Frank Damico, Part 1: The Non Deer Hunter
He's had more lives than an alley cat and he's lived to tell the tales. He also happens to be my ex-husband, and he's taught me more about s...
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Introducing The Way Back
Our new series The Way Back starts tomorrow. Here's a little teaser. Series art by Pernille Clifforth . Love, Lea & Team The entire back cat...
STORIES Presents: The Longest Shortest Time - Xyla vs. The FAA
Xyla Foxlin started flying as a teenager. By her twenties, she was piloting her own plane and building another from scratch. But when a priv...
STORIES presents: Proxy with Yowei Shaw – Caitlin Lost the Voice In Her Head
We're featuring a story from another podcast we love today: Proxy with Yowei Shaw . She investigates the strange, funny, and sometimes madde...
10 Years Later – Pabba's 32nd Year (i.e Pabba's 42nd Year)
Pabba is now in his 42nd year, and his story has a resolution! Tune in to hear how his conundrum got resolved. It's a good story:) And check...
Summer of Strangers: Pabba's 32nd Year
Imagine your parents controlled your online dating profile. That’s what happened to Pabba and this is his story. We first ran this story 10...
Summer of Strangers: Midnight in Mexico – Then & Now
A family tragedy sends the Corchados from Mexico to California, searching for greener pastures. Upon arrival, that’s hardly what they find,...
13 Years Later – Franky Carrillo #3: Still Franky
This is a brand new installment in the Franky Carrillo saga that I’m very excited to share with you. Franky is the same great storyteller he...
Summer of Strangers: Franky Carrillo #2: Life Now – 2017
I hope you heard Franky’s story from last week , because it’s heartbreaking, and uplifting, and enraging, and inspiring, and it’s the founda...
Summer of Strangers – Franky Carrillo #1 Life
Franky Carrillo was 16 when he received a double life sentence for a crime he had nothing to do with. This is his story. It's one of the mos...
14 Years Later: And Justice for All?
Last week we posted Sharon Houston's hilarious and beloved old Strangers story And Justice for All? and this week we're following up with Sh...
Summer of Strangers: And Justice for All?
Welcome back to our Summer of Strangers. Today's story is an old S trangers episode with Sharon Houston , and next week we'll do a follow-up...
10 Years Later – The Son, The Goddess & Leopoldo
Thank you for all the love we’ve received about Joshua Safran’s story from last week. This episode is a follow-up with Joshua about his life...
Summer of Strangers: The Son, The Goddess & Leopoldo
Joshua Safran was born in a coven of lesbian witches in a Haight-Ashbury commune. After the fall of Saigon, young Joshua Safran hit the open...
Summer of Strangers: Unconditional
This is a story of mothers, love, regret, and redemption, and of secrets from many years past that cast long shadows into our lives. It’s ab...
Something Old, Something New, Something Light, Something True
In this episode, we wrap up The Hopeful Locals and preview our SUMMER of STRANGERS with a Strangers story that has been offline since 2014....
The Hopeful Locals #7: John
This is Episode 7 of the Hopeful Locals, but this installment can also stand alone . Today you’re going to meet John Doyle, and I’m going to...
The Hopeful Locals #6: Cowboy Country
As L.A. burns behind me, I drive deeper into cowboy country through Wyoming to Montana, trying to untangle the many contradictions of the co...
The Hopeful Locals #5: Visionaries of The Wind River, Part 2
The hope holds strong in this second episode about people working for change on the Wind River Reservation. It is brought to you by Tink Med...
The Hopeful Locals #4: Visionaries of the Wind River, Part 1
This is Episode 4 of The Hopeful Locals (Episode 7 if you’re a paying subscriber and get bonus episodes!). You’re getting this episode ad-fr...