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Bonjour.

My friend Emily Winter recently launched a podcast, Comedians With Ghost Stories (listen now, during spooky season!) and I am excited for her because I love Emily and I love podcasts and it's a very fun show. Shortly after she launched it, she tweeted, "Last week I started a podcast and I WILL NOT STOP apologizing."

We have entered the age where it could be meaningless that someone has a podcast. Of course you do! Join the club! But the tweet haunted me. Why would a creator, a comedian, be ashamed of having a podcast? Are people ashamed of having "just a podcast" and not a book or a TV show or a Broadway show? I think Emily should be proud.

I asked my Bello Collective friends if they agreed, that people should stop apologizing for having a podcast, so long as they are creating quality content. A few of them read the tweet differently than I did, thinking she meant that as a woman, Emily felt the need to apologize for taking up space with her voice, something even more com…