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Oliver (51) and Brookelynn (32) highlight Brookelynn’s journey through her nursing career, intertwined with personal anecdotes about family, camping adventures, and hopes for her children. Through her storytelling, she shared insight into her life, relationships, and the values that shape...

Michael Moore interviewing John Cochran. John is a musician who used to travel in a band and is an extremely talented musician. Michael is a college student and they are roommates. Both have struggled with addiction in their lives and...

I, Ashley, am here with Dustin, someone who experienced adolescence once technology became prominent. Dustin has agreed to indulge our curiosity regarding this subject and provide us with details from his own personal experience with technology and the digital invasion....

Daughter Elizabeth asks her mother Sarah important questions about her past addiction and how it affects her today.

Lyrical (18) talks about her fight with depression and the fight to follow God’s word for her redemption.

One Small Step conversation partners Trinity Bourgeois (21) and Susan Worrell (72) have a conversation about the similarities in their childhood dinner conversations, the assumptions people make about them, and their shared love of Germany.

Mina Campos, an 18 year old student at Elizabethtown College interviewed her college peer Nathan, who she finds as a great mentor and even better friend. She interviewed him on mental health where they talked about the experiences and path...

Jennifer shares her story with Kirsten of how through a series of unfortunate events she went from "supermom" to dealing with an opiate addiction and living on the streets. While on the streets she got pregnant with her third child....

Taylor West (24) interviews Cynthia Rose (58) about her role as the mother of the community and how she is learning to give that same love and care to herself in this next phase of her life.

Rosemary describes watching her parents give food to needy families who came to their door. The impact it made on her resonates with her to this day. she talks about how teachers were paid through scripts during the depression and...

One Small Step Partners Kimberly Vinson (58) and Heidi Hendricks (59) have a conversation about the impacts that their disabilities on their lives.

Humza Rahman (30) interviews his friend and coworker Mike Watts (73) about his time at Loaves & Fishes, his artistic explorations, and his many “sides.”

Loren Johnston (73) is interviewed by StoryCorps Facilitator, Julia Kirschenbaum (25), to tell about the lives of his father and mother. Loren's words are meant to serve a as a proper memorial to his father, Byron Frank Johnston, a mortician...

Stephanie Bentheimer (48) talks with her friend Angela "Angie" Meyers (42) about experiencing, surviving, and healing from sexual abuse.

One Small Step partners James Sweeney (69) and Wally Long (63) discuss their community work, their mutual belief that the right to vote is "sacred," and why face-to-face conversations are so important.

Makenna Givens (18) talks with her grandma, Sharon Totaro (82) about her life. Specifically, raising kids on her own, losses of loved ones, and her mental health struggles.

One Small Step partners Martin Wegbreit (71) and Sara Rhem (58) discuss the role religion plays in their lives and their experiences losing their sons to suicide.

One Small Step conversation partners Leslie Hoyt (66) and Emily Hatch (34) discuss their differing political beliefs, feelings around motherhood, and find common ground around experiences of loss and grief.

One Small Step partners Thomas "Tom" Barlow (39) and John Amoroso (45) share their challenges being divorced fathers of daughters, and their learning process around the changing language and mores regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.

Steve Desroches (48) talks to Spencer Keasey (55) about his time as a porn star working under the name Spencer Quest.

Cynthia Grace (46) speaks to new friend and conversation partner Savannah Winchester (31) about the strength and inspiration she got from her mother and the journey she made to accepting herself as a transgender woman.

One Small Step conversation partners Dimple Dhabalia (47) and Tiffany Gray (43) exchange their lived experiences. They connect on their work in supporting vulnerable populations, and find they have a shared belief in listening to and learning from other people...

One Small Step partners Harold Lewis (61) and Matthew "Scott" Knox (48) share stories about their different lived experiences as a Black man growing up in the segregated South and a gay man growing up in the Northeast.

Speaker 1: [00:00:00] What was your pivotal moment that made you want to change your life? [00:00:03][3.0] Speaker 2: [00:00:04] I think the moment for me was when I was experiencing homelessness and 2013 I was in Vegas on the...

Stockton University student Alyssa Leto interviews her mother, whose father suffered from substance use disorder.