PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Strong Feelings, a weekly podcast from independent publishing CEO Katel LeDû and tech consultant and author Sara Wachter-Boettcher, will premiere on Thursday, January 10. The show will premiere new episodes every Thursday featuring the two business partners and best friends discussing work, friendship, feminism, and interviews with a wide range of authors, activists, and creators of all types. Strong Feelings is a fourth-season reinvention of No, You Go, LeDû and Wachter-Boettcher's previous podcast with co-host Jenn Lukas. Listen to a preview and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or where ever you listen to your favorite pod.
Strong Feelings started as No, You Go in January 2018 by LeDû, Wachter-Boettcher and Lukas, and was named an Apple Podcasts "New & Noteworthy" show in its first season. The show quickly grew in popularity with several episodes generating over 25k downloads, and attracting interview guests including "Best Book of the Year" (NPR, TIME, Washington Post, and more) All You Can Ever Know author Nicole Chung, sex-tech entrepreneur Cindy Gallop, National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado, and Root 100 honoree Keah Brown. Now, Lukas has stepped aside, and LeDû and Wachter-Boettcher are ready to make trouble.
"We were always devoted to making a feminist show, but the fall of 2018 really crystallized our vision," Wachter-Boettcher said. "We watched sexist tropes play out over and over on the national stage—from the Kavanaugh hearings reminding us that abusive men still hold power, to the constant commentary on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's outfits showing how normal it still is to ignore women's accomplishments. What got us through all those rough weeks was each other. It's powerful to have a friend I can process my feelings with—and still find space to be ambitious, positive, and joyful, too. Strong Feelings shares that intimacy and friendship with the world, because we think everyone deserves a space like that."
Strong Feelings also aims to be a place where women can learn from people who aren't like them—and that means the hosts are focused on learning and growing, too.
"Over the past year, our interviewees challenged me to think harder about issues like race, gender, disability, and body image," said LeDû. "Those conversations have motivated me to further examine how I hold myself accountable as a feminist. And that's something we plan to really focus on with Strong Feelings, because it's absolutely necessary that the voices we hear from reflect and amplify a wider range of identities—especially at this moment, when so many voices are still being ignored by traditional media."
On the agenda for the premiere season of Strong Feelings are topics including:
- Unf*cking Your Work Life - Exploring the broken systems and biased norms women face at work, and how to change them.
- Trading #Selfcare For True Self-love - What all of us can do to really take care of our brains and bodies.
- Putting Faith in Friendships - LeDû and Wachter-Boettcher will talk about what they've learned from their friend lives, and work lives, as well as the power of women's partnerships and creative collaborations.
- Facing Your Own B.S. - LeDû and Wachter-Boettcher will interview activists and organizers working on issues that white women often distance themselves from, like sex work, racial justice, and mass incarceration.
Guests lined up for Strong Feelings premiere season include:
- Heather Havrilesky, New York magazine's "Ask Polly" advice columnist and the author of What if This Were Enough?
- Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters. Parker's TEDx talk, "How to quit your life (and reboot)," has been viewed over a million times.
- Kate Warren, host of Insert Here, a sex podcast that covers everything from polyamory to pleasure after trauma to pegging.
- Cora Harrington, founder of The Lingerie Addict, a website devoted to lingerie for everybody—regardless of gender, race, size, and age—and the author of the new book In Intimate Detail: How to Choose, Wear, and Love Lingerie.
For more on Strong Feelings visit strongfeelings.co, and listen to a preview of the premiere season and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or where ever you listen to your favorite pod.
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About Sara & Katel:
Katel LeDû is the CEO of A Book Apart, the beloved indie publisher of brief books for people who design, write, and code. Before running the show at A Book Apart, she was National Geographic's digital director of photography. She's been in publishing since the early aughts, and she's sure seen a lot.
Sara Wachter-Boettcher runs Rare Union, a product and content strategy consultancy, and is a keynote speaker on tech culture. She's the author of Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, and her writing has appeared in Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, Wired, and McSweeney's. She has spoken at Google, LinkedIn, OpenTable, SXSW, UX Week, Confab, Adobe Max, and more than 100 other events across North America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.
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