Audio and Podcasting Services
- Podcast Development: If you’re considering launching a podcast to reach new audiences and engage with existing fans on a deeper level, I can provide support and guidance tailored to your organization’s needs. Together, we can overcome any technical hurdles that keep you from starting your dream podcast and refine your ideas for a new podcast into an action plan. I can help identify your target audience and create a listener avatar to guide your planning discussions; help you select a podcast structure, episode format, and release cadence; and advise on monetization and brandraising strategies. When you are ready to launch, I can provide research support and outline episode topics to fit your org’s niche, write or record podcast scripts, and even interview experts for you. At every step of the process, I will provide as much support as you need to take your podcast from the drawing board to your listeners’ ears.
- Technical Services: If you have a strong concept for your podcast and just need help mastering the technical aspects, let me simplify things for you. I can advise on the minimum gear necessary to launch your podcast, select and configure a podcast media host, choose a recording tool to match your show’s format, and leave you ready to press record on your first episode.
- Audio Production: Whether it’s a podcast, an audiobook, or any other spoken media, and whatever state it’s in now, I can get your project across the finish line. Start from scratch by having me record your organization’s voice talent, or give me an unfinished project to edit together, adding narration, royalty-free music, and anything else it needs.
- Voiceover and Narration: Allow me to record the narration for your online audio walking tour, the voiceover for your museum’s welcome video, or a character voice for your historical video game. My pleasant baritone sooths listeners, and I am adept at pronouncing historical terminology. Because I’m also an experienced editor, I can deliver finished audio files in WAV or MP3 that are edited and mastered for release at a flat rate per finished hour.
- Archival Audio Review: If your organization has an existing archive of digital audio and wants to make a podcast from it, let me get you started. Using a combination of AI tools to quickly summarize and transcribe hundreds of hours of archived audio and my subjective judgement based on nearly a decade of podcasting, I can sort through your archive to identify themes and specific audio clips that help tell your organization’s story. (Digitization of physical media available for an additional fee.)
Additional Services
- Content Development: Let me create your written marketing and communications materials, including blog posts, email newsletters, social media, and more. Point me to your organization’s top priorities, and my writing will be engaging, accurate, and well-researched.
- Events and Public Speaking: Is your organization planning an event? Perhaps you plan to hold a commemoration of one of the many 250th anniversaries of our American Revolution in the coming months or years, and you need a speaker. I can speak to many topics involving Boston in the American Revolution, including many lesser-known events, from the American raids on Boston Light to deny the lighthouse to British shipping to the battle of Chelsea Creek that captured a British ship for the first time to a mutiny at Prospect Hill in Somerville that threatened to tear the new Continental Army apart. Any of my past podcast episode topics are fair game, going far beyond the American Revolution and far beyond the Freedom Trail.
Clients
Projects
- My flagship Hub History podcast now has over 300 episodes. Most are a simple narrative delivery, but The Lighthouse Tragedy incorporates live environmental sound and Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, Forgotten No Longer is constructed from comments given by several speakers.
- I recently recorded a new audio guide to [name redacted – coming soon] using a script provided by the organization.
- While the Boston Preservation Alliance focused on hiring a new permanent team, I wrote their web updates, including posts about the Ebenezer Hancock House, the Ladder Blocks, and the Moakley House.
- See me present on the supposed “secret tunnels” under Boston’s North End and Boston’s first street lamps [coming soon] for the Old North Speaker Series
- To hear how I sound when speaking more casually, check out my appearances on other podcasts:
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Explain Boston to Me: Making land, from the Back Bay to Logan Airport, with Jake Sconyers We’re talking with Jake Sconyers, host of the Hub History podcast, about the work it took take transform Boston from a 475 acre peninsula surrounded by sea and marshland to a booming city comprised of 15,000 acres. The Back Bay might be the most iconic infill neighborhood, but it’s not the only one. |
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American History Tellers: Boston Molasses Disaster, The Legend and the Legacy The 1919 Molasses Flood was a terrifying and telling moment in the history of Boston’s North End. It was also a snapshot of a developing city in the wake of the first World War. Jake Sconyers explored the events for HUB History, a podcast that revisits stories from Boston’s past. Today, he joins Lindsay to discuss the working class Italian immigrant neighborhood where the disaster happened, how the disaster impacted the community, and the mythology of the Great Molasses Flood today. |
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Hidden Hub Histories on Boston Found Why is Boston called The Hub? Do people still use the term Beantown? What are the full origins of the Boston Common Holiday Tree from Halifax? Learn about all this and much more with the host of Boston’s first history podcast. |
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The Town Council: The Dr. Quinn Podcast – Episode 106: Father’s Day We welcome our very first guest, historian Jake of Boston Strolls, to provide some knowledge on Boston and smallpox vaccines in the 1860s. And Miss Olive is all Jenny McCarthy up in here. |
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The Antique Auction Forum Podcast: The Boston Molasses Disaster The 1919 Molasses Flood was a tragic and significant event in the history of Boston’s North End, reflecting the challenges of a rapidly changing city after World War I. In this episode, Jake Sconyers from the HUB History podcast delves into the disaster, examining the working-class Italian immigrant community it affected, the lasting impact on the neighborhood, and how the Great Molasses Flood has become a piece of Boston’s enduring mythology. |
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Pilgrim’s Digress: Hub History, Unique Stories about Boston’s History Jake hosts the Hub History Podcast. For my non New Englander listeners, “HUB” is a nickname for Boston. We talk about his podcast and how great of a city Boston is. [Pilgrim’s Digress is no longer on the air. Aaron is a great interviewer, so I asked him if I could re-host the audio of this interview here.] |