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"Relinquishment. We were relinquished. I’d never thought about that before and it’s really powerful." Two adult adoptees discuss their friendship, their podcast, and their feelings around adoption.

Friends Yvonne Kai Anderson (38) and Jolene Marie Zipp (40) talk about motherhood, building community during the pandemic, and Yvonne's founding of Tiny Hikes and Adventures, a playgroup in Las Vegas.

Friends Eleanor Wend (65) and Richard VanAken (74) remember their involvement with nuclear disarmament activism in Montana and Seattle.

Friends Reverend Dr. Warren Herndon (71) and Calvin Philpot (73) remember their childhoods growing up in the Durham neighborhood of Merrick-Moore. They also talk about recent changes and gentrification in the neighborhood and their hopes for the future of the...

Claire McCoy (58) sits down with her father, George Black (86), to ask him about his experiences as an actor and his career as a professor in the theater departments of various universities.

Jason Barefoot speaks with his mother about their most fond memories of Decatur, what makes someone or something "quintessentially Decatur" and, how Decatur has informed their life experiences.

Jackie Neale interviews her undergraduate photography student, Maria Trajtenberg while we are conducting interviews and taking photographs for our storytelling project, The Corona Collective. Maria is living in TriBeCa New York City through the pandemic, and talks about how she...

Kay Leppold (58) sat down with friend and fellow nurse, Oliver Pelayo (49) to discuss Kay's nursing career and other adventures.

My grandfather talks about his work experience and some of the most interesting places he has been too. He reminisces’ about good old times with family. He lists off some of the 32 Countries he has been too for business,...

knowing about each other

Doris talks about her incident. life with her friends and how she went to the casino once on Christmas. She also talks about her children. She even talks about ditching school!!

Darwin talked about his family, friends, and faith

Michelle Hayes (46) talks to her mother Barbara Hayes (73) about her life as a mother, wife, activist, educator and living through the pandemic in 2020.

Friends Rev. Dr. Sandra Jewell [no age given] and Imani Thomas [no age given] discuss what brought them together as friends and the life lessons that connect them.

A StoryCorps-inspired montage of five staffers at Los Angeles-based environmental nonprofit TreePeople speaking about what brought them to the work and why they stay. Recorded in 2011, including the voices of Rosa (Bautista) Donis (38), Edith de Guzman (31), Jim...

Jackie Walther and Jackie Neale talk about some of the unexpected outcomes of the coronavirus global pandemic. Jackie and her husband Dan own a short-order, take-out restaurant called The Square Meal in Oaklyn, NJ and on the heels of discussing...

One Small Step Conversation partners Marcia Oates (68) and Ann Marie Mershon (73) talk about their careers as school teachers and what they learned, the progress or lack there of on women's rights in their lifetime, abortion, and women's athletics.

[Recorded Wednesday, February 16, 2022] Margaret and Caren recorded a virtual One Small Step conversation together in Charlottesville, Virginia. They take the time to reflect on feelings of censorship and divisiveness from outside and within their own political parties. Reflecting...

Clarence Read (82) with support from his wife Susan Read [no age given], shares memories with his friend John Notz (90).

Interviewing my father, Joesph Pass, about his life, his lessons, his greatest memories, and his love for God.

My mom tells me about her experience growing up living in a small town on the Oregon coast

Jonathan (83) interviews Julia (22) about what she thinks life for her might look like 60+ years from now. Being over 60 years older than Julia, Jonathan thought it would be interesting to see how Julia might picture her 82...

Hilly Haber (33) speaks with Sherry King (70) about their lives and experiences at Central Synagogue. They talk about Hilly's role as a rabbi and how they've each incorporated social justice into volunteer work.

Eloisa and Paris have been best friends for four years. The pair discuss their past, present, and possible future together in this ten minute phone call.

A fairly recent transplant from West Philadelphia to Tacony, Charles is an artist, singer, dancer and event producer in the performing arts of Philadelphia. Charles gives insight into his involvement in the flourish Art scene in Tacony, also known as...