Why we're starting How Plants Run
A podcast with the people who run US plants. We are booking the first conversations of season one now, and every episode opens with the same question.
How Plants Run is a podcast about the people who run US plants: whoever runs a plant, or the system behind several. Gabriel Gonçalves hosts it. Sam Veloso produces it. We started it this month, and we’re booking the first conversations of season one now.
The question
Every episode opens with the same question: what do you check first every morning, and why?
The answer says what a leader trusts, what they keep an eye on, and how the plant runs on a normal day. Then we ask for the story behind it: the routine, the team, and the morning it mattered.
Why this show
Most of the calls that keep a plant running never leave the plant gate: the walk before the shift, or the call that moves a crew when two people don’t show up. We ask the people who make them what they check first every morning, and why, and publish the answer in their words.
How a conversation works
- Fifteen minutes on video, at a time the guest picks.
- The guest gets the episode, the clips and the transcript, to post on their channels and their company’s.
- Nothing goes out until the guest and their communications team approve the final edit.
What comes next
The first conversations happen this fall, on video and around the events where this community meets. Each episode will get its own page here.
If you run part of a plant and want to answer the question, be a guest. If you know someone who should, send us the name.
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