Judy D’Mello and Jeremy Warshaw have been friends for more than 30 years, which helped when they launched a podcast on loneliness, together, during a pandemic.

When Lindsay Patterson launched Tumble, her science podcast for kids, hardly anyone was podcasting for children. She had few role models. So she built the thing she wanted to see.

How does a one-woman show grow? What is ‘enough’ audience feedback? Plus other questions many independent podcasters ask themselves, in part two of my interview with Erica Heilman.

Before podcasting was huge, it was small and often strange. In this interview, Rumble Strip’s Erica Heilman reflects on the origins of podcasting and talks about her own winding road to success.