Curious what it would be like to walk in someone else’s (work) shoes? Join New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath as he explores the world of work, one profession at a time, and interviews people who love what they do. What does a couples therapist think when a friend asks for relationship advice? What happens if a welder fails to wear safety glasses? What can get a stadium beer vendor fired? If you’ve ever met someone whose work you were curious about, and you had 100 nosy questions but were too polite to ask … well, this is the show for you.
Matt Purdy is the producer for What It's Like To Be... Before working in podcasting, he was a public radio producer at Marketplace, WGBH in Boston, and WYPR in Baltimore, where he was part of a team that won a 2014 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. He also won a Third Coast Audio Festival ShortDoc Award for a piece about his own cross-continental bicycle trip. Before that, he taught English in Bulgaria with the Peace Corps. You can reach him at matt@whatitslike.com