I'm Feeling Queer Today; Leverage Your Podcast; Could Be The Move

 Today, our scope of podcasting is so broad that it could stretch to the edge of the galaxy. We are excited to recommend one of the best podcasts in the industry, which just happens to be about "feeling queer." 

Then, we celebrate an accomplishment of one of last year's Ear Worthy Podcast Award winners, Lyndsay Phillips of Leverage Your Podcast. She is one of the best, and it is refreshing to see Lyndsay recognized for her excellence.

 Finally, to counter the criticism that we are old fuddy-duddies, we are recommending a Gen Z comedy podcast with a unique proposition. It's called 

Could Be The Move. 

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 I'm Feeling Queer Today Podcast Released

After a critically acclaimed Season 2 and recognition in Apple Podcasts’ Pride Collection, I’m Feeling Queer Today! is back. Launching today, Season 3 takes listeners on a queer road trip
across the United States to explore one big question: What is it like to be an LGBTQ+ person where you live?

This season, the podcast embarks on a queer road trip to five U.S. cities—each one offering a different view of the queer youth experience. From an LGBTQ+ youth center in the basement
of a Baptist church in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to a joyful haven for both religious and secular queers in Provo, Utah; from a performing arts high school in Philadelphia, to the
pride-all-year energy of Provincetown, Massachusetts; and to Columbus, Ohio, home to a long-standing queer youth center—the stories are surprising, nuanced, and deeply personal.

I’m Feeling Queer Today! is a podcast that centers queer youth voices through personal storytelling, interviews, original music, and joyful (often irreverent) conversation. Produced by The Future Perfect Project and a team of select LGBTQ+ young adult podcast producers, the show creates a space where queer youth can be heard, celebrated, and empowered to shape the conversation around identity, community, and belonging, from their lived experience.

"Never before has it been so important to hear directly from LGBTQ+ youth. And I'm Feeling Queer Today! does exactly that. We're handing them the mic, and they're having their say," explains Celeste Lecesne.

With every stop on the journey, season three blends powerful storytelling with place-based exploration. The result is an immersive, road-trip-style podcast experience that challenges what listeners think they know about the queer experience in these cities.

I've listened to the trailer and a sneak peek of the first episode, and I've already been emotionally charged by the show. In that first episode, a young woman explains: "What straight people don't understand is how healing it is to be queer and be around other queer people."

Then she addresses the irrational fear of all those homophobes by saying, "We are not turning people gay. We're just allowing people to figure out what gay means to them." 

What I loved about the episode, and the show, is that queerness isn't described as a static condition. Instead, it is dynamic, evolving, and dependent on location and other factors. 

The Future Perfect Project is a national arts initiative amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ youth across the United States and beyond through high-quality creative programming and professional artistic mentorship. By producing and facilitating in-person and online programs in podcasting, music, creative writing, and more, we provide young people with queer-affirming spaces and professional tools to express themselves authentically, connect with others, and share their vision of a better future for us all, one in which everyone is free to
be themselves.

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Leverage Your Podcast Recognized In Top Ten Of The 60 Best Podcasts

 In July 2024, Leverage Your Podcast, which began in early 2016, won the Ear Worthy Award for Best Podcasting Success show for 2024.

 Created and hosted by Lyndsay Phillips, who is the CEO of Smooth Business Podcasting, Leverage Your Podcast isn't necessarily a show for podcasters but for entrepreneurs and lifestyle business acolytes who wish to learn how to use a podcast to promote, grow, and brand their business. 

Large companies have been polishing their brand via podcasting for several years, with“The Message” by GE, “The Sauce” by McDonald’s, “Innovation” by Johnson & Johnson and, my favorite, "Inside Trader Joe's," which is close to 80 episodes. 

Phillips, who is a speaker, guest expert, and creator of the Podcast Leverage System, is your mentor as listeners soak up her wisdom and that of her guests. 

 Lyndsay Phillips and her podcast have just been recognized by the Million Podcasts group by listing Leverage Your Podcast #10 on the list of the top 60 Podcasts on Podcasting. That's an amazing accomplishment, and we congratulate Lyndsay. 

 

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 Could Be The Move Podcast Launched

 

Almost Friday Media launched the comedy and improv podcast, Could Be The Move on June 23rd.

This podcast has a unique listener proposition. Based on moves sent in by the listeners every week, the host will debate, analyze, and break down the moves to ultimately decide if they could be the move. Could Be The Move will focus on audience engagement through listener call-ins, voicemails, comments, and other interactive elements. 

“Going back and forth via DM with people sending me Moves is a blast,” claims Bobby Dolan.

 Each episode will have a theme and a prompt for the audience to send in moves associated with that theme. Bobby and rotating guests will break down moves from listener voicemails, comments, DMs, etc. and pick their favorite move for the “Move of the Week” segment at the end of every episode.

 Hosted by the entertaining Bobby Dolan, this podcast is born from the viral @couldbethemove social accounts. Each week, Bobby Dolan dissects listener-submitted “moves,” debating their merit with hilarious, over-the-top analysis to decide: could it be the move? Could Be The Move podcast releases weekly on Mondays.

Bobby Dolan is from a small town in Maryland. He graduated from Towson University and immediately entered the corporate world. To ease his constantly stressed and bored mind, he began writing and performing comedy. In 2021, he began working for Almost Friday Media as a Social Media Manager, but has recently transitioned to full-time content creation.   

I listened to the first two episodes, and the comedy and insights were made for the social media age, specifically TikTok. Those shows about weddings, running etiquette, and July 4th "moves" were definitely ear-worthy for a millennial and Gen Z audience.

Almost Friday Media creates comedy and sports content, sells sponsorships, produces apparel, and hosts live events, capitalizing on the need for relatable, coming-of-age humor.  Check them out at www.almostfriday.com.

The company has also announced a new podcast, The Daily Friday, set to premiere on July 14th. Host Jack Lawler has also penned the successful Daily Friday Newsletter, home to over 170k+ loyal subscribers. Says Lawler, “Our readers don’t come to us for news on wars in the Middle East, trade deals, or election updates. They get enough of that just by being alive in 2025. They come to us for news about Bill Belichick’s new 24-year-old girlfriend, Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater soap, and Joey Chestnut re-entering the hot dog eating contest. And we like it that way.”