Specifically, you know, I pitched an idea to a big radio show that I really admired, and

it took me forever to do it.

But once I punctured the act of doing it, once I did it, it didn't actually matter if I got

that piece on air

because I knew in crossing this threshold something had really shifted inside of me. Let it out.

Hi, welcome to Let It Out. I'm Katie Dale Bow. This week I have a conversation with the award-winning storyteller and audio producer, Megan Tan. Maybe you know Megan, how I know Megan, which is from her first audio series that she created in 2014. it was wildly successful, a documentary memoir called

Millennial, which became a Radiotopia show, and I have admired her ever since. She has

this incredibly unique style of storytelling, which you'll soon hear more about.

We actually have a radio moment in this where I confess to her how I realized that I'd emailed her six years ago when she was doing millennial about coming on this podcast that I was doing.

And it didn't work out then, but here we are now.

Two older millennials still podcasting.

Unlike me, she ended in millennial while she was ahead many, many years ago.

And since then, she has gone on to do several incredible projects.

Maybe you came to Megan through her more recent work.

She's been at Gimlet. She made this show The Habitat, which she actually briefly brings up in

this. And she's produced episodes for TED, WNYC, Radio Lab, NPR's All Things Considered,

and she's worked with Pineapple Street Media. Clearly she's incredibly

talented and done so much. And in 2020 actually she was named producer of the year by Adweek.

I'm a fan, clearly. And maybe you don't know Megan at all, but you should. And a good place to

begin actually would be an episode she made of

the show Wild, which featured a personal story from her about love during the pandemic. And

that's where I decided to begin the conversation you're about to hear. We start there and stem out to her most recent show,

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