Elissa Altman reads from Permission

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.comListen 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. LichtensteinThe Mother of All Decisions by Besty ArmstrongMeme's Famous Crepes by Theodore A. PerryState of Maine State of Mind by Theodore A. PerryBook 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.comHall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod  • Edvard Grieg | http://incompetech.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative 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 GlobeSign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.comListen 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.comStuff 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 FestivalSun Oct 19 at the Rockland Sunday StrollMon Oct 20 6p at Curtis Memorial Library in BrunswickAlso, 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 CuriositiesSign 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.comHear more of Phil Redo's music on Bandcamp, Apple Music and Spotify.