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Life Out Loud Podcast

Life Out Loud is a literary nonfiction podcast series that features real students' stories. Born in a John Jay College Creative Nonfiction writing classroom in the Fall, 2015 semester, Life Out Loud seeks to diversify the perspectives typically shared in the CNF genre. Our project aims to amplify voices seldom heard though artful truth-telling simply because we believe that all stories matter; we make them, and they make us.

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    10.6 ~ Their Best Intentions

    How are we shaped by the people who think they know best?

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    10.5 ~ Making Sense of It

    "Just be yourself" is advice perhaps easier said than done...

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    10.4 - What She Carries

    She carries it all, so let's hear it from her....

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    10.3 ~ Finding Distance

    Maybe some space is for the best.

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    10.2 ~ Around the Table

    Two authors walk us through who's here for dinner...and why.

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    10.1 ~ All Dressed Up

    This Halloween will be different. Or, will it?

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    9.6 ~ Alive and...Well

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    9.5~Work Flow

    There's work to be done!

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    9.4 ~ Was it a Sign?

    The signs are all there-- aren't they?

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    9.1 ~ Around the Halls

    What goes on in school outside the 7th grade classrooms can be...complicated.

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    8.6 ~ Busted!

    The punishment just doesn't fit the crime! Or...does it?

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    8.5 - Dimensions of a Dad

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    8.4 - Sweet Sorrow

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    8.3 - State of Emergency

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    8.2 - Shadows of the Shield

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    8.1 - Finding My Place

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    7.3 - (No) Can Do?

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    7.2 - Regretfully Yours

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    7.1 - Over the Table

    Some of our best thoughts are shared at the table!

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    6.7 - Nothing's Forever

    The pandemic brought on new challenges, but it also revealed some old ones...

  21. 49

    6.6 - Toward the Great Escape

    Two authors--trapped!

  22. 48

    6.5 - Growing Pains

    Maybe it's not easy being a kid...or a parent.

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    6.4 - Me and Her and...This

    Two authors fight a destructive third-party in what's perhaps the most important relationship they have.

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    6.3 - Winner, Winner

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    6.2 - From an Insider

    Supporting a close-family member through a life-threatening illness is no easy task --for anyone.

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    6.1 - What Speaks in Silence

    The past can sound pretty loud during the deafening loneliness of a COVID-19 quarantine...

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    5.8 - Idle Hands

    They never meant to become thieves...

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    5.7 - Down the Block

    When these two authors drop everything for a physical chase, who knows what they’ll find in the end?

  29. 41

    5.6 - The Way Back Home

    Two female authors find themselves surrounded by strict cultural expectations, but is that entirely a "bad" thing? Maybe. Maybe not...

  30. 40

    5.5 - Character Development

    While preparing for fictional roles on stage, these two actors learn something quite real

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    5.4 - Help (Not) Wanted

    Sometimes "help" is the last thing you need

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    5.3 - His Whole World

    Two female authors, two carefully painted portraits of specific men--their nows, their thens, their left-behinds.

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    5.2 - Found Out

    What they find out...could change everything.

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    5.1 - Someone Like Me

    Through first-hand accounts, two authors explore the stigmas surrounding parts of their identities

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    4.10 - In Search Of Truth(s)

    In true literary journalism style, two young authors search for the truth(s) of some rather complex incidents...

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    4.9 - In the Years that Followed

    Two authors examine how things have unfolded in ways they didn't quite expect in the "new world."

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    4.8 - No Other Home

    Displaced, temporary, not-so-temporary? How do we decide who gets to call someplace "home"?

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    4.7 - Old World, New Ways

    Will these anonymous authors succeed in their pushback against the deep generational ties that bind them?

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    4.6 - Fool Me Twice

    Will a second chance make "fool me twice" inevitable?

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    4.5 - Family Ties

    Is blood really thicker than water?

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    4.4 - Half-Steps

    They're so close to the family they always dreamed of...

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    4.3 - Blindsided

    They never saw it coming...or did they?

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    4.2 - On the Run

    Will these authors get away with it? Do they want to?

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    4.1 - The Final Straw

    When is enough enough?

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    3.9 - The Adults

    Three stories on the ones who raised us...

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    3.8 - At Fault

    Are these three authors really to blame for...what happened?

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    3.7 - Siblings at War

    Three sets of siblings--all fighting both with and for each other

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    3.6 - Best Laid Plans

    Sometimes, things just don't go the way we thought they would....

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    3.5 Will you?

    Three young women authors: All deeply in love and all with an important choice to make...

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    3.4 - Friend of Mine

    Three surprising stories about best friends.

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Life Out Loud is a literary nonfiction podcast series that features real students' stories. Born in a John Jay College Creative Nonfiction writing classroom in the Fall, 2015 semester, Life Out Loud seeks to diversify the perspectives typically shared in the CNF genre. Our project aims to amplify voices seldom heard though artful truth-telling simply because we believe that all stories matter; we make them, and they make us.

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