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Today is Monday, October 11. There are 233 days until I go on my next Disney cruise. If you don’t have time for the whole newsletter: This is what I want to see more celebrities doing, this is what I want to see more brands doing, and I’m begging you to listen to this.

This week we’re getting to peek into the listening life of Marika Brownlee, Headgum’s Director of Marketing. She’s now focused on helping shows on the network continue to grow and engage with their community. Marika is also a producer and reluctant co-host of the staff-led podcast/panel show/waking nightmare, The Headgum Podcast. When she's not doing podcast things she enjoys seeing an obsessive amount of theatre, reading comics, watching motorsport (a recent addiction), and posting bad memes on Twitter.

The app I use: I've jumped around over the years but most recently have settled on Spotify since I use it for music.

Listening time per week: My podcast listening took a dip at the start of the pandemmy and hasn't…