storychaser
Hosted by Emmy Award–winning journalist, filmmaker and PR strategist Tara Ruff, storychaser uncovers the powerful, human stories that too often go untold. From change makers to quiet revolutionaries, each episode amplifies voices overlooked by mainstream media and shines a light on the people reshaping our world.
Episodes
And that’s a wrap on Season 1 of Storychaser.
Nine episodes. Nine conversations with people whose stories might not always make the headlines, but deserve to be heard.This season took us into newsrooms, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, kitchens and people’s homes.
We talked about grief, addiction, race, mental health, identity, ambition, resilience and what it means to keep going when life doesn’t go according to...
Chef Aarthi Sampath wanted to be an actor. Her family told her that wasn't a career and when she looked at Indian film and television, she couldn't find a dark-skinned woman in any of it. So she went into a kitchen instead, and ended up on television anyway: she won Chopped, then beat Bobby Flay with a biryani she'd learned from an old master chef in Hyderabad who had to be bribed with liquor before he'd give up the recipe.
In 2019...
What is therapy actually for and why are so many of us ashamed to need it?
In this episode of Story Chaser, Tara Ruff sits down with therapist, disaster responder, and resilience expert Kamran Sakhitab to unpack the invisible wounds we carry and the reasons so many people refuse help until they’re at a breaking point.
Drawing from his work in psychiatric hospitals, disaster zones, and with athletes, first responders, and commun...
Michael Lynch will tell you exactly what addiction is: using despite negative consequences. And he'll tell you what it isn't: a choice, a moral failing, or something prison can fix.
He knows because he lived it. Foster care to gangs to prison to building a multimillion-dollar brand while destroying himself from the inside. The outside looked good. The inside was not. Police saved him without meaning to.
That was 18 years ago. Since t...
What happens when someone is medically ready to leave the hospital but has nowhere safe to go?
Nick D'Agostino is a licensed social worker in New York City. Every day, he stands in that impossible space: between a system that says patients are ready to discharge and a reality that has no room for them.
He's worked with nine-year-olds in foster care, unhoused people navigating the court system, and patients in psychiatric units whose ...
She walked out of the operating room mid-case thinking, If I can’t be a surgeon, I want to die
Dr. Frances Mei Hardin was medicine’s ideal success story—until it nearly destroyed her. In this episode, she exposes the reality of malignant medical training, the moment she left clinical medicine, and why she’s now fighting to change the culture through the Hippocratic Collective.
A raw conversation about physicia...
One in four American men under 35 report feeling lonely. When they go online seeking answers, some find communities that can turn pain into ideology. We speak anonymously with a 27-year-old man caught in that tension: he identifies as a feminist, struggles with social cues, and has spent years in incel-exit and incel-reform communities. A conversation about how autism intersects with the male loneliness epidemic and why some men fi...
2024 marked the highest number of Muslim civil rights complaints in CAIR's 30-year history. Zahra Billoo leads the Council on American-Islamic Relations' San Francisco Bay Area chapter—the nation's oldest—fighting battles from detention centers to the courts. When speaking up becomes dangerous, what happens to freedom of speech in America? We discuss in this weeks episode of storychaser.
From the challenges of local news to the rise of crypto, Erika Lee joins us to unpack the future of storytelling. We dive into representation in journalism, the hurdles of reporting in a fast-paced digital world, and breaking down complex topics like crypto in plain terms.
Check out Erika's new book: Reporting from the Trenches
In the first episode of StoryChaser, host Tara Ruff sits down with former NAACP Press Secretary Alicia Mercedes to confront the weight of racial injustice, the power of story to spark change, and the personal cost of carrying both.
Welcome to Storychaser, a podcast that takes you beyond the headlines. Hosted by Emmy-winning former journalist Tara Ruff, StoryChaser dives into the human stories that don’t always make it on air, voices too often overlooked, perspectives that shift how we see the world. We're so glad to have you!!!
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