How podcaster Alexandra Cooper built a million-dollar empire off discussing intimacies and ‘girl stuff’

According to the latest data, in 2023 there are five million podcasts with more than 70 million episodes released. In 2022, amid such a vast ocean of content, one podcast called Call Her Daddy, hosted by Alexandra Cooper, rose to become the second most listened to in the world on Spotify, only behind The Joe Rogan Experience, presented by the American comedian of the same name. A little more than a year earlier, in 2021, the platform had inked a deal with Cooper for an estimated $60 million to exclusively broadcast Call Her Daddy for three years. This made the then 25-year-old a multi-millionaire and possibly one of the few cases where the myth of the so-called American dream actually seems to be fulfilled. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Father Cooper (@alexandracooper)Rewind five years to 2018 and Alexandra Cooper (28, Pennsylvania) had just been laid off from her job. She had finished her studies in Media and Entertainment at Boston University a year previously and deci...