Amplifying Diverse Voices With Anna DeShawn Feminist Founders podcast

Amplifying Diverse Voices with Anna DeShawn

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Anna DeShawn (pronouns: anything respectful), is an Ambie award-winning podcast producer and host. She is a Chicago-born social entrepreneur who builds streaming platforms which center & celebrate BIPOC & QTPOC creatives. Media has always been her passion and in 2009 she turned that passion into a reality when she founded E3 Radio, an online radio station playing Queer music & reporting on Queer news with an intersectional lens. Most recently, she co-founded The Qube, a podcast production company and curated platform to discover the best music & podcasts by BIPOC & QTPOC creatives. Anna is an award-winning podcaster determined to ride media into its next era by utilizing digital media streams to tell the stories and play the music that deserves to be heard.

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Discussed in this episode:

Anna’s relationship with feminism
The journey of building E3 Radio from side hustle to full-time gig
How Anna continues to honor Black women of history in her work
Why Anna avoided calling out queerness in the beginning of E3
How all of Anna’s intersecting identities affect how she shows up in the world and in her work
Navigating the early days of licensing music and being ahead of the technological curve
Breaking barriers as a Black woman in the podcasting space
What kept Anna going in the early days of speaking into the void
Treating every episode or project like it’s “the” episode or project that gets a “yes”
The virality of sitting-on-the-toilet videos
The importance of relationships in funding, and generally in growing a business — and why every high school should teach networking
Never giving up and continually putting yourself out there as the key to growth and success
Learning to pitch for funding
Making financial preparations for leaving corporate and starting her business
Why Anna’s mantra is “have the confidence of a mediocre white man”
Adjusting revenue models based on market demands to create sustainability
Learning to be fluid with what a business can be, and thinking before acting on new ideas
The problem of podcast search engines and how those marketing failures are excluding so many diverse voices from the space
Anna’s mission to change podcast discoverability for marginalized audiences

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A full transcript of this interview is available at FeministFoundersPodcast.com

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