Digital Gardening, Audience Growth & Just Doing the Thing with Podge Thomas

About this episode

Podge Thomas discusses her transition from operations consulting to teaching, focusing on audience growth and digital gardening as a decolonial practice.

Podge Thomas is in the middle of a pivot. She’s moving from operations consulting to teaching workshops and courses — all rooted in her frameworks for decolonizing how we learn. In this neurodiverse-affirming episode, we talk about: Why we love Notion & how it’s made us smarterHow Podge grows her audience without social mediaThe importance of moving from ‘not doing the thing’ to just doing the thingClassified ads & relationship marketingHow digital gardening can be a decolonial practi...

People in this episode

Host: Cody Cook-Parrott

Guest: Podge Thomas

Topics covered

• digital gardening
• audience growth
• decolonizing learning
• neurodiversity
• workshops
• operations consulting

Keywords

• digital gardening
• audience growth
• Notion
• decolonizing learning
• neurodiversity
• workshops
• operations consulting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Notion

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