Worth Repeating

Stories about hard-won pearls of wisdom.

Stories about cutting your losses, walking away, and starting over.

Hard conversations are the theme of this episode of Worth Repeating. We asked you for stories about broaching difficult subjects with the people close to you and how you did it—or tried to do it.

Three stories about three very different jobs.

The stories in this episode of Worth Repeating are about roots, and the stories we tell about the place we're from.

Arielle Antwine tells the story of her double life, plus three more stories from the archives of TPR's live storytelling event Worth Repeating.

The stories in this episode of Worth Repeating were recorded in the fall of 2020, when vaccines were a point of speculation and the grind of pandemic life was setting in. The longer lockdowns continued, the harder it was to sustain the things that gave pre-COVID life its color—socializing, discovering new things, even falling in love. These stories are about that last topic: we asked listeners to...

Style icon Bob Ross once said that we don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents. This episode of the Worth Repeating podcast is about bad luck that turns into good luck and chance encounters that change everything.

A brutal storm. A childhood showdown. A new job gone awry. This episode of the Worth Repeating podcast is about fight-or-flight scenarios, and four San Antonions share their tales of standing their ground or getting out of Dodge.

In the summer of 2020, TPR asked listeners to share their stories about race and racism in San Antonio in a live virtual storytelling event. The city had experienced the wave of civil unrest that swept the country that summer following the killing of George Floyd by police. In the wake of that national spotlight on racial inequality, storytellers shared a wide range of experiences with racism, ran...

Shortly after the pandemic started, we asked our listeners to send us stories about adjusting to the "new normal," and they told us about everything from upheaval inside a restaurant to a pandemic honeymoon. This episode of the Worth Repeating podcast features four of those stories, a sort of time capsule from the fevered early months of quarantine.

In the gauntlet of life lessons we call middle school, there's nothing quite as memorable (or regrettable) as first love, as is the case in Heather Armstrong's story from the archives of TPR's live storytelling event, Worth Repeating. Following Heather's story in this episode of the podcast are three other stories from the archive.

Before he was a leader of San Antonio's largest food bank, Eric Cooper grew up wondering what happened to his dad. In this episode of TPR's storytelling podcast, he goes on a journey to find out, followed by a collection of other stories from the Worth Repeating archives.

A selection of stories from the archives of TPR's live storytelling event, Worth Repeating. This episode kicks off with a story from Lorenzo Gomez, a San Antonio CEO and tech advocate, about growing up on San Antonio's west side in the 1990s.