Daring to Tell
Intimate conversations and true stories of personal daring with emerging and accomplished writers. Writers read their essay, memoir chapter or story, then talk about it with writer/host Michelle Redo. An audio literary magazine, conceived, curated and hosted by Michelle Redo, an award winning 30-year public radio veteran, and new voice in podcasting. Original submissions accepted twice yearly.
Episodes
Abigail Thomas author of the memoirs Still Life at Eighty, A Three Dog Life, What Comes Next and How to Like it, and Safekeeping talks with Michelle Redo about writing and life, and reads from some new writing she's been doing, a piece called Deathbed Regrets.
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Link to Abigail Thomas' books from The Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY.
Equally daring to writing your memoir is then, the work of marketing it.
Jenn Hanson-dePaula shares valuable info and insight about marketing your book. And by the way... even if you're only working on your manuscript, it's not too early to start thinking about who you want to connect with about your story.
Learn more about Jenn Hanson-dePaula, Book Marketing Simplified and Mixtus Media.
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Read Margaret's essays at Oldster and Brevity Blog.
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Mentioned in this episode...
Heart of the Story Podcast with Nadine Kenney Johnstone
A Hard Silence by Melanie Brooks
Sushi Tuesdays Audiobook by Charlotte Maya
Open Heart Project of Susan Piver
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Michelle Redo talks with Diane Gottlieb, Editor of the new essay anthology called Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness. Diane also is the Prose/CNF editor of Emerge Literary Journal, and has a blog called WomenPause- conversations with women over 50 and the people who love them.
Nina Lichtenstein is the founder of Maine Writers Studio, and the author of the forthcoming memoir, Body: My Life in Parts, due for publication i...
Author Melanie Brooks is back with the release of her memoir A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all.
More about her first book, Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma.
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Learn more about Margaret Mandell at her website, MargaretSMandell.com
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I hope you'll check out this special And So, She Left podcast episode featuring guest, Michelle Redo--which is a finalist for a Signal Award!
If you are inclined please click to vote for this podcast before October 6th. And So, She Left is hosted by Katherin Vasilopoulos, produced by Ethan Lee and put out by Cansulta.
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Debut memoirist Charlotte Maya now has a self-narrated audiobook of Sushi Tuesdays: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Family Resilience, produced by Michelle Redo. In this episode they talk about writing the book about the suicide death of Charlotte's husband, Sam Maya, as well as sharing what it was like to read and produce the audiobook.
Listen to Michelle's first conversation with Charlotte Maya on Daring to Tell in April of 2023.
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Spoiler Alert! In this bonus episode Michelle Redo talks with author Gretchen Cherington about all the revelations she discovered through writing The Butcher, The Embezzler and The Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry.
A discussion about fiction and nonfiction with Jody J. Sperling about his new Speculative Fiction Detective Novel- The 9 Lives of Marva DeLonghi.
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Michelle Redo invites Katherin Vasilopoulos to guest host when Michelle reads her own essay--Brave No More. Check out Katherin's podcast And So, She Left.
Curious about the Bugzooka?
Pauline Oliveros died in 2016 but her Deep Listening Institute continues to resound.
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Check out Gretchen Cherington's NEW memoir, The Butcher, The Embezzler, and The Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry.
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Get your copy of Be Brief And Tell Them Everything, and listen to Brad Listi's podcast Otherppl.
Listen to Jody Sperling's podcast TRBM; check out his new book The 9 Lives of Marva DeLonghi
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Writer Charlotte Maya reads from her debut memoir Sushi Tuesdays: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Resilience. discussing the importance of talking clearly about depression and suicide. Follow her on Instagram @charlottemayawriter
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Learn more about Dr. James Doty's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, and check out his award-winning New York Times Best Selling book Into the Magic Shop.
And you can hear Caroline Fitzgerald and I discuss healing tears in episode 5, from January of 2022.
The rest of the episode and conversation with Writer, Podcaster and Writing Teacher Nadine Kenney Johnstone.
Listen to her podcast Heart of the Story (produced by your humble host, Michelle Redo) and be sure to pre-order her book and guided journal Come Home to Your Heart today!
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Preliminary conversation with writing teacher, podcaster and retreat leader Nadine Kenney Johnstone, in advance of her new book announcement coming Sunday Feb 12 on Heart of the Story! Be sure to check it out. Then Nadine will read a chapter from her new book on Daring to Tell, later this month.
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Where is truth fiction and fiction truth especially when one's reality becomes a diagnosis of rectal cancer?
"At the very least, it’s a sign of life. The source of my embarrassment speaks of existence. I am alive."
In her memoir Eliza Walton shares her actual experience and pushes us into those spaces where she gives life to a fictional edgy alter ego with a deft hand.
Michelle Redo talks with Maine writer Eliza Walton about her book...
Visit Rachel Lee's website at This-Is-Getting-Old.com. And don't forget to check out her cartoons.
Some of the other website resources we discussed were The Conversation Project, Cake and Departing Dearly.
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