Speaking of Phenomenal Podcast
Hosted by Amy Boyle · Amy Boyle
5.0from 61 ratings
- 100
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 61
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 9K
- YouTube views
About Speaking of Phenomenal Podcast
Speaking of Phenomenal is an independent podcast covering women and gender-expansive people mainstream media hasn't found yet. Host Amy Boyle, a multimedia journalist and adjunct lecturer in photojournalism and visual storytelling at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, reports longform narrative conversations with women and gender-expansive people doing significant work the news cycle has yet to document. The work began in 2018 as the 52 Phenomenal Women Project, a portrait storytelling series that produced 104 reported profiles and was covered by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader and NBC5. The podcast launched in October 2020 as the audio extension of that journalism. Now in its sixth season, with 70 episodes and counting, Speaking of Phenomenal has reached 103 countries and over 860 cities worldwide. Every person you'll hear has a story the world should know. And they sound like this. www.speakingofphenomenal.com (http://www.speakingofphenomenal.com/). Support the show via our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/u25038150
- Publisher
- Amy Boyle
- Category
- education · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 29 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 100 episodes have a transcript.
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Far From Home: Ankita Kumar on Storytelling Across Borders
6 Aug 2026
Self-Doubt to Real Community | Creative Endurance Six Years Later
29 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Troublemaker to Change-maker | Cost of Being Right
Inside a recent episode
Far From Home: Ankita Kumar on Storytelling Across Borders
Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So that is phenomenal. I covered the COVID crisis for multiple publications in India. I was primarily covering the crisis for a German broadcaster called DW, Deutsche Welle. I had this urge to bring these stories to life of people who were really suffering and were falling through the cracks. Nobody cared about them, not even the government. And there was this expectation that you adjust to this pandemic in ways that it's not possible for you to adjust. So I think for me, covering the pandemic made me realize that it's so important to be human. It was incredibly frustrating at the start because I felt the sense of privilege that I could go out. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Speaking of Phenomenal Podcast
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- Ankita M Kumar
- Tiffany Villarreal
- Lisa Cornwell
- Devorah Brinckerhoff
- Delores Morton
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 8,963
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 52 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 9 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- Quality
- 60
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 71
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