An award-winning narrative nonfiction podcast reimagining life through creativity and community. With a musician's ear, a writer's pen, and a voice that invites you in, Narrative Podcasts founder Laura Joyce Davis examines life's timely events and timeless questions. Join us as we escape not out of life, but into it.
In a house divided, can we still stand?
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Are we too late to create a better future for our planet?
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How do we create community in the face of fear?
Laura talks with a former CIA bodyguard and Navy Seals officer Jimmy Graham and his "sage," Able Shepherd COO Neal Pinkham, about creating community we…
When you're driving across the country and your AirBNB guests are partying and shooting adult films in your yard, is there anyone who can help?
We thought it couldn't get worse. We were wrong.
Comple…
Can our friendships withstand the increasing demands of the pandemic?
When a heatwave, wildfires, and a positive COVID test come all at once, Laura and her family finally consider leaving their home …
What do we do when enough isn't enough?
As Laura and her family grapple with the continual unraveling of their pre-pandemic stability, scarcity experts Caroline Roux and Kelly Goldsmith tell us why s…
What do we do when our character is tested... and we fail the test?
One day into our Pandemic Odyssey, Laura encounters a Cyclops in Vegas, an angry stranger whose gaze is fixed only on Laura's mista…
When life in the pandemic becomes unsustainable, do we stay put or set sail?
In this first episode of season 2, Laura sets the stage for the Pandemic Odyssey that has taken her and her family from on…
What does it mean to be a human - right now?
At Shelter in Place, we believe that transforming communities begin by transforming ourselves. Join us for season 2 beginning in September 2020 as we find…
Shelter in Place is taking a break from making new episodes right now so that we can make this work sustainable and bring you season 2.
Today’s bonus episode is a combination of two past episodes tha…
While Shelter in Place is on break between seasons, we're rereleasing some of our favorite episodes. Today's bonus episode is a combination of two episodes (55 & 97) that take a closer look at our di…
While Shelter in Place is on break between seasons, we're rereleasing some of our favorite episodes. Today's bonus episode is a combination of two episodes (48 & 76), when we interviewed Dr. Joyce Sa…
This is a little audio addendum to episode 96: FIERCE. This podcast has been, from the beginning, a journey of learning how to reach out to others instead of hunkering down, how to change and grow ev…
Job knowledge. Project scope. Implementation and execution. What happens when HR comes to review Shelter in Place? Listen to the end for special new outtakes! Complete show notes at www.shelterinpla…
Long before this pandemic, entrepreneur John Hall was rethinking what it meant to be successful in one's career. In this COVID-19 economy, American cultural historian Lawrence R. Samuel, Ph.D is cont…
Bay Area poet Vernon Keeve III lost his father during this pandemic. That loss--and that relationship--was a complicated one. His father was a Southern Baptist preacher and lawyer who for most of his…
As schools across the nation announce plans for distance learning or part-time attendance in the fall, working parents seem to not be factored into the equation. Smitten Kitchen's food writer Deb Per…
This week I’ve been sharing my conversations with the writers of FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women*. On today’s Story Saturday, you’ll finally get to hear from all thirteen of them.
FIERC…