While at API Days in NYC a couple weeks ago, I heard from several people that they missed the Breaking Changes podcast when I was the host. And that the show had a certain tone and line of questioning they found extremeley useful in their work. I agree. And specifically it was season two of Breaking Changes where I was able to hit a stride with the conversations where I was learning a ton, which is something that tends to translate into a meaningful show that helps the audience stay engaged. Why was season two so good? Well, because I had someone behind the scenes lining up new guests and pushing me outside the usual tech echo chamber to find interesting people that I could interview and learn from. As much as I’d like to take all the credit, the table was set for each show that made my job much easier, interesting, and something that translated into a good podcast.
Well, good things have a tendency to come back around in my world, and I am once again partnering with LeTroy Gardner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/letroy-gardner-2133301b/), who will be bringing his personality and creative talent to help me produce API Evangelist Conversations (https://conversations.apievangelist.com/), and harnessing all the creative energy behind Fourcast Media (https://pushplaypods.com/) into a new higher quality podcast series we will be launching in the fall of 2025. We’ll be taking all of the best from API Evangelist conversations and crafting a compilation of episodes that get at the heart of the most important topics defining APIs today. And since APIs are powering everything around us, this new podcast will explore many different topics and industries that shape our world today. The name of the new podcast hasn’t been finalized, but we are already working on the topics, format, and will be further shaping the podcast with the API Evangelist Conversation series we will be publishing throughtout the summer.
Out of the gate we are focused on API integration and consumption to support the work I am doing as part of my new startup Naftiko. If you have stories about how you are putting APIs to work in any type of application, we’d love to get you involved in what is coming. You are welcome to ping LeTroy or myself directly, and we’ll schedule some time with you to record a conversation. The API Evangelist conversations are a pretty casual fifteen minutes, but we’ll be using the highlights to produce the yet to be name podcast in the fall. I am so very stoked to be working with LeTroy and Fourcast Media, because LeTroy brings out something in me as a host and researcher I hadn’t experienced before. He also brings his eye for guests, and does the work to bring out the best of them in our conversations. What we achieved with season two of Breaking Changes was just the beginning, and I am looking forward to the next phase of creative work with LeTroy and Fourcast Media, shining a light on the issues we face in the API space, but moving our conversations closer to the humans impacted by the technology, and not just what investors and the people with the power want.
