Hey, I’m a podcaster now!
I’ll be honest, I didn’t see that one coming.
Here’s how it happened: In the fall of 2020, in the middle of pandemic lockdown, Kelly Chappie, a lovely woman I’d met once, texted me to say she had seen this instagram post, in which Colette Hannahan paints while I read part of my intro to The Best Women’s Travel Writing. She said it had inspired an idea for a project. (You can listen to that whole story here). She wanted to know if I was on board, and, as I am wont to do when folks propose exciting new projects, I said yes and got right on board! And now we’ve wrapped season one of There She Goes! The gist of our podcast is:
Travel Stories told by the women who wrote them.
No interviews, no chit-chat. Just great storytelling by women travelers—their words and experiences, told in their own voices.
Pretty sweet, right?
Season one was amazing. Kelly and I found we worked together beautifully and really enjoyed the process of becoming friends through creating a podcast together. We aired fifteen episodes (seventeen if you include two bonus episodes) featuring incredible storytellers such as Natalie Baszile, author of Queen Sugar and We are Each Other’s Harvest, taking us to Louisiana; Faith Adiele, author of Meeting Faith, taking us to Thailand; Marcia DeSanctis, author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go, taking us to France; Maggie Downs, author of Brave Enough, taking us to Uganda; Mathangi Subramanian, author of A People’s History of Heaven, taking us to India; Suzanne Roberts, author of Almost Somewhere and Bad Tourist, taking us to Greece; and Ann Leary, author of The Good House and The Children, taking us to Italy.
And many more!!!!
We also got some stellar reviews and a bunch of five-star reviews, which made us super happy, and we were featured on Podbean’s Storytelling Podcast Week, which was a lot of fun. I participated in a storytelling salon, where you can hear me reading this essay from Off Assignment.
I hope you’ll give There She Goes a listen (and a five-star rating and review, if you like it, pleeaaaase!) on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you go to get your podcasts! It’s available on all major platforms. And don’t forget to follow us on instagram, too!
