Daring to Tell

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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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Maine, A Love Story with Blue Butterfield

May 06 2024 68 mins

Maine, A Love Story by Blue ButterfieldSee 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.comListen to more of Phil Redo's music.

Abigail Thomas reads new work Deathbed Regrets

Apr 01 2024 63 mins

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.comListen to The Band's StagefrightLink to Abigail Thomas

Book Marketing Talk with Jenn Hanson-dePaula

Mar 04 2024 76 mins

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 Me

And Always One More Time with Margaret Mandell

Feb 05 2024 74 mins

Thanks for listening!Visit Margaret Mandell's websitePre-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.comListen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp

Beginnings and Endings and Nothing

Jan 01 2024 22 mins

Mentioned in this episode...Heart of the Story Podcast with Nadine Kenney JohnstoneA Hard Silence by Melanie BrooksSushi Tuesdays Audiobook by Charlotte MayaOpen Heart Project of Susan PiverSign up for Michelle's newsletter The Re-doListen to more of Phil Redo's musicAdd a Tip to help support this podcast

Awakenings with Diane Gottlieb and Nina Lichtenstein

Dec 04 2023 68 mins

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 me

A Hard Silence with Melanie Brooks

Nov 06 2023 104 mins

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.Sign up for Michelle's monthly newsletter The Re-doListen to more of Phil Redo's music

I Believed You with Margaret Mandell

Oct 02 2023 67 mins

Learn more about Margaret Mandell at her website, MargaretSMandell.comSign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, newly re-dubbed The Redo at michelleredo.comListen to more of Phil Redo's music

Exciting News-And So, She Left-BONUS

Sep 22 2023 35 mins

I hope you'll check out this special And So, She Left podcast episode featuring guest, Michelle Redo--which is a finalist for a Signal Award! If you are inclined please click to vote for this podcast before October 6th. And So, She Left is hosted by Katherin Vasilopoulos, produced by Ethan Lee and put out by Cansulta.Thanks for daring to listen!

Making of Sushi Tuesdays AUDIOBOOK with Charlotte Maya

Sep 04 2023 81 mins

Debut memoirist Charlotte Maya now has a self-narrated audiobook of Sushi Tuesdays: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Family Resilience, produced by Michelle Redo. In this episode they talk about writing the book about the suicide death of Charlotte's husband, Sam Maya, as well as sharing what it was like to read and produce the audiobook.Listen to Michelle's first conversation with Charl