Behind the Scenes of BetterBrave’s Community Podcast

From ‘Podcast?’ to ‘Podcast!’ in 90 days (or somewhere around there…)

Elianna DeSota
7 min readMay 15, 2020
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“Hey there! It’s Ellie. I’ll be your co-host today, and we’ll be interviewing…” These were the first words I got to speak on BetterBrave Community Podcast, and my hands were shaking. But I was excited because I got to be part of making a podcast to help demystify workplace sexual harassment with a team of 3 other bad-ass women. I couldn’t help but feel that the podcast was going to be something so much more than myself.

I’ll introduce this episode by saying this, “Hey, I’m Ellie, I’ll be your co-host today. We have Phuong Do, Aliia Zhakypova, and Gabriela Oliveira, my lovely team members on. And they get to share how this podcast taught us how big sexual harassment is, how powerful the community fighting it is, and how excited we are to be a part of the movement.”

Sexual Harassment Is Huge

“Working on this podcast made me realize how this issue is relevant, and it’s happening, but we don’t pay attention to it.” — Gabi Oliveira

We all agreed that between the background research and the interviews for the podcast, sexual harassment in…

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Elianna DeSota
Elianna DeSota

Written by Elianna DeSota

Blogger, traveler, and sporadic decision making enthusiast. Passionate pursuer of understanding. https://desotaelianna.wixsite.com/eliannadesota