversations Before Sleep on making audio fiction together, splitting the production, and keeping a partnership intact.

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