How to Be Anything
How to Be Anything is a documentary-style podcast that profiles people with unusual, surprising, and wildly specific jobs. From puppeteers to tower climbers to scientists who search for dark matter underground and in space, each episode explores how people end up in jobs no one tells you about in school—and what it’s like to build a life doing something most of us have never heard of.
This isn’t a self-help show or a career coaching podcast. How to Be Anything is for the job-curious, the creatively restless, and anyone who likes eavesdropping on someone else’s weird path through life. It brings a literary, documentary sensibility to work and identity.
The show is created and hosted by journalist Emily McCrary, and it blends deep curiosity and narrative storytelling to explore the stories that go beyond job titles.
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Previous Episodes
- 10. How to Teach Dogs to Find Cancer
- 9. How to Be a Doctor in the Arctic Circle
- 8. How to Be a Tower Climber
- Bonus: I Used to Be a Corporate Butler
- 7. How to Be a Forensic Artist
- Bonus: "My Friend's a Rapper!" (HTBA Listeners Tell Their Stories)
- 6. How to Search for Dark Matter Underground and in Space
- 5. How to Be a Foley Sound Artist
- 4. How to Be a Puppetry Artist
- Bonus: I Used to Be an Artist at Madame Tussauds
- 3. How to Be a Dungeons & Dragons Lorekeeper
- 2. How to Be a Sheepdog Trainer
- 1. How to Be a Death Doula
- Coming Soon: How to Be Anything
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