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Asking Without Armor
Two phrases arrive together in this conversation and sound like the same thing. Asking as a five-year-old. Asking for a friend. Both are ways of putting a very basic question …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
From the archives: Monika Mašanauskaitė and Anna Szalucka
From Discovery with Monika Mašanauskaitė and Anna Szalucka… How can creative collaborations, like podcasting and music installations, drive personal growth, enhance understanding of one’s craft, and foster connectio&…
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
Seeking language large enough
I really enjoyed this (it’s a rebroadcast from 2016) episode of On Being with David Whyte. David Whyte is an English poet and philosopher, born to a Yorkshire father and …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
Seeking language large enough
I really enjoyed this (it’s a rebroadcast from 2016) episode of On Being with David Whyte. David Whyte is an English poet and philosopher, born to a Yorkshire father and …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
The part you can’t prepare for
Most interview preparation rests on an assumption so ordinary it rarely gets stated out loud: the good material already exists, inside the guest, and your job is to reach it. …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
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Stay or Steer
You walked into the conversation with something in mind. A topic you wanted to raise. A question you’d been holding. A thread you wanted to pull. Three minutes in, …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
Theme is not niche
Tricia Rose Burt is a professional storyteller — solo stage shows, performance work, the Moth. When she started a podcast called No Time to Be Timid, she brought the framework of …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
From the archives: Denys Allen
From Ancestry with Denys Allen… What makes genealogical research unique compared to traditional historical studies, and how do these approaches differ in Pennsylvania? Genealogists uncover micro-histories that r…
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
Stuck isn’t tired
Julie Duffy runs StoryADay and coaches writers through getting stuck. Craig Constantine asked her a question podcasters ask about their own shows all the time: where do people get stuck — …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @CatherineJ)
Seeking language large enough
I really enjoyed this (it’s a rebroadcast from 2016) episode of On Being with David Whyte. David Whyte is an English poet and philosopher, born to a Yorkshire father and …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)