What’s Your Idea
Featured interviews
Artists, editors and writers, business owners, and generally interesting people discuss the ideas that inspired the product or project of their choice in long-form conversations that are then edited from the transcription. These conversations are intended to be informative, honest, and inspiring for anyone driven to bring their ideas to reality.
Uplifting young voices to create change: My discussion with co-editors Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew about “A Thousand Tiny Awakenings”
Our conversation with Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew, the co-editors of their anthology A Thousand Tiny Awakenings, which collects the voices of young artists in the pursuit of advocacy and activism.
Integrity, flexibility, and diverse funding: Iryna Baturevych’s insight on persevering for success
A conversation with Iryna Baturevych, co-founder of Chytomo, the Ukrainian arts and culture platform dedicated to promoting Ukrainian literature.
Patricia MacDonald’s essential advice on building a freelance editing business by choosing a niche
Our conversation with Patricia MacDonald, a Canadian editor who specializes in editing books about sports and athletes. We discuss how she built her business and the key factors that drove her success.
“Woman, Life, Freedom”: How Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom developed their feminist poetry anthology
Our conversation with Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom, the co-editors of the poetry anthology “Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution”
Gael Spivak’s transformation of the communications plan for the ISO plain language standard
Our interview with Gael Spivak, with a focus on her idea to establish communication guidelines during the process of publishing the ISO plain language standards, and how that transformed the publication process.
Victoria Narizhna from Kovyla Publishing on the inspiration for “Stories from Ukraine” (Part three of three)
Part three of our interview with Victoria Narizhna, the founder and editor in chief of Kovyla Publishing. Kovyla Publishing is a a new Ukrainian publishing house focused on new Ukrainian voices.
Victoria Narizhna from Kovyla Publishing on the inspiration for “Stories from Ukraine” (Part two of three)
Part two of our interview with Victoria Narizhna, the founder and editor in chief of Kovyla Publishing. Kovyla Publishing is a a new Ukrainian publishing house focused on new Ukrainian voices.
Victoria Narizhna from Kovyla Publishing on the inspiration for “Stories from Ukraine” (Part one of three)
Part one of our interview with Victoria Narizhna, the founder and editor in chief of Kovyla Publishing. Kovyla Publishing is a a new Ukrainian publishing house focused on new Ukrainian voices.