Real Human Moments Project

What happens in the half-second before a scent pulls you completely out of the room you're standing in?

Allison Stillman carries a story built from frankincense, a visionat the foot of the cross, and a fear so old it went back twenty-seven lifetimes. She spent ten years re-editing a book she was afraid to release, and one session finally told her why.

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Twenty-five years later, on the anniversary itself, here's Jimmy Raftery's own voice.

He was a fire dispatcher on September 11th, taking nearly 700 calls in under two hours, some from people trapped in the towers as they burned. This is what he remembers, and what he carried after.

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Have you ever thought the apology was supposed to fix everything, and instead it was the moment you knew nothing ever would?

For seventeen years, Christine carried a version of her life that no one around her could see, until the day a small kindness from the person hurting her became the proof that nothing was going to change. This episode follows what it took her to leave, and what she built out of what she survived.

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She was diagnosed with a learning disability before kindergarten. A psychiatrist told her she would have limited jobs. A teacher told her she would never handle college.

Michelle Lee Steiner joins Real Human Moments to talk about growing up labeled the outcast, the bullying that escalated to threats, and the friendships she built outside her own school because none had formed inside it. She talks about the singleteacher who told her the one thing nobody else did, that she could.

She graduated. She got married. She became a teacher's aide and a published author, and she is still figuring out, one day at a time, how to make her world accessible to her rather than the other way around.

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What happens to a body that has spent decades scanning every room for safety?

That question sits at the center of Kelley DeLovecchia's story. Conditional love in childhood. A father who left before their wedding dance. Two cancer diagnoses, and a third scare, that finally forced her to ask why her system had been holding so much for so long. Her real human moment is about the cost of carrying that weight alone, and what it means to finally put it down.

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Have you ever answered devastating news with a plan instead of panic? Lisa did, twice.

A divorce after 27 years of marriage. A cancer diagnosis nobody saw coming. And a mindset she had to rebuild from scratch to get through both. 

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Have you ever kept moving because stopping wasn't an option?

Jimmy Raftery spent 25 years as a fire dispatcher in New York City, taking the worst calls of people's lives and staying level through all of it, including 9/11 and a mass casualty fire on his final shift. This episode sits with what that costs, and what it takes to carry it for 25 years.

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Have you ever shaken something off as an adult that would have broken you completely as a kid?

Sam spent years learning to survive being different, then spent years learning what it costs to carry that. This is a conversation about the words that stick, the ones we tell ourselves we're over, and what it actually takes to heal from something that happened when we were small.

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Find Sam's podcast, Autism Rocks and Rolls.

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Have you ever felt a flash of relief in the middle of the worst news of your life?

Brenda's daughter Destiny was killed in 2021, and her case remains unsolved. In this episode, Brenda walks through the night she lost her, the nine days her family waited to confirm it was really her, and how she turned that grief into a scholarship fund carrying Destiny's name forward.

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She thought she was a mistake. It took her decades to learn otherwise.

Petra Williams joins Real Human Moments to talk about growing up with a rare condition, the bullying that followed her through school, and the moment a stranger's comment finally forced her hand. This one is about shame, and about the exact moment she stopped handing other people the power over how she felt.

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