Speaking of Phenomenal | Journalism for Women and Gender-Expansive Voices

Amy Boyle

Speaking of Phenomenal is an independent podcast covering women and gender-expansive people mainstream media hasn't found yet. Host Amy Boyle, a multimedia journalist and adjunct lecturer in photojournalism and visual storytelling at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, reports longform narrative conversations with women and gender-expansive people doing significant work the news cycle has yet to document. The work began in 2018 as the 52 Phenomenal Women Project, a portrait storytelling series that produced 104 reported profiles and was covered by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader and NBC5. The podcast launched in October 2020 as the audio extension of that journalism. Now in its...

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Speaking of Phenomenal | Journalism for Women and Gender-Expansive Voices

Episodes (69)

Thu Aug 6th Self-Doubt to Real Community | Creative Endurance Six Years Later
Jul 29th From Troublemaker to Change-maker | Cost of Being Right
Jul 22nd Career Resilience in Action | How One Conversation Launched Shannon's Podcasting Path

Speaking of Phenomenal | Journalism for Women and Gender-Expansive Voices

Aug 6, 2026
9¼ minutes
6 MB

Six years ago, singer-songwriter Tiffany Villarreal told us why she walked away from record labels to build real community. Today, we're revisiting that conversation and discovering she was right about everything. From healing through creative work to recognizing toxic culture before it became mainstream, Tiffany's story is one of self-discovery, vulnerability, and creative resilience. Community, authenticity: then and now. Flashback episode: taken from Episode One 11/13/2020 Got something to say? Text the show. Click the link in the episode description and your message comes straight to me. I read every one and may share yo...

Speaking of Phenomenal | Journalism for Women and Gender-Expansive Voices

Self-Doubt to Real Community | Creative Endurance Six Years Later

Amy Boyle

00:00 -09:22