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In this very personal episode Peggy Cook reads from her memoir Released: Walking from Blame and Shame into Wholeness. See her art and author bio at her website. Want to learn more about what goes into the production of an audiobook? That's what Michelle Redo and Nina Lichtenstein will discuss in a free zoom conversation happening Sunday March 22nd at 11a ET. Sign up now! Listen to samples from all of the audiobooks put out by Flying Pig Audio, Michelle Redo's boutique audiobook business, and sign up for Michelle's free monthly newsletter, The Re-do at michelleredo.com Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp, on Spotify or Apple Music

Learn more about neurologist Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor and purchase her book, Whispers of the Mind A Neurologists Memoir at her website. Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Redo at michelleredo.com Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp or find him on Spotify or Apple Music

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 Book title links go to Libro.FM akin to Bookshop.org for audiobooks. It supports independent bookstores and you can either purchase to listen or subscribe for a monthly credit. These audiobooks are also available through Audible.com and many other audiobook apps. Sign up for Michelle's newsletter, The Re-do and learn more about Flying Pig Audio at michelleredo.com Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod  •  Edvard Grieg | http://incompetech.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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. Sign up for Michelle Redo's free monthly newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Band Camp, Apple Music and Spotify. 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.

Learn more about Gail Straub at her website GailStraub.com. Order Home Inside the Globe Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Apple Music, on Spotify or at philredo.com

Order you copy of The Perfectly Imperfect Potter. Learn more about author Nancy Collins. Sign up for my free, monthly newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com Stuff for Mainers: Meet Nancy, check out her book and perhaps even some of her pottery at one of these October 2025 events: Sat Oct 4 at the Windham Fall Harvest Festival Sun Oct 19 at the Rockland Sunday Stroll Mon Oct 20 6p at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick Also, if you're in Maine and want to check out the often referred to "Maine Literary Salon" hosted by writer Nina Lichtenstein visit MaineWritersStudio.com or are interested in learning more about the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance visit them at MaineWriters.org.

For this episode Michelle presents the time she was the guest on a different podcast, And So, She Left. Plus, hear the "big announcement" for what's next with Daring to Tell. Sign up for The Re-do—newsletter of the Daring to Tell podcast—at michelleredo.com. Listen to more of Phil Redo's music at Bandcamp, Spotify, or Apple Music. Remember to hit follow in your podcast app so you can automatically receive new episodes when they get released each month.

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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

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, Eyes, on episode 43 of Daring to Tell. Check out more of Phil Redo's music. Keep listening!

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 On Permission: Daring to Tell, here. Be sure to sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter, The Re-do at michelleredo.com Hear more of Phil Redo's music on Bandcamp, Apple Music and Spotify.

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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!

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 or Spotify, as well as here.

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 Little Farmhouse in Maine.