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MasterClass Launches Podcast 'Other People's Business' With Martha Stewart
Confirmed
In Short: MasterClass has launched a new weekly podcast called 'Other People's Business', with Martha Stewart as the first guest.
In the first episode, Stewart discusses her business ventures and the influence she has wielded over her 40-year career.
Stewart shares insights into her financial success, including the $65 million in annual royalties she earned from her Kmart partnership.
Rogier, the host, emphasizes the podcast's focus on untold business stories, noting that he avoids asking guests about their official narratives.
Stewart also reveals mistakes she has made, such as the $1 billion loss she incurred during her insider trading scandal.
The podcast aims to delve into the business behind influential figures and industries, with future episodes featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chris Voss, Daniel Negreanu, and Malcolm Gladwell.
MasterClass has expanded its programming beyond traditional single-instructor courses, now offering episodic series on topics like investing, business, and emerging technology.
Rogier explains, 'The real answer is almost always more interesting than the official story. That's the show.'
What this adds
MasterClass's move into podcasting represents a shift towards blending online education with entertainment.
What's confirmed
- In the first episode, Stewart discusses her business ventures and the influence she has wielded over her 40-year career.
- Stewart shares insights into her financial success, including the $65 million in annual royalties she earned from her Kmart partnership.
- Rogier, the host, emphasizes the podcast's focus on untold business stories, noting that he avoids asking guests about their official narratives.
- Stewart also reveals mistakes she has made, such as the $1 billion loss she incurred during her insider trading scandal.
- The podcast aims to delve into the business behind influential figures and industries, with future episodes featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chris Voss, Daniel Negreanu, and Malcolm Gladwell.
- MasterClass has expanded its programming beyond traditional single-instructor courses, now offering episodic series on topics like investing, business, and emerging technology.
What's still developing
- Stewart appears in the first episode of MasterClass’ new business podcast ‘Other People’s Business’, hosted by MasterClass founder and CEO David Rogier Martha Stewart is the original influencer, according to MasterClass.
- “Martha will tell you exactly what a mistake cost her,” he adds.
- In the wide-ranging episode, hosted by MasterClass founder and CEO David Rogier, the entrepreneur marvels at the breadth of her own career of over 40 years, highlighting her focus on being authentic to herself and creating good products.
- In the episode, she detailed the profits she has made over her career, from catering to writing to starting her Martha Stewart magazine.
- Also in the trailer, Stewart utilizes her signature humor while discussing an example of how she tries not to critique friends when she goes over as a guest.
- “I thought it was iced coffee because it’s murky,” she says to Rogier, gesturing to a mug in front of her.
- Stewart is later seen in the trailer making a shocked sound into clasped hands, then saying, “I fell in a hole, and I lost about $1 billion.” In this part of the conversation, Stewart refers to the time she spent five months in prison after her involvement in an insider trading scandal in 2004.
- “Whenever I don’t understand how something works, I want to find the person who does and ask the questions people usually don’t ask,” Rogier said in a statement.
- Stewart, who has previously appeared on MasterClass with her “Think Like a Boss, Live Like a Legend” program, kicks things off with a wide-ranging conversation about the business behind the Martha Stewart empire.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Stewart herself wield and signal power.
- Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss will discuss crisis negotiation; professional poker player Daniel Negreanu will get into the economics and psychology of poker; journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell will tackle the business of writing; and DJ Drama is among the entertainment figures slated to appear.
- Other episodes will examine entire industries rather than center on a single celebrity.