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
Learn more about neurologist Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor and purchase her book, Whispers of the Mind A Neurologists Memoir at her website.
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Michelle plays some of her favorite clips from the audiobooks she produced this year.
Body My Life in Parts by Nina B. Lichtenstein
The Mother of All Decisions by Besty Armstrong
Meme's Famous Crepes by Theodore A. Perry
State of Maine State of Mind by Theodore A. Perry
Book title links go to Libro.FM akin to Bookshop.org for audiobooks. It supports independent bookstores and you can either purchase to listen or subscribe for a monthly ...
Conversation with poet and writer Cyra Sweet Dumitru who reads from her new memoir Words Make a Way Through Fire: Healing After My Brother's Suicide.
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Cyra Sweet Dumitru is a published poet, instructor of poetry, writing coach, former medical writer, and one of four certified prac...
Learn more about Gail Straub at her website GailStraub.com.
Order Home Inside the Globe
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Order you copy of The Perfectly Imperfect Potter. Learn more about author Nancy Collins.
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Stuff for Mainers:
Meet Nancy, check out her book and perhaps even some of her pottery at one of these October 2025 events:
Sat Oct 4 at the Windham Fall Harvest Festival
Sun Oct 19 at the Rockland Sunday Stroll
Mon Oct 20 6p at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick
For this episode Michelle presents the time she was the guest on a different podcast, And So, She Left. Plus, hear the "big announcement" for what's next with Daring to Tell.
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Check out Michelle's first episode about the monarch caterpillar that arrived at her doorway in Maine
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Get Elissa Altman's Permission (ha!) at her website, ElissaAltman.com where you can also subscribe to her Substack, Poor Man's Feast.
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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.
Check out Nina Lichtenstein's Substack, The Viking Jewess and Other Curiosities
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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 ...
The only link to click on is for Woodstock Bookfest 2025! Get your tickets now!
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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!
Learn more about Tova Mirvis and all her books at her website... TovaMirvis.com
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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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Thanks for listening!
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
Sign up for my newsletter at my website michelleredo.com
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
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