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

Abigail Thomas reads new work Deathbed Regrets

Apr 2nd, 2024 1h 3m

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 D

Book Marketing Talk with Jenn Hanson-dePaula

Mar 5th, 2024 1h 16m

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 star

And Always One More Time with Margaret Mandell

Feb 6th, 2024 1h 14m

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 t

Beginnings and Endings and Nothing

Jan 2nd, 2024 22m 28s

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 m

Awakenings with Diane Gottlieb and Nina Lichtenstein

Dec 5th, 2023 1h 8m

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 w

A Hard Silence with Melanie Brooks

Nov 7th, 2023 1h 44m

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 Tr

I Believed You with Margaret Mandell

Oct 3rd, 2023 1h 7m

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 23rd, 2023 35m 39s

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 host

Making of Sushi Tuesdays AUDIOBOOK with Charlotte Maya

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 21m

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

BONUS-Spoiler Conversation on The Butcher, The Embezzler and The Fall Guy

Aug 22nd, 2023 1h 5m

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 Indu

Jody J. Sperling with The 9 Lives of Marva DeLonghi

Aug 1st, 2023 1h 13m

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

Brave No More: An Essay by Michelle Redo

Jul 4th, 2023 1h 18m

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

Gretchen Cherington with The Butcher, The Embezzler, and The Fall Guy

Jun 6th, 2023 1h 23m

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.

Brad Listi with Be Brief and Tell Them Everything

May 2nd, 2023 1h 37m

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 Sperli

Sushi Tuesdays with Charlotte Maya

Apr 4th, 2023 1h 18m

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 f

Neurosurgeon Dr. James Doty with Into the Magic Shop

Mar 7th, 2023 1h 3m

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 T

Come Home to Your Heart with Nadine Kenney Johnstone

Feb 14th, 2023 54m 59s

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 jour

Journaling with Nadine Kenney Johnstone

Feb 7th, 2023 17m 22s

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 fr

The Colors I Saw with Eliza C Walton

Jan 3rd, 2023 1h 9m

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 sha

Death Doulas, End of Life and other festive holiday topics

Dec 6th, 2022 40m 12s

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

My Monarch and Me

Nov 1st, 2022 42m 49s

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 m

The Buddhist Enneagram with Susan Piver

Oct 4th, 2022 57m 47s

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

Sailing at the Edge of Disaster with Elizabeth Garber

Sep 6th, 2022 1h 11m

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 ElizabethG

To Do No Harm with Dr. Tonya Coats

Aug 2nd, 2022 41m 51s

For the August episode host Michelle Redo talks with doctor, mother and writer Tonya Coats, whose essay To Do No Harm deals with themes of parenting, discrimination, and acceptance. You can find more of Tonya's writing at River Teeth, on the He