I Am Here to Be Award Nominated! - November 12, 2026

From Elsie, As Is · 07:45

Show by Elsie Escobar

I woke up to a “Congratulations!” on LinkedIn and had to ask what for. Turns out In & Around Podcasting is up for Best Podcasting Podcast at the Ear Worthy Awards. Which, of course, sent me right down the rabbit hole of independent podcasts I wanna listen to.Also, My Kaigi is Saturday, November 14, from noon to 3 p.m. Eastern. Use NAPODPOMO for 50% off.----------------------Shall we talk about some podcasting awards that I’ve won? Why not? I’m only saying this because there’s something coming. I promise, something is coming that’s super great, super fun, that I’ll tell you all about.But I have this award called the Artist Pairing Award that my… it’s weird to say “ex-cohost.” My cohost who’s not my cohost from my now podfaded podcast. Jessica Kupferman and I won this award. I believe we were given this award at Podfest years ago. I can’t remember, but I still have it, and it’s the best. Love it. Love it so much. It was for She Podcasts, my now podfaded show, and we had a blast with that show, for sure.Also, in 2023, I won… well, Rob Walch and I won the bronze Signal Award in the Advice & How-To category for The Feed: The Official Libsyn Podcast, which I believe is also, I guess at this time, podfaded. When do you count a show as podfaded? When you stop producing it? It stopped being produced around October, a year ago, in 2025. So I’m not sure. Hey, who knows? Maybe it’ll come back.And you guys, I was just nominated again! Rob Walch and I, and I’m roping John Bukenas into the mix here because he is our editor and he is really part of this. We were just nominated for the 2026 Ear Worthy Awards for In & Around Podcasting for Best Podcasting Podcast. Yeah! How cool is that?Also, shout-out to my colleague and friend Danny Brown. He had two of his shows nominated. 5 Random Questions for Best Interview Show and One Minute Podcast Tips for Best Short Form Podcast. So shout-out Captivate (aff), bringing it home. Let’s do it!Anyway, I love this. It just made me so excited. I woke up this morning and had a message on LinkedIn from Kim Yuhl who said, “Congratulations!” And I was like, “What about?” And then I found out that I was nominated. So this is really great.And you know, that Ear Worthy team and Frank Racioppi. He’s just such a huge proponent of independent podcasts. I don’t even have the words to explain how wonderful everything he does for the podcasting industry is. The stuff he writes for Ear Worthy, and he’s been doing some fantastic features in Forbes that are giving kudos to people who have been around for a long time.There are a ton of nominees, you guys. Go over to the Ear Worthy nominees announcement. There’s gonna be a link in the show notes so you can check those out. I can’t wait to start diving into all these podcasts. I think it’s so fun to discover independent shows, right? Shows that are being made basically from scratch. He has a really cool write-up right at the beginning about how these nominees were chosen, who the judges are, what exactly an independent podcast is, and all of those things. I just feel like it’s really great.So overall there are 27 categories. Yeah, that’s a lot. And 156 podcasts nominated. I guess I would say about six nominees per category on average, which might seem like a lot, but have you checked out the Signal Awards? That’s also a lot.Listen. I am here to be award nominated. Any kind of recognition, I think, as somebody who creates content on the internet in this way, is always so delightful. It’s just such a treat, and especially from Ear Worthy. So yay, yay, yay, yay Rob, yay Captivate (aff), yay John! It’s so fantastic.So, those are my news for today. I was just finishing up… not finishing up. I’m in the middle of updating some of my slides and notes for Saturday’s My Kaigi planning experience. I’m getting more and more excited about it, and also nervous, because, you know, every time I put myself out there in this way, I always get super nervous.And part of it is because a lot of the things I offer aren’t your regular run-of-the-mill type of things, okay? They tend to be a little… yeah. I can’t even describe my own offerings because they are a holistic experience. I’m really all about the many ways in which we are human, with our productivity and our outputs and our work as one facet of who we are.For some reason, sometimes in our society, we only see people through one lens. And I feel so strongly that, especially as creators or as artists, as people who lead with their voice, we are a lot more than just that output. And being able to recognize that within ourselves, and to not let those voices tell us we need to be performing bigger and become even more ambitious in order to be valuable… it drives me nuts. I cannot. Anyway.So the things that I put out are holistic, and they are grounded, and I try to make them as accessible as possible. And my goal is for you to finish and feel better than when you came in. To feel enthusiasm, delighted, sparked up somehow.So…

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