How to Get Your Kids Moving with a Podcast

You have likely heard me promoting a kid-friendly audio service called Pinna on this podcast for the last few weeks. Well, in today's episode, I had a chance to chat with the CEO of Pinna to get to the bottom of why an audio service would be focused on children’s education, imagination, and also their movement.

Today's Guest: Maggie McGuire

My guest on this episode is Maggie McGuire the CEO of Pinna, an media company offering the first and only ad-free, audio on-demand streaming service for kids. Pinna produces and distributes breakthrough Pinna Original podcasts and searches the world over for the very best audio programming created for kids 3-12 to bring into their expanding catalogue of exceptional audio stories, songs, and podcasts. 

A seasoned media executive, Maggie drove business strategy, content, and product development for children's media and publishing companies such as Scholastic and Nickelodeon. Before moving into children's media, she began her career as a teacher and then recruiter for Teach for America and led the team that launched the International Baccalaureate’s Middle Years Programme in North America. She holds an MA in Educational Theater from New York University and a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from Boston College.

To kick off our conversation, which you can hear in it’s entirety in the podcast version of this episode, I asked Maggie what got her interested kid’s audio programming?

Maggie:

There is a throughline. I have had a varied past, but the throughline is kids. My passion is for kids and for inspiring their imagination, their curiosity, and educating and entertaining them. I was a teacher in New York City public schools, a long time ago. And then I made a career move into the children's media and entertainment space. First, in television and then over the last 20-plus years, I have played a role in bringing luminary brands for kids to life across gaming, television, audio, interactive games, books. And so it's a natural fit to now be leading the charge at Pinna where our goal is to inspire kids to use their own imagination, to bring stories to life through podcasts, audiobooks, and songs.

Kids and Movement

Brock:

It is very interesting to me that you have specifically taken on the role of not just entertaining kids, but educating them, getting their creativity and imagination going, but also getting their bodies moving -- which is what really is the focus of what I want to talk to you about today. So why this emphasis on getting kids up and moving?

Maggie:

As a former educator and someone who's been in children's media for quite a long time who works...

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