We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Beth and Bailey. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Beth and Bailey below.
Beth and Bailey, appreciate you joining us today. Is there a lesson you learned in school that’s stuck with you and has meaningfully impacted your journey?
Beth: this is a series of lessons from my time studying Architecture at Ohio State. The program requires initiative and resourcefulness to get through it. I am the only one responsible for understanding what needs to be done. I am the only one responsible for figuring out how to do it. I am the only one responsible to find the tools, learn the requirements, and get it done on time. Each studio project required hours and hours and hours of model building and strategizing. It was a combination of rigor, creativity, and grit that made me successful in that environment.
Bailey: this lesson took place in junior high. I was selected as a state finalist for an impromptu writing competition, called Power of the Pen, where I learned that as a storyteller, I have the power to stir people’s emotions. This, combined with my love of research and nonfiction, carried my interests into the realm of true crime.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?
We discovered during the pandemic that both of us had been listening to many of the same podcasts, and a lot of those were true crime. A conversation we had about how ‘down’ we felt after a really distressing episode led to our theorizing that it would be refreshing to find a true crime podcast that doesn’t always leave you on a negative note.
Almost as a joke, we told ourselves that we should start our own podcast, and fill this niche format. Over a few months’ time, we brought it up several more times, and eventually, we weren’t joking about it anymore. We bought microphones, worked out our concept, watched some YouTube videos to learn the technical aspects of producing a podcast, and started recording episodes. By February, 2022, we had backlogged four episodes and released the first two.
The feedback we most often receive is that people appreciate the lesser-known cases we cover, as well as the victim focus we present in both stories of each episode. The first story is always a rough one, and the second story is intended to be a built-in palate cleanser that will leave listeners with a more positive ending to the episode.
True Crime can be a brutal environment, but people listen to it because it helps them understand what happened to others and helps them to realize their own humanity. We treat every victim with the respect they deserve, and every perpetrator with the minimum attention necessary to explain the story.
Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?
We have known one another for 27 years, and met in the labor and delivery department of an Ohio hospital. Technically, we had known one another for nine months before that, although Bailey’s recollection of that time is a little bit foggy. We’re a mother-daughter team, and have always been close, so the transition to cohosts has been seamless.
We get comments from listeners that our chemistry and interaction is warm and natural.
Just like Bailey’s birth.
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being creative in your experience?
We do this every week because we feel these stories and these victims are important and deserve to be remembered.
The most rewarding thing is when someone reaches out to us to say that the way we told a story made a difference to them and did justice to its subject. On a few occasions, we have even received feedback from the people mentioned in our episodes, who appreciated the awareness that we brought to their loved one’s story.
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