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Hi! The org I work with, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, produces a teen mental health + well

being podcast called On Our Minds, with two teen hosts and over 40 other student contributors each season — this season's teen hosts or the staff members who lead this process would be interested in participating if it's a fit!

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Yes absolutely! I would love to platform them. Can you send me an email - shreya.apurv.sharma@gmail.com?

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Hey Christine love to connect and also platform On Our Minds on a podcast I produce called Seraphina Speaks. How can I be in touch with you? Thanks Shreya for this great new series too.

Love it.

I’ve suggestions beyond the pod I host and one I produce. Been listening to Derek Sivers. Talk about the power of stripped back production, so interesting!

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Hey Danusia! I love Seraphina Speaks. And I work with Lauren Passell who has told me all sorts of wonderful things about you ✨ you are doing wonderful work. Will give Derek Sivers a listen! Thank you for reading.

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I've been a romance podcaster for years now, and a former choir girl, and I have a ridiculous obsessive crush on Thomas Newman's score for Gillian Armstrong's Little Women. It's such a tease, because many of the fragments in the score only last 10 minutes? But at my past job I listened to that dang thing over and over, and it never failed to transport me somewhere beautiful. I love your newsletter and if I can help you at all, I would be glad to do it!

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Oh lord! No way! I LOVE that score and today I was thinking if I should write my first essay on that? But yes I’d love to chat more and potentially have you write it. Please email me - shreya.apurv.sharma@gmail.com!

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I think it's neck and neck with Rachel Portman's score for Emma! This is too wild… I will email :)

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Hi Shreya!

I am definitely the kind of person who has audio affairs, I looove this framework!

Earworms, obsessions with certain podcasts, sounds from TikTok. But my special pitch is that I love listening to shows that are already over (whether forever or for the season). There's something so intimate about listening to podcasts already, but then going back in time is an additional layer of closeness. This year I binged Mystery Show, Skyline Drive, Constellation Prize, Hang Up, Dead Eyes, and the American Ivy series of Articles of Interest. Again I love that you call it an affair because it does feel like a secret to have a podcast that maybe you are the sole fan of right now because it's out of season or been buried in the podcast graveyard (shoutout to that show, can't wait to listen!) And frankly this "I want to be a unqiue listener" vibe checks out with my beginnings in the space -- I only listened to Serial a year after it was out because I didn't want to be a part of the masses!

In any case would be happy to contribute to this series and am excited to read what other folks will write!

xX

Daniella Balarezo

Podcast Programming Manager at the TED Audio Collective

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Hi,

I work in podcasting in Spain. Could I take part? I can tell my romance with both English and Spanish podcasts, as well as American or European podcasts.

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