6 months ago, we announced a big change.
After 8+ years of making a deeply meaningful, labor-intensive narrative podcast called Terrible, Thanks for Asking, we needed a change. We needed several changes, actually. A change of pace, a change of topic, a change of pretty much everything.
We closed down our Patreon and Apple+ channels and moved the entire podcast archives over here.
We changed the format of the show, the name, the production schedule. We stopped making a show we loved1 because there was no way to make it viable without a presenting sponsor.
The workload got smaller, the revenue got smaller, the team got smaller. The choice to do less in a market that demands more was frightening, but we made it anyway. It was the right thing to do, and it was long overdue.
My hustling was not healthy.
And to work with me, you had to hustle. We had a machine to feed, and that machine was hungry. I had ideas, and I needed them executed right now. I was always stressed, and always passing that …