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Coming from modest beginnings in India, my dad talks about his childhood, adult life, journey through education, values, culture, and life lessons learned.

In this interview, Marie and I discuss topics pertaining to family & relationships, politics, climate change, money & happiness, and the ignorance surrounding large-scale suffering in third world countries. She shares her unique perspectives on these topics and comments on...

This was my interview with my mother Kayoko.

Adins values in life, and what he treasures most.

I interviewed my friend Kal, and this was the most meaningful convo that we've had in a long time about family and relationships withen our families that impact us and how.

“It’s my nature to be involved. I’m always up for a good challenge.” If there is a worthwhile cause in the town of Saugerties, Lanny Walter will get involved. Emerging from an activist family, it was a natural move for...

Traditions are a great part of all families. Younger generations don't quite understand that, but there is a hope that they may begin to.

Talking with my dad about how the success and failure have helped him.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I wanted to discuss family with my mother. I was able to learn more about why family is so important to her and how her appreciation for family has changed throughout our life.

In this interview I ask my uncle what Venezuela was like before and after the rise of Hugo Chavez.

Rita del Carmen Velasco Suarez de Banfield is from San Andres de Pillaro, Ecuador and Michael Banfield is from Calumet Michigan. The two talk about their experiences and how they lived, how they met, and what their life is like...

Tawny Swain (42) shares with her friend Marylin Schultz (54) her story of loosing her home and job due to her diagnosis of a type of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). After living in a nursing home and trying to become...

My mother, Shruti Lake, opens up about her experiences growing up in a foreign country, moving to the United States, and the challenges she has faced while doing so. We focus mainly on traditions and family values, but delve into...

In this interview my aunt talks about her life, growing up, her family, and herself. She is 52 years old and my aunt on my mother’s side. In this interview I learned a lot about her and my family and...

Ted Jones, my grandfather, has lived a long and fulfilled life. From the Roaring 20s to the Second World War, he has lived through it all and has learned a lot from it.

Jean Brown Stavros shares her life story and experiences from childhood during the great depression through motherhood after World War 2 and becoming a grandmother while working full time and going to school to become a nurse.

In this interview, Nora Ballesteros talks with her granddaughter, Chriselle Tegel, about her childhood in the Philippines. They discuss Nora’s hardship as a single mom, family responsibilities as the eldest child, high school experiences, and life lessons.

In this interview, conducted in November 2018 in Birmingham, Alabama, Dawson Archer (16) interviews his father Kevin Archer (45) about his memories throughout his life about major events and people from the 1970s to today. Many interesting topics are brought...

I interview my grandmother on my moms side of the family. We are really close and she is like my other mother. We talked for 11 minutes about my family and herself. During this interview i learned lots about her...

This interview is between two friends. It's focused on the interviewee's childhood and her values, as well as what it was like for her to grow up.

In "The Great Thanksgiving Listen 2019" Efren Ayala interviews his mother, Oralia Zamora, about her life in Mexico and then America. She was born in a small town in Michoacan, Mexico, where she lived until she turned eighteen and moved...

In this interview, my father talks about his engineering career, past work trips, and the countries he has been to. He also tells stories about his summer in South Africa.

Throughout this interview I talked to my mom about what her life was like growing up. She tells me the adventures she went on with her family and the struggles of being a women during that time. She talks about...

Gordon tells his granddaughter, Katherine, how he came to California. After a trip to Havana in college, extra clearance was required for his admission to the Air Force due to Fidel Castro's government in Cuba at the time. With the...

Father, son, and daughter discuss their own discoveries of science in their lives. Scott, patriarch of the Linneman family, discuss his journey as first-generation college-goer while son Charles and daughter Dorothy shed light on the influence of their father's work...