Is this upcoming season your Velvet Rope? Your Crazy, Sexy, Cool? Your Anti? We did two years on Luminary before Tressie got picked up as a columnist at The New York Times, so she’s stepping away from the podcast and it’s moving forward with just me as a host.ĪP: One creator we talked to, Donald Albright of Tenderfoot TV, likened podcasters to musicians and their podcasts as albums. We went with them even though we had some hesitations about how we would find a listenership within it, particularly as Black feminists. We wrote up a one-pager that we took to a couple of companies. People kept asking me when I was going to do a podcast, and I was just like, “When I have 10 more hours in a day.” But then I thought, “Well maybe if I do a podcast with a partner, we can share some of the responsibility and the workload.” The first and only person I approached was my friend Tressie McMillan Cottom, and we created Hear to Slay. Roxane: I developed a pilot for a podcast some time ago for one company, but it just didn’t work out. Can you share what your initial road to podcasting was like? Apple Podcasts spoke with Roxane about valuing your creative work, the importance of a preparation-focused production team, and why she’d rather talk to microfamous toothpick artists than huge celebrities.Īpple Podcasts: Hi Roxane, thanks for taking the time to talk.
