Our podcasts
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(Mis)Informed
Laura’s first podcasting idea, (Mis)Informed, looked at US-Mexico immigration through real-life stories from across literal and political borders. Laura conducted 22 interviews around the country for the show, and set up partnerships with Ethical Storytelling, the Mexico Department of Immigration, and four Mexican universities. The plan also included living in Mexico starting in the summer of 2020.
(Mis)Informed was a finalist for a 2020 Fulbright scholarship, and the trailer was also a finalist at the 2019 WNYC podcast accelerator contest.
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Shelter in Place
Shelter in Place is an award-winning narrative nonfiction podcast reimagining life through creativity and community. In 200 episodes from March 2020-May 2022, the show blended open-hearted personal essays and intimate interviews. Shelter in Place was ranked in the top 1% globally of all active podcasts in 2021-2022.
With musicians' ears, writers' pens, and voices that invite you in, we examined life's timely events and timeless questions. Listen, learn more, get background on each season, and find show notes at the Shelter in Place website.
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Risking Delight
Risking Delight is our next show idea, a further exploration of questions we have been grappling with the past two years: how should we live in spite of a pandemic? What if there is no “after” the pandemic?
This will be a podcast about creating out of loss, about people who have lost everything but hope, who kept going when everyone expected them to stop. Like our previous work, this will be a narrative podcast with artful editing and sound design, but this limited-run series will feature a different creative collaboration in each episode.
Shelter in Place … season three trailer
“An uplifting fusion of art and honesty, full of insights into our strange cultural moment.” —jsk75gate reviewing Shelter in Place on Apple Podcasts
What ties our shows together is the belief in the value of well-told stories: to help us understand ourselves and others, to prompt us to recognize and celebrate our common humanity, to build bridges, not walls between us, and to fuel the spark of divinity within each of us.
Honors & awards
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Goodpods ... top 10 in creativity
We were tickled to get this honor, a year and a half after releasing our final episode of Shelter in Place! See the full list here, or head over to the Shelter in Place site for episodes, show notes, and the rest.
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Sonic Bloom Awards ... finalist
This is a new competition from She Podcasts celebrating new, indie, female, and trans-identifying creators. Shelter in Place is a finalist in two categories: “big budget sound” and “best intro.” (Winners to be announced in December.)
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W3 Awards ... silver award winner
A beautiful bicultural story of how you have to leave home to find it, our episode “Dancing saved my life” earned a silver award in the “best scriptwriting” category amongst 3,000+ entries in this digital media award show in its 17th year.
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Podcast Magazine "top 22 influencers for 2022"
Editors said of the list — mostly household names and big execs — “Whether inspiring, informing, and/or entertaining, each has made unique and powerful contributions to the medium.” A great vote for indie storytelling!
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International Women's Podcast Awards
Our episode “An Affront to Zeus” won the category “Changing the World a moment at a time.” The show, from Skylark Collective, attracted hundreds of entries from 13 countries.
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Golden Crane Awards honorable mention
Our April 2021 episode “Hyphenated identity” won an honorable mention in the “best stories reflecting the Asian experience” category for the 2021 awards, hosted by the Asian-American Podcasting Association.
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Descript Studio Sound awards finalist
Laura’s sample video showing how she used Descript’s new Studio Sound feature to improve a clip was a finalist in this contest. Descript is an advanced audio-to-text editing tool which we use to create every single episode of Shelter in Place!
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WNYC Podcast Accelerator finalist
Laura’s first podcasting project, “Misinformed,” was a finalist for the 2019 accelerator contest, held at the Werk It! podcasting conference in Los Angeles. Judges were from WNYC, one of the country’s premier public radio stations.
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In-depth independent learning
The same curriculum based on our award-winning Intensive, but available for pure self-paced study. (Students who purchase the course still receive exclusive discounts, and the option for private coaching session add-ons.
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Two hours, lasting benefits
Each session covers one of the key building blocks of narrative podcasting: scriptwriting and editing; recording and narration; and audio editing and sound design. Join live, or get the video and slides later.