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Changing Our Stories podcast

Changing Our Stories is a podcast about transformation. Forged in the Mountain West, it's a virtual campfire under the stars. Here we gather to reflect on where we came from... and imagine where we’re headed next. Each episode is an intimate, true story about what it takes to meaningful change. Hosted and produced by Andrea Smardon, an award-winning reporter and contributor to National Public Radio.
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Apr 10, 2018

This is a bonus episode in our series LGBTQ Off The Grid, where we break from our usual format to listen to the wisdom of the crowd. We put the call out to people from all over Utah to send us voice memos. This is what they have to say to the young LGBTQ person who feels alone.

Mar 14, 2018

In the last episode of our series LGBTQ Off The Grid, a family turns a Mormon tradition on its head to find fellowship.

Mar 7, 2018

In the latest installment of our series LGBTQ Off The Grid, a lone transgender person in Brigham City finds community in a coven of witches.

Feb 28, 2018

Our series LGBTQ Off The Grid explores the far corners of Utah where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people, and those questioning their sexuality are often isolated and unseen. In this story, a gay Navajo man decides to leave the reservation to escape the loneliness.

Feb 21, 2018

This season, LGBTQ Off The Grid, explores the far corners of Utah where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people, and those questioning their sexuality are often isolated and unseen. In this story, a formerly homeless man tries to help young people in Southern Utah.

Feb 14, 2018

Coming soon on Changing Our Stories podcast, LGBTQ Off the Grid, a series exploring the far corners of the Mountain West where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people and those questioning their sexuality are often unseen.

Jun 8, 2017

A woman loses her political party and her religion, but finds her voice.

May 31, 2017

It started with a phone blitz to Senator Orrin Hatch’s office, and now a 24-year-old woman is heading up a new organization for political accountability in Utah.

May 24, 2017

An author of erotic poetry loses her desire to pen verses after the election of Donald Trump.

May 17, 2017

One of the founders of Mormon Women for Ethical Government tells the story of how her commitment to God has been put to the test since the inauguration of President Trump.

May 9, 2017

After the November election, a group of stay-at-home moms in Salt Lake City wanted to go to the protest marches, but found it too difficult with young kids. Then they found their own way to be politically active.

May 2, 2017

"The errand of angels is given to women." So says a song about the Mormon Relief Society. But what would an angel do after the election of President Donald Trump? One Utah woman finds her answer.

 

Apr 26, 2017

They describe it as an awakening. They say it’s deeply personal, and that life will never be the same. The next season will be devoted entirely to changes in the lives of Utah women since the election.

Feb 23, 2017

Every other Friday in the Mormon town of Provo is drag night. Men who were once missionaries transform themselves into the Divine Sister Misters.

Feb 16, 2017

After decades of separation, a woman has an unexpected reconciliation with her abusive ex-husband.

Feb 9, 2017

When an undocumented immigrant creates a work of art, she comes to realize that she is drawing her own border crossing.

Feb 1, 2017

A gay man leaves his hometown because he doesn’t feel welcome. After more than two decades away, he returns to find a new center for LGBT people under construction.

Jan 25, 2017

One women has worked her whole life to be a physics professor, but now she's thinking of giving that up to run for office.

Jan 18, 2017

While some Americans seem to have resigned themselves to living in different worlds from their compatriots, one woman feels compelled to get out of her bubble.

Jan 11, 2017

Since the election, we've heard a lot about what divides us, but what happens when we come together? This episode starts with some sweet dates that traveled across the world in a suitcase and ends with two men confronting the religious divide in Utah.

Jan 5, 2017

Changing Our Stories is a podcast about transformation. Forged in the Mountain West, it's a virtual campfire under the stars. Here we gather to reflect on where we came from… and imagine where we’re headed next. Each episode is an intimate, true story about what it takes to make meaningful change.

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