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In this clip, Sofya expresses her frustration with the low wages at StoryCorps.

Arlene Swartz (61) talks to her friend and coworker Kathrina Proscia (50) about her childhood in the Bronx and Queens, her family and her career in philanthropy and fundraising.

Close friends Sarah Lister (52) and Jef Evans (51) look back on their shared memories from growing up in a conservative community connected to the West Gate Baptist Church in Tampa, Florida.

Joan Stein Jenkins (54) and her daughter Sarah Jenkins (27) talk about Judaism and Jewish culture in their family, anti-Semitism, visiting Israel, and their family's immigration to the United States.

Gail Sara Weinflash (64) interviews her husband, Clifton Holt Jolley (77), about his experience being hospitalized polio as a child, how his polio impacted his family, personality, and perspective, and the post-polio syndrome that he lives with today.

Sonja Akright (52) interviews friend Emily Hummel (69) about her life and her work as a therapist.

Rebecca Clemento Wald (48) and her daughters, Alexandra (22) and Daniella Wald (20) remember their husband and father, Victor Wald. Employed by Avalon Partners, Victor died in the in the World Trade Center September, 11, 2001.

Carlos Briceño (56) and his wife Jill Briceño (43) talk with their daughter, Alexus Jones (24) about how Huntington's Disease has affected their family. Jill and Alexus share their experiences with Huntington's Disease, talk about their ways of coping with...

Elisa recounted her incredible tale of being struck by a semi-truck, hurtling 90 feet, and impaling herself on a guardrail. Despite all odds, she miraculously survived, defying reason. However, her path to recovery has been arduous, riddled with numerous health...

Juliet Hutchings (41) talks to her friend, Kimberley Williams (42), about meeting in film school, becoming friends and being filmmakers.

Days before she gives birth to her second son, Sarah Warren (38) has a conversation with her little brother Matt Warren (34) about their relationship as siblings. Matt gives Sarah advice on raising a younger sibling and leaves a message...

Keren McCord (50) sat down with her friend and long-time colleague, Nancy Boyle (65). They shared lessons learned from Nancy's career in social work as well as lessons learned from each other.

Lisa Nickerson (62) and Evan Bucklin (32) share a conversation remembering Jill, Lisa’s daughter and Evan’s sister, who passed away from cancer when she was ten years old.

Bailey Schreier (23) talks with her mom Cindy Kern (58) about Bailey’s diagnosis of cancer at age 13.

Sarah Gray, age 47, (Washington DC) blood transfusion recipient, interviews Jack Delaney (61), one of the 10 anonymous strangers who donated 1 of the units of the blood she received during childbirth in 2010. "I'd like to make a new...

In this interview, conducted on December 11, 2022 in Santa Monica, California, Gabriel Krieger (15) interviews his Dad Jeremiah Krieger (47) about humor, and the various applications of it in life. Jeremiah tells a story about how humor helped him...

My grandmother, Marie Lourdes Jean-Jacques, 66 years old, talks about the people in her life; those I know and those who I never met. She also talks about how she spends her time from Haiti and France to America. She...

Rita Dozier, 66, talks with her daughter, Dolly Sickles, 41, about her childhood and raising Dolly as a single working mother.

Stephanie tells stories of her big and dramatic family.

Jennifer Lind, granddaughter of Rosa T. Beard, recaps highlights from the Telling HERstory Podcast's first year and shares a few lessons that she has learned from HERstory during this podcasting journey.

Friends and colleagues Liz Delany (58) and Stephanie Appleby (47) share a conversation about their personal experiences with depression and anxiety, as well as their work to address the stigma that surrounds mental illness.

Hollie Rogin, 52, interviews her father, Alan Rogin, 81 about the effects of him spending 9 months in a full body cast at the age of 16, due to post-polio syndrome, and how to overcome the challenges of isolation during...

Long-lost brothers, John "Douglas" Davila (57) and Peter Couture (62), sit down with Peter's wife, Wilma Norton (59), to share the story of how they found one another and connected as brothers after growing up as only children with different...

Adam Wilson and his partner Sofya Aptekar talk about the importance of different unions standing in solidarity with each other, even within the same workplace. Sofya is on the faculty staff union at UMass Boston, and she describes a specific...

Daniel Horowitz Garcia (51) interviews his friend Tehniyat "Tehn" Shaikh (28) about her impending return to India after the expiration of her student visa, and about her time in Atlanta over the past six years.