Podcast
While at Our State magazine, I had the opportunity to co-produce a podcast series called Away Message. Hosted and co-produced by Jeremy Markovich, Away Message focused on stories throughout North Carolina that were either forgotten or hard to reach.
I loved working with Jeremy on this podcast because we were able to really focus on long-form storytelling by creating a sense of place through the spoken word and on-location audio. In order for this to be successful, our story needed to be tight, insightful, and heartfelt.
See below for the links to a few of my favorite episodes. Be warned, you may want to travel once you listen to them! You can download and subscribe to Away Message wherever you get your podcasts.
Away Message
An Island of Your Own
Davis Island wasn’t always an island. In the early 1900s, a hurricane cut a path through a peninsula that stuck out into Core Sound, separating a stately home from the mainland.
Years later, a man achieved his childhood dream of living in that home. What he found was peace and beauty, and a love story that came to him, in an isolated place, with an unexpected knock on his door.
We traveled to the North Carolina coast to tell the story of a remote island, a chance meeting, and a man who’s trying to save a special place from an uncertain future.
How To Get To Space
Christina Koch was once a kid growing up in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Now, she’s living on the International Space Station. In this episode, we go back to school to find out how she turned her dream of becoming an astronaut into reality.