Someone Needs to Hear It: Rewriting Our Narratives
by Jennifer Lee
It’s amazing how one person, one story, can change your perspective. Knowing someone else has the same struggle or has suffered the same fate can be comforting, but more importantly, their narrative can provide hope, insight, and the motivation to change. I’m a firm believer that everyone has a story to tell. And with that story follows someone who needs to hear it.
Episodes
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EPISODE SIX: Rewriting Immigration-Part 3
This week, we wrap up Rewriting Immigration with a tear-jerker. Stephanie DeOrio, a high school ELL teacher, poet, and friend, heads to Canada to talk to her friend and former student, Leen Chikh AlChabab. Leen is a Syrian refugee who came to the US looking for safety and opportunity. But after…
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EPISODE SIX: Rewriting Immigration-Part 2
In the second installment of Rewriting Immigration, I had the pleasure of sitting down with WBUR Arts and Culture reporter, Cristela Guerra, to discuss her Panamanian roots and her experiences as a journalist in an ever-changing America. She’s brown, she’s queer, and she’s here to change the…
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EPISODE SIX: Rewriting Immigration-Part 1
If you watch the news for even a moment in the US, you will catch a glimpse of the horror show surrounding the current immigration battle. Children in cages, makeshift concentration camps, and tragic loss. The President and various media outlets have painted immigrants as an axe-wielding caravan…
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EPISODE FIVE: Rewriting Alcohol
For this episode, an Instagram friend travels to meet me for the first time to discuss her new perspective on alcohol. Taryn Dickey, wife, mother of two, and former school guidance counselor turned fitness coach, shares her story regarding why she chose to stop drinking and the very real dangers…
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EPISODE FOUR: Rewriting Travel
Traveling has become a major hobby in my life. It's become more than a vacation here and there. Traveling has helped me grow as a world citizen and learn an awful lot about myself. However, I’m in significant student loan debt, and in the past, I've struggled to pay bills without a second job.…
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EPISODE THREE: Rewriting Psychics
What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘psychic’? A woman at a fair in a booth with a crystal ball? Do you think of the old commercials with Miss Cleo, her insistence that she could solve your problems with a pay by minute phone call? I think the first five minutes were free. These were my...
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EPISODE TWO: Rewriting Diet Culture
In this week’s episode, we continue the discussion surrounding change and trusting our inner voice by speaking with one of my best friends, Amanda Robb. An Eating Disorder Warrior, Amanda has gone to the depths of inpatient rehab for Anorexia and back to find herself and the subversive messages...
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EPISODE ONE: Rewriting Change
To kick off the podcast, I dig deep into the concept of change and what can happen if we face our fears and view life as an opportunity to learn. Former Hollywood makeup artist and actress, Darielle Rose, sits down with me to discuss her life-changing move back home and the choices that led her…
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EPISODE ZERO: Preface
Who am I? In this brief overview, I talk about my past, my present, and my future. I’ll tell you about how I rewrote some of my past narratives and share my podcast intentions. There’s hope, self-deprecation, existential woes, optimism, sentence enhancers (swears), and of course, dad jokes.
About this show
It’s amazing how one person, one story, can change your perspective. Knowing someone else has the same struggle or has suffered the same fate can be comforting, but more importantly, their narrative can provide hope, insight, and the motivation to change. I’m a firm believer that everyone has a story to tell. And with that story follows someone who needs to hear it.
Hosted by
Jennifer Lee