For podcast hosts and producers
Book me, or let me hand you somebody better.
Two directions, and you can take either. The first is the ordinary one: I come on your show. The second is the one I would rather you knew about, which is that if I am wrong for your audience I will introduce you to somebody who is right for it, and expect nothing back.
One · Have me on
Wendell Britt wrote Mastering the Game of Allyship, a 383-page argument that allyship is a set of practicable moves rather than a verdict on who you are. He ran DEI and inclusivity at Blue Sky Studios, has built and taught allyship curriculum for years, and designs games for a living. He is trained in IFS, shadow work, Integral and Jungian practice, and he lives in Portland, Oregon.
Three hundred seventy-one people funded the book before it existed and then waited while he learned, publicly, that you cannot build a book about allyship out of scarcity without becoming a worse ally while you do it. That story is in the book, and he will tell it on air.
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Topics that have legs
Pick one and I will shape it to your audience. Telling me who listens is worth more than telling me how long the episode runs.
Allyship is a game, and most people are playing the unwinnable version
The core argument of the book. Why a verdict on your goodness cannot be practiced, and what a move is instead. Works as a whole episode or as the first ten minutes.
The ten myths
Chapter 1 takes apart ten claims about allyship, and the first one is the master the other nine are versions of. Hosts tend to have opinions about at least three, which makes for a better conversation than agreement.
Building the book badly, in public
I raised money for a book about allyship and then built it out of scarcity and self-punishment, which made me a worse ally while I did it. That story is in the book because leaving it out would have proved the book wrong.
Six Faces, and the one you avoid
The roles people take in a conflict, and why the Face somebody avoids is more diagnostic than the one they lead with. Good for shows whose audience already knows a typology and is tired of it.
Games, IFS and shadow work in the same sentence
For the deeper-end shows. How a game designer ends up using parts work, and why a scoreboard is the wrong instrument for a practice.
Formats
- Remote, on your platform. I record locally if you want a clean track.
- In person in Portland, Oregon.
- Solo interview, co-host, or panel. Panels want a real disagreement on the table.
- Live audience, if the format holds a practice segment.
No fee to come on a show. Booking me to speak at an event is a different arrangement and its fees are on the speaking page.
Two · Let me introduce you to somebody else
I know practitioners who have been doing this work far longer than I have been writing about it, and several of them have never been on a show. If your audience would be better served by one of them than by me, say so and I will make the introduction. You do not have to book me first, and you do not owe me an episode afterward.
Tell me who listens to you and what you have already covered, and I will tell you who I would send. If nobody I know fits, I will say that too rather than reaching for a name.
The ask
One address, answered by me. Say which of the two you want, who your audience is, and roughly when. A reply from this address is always a person.
wendell@masteringallyship.com