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.com Check out Michelle's first episode about the monarch caterpillar that arrived at her doorway in Maine Listen to more of Phil Redo's music...
Jul 01, 2025•18 min•Ep. 54
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...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 53
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 Curiosities Sign 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,...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 52
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 O...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 51
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Mar 08, 2025•38 min•Ep. 50
Links from this episode: Woodstock Bookfest Sari Botton on Substack Sari Botton's Essay at 100 Days of Creative Resistance Michelle Redo's website Phil Redo's music Thanks for listening!...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 49
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 Emerging writer Ching Ching Tan reads from her as-of yet-unpublished memoir, An Extra.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.com Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Redo at michelleredo.com I 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 ...
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 48
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 Littl...
Jan 07, 2025•49 min•Ep. 47
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.com Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Redo at her website... MichelleRedo.com Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at his bandcamp page... philredo.bandcamp.com on Spotify or Apple Music....
Dec 03, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 46
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.com And 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....
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 45
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.com Listen to more music from Phil Redo on Band Camp, or search for Phil Redo at Spotify or Apple Music. Thanks for listening!...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 44
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...
Sep 03, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 43
Links from the episode: Subscribe to Michelle Redo's free Substack-- Ineffable Listen to Nadine Kenney Johnstone's podcast Heart of the Story Listen to This Jungian Life podcast Sign up for my newsletter at my website michelleredo.com...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 42
Michelle's New Substack page Nancy Schnog's Writer's Digest article on what to do with your old journals Nadine Kenney Johnstone and Melanie Brooks' workshop Writing Hard Stories Listen 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...
Jul 02, 2024•50 min•Ep. 41
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 Audible A Hard Silence at Libro.FM Check out AudioFile Magazine for more audiobook recommendations and reviews Sign 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!...
Jun 18, 2024•58 min•Ep. 40
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...
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 39
Maine, A Love Story by Blue Butterfield See 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.com Listen to more of Phil Redo's music....
May 07, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 38
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.com Listen to The Band's Stagefright Link to Abigail Thomas' books from The Golden Notebook , Woodstock, NY....
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 37
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 th...
Mar 05, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 36
Thanks for listening! Visit Margaret Mandell's website Pre-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.com Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 35
Mentioned in this episode... Heart of the Story Podcast with Nadine Kenney Johnstone A Hard Silence by Melanie Brooks Sushi Tuesdays Audiobook by Charlotte Maya Open Heart Project of Susan Piver Sign up for Michelle's newsletter The Re-do Listen to more of Phil Redo's music Add a Tip to help support this podcast...
Jan 02, 2024•22 min•Ep. 34
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 coinci...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 33
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-do Listen to more of Phil Redo's music...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 32
Learn more about Margaret Mandell at her website, MargaretSMandell.com Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, newly re-dubbed The Redo at michelleredo.com Listen to more of Phil Redo's music
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 31
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!...
Sep 23, 2023•36 min•Ep. 30
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 Charlot...
Sep 05, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 29
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 .
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 28
A discussion about fiction and nonfiction with Jody J. Sperling about his new Speculative Fiction Detective Novel- T he 9 Lives of Marva DeLonghi . Listen to more of Phil Redo's music. Sign up for my newsletter at michelleredo.com
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 27
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...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 26
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 .
Jun 06, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 25