10. Elaine Grant, Co-Founder of Podcast Allies | The Age of Audio

Elaine Grant, Co-Founder of Podcast Allies joins Graham Brown in this episode of The Age of Audio. The Age of Audio is a series of conversations with thought leaders and changemakers in the world of audio. Podcasts, Radio, Social Audio, and Data are converging to create engaging and authentic content for a new generation of listeners. To get access to all the audio conversations and book content for Age of Audio, go to theageofaudio.com.
Elaine Grant, Co-Founder of Podcast Allies joins Graham Brown in this episode of The Age of Audio. The Age of Audio is a series of conversations with thought leaders and changemakers in the world of audio. Podcasts, Radio, Social Audio, and Data are converging to create engaging and authentic content for a new generation of listeners. To get access to all the audio conversations and book content for Age of Audio, go to theageofaudio.com.
 

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
  • So it was interesting because he taught me how to think about being a reader and that reader could not have been more different than me. So I had to think about things from that perspective.

  • I wouldn't have done a lot of public speaking. You stand on stage and the first few years just trying to get through without dying, like driving the car the first time, as long as I can come out of this alive. 

  • Performing means being vulnerable in a way. It means stepping out of your armor in somebody else's shoes.

  • And I think often I'm not always the best at it as a host because I spent a lot of years in public radio and it's hard to turn off that news announcer persona. You just fall into it automatically, it can be hard to turn off.

  • I know there are podcasts out there that do this, but I have often thought that I really want to start a podcast that dissects pieces of other podcasts, like great scenes, good at interviews, even wonderful introductions, moments in time and pulls them apart.

  • So if you don't have good interviewing skills, you're not going to have a good story because you don't have the details that you need. 

  • And if now people are expecting different things that people talk about authenticity, talk about empathy. These are all born of a place where we have to sort of adopt a different identity, that's hard.