Michelle Redo

Daring to Tell

Society EN ↓ 84 episodes

Memoir and nonfiction writers read from their true stories of personal daring and talk with audiobook producer Michelle Redo about the slow courage they found to first live, then write their true story. Winner of the 2024 Silver Signal Award for Best Indie Podcast

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Author

Michelle Redo

Category

Society

Podcast website

michelleredo.com

Latest episode

Nov 7, 2026

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Episodes

All Sorrows Can Be Borne with Loren Stephens 07.11.2026

EXCITING NEWS!!! Daring to Tell wins a 2026 Silver Signal Award! Best Solo-preneur Podcast! Get the book from this epsiode... All Sorrows Can Be Borne — written by author Loren Stephens . Check out Loren's Ghostwriting Company Write Wisdom More about me and the stuff I do at michelleredo.com Thanks for listening!

NEW Audiobook with Cyra Sweet Dumitru AND What is a Medical Musician? 12.10.2026

Bonus Episode! As of October 12th the audiobook of Words Make a Way Through Fire is NOW AVAILABLE at Audible , Libro FM and most other audiobook listening apps. In this episode I'm combining additional content from my conversation with Medical Musician Andrew Schulman, along with a sneak preview of Cyra Sweet Dumitru 's new audiobook of Words Make a Way Through Fire . A happy coincidence of my bum...

Waking the Spirit with Andrew Schulman 06.10.2026

Vote for Daring to Tell ! A finalist in this year's Signal Awards! Learn more about Andrew Schulman at his website, andrewschulmanmusic.com . Order his book or audiobook (or both!) Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul . A most remarkable story! What are five audiobooks that hooked me on loving author-narrated memoir? Check out my website, michelleredo.com Listen to...

New Audiobook-Coaching with Purpose with Keith Madison 09.09.2026

Now available--the audiobook of Coaching with Purpose: The Game Plan that Helps Coaches Build Winners On and Off the Field by author and baseball lifer Coach Keith Madison . Check out all the audiobooks produced by Flying Pig Audio ; and my list of Five Audiobooks that hooked me on author-narrated memoir, all at michelleredo.com More of Phil Redo's music .

Memoir—The Making of a Mechanical Heart with award winning Maine photographer Felice Boucher 04.08.2026

Check out Felice Boucher's photography at FeliceBoucherphotography.com or click right to her book The Making of A Mechanical Heart . Details about the Free Audiobook Talk with Michelle Redo and Peggy Cook, Saturday August 8th at 1pm at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine. While your there get my freebie-- The Five Audiobooks that Hooked me on Author Narrated Memoir . Listen to Phil Redo's...

This is not an episode! 17.07.2026

This is Michelle's accountability call for listeners, what I've been doing, when not putting out my official July episode. Some of my other projects you can listen to include: The Colorado Dream--Happy Birthday from KUNC Radio An audiobook, coming soon, from author Keith Madison, Coaching with Purpose Another audiobook, coming soon from Cyra Sweet Dumitru of her memoir Words Make A Way Through Fir...

New Audiobook Released! with Peggy Cook 04.06.2026

Visit michelleredo.com to sign up for The Re-Do, Michelle Redo's free monthly newsletter. Get Peggy Cook 's new audiobook of Released: Walking from Blame and Shame into Wholeness at Audible , Libro. FM or wherever you get your audiobooks. Learn more about Clubfoot Solutions . Listen to more of Phil Redo 's music.

For the Love of Cadences 05.05.2026

Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com where you can also preview the audiobooks she's put out from her indie audiobook production operation, Flying Pig Audio. Don't forget to click follow on Daring to Tell in your podcast app! Thanks for listening.

Jen Dupree with Slow Motion: A Memoir of Friendship, Disability & Advocacy 02.04.2026

Find out more about Jen Dupree her other books and her upcoming book events at her website, jenniferdupree.com You can order her book Slow Motion: A Memoir of Friendship, Disability & Advocacy from her publishers website, Islandport Press. Sign up for Michelle Redo's Newsletter The Re-do at michelleredo.com

Bigger than Baseball with coach Keith Madison 05.03.2026

Keith Madison's book Coaching With Purpose is available through his website CoachKeithMadison.com Sign up for my talk with Nina Lichtenstein about audiobook production happening Sun March 22nd at 11a ET Sign up for Michelle Redo's newsletter The Re-Do at MichelleRedo.com

Released with Peggy Cook 05.02.2026

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 a...

True stories from neurologist Carolyn Larkin Taylor 08.01.2026

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

Audiobooks from Flying Pig Audio 2025 04.12.2025

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 Book title links go to Libro. FM akin to Bookshop.org for audiobooks. It supports independent bookstores and you can either purch...

Cyra Sweet Dumitru reads from Words Make a Way through Fire 06.11.2025

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. 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...

Gail Straub reads from Home Inside the Globe 02.10.2025

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

Nancy Collins reads from The Perfectly Imperfect Potter 04.09.2025

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 Mem...

Changing the Rules 05.08.2025

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 automatica...

Butterflies 01.07.2025

Be sure to hit "follow" in your podcast app so new episodes will automatically download each month. Sign up for Michelle's newsletter at michelleredo.com Check out Michelle's first episode about the monarch caterpillar that arrived at her doorway in Maine Listen to more of Phil Redo's music

Elissa Altman reads from Permission 03.06.2025

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 a...

Nina Lichtenstein reads from Body: My Life in Parts 06.05.2025

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...

The Mother of All Decisions with Betsy Armstrong 01.04.2025

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 wi...

Woodstock Bookfest 2025 with Martha Frankel 08.03.2025

The only link to click on is for Woodstock Bookfest 2025 ! Get your tickets now!

Sari Botton Reads from And You May Find Yourself 04.03.2025

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!

Ching Ching Tan reads from An Extra 04.02.2025

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...

Tony Perry reads from Meme's Famous Crepes 07.01.2025

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...

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