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Hosted by Laura Lyn Donahue · society · EN · 40 episodes
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters is a podcast centered on lived experience and meaningful conversation. Previously published as In the Margins , the show now lives under the Story Sessions™ name—reflecting a clearer focus on intentional storytelling, personal insight, and the human experience beneath the surface. Each episode invites listeners into thoughtful dialogue where stories are honored, explored, and held with care.
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Signup to Generate a PitchStory Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters is a podcast centered on lived experience and meaningful conversation. Previously published as In the Margins, the show now lives under the Story Sessions™ name, reflecting a clearer focus on intentional storytelling, personal insight, and the human experience beneath the surface.
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters is hosted by Laura Lyn Donahue. The show has published 40 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Encore Episode: She Chose to Go Back" (29 July 2026, 50 minutes), "Encore Episode: The Other Side of the Mirror" (22 July 2026, 18 minutes), and "What Happens If Your Story Is Never Told?, with JuLee Brand" (1 July 2026, 60 minutes).
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 40 episodes.
Booking probability for Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters's contact route on record: verified email.
Laura Lyn Donahue hosts Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters, a society show with 40 episodes published.
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Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
Encore Episode: She Chose to Go Back Part two of my conversation with Tiffany Baker Larnicol picks up where part one left off, and it is the harder half of the story. Tiffany talks about choosing to go back to a place...
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
This episode is a deeply personal reflection on one woman’s experience witnessing her daughter’s wedding dress journey, and how it illuminated her own transitions, mortality, and growth. It’s a raw, honest look at how...
Episode #15
JuLee Brand has spent three decades helping people find their voice--first through graphic design and television, then as the founder of W. Brand Publishing, and now through StorySessions Live. In this conversation...
Episode #14
In Part 2 of my conversation with lifelong friend Tiffany Baker Larnicol, we pick up where the world got complicated. After nearly a decade of calling Dubai home, a city she once said she would never live in, Tiffany...
Episode #13
Some friendships begin before we're old enough to remember, and those are often the ones that carry the most truth. This week, I'm joined by my lifelong friend Tiffany Baker Larnicol, known to those who've loved her...
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
What does it mean to watch someone you love begin something you've already lived? This week, host Laura Lyn steps away from the guest chair to share a personal story — a weekend in St. Augustine with her youngest...
Episode #11
He's back — and he came bearing good news. Phil Madeira, 35-year Nashville veteran, multi-instrumentalist in Emmylou Harris's band, songwriter, painter, and author, returns to StorySessions™ for a bonus update episode...
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
Melissa Lewis spent 25 years teaching middle school, raising her family, and pouring herself into other people's kids. Then, at 51, she did something most people in her season of life wouldn't dare — she went back to...
Episode #9
Musician, songwriter, producer, and now author — Brent Bourgeois has lived many lives inside one remarkable journey. In this conversation, Laura Lyn sits down with her longtime friend to talk about his memoir, The Real...
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
What happens when a 15-year music industry roadie trades the tour bus for a laptop and a blank page? Philip J. Kriz—sound tech for Paul Simon, Green Day, Queen + Adam Lambert, and Kiss—found himself at a career...
Episode #6
Just over a year ago, Laura Lyn published her memoir Who Do You Think You Are? through W Brand Publishing — and in this solo episode, she tells the story behind the story. What made a writer in Tennessee, with no...
Episode #5
What do a pandemic, a broken sewing machine, and a pile of chopped-up black t-shirts have in common? They're where Curtis and Fergus were born. Dee Nichols is a union camera operator who has spent his career behind the...
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
The Playlist of Your Life with Shaka Mitchell Every memory has its own soundtrack, and few people understand that more deeply than Shaka Mitchell. As the founder of the Come Together Music Project, a Nashville-based...
Episode #3
What does a handwritten recipe, a jar of barbecue sauce, and sleeping on a Coleman cot in an empty apartment have in common? They're all part of Charlynda Scales' story, and she's not hiding any of it. Charlynda is an...
Episode #3
What happens when you're living the dream — working from the beaches of Bali — and something still feels missing? Sarah Aviram, bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and former Fortune 500 HR leader, spent a year working...
Episode #2
Summer of Gone — Phil Madeira on Memoir, Music, and the Art of Suffering Well Phil Madeira came to Nashville from Rhode Island with a dream — to make his own music. What followed was nearly four decades of pouring that...
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
Discover the Power of Your Story In this episode, we introduce our new name, StorySessions™, and delve into the importance of storytelling. We explore why your story matters and how sharing it can transform...
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
Unmasking Trauma and Triumph: Rebecca Black’s Journey of Resilience and Voice In this deeply moving episode, Rebecca Black shares her powerful story of surviving childhood abuse, confronting the justice system’s...
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
Journeying Home with Emily Nydam: Unveiling Stories of Hope, Connection, and Self-Discovery Are you searching for stories that breathe life into your soul, ignite your hope, and remind you of the profound power of our...
Story Sessions™: Where Your Story Matters
The conversation with Karin Tramm explores her experiences of teaching and living overseas, raising a family in different countries, and the challenges of virtual learning during the pandemic. Karin's journey reflects...
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