We are Radiotopia, a podcasting collective of storytelling shows with over 10,000,000 downloads a month, including 99% Invisible, Theory of Everything, Song Exploder, Mortified, Love+Radio, Fugitive Waves, The Truth, The Heart, Radio Diaries, Stra...

Hello reddit and thanks for having us!

We are Radiotopia, a collection of story-driven radio shows and podcasts that broke Kickstarter fundraising records last year in the publishing category. We are here to answer your questions about the "us" - the creators, hosts and producers - and our shows - as well as podcasting in general and Radiotopia as a network.

If you would like to support Radiotopia, we are currently seeking sustaining members to pledge support for this season and beyond. We are offering all kinds of Radiotopia and show-specific rewards to thank our contributors!

We’d love to have commenters use the username of the host/show at which they're aiming their question… e.g. /u/romanmars for Roman

/u/helenzaltzman and /u/romanmars recently did AMAs here and here. Now the rest of the Radiotopians are here.

We are:

• Nikki Silva (/u/KitchenSistersNikki) and Davia Nelson (/u/KitchenSistersDavia), hosts of Fugitive Waves with The Kitchen Sisters
• Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker (/u/loveandradio/), of Love+Radio
• Sarah Kramer (/u/skk_wire), of Radio Diaries
• Lea Thau (/u/Leathau) host of Strangers
• Hrishikesh Hirway (/u/HrishiHirway) host of Song Exploder
• Mitra Kaboli and Samara Breger, (/u/theheartradio) of The Heart
• Dave Nadelberg (/u/davenadelberg), host of Mortified
• Benjamen Walker (/u/bwradio) host of Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
• Jonathan Mitchell (/u/thetruthpodcast), host of The Truth
• Roman Mars (/u/romanmars), host of 99% Invisible
• Julie Shapiro (/u/julieatomic), Executive Producer of Radiotopia

We'll sign our responses with our initials so you know who said what. Follow us on Twitter at: @radiotopiafm

Our Proof: https://twitter.com/radiotopiafm/status/663778106898063362