Podcast Heroes, Now on Trading Cards

RESONATE 2025 celebrates the storytellers at the heart of podcasting. The festival focuses on narrative: the scripted, the investigative, the fictional. It shines a light on the producers, editors, and sound designers who weave suspense and emotion into every episode, and on the fans who amplify that work.

“The idea started as a joke, ” said Chioke I’Anson, Founder of the RESONATE Podcast Festival. “I said, maybe we should turn podcast people into superheroes. Certified Crucial said, actually, we’ve been thinking about this for a while. ”

Now it’s real. RESONATE Podcast Trading Cards give fans a tangible way to connect with creators. Each card features original artwork by local Virginia artists, including Geovanny Mejia. Pre-orders include a limited edition card featuring Chioke I’Anson. Think superheroes or baseball cards, but for podcasting.

Trading Card Pack Details

• 18 cards per pack, designed and illustrated by a Richmond-area artists
• Pre-orders include one extra limited edition card featuring RESONATE founder Chioke I’Anson
• Featured creators: Vivian Le, Ronald Young Jr., Julie Shapiro, John Delore, Nichole Hill, Ray Christian, James Kim, Sharon Mashihi, Anna Sale, Axel Kacoutié, Sayre Quevedo, Arielle Nissenblatt, Lauren Shippen, Davy Gardner, Kaitlin Prest, Jazmine Green, Kia Miakka Natisse, and Yowei Shaw
• Orders ship the week of November 10, 2025, or are available for free pickup at RESONATE: 2025, November 7-8, Richmond, VA

This year’s festival takes place at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA. Tickets sold out within hours. Over 350 professional and aspiring podcasters will attend, exploring storytelling traditions, bilingual audio, and stories of migration, history, and identity. Workshops, live performances, and private pitch sessions provide access to producers from NPR, Radiotopia, Stitcher, and other leading networks.

About RESONATE 2025:

At RESONATE: Pangea, you’ll discover fresh sources of inspiration and new lines of investigation when you converge with producers from all over the global and cultural map. Representing distant countries, diasporic communities, and the nations within, this year’s presenters will dive deep into different storytelling traditions, bilingual audio, and stories of migration, history, and identity. Listen, learn, and be a part of the dialogue. Your work will thank you for it.