A worldwide audience

It's been quite a fortnight for If It's Hurting It's Not Working, our podcast all about work - why we work, how we work and what makes a great job.

Two things happened pretty much simultaneously: we posted our March episode featuring the excellent Clare Salters, with some fascinating stories and observations from her career; and Podbean, our podcast hosting provider featured us in their app and on their website in their Business section.

As a result, we've had a lot of new listeners. It was only a couple of weeks back that we posted the badge Podbean had sent us for 1000 downloads. Now we're well on the way to another 1000.

Also, what the last fortnight has brought home to us is the international nature of podcasts. We post an episode and we never know where it might end up. Since March 1st we've had 521 downloads from listeners in 56 different countries. And not just English speaking ones, like the UK, USA, Australia, Canada and NZ, but right across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. There are some images to help show the reach.

We're realistic enough to understand that not all downloads will be heard. And of those that are listened to, not all will be liked. But even the prospect of someone in Thailand or Ghana listening to what Emily, our guests and I have to say would have seemed pretty remote a few months back.

In other podcast news, in response to the survey we ran on LinkedIn and other feedback we've had, Emily and I have decided to go with alternate styles for our episodes. At the start of April you'll get an episode with just the two of us discussing a theme related to work, and then a month after that we'll have a guest talking about their career and we'll cycle through that for a while and see how it works.

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