Our Podcasts
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text was the first podcast produced by Not Sorry. With over 16 million downloads and eight seasons and counting, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text allows listeners to find meaning through a secular text that they love.
Vanessa Zoltan, founder and CEO of Not Sorry, co-hosts each episode with Casper ter Kuile, Matt Potts or a special guest! The hosts go chapter by chapter through the Harry Potter series.
New episodes every Thursday!
This podcast is produced by AJ Jarmaz.
The Real Question is the newest original podcast from Not Sorry. This season, we’re looking specifically at questions of quitting. When is it time to quit something, and when should you stick with it?
Host Vanessa Zoltan speaks with people considering quitting relationships, quitting places they live, and quitting specific ideas of themselves. Every episode she asks them: which of the options is braver – quitting or sticking with it? And what values do you want to be living into with this choice?
New episodes every other Monday!
This podcast is produced by Ariana Nedelman.
Hot & Bothered premiered in July 2019. The first season was co-produced with Spoke Media. With guests including Julia Quinn, Alyssa Cole, and Emily Nagoski, Vanessa Zoltan interviewed her friends as they embarked on the process of writing their very first romance novel. In season two, we introduced Hot & Bothered: Twilight in Quarantine. Vanessa and Julia Argy, frequent co-host of Hot & Bothered, jokingly decided to read the Twilight Saga while quarantined and make it into a podcast. In season three, On Eyre, we brought on journalist Lauren Sandler as a co-host to examine the literary origins of the Romance genre through a close read of Jane Eyre. In season four, Live from Pemberley, Vanessa and Lauren took that same methodology to Pride and Prejudice – reading the book, interviewing Austen scholars, and asking themselves the question 'is this still a story for our time?'
This show is on hiatus until late 2023.
This show is produced by Ariana Nedelman.
Throughout the first series of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Vanessa dedicated herself to blessing a woman at the end of every episode. In Women of Harry Potter, we brought this practice to the center of each episode. From February 2019 to April 2021, Vanessa and Ariana Nedelman, with sometimes special guest Brigid Goggin, alternate picking a woman from the Harry Potter series to bless. They spent time lifting up these women’s successes and struggles in a Patreon exclusive series.