SMALL GROUPS // EVERY SHOW HAS ONE
FIND YOUR POD.
Pods are genre rooms for member shows and the people around them. Podcasters, listeners, and local businesses all belong in one. Pick yours, meet with it every month, and your pod hosts the chapter meetups one month a year.
THE RACK // PICK YOUR PEOPLE
THE TEN PODS.
Every show on the Podshelf belongs to one of these ten pods by genre. Open a pod to see who is in it, who leads it, and which month it hosts. Each show has one home pod, and you do not have to pick one before your first visit. The pod is the small working group for a genre; the chapter meetup is where all ten meet at once.
HOW PODS WORK // THREE MOVES
HOW PODS WORK.
Pick a pod
Your show goes in a pod by genre when it joins the shelf. Not sure which one fits? Come to a pod night as a guest. First visit is free, same as the chapter meetups.
Show up
Each pod hosts one monthly chapter meetup a year and keeps a thread running in between. The host pod sets the topic, brings the guests, and runs the room that month.
INCLUDED WITH MEMBERSHIPLead one
Each pod has a volunteer leader who knows the genre. The leader spends a couple of hours a month on it and plans the meetup the pod hosts, and applications are open for all ten seats.
THE ROTATION // TWELVE MONTHS, ONE SHEET
ONE POD HOSTS EACH MONTH.
October belongs to ARKAST. Ten of the other months belong to the pods, one apiece, and the host pod picks the theme for that month's chapter meetups in Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas. The twelfth month is the board's call.
The months are assigned once the pod leaders are confirmed, and each slot reads TBA until then.
LEADERS WANTED // TEN SEATS
LEAD A POD.
Pod leaders are volunteer podcasters. A leader welcomes new hosts in the genre, keeps the pod's group thread going between meetups, and hosts the chapter meetup in the pod's month. If you know your genre and already introduce people at meetups, apply.
QUESTIONS // STRAIGHT ANSWERS
POD QUESTIONS.
No. Membership does not require it. Your show lands in a pod by genre when it goes on the shelf, and you can show up to any pod night you want. Picking one just means you have a home room.
Every show has one home pod so the rotation and the leader roster stay simple. If you make a true crime show about Razorback football, tell us which room you want and we will put you there.
Yes. Listeners join the pod for the genre they follow. Businesses join the pod where their customers are listening. Down the road, a business will be able to fund ads across the shows in its pod from this site, and the pod splits the work.
First visit is free, same as the chapter meetups. After that, pods are a membership benefit, and every program is included with one membership.
Runs the room. Welcomes new hosts, keeps the group thread alive between meetups, and hosts the chapter meetup the month their pod is up. It is a volunteer seat, and applications are open on this site.
Same two places the Collab already meets: Little Rock for the Central Arkansas chapter and the Bentonville-Fayetteville corridor for Northwest Arkansas, and pod threads run online between meetups.