Maria Blasucci and Amanda Lund have deep roots in the comedy and podcasting worlds, so when the two friends set out to pitch their own podcast idea in 2018, they had full confidence in their product.
Yet, when they went to male-dominated media outlets — something felt off.
“Sometimes, when you’re pitching shows to men, you feel like you have more to prove. When we pitched with TV, they’d say ‘oh, two female leads? That’s not gonna happen,’” recounted Lund in an interview with Know Your Value. “There’s this feeling that they may not fully understand why this is funny and that you’re not being trusted … We feel like we know what we’re doing, and we trust our creative vision.”
The two, who are both actresses and comedians, didn’t hear “no,” but they didn’t hear excitement from the other side of the table either. Instead of settling, they decided to launch their own all-female podcast media network — the first of its kind — called Earios. The outlet is…
