Alix Spiegel | Telling Revelatory Stories
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Graduating Oberline, Alix Spiegel landed in Chicago and stumbled upon a help-wanted ad that would lead to an internship with soon-to-be-legendary radio producer, Ira Glass. A year later, Spiegel became one of the founding producers of This American Life, where she, Ira, and a small, devoted team would change the face of public radio, storytelling, journalism, and, eventually podcasting. She eventually left to work on NPR's Science Desk for a decade and build more of a life outside radio. Then, January 2015, Spiegel joined forces with journalist Lulu Miller to co-host Invisibilia, a series from NPR about the unseen forces that control human behavior — our ideas, beliefs, assumptions, and thoughts. Invisibilia interweaves personal stories with fascinating psychological and brain science, in a way that ultimately makes you see your own life differently. Her work on human behavior has also appeared in The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times.
You can find Alix Spiegel at: Invisibilia : https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, my guest today, Elise Spiegel, was never supposed to be in radio or podcasting for |
| 0:12.0 | that matter. |
| 0:13.3 | Until graduating from college and heading to Chicago, she stumbled upon a random ad, old |
| 0:20.0 | school ad in the paper, to intern with this then little-known radio guy named Ira Glass. |
| 0:27.5 | And after relentlessly pursuing him for the job, and we will hear how relentless that |
| 0:33.3 | was in the conversation, he eventually kind of gave in, and the rest is history. |
| 0:38.2 | A year later, she became one of the founding producers of this American life as they |
| 0:43.0 | launched, where she worked with Ira and a team that would change the face of public radio |
| 0:48.2 | of storytelling, journalism, and eventually podcasting as well, leaving to work on other |
| 0:53.0 | shows and build more of a life outside radio. |
| 0:56.5 | She eventually after a number of years felt called back into the space, becoming the co-creator |
| 1:01.5 | of Invisibiliya, which is one of the top podcasts in the world where they explore the invisible |
| 1:07.8 | forces that shape who we are and what we do. |
| 1:11.5 | We dive into all of this and so much more in today's conversation, so excited to share |
| 1:16.4 | with you. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:23.0 | So, what's kind of funny is that I usually try and do a fair bit of background on my |
| 1:34.6 | guess. |
| 1:36.3 | And when I was looking, you have had this incredible, very public story career in radio and now |
| 1:43.0 | podcasting going on for a long time now. |
| 1:46.3 | And when I was looking to explore background for you, there are like three stories and then |
| 1:53.7 | nothing. |
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