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Five podcast episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person
Theme: Women's History Month
Curator:
Catalyst20, a weekly email newsletter that curates action items and resources to help readers facilitate lasting social change.
Why this Theme?
March is Women's History Month. The podcasts we've curated highlight women's stories, both past and present.
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Girl and The Gov
Electing Women & 2020 Election "Firsts" with Eleanor's Legacy President Brette McSweeney
An analysis of last year's election, and some of the milestones achieved during it, with the president of Eleanor's Legacy, an organization that encourages and helps Democratic women run for office in New York.
Melanated Faith
I'm Not Bossy. I'm A Boss.
This episode discusses the struggles ambitious Black women face in society.
Haute Takes
New (old) jobs, who dis?
Haute Takes Pod is a fashion podcast co-hosted by Jules Seelig and Madi Kahn, two New York natives trying to navigate the fashion industry’s twists and turns. In this episode, Jules and Madi talk about managing a corporate job and a side hustle, all while participating in activism.
What's Her Name?
The Accidental Activist Sybil Stockdale
This episode discusses Sybil Stockdale's transformation from mild-mannered Navy wife to one of the most effective activists in our nation's history, beginning with her becoming a prisoner of war.
The Illuminated Podcast
Kristen Howerton: Making Space for Empathy
The featured guest on this episode is Kristen Howerton, a hilarious, social-justice minded mom of four, writer, and psychotherapist.
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Our Podcast
This week on Feedback with EarBuds, we chat with Mike Correy. Correy is an adventurer, currently living in Tanzania, and the co-host of Wondery's newest podcast, Against the Odds, which "shares thrilling stories of survival. From the daring rescue of a soccer team trapped in an underwater cave in Thailand, to a woman taken hostage by Somali pirates…” Tune in to hear about how Mike got into podcasts and about the time he carried a watermelon while summiting Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Podcast Spotlight
If you’re one of the millions of people who are struggling to survive in a culture that’s obsessed with weight loss, the way a Rebel Eater lives her life might sound like a revolution. In this world, pizza is not the enemy, and we love the bodies we have right now! Hosted by Virgie Tovar, a writer and activist, and one of the nation's leading speakers on weight-based discrimination and body image, Rebel Eaters Club is about celebrating tasty food and rebuilding relationships with our bodies. It's funny, insightful, and intimate.
This week's spotlight was chosen by Bethany Berger of our EarBuds advisory board.
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Community Shoutouts
Thank you to everyone who shouted us out on the internet this week!
FROM PODNEWS: To discover great new podcasts, says Arielle Nissenblatt, sign up to a curated podcast discovery newsletter. She runs the EarBuds Podcast Collective, a weekly podcast discovery newsletter, and we’d recommend it.
FROM PODMOV DAILY: In the four years she’s been in the podcast industry, Arielle Nissenblatt has done just about every audio-related job in the book. For Sounder.fm’s monthly interview series SoundHER, Larell Scardelli spoke with Nissenblatt about the EarBuds Podcast Collective, demanding diversity in podcast spaces, and more.
FROM SOUNDER: It’s been four years since Arielle welcomed podcasts into her life, and she’s been in the industry ever since. From marketing to editing, she’s done just about every audio-related job in the book. Today you can find her running the EarBuds Podcast Collective newsletter, working Community Management over at SquadCast, co-creating the Outlier Podcast Festival, and co-hosting Counter Programming with Shira and Arielle.
FROM PODCASTING, SERIOUSLY: This week on Clubhouse... we were joined by newsletter gurus, Arielle Nissenblatt (EarBuds Podcast Collective), Lauren Passell (Podcast The Newsletter), Adela Mizrachi (Podcast Brunch Club), Ashley Lusk and Galen Beebe (Bello Collective), to chat about all things podcast newsletters.