Training, consulting, remote recording via Riverside
Formats / Genre
Interviews / Roundtable
Narrative Non-fiction / Documentary
Languages spoken
English, Brazilian Portuguese, some Spanish
Open to relocating
No
Open to branded content?
Yes
More about me
Marcus dePaula began his career in audio production in 1996, touring with major music industry acts over the following 10 years. After “retiring from the road,” he transitioned to installing professional recording studios in and around the Nashville area. In 2005 Marcus co-founded Mixtus Media with his wife, Jenn Hanson-dePaula, providing innovative content marketing and social media services for authors. They co-host the Book Marketing Simplified podcast, which he produces. Marcus began dabbling in podcast publishing in 2011, but didn’t begin producing podcasts full time until 2017, starting with the 2Bobs podcast, which has led to producing many other shows. He has enjoyed sharing his decades of experience in audio production and digital media with the podcasting community, speaking at various conferences over the years, and in 2020 launched the Podcast Audio Lab series of workshops where he trains podcasters of all levels on how to improve the audio quality of their shows. Learn more at http://podcastaudiolab.com.
This website is a growing directory of people of color who work in audio around the world. You’ll find editors, hosts, writers, producers, sound designers, engineers, project managers, musicians, reporters, and content strategists with varied experience from within the industry and in related fields.
It’s both a place for employers to find POC candidates, and a place where POC can find each other for meetups, collaborations, advice and so on, which means that not everyone you’ll see on here is actively looking for a job.
To our POC family: we see you and we stand with you. Let’s continue to support each other.
If you’re an employer, we need to talk.
*clears throat*
While recruiting diverse candidates is a great first step, it’s not going to be enough if we want the industry to look and sound meaningfully different in the future. Let us be clear: this isn’t about numbers alone. This is about getting the respect that people of color—and people of different faiths, abilities, ages, socioeconomic statuses, educational backgrounds, gender identities, and sexual orientation—deserve. So before you get started, here are the Terms of Service:
I will pay employees a living wage.
I will consider the ways in which my workspace might be hostile to people of color and find concrete ways to support their contributions and wellbeing.
I will continually reflect on how my networks, taste, curiosity, comfort and values are shaped by my race, class, gender, where I grew up, the media I consume, and the fact that we live in a white supremacist culture. This takes time. It will require vulnerability, and a commitment to ongoing learning.
I understand that this directory is not ZipRecruiter, and that expanding my hiring practices requires that I dedicate some time to engaging with potential candidates in a deeper way than simply scanning their years of industry experience.
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