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
Visit Nina Lichtenstein's website to pre-order her new memoir Body: My Life in Parts available May 27th!
Visit Maine Writer's Studio for information about her October retreat "Embodied Stories", as well as upcoming workshops and the next monthly Literary Salon.
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For April 2025 host Michelle Redo talks with Betsy Armstrong about her debut memoir, The Mother of All Decisions: A Memoir of Mother Loss, Legacy and Adopting Kids in Midlife.
Daring to Tell is proud to be a sponsor at this year's Woodstock Bookfest, April 4-6. Hear Michelle talk with festival director Martha Frankel ...
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Emerging writer Ching Ching Tan reads from her as-of yet-unpublished memoir, An Extra.
Learn more about her and read some of her other publications at chingchingtan.com
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I can't vouch for what this website is selling, but this is a place where you can see the components Ching Ching describes in the traditional Chinese character for l...
Thanks for listening to this lastest audiobook production from Flying Pig Audio!
Meme's Famous Crepes: Les Crepes Celebres de Memere, is now available as both a paperback and an audiobook-read by its author Tony Perry in both English and French.
Learn more about Tony Perry at his website, State of Maine State of Mind.
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Thanks for listening to Daring to Tell with Michelle Redo--which just won a 2024 Silver for Best Indie Podcast from the Signal Awards!
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Find out more about writer Robert Norris at robertwnorris.com where you can also order his book The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me.
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And if you enjoyed this episode you might also enjoy Daring to Tell's episode with Chris Woolf reading from his book Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush.
Check out David Stuart MacLean and his book, The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
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Visit Maine Writer's Studio for more info about the Embodied Stories Writing Retreat with writer and teacher Nina Lichtenstein
If you haven't listened to Nadine Kenney Johnstone's podcast Heart of the Story, I don't know what you're waiting for!
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Links from the episode:
Subscribe to Michelle Redo's free Substack-- Ineffable
Listen to Nadine Kenney Johnstone's podcast Heart of the Story
Listen to This Jungian Life podcast
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Michelle's New Substack page
Nancy Schnog's Writer's Digest article on what to do with your old journals
Nadine Kenney Johnstone and Melanie Brooks' workshop Writing Hard Stories
Listen to audiobook samples, sign up for Michelle's Daring to Tell newsletter, The Re-do, and listen to other Daring to Tell episodes at michelleredo.com
Download the audiobook of A Hard Silence, by Melanie Brooks before July 2nd to receive a special sale price at any audiobook retailer!
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Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter at michelleredo.com where you can also hear a sample of A Hard Silence, and other Flying Pig Audiobook productions!
Yes, she's the creator of the Accidental Icon and in this conversation we talk about social justice and aging and burnout and the many layers and iterations of who she was before that "happy accident" that led her to the top of the fashion world, and who she is becoming next.
Check out Lyn Slater's Substack to follow her post-Accidental Icon writing.
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Maine, A Love Story by Blue Butterfield
See it. Read it. A finalist in the 2023 Memoir category from the Maine Writers and Publisher's Alliance.
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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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Visit Margaret Mandell's website
Pre-order And Always One More Time at Barnes & Noble or Amazon.
Read Margaret's essays at Oldster and Brevity Blog.
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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...
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