The Waveform Issue 25 — New Starts

The Waveform is a newsletter from Red Cup Agency about the next edge in podcasting. In each issue, I’ll stay on top of things for you. When we launch a new show or post an episode that stands out, I’ll drop that into the newsletter.

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Planet v. Profit

Red Cup is producing a podcast with the climate watch and human rights organization Global Witness. It’s called Planet v. Profit. The first episode is a revealing interview with Disha Ravi, a young climate activist in India who was arrested for posting instructions online about how to lead a climate protest. The Indian authorities called Disha’s activism an act of sedition and arrested her. Find out what happened next.

Glo Podcast Cruising Past 44 Episodes

The Glo Podcast is a conversation about resilience and self-care. In more than 40 episodes, we’ve spoken with neurologists, yogis, religious scholars, business coaches, and many bestselling authors who have good ideas about how to improve your life. Just this week, we recorded a conversation about sex (lots of swearing; will use the “E for explicit” rating), and a conversation about community with celebrated yoga teacher Elena Brower. The co-founder of Summit, Jeff Rosenthal, joins Elena on that episode to discuss his new book, Make No Small Plans. Over the past month, The Glo Podcast has been dipping into an impressive roster of guest hosts and expanding its diverse take on how to build resilience and get a self-care practice going for yourself.

Coming up this Sunday, we post an inspiring conversation about kindness with educator, author, and TED speaker Orly Wahba. If you want to check out the podcast before Orly’s episode posts, listen to this episode about eco-anxiety, or this one, about sharing a passion for yoga.

Your Performance Review

Your Performance Review is a new 10-episode fiction podcast that I’ve written and will direct. It’s casting now. Many of the actors are human. Others are not. I’m building the nonhuman actor voices from various AI sources. Amazon’s AWS has a…