PR After Hours Podcast

01/11/2026

Last reminder.

PR After Hours has wrapped, and this page is going quiet.

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01/04/2026

I don’t do drive-by takes. If you’ve been reading for any length of time, you know I spend real time reading, thinking, and working through ideas before I put anything out into the world. Writing, audio, video, conversations. I do the work because there’s still a lot to learn, and a lot worth sharing.

A reader said something recently that stuck with me: they often disagree with me politically, but they support the work because it’s thoughtful, grounded, and not mean. That felt like high praise.

If this newsletter has made you stop and think, even occasionally, I’d ask you to consider subscribing. Paid subscribers get access to everything, including future PR After Hours–style audio and video, with much more coming in 2026.

You can subscribe free for updates, or go paid if you want to support the deeper work. Either way, I’m glad you’re here.

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01/03/2026

After nearly six years and more than 340 episodes, PR After Hours is complete.

This page won’t be updated going forward. No new clips. No new episodes. No reposts.

What continues is the work behind the show, just in one place instead of many.

If you followed PR After Hours for conversations about leadership, communications, media, and professional life, that work now lives on my Author & Podcaster page, along with my Substack, All the Fits That's News.,.

That’s where I’m publishing essays, commentary, audio, and updates on what I’m doing next.

Follow me there if you’d like to stay connected:
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This page will remain up as an archive. But this is the end of new content here.

Thanks for joining me in the "Virtual Lounge."

-- Alex

Your weekly podcast of Public Relations, Marketing, and Business Advice, featuring tips, interviews, and more.

01/03/2026

After nearly six years and 341 episodes, ⁠PR After Hours⁠ comes to a close.

In this final regular episode, host Alex Greenwood reflects on the life of the show, what it set out to do, and why it’s time to set this chapter down with intention.

Listen limnks in comments. Also, be sure to check out the 25% off subscription offer for the new home of PR After Hours-style content, All the Fits That's News.

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01/01/2026

On December 30 at 12:30 p.m. we dropped the final regular episode, The Last Call. It’s a quiet, honest close to a show that’s been part of my professional life since January 2020.

The episode will be available wherever you get your podcasts. It’s not live, just the final episode landing one last time.

If you’ve listened along the way, this one’s for you.
If you’ve drifted in and out, you’re welcome back.

The archive stays. The conversations continue in new forms.

But this chapter ends here.

12/30/2025

Join me Monday, December 30 at 12:30 p.m. for the final regular episode, The Last Call. It’s a quiet, honest close to a show that’s been part of my professional life since January 2020.

The episode drops at 12:30 p.m. and will be available wherever you get your podcasts. It’s not live, just the final episode landing one last time.

If you’ve listened along the way, this one’s for you.
If you’ve drifted in and out, you’re welcome back.

The archive stays. The conversations continue in new forms.

But this chapter ends here.

12/28/2025

Dec. 30, 2025: 12:30 p.m.:

12/27/2025

This episode of PR After Hours is all about storytelling, not the soft, hand-wavy kind, but the kind that actually works.

My guest is ⁠Tom Mulligan⁠, longtime PR After Hours favorite and a sharp thinker on how stories drive persuasion, especially in sales, marketing, and leadership. We dig into what it really means to flip the script when you’re trying to engage an audience, whether that audience is a client, a boardroom, or a reader.

We talk about why every good story needs a clear ending, not just a strong opening, and how too many pitches fall apart because the storyteller hasn’t decided where they’re going. Tom pulls examples from books, real-world sales conversations, and his own writing to show how structure creates confidence.

We also get into AI, specifically its role as an editor rather than a creator. If you want honesty, Claude will give it to you, mercilessly. We discuss why AI works best as an additive tool, helping sharpen structure, expose weak spots, and force clarity, rather than pretending it can replace judgment or voice.

This episode of PR After Hours is all about storytelling, not the soft, hand-wavy kind, but the kind that actually works.

12/26/2025

NEW EPISODE:

Every organization runs on an invisible subsidy.

It isn’t a budget line or a job title. It’s the quiet labor of the people who catch mistakes before they become crises, anticipate needs before they’re spoken, and hold systems together without recognition.

In this solo episode, Alex Greenwood reads his essay “The Competency Tax: Why the Most Capable Often Pay More,” Part Three of his Radical Competency series.

Using an unlikely but perfect example from pop culture, M*A*S*H’s Radar O’Reilly, Alex explores how radically competent people become indispensable, overused, and often invisible. Radar hears the helicopters first. He keeps the hospital running. And he quietly pays the price.

This episode is for:

High performers who are always “the one who handles it”

Leaders who rely on a few people to absorb chaos

Anyone who has felt their reliability slowly turn into expectation

Organizations that mistake dedication for infinite capacity

Listen in now wherever you get your podcasts...links in the comments.

12/24/2025

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12/24/2025

Every once in a while, a story lands in your inbox that reminds you why radio mattered, and still does. Not ratings, not formats, not playlists generated by committee, but a human voice in the dark, keeping someone company when it counts.

Tom Mulligan has been a frequent guest on PR After Hours and a longtime friend, which means I’ve heard him tell good stories before. This one is different. It’s quieter. More generous. Set on Christmas Eve, 1976, back when AM radio ran on vinyl, pay phones, bad cars, worse shifts, and the quiet understanding that someone, somewhere, might be listening.

What follows is about a young broadcaster pulling a brutal holiday shift, a dusty box of forgotten records, and an unplanned act of connection that mattered more than anyone realized at the time. It’s about how small kindnesses stack up, how presence can be a gift, and how the best moments in media are often the ones that were never supposed to happen at all.

I’m grateful Tom shared it here. I think you will be too.

—Alex

A Christmas Story from Tom Mulligan