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Veronica Fischmann and Jenni Lippold

One Small Step conversation partners Veronica (36) and Jenni (42) have a conversation about their backgrounds growing up and living in different places, their experiences living abroad in Italy, and their views on having diverse communities and perspectives in their...

Joel Hodge and Jacob Mihelich

Joel Hodge (76), is interviewed by his grandson, Jacob Mihelich (17). Joel discusses his life in Laurium, Michigan. Joel was a trucker and had a passion for the open road.

Interviewing my mother about being the “Odd One Out”

We talked about the experiences my mother went through as growing up in a white community as an African American and how it has molded her into who she is today. Around 22:50, I asked my mother out of her...

Living Before Modern Technology

People grow up in the modern world with all sorts of new and fancy technology, but how was it like for someone like my father Kevin Morgan who was in his teenager in the 70s and grew up before this...

“So, I let it happen, I let it happen, and it happened again, and again.”

This is a clip from a 40-minute interview with my boyfriend. In this clip, he discusses how his cousin sexually harassed him. To clear up possible confusion, my boyfriend is transgender FTM and at the time of these events he...

Emily Carroll interviews her dad, Mitchell Carroll, who tells us about life growing up in Flint

In this interview from Flint Michigan on November 27th 2017, Emily Carroll(16) interviews her dad, Mitchell Carroll(56). They talk about how Mitch grew up in a large family from Flint in the 1960s. Mr. Carroll shares an embarrassing moment at...

Aarika Hopson and her mother, Janet Hopson, discuss grief, love, and happiness.

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Flushing, Michigan , Aarika Hopson (15) interviews her mother Janet Hopson (51) about her life as a preachers daughter living in Detroit, Michigan with seven sisters and a loving family. At 3:50,...

Michigan Was Scary for an Iowa Farm Girl – The Great Thanksgiving Listen

The evening of November 21st, 2017, Eli Frank (15) sat down with their Grandmother DD (age and last name not provided due to partner request) for an interview. DD told many stories about her life as a child on a...

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John Atkinson and Nancy Bentley

Nancy Bentley (63) interviews her husband, John Atkinson (67) about his life, focusing on his health issues with eczema and asthma, his work in the Peace Corps, and his favorite family memories.