For Love of Memoir

Erin Swanson
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For the Love of Memoir Calling all memoir junkies! 🎙️ This channel is dedicated to raw, honest conversations with memoir authors and industry insiders. We dig into the stories behind the stories—what it takes to write them, survive them, and share them. Whether you're an aspiring writer or just love a good, real-life narrative, you’re in the right place. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe and join the journey 🎥 Watch full interviews on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ForLoveOfMemoir 📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ForLoveOfMemoir 💬 Share your favorite memoir with us here: 4theloveofmemoir@gma

  1. Mindset, Mushrooms, and Meaning with John Borden

    2d ago

    Mindset, Mushrooms, and Meaning with John Borden

    This week, I’m joined by John Borden, author of *Your Mindset Is Your Reality*, a memoir exploring the profound impact a psilocybin experience had on his understanding of himself and the world around him.John shares the winding path that led him through addiction, entrepreneurship, personal loss, and ultimately a moment that challenged many of the beliefs he had carried for decades. What followed was a deeper examination of identity, happiness, purpose, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.In our conversation, we explore self-awareness, personal responsibility, and the relationship between the narratives we create and the lives we live.Buy Johns book here:https://a.co/d/007j49MG

    57 min
  2. Beyond the Surface with Christie Green

    May 31

    Beyond the Surface with Christie Green

    In this episode of *For Love of Memoir*, Christie Green joins me to discuss her memoir *Moonlit Elk*.Part memoir, part exploration of instinct, identity, and the natural world, *Moonlit Elk* follows Christie’s movement into hunting, solitude, and a way of living that challenged many of the expectations she once carried about herself and the world around her.Guided in part by her dreams, Christie reflects on learning to trust a different kind of knowing and what happened when she began paying closer attention to instinct, the natural world, and the parts of herself that didn’t fit neatly into modern life.In our conversation, we talk about writing from the body instead of the intellect, stepping into spaces traditionally dominated by men, the relationship between humans and animals, and the search for a more honest way of being alive.Follow Christie and learn more about her work at:christiegreen.net

    56 min
  3. The Power of Story

    May 17

    The Power of Story

    In this episode of For Love of Memoir, Dan Williams joins me for a conversation about storytelling, memory, and the stories that shape identity across generations. We talk about the role of oral storytelling in family life, the memories that stay with us, and why certain stories continue to matter long after the moment itself has passed. Dan reflects on the people who taught him how to tell a story, the meaning carried inside family narratives, and what gets preserved when stories are shared instead of forgotten. This conversation explores memory not just as recollection, but as inheritance.

    56 min
  4. Finding Your Inner Glow with Angie Hawkins

    May 4

    Finding Your Inner Glow with Angie Hawkins

    In this episode of For Love of Memoir, Angie Hawkins, author of Running in Slippers, shares the story behind her book and the experiences that shaped it.Running in Slippers traces what it looks like to keep moving through life when things don’t unfold the way you expected. In our conversation, Angie talks about the moments that forced her to keep going, what it meant to live through those experiences in real time, and how writing the book changed the way she understands them now.This is a conversation about endurance, perspective, and what it takes to keep showing up to your own life.

    1 hr
  5. Janine Warfield on Becoming a Medium

    Mar 1

    Janine Warfield on Becoming a Medium

    In this episode of For Love of Memoir, I’m joined by Janine Warfield, author of Becoming a Medium.Janine wasn't born a medium. She set out to learn it deliberately, treating it as a discipline rather than a belief system or an identity she stumbled into.We talk about what it means to pursue something unconventional with seriousness and restraint. Janine shares how she approached learning mediumship with curiosity, skepticism, and responsibility, and how writing this memoir required careful decisions about what to include, what to leave out, and how to avoid turning lived experience into persuasion.This isn’t a conversation about proving anything. It’s about intention, discernment, and authorship. About choosing a path that doesn’t come with permission, and writing honestly about the process of becoming.Follow Janine here:www.janinewarfield.comand purchase Becoming a Medium here:https://a.co/d/0bsVXtzs

    38 min
  6. Christian Austin on Rewriting Life, One Note at a Time

    Feb 15

    Christian Austin on Rewriting Life, One Note at a Time

    In this episode of For Love of Memoir, Erin Swanson speaks with Christian Austin about his memoir Resilient: Childhood Adversity to Cambridge University.Christian shares his journey from abuse, trauma, addiction, and incarceration to academic achievement at Cambridge. But this conversation is not about inspiration as spectacle. It is about responsibility, education as a turning point, and the long process of rebuilding identity after early harm.We discuss what it means to grow up without stability, how systems can both fail and support, and the discipline required to break patterns that once felt inevitable. Christian reflects on the difference between surviving adversity and integrating it, and on the quiet work of becoming someone new without denying who you were.This is a conversation about resilience without romanticizing suffering, and about the courage it takes to change direction when your story has already been written for you.

    1h 15m
  7. Catherine Crosby on Living With More Than One Self

    Feb 1

    Catherine Crosby on Living With More Than One Self

    In this episode, we meet Catherine Crosby to discuss her book, Voices from Inside: A Memoir in Verse, a poetic memoir about dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.As Catherine invites us into her fascinating but often misunderstood world, we talk about the realities of dissociation and how she has learned to work with her alters, ultimately harnessing what she describes as a kind of inner “superpower.”We discuss why poetry became the only form capable of holding this story, how language both reveals and limits understanding, and what it takes to tell the truth about a life that does not fit a single narrative voice.This conversation offers a thoughtful, humane look at dissociative identity disorder and challenges many of the assumptions people carry about identity, memory, and what it means to be whole.

    52 min
  8. The moments that shaped me- one misdemeanor at a time.

    Jan 18

    The moments that shaped me- one misdemeanor at a time.

    In this episode of For Love of Memoir, I’m joined by Sue William Silverman, author of Selected Misdemeanors. Sue is one of the most authentic people I’ve ever met, and her way with language — especially metaphor — is nothing short of genius. She shares her story with radical honesty, taking us through her upbringing in a religious household, an early marriage, and a secret life shaped by shame, desire, and compulsive shoplifting. What unfolds is not scandal for spectacle’s sake, but a deeply reflective exploration of identity, secrecy, and what it costs to live divided lives. Throughout our conversation, Sue uses metaphor as a kind of emotional compass, helping us navigate guilt, confession, and accountability with remarkable clarity and tenderness. We talk about:• Writing with unflinching truth• The difference between guilt and shame• Addiction, confession, and reckoning• Memoir as a path toward self-understanding A conversation about self-confrontation, compassion, and the courage it takes to finally tell the truth — first to yourself, and then to the world. Follow Sue and purchase a copy of Selected Misdemeanors here:Sue William Silverman - WELCOME TO SUE'S VIRTUAL HOME Follow FLOM everywhere we go: https://linktr.ee/4LoveofMemoir

    1h 19m
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For the Love of Memoir Calling all memoir junkies! 🎙️ This channel is dedicated to raw, honest conversations with memoir authors and industry insiders. We dig into the stories behind the stories—what it takes to write them, survive them, and share them. Whether you're an aspiring writer or just love a good, real-life narrative, you’re in the right place. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe and join the journey 🎥 Watch full interviews on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ForLoveOfMemoir 📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ForLoveOfMemoir 💬 Share your favorite memoir with us here: 4theloveofmemoir@gma

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  • Creator
    Erin Swanson
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Erin Swanson
  • Show Website
    For Love of Memoir