PODCAST WORK

At Studio C we record, edit, distribute, and host podcasts. Our clients and collaborators HAVE includeD the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce, The Morten Group, the Medication-Induced Suicide Prevention and Education Foundation in Memory of Stewart Dolin (MISSD), Innocents At Risk (combating human trafficking), and individuals producing podcasts on politics, creativity, ADHD, and the week-to-week travails and triumphs of student teaching.

Akathisia Stories is a co-production of MISSD and Studio C.

MISSD (the Medication-Induced Suicide Prevention and Education Foundation in Memory of Stewart Dolin) is a unique nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring the memory of Stewart and other victims of akathisia by raising awareness and educating the public about the dangers of akathisia. MISSD aims to ensure that people suffering from akathisia's symptoms are accurately diagnosed so that needless deaths are prevented. A website, the creation of educational materials, and support of conferences such as Selling Sickness help to raise awareness and knowledge of akathisia and medication-induced suicides. The foundation advocates truth in disclosure, honesty in reporting, and legitimate drug trials. For more, please visit missd.co.

• Founder Wendy Dolin hired Studio C’s Andy Miles to produce, record, edit, and host “Akathisia Stories.” Studio C also hosts the “Akathisia Stories” web page and distributes the podcast to iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, SoundCloud, and Stitcher.

“Always Andersonville: The Podcast” is a weekly production of the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce and Studio C. Launched in early 2018, the podcast has a long roster of guests that includes Chicago aldermen Harry Osterman and Patrick O’Connor; Amy Giordano, owner of Gus Giordano Dance School; Terry Opalek, founder of Terry’s Toffee; Simon’s and SVEA owner Scott Martin; Chicago Filmmakers’ Brenda Webb; Sarah Hollenbeck and Lynn Mooney of Women & Children First; Scout’s Larry Vodak; Joey Cranford of Chicago Magic Lounge, and members of Steep, Raven, and Rivendell theater companies. “These are our stories, and we are #AlwaysAndersonville.”

• Until March 2020, all episodes were recorded and edited by Studio C. During the pandemic and until 2022, episodes were recorded by the Chamber over Zoom and edited and mixed by Studio C.

“They've finally been released! For the first time since radio station AM 1066 was seized by the Federal Government for tax evasion, their historic recordings (entered as evidence) are available to the public! Why let the federal government tell you what to think? YOU decide what really happened!”

AM 1066, a historical satire podcast, features the local radio station's broadcasts from the small town of Queen City, USA. Episodes take place in different years throughout the 1900s, with absurdist takes on radio shows, commercials, and historical events from each episode’s year. The first season is 6 episodes, and episodes are about 25 minutes.

• First-season episodes were recorded in Studio C.

Studio C edited audio and video versions of Chicago Heal, a podcast with co-hosts Meleika Gardner, Mark Peysakhovich, and LaShawn Ford. Gardner is an Evanston-based community engagement specialist committed to furthering equity, inclusion, and diversity along the North Shore and Chicagoland area; Peysakhovich is a lobbyist, consultant, and senior policy adviser; and Ford is a Democratic member of the Illinois General Assembly representing Illinois’ 8th District in the House of Representatives. The podcast aimed to push Chicago to heal mentally and emotionally from the past and ongoing trauma of gun violence and economic violence in Chicago.

Eager to Know is a weekly podcast hosted by Chicago artist Ricky McEachern exploring how using the creative aspects of our brains can shift outcomes in exciting ways. Each episode offers listeners specific suggestions on how to engage creativity when moving things forward. Guests include artists as well as others in life roles not traditionally considered creative.  Visit the Eager to Know web page.

• All but a handful of the first 42 episodes of this podcast were recorded by Andy Miles in Studio C; he edited all of the first 42. In 2021 “Eager To Know” resumed in-person/in-studio recordings at Studio C, before the podcast’s show host moved.

Fifty-two Stops and the Streets in Between: A Student Teacher’s Journey was a podcast that host James (@chicagostudentteacher) created to help all of those who are considering — or on their way to — becoming a teacher.

“There are so many things I have learned along the way,” James says, “and so many fears I have going forward. It’s my goal to share all of this with you in real time. My plan is to interview those who interact with a student teacher to get their insight and suggestions to be successful. I want them to tell me ALL the things I don't know I should ask, and when they do, we will all learn together. It’s my desire that the episodes are unscripted, raw, and real. I hope you join me in the last leg of my university education as a new student teacher!

• Studio C recorded, edited, and hosted the show on this website, and distributed it to iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn and Stitcher.

Join consultant, filmmaker, and activist Mary F. Morten as she delves into what it’s like to operate within and outside of the nonprofit industrial landscape; her new podcast is Gathering Ground. Along with her special guests, Mary answers questions from listeners and covers topics including racial and gender equity, and the experiences of people of color in leadership development and the nonprofit workforce.

• The first 11 episodes were recorded in Studio C; since episode #5, Andy Miles has also handled the editing and occasional transcribing. During the pandemic, episodes have been recorded by the Chamber over Zoom and still edited and mixed by Studio C. We also host the podcast web page and distribute the show to iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Radio Public.

The Gene Pool Show was a podcast tour of the artistic talent of Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood (and beyond). Guests included Uptown Poetry Slam founder Marc Kelly Smith and drummer-trombonist Ty Hanson, whose credits include backing James Brown, Frank Sinatra, The Jackson 5, and B.B. King. In other episodes Gene told his own story. He was a guest on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson, and soon after had a cameo in David Byrne’s movie “True Stories.” He colorfully reminisces about the work he did assisting Rolling Stone cover photographer Mark Seliger on photo shoots of Beck, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Drew Barrymore.

• Studio C recorded, edited, and hosted the show on this website, and distributed it to iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and Stitcher.

The Hard Question with Blanquita Cullum is an unbiased and impartial interview-based program, illuminating key issues pertaining to Washington politics, national defense, homeland security, energy, the environment, the economy, and much more.

“When someone listens to my show,” Blanquita says, “I’m going to have people that you’re not normally going to hear in other places. I’ve proven to all sides that I just want to be a good presenter of the truth, and the truth stands more than any political point of view.” With decades of experience in broadcasting and government service, Cullum knows the decision makers, and her guest list routinely includes the names you hear in the headlines: governors, senators, ambassadors, foreign heads of state state, as well as regular citizens.

• In 2021 and 2022 Studio C recorded and edited the audio and video versions of the show, as well as distributed the podcast and hosts the show page.

Heather McCarthy and Lee Ford are two moms, a lawyer and a nurse, who were brought together by a misfortune: Both of their children were harmed by adverse drug reactions. Join them as they explore the risks of popular health treatments that could harm you, interview special guests, share powerful stories from real people impacted by mainstream medicine, and educate their listeners to become their own experts. Know Risks is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that promotes the importance of doing your own research, asking questions, and making sure you are well informed before receiving any treatment.

• Heather and Lee hired Studio C’s Andy Miles to produce, record, edit, and distribute the audio and video versions of the “Know Risks” podcast.

Resistance, Resilience & Hope: Holocaust Survivor Stories is a podcast co-production of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center and Studio C. Hosted by Andy Miles, the podcast tells the stories of nine Holocaust survivors (so far) in the Chicago area. Each episode features a conversation with a survivor, each traveling back in time to tell their story as it happened in Hungary, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, England, Shanghai, Israel, and America. During the Holocaust, the survivors in the series ranged in age from toddlers to teenagers, some of them held captive in urban ghettos and remote concentration camps, others in hiding and on the run.

• Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center hired Studio C’s Andy Miles to produce, record, edit, and host “Resistance, Resilience & Hope.”

"Turning A Million Eyes To Save Lives" was a podcast co-production of Innocents at Risk and Studio C.

Beginning in 2005, Innocents at Risk worked to raise awareness about the horrors of child trafficking in America and around the world. In 2008, Innocents at Risk launched the Flight Attendant Initiative to train flight attendants, who are our first line of defense in spotting and reporting situations of trafficking, and a year later, Innocents at Risk founder Deborah Sigmund took the Flight Attendant Initiative to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). An official protocol was established with DHS after several meetings that included Deborah and senior American Airlines flight attendant Sandra Fiorini. That protocol, called Blue Lightning, is used to this day.

Andy Miles co-hosted this monthly series which aimed to educate and motivate listeners through a series of conversations with flight attendants and passengers, hotel employees, transportation officials, government officeholders, and anti-trafficking activists who are making a difference and helping to save the lives of women and children.

• Innocents at Risk hired Studio C’s Andy Miles to produce, record, edit, and host the video and audio versions of “Turning a Million Eyes on Children.”