When Shay Potter woke up one night with some things heavy on her heart, she didn’t know it would turn into an 8-month long journey of telling her story growing up as an LGBTQ+ adolescent in the 90s on her podcast Crack This Shxt Open. In this episode, Shay talks about finding the bravery to tell her story, putting together a solid team, and the emotional labor of working through her life’s story for a public medium.
Markers
12:20 min - Story development and collaborating with a team
17:24 min - Managing emotions when writing a memoir
35:00 min -Creating each episode of the memoir podcast
43:00 min - Writing tools and Workflow management
50:00 min - Steps to getting started
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