My Favorite Podcasts

Hello everyone!

Today I want to talk about podcasts. I don’t know about you, but I only got into podcasts recently. I wasn’t sure I’d like them. I must admit I was a bit skeptical. But I started listening to a couple of them, and now I’m hooked to quite a few!

As a translator, I mainly listen to podcasts related to my field. Here are some of my favorite, so far:

Smart Habits for Translators

Veronika Demichelis and Madalena Sánchez Zampaulo present this fantastic podcast. As the title suggests, in each episode, they give smart habits and tips for translators. From sleep habits to financial habits to dealing with burnout, they always offer fresh insights on each episode. Also, at the end of each episode, they talk about what they are reading or what new app or tool they are trying out.

They are professional freelance translators, trying to balance the challenges that come with building a career and maintaining clarity and boundaries between work and personal life. I think we can all relate to that!

Marketing Tips for Translators

Tess Whitty is the force behind this podcast. Tess has an extensive background in marketing and has been working in the translation field for many years. The combination of both experiences is what she discusses in each episode. They are all focused on helping your business and social presence grow. She also interviews other professionals of different translation fields and experiences to give their views on various matters.

Over the last five years, she’s hosted some incredible names in the translation business and bring theirs and her knowledge to translators. And they’ve all had two things in common: They believe passionately that freelance translators can market themselves to success, and they want to help you do that.

Translation Confessional

Rafa Lombardino, an English and Portuguese translator (among other languages), shares her views, insights, tips, and personal experiences as a translator on this amazing podcast. She has also showcased interviews with interpreters and language teachers about how they are coping with the COVID-19 emergency. The episodes are short, which I like because you can listen to them while working out or right after work or at any break you have.

She explores that side of our translation careers we don’t talk about too often or very openly: the struggles, the time invested into continually learning and improving ourselves, the ups and downs, that feeling that we could be found out at any moment, and also the little joys that make up for everything.

Speaking of Translation

Eve Lindemuth Bodeux and Corinne McKay offer excellent advice and tips for translators. From tools to apps to services, it is focused on helping translators make their work easier and faster. Their experience shows on this podcast, and there is always something new to learn.

Eve brings her natural energy, creativity, and professionalism to everything she does. She is a popular speaker at translation industry conferences and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Translators Association. Corinne is an ATA-certified French to English translator and Colorado-certified French court interpreter with over 15 years’ experience in the language professions, and she’s also a famous author.

Founded in Transcreation

This podcast by marketer and copywriter Delfina Morganti Hernández from Argentina is quite new. She talks about transcreation and gives real-life examples of how transcreation is used in marketing, which offers a very vivid idea of the concept and how it works.

This is the first-ever podcast on transcreation as a service, where you’ll delve into how brands cross borders with their creative communications.

Freelancers & Entrepreneurs

This podcast by Paul Urwin aims to help freelancers and entrepreneurs to grow their businesses by giving helpful tips on each episode. From how to create a video for your brand to how important it is to have a morning routine to how to find clients on LinkedIn, this podcast is full of great insights by one of the experts in the field.

The Freelancers and Entrepreneurs podcast is where freelancing meets entrepreneurship and business. They discuss clients, sales marketing, outsourcing, mindset, and much more.

Spanish We Do

This is another recent podcast by José Erre, which talks about the Spanish language, in English. The first three episodes are an interview with journalist Alicia Civita about the use of Spanish in the US. From everyday use to showbusiness and the famous Spanglish. If you love the Spanish language but don’t feel comfortable listening to a podcast entirely in Spanish, this is the podcast for you!

This one is about all things Spanish: culture, business, marketing, and life!
The Spanish language and it’s over 500 million native speakers in one podcast.

You can find these podcasts in all the major platforms like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

We can learn so much from podcasts, mainly because they are made by our own peers’ experience. I have learned so many tips and new information about being a translator since I started listening to them because it feels like their voices represent mine.

What about you? Do you listen to any podcasts? Do you listen to these? Let me know in the comments, and also let me know if you have other podcasts to recommend!

Until the next time, take care and be safe!

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