Colin Cole

Richard Fawal is the Founder and CEO of Voxtopica, a podcast strategy firm focused on organizations whose success is measured by mission alignment and expansion rather than monetization. His recently developed Mission-Driven Podcast Framework argues that many podcast best practices were built for advertisers, creators, and media businesses—not nonprofits, universities, government agencies, associations, and other mission-first organizations. Joining Richard is Colin Cole, Director of Policy, Outreach, and Communications at More Equitable Democracy, an organization whose work depends on communicating complex ideas to the public and engaging the right audiences. Today they'll explore how organizations can think differently about podcasting when their goal isn't maximizing listeners – which is still great! – but advancing a mission. This conversation will walk through Richard's six-phase framework and explain why many of these principles apply not only to nonprofits, but also b…