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

Links from the episode:Subscribe to Michelle Redo's free Substack-- IneffableListen to Nadine Kenney Johnstone's podcast Heart of the StoryListen to This Jungian Life podcastSign up for my newsletter at my website michelleredo.com

Michelle's New Substack pageNancy Schnog's Writer's Digest article on what to do with your old journalsNadine Kenney Johnstone and Melanie Brooks' workshop Writing Hard StoriesListen 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

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 AudibleA Hard Silence at Libro.FMCheck out AudioFile Magazine for more audiobook recommendations and reviewsSign 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!

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

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 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.comListen to The Band's StagefrightLink 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 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 to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp

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 more of Phil Redo's musicAdd 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-doListen to more of Phil Redo's music

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

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 RedoSign 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.comGet 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 DeLonghiPhil Redo has lots more music. Check it out!