Podcasts
The Maine Monitor is pleased to host its own podcast and also help our partner podcasts reach a wider audience with the distribution of select episodes.
All podcasts published or syndicated by The Maine Monitor cover a variety of topics and spotlight Mainers from all walks of life.
We hope our podcasts help you connect with those that shape Maine, and inspires you to also shape Maine in your own way.

Latest Episodes

Intriguing Individuals: Katelyn Burrell discusses overcoming miscarriage, breast cancer
In this episode, Garrick Hoffman interviews a breast cancer survivor as she becomes a mother and entrepreneur.

Conversations from the Pointed Firs: authors Glen Libby and Toni Small
In this episode, authors Glen Libby and Toni Small discuss their book “Caught: Time, Place, Fish.”

Intriguing Individuals: History-making hiker Sammy Potter
One of the youngest to complete an 8,000-mile hike comprised of the three longest trails in America in a year joins the Intriguing Individuals Podcast.

Maine Reckoning: student activists Ruby and Ellis Jenkins-Henry
Maine Reckoning reflects on the lives of Black Mainers since the George Floyd murder, asking a key question: Has anything changed? Episode three features Portland students Ruby and Ellis Jenkins-Henry.

Conversations from the Pointed Firs: maritime historian Lincoln Paine
In this episode, professor and maritime historian Lincoln Paine discusses Maine’s coastal history.

Intriguing Individuals: Miss Maine Mariah Larocque
Miss Maine 2021 joins the Intriguing Individuals Podcast to discuss exploitation and human trafficking advocacy, and finding justice through art.

Conversations from the Pointed Firs: author Christopher Packard
In this episode, author Christopher Packard discusses Maine’s rich folklore.

Conversations from the Pointed Firs: historian Earl H. Smith
In this episode, historian Earl H. Smith discusses Maine’s rich invention and maker culture.

Conversations from the Pointed Firs: Singer, songwriter Gordon Bok
Bok discusses traditional ways of thinking unique to Maine, and to the cultural flow of humanity as informed and shaped by our ocean world.

Maine Reckoning: Portland newsmaker Jill Duson
Maine Reckoning reflects on the lives of Black Mainers since the George Floyd murder, asking a key question: Has anything changed? Episode two features Jill Duson, a respected, long-time leader in Portland government, social policy and politics. ‘It’s important to take action, not credit,’ Duson says.
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