Attach Your Résumé
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Interviews with online creators about how their jobs work and how they got there. Hear the personal stories behind seismic events in digital media and learn what concrete steps we can take to build a sustainable media landscape. Hosted by longtime podcasters and business owners Eric Silver and Amanda McLoughlin, Attach Your Résumé proves that the best credential for deciding the future of media is actually making stuff. New episodes every Thursday until we run out of episodes and have to go make more.
We Know What’s Going to Happen in Podcasting, So You Can Too!
Want to know about the podcasting industry from three working professionals who are in it? Eric, Amanda, and Brandon can help you with that. Plus, we reflect on Season 1 of AYR and what Season 2 has in store! Credits - Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin
Alex Jaffe Should Be the DC Comics Historian, And You Should Have Your Dream Job Too!
Alex Jaffe is a professional expert of DC Comics. He writes for DC.com and hosts the podcasts Insert Credit and 52 Pickup. “I do these things on the Internet because something inside me compels me to… There’s no time I’m not thinking about this. If there’s a reason what I do resonates with people, it’s because it comes from a place of genuine interest. I’m not forcing this.” Credits
Hank Green Wants to be a Mentor, Not a Manager
Hank Green has retired from being a digital media CEO. What happens now? This is the second of our CEO interview series, where our CEO sits down with others to talk about the practicalities of running a business in the creator economy. “I'm in the process right now in my life… of trying to figure out how to not be a decider, and have everyone agree with me that I'm not a decider. Instead [I want to] be an engine, a cheerleader. I want to be fuel in your tank that nobody else has access
Grand Poo Bear Wants to Make His Viewers Happy, So You Can Too!
Trying to make a career online fit with being a human in the real world? Grand Poo Bear can help you with that. “At the end of the day, what content creation is, is you're trying to get emotion out of someone. I like the emotion of love and fun. Some people like other emotions, you know. But that's what it all is.” Grand Poo Bear is a streamer, speedrunner, and Red Bull athlete. GPB is best known for playing and beating incredibly difficult levels of 2D Mario games in Super Mario Make
Akoto Ofori-Atta Believes in Non-Profit News, So You Can Too!
How do you build a newsroom by and for Black people? Akoto can help you with that. "We wanted to build a place that just embodied the idea that Black people deserve better for media. Black people need accurate information. It's important for democracy, and it's important for
Dr. Claire Aubin Posts to Stand Out, So You Can Too!
How do you advocate for your expertise as a historian in the world of academia? Claire can help you with that. "The problem [in academia] is that there are no jobs. There are far too many people available for the few jobs that exist... And having a social media presence has g
We’re Hopeful for Media in 2025, So You Can Be Too!
Want to think about good things coming next year? Jenna Stoeber, Lauren Shippen, Brandon Grugle, Isabel J. Kim, Paris Marx, Amanda Silberling, Mischa Stanton, Eric and Amanda can help you with that! Thank you for being a part of AYR this year, we’re so thankful for getting on the new show. Season 1 will continue starting January 9th. Read Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J Kim, it’s really good. Credits
Rowan Zeoli Loves and Is Critical of Her Hobby, So You Can Be Too!
How do you keep a separation between journalism and marketing when writing about a niche? Rowan can help you with that, like she did at Rascal for tabletop roleplaying games. "I graduated high school into Donald Trump's election and then I graduated college into the pandemic.
The CEO of Patreon Wants to Earn Artists’ Trust
Want to make a living online without being tied to platforms? Jack Conte and Patreon are trying to help you with that. This is the first of our CEO interview series, where our CEO sits down with others to talk about the practicalities of running a business in the creator eco
Taylor Lorenz Was Willing to Quit, So You Can Too!
What do you do when you don’t feel valued by your job when you’re doing really good work? Taylor can help you with that. "Nobody respects you unless you're willing to leave. If [employers] get the sense that you're not willing to leave and you bluff it even once, they'll call
Lauren Shippen Is Successful and Unprofitable, So You Can Be Ok With That Too!
What do you do when you break out of your small creative niche and are getting scrutinized by your fandom for that? Lauren can help you with that. “Somebody asked me on Tumblr the other day if I had any advice for how to become a successful and profitable creator. I was like, Why are you asking me?… I've worked very hard to be a person that people associate with audio drama when they think about audio drama, but I'm not profitable. I'm still struggling to get budgets for the shows that I w
Ryan Broderick Is Not Cool at Parties, But You Can Be!
Do you want to know what it was like to work inside BuzzFeed at the height of its power? Ryan can help you with that. “Digital media was the problem. It wasn't the job. Like the burnout I felt as a journalist was not because I didn't like being a journalist. It was because th
Gita Jackson Doesn’t Make Companies Happy, So You Don’t Have to Either
What do you do when video game journalism is crumbling around you? Gita can help you with that. “The other thing about Aftermath specifically is I would trust those motherfuckers with my life. There's so much money that goes into that bank account and I don't see any of it. A
Yowei Shaw Isn’t Ashamed of Her Layoff, So You Won’t Be Either
What do you do when you finally get your dream job and then you lose it? Yowei can help you with that. "For me personally, as a reporter with many curiosities, with many questions, many things I want to report on and share with the world, I feel like you can achieve and make
We’re Still Going, So You Can Too
Making stuff online feels frivolous and also essential. Free Multitude Discord:
Josh Gondelman Became the Best Podcast Guest, So You Can Too
What do you do when the art form you love and you do as your job is changing underneath your feet? Josh can help you with that (and give you a pep talk). Maybe I would like David Zaslev more if he was the machine's assistant instead of the CEO. Pay him and see if he can make his lifestyle work on an assistant salary. Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives, and recently worked as the head writer and an exe
Akilah Hughes Owned Her YouTube Past, So You Can Too
What do you do when you’re stuck between being on the Internet and finding jobs in LA? Akilah can help you with that. “Art isn’t competitive. It’s just not. As long as I’m making stuff that I’m proud of, that I do think will elicit a response, or at least elicit a response from me because I respect my own taste, then I think that it’s never really gonna be over for me.” Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, podcaster, and YouTuber. Videos she wrote and starred in, both on her own YouTu
David Roth Became a Worker-Owner, So You Can Too
What do you do when the VC company who bought your blog tells everyone to stick to writing about one narrow topic? Roth can help you with that. “The crucial difference [between Defector and] every shitty place that I've worked was that the people that owned it didn't really value it or want to own it or care about it that much. This is all that any of us want to do. Like we want to grow, we want to hire more people, do more posts, pay ourselves more, but this is it. This is a terminal posi
Eric & Amanda Talk About Creative Jobs, So You Can Too
This is the episode before the episodes, where we discuss why this show exists. Topics include: never having a good boss; potatoes growing on plateaus in Peru; everyone famous on the internet being 39-45 years old; Tape, a podcast that only exists on Soundcloud; and being fundamentally hopeful about the future of digital media. Credits - Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin - Producer: Brandon Grugle - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Graphic Designer: Shae McMullin - A Mult
Welcome to Attach Your Résumé
New episodes dropping weekly, starting October 17th! Credits - Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin - Producer: Brandon Grugle - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Graphic Designer: Shae McMullin - A Multitude production About The Show Interviews with online creators about how their jobs work and how they got there. Hear the personal stories behind seismic events in digital media and learn what concrete steps we can take to build a sustainable media landscape. Hosted by lon