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(Single) Mothered [A Mother's Day Special]: Choosing To Parent Solo
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 3
035: (Single) Mothered: Choosing to Parent Solo, 5/10/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
Retrieved [A Women's History Month Special]: Egg Donors Share Their Stories
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...

Bought by KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL, KGOU and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 12
Coronasomnia to Kasamas
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place Season 3
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How do you sleep when so much of life is unsettled? In this episode that comes to us from the award-winning podcast Shelter in Place, we talk abo...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 26:15
Drunken Noodles
From: Walker Raigh
Series: Scratch & Sniff
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Walker meets up with a close friend at a favorite Thai restaurant to get her advice on the latest situation in her relationship with Trent.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
Black Voices in Healthcare - Ep.4: Hair
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Black Voices in Healthcare
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The story of our Black hair speaks volumes about our lives. So much love and care is wrapped up in our curls. Alongside so much vulnerability and p...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 33:10
Mullethawk
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
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What a decade-long fight taught Laura about relationships, laughter, and the grace we need to keep giving each other.

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 15:32
Yolanda
From: Media Humboldt
Series: Immigrant Voices
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Yolanda is a DACA student at HSU; she worries about being able to finish her schooling. She also went to Washington DC to lobby with Scholars Witho...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
California Innocence Project: A Woman Returns After 7 Years - episode 2
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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An innocent woman discusses re-entering her world outside of prison. She addresses the painful time spent away from her children and new possibilit...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 04:56
In The Left Pocket, By My Heart
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:02
  • Purchases: 1
My Body, My Choice
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Katia Hauser explores the intricacies of teenagers having the legal right to make their own medical decisions.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
#4 Nothing to Lose
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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Why do we become our worst enemies when it comes to pursuing the things we actually want? I’ve been there. This is the origin story of making Mille...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
#3 Brunchies
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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Following your dreams is not always glamorous, especially when you could get stuck in "transition."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 19:28
  • Purchases: 1
#1 Welcome to Millennial
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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The day you graduate college is suppose full of smiles, family pictures, and a sense of accomplishment. But what happens after that day when you pa...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, American Voices, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 3
#2 Living on "The Line"
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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Decisions. How do you know which ones will lead you to become the person you want to be in the future? And which ones may screw everything up?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:13
  • Purchases: 1
Mimi & Linda
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
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A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam. This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
Enough To Love
From: Caroline Warner
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A narrative weaving together the voices and stories of women who, by choice or chance, do not have children and what they are doing with their love...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 15:41
I Stayed Even Though He Beat Me - Nailah Stevenson's Story
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:04
Voice Recognition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Microphone, Credit: Grant https://www.flickr.com/photos/visual_dichotomy/
What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...

Bought by WNJR and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Full-time Mom to Full-time Work
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How do we balance raising our kids, retaining our careers, and at the same time find time for ourselves and our families?

  • Added: Oct 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:04
Red Leather Ladies' Room Couch
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Audio Storytelling
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Actor Ned Averill-Snell reflects on sweaty teenage rehearsals for musical theatre, and forbidden glimpses of a more glamorous world.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
Culturology: "Gown" an essay from Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KHSU


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: "Trip In Dad's Truck" an essay by Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman. In this essay A...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
A Healthier Sense of Self
From: The Tibet Connection
Series: Open Mind
Caption: Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Buddhist nun, meditator and author, Credit: Photo © Peter Aronson
This month on Open Mind, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, a Buddhist nun and author, joins us once again to talk about our sense of self?—?what’s healthy, wh...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
Lost Boyfriend (A Postcard from Mexico)
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell tells about how her boyfriend left her Saltillo, the town where she's living in Mexico. She looks for him, but can't find him, even...

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 3