Rooted in Community: The Key to Unlocking Your Podcast’s Full Potential

If you’ve never considered your podcast’s community as a critical growth tool, then you’re severely limiting your impact! Community isn’t just an audience; it’s the core that keeps a show vibrant, impactful, and sustainable. In this powerful panel, four pioneering women will share how they’ve built inclusive, engaged communities that amplify voices, empower members, and drive genuine change—yet all look completely different. Led by Paulette Erato, founder of Latinas In Podcasting, this conversation will go deep into the intentional, culturally resonant strategies that ground the work of:

- Sasha Willis, co-owner of Atabey & Co and WOC Podcasters, who will discuss the challenges and rewards of creating a network, production house, and membership space tailored to women of color
- Michelle Jackson, founder of the Creators Getting Paid Substack community, who will offer crucial insights on using membership models to fuel community-driven, financially sustainable podcasting
- Mónika Aldarondo, producer of PSC Mami and Our Latina Lens, who will share the art and impact of cultivating deeply personal, niche communities through storytelling and how this approach brings underrepresented perspectives to the forefront

Together, they’ll unpack the challenges, victories, and hard-won insights gained in building resilient, purpose-driven communities. These voices challenge the status quo, resist erasure, and redefine what it means to grow and sustain a podcast in an ever-evolving landscape. This session is an unmissable conversation for everyone—especially anyone who's ever felt invisible as a podcaster!