I think it's really important to be completely radically honest about the shit you're not

good at, like radically honest, and know that it does not make you look weak or in any

way deficient to say to a team of people around you or someone reporting to you or someone

you're hiring. I am bad at this. I'm going to forget this and you cannot hesitate to

remind me that I owe you something to re-email me something that I've responded to. I think

radical honesty about what you're not good at is important.

Welcome back to working. I'm your host, Isaac Butler, and I'm your other host, June Thomas.

June, this is normally the part of the show where I ask you whose voice is that we heard at the

top of the show. But honestly, I think our guest this week would be offended if I didn't recognize

her voice as we are friends and have co-hosted podcasts together in the past. This week's guest is

of course podcasting in Prasario, Living Legend, Rebecca LaVoy. What can you tell our listeners

about Rebecca's work? Yes. Rebecca is definitely a friend of Slate podcast,

it wasn't but you really, and she was a host of Mom and Dad of Fighting, Slate's parenting

podcast for several years, and she still pops up there on another Slate shows from time to time.

But outside of Slate, she has a big deal job at New Hampshire Public Radio, and then I'm making

really big scare quotes on the side. She and her husband Kevin Flynn make a boatload of podcasts

I won't go into details because Rebecca lists those projects early in our conversation,

but it is a lot. A boatload is a very accurate way of planning it, June. And our Slate Plus

subscribers get a little something extra this week, right? They do. I asked Rebecca about two

topics that I know she has very strong opinions about, the misogyny that surrounds the true crime

genre and how she deals with negative listener feedback about things like her voice or the fact

that she has the temerity to laugh while recording her very funny podcast.

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