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One Small Step conversation partners Darlene Nuse (70) and Greg Alexander (46) discuss how they grew up, their faith, the effects of social media on youth, increasing divides and "true Kansas values: individuals helping other people."

Susan Keene (54) interviews Paulette de Coriolis (68) about her life as a transgender woman and a mental health therapist. They discuss how each of those identities supports and informs the other.

Renee Boisseau (69) and daughter Julia Carlson (31) reflect on Renee's mother's life and career in nursing.

Selina Everson (Kaseix) told Alice Taff (Wudashéeyi Tláa) about growing up in a small Native community and learning about her culture. She talked about attending and working in Native boarding schools and discussed her experience teaching young Tlingit children about...

One Small Step participants Tyler Beam (44) and Sarah Davis (40) discuss their experiences living abroad, what it's like pursuing a second career and master's degree in their forties, their political beliefs, and their spiritual identities.

Spouses, Trinh Jones (59) and Tim Jones (58), talk about their contrasting childhoods in Saigon, Vietnam and Troy, Missouri, as well as the shared values that bring them together. They also reminisce about their early relationship, raising their two sons,...

Duaina Baldridge (74) interviews her friend David Becker (72) about memories of his wife Cynthia, who passed away seven years ago.

My wife Ann and I went to visit Aunt Susan the day after Thanksgiving in 2017. Susan spoke about being an "immigrant family" in Brazil, and her subsequent move to the US.

This podcast brings you Erionna, An 18 year old young women who talks about her life in Denver, CO and the change in her community. Erionna explains how she wants to make an impact to those in poverty sometime in...

Mentor Andi Hoelzel (38) and her mentee, Weyni Kahsay (18) discuss Weyni's experience in the United States since moving from Ethiopia.

Laura Rosenfeld (32) talks with her grandmother, Roberta "Bobbie" Sahr (82) about her childhood, courtship and marriage with her husband, John Sahr, and advice for her grandchildren.

Jarrod Sport (37) interviews conversation partner and new friend Dr. Donald Felder (73) about his personal experience with school desegregation.

Harriet Weber (65) interviews her friend Andy Goto (84) about his father’s immigration to the United States from Japan, his parents’ farming career, his upbringing in Eastern Oregon and Washington State, and the John Deere dealership that he opened in...

Dan Magnie (69) talks with his sister, Joan Gregerson (60) about growing up in Denver, Colorado

Shawn Richard-Davis (61) discusses her upbringing with her child Rell Be Free (30). Shawn describes growing up in Seattle and the impact of participating in Seattle's school busing program.

Spouses David Hundley (68) and Abigail Hundley (60) speak about David's experience growing up Black in Seattle.

Joe Beda shares with Julia and Amanda about his multigenerational family history with computers, his changing experience with open source since submitting the first commit to Kubernetes, and how the future of open source contains both 'danger and opportunity'.

Friends LueRachelle Brim-Atkins (76) and Jacquelyn Howard [no age given] discuss LueRachelle's childhood in Texas and her experiences with desegregation at the University of Texas. After college, LueRachelle took an internship as a teacher in Rochester, NY, and ultimately moved...

Sisters Sue Jones (68), Gin Laughery (77), and Nancy Anderson (72) remember their father and the legacy of his musical career.

Kristin Davila (40) interviews her colleague, Susan Sheeran (79), about her experiences and contributions serving for the nonprofit Merced Housing Texas. They also talk about housing conditions, culture shock, community advocacy, and shared memories of San Antonio, Texas.

Harriet Weber (65) interviews her friend Beryl Goto (75) about her journey to the United States from London, her life and time in Quincy, Washington, and her experiences as a flight attendant and hospice therapist.

One Small Step conversation partners Christopher "Chris" Caillier (51) and Nasreen Johnson (42) talk about the importance of local politics, sex ed in schools, the importance of finding common ground and maintaining civility when approaching people with different view points.

Tracy Shaughnessy [no age given] discusses with her childhood friend Gail Mondoux [no age given] her tumultuous childhood being adopted by alcoholic parents and her experience as a white student attending a predominately black school through Seattle's desegregation bussing programs.

Umutesi K. is a 17 year old living in Denver, Co and going to West Leadership High School. In 2012, at age 11, Umutesi K. immigrated with her family from Rwanda, which experienced a lot of violence from the Civil...

Former colleagues Suzanne Hittman (92) and Mike Hoge (74) speak about their roles in Seattle's desegregation efforts.