2nd Story

In this week's story, teller Courtney Kotloski shares the shock of her cancer diagnosis and how humor - along with the support of her family - helped keep her pushing through treatment.

In this week's story, teller Jen Schroeder shares an intensely honest and real look at her experience just before, during, and after giving birth to her twins.

In this week's story, 2nd Story Company Member LaTanya Lane shares how she lost one type of faith but found another in the people and community around her.

In this week's episode, our teller recalls how certain major climactic moments from her life didn't resolve the way the shows and books she'd consumed prepared her for.

In this week's story, teller Lexi Saunders shares the road that led to their work as educator and just one moment of many where they saw the impact of their work in real-time.

In this week's story, our teller bring us through a so-called rite of manhood thrust upon him by a dear friend in a time of emotional vulnerability.

In this week's story, teller Aaron Talley shares how the meaning we look for in the stars can sometimes be found staring us in the face when look in the mirror.

In this week's story, company member Reshmi Hazra Rustebakke reminisces on lessons of justice learned as a child, and how they changed and adapted as she grew into adulthood and independence.

In this week's story, CP Chang shares how his journey to find the love of his life and to love himself have been intertwined since childhood.

In this week's story, 2nd Story Podcast Producer Max Spitz takes the mic, sharing what he and his wife learned when their adoption took a bit more out of them than expected.

In this week's story, tellers Megan Stielstra and Aimy Tien share a dual story of fighting to live their best lives and stepping in to help lift up others when that fight gets tough.

In this week's story, teller Coya Paz shares the unexpected connection between her youthful desire for nunhood and her later realization of her queerness.

In this week's story, teller Earliana McLaurin shares a moment when help that was desperately needed finally came, and the thanks she so earnestly gave when it did.

In this week's story, 2nd Story company member Vince Pagán-Hill shares how his experience teaching a class of incarcerated women gave him insight into the lives of an all-too-often overlooked population.

In this week's story, teller Avi Bowie takes us through some of the ways they've grown to understand death and the relationship to both grief and joy they've found in mourning.

In this week's story, the Sivak family shares a moment when the strength of their love and support was tested, and the power they found to stand by each other.

In this week's story, teller Lynnette Li shares how she broke free of the need to do what's expected and stop apologizing for being herself.

In this week's story, teller Audry Farber shares the highs and lows of her openly trans identity, and how she works to find community and be visible even when others ask her for invisibility.

In this week's story, teller Darren Meyers shares the highs and lows of an acting rivalry and what happens when real life intervenes.

In this week's story, teller and company member LaTanya Lane helps us ring in the 25th season with a story about a few memorable birthdays of her own.

In this week's story, teller Jane deLaubenfels brings us back to a moment of terror and shares the community that helped her move through it.

In this week's story, teller Sheree L. Greer shares the moments that lead to a few big decisions in her life - and how she learned to recognize when it's the right time to make them.

In this week's story, teller Kim L Hunt helps celebrate Pride Month with a story about finding her voice and the power it holds.

In this week's story, teller Nestor Gomez brings us on a journey through the way his language has moved and evolved just as he and his community did so as well.

In this week's story, teller Amanda Dunne Acevedo shares the moment she learned of her adoption, and how her experience since clashes with the classic clichés.