Matt Hanna has spent the last several months getting to know people living and working in Watertown, and has produced more than 20 episodes of Little Local Conversations.
He provided the following information about his ongoing project:
Hi there! I’m Matt Hanna, a Watertown resident of 14 years now, and I want to share with you a little project I’ve been working on to dig a little deeper into the people, places, stories, and ideas of Watertown.
I’ve always enjoyed living here and over the years in the city I’ve gotten married, had a kid, been a stay-at-home parent, sheltered in place, worked, and volunteered and I’ve experienced the city in all the ways those different life stages and points of view have brought me. But it wasn’t until quite recently that I started to truly appreciate how wonderfully unique Watertown is and especially how many amazing people have shaped and are shaping the city, in big ways for everyone to see, and in smaller, but no less important ways within smaller communities.
I got to know some of these people at events and other brief encounters, but I wanted to really get to know what made them tick, what experiences had made them the type of people that would take on all these projects and ideas and dreams and goals that they did, and sometimes I just wanted to know more about what exactly it is that they actually do. So I set out to start a podcast to find that all out from the people I had met or had heard about and to share it with anyone who wants to listen so that they can get to know Watertown and its people a little better too.
Little Local Conversations is a weekly podcast that I taglined “discovering the people, places, stories, and ideas of Watertown.” Every episode I sit down for a casual one-on-one conversation with someone in Watertown and we talk about the work they do, but also the why behind it. We talk about the journey that brought them to where they are and how those experiences shape their current views.
The episodes are 20-40 minutes long, so not super long, but long enough to give you a deeper look into the person and their work then you may be able to find elsewhere. No matter how well I know a person before the conversation, I’ve always left with some new insight into them afterwards. So if you’d like to follow along and get to know the people shaping Watertown a little better too, you can listen at https://littlelocalconversations.buzzsprout.com/ (where there are links to Spotify/Apple Podcasts/etc. if that’s your thing). I hope you’ll enjoy learning about the wonderful people of Watertown as much as I have. Thanks!
Watertown News will be providing links to Little Local Conversations each week. Episode one features Doug Orifice, the co-founder of the Watertown Business Coalition, owner of Arsenal Financial LLC, and self-described Watertown lover. Click here to listen to the episode.
Click here to listen to the first episode of Little Local Conversations
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