Daring to Tell

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.

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.

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 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

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

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-do Listen to more of Phil Redo's music

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

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 Redo Sign 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.com Get 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 DeLonghi Phil 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 @charlottemayawriter To 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 @michelleredo Sign 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 michelle@michelleredo.com. A 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 michelle@michelleredo.com