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- Season 2 Finale: Exploring Pay Transparency and Content Creation with Hannah Williams of Salary Transparent Street
Hannah Williams is the creator and host of Salary Transparent Street, a social media interview series that asks people to share their job title and salary. In this episode, Hannah talks about her passion for salary transparency, learning to be a content creator, and some of the free tools she’s created to help more people understand how much they could and should be making.
Guest Bio
Hannah Williams is a 27-year-old content creator and former senior data analyst tackling a major issue: salary transparency. In her viral street interview series, Salary Transparent Street, Hannah interviews strangers about their salaries to combat discriminatory tendencies in employment, normalize pay transparency, and close pay gaps. In 2 years, her interviews have achieved over 1 billion views, her account has gained nearly 3M followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, and her business has grossed over $1M. She's testified in support of pay transparency bills in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. In 2024, she was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.
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Additional Resources
Check out Hannah’s free guides for market research and salary negotiation.
Browse the salary database at SalaryTransparentStreet.com
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32 min - Hannah Williams created a free database so everyone could access pay transparency.
Hannah Williams is the creator and host of Salary Transparent Street, a social media interview series that asks people to share their job title and salary. After interviewing hundreds of people about their salaries, she created a slew of free resources (including a salary database and guides on doing market research) to create even more salary transparency.
Guest Bio
Hannah Williams is a 27-year-old content creator and former senior data analyst tackling a major issue: salary transparency. In her viral street interview series, Salary Transparent Street, Hannah interviews strangers about their salaries to combat discriminatory tendencies in employment, normalize pay transparency, and close pay gaps. In 2 years, her interviews have achieved over 1 billion views, her account has gained nearly 3M followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, and her business has grossed over $1M. She's testified in support of pay transparency bills in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. In 2024, she was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.
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Additional Resources
Check out Hannah’s free guides for market research and salary negotiation.
Browse the salary database at SalaryTransparentStreet.com
Browse the job board
Mentioned in this episode:
Rev.com
12 min - Navigating The Business of Content Creation with Salary Transparent Street’s Hannah Williams
Hannah Williams is the creator and host of Salary Transparent Street, a social media interview series that asks people to share their job title and salary. In this episode, Hannah shares the tools she uses to create content and how she navigates the constantly changing algorithms of the social media platforms she posts on.
Guest Bio
Hannah Williams is a 27-year-old content creator and former senior data analyst tackling a major issue: salary transparency. In her viral street interview series, Salary Transparent Street, Hannah interviews strangers about their salaries to combat discriminatory tendencies in employment, normalize pay transparency, and close pay gaps. In 2 years, her interviews have achieved over 1 billion views, her account has gained nearly 3M followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, and her business has grossed over $1M. She's testified in support of pay transparency bills in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. In 2024, she was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.
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Additional Resources
Browse the salary database at SalaryTransparentStreet.com
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12 min - Hannah Williams Found Out She Was Underpaid, So She Started Interviewing People About Their Salaries
Hannah Williams is the creator and host of Salary Transparent Street, a social media interview series that asks people to share their job title and salary. In this episode, Hannah shares the origin story of the channel and how its led to her creating more salary transparency tools and testifying for salary transparency laws.
Guest Bio
Hannah Williams is a 27-year-old content creator and former senior data analyst tackling a major issue: salary transparency. In her viral street interview series, Salary Transparent Street, Hannah interviews strangers about their salaries to combat discriminatory tendencies in employment, normalize pay transparency, and close pay gaps. In 2 years, her interviews have achieved over 1 billion views, her account has gained nearly 3M followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, and her business has grossed over $1M. She's testified in support of pay transparency bills in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. In 2024, she was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.
Social Media
Follow Salary Transparency on…
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Additional Resources
Browse the salary database at SalaryTransparentStreet.com
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13 min - Matt Stillo uses sound design, creativity and some AI tools to make great podcasts at iHeart Media.
Episode Summary
Matt Stillo is an audio producer, engineer and sound designer. In this episode he talks about his path from NYU arts student to podcast production, how AI is changing the audio industry, and why he wanted to focus on detailed sound design when he created his own podcast, No F*cking Way.
Guest Bio
Matt Stillo is a story-oriented editor, sound designer, engineer, and audio producer based in Brooklyn. He currently produces podcasts for Ruby, iHeart Radio’s branded creative studio. He previously worked on audio projects with Wes Anderson, Greta Gerwig, A24, Spotify, CBS, A&E, Discovery, and more. He’s also the host and creator of the podcast No Fucking Way.
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Additional Resources
Atomic Habits (book)
Auphonic
Listen to the No F*cking Way episodes Missing in Mexico Part 1 and Part 2
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30 min - In Matt Stillo’s podcast ‘No F*cking Way’, he uses sound design to elevate everyday stories.
Episode Summary
In this episode, iHeart Radio producer Matt Stillo talks about making his podcast No F*cking Way, where he and his co-creator James Foster shared insane stories from real people. They spent a lot of time sound designing each episode to turn these stories into dramatic, cinematic podcast episodes.
Guest Bio
Matt Stillo is a story-oriented editor, sound designer, engineer, and audio producer based in Brooklyn. He currently produces podcasts for Ruby, iHeart Radio’s creative studio for brands. He previously worked on audio projects with Wes Anderson, Greta Gerwig, A24, Spotify, CBS, A&E, Discovery, and more. He’s also the host and creator of the podcast No F*cking Way.
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13 min - Matt Stillo sees AI as a useful tool for making audio, but not as a replacement for good producers.
Episode Summary
In this episode, iHeart Radio producer Matt Stillo talks about how AI tools are changing the world of podcasts (the good and the bad) and other tools he uses as an audio engineer, producer and sound designer.
Guest Bio
Matt Stillo is a story-oriented editor, sound designer, engineer, and audio producer based in Brooklyn. He currently produces podcasts for Ruby, iHeart Radio’s creative studio for brands. He previously worked on audio projects with Wes Anderson, Greta Gerwig, A24, Spotify, CBS, A&E, Discovery, and more. He’s also the host and creator of the podcast No Fucking Way.
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Find Matt on LinkedIn
Additional Resources
Atomic Habits (book)
Auphonic
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10 min - From musician to podcast producer, iHeart Radio’s Matt Stillo career has spanned the audio world.
Episode Summary
Matt Stillo is an audio producer and engineer and producer for Ruby, iHeart Radio’s creative studio for brands. In this episode, Matt talks about his journey from an NYU arts student to discovering his love of audio and sound design.
Guest Bio
Matt Stillo is a story-oriented editor, sound designer, engineer, and audio producer based in Brooklyn. He currently produces podcasts for Ruby, iHeart Radio’s creative studio for brands. He previously worked on audio projects with Wes Anderson, Greta Gerwig, A24, Spotify, CBS, A&E, Discovery, and more. He’s also the host and creator of the podcast No Fucking Way.
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12 min - Vox’s Peter Balonon-Rosen is passionate about making great audio in an ever-changing industry
Episode Summary
In this episode, host Kendell Kelton interviews Peter Balonon-Rosen, a producer for Vox's daily news podcast "Today Explained." Peter discusses his journey from public access TV to audio journalism, his transition from reporting to producing, and his passion for crafting sound-rich stories by utilizing transformative music & immersive sound design.
Guest Bio
Peter Balonon-Rosen is a producer for Vox's daily news podcast and radio show Today, Explained where he's drawn to covering stories about inequality, culture and policy.
Before joining Vox, Peter produced Throughline at NPR. Prior to that he made podcasts at Marketplace, where he reported/produced for The Uncertain Hour, was a founding producer of This Is Uncomfortable and contributed reporting to radio broadcasts. He began in radio as an education beat reporter. Peter’s work has appeared on Snap Judgment, Reveal, NPR‘s Planet Money, All Things Considered and Morning Edition, and more.
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Additional Resources
Listen to Today Explained.
Listen to ‘The Kids Aren’t Reading Alright’ from Today Explained.
Listen to Peter’s story ‘What Dad Left Behind’ from This is Uncomfortable.
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29 min - Peter Balonon-Rosen made a podcast episode about his friend’s relationship with money and grief
Episode Summary
In this episode, Peter Balonon-Rosen discusses producing "What Dad Left Behind", an episode for the podcast "This Is Uncomfortable." The episode is a deeply personal story about his friend Dean's experience with an inheritance after his father's death. Peter shares his approach to balancing journalistic integrity with personal relationships, and how this experience shaped his interviewing technique with other subjects dealing with sensitive topics.
Guest Bio
Peter Balonon-Rosen is a producer for Vox's daily news podcast and radio show Today, Explained where he's drawn to covering stories about inequality, culture and policy.
Before joining Vox, Peter produced Throughline at NPR. Prior to that he made podcasts at Marketplace, where he reported/produced for The Uncertain Hour, was a founding producer of This Is Uncomfortable and contributed reporting to radio broadcasts. He began in radio as an education beat reporter. Peter’s work has appeared on Snap Judgment, Reveal, NPR‘s Planet Money, All Things Considered and Morning Edition, and more.
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Additional Resources
Listen to Today Explained.
Listen to Peter’s story ‘What Dad Left Behind’ from This is Uncomfortable.
Mentioned in this episode:
Rev.com
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About The Rough Draft
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Featuring honest conversations with folks from across the creative industry, Season 2 of The Rough Draft explores the creative process, tools, and resources used by some of the best in the business. From journalists to content creators and business leaders, we shed light on what it looks like to break into the industry, make mistakes, collaborate with others, and the essential tools that help us along the way.
Mini episodes released every Tuesday and Thursday. Full interviews with guests published every other Thursday.