The Odyssey Storytelling Podcast

The story Israel Gonzalez told at Odyssey's "Home" show in 2015 might be, in his words, a buzzkill, but if you listen closely, some inspiration can be found. And if you stay until the end, some poetry...

23 Mar 201810min

Lisa Cardenas is bad at confrontation, worse at committing crimes, and positively terrible at confrontation stemming from a crime she's committed. During Odyssey's "Fraught" show in December 2016, she...

17 Mar 201814min

Way back in August 2015, Lisannette Adelaida Dawson-Ruiz told a story that truly encompassed the "Detours" theme -- a story about the detours offered by personal choices and the uncertainty of life, a...

9 Mar 201810min

Author and rainwater harvester Brad Lancaster has thought a lot about the natural processes of death and defecation, and in October 2016, he combined the two in a beautiful story about love, decay, an...

2 Mar 201818min

What we do for a living. Our hobbies. The clothes we like to wear and the foods we like to eat. The stories we tell the people around us, and the profiles we create online. What does it really mean to...

25 Feb 20181h 17min

The Odyssey Storytelling Podcast returns to the "Labor" show from January 2017, this time with a different -- and dual -- connotation: the work of having a baby. Montserrat Caballero tells the story o...

16 Feb 201810min

In November 2016, Troy Larkin took the theme "Dirty Laundry" to its logical -- and horrifying -- conclusion. Did he, in fact, wear a t-shirt printed with the image of his own testicles onto the Odysse...

9 Feb 201812min

Two years ago, Dr. Grace Gamez demonstrated enormous courage by taking the Odyssey stage to tell a very personal, very emotional story about rebuilding her life following her release from jail. From G...

2 Feb 201811min