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Hosted by Heidi Robinson Swimmer · society · EN-US · 14 episodes
Loners & Rebels is a storytelling podcast about family, inheritance and the things we don’t talk about. Host Heidi Robinson Swimmer digs through genealogy, generational trauma and the chaos of what we pass down with dark humor, honesty,and lived experience. Main title music by Jeff Hime.
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Signup to Generate a PitchLoners & Rebels is a storytelling podcast about family, inheritance and the things we don’t talk about. Host Heidi Robinson Swimmer digs through genealogy, generational trauma and the chaos of what we pass down with dark humor, honesty,and lived experience. Main title music by Jeff Hime.
Loners & Rebels is hosted by Heidi Robinson Swimmer. The show has published 14 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "And Somehow, We’re Still Here" (24 May 2026, 17 minutes), "A Caged Lioness" (24 May 2026, 18 minutes), and "Like a Clock, I Guess" (24 May 2026, 19 minutes).
Loners & Rebels publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 18 minutes across 14 episodes.
Booking probability for Loners & Rebels is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Loners & Rebels requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Loners & Rebels's contact route on record: verified email.
Heidi Robinson Swimmer hosts Loners & Rebels, a society show with 14 episodes published.
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Episode #7
<p>After a season full of ship captains, pirates, rebels, grief, memory and women who refused to behave, we have somehow made it to the end. In this finale, I look back at the stories that shaped the season, what they...
Episode #6
<p>Some women are remembered as brave only after enough time has passed to make them less inconvenient. In this episode, I follow my connection to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the way her story still echoes in...
Episode #5
<p>Clara Elizabeth Bryant’s story is soft on the surface, but heavy underneath. In this episode, I follow her through marriage, motherhood, devastating loss and the resilience of a woman who kept moving through life...
Episode #4
<p>A desperate ship, a notorious pirate and one very bad moment with a jammed gun. In this episode, I follow the tangled story of Captain Mark Haskell, John Fillmore Jr. and John Phillips through survival, mutiny and...
Episode #3
<p>Some family stories do not come from documents. They come from the people who carry them. In this episode, I follow the story Billye Mae shared with me and the way one person’s memory can open a door that records...
Episode #2
<p>What is left behind when a life ends with no property, no possessions and almost no paper trail? In this episode, I follow the story of John Henry Robinson, a ship captain whose life stretched across oceans, records...
Episode #1
<p>Before we dive into the family ghosts, ship captains, rebels and deeply questionable historical decisions, we need a quick catch up. This episode sets the tone for the season, where the research has been leading, and...
Episode #7
<p>In this episode, the research stops being just records and timelines and starts hitting home. I talk through how the process becomes emotional excavation — how a name on a census turns into a person, how facts turn...
Episode #6
<p>This episode is about a woman who refused to stay in the box her era built for her. Sophonisba pushed past every barrier put in her way and left a record that shouldn’t have survived. It’s a look at grit, defiance...
Episode #5
<p>In this episode, I confront the part of my lineage shaped by the Nazi era — the ancestors tied to atrocity and the silence that followed. It’s an honest look at what it means to face that history without excuses, to...
Episode #4
<p>This episode traces the first exile in my family line — William Munroe — and how displacement, reinvention and silence became woven into the generations that followed. It’s the story of a man forced into a new life...
Episode #3
<p>This episode is about a woman history tried to erase. She was labeled “intemperate,” punished for being unprotected and written off as a problem instead of a person. I walk through what her life actually looked like...
Episode #2
<p>This episode digs into my paternal grandfather’s military discharge and the fallout that shaped my father in ways he never talked about. It’s a look at how trauma gets passed down quietly, how grief becomes a pattern...
Episode #1
<p>I open the series by digging into where all this started: growing up in a family shaped by unspoken things. This episode traces the roots of my curiosity, the silence that stretched across generations, and why I...
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