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So You Wanna Start a Podcast? With Emily Shaw and Bridget Conley

August 31, 2026

This podcast exists because Kirk Brown had what Eric thinks was a very stupid idea, to start a podcast about foundation and nonprofit communications. Seven years later, they’re still at it. Our guests today, Emily Shaw and Bridget Conley, started the podcast Disrupting Peace because Bridget had a very good idea: create a podcast to […]

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So You Wanna Start a Podcast? With Emily Shaw and Bridget Conley

Drew Altman of the Kaiser Foundation Pens a Love Letter to Communications

Villy Wang Blazes A Trail

Trabian Shorters Takes Us To School at Comnet 2019

Desmond Meade Unites the Voters of Florida in the Cause of Justice

Stacey Abrams at ComNet 2019 – Let’s Get to Work

Episode Eighteen: Bonus Episode ComNet19 Preview

Episode Seventeen: David Morse – A Giant Among Foundation Communicators

Episode Sixteen: ComNet 19 – The Most Exciting Event of the Year!

Episode Fifteen: Hunter Johansson of Solar Responders Makes His Famous Twin Sister Proud

Fred Blackwell of the San Francisco Foundation Talks About Equity, Optimism, and Trying to Pass his Grandmother’s “Smirk Test.”

Episode Thirteen: Doniece Sandoval

Episode Twelve: Alfred Ironside

10 Things We’ve Learned During 10 Episodes (okay, 11)

Episode Eleven: Kristen Mack and Jaison Morgan

Episode Ten: Beth Kanter

Episode Nine: Jim Canales

Episode Eight: Na’ilah Nasir

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So You Wanna Start a Podcast? With Emily Shaw and Bridget Conley

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Annenberg Foundation’s Cinny Kennard and the Civic Duty of Philanthropy

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Apolitical’s Lisa Witter Teaches Us That Bureaucrats Are People Too, and Much More

Drew Altman of the Kaiser Foundation Pens a Love Letter to Communications

Villy Wang Blazes A Trail

Trabian Shorters Takes Us To School at Comnet 2019

Desmond Meade Unites the Voters of Florida in the Cause of Justice

Stacey Abrams at ComNet 2019 – Let’s Get to Work

Episode Eighteen: Bonus Episode ComNet19 Preview

Episode Seventeen: David Morse – A Giant Among Foundation Communicators

Episode Sixteen: ComNet 19 – The Most Exciting Event of the Year!

Episode Fifteen: Hunter Johansson of Solar Responders Makes His Famous Twin Sister Proud

Fred Blackwell of the San Francisco Foundation Talks About Equity, Optimism, and Trying to Pass his Grandmother’s “Smirk Test.”

Episode Thirteen: Doniece Sandoval

Episode Twelve: Alfred Ironside

10 Things We’ve Learned During 10 Episodes (okay, 11)

Episode Eleven: Kristen Mack and Jaison Morgan

Episode Ten: Beth Kanter

Episode Nine: Jim Canales

Episode Eight: Na’ilah Nasir