🎙️ Introducing the World Briefing Podcast: Built Around You
After years as Global Impact, we're turning the microphone over to our audience and launching a new kind of global conversation
Welcome to the World Briefing Podcast.
This isn’t simply a new name. It’s a new approach.
At a time when many people tell me they’ve stopped watching the news because it feels overwhelming, exhausting, or disconnected from their daily lives, we’re creating something different: a global podcast shaped by the people who listen to it.
We’ll still tackle the big stories. We’ll still connect the geopolitical dots. But we’ll also search for the stories, ideas, trends, and voices that help make sense of a rapidly changing world.
Most importantly, we’ll do it together.
Today, we’re opening the doors to everyone and making this launch episode available to all readers and listeners. Consider it the first step in building a podcast that reflects the interests, questions, and curiosity of the World Briefing community.
And for our paid subscribers: don’t worry. Next Saturday, World Briefing Plus returns with its regular exclusive video edition, available only to subscribers.
For now, I’d love to hear from you: What should we cover? What stories are being missed? What would make a global affairs podcast indispensable in your weekly routine?
And here’s a question I’ve been thinking about: have we reached a point where people need less doomscrolling and more stories that inform, inspire, and surprise?
Let me know what you think.
The future of the World Briefing Podcast starts here…..
I like hearing from voices in places like South Africa and perspectives from the global South. They normally dont have a voice in the West because, well, the West is still full of ignorance, racism and bigotry. For example my good friends in Uganda will never be heard outside of their country, never mind their continent. Its a shame becaue they have a lot to teach the world. Maybe interview more Ukrainian voices (if you are going back) that are regular people. I know all the Ukrainian friends and colleagues I have been blessed to meet in the last 4 years of helping the war effort and for Ukraine's victory, fundraising for Ukrainian organizations and NGOs and now helping promote U.S. Ukraine trade specifically in dual use drone tech and miltech...there are a lot of Ukrainian voices outside of the Kyiv elites you dont hear from either. Even knowing the sentiment on the street in Kyiv, Lviv, Odessa in terms of peoples day to day lives and opinions outside the carefully curated and foreign focused Zelenskiy media bubble. Maybe team up with for a podcast with journalists like Terrell Jermaine Starr or creators like Lisa Woods who are African Americans who have chosen to make Ukraine their home and have a unique voice, just to name a few ideas. Thanks Michael!