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With the change in leadership also comes a promise of reinvention.
That shift is alive and present in the three episodes out now.
The season debut takes on the idea of reparations, running the inquirythrough a DIY social experiment in Vermont.
Part of the impulse driving the newInvisibiliais a desire to be more responsive to the moment.
Our show is being birthed out of a moment of chaos, said Natisse.
Were acknowledging that were at a place where everything feels like its falling apart.
(Shaw is Asian American.)
Getting to this point of substantial change was a hard-fought journey forInvisibilia.
There began to be questions about the fate of the organizations seasonal podcasts.
The team was asked to suspend operations, and individual members were redeployed to other desks to support coverage.
Rosin went to Investigations.
Shaw and Spiegel were reallocated to assistShort Wave, NPRs daily science podcast.
Rosin, as well, had been entertaining similar ideas.
For a moment, it seemed like the future ofInvisibiliawas on the bubble.
We thought it was over, said Shaw.
Some of us started looking for other jobs.
The problem, of course, was how to share.
With the newInvisibilia, that original vision might get a second chance.
It felt like we were being handed a blank check, said Shaw.
Its like mom and dad left, and youre being handed the keys to the car.
Today, the newly reinventedInvisibiliais in the middle of its five-episode debut season.
Its a live question for us, said Shaw.
We dont just want to reinvent the content we also want to change our workplace.
We want to make impactful work, but we also want to have good jobs.
One is not more important than the other.
But that causes a lot of other things to suffer: work-life balance, sanity, and so on.
Theyre still trying to figure out what that tangibly means in practice.
Were also trying to talk about stories differently, said Shaw.
you might find the latest season ofInvisibiliahere.
Selected Notes
The IAB Podcast Upfrontsbegin today.
Brace yourself for an onslaught of announcements.
Spotifyhas addeda new podcast timestamp sharing feature to its platform.
This comes a few weeks after itsexpanded integration with Facebookwent live.
Entries for the 2021 Third Coast/RHDF Competitionclose tonight.
iHeartMedia launched itsprogrammatic podcast advertising marketplace last week.
This, of course, is the natural endpoint for the companysacquisition of Voxnestlast October.
The Tribeca Festival has added podcast selections to its lineup for the first time this year.
Interestingly enough, this is also the first year the festival is featuring video games as official selections.
Banner year for letting the new kids into the house.
When you scale communities too quickly, things can break.
It is also, plausibly, a way to reframe the slowdown in iOS downloads.
In a comment directed at Keller himself, Mistry added, you should probably go on your woke journey.
Prominent chefs were quick to criticize Mistry, asuccessful and accomplished chefin their own right, for their candor.
Ive interviewed Black female chefs, food stylists, food scientists, wine makers, food technicians.
When Black womendoenter mainstream media spaces, theyre often seen as one-dimensional stereotypes.
We cover a lot of different disciplines, and we take our work very seriously.
Rozier said the racist culture within modern kitchens isolates Black women literally and figuratively.
Ive never been successful trying to play the white mans game.
That has never worked for me.
So why am I going to bother trying to appeal to those folks?
Im just gonna do me, they said.
People listen to chefs in a way that they dont listen to politicians and lobbyists, they said.
Mistry kicks off every episode of their show with a personal anecdote.
In one installment, they discuss the experience of being non-binary in a cis-male-dominated kitchen.
So far,Loading Dock Talkshas released three episodes, and Mistry says that the download numbers are impressive.
This, of course, brings us to the issue of money.
When she said no, the conversation ended.
I wanted to talk to other people working in restaurants about systemic issues, Osuna explained.
A big conversation in the food world right now is like, What is a chef?
What does that mean?
And I think people want to hear those stories right now.
You wanted to break out of working at a diner, you say?
Well, now you basically own one.
Job opportunities also continually come up.
Its left him with some flexibility to experiment with more editorial components, and hes done just that.
Chefs Without Restaurantsis now a creative outlet for Spear, one where stories take the front seat.
It was the pandemic, however incidentally, that made Spear fully actualize this looser format for the show.
Since he couldnt change the medium through which they talked, he decided he would change what they talkedabout.
Plus, he says, Ive already achieved that how to build and grow your business in season one.
Nowadays, the emphasis is more on the people, not their functions.
A lifelong artist, photographer, and writer, Spear says he still always self-identified as a chef.
Now, he wonders, if he were to introduce himself at a party, what would he say?
As the podcast adage goes, the barrier of entry is low.
The same, he feels, is true for being an independent chef.
But the sentiment still stands: Just go out there and give it a try.
