50 episodes
Daring to Tell Michelle Redo
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5.0 • 12 Ratings
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. -
And Always One More Time with Margaret Mandell
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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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Beginnings and Endings and Nothing
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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Awakenings with Diane Gottlieb and Nina Lichtenstein
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 in the spring of 2025 from Vine Leaves Press. (Quite coincidentally, the same publisher of Melanie Brooks's memoir featured just last month on Daring to Tell—A Hard Silence.)
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A Hard Silence with Melanie Brooks
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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Customer Reviews
Helpful and entertaining
I love the learning that happens within each interview but I also am quite delighted when I get swept up into the readings and the stories and that happens every time! It makes this podcast a fav!
Real Connection with Writers
Daring to Tell is a real gift to anyone who is a writer, a reader, or just a curious human being. I find Michelle’s conversations with writers to be so real, so refreshing, so emotional, and so connected that I’ve quickly become addicted to listening to them. The topics are relevant, diverse, and always thought-provoking.
Daring to interview
After listening to several of Michelle Redo’s interviews, I’m impressed by the way she gets her subjects to dig deep and go beyond the surface. But she does it in such a compassionate way it feels encouraging, not antagonizing, to the interviewee. I look forward to listening to more episodes.