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Daring to Tell

Daring to Tell

Written by: Michelle Redo
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Intimate conversations and true stories of personal daring with emerging and accomplished writers. Writers read their essay, memoir chapter or story, then talk about it with writer/host Michelle Redo. An audio literary magazine, conceived, curated and hosted by Michelle Redo, an award winning 30-year public radio veteran, and new voice in podcasting. Original submissions accepted twice yearly.Copyright 2025 Michelle Redo Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Social Sciences
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  • True stories from neurologist Carolyn Larkin Taylor
    Jan 8 2026

    Learn more about neurologist Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor and purchase her book, Whispers of the Mind A Neurologists Memoir at her website.

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Audiobooks from Flying Pig Audio 2025
    Dec 4 2025

    Michelle plays some of her favorite clips from the audiobooks she produced this year.

    Body My Life in Parts by Nina B. Lichtenstein

    The Mother of All Decisions by Besty Armstrong

    Meme's Famous Crepes by Theodore A. Perry

    State of Maine State of Mind by Theodore A. Perry

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    Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod •

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    50 mins
  • Cyra Sweet Dumitru reads from Words Make a Way through Fire
    Nov 6 2025

    Conversation with poet and writer Cyra Sweet Dumitru who reads from her new memoir Words Make a Way Through Fire: Healing After My Brother's Suicide.

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    Cyra Sweet Dumitru is a published poet, instructor of poetry, writing coach, former medical writer, and one of four certified practitioners of poetic medicine living in Texas. She served as faculty in the Department of English for 20 years at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, and developed curriculum for the Institute of Poetic Medicine as faculty for the Practitioner of Poetic Medicine training program. Her poems have appeared on the walls of San Antonio’s City Hall, on city buses, been spoken on national public radio, appeared in city newspapers and national literary journals, and been read in dozens of bookstores and museums.

    Her four collections of poems include: What the Body Knows (Orchard Press), Listening to Light (River Lily Press), Remains (Pecan Grove Press) and Elder Moon (Finishing Line Press). Cyra offers therapeutic writing circles for adults learning to live creatively with trauma, bereavement, depression, and anxiety. She lives in San Antonio, Texas with her family.

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    1 hr and 47 mins
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