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Otis Gray is a radio producer, storyteller, and cook from rural Vermont. He produces the Hungry podcast – a show about food, the stories behind it, and the power of what we eat in a polarized world. He also is the host of Sleepy, a weekly podcast where he reads listeners to sleep with old books.
Otis' has produced work for Slate Studios, and has appeared on the Gravy podcast, BRIC Radio, Making Contact, and WAMC among others. He is a three-time Moth Story Slam winner, and makes a killer ravioli.
A Podcast About Changing The World, And How To Be A Good Mother While Doing It
ZigZag is the gutsier, grittier, and more womanly version of Startup we've been waiting to hear for a long time.
Produced in partnership with Civil and Radiotopia, ZigZag is the brain child of Manoush Zomorodi and Jen Poyant – the powerhouse team behind the tech podcast Note To Self from WNYC. Manoush and Jen are two badass radio producers, techies, and mothers who bailed on their steady jobs to start Stable Genius Productions and create ZigZag.
The podcast follows their massive leap into the unknown, as they branch off to start a business built on their extraordinary working partnership. With the help of a risky benefactor, they document the rigor of startup culture – all with their positions as creative partners, financially stable people, and good mothers on the line. The stakes are high, the women are amazing, and you immediately need them to triumph against substantial odds for the sake of our collective future.
"They’re taking a huge financial risk while documenting the process of starting a new kind of media company….and trying not to be bad mothers, bankrupt themselves, or destroy their wonderful creative partnership. And when their first funding comes in the form of cryptocurrency, things get really interesting." – ZigZag
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, Manoush and Jen represent a huge demographic of women fed up with the past, and who want to take to the future like a hurricane. The chapters are very easy to blow through (ranging from 20-40 minutes), and you feel deeply connected to them as people from the first episode on. One amazing moment in the first show is a shaky recording of Manoush literally running to pick up her son from baseball practice, two Negronis deep, just after deciding to start her own company – wondering if she's going to fail as a business owner, and as a mother.
It's fresh, it's funny, it's powerful, and it's highly necessary. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
