I haven’t posted much here lately about my work with the talented team I helped assemble a decade ago at Rivet (now formally known as Rivet360)—
mostly in secret at the beginning.
That’s partly because, as I’ve shifted focus since 2017 to my award-winning
Chicago Public Square email news briefing (
subscribe free!), I’ve eased into a role as Rivet’s Vice President of Editorial and Development—or, as I call myself, Nagger-in-Chief.
And it’s partly because the company’s shifted
its focus from journalism to become an innovative
podcast consultancy—producing audio for others as well as shows of its own.
One of those shows,
PodWell—a guide to becoming better podcasters—is hosted by my friend and colleague Terri Lydon, who was kind enough to share the mic with me in her June 6 edition (recorded May 3, 2023, when I was just getting over a cold or something else that
really wasn’t COVID-19).
That gave me nine minutes or so to nag on one of my favorite topics:
How best to open a podcast.
If you like this, check out more of my podcast guidance
on Rivet’s website and
elsewhere on this blog.
And hear more of my conversations with thought-leaders through the years on
this website, in
Apple Music, on
Pandora or
Spotify, via
your favorite podcast player and at
Chicago Public Square.
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