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For our 50th episode, the person who’s quietly shaped every one of the previous forty-nine finally steps in front of the mic. David Strutt has edited Path Found from the very beginning, and in a year of working together, he and Monica had never actually spoken until this conversation.

David’s path to the editor’s chair was anything but direct. A hyperactive kid in Dublin who couldn’t sit still long enough to learn guitar, he found his footing in a countryside garage at thirteen, recording his own band on microphones he’d saved up to buy. That instinct that the recording might matter more than the stardom carried him through a music technology degree, only for the industry to shift under his feet as home recording gear got cheap and the mid-level studios disappeared. So he pivoted. To radio. Then, after meeting his partner at the Edinburgh Fringe and moving to Scotland during the pandemic, he pivoted again into podcast production, building a freelance business one client at a time.

Along the way, he learned the lessons nobody teaches in school: that the technical skills were the easy part, that charging what you’re worth is its own hard-won discipline, and that the second year of working for yourself is where you find out whether you can really do it. He also does stand-up comedy, keeps a scrappy support network of fellow freelancers, and has a refreshingly grounded take on whether AI is coming for his job.

This one’s a full-circle conversation about creative work, self-employment, and the case for building a life around people you like and work you enjoy.

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