
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
- 7. How to Be a Forensic Artist 20.08.2025
- Bonus: "My Friend's a Rapper!" (HTBA Listeners Tell Their Stories) 18.08.2025
- 6. How to Search for Dark Matter Underground and in Space 13.08.2025
- 5. How to Be a Foley Sound Artist 06.08.2025
- 4. How to Be a Puppetry Artist 30.07.2025
- Bonus: I Used to Be an Artist at Madame Tussauds 25.07.2025
- 3. How to Be a Dungeons & Dragons Lorekeeper 23.07.2025
- 2. How to Be a Sheepdog Trainer 23.07.2025
- 1. How to Be a Death Doula 23.07.2025
- Coming Soon: How to Be Anything 09.07.2025