Meet your team -
Niva Ashkenazi is your executive producer. She is a third year student at the University of Washington. She’s struggled with the effects of failure throughout high school and early college, which is why she was attracted to this topic in the first place. In the process of making this podcast, Niva got a chance to interview psychiatrist Richardo Hidalgo. For her, it turned into a therapy session in disguise.
Emily Gilbert is your sound engineer. She is a junior in the journalism major at the University of Washington. Like her friend Martha, Emily has come to realize that the failures she experienced at the beginning of college (re: accounting midterms) have taught her more than she could have learned from a textbook. And she’s still learning.
Shelby Hartness is your graphic designer & culture reporter. She’s a writer and fourth year communications student at the University of Washington. She thinks failure should be your best friend, because it can lead you to something different.
Ester Ouli Kim is your arts & history reporter. She is in her fourth year at the University of Washington. Depends on how you define failing, but she’s been doing that since ‘94 — flipping tricycles to skipping school for two years between her second and third year of college — and living every moment of it.
Debbie Chan is your civic reporter. She is a fourth year Journalism student at the University of Washington. She has gone through a lot of failures in college. She believes that it's common in everyone's life to fail in some way, and for her, failure is a learning experience.
Audience & Mission statement -
This podcast is for young people and anyone who has grappled with the effects of failure: the good, the bad, and the gray. Failure ultimately means something is at stake. It is a matter of consequence, a series of events. We’re aiming to expand perspectives, to redefine the way we interact with the tasks of everyday and the projects long-term — the way we interact with ourselves. We’re teaching those who are still figuring out how to get started in this world that failure is not a bad word.
Get in touch, we want to hear your story.