In this episode, I chat with innovative and inspiring London storyteller, Vanessa Woolf. She shares her beginnings, seeking out locations to tell stories, her work building opportunities for the storytelling community in London, and so much more. You’ll want to listen to this one, particularly if you live in a major city.

In this episode, I speak with First Nations elder Ken Jones about his work in Southern South Australia, where he engages communities and visitors to connect with the landscape. Ken offers an insight into First Nations stories in Australia and why it’s important to keep it alive.

In this episode, I speak with my teacher from Emerson College, Karmit Even-Zur about her work, not only in Storytelling Beyond Words, but her work with story, people and landscapes in Spain, Italy, and Morocco. Karmit offers a depth of experience working with energy, deep ecology, and story. This episode provides an insight into working in this space and is a beautiful way to explore story.

In this episode, I speak with U.K. (but now living in Spain) storyteller, Jennifer Ramsay. We discuss her work with English language learners, healing spaces, death, online courses, and ecological storytelling. This is another wide-ranging conversation that has some wonderful tips for those who may want to run workshops, both online and in person.

In this fascinating episode, I speak with U.S. storyteller Fran Stallings about her career as a biologist and storyteller. Fran offers some interesting insights in combining her interests as well as some of the projects she’s worked on including a fantastic collaboration with a teacher. She offers some great advice and weaves stories into the conversation seamlessly.

In this episode, I speak with U.S. storyteller Marilyn McPhie who has travelled internationally to tell stories. We share a love of ancestry and sharing family stories and dive into a rich conversation about this. We discuss working with people with dementia, running a storytelling organisation and being online and so much more.

In this episode, I speak with U.S. storyteller Rachael Harrington about her career in storytelling, primarily working with children. Rachael and I have a great discussion about imagination, creating storytelling opportunities and the impact of the oral tradition on literacy.

In this episode that explores autobiographical storytelling, I speak with U.S. storyteller Kelli Dunham about their interesting life as a nun, nurse, stand-up comedian, and advocate for the LGBTQI community. Kelli shares her experience on The Moth stage and podcast working with humour and so much more.

In this episode, I speak to my Storytelling Beyond Words classmate, Talia Levy about her storytelling journey during the course and what she's been exploring since she returned home to Australia. Talia has been weaving up some wonderful offerings for her local community, this is a great interview with an early-career storyteller.

In this episode, we talk to U.S. storyteller and facilitator of personal stories, Jamie Brunson. Jamie’s work helping people to tell their own stories is inspiring and is the first episode where we focus just on the personal narrative.

In this episode, U.S. storyteller and death doula Jim Brulé shares his work sitting at the bedsides of the dying and grieving. He also shares the line between storytelling and artificial intelligence and working in interfaith/intercultural spaces. This is a wide-ranging interview that covers so much.

In June 2025, I went to the Sydney International Storytelling Conference and had an incredible time. While I was there, I chatted with a bunch of great people and this mini-episode is the result of that.

In this episode, I speak with Christine Carlton, president of Australian Storytellers (NSW). It is timely because the biennial Australian Storytelling Conference is in the first week of June 2025. Christine is both a mentor with FEAST and an experienced storyteller who engages with traditional, personal, and impromptu stories.

In this episode, I speak with U.S. storyteller Laura Packer, whose wisdom and experience was inspiring. We discuss a range of things from her early childhood start in storytelling to being mentored, performance, holding integrity, working with your strengths, and boundaries around cultural appropriation. There’s so much in this interview for storytellers at all stages.

In this episode, I speak with Daniel Abercrombie from the Scottish Storytelling Centre, while not a storyteller (yet!), he is one of the behind-the-scenes people who nurture and support storytelling in Scotland. The interview provides invaluable information for people who want to facilitate and curate storytelling events.

In this episode, I speak with English storyteller and Emerson College graduate Marcus Pibworth about his work in his home on the English-Welsh border with men’s and father’s groups. Marcus’ specialisation in this area provides a great insight into how we can niche our offerings in the storytelling spaces.

In this episode, I speak with U.S. storyteller Lucia Luckett-Kelly about her work in storytelling, including the transition into online spaces and creating environments that work for both the teller and the audiences.

In this episode, I speak with Scottish storyteller Donald Smith about his role with TRAC and the Scottish International Storytelling Festival. It’s an interesting discussion which includes a meaningful story at the end.

In this episode I speak with Welsh storyteller Michael Harvey about his work in social storytelling, bridging the divide between English and Welsh and so much more. Michael also generously offers some tips for storytellers regarding gaze, which I found incredibly helpful.

In this episode, I speak with the wonderful and wise Laura Simms about her extensive experience. There is so much in this episode it’s difficult to summarise what we discussed. Needless to say this is an episode you don’t want to miss.