Episodes

  • What can rejection teach you? with Victoria Aveyard

    What can rejection teach you? with Victoria Aveyard
    Sep 17 2024
    By all accounts Victoria Aveyard is both an outlier and also as close to the Hollywood version of becoming an author as it gets.

    While the average age for a debut novelist is around 36, Victoria’s debut novel—Red Queen—was published shortly after graduating from college and went on to become a massive, runaway success. And so did all of the rest of her novels. In fact, every one of Victoria’s novels has been a New York Times bestseller, and she even made it onto the coveted Bestseller Series list which is rareified air indeed.

    So it came as quite a shock to her readers when, earlier this year, she talked about having to go back out on submission this year with what will be her debut adult novel. They were even more shocked to learn that she received a number of rejections, thinking, of course, that past performance meant that every future book would automatically receive the green light from any future publisher.

    I sat down with Victoria to have a long discussion about the actual job of being an author, what readers and prospective authors alike get right and wrong about the labor of a creative career, and how to reframe rejection for yourself as just another part of the job.

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Is everywhere really queer? with Charlie Sprinkman

    Is everywhere really queer? with Charlie Sprinkman
    Sep 3 2024
    Charlie Sprinkman developed the app Everywhere Is Queer, which is quickly becoming one of the best, most comprehensive lists of queer owned and operated businesses.

    Whether you’re looking for a travel agent, a craft store, a bakery, or a horse ranch, the Everywhere is Queer app is helping people realize that supporting queer owned and operated businesses in person and online might be easier and closer to home than people realize…just in time for you to divert those Brr month shopping dollars to a small business near you. I sat down with Charlie to discuss the app’s creation, the importance of speaking with your dollars, and why ally owned businesses aren’t going to be listed on the app anytime soon.

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    53 mins
  • What is language? with Danny Hieber, PhD

    What is language? with Danny Hieber, PhD
    Aug 20 2024
    Danny Hieber earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his B.A. in linguistics and philosophy from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. Prior to and during graduate school he worked for Rosetta Stone’s Endangered Language Program to create language-learning software with Native American communities.

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • What is a storyboard artist? with Chris Copeland

    What is a storyboard artist? with Chris Copeland
    Aug 6 2024
    Chris Copeland has worked on some of your favorite things. Invincible, The Witcher, Young Justice, and he made his directorial debut for Dreamworks on the series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. He’s had a long career that began here in Chicago as a nerd who loved superheroes and now gets to help bring them to life. We talked about how a storyboard artist is one of the first people to visualize what a writer has written, how animation kept Hollywood alive during a time of crisis, and how you know you’re ready for the next phase of your career.

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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Why are MLMs a scam? with Roberta Blevins

    Why are MLMs a scam? with Roberta Blevins
    Jul 23 2024
    Roberta Blevins left the MLM world in 2017 and spent all of her time since then educating the public on the dangers involved in joining these barely legal pyramid schemes. She was a key witness in the case against Lularoe and was featured in the documentary LuLaRich which showcased how the billion dollar clothing company misled thousands of women. These days Roberta educates people via her podcast and social media platform titled Life After MLM where she helps people unpack the history, legality, and real world harm of multi-level marketing.

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • How do you take satire seriously? with Clare Brown

    How do you take satire seriously? with Clare Brown
    Jul 9 2024
    Clare Brown is a satirist and author of the new audiobook New Nigeria County. Her social media platform is famous for flipping gender and racial stereotypes while both educating and inviting her audience to laugh.

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    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • How do you bring characters to life? with Jennifer Hale

    How do you bring characters to life? with Jennifer Hale
    Jun 25 2024
    Even if you don’t play video games, Jennifer Hale is still probably one of your favorite actors…you just didn’t know it. As of this recording she is just shy of 500 acting credits on IMDb including numerous roles in the Star Wars universe, Mortal Kombat, DC, Marvel, Disney. Even Biker Mice from Mars…remember that? She’s been in DuckTales and Rick and Morty and The Little Mermaid and the Big Bang Theory and the PowerPuff Girls and Scooby Doo and Melrose Place. She’s been Ivy in Where on Earth is Carmen San Diego and Galadriel in Lord of the Rings and she’s played Jean Grey in X-Men more than any other actress.

    I spoke to the maven behind the microphone about her legendary career, the best advice for new voice actors, how she keeps finding new and interesting ways to bring characters to life, and what exactly is going to happen in the second season of X-Men '97.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • What's the danger of censorship? with Maggie Tokuda-Hall

    What's the danger of censorship? with Maggie Tokuda-Hall
    Jun 11 2024
    Maggie Tokuda-Hall is a children’s and young adult author who writes stories that help kids of all types see themselves on the page as the main character. She also writes books that help parents and kids have age appropriate conversations about the world we live in. One of those books, Love In The Library, became the centerpoint for exposing a longtime issue with a major children’s publisher and book distributor about the practice of quietly asking authors to censor themselves in exchange for visibility and placement. Maggie is also one of the founders of Authors Against Book Bans, an organization I’m proud to be a member of. We had a discussion about the importance of diverse books, the future of publishing, and mermaids.

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    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333
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    1 hr and 17 mins