What if the most powerful way to strengthen your family’s future is to look to the past? I’m Crista Cowan, known online as The Barefoot Genealogist. I created this podcast to inspire you to form deeper connections with your family - past, present, and future. All families are messy and life is constantly changing but we don’t have to allow that to disconnect us. I’ve spent my whole life discovering the power of family history and I know that sharing the stories that live in you can change everything. Tune in weekly to receive inspiration and guidance that will help you use family stories to craft a powerful family narrative, contributing to your family’s identity and creating a legacy of resilience, healing, and connection. __________________________ Want to climb your family tree and uncover your own family stories? Visit my website - CristaCowan.com - and sign up for my free newsletter.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhat if the most powerful way to strengthen your family’s future is to look to the past? I’m Crista Cowan, known online as The Barefoot Genealogist. I created this podcast to inspire you to form deeper connections with your family - past, present, and future.
Recent episodes include "A Person Dies Twice: How Family Stories Keep Us Alive | Episode 135" (29 October 2026, 22 minutes), "All the Beautiful Things: What Really Brings People Back to Faith (with Shelley Graham) | Episode 134" (22 October 2026, 50 minutes), and "The Countess of Cons: Uncovering Scandalous Ancestors (with Deborah Holman) | Episode 133" (15 October 2026, 37 minutes).
Stories That Live In Us publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 41 minutes across 136 episodes.
Booking probability for Stories That Live In Us is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Stories That Live In Us requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Stories That Live In Us's contact route on record: public web form.
Stories That Live In Us is a society podcast with 136 episodes published.
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Episode #135
What will your family remember about you when you're gone? And how do we keep the stories of the people we love alive for generations? When I pulled over on an empty desert road near Utah Lake and handed my 18-year-old...
Episode #134
How many times have you sat across the table from a child or sibling who sees faith completely differently than you do, and felt an aching gulf between you? In those moments, our first instinct is usually to defend what...
Episode #133
"When I noticed a yellowed piece of paper physically taped over a portrait in an old family book, I knew there was a secret waiting to be found." My guest today, author Deborah Holman, set out to uncover that hidden...
What if the person sitting next to you right now (at work, in church, or at a wedding) isn't a stranger at all? When I started doing descendancy research and checking my DNA matches, I realized we are constantly...
Episode #130
When a 150-year-old German brick wall kept my friend Jenny Ashcraft stuck for nearly two decades, she decided to stop pushing straight backward and try a completely different research strategy. By fanning out to...
Episode #129
Growing up, my guest Rhonda Budge spent hours sitting beside her grandmother, staring at a massive framed portrait of her great-great-grandfather, Johann Christian Hansen. Family lore claimed he heroically rescued...
Episode #128
How do you take dry facts on a family tree and turn them into something your kids can actually feel? In this episode, Eric Allen joins me to share how a trip from a pioneer monument in Spanish Fork, Utah, to the...
Episode #127
When Suzanne Hoffman sat down to help her daughter with a middle-school history project, she never expected to uncover a radical rebel in her own family tree. In this episode, Suzanne shares the remarkable story of her...
Episode #126
When Victoria Robinson’s father stepped in to defend an elderly coworker at an Arkansas sawmill in 1952, he had to run for his life. Shaken and hiding in the dark balcony of a segregated movie theater. A chance...
When I handed an adoptee a paper with his biological siblings’ names, he burst out laughing. Turns out his long-lost brother was his neighbor! After connecting with an AncestryDNA cousin match looking for his biological...
Episode #124
When my guest Bubba Page walked into the studio holding his grandfather’s 1960 vinyl record album, I knew we were in for a special conversation about legacy. But after facing a painful divorce that left him with his...
Episode #123
Long before mobster legends took over New York, Italian immigrants were riding in rodeos, surviving coal mine massacres, and brewing bootleg wine in the Colorado mountains. In this episode of Stories That Live In Us...
Episode #122
Growing up with a world-famous uncle whose book transformed American history, Chris Haley spent decades pursuing stage lights and applause before realizing his true calling was waiting inside dusty archives. In this...
Episode #121
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Episode #120
Shared ancestors make us related. Shared stories make us connected. Can I tell you a secret? My absolute favorite part of family history isn't just discovering people who lived hundreds of years ago—it's what those...
Episode #119
What happens when you spend a year chasing family stories across all fifty states? I'm Crista Cowan (known online as The Barefoot Genealogist ), and for this special Season Two retrospective, I’m pulling back the studio...
Episode #118
How close did America come to losing its foundational words forever? In this episode of Stories That Live In Us , host Crista Cowan (The Barefoot Genealogist) takes us to Delaware—the First State—as our countdown to...
Episode #117
What happens when a simple hint on your family tree uncovers a decades-old secret? In this episode of Stories That Live In Us , host Crista Cowan (The Barefoot Genealogist) sits down with nurse, history lover, and...
Episode #116
Imagine diving into your family tree to discover that your ancestors left you a secret message more than 300 years ago, encoded into the literal names of their children. I follow a trail of meticulous Quaker records...
A dapper playboy, a broken plantation safe, an embezzlement scheme, and a grandfather who completely vanished. What happened to William H. Wheeler? 🕵️♂️🔍 When an 83-year-old client named Jane came to Julie Merrill...
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