Nonprofit transforms vacant auto-repair garage into an incubator for podcasts

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Reverend Jeffrey Brown is used to the pulpit. But these days, he’s trading it for a microphone in a cozy recording studio in Allston, Massachusetts. For the last few months, the Boston-based minister has been producing his own podcast, The Courage to Listen.

“When you’re preaching, you have an audience of people,” Brown says. There’s a call-and-response pattern in his work as a preacher. With the podcast, there’s only one person in front of him. “There may be an audience, but the audience won’t be talking back to you.”

For someone who’s spent most of his career writing sermons, not scripts, adjusting to the new medium presented certain challenges. One was becoming aware of both the tone and loudness of his voice. “When I first heard it [my voice], I thought, Oh…

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