Mary Caesar is an inspirational Indigenous woman, who survived the Lower Post Residential School, and I created a podcast, entitled, “The Healing Journey,” that shares her life story. To construct this podcast, I researched about Caesar’s life before, during, and after residential school, and I incorporated this information throughout my script. Then, I recorded myself with a Blue Snowball Microphone, that was generously provided by Vancity, and used Audacity for sound mixing the audio, and the royalty free music that I obtained from HookSounds. Once I finished editing my podcast, I designed a podcast cover, which required innovative problem solving since I could only include original photos and drawings in my design. In the end, I utilized the draw feature on Word and drew outlines of images with my laptop’s trackpad. I then integrated my outlines into Canva, chose a font that suited my podcast, and added orange to contrast the blue background. The orange is additionally meant to symbolize Indigenous peoples, and reconciliation, with an orange shirt. Ultimately, I learned how to handle sound mixing platforms to generate an informative podcast, and how to share the importance of truth and reconciliation in Canada.
