A steady talk about failure, blame, and getting back up.
Jordan Rich's On Mic conversation with Deborah Grayson Riegel stays focused on failure and on the way women can be pushed to treat a system's problems like personal ones.

Serious conversations with a human touch.
On Mic Podcast favors patient, plainspoken conversation with people who have lived something specific enough to teach from it. Recent episodes move from alphabet history and poetry to Secret Service work, Parkinson’s support, rugby identity, VIP access, women and failure, and a documentary about violence in Watts.
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On Mic Podcast is a broad interview series with a steady radio-conversation feel. It is warm, direct, and comfortable letting guests talk at length. The show’s center is not a single beat so much as a belief that people with a craft, a cause, or a difficult history usually have something worth hearing. Recent episodes make that range hard to miss. Danny Bate brings linguistics and letter history into an easy alphabetical conversation about Why Q Needs U. Robert Pinsky talks about the Poet Laureate title, the Library of Congress, and the public life of poetry. Rory Moran brings the show into security, Secret Service work, investigations, protection, and the changes that followed 9-11. Brandon Gilson describes high-pressure concierge work for sports, music, travel, and VIP experiences. Sam Smith’s episode turns from rugby toward identity, loss, and finding a mission after a career ends. The Parkinson’s two-part series is more intimate, framed around diagnosis, daily challenges, competent care, community, and hope. It also points toward the Optimism Walk, 110 Fitness, and the American Parkinson Disease Association of Massachusetts. Deborah Grayson Riegel’s conversation treats failure as both personal and systemic, especially for women facing consequence gaps and the glass cliff. Michael Sunan’s episode about Nothing to See Here moves into violence, policing, victims, gangs, and the attempt to put former enemies in the same room. The show can be light on one episode and grave on the next. It is not slick in the promotional sense. It works because the questions are plain, the transitions are humane, and the guests are allowed to explain the stakes in their own terms. Listeners get authors, filmmakers, athletes, security professionals, poets, coaches, and advocates without the show pretending they all belong to one neat category. Its best moments connect expert or personal stories back to ordinary life. What can people understand? What can they do? How did someone get from there to here? Those are the questions that keep the series moving.
Made for: For listeners who like traditional long-form interviews with authors, artists, advocates, specialists, and people rebuilding after difficult chapters. It especially suits those who prefer warm curiosity over hot takes.
What sets it apart: The show moves comfortably between culture, public safety, health, sports, business, and social repair without changing its basic posture: respectful questions, plain language, and room for the guest’s full answer.
On Mic with Jordan Rich is all about the Art of Conversation. Conversation with creative people who have a lot to say and a lot to offer. From artists and scientists to entrepreneurs, authors, change-makers and more, enjoy conversations that will educate, entertain and inspire! Learn more at: chartproductions.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A steady talk about failure, blame, and getting back up.
Jordan Rich's On Mic conversation with Deborah Grayson Riegel stays focused on failure and on the way women can be pushed to treat a system's problems like personal ones.
A documentary look at conflict, community, and the hard work of bringing people into the same room.
Michael Sunan frames Nothing to See Here as a documentary shaped by more than four years of work to understand what was happening in Watts, where Bloods, Crips, police, and victims of violence are folded into one account.
A Springsteen-focused conversation on energy, authenticity, purpose, and what it means to show up for the room.
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A music-minded conversation turns Pete's Beat into a warm case for rhythm in children's lives.
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Jordan Rich makes Parkinson's a candid conversation about work, movement, fear, and the practical uses of hope.
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A clear, grounded account of the intelligence and training behind executive protection.
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Jordan Rich speaks with filmmaker Michael Sunan about *Nothing to See Here*, a documentary built around what happens when Bloods, Crips, police, and victims of violence make a film together.
On Mic Podcast host Jordan Rich interviews Andy Freed, chairman of Virtual and author of Lead Like the Boss, about applying Bruce Springsteen's performance habits to leadership.
On Mic host Jordan Rich interviews Matt Robinson about Pete’s Beat, a children’s book shaped by Robinson’s lifelong interest in percussion and his late father Peter.