How to be a great podcast host
Sound judgment: today’s best podcast hosts explain their craft
What does it take to become a beloved podcast host? What do the best hosts do that keep listeners coming back, episode after episode?
There’s no one right answer.
Sound Judgment host Elaine Appleton Grant goes behind the scenes with hosts to learn how they make their magic. Together, they explore hosts’ creative choices by pulling apart one episode at a time. They dissect the work and the host's choices, process, successes and challenges.
If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t stop listening to some podcasts and why you can’t start listening to others, it all comes down to the storytelling decisions — the sound judgments — we makers make.
Elaine talks to hosts of interview shows and narrative podcasts, documentaries and advice shows, big names and not-yet-big names.
Get the scoop on how your favorite hosts, and their teams, make great audio storytelling choices—from the other side of the mic. And learn how YOU can be a great podcast host.
“Elaine is specific and thorough, answering questions that everyone is wondering, but not too many people are addressing. Each episode is packed with real advice, multiple takeaways for people in audio. The takeaways at the end are hugely valuable.”
“Finally, a show abut the actual craft. Elaine clearly has a mission to bring us inside the MAKING of the shows. It’s bizarre to me that so few want to share the magic of making podcasts in favor of general advice, sans-audio clips, or industry voyeurism. This is so inspiring. Glad to have found it!”
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