What’s the story with the podcast Stefanie?
WRITER STORMS THE WEB WITH SERIES OF IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS
SHE’S been on stage, her scripts have been turned into acclaimed TV dramas, she writes a column for a leading newspaper and she hosts a massively popular Instagram page.
And now the Mallow writer Stefanie Preissner is storming the internet with her new podcast, Basically, which has already garnered a weekly audience of 10,000+ listeners within a few months of launching.
This week saw Stefanie grill An Taoiseach, Mícheál Martin, about the political process and what the Fianna
Fáil party stands for. This continues a theme she’s been developing on her Instagram profile where she’s been trying to give a low down on Irish politics to her 19.5k followers.
“On my Instagram profile (@stefaniepreissner) I’ve been giving people impartial advice as to what parties stand for and what policies they have as I feel young people weren’t getting it,” she said.
“So with the interview with Mícheál Martin I wanted to get an idea from him of what was the identity of Fianna Fáil,
“It’s clear that political parties saw what I was doing and saw that I was getting across to people.”
While Stefanie, who is podcasting on Headstuff, the ‘Netflix for podcasts’, is planning interviews with politicians from other parties including Paschal O’Donoghue and Eoin Ó Broin, she’s also cast her net wide to include other interesting people.
Among the interviews she did for a podcast was one with career and CV adviser Lorcan Nyhan.
“I got a message from an Occupational Therapist who wanted to progress to the next level who listened to the podcast with Lorcan and the message said that she had taken the advice - and she had got the job she was looking for as a result!”
Stefanie is really enjoying life behind the microphone as she is getting to chat with people who have interesting stories to tell.
“I love it - I find I have to be intersted in the person and their story and the questions flow then.”
The writer of ‘Can’t Cope Won’t Cope’ has also written a number of other series, one for the BBC and another for the US, which are on the cusp of being commissioned.