The Podcast Salon featuring TK Dutes

Welcome to The Podcast Salon - an immersive, curated listening experience where podcast discovery meets the culture. 

Whether you are a podcast super listener, a creator looking to network, or just someone ready to find out what the podcast hype is all about—pull up!

In our first edition of 2026, we are honored to feature podcasting legend TK Dutes. TK will sit down with Chicago’s own award-winning host and producer, Anna DeShawn. She will take us behind the scenes of her newest project, The Secret Life of TK Dutes. 

The Experience

Silence the noise from the outside, grab a pair of our silent headphones, and step into a unique podcast listening experience. We play short and impactful audio clips, whether they are hilarious or really emotional, we listen and talk about it together.   

Podcast Open Mic 

Got a podcast? Sign up for our podcast open mic? Where creators take the stage to share their podcast elevator pitch with the intention of growing their shows.

Tickets are limited to keep the vibe intimate. Grab yours today!

About TK Dutes

Keisha “TK” Dutes is an independent audio producer, writer, educator, and the creator of The Secret Life of TK Dutes, an experimental audio biography that explores identity, travel, and transformation in real time. With a career spanning nearly two decades across terrestrial radio, digital media, and podcasting, TK’s life in audio is all-encompassing.

When she’s not making or teaching audio, she’s likely immersed in one of her many creative pursuits as an extreme hobbyist and visual artist.

About Anna DeShawn

Anna DeShawn, pronouns anything respectful, is your favorite queer radio personality. Host of the Ambie award-winning podcast, Queer News, she is a social entrepreneur, storyteller and community organizer known for her signature greeting of "Family". Media has always been her passion and in 2009 she turned that passion into a reality when she founded E3 Radio. In 2021, she expanded her media reach when she founded her podcast company, The Qube.

Anna is determined to ride media into its next era by utilizing digital media streams to tell the stories and play the music that deserves to be heard.

About The Qube

The Qube is where discovery meets the culture. In an industry where Black and Brown podcasts are still hard to find, we are stepping in to diversify the fastest-growing medium today by building the world's largest database and dopest search engine of Black and Brown podcasts.