u/Mysterious_Result751

Hi everyone, I'm posting in here to get some feedback on a few ideas I have for podcasts. So I'm considering doing a podcast on scam stories but from the perspective of the victims. I listen to several true crime scam podcasts but they are all about the story of the scammers, their motivations, upbringing, and thoughts which is understandable. And sometimes they do get short commentary from victims. But I don't see many telling the stories more completely from the victim's point of view.

Would something like this work from a storytelling standpoint? Also, since I know it can be embarassing for victims would it be difficult to find individuals willing to tell their stories? Or could I just look for publicly shared accounts in articles, facebook groups and books and re-tell them in podcast format without reaching out to them for an interview?

Hi everyone, so for a while now I've been really thinking about starting a podcast where I share encouraging/inspirational stories from people who have overcome mental health struggles. I'm looking for some advice/thoughts on it thought. I would like to interview individuals who'd be willing to share tell their stories. I do think there probably is an audience for this type of content but not completely sure.

And I don't have much of a network so should I just start out telling stories I find online and then look for people to interview later once I have an actual following? Since mental health can be emotional and personal to discuss would it be hard to get people to agree in the first place, especially to talk with a stranger/someone they just met? I've considered reaching out to peer support specialists on linkedin or group support sites as well for possible guests, but not sure how effective that could be.

For those of you that have podcasts where you interview people, are all your guests people in your network you already know or are any of them new contacts? Is it even realistic to try to get guests who would all be new contacts?

Also, do you have to pay people to get them to do podcast interviews? Would anyone be willing to do it for free just to get their story out there?