Bonus Solo Episode: Why Start a Podcast With Taylor Rae Almonte-Roman

In the episode, learn about why I started this podcast. I don't know what brought you to this podcast, but I hope you stay to hear the story of someone you feel like you have nothing in common with. We're more alike than you might think.

Summary

Taylor Rae, in a solo episode of her podcast "On the Outside," discusses her motivation to create the platform. It was started as an extension of her weekly newsletter, which focuses on anti-racism education and promoting marginalized voices. The podcast allows Taylor to dive deeper into these topics through guest interviews and additional resources, emphasizing fact-checking and accessibility. She highlights the importance of understanding diverse perspectives to foster empathy and compassion, and encourages listeners to broaden their exposure to experiences different from their own.

TranscriptION

Taylor Rae Almonte-Roman

Hey, welcome back. My name is Taylor Rae and this is another solo episode of “On the Outside”. I'm so happy to have you here. Welcome back friend in today's episode, I'm keeping it short and sweet. I just want to talk to you a little bit more about why I started this podcast. So if you remember last week I talked about this weekly newsletter that I started around anti-racism, education and just uplifting, marginalized voices and stories, sharing tools and tips and a bunch of other things along that same kind of set of topics. I wanted to start this podcast so that I could go a little bit deeper and have real conversations with people while also sharing a lot of that same information that I was sharing in my newsletter. So you'll notice in every episode, I have my conversation with my guest. But then I also cut away and give you more insight into those topics with researched and cited information.

Every single episode has a transcript and citations on my website to make it not only accessible but also accountable for that information to really be fact checked by me to the best of my ability as a solo team of one and to provide resources for you to learn more. I think that when not, I think I know that when we know more, when we have more education, when we have more understanding, we have more empathy, we have more compassion, we have more resilience, we're more flexible.

I hope that you come to an episode. Maybe because there's a topic that resonates with you or maybe you love the person that I'm talking to there, a content creator or an actor or a, a person that you respect and from that story, you learn something but then you also stay for the story of someone that you have nothing in common with or that you think you have nothing in common with.

That's really why I wanted to start this show so that our world becomes just a little bit smaller. It's really easy to think that some people have nothing in common with us that they're just so different that we have no concept of what their life might be like. And that there's no way that they could understand what our life would be like. But I don't think that that's true.

And these conversations really highlight that I find so many similarities in the stories that people tell about feeling like they were on the outside. All of us having those similar feelings of isolation and exclusivity, feeling alone, feeling confused, wanting to fit in, wanting to be loved wanting to be seen. I just know that the more we know about each other, the more we see the humanity behind each individual and learn their story, the more it connects us.

And that's really what I'm trying to do here on this show. As always, I am so grateful that you're here and that you're listening. I really hope that you take the time to listen to an episode from someone that you don't really see yourself in because I can promise you by the end of it, you will have so much more of an understanding of that other human being, of their experience.

And you'll also learn something. I really try to add that little bit of education into every episode because the more we know, the better we do when we know better, we do better. Right. Once again, thank you so much for being here. See you out there.