The Podcast Wave: What Happens When Your Story Finds Its Audience

May 2026 | Brigid Kennedy

Something unexpected happened on May 15th.

I recorded two podcasts in one day and by that evening, both hosts had already written reviews. Not scheduled posts. Not promotional content. Something they felt compelled to write the same day we talked.

Beyond the Draft called me "a violin teacher who answered her grandmother's dream and wrote her family back to life."

Healthy Mind Healthy Life said that "somewhere in the middle of it all, you can feel the grandmother smiling."

I read both of those sitting at my kitchen table and just stopped for a minute. Because that is exactly what this is. My grandmother Catalina came to me in a dream at 2am and asked me to write our family's real history. Irish treasure hunters. A monastery wedding in Peru in 1910. A great-grandfather who disappeared into the Amazon and never came home. I was a violin teacher who had never written a novel in my life. I said yes anyway.

Two strangers heard that story and felt her smiling too.

The Wave

What started as two podcasts has grown into something I did not expect. Here is where things stand:

Already recorded: Leroy and Leroy (445K followers, May 13), Beyond the Draft (May 15), and Healthy Mind Healthy Life (May 15).

Coming up: Cultural Curriculum Chat with Jebeh Edmunds (May 20), The Elisha Show, Hidden Secrets in Books, The Write Path Podcast, Southern Reads with Noah May, and Going North Podcast with Dom Brightmon (all May 21), and Rebecca Harrison on You Deserve Better (June 8).

Five podcasts in one day on May 21st. I am going to need a very large pot of coffee.

What This Feels Like

Every interview starts the same way. The host asks how the book came to be and I tell them about the dream. Every single time, something shifts. It stops being an interview and starts being something else. A real exchange between two people sitting with the mystery of how a story finds its way into the world.

I did not plan to be an author. I did not seek this out. A door opened at 2am and I walked through it.

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