Hello, Nature Podcast Review

The Pitch:

The story of America’s National Parks through BIPOC voices.

The Product:

Misha Euceph is a big deal in the world of podcasting. Besides being a producer of podcasts from the likes of BOTH of the Obamas — not to mention Bruce Springsteen — she is the Founder and CEO of a production company, a host, and all-round creative powerhouse who has been featured in all of your favourite media outlets.

It seems like the only place you couldn’t find Misha was in a National Park as, by her own admission, she didn’t even know about them until she was 21. (To be fair, she didn’t grow up in America). But she has definitely made up for lost time during the making of Hello, Nature.

I’m from an area of Ireland so rural that “the middle of nowhere” was a landmark on the way to my house. I grew up amongst sprawling, wild farmlands, with dense thickets of shrubs lining the stoney, grassy roads, while evergreen forests enveloped our property on 2 sides. I am most at peace in nature, despite the fact I am currently in a densely populated city on the other side of the Atlantic.

All that is to say, that parks — national or otherwise — hold a special place in my heart. But I have never really dipped my hiking boots into the plentiful waters of wildlife and outdoors…