Podcasts & Radio
I'm interested in creating stories: from more traditional reporting to exploring personal narratives, to using creative and experimental sound design and prose. I learned to blend these approaches when I started my first podcast, A Therapist Walks Into a Bar, in 2016.
I’ve worked with companies and institutions such as IDEO, Brit + Co, and Stanford University.
I’ve worn many hats from story development, interviewing, writing, and hosting to recording, audio editing, composing, and sound design. I also create my own audio stories and experimental work.
You may have an idea you'd like out in the world, using your own voice, but you need the equipment or technical expertise to realize your vision. Or maybe you're looking for an audio producer to join a team for a more complex project. You can peruse my work below and contact me if you’d like to chat about working together.
I’ve worked with companies and institutions such as IDEO, Brit + Co, and Stanford University.
I’ve worn many hats from story development, interviewing, writing, and hosting to recording, audio editing, composing, and sound design. I also create my own audio stories and experimental work.
You may have an idea you'd like out in the world, using your own voice, but you need the equipment or technical expertise to realize your vision. Or maybe you're looking for an audio producer to join a team for a more complex project. You can peruse my work below and contact me if you’d like to chat about working together.
April 2022-present
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Shadowtime is live radio show on BFF.fm about living in distinct and overlapping realities. It’s about our relationship to space and time. Our relationship to one another. Our relationship to the scale of time and space while understanding the tiniest fraction of existence. And it’s about being with all of this in a time of chaos, fear, and the illusion of control.
Shadowtime creates a space for reflection, settling, and feeling. We explore what we want to move towards, what we want to escape, using both the real and surreal to feel our matter dissolve a bit (and come back together). |
Sep 2020-present
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Primary Source is a narrative non-fiction podcast from Stanford University's Taube Center for Jewish Studies that launched in December 2020. It is a podcast about the history and ideas behind some of the most significant texts in the field of Jewish Studies.
In my role as Producer & Sound Designer, I consult with the team on all their audio needs, work with the host to record his narration, construct episodes and provide feedback and direction on the script and story. I score and sound design the podcast by composing original music and digging up interesting archival recordings. |
May 2021-present
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The Birth of a Mother is a storytelling series by Amy Vicknair about the transition into motherhood. Follow people as they journey into the most complex transformation they will ever experience – matrescence – the transition into motherhood. Each episode is one deeply emotional and moving story about being shaken up and rearranged into the next version of oneself.
I composed and recorded original music for this series as well as sound designed, edited, and mixed the episodes to allow each beautifully moving story to reach new heights of emotional connection with listeners. |
Sep 2020-present
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InFrequencies is a podcast I created to launch the BFF.fm Podcast Network. Season 1 is a 6 episode series in which I curate, edit, and contextualize interviews between DJs and artists from BFF.fm's live broadcasts along with in studio performances. It culminates with an interview with our events coordinator about our virtual concert series that highlights Bay Area indie musicians. The theme throughout the series is how music connects us locally and globally as we try to get through the pandemic.
Having been involved with this internet community radio station since 2017, in 2020 I helped launch a new podcast network which aims to give a platform to producers who might not otherwise have community around making podcasts and experimentation. This is a natural extension of what BFF.fm is already doing with live radio and local, independent music. |
Jan 2016-Oct 2018
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A Therapist Walks Into a Bar is a narrative, sound rich, documentary-style podcast that speaks to how messy, lonely, terrifying, and beautiful being human can be. Using a combination of story and expertise as entry points, I explore complex topics like how we cope with the unknown, what it means to be your "true self", and defense mechanisms.
I launched this show in January 2016 because I needed a project that would allow me to do my favorite things: make surprisingly deep connections with strangers, make concepts from therapy more accessible, de-stigmatize conversations about mental health, write stories, and produce music. The podcast was featured in Buzzfeed's 27 Podcasts You Need to Start Listening to in 2018. When I published the show's final episode on the topic of endings, which included my feelings about ending the show, Audiocraft Festival called it "A masterclass in how to say goodbye...". |
July 2017-Dec 2019
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Radical Advice was a weekly live talk show on San Francisco's award-winning internet community radio station, Best Frequencies Forever. Each week I'd bring in a guest (therapists, activists, artists) for conversations about the intersection of psychotherapy, personal growth, and activism.
Listeners submitted questions anonymously which we used to discuss big issues impacting us collectively and how these impacts play out in our personal lives–from racism, to sexual assault, to family dynamics and personal traumas. I love this mostly unscripted, off the cuff format but I also love curating, so in March 2018 I began releasing "Radical Shorts" on my podcast A Therapist Walks Into a Bar in which I curated some special moments from Radical Advice, like this one: |