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Kristin Szakos (62), a former Charlottesville City Council member, has a chat with One Small Step partner Joseph "Joe" Thomas (58), a conservator talk show radio host, on their overlapping and varying experience that have shaped their beliefs politically.

Betty tells stories about her family’s connection to Yachats, Oregon.

A daughter interviews her father about his life growing up in Austin, his writing career, surviving cancer, and the legacy he hopes to leave behind.

Donald Batty discusses his childhood in Wallsburg. He also discusses his father’s homestead and farm.

Colon cancer survior Scott Davis (52) and his wife Yvette Capris Davis (49) speak about how the cancer diagnosis and treatment affected their marriage and their life, why they came to CTCA for treatment and how volunteering at CTCA helps...

Colleen Mahoney (89) is interviewed by her daughter, Nancy Mahoney [no age given], about her parents, attending college during the 1940s and '50s, and her journey from a Republican ideology to a Liberal one.

Jessie Wagnon (33) interviews her grandmother Agnes Dauncey (82) about growing up in White Bluffs, WA, a community that would later be displaced in order to build a secret government project called the Hanford projects.

Dr. Darla Shaw (82) of Fairfield County, CT sat down with Beth Moeller of Griswold Home Care Fairfield County in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, to share wisdom about resiliency and how to REAP the rewards of a rich...

“It’s been 8 years being cancer free.” On December 10, 2017, Lea Gonzales interviews her Father on what his childhood and school was like l. Towards the end and the middle of the interview her father talks about how he...

Alvin Jurica telling the story of his family coming to America and homesteading in southeastern Montana. Part 3 fills in some details of the 30s-60s including gold mining, WPA, teaching, and the struggles between wheat and cattle.

Artist Stephen Hayes (38) talks to his brother, William King (53), and their mother, Lender Green-Al-Khaaliq (71), about the inspiration behind his art and the role his brother and mother played in supporting his dream. They talk about the monument...

Childhood

One Small Step conversation partners Kerri Smith (50) and Tana Paddock (48) talk about the media, what it means to be a "minarchist libertarian", and how to bridge political divides.

Ila Hensler (91) talks to her friend Constance "Connie" Poten (72) about her family, memories from her childhood, and the advice she would like to leave her grandchildren.

Mona Haleem (44) interviews her mother, Noor Haleem (66), about faith, family, migration, and the ways she wants her legacy to live on.

Alvin Jurica telling the story of his family coming to America and homesteading in southeastern Montana. In Part 2, the homestead expands, Alvin’s appendicitis, murder in MT, Ben and Alvin get more land, the great depression, and Alvin meets Mary.

Alvin Jurica telling the story of his family coming to America and homesteading in southeastern Montana. Part 1 starts with Alvin’s grandparents and parents coming to America, Texas, California, Oregon, Idaho, and finally the 1st year at the homestead

Fraser Rasmussen (77) shares stories with his daughter, Marit Nierman (47), on how he chooses to live his life as a peace activist after growing up in Richland, Washington, a site that was heavily involved in creating the bomb that...

I interviewed my Pap Gib Patt about his life and his recent endeavors. On October 1 2023, my pap was in a car accident. He has been in three different hospitals since and is getting better every day.

Coworkers Esther Louis (37), Cortes Lewis James (50), and Yakesha Llewellyn (32) talk about their work as doulas and the importance of interrupting the Black maternal health crisis.

Our Grandmother, Alyce Rae Davenport, nicknamed her 4th daughter “Biddy girl”. Biddy went on to become my Mom. At the time of the interview, July 04, 2018, Mom was fighting lung cancer, which you can hear in the beginning. Then...

Pamela Gore Meade (59) shares a conversation with her mother, Louise Lashley (85), about Louise’s childhood, her parents, art, music, and raising her children.

Lawson Leonard Delony III (63) interviews his father, Lawson L. Delony Jr. (92), on his birthday. They also celebrate Lawson Leonard Delony III's 50 year anniversary since first being diagnosed with cancer.

Talking w Grandpa about stories mom has told me

Paula Leftwich (67) shares a conversation with her brother Michael Fielder (63) about surviving cancer, their families, their family history and heritage, their parents, and their children.