Oct 25, 2019
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit,” wrote e.e. cummings. This episode, we’ll hear stories from true believers in spirits of the heart and soul; ghosts past and present; and of course spirits in a glass with ice and a...
Oct 18, 2019
The February 2017 Mission show was one of our editor's first live Odyssey events, and it was also an early milestone in the storytelling career of Steve Braun, one of Odyssey's most peerless volunteers. Steve told the assembled audience about all the reasons he considers himself mission-driven, not obsessed....
Oct 11, 2019
Here at the Odyssey Storytelling Podcast, we love all our stories equally. For the most part. At the risk of breaking that objectivity, though...this is a really, really good one, y'all. Possibly one of our favorites. In April 2016, Kadon Izaac Sellers opened up the Contradictions show with a story that's both heartfelt...
Oct 4, 2019
In times like these, it's important to remember stories about people who have fought and won against injustice (spoiler alert: they're usually women). In this story, originally told at the "Labor" show in January 2017, Lorena Parra Howard recalls her struggle to form a labor union to protect herself and her co-workers...