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Find out more about Jen Dupree her other books and her upcoming book events at her website, jenniferdupree.com You can order her book Slow Motion: A Memoir of Friendship, Disability & Advocacy from her publishers website, Islandport Press.Sign up for Michelle Redo's Newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com

Keith Madison's book Coaching With Purpose is available through his website CoachKeithMadison.comSign up for my talk with Nina Lichtenstein about audiobook production happening Sun March 22nd at 11a ETSign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Re-Do at MichelleRedo.com

In this very personal episode Peggy Cook reads from her memoir Released: Walking from Blame and Shame into Wholeness. See her art and author bio at her website.Want to learn more about what goes into the production of an audiobook? That's what Michelle Redo and Nina Lichtenstein will discuss in a free zoom conversation happening Sunday March 22nd at 11a ET. Sign up now!Listen to samples from all of the audiobooks put out by Flying Pig Audio, Michelle Redo's boutique audiobook business, and sign up for Michelle's free monthly newsletter, The Re-do at michelleredo.comListen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp, on Spotify or Apple Music

Learn more about neurologist Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor and purchase her book, Whispers of the Mind A Neurologists Memoir at her website.Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Redo at michelleredo.comListen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp or find him on Spotify or Apple Music

Michelle plays some of her favorite clips from the audiobooks she produced this year.Body My Life in Parts by Nina B. LichtensteinThe Mother of All Decisions by Besty ArmstrongMeme's Famous Crepes by Theodore A. PerryState of Maine State of Mind by Theodore A. PerryBook 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 credit. These audiobooks are also available through Audible.com and many other audiobook apps.Sign up for Michelle's newsletter, The Re-do and learn more about Flying Pig Audio at michelleredo.comHall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod  • Edvard Grieg | http://incompetech.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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.Sign up for Michelle Redo's free monthly newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Band Camp, Apple Music and Spotify.Cyra Sweet Dumitru is a published poet, instructor of poetry, writing coach, former medical writer, and one of four certified practitioners of poetic medicine living in Texas. She served as faculty in the Department of English for 20 years at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, and developed curriculum for the Institute of Poetic Medicine as faculty for the Practitioner of Poetic Medicine training program. Her poems have appeared on the walls of San Antonio’s City Hall, on city buses, been spoken on national public radio, appeared in city newspapers and national literary journals, and been read in dozens of bookstores and museums. Her four collections of poems include: What the Body Knows (Orchard Press), Listening to Light (River Lily Press), Remains (Pecan Grove Press) and Elder Moon (Finishing Line Press). Cyra offers therapeutic writing circles for adults learning to live creatively with trauma, bereavement, depression, and anxiety. She lives in San Antonio, Texas with her family.

Learn more about Gail Straub at her website GailStraub.com. Order Home Inside the GlobeSign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.comListen to more of Phil Redo's music at Apple Music, on Spotify or at philredo.com

Order you copy of The Perfectly Imperfect Potter. Learn more about author Nancy Collins.Sign up for my free, monthly newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.comStuff 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 FestivalSun Oct 19 at the Rockland Sunday StrollMon Oct 20 6p at Curtis Memorial Library in BrunswickAlso, if you're in Maine and want to check out the often referred to "Maine Literary Salon" hosted by writer Nina Lichtenstein visit MaineWritersStudio.com or are interested in learning more about the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance visit them at MaineWriters.org.

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.Sign up for The Re-do—newsletter of the Daring to Tell podcast—at michelleredo.com.Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp, Spotify, or Apple Music.Remember to hit follow in your podcast app so you can automatically receive new episodes when they get released each month.

Be sure to hit "follow" in your podcast app so new episodes will automatically download each month.Sign up for Michelle's newsletter at michelleredo.comCheck out Michelle's first episode about the monarch caterpillar that arrived at her doorway in Maine Listen to more of Phil Redo's music

Get Elissa Altman's Permission (ha!) at her website, ElissaAltman.com where you can also subscribe to her Substack, Poor Man's Feast.Don't forget to hit Follow so Daring To Tell will automatically drop into your podcast app each month! Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do, for more contemplations on the topics in each episode at MichelleRedo.com.Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Apple Music, on Spotify, or on Bandcamp

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 CuriositiesSign up for Michelle Redo's monthly Daring to Tell podcast newsletter called The Re-do at michelleredo.com.Listen to Nina reading from another Body chapter, Eyes, on episode 43 of Daring to Tell.Check out more of Phil Redo's music.Keep listening!

Be sure to click follow on this podcast so you'll get the new episode that posts on the first Tuesday of each month. 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 here and Sari Botton, moderator of the panel discussion called On Permission: Daring to Tell, here.Be sure to sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do at michelleredo.comHear more of Phil Redo's music on Bandcamp, Apple Music and Spotify.

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Links from this episode:Woodstock BookfestSari Botton on SubstackSari Botton's Essay at 100 Days of Creative ResistanceMichelle Redo's websitePhil Redo's musicThanks for listening!

Don't forget to follow this podcast!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.comSign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Redo at michelleredo.comI 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 listening.Listen to more of Phil Redo's music on Apple Music or Spotify, as well as here.

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.Sign up for the Daring to Tell podcast newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com or subscribe to my free, occasional Substack newsletter called Ineffable: Big Thoughts from a Little Farmhouse in Maine.

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.comSign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Redo at her website... MichelleRedo.comListen to more of Phil Redo's music at his bandcamp page... philredo.bandcamp.com on Spotify or Apple Music.

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.Sign up for Michelle Redo's free newsletter, The Redo at michelleredo.comAnd 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.Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp or on Spotify.

Check out David Stuart MacLean and his book, The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia Learn more about Michelle Redo and sign up for my newsletter, The Re-do at MichelleRedo.comListen to more music from Phil Redo on Band Camp, or search for Phil Redo at Spotify or Apple Music.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! Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Redo or get in touch with me through my website at MichelleRedo.com

Links from the episode:Subscribe to Michelle Redo's free Substack-- IneffableListen to Nadine Kenney Johnstone's podcast Heart of the StoryListen to This Jungian Life podcastSign up for my newsletter at my website michelleredo.com

Michelle's New Substack pageNancy Schnog's Writer's Digest article on what to do with your old journalsNadine Kenney Johnstone and Melanie Brooks' workshop Writing Hard StoriesListen to audiobook samples, sign up for Michelle's Daring to Tell newsletter, The Re-do, and listen to other Daring to Tell episodes at michelleredo.com

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 AudibleA Hard Silence at Libro.FMCheck out AudioFile Magazine for more audiobook recommendations and reviewsSign 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!

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

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 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' books from The Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY.

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.

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

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

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.)Sign up for Michelle's newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com.Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp or on Spotify.

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

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

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!

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 Charlotte Maya on Daring to Tell in April of 2023.Watch Karin Gutman- The Spirit of Story video interviews with Charlotte Maya among others.More music by Phil RedoSign up for Michelle Redo's monthly Daring to Tell newsletter at michelleredo.com

Spoiler Alert! In this bonus episode Michelle Redo talks with author Gretchen Cherington about all the revelations she discovered through writing The Butcher, The Embezzler and The Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry.

A discussion about fiction and nonfiction with Jody J. Sperling about his new Speculative Fiction Detective Novel- The 9 Lives of Marva DeLonghi.Listen to more of Phil Redo's music.Sign up for my newsletter at michelleredo.com

Michelle Redo invites Katherin Vasilopoulos to guest host when Michelle reads her own essay--Brave No More. Check out Katherin's podcast And So, She Left.Curious about the Bugzooka? Pauline Oliveros died in 2016 but her Deep Listening Institute continues to resound.Listen to more of Phil Redo's music.Sign up for Michelle's monthly podcast newsletter Hit Pause, or send a note at michelleredo.com

Check out Gretchen Cherington's NEW memoir, The Butcher, The Embezzler, and The Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry.Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter.Listen to more of Phil Redo's music.

If you like this podcast, you might also like my monthly newsletter... Hit Pause. Sign up for it at my website michelleredo.comGet your copy of Be Brief And Tell Them Everything, and listen to Brad Listi's podcast Otherppl.Listen to Jody Sperling's podcast TRBM; check out his new book The 9 Lives of Marva DeLonghiPhil Redo has lots more music. Check it out!

Writer Charlotte Maya reads from her debut memoir Sushi Tuesdays: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Resilience. discussing the importance of talking clearly about depression and suicide. Follow her on Instagram @charlottemayawriterTo sign up for Michelle Redo's monthly podcast newsletter called Hit Pause visit michelleredo.com

Thanks for listening!Sign up for Hit Pause, the newsletter of the Daring to Tell podcast at michelleredo.com Learn more about Dr. James Doty's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, and check out his award-winning New York Times Best Selling book Into the Magic Shop.And you can hear Caroline Fitzgerald and I discuss healing tears in episode 5, from January of 2022.

The rest of the episode and conversation with Writer, Podcaster and Writing Teacher Nadine Kenney Johnstone.Listen to her podcast Heart of the Story (produced by your humble host, Michelle Redo) and be sure to pre-order her book and guided journal Come Home to Your Heart today!Sign up for the Daring to Tell newsletter, Hit Pause, at my website, michelleredo.com

Preliminary conversation with writing teacher, podcaster and retreat leader Nadine Kenney Johnstone, in advance of her new book announcement coming Sunday Feb 12 on Heart of the Story! Be sure to check it out. Then Nadine will read a chapter from her new book on Daring to Tell, later this month.Sign up for my monthly newsletter Hit Pause at my website.

Where is truth fiction and fiction truth especially when one's reality becomes a diagnosis of rectal cancer? "At the very least, it’s a sign of life. The source of my embarrassment speaks of existence. I am alive."In her memoir Eliza Walton shares her actual experience and pushes us into those spaces where she gives life to a fictional edgy alter ego with a deft hand.Michelle Redo talks with Maine writer Eliza Walton about her book, The Colors I Saw: A Cancer Memoir, published in 2019. You can contact Eliza through her publisher Golden Alley Press.Follow me on Twitter @michelleredoSign up to get my monthly musing of podcast episode in my newsletter called Hit Pause at my website.***Here's a look at the opening of the December newsletter... if you want to receive the rest of the story just email me at [email protected] Turtle and a Piano The other day I walked into the big box pet store on the hunt for Rocky’s “slow eating chicken” as we call it. I breezed down the main aisle past the rodents and reptiles when something charming and green arrested me so I had to turn three paces back to bend down and look. It was a turtle. A testudo tortoise in fact, maybe about the size of my fully outstretched hand, and he had a good deal of height too. Maybe four inches or so? The brightest green of his head and legs leapt out at me with an undertone of darker grayish green. He was crawling just a little. His head stretched towards a bowl of greens, his front legs reaching forward. Basically, there was motion, which seems rare for a pet store reptile. He wasn’t static, not hiding. And I was immediately smitten. Could I bring home a turtle? What would Rocky think? What would Phil think? I didn’t know you could even get turtles anymore. I had one of those tiny ones as pets when I was little. The ones so small they may get stuck under the radiator… probably desperately seeking heat, only finding dust. While I don’t recall mine dying, I don’t recall having them for very long either. Maybe they escaped? Stayed under the radiator? Why do I love turtles so? I don’t know. I’d kind of forgotten that I find them so captivating. With their ability to just tuck in at any moment and hide from the world. That lovely thick shell, almost impermeable. A slow, steady creature without many natural predators, and that life span! This turtle, the label proclaimed, had an average lifespan of fifty years. What? This little guy? Fifty years? Hmm… With this new info I looked at him wistfully, pulled out my phone and clicked a picture of this fine little being and wished him well. I stood up, and continued on my mission for slow-eating chicken (for some reason, Rocky always leaves some in his dish for later). I jabbed at my phone as I sent the picture off to Phil. “This guy will outlive us.” Send. It was a weird little moment. This turtle and me. It reminded me our time on this planet is not unlimited. Something we always know but brush away to be dealt with later. As if later is that promising time when we think we’ll be ready to think about our end date...Want the rest of the story? Put "The rest of the story?" in the subject line of an email to [email protected]

Visit Rachel Lee's website at This-Is-Getting-Old.com. And don't forget to check out her cartoons.Some of the other website resources we discussed were The Conversation Project, Cake and Departing Dearly.Have thoughts or feeback about Daring to Tell? Share with me at my website, michelleredo.com or follow me on Twitter @michelleredo

Michelle Redo shares a story of witnessing transformation when it came to the corner of her doorway. If you are curious about some of the websites mentioned here are some links...Wisconsin PollinatorsJourney NorthListen to more of Phil Redo's music.Follow me on Twitter @michelleredoSign up for my newsletter, Hit Pause, at my website.

Host Michelle Redo shares her Enneagram number with The Open Heart Project founder and best selling author Susan Piver (a #4), who reads from her new book The Buddhist Enneagram

Maine writer Elizabeth Garber releases Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: The Memoir of a Young Woman's Daring Year later this month, September of 2022. Check out one of her many book launch events through September and October also at ElizabethGarber.com.Sign up for Michelle's newsletter, Hit Pause, at michelleredo.com.Make Me Brave is written by Phil Redo, hear more of his music on Spotify or Bandcamp.