abc.net.au/news/paris-travel-podcaster-oliver-gee-living-dream-life-earful-tower/101628606Many people dream about living in Paris, and embracing a life immersed in the sights, sounds and atmosphere of the alluring City of Lights.
Mr Gee co-owns the Earful Tower with his wife, Lina Nordin Gee, a fashion designer and illustrator from Sweden, and they've also created children's books, videos and guides to Paris. He started working in Paris as a full-time journalist in 2015, but found it wasn't the right fit for him. "It was hard to make it happen … unless you are a celebrity you can't make a podcast profitable until you have a bunch of listeners, and it took me years.
The podcast moves beyond the Louvre Museum, Notre-Dame cathedral, and the Eiffel Tower, to include lesser-known people and places."Paris can feel quite inaccessible, a lot of people want to go there, but they don't really know where to begin. They are afraid they don't speak any French, so it will feel foreign and confusing.