53 episodes

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.

Daring to Tell Michelle Redo

    • Society & Culture

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.

    Melanie Brooks A Hard Silence AUDIOBOOK- now available!

    Melanie Brooks A Hard Silence AUDIOBOOK- now available!

    Download the audiobook of A Hard Silence, by Melanie Brooks before July 2nd to receive a special sale price at any audiobook retailer!
    A Hard Silence at Audible
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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!

    • 58 min
    How To Be Old with Lyn Slater

    How To Be Old with Lyn Slater

    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.
    Sign up for for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do at michelleredo.com

    • 1 hr 45 min
    Maine, A Love Story with Blue Butterfield

    Maine, A Love Story with Blue Butterfield

    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.
    Sign up for the FREE Daring to Tell podcast newsletter, The Re-do, at michelleredo.com
    Listen to more of Phil Redo's music.

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Abigail Thomas reads new work Deathbed Regrets

    Abigail Thomas reads new work Deathbed Regrets

    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.
    Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do at michelleredo.com
    Listen to The Band's Stagefright
    Link to Abigail Thomas' books from The Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY.

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Book Marketing Talk with Jenn Hanson-dePaula

    Book Marketing Talk with Jenn Hanson-dePaula

    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.
    Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do, at my website, michelleredo.com.
    Jenn also talks about the Rick Rubin book The Creative Act and author Sally Pla.
    Michelle also mentions her interview with Diane Gottlieb's blog WomanPause.

    • 1 hr 16 min
    And Always One More Time with Margaret Mandell

    And Always One More Time with Margaret Mandell

    Thanks for listening!
    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.
    Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do at michelleredo.com
    Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp

    • 1 hr 14 min

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