The Storied Human (What is your Story?)
Humans have been telling each other stories since before writing. Around fires, looking up at the stars, human beings found comfort and connection through imagination and stories.
I'm Lynne Thompson -- Tech Writer, Creative Writer and now podcaster! I have always loved hearing people's stories, especially when they have overcome something, and then share it with the rest of us! So far the podcast has included stories on Overcoming Addiction, the Entrepreneur journey, Dealing with Mental Illness, Understanding Grief (and a few fairy tales thrown in there!).
There are plenty of spiritual moments humorous moments, and more. I have learned so much from my guests! Join me as I talk to real people with extraordinary stories! What is your story? I would love to hear it! Reach out to me at thestoriedhuman@gmail.com, or join our Facebook group!
Episodes
108 episodes
Season 2026 Episode 3. Lawrence Harris: Motivational Speaker tells us: Heal Yourself, Help Others
Lawrence C. Harris is a youth speaker who helps teens and young adults believe in themselves, think differently about their future, and make better choices.Growing up, Lawrence faced serious challenges. Those experiences led him to start...
Season 2026. Episode 2 Melissa Pruitt on Consistency and Having Fun Growing your Business
Melissa Pruitt is a Marketing & Sales Coach, Author, and Speaker who’s dedicated to helping online entrepreneurs take their knowledge and skills to market and sell their courses, memberships, and coaching programs. Her background in psychol...
Season 2026 -- Episode 1. Karen Salmansohn wants us to face our death and learn to live more fully
What an uplifting conversation with Karen Salmansohn! Her unique perspective on death and how facing it can motivate us to truly live is refreshing and much needed!KAREN SALMANSOHN, bestselling author and behavioral change expert,...
Season 2025: Episode 15 -- Joan K. Peters teaches us how psychoanalyses can help us find more peace
Joan had a rough beginning when her father died young (Joan was only 2) leaving her mother destitute with two young children. She examined this early life in her late 20s during psychoanalysis and uncovered all kinds of connections and meaning ...
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Season 2025 Episode 14: Ken Miller Beat his Own Demons and Now Mentors Men in the Black Community to Find their Way
Ken Miller is one of the good guys -- after he straightened out his own life, he knew he had to pass it on. He now mentors Black men and gives presentations all over the country. His journey included going to an Ivy League college, then to jail...
Season 2025 Episode 13. Diane Christiansen tells what it was really like to be a Showgirl in the 1970s
If you have seen recent movies or shows about being a showgirl, it could seem pretty depressing. Diane Christiansen is here to tell you that it was exciting and uplifting and a way for a young woman in the 1970s who could dance and perfor...
Season 2025-- Episode 12: Broken and Brave: (with Tiffany L. Smith) One R.N.'s search for meaning in our current healthcare environment
Tiffany L. Smith, RN has spent nearly 15 years on the frontlines of American healthcare, working in ERs, ICUs, hospice, wound care, and more. A nurse, wife, and mother, she has witnessed both the triumphs and the failures of a system pushed bey...
Season 2025: Episode 11. Jonathan Kemp shares his lifelong mental health journey
For years he struggled with his undiagnosed BiPolar disease. He had several careers and tried several healing modalities. Oddly, he found focusing on his work and working hard did help and when he went back to school as a...
Season 2025 Episode 10. Michael McAdams shares the fascinating story of spirit communication that runs in his family
Michael McAdams was born in the City of the Seven Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. Michael was brought up in a Christian household and was fortunate to have many spiritual and faith-based family members surround him. His uncle, John W. Sullivan, was a ...
Season 2025: Episode 10: How Psychologist Michelle Sherman helps vets and others heal from mental illness
Michelle and DeAnne's collaboration as psychologist and teacher, daughter and mother, brings true synergy to their writing. They draw from their personal and professional life experiences which are the inspiration and foundation for their work....
Season 2025: Episode 9: Elvira Perez Romero: One question launched her search for a new life
Life and Career Coach Elvira P. Romero helps others find a career and /or life that fits them better. She should know -- an interesting question from her boyfriend started her own journey for a new life. She pivoted through a few careers before...
Season 2025. Episode 8. Getting through life's toughest challenges-- Andy Campbell
Author and Speaker Andy Campbell has been through a lot in his life. Any one of the things he has endured would be almost too much, but somehow he has fought through and even written a book (“Overcoming Life’s Toughest Setbacks”) designed...
Season 2025: Episode 7. Roy Emerson: Rowing Across the Pacific to Help Bring Awareness to Veterans' Mental Health
Major (Ret.) Roy E. Emerson, originally from Vacaville, California, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1988 as an Infantryman, beginning his career with the 75th Ranger Regiment. He participated in Operation Just Cause, conducting a combat parachute ...
Season 2025: Episode 6. Sandra Schnakenburg shares how she kept a promise to her housekeeper and became a writer in the proccess
Award Winning Memoir Author Sandra SchnakenburgI grew up in Barrington, Illinois. After earning a B.S. in Finance at Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Southern California, she settled with her husband, Karl, ...
Season 2025: Episode 5. It took Richard Hsung's ten years, but he finished his mother's memoir telling about her tumultuous life in Communist China
Jean Tren-Hwa Perkins was born unwanted during the 1931 Yangtze River Flood, adopted by medical missionaries, brought to the US for a few years, then trapped in Communist China. She was neither American nor Chinese "enough," yearning for accept...
Season 2025: Episode 4. How Kristine Homann healed her life and her family, and how she helps others now too
Kristine Homann has been through a lot. Stuck in a toxic marriage, she tried hard to find a way out. Eventually, she was able to free herself and her girls from the situation. But the scars it left were hard to heal. She found ways to help hers...
Season 2025 Episode 3. Diagnosed with a pituitary disease, Risa decided to take an epic bike ride: what she learned along the way
Risa August is not your average human. When faced with a devastating pituitary disease diagnosis, she pushed through to find herself again. One of the things she did was participate in a bike ride from Canada to Mexico!She publishe...
Season 2025 Episode 1: Let Sean McMann teach you how to bust out of the corporate jungle!
Recruited right out of college to work at one of the largest data firms, Sean McMann embarked on an eight-year journey from new grad to consulting director. Privileged to see behind the curtain of some of the largest corporations today, he reco...
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Season 2025: Episode 2. Nonprofit worker Matt Kazdan explains how access to sustainable energy can help underprivileged populations
With a Master's degree in international affairs with a focus on international politics, Matt Kazdan could have headed to a think tank or Washington DC. But he chose instead to use his skills in policy-making and his understanding of internation...
Season 2025 Episode 1: Let Sean McMann teach you how to bust out of the corporate jungle!
Recruited right out of college to work at one of the largest data firms, Sean McMann embarked on an eight-year journey from new grad to consulting director. Privileged to see behind the curtain of some of the largest corporations today, he reco...
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Season 5. Episode 8. Larry Jordan: From successful investment banker to spiritual seeker and teacher
Larry Jordan spent 25 years in investment banking, assisting companies, governments, and non-profit agencies in issuing over $10 billion of municipal bonds for capital projects and cash flows.In 2011, he quit his job and sold his house ...
Season 5. Episode 7. Ten Words to Explore and Live By with Lauryn Axelrod, Monk and InterSpiritual Teacher
When Lauren first starts talking about her Ten Words, they sound simple enough: Attention, Acceptance, Benevolence, Creativity, e.g. -- but as you ponder them, they start to lead you down a path of self-enlightenment, They work together, and th...
Season 5. Episode 7. Heart Transplant Recipient Jay Waddell's journey through health struggles and coming out on the other side
Jay Waddell is a retired executive, college professor, and life coach. who has fought several health battles in his life, the last one was heart failure and he had to get a heart transplant! He explains his approach and how he wasn't so willing...
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Season 5. Episode 6. Anika Pavel: From Iron Curtain Childhood to International Stardom and Author
ANIKA PAVEL was born Jarmila Kocvarova in Czechoslovakia. What was intended as a one-year stay in England turned her into a refugee when the Soviet Union invaded her homeland, writing a bloody end to the Prague Spring. She receive...
Season 5: Episode 5 -- Jan Allen Ackley: From Appalachia to successful finance exec-- Lessons Learned
Jan Allen Ackley, author of "Searching for Change," shares his journey from growing up in impoverished rural Ohio to becoming a successful corporate finance executive. He highlights the impact of mentors who guided him and the transformative ex...
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