Welcome to the final episode of Rearview!

As you know, each episode of Rearview brings you the voice of a new storyteller. This time, the voice isn’t just telling the story--the voice is the story.

Rearview is an anonymous storytelling project created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Theme music is by Charlie Romano, and visuals are by Sara Pinsonault, Karen Xu, and Fig. Head to our website, Facebook, and Instagram to see everything we’ve made over two seasons!

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the Rearview journey--all the way back from its beginning in January 2019 to now. We have grown and learned so much, and we love you.

More mini-stories are here! Hop into the Rearview spaceship and jet off with us to a galaxy far, far away where ~kissing~ is possible and anything can happen. It might be a rough landing back on Earth afterwards, but the trip will be worth it. Plus, we’ve got a little surprise for you--this episode features some voices who are usually behind the scenes of Rearview!

Rearview is an anonymous storytelling project created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Head to our Facebook to see what's new and check out our Instagram to enjoy some artwork! If you like what we're making, please share, like, comment, rate and review us, tell a friend, talk about us, write an opera about Rearview.

Theme music by Charlie Romano. Visuals by Sara Pinsonault, Karen Xu,  and Fig.

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What’s the difference between Kulture and culture? The former is Cardi B’s daughter’s name. The latter is a powerful, invisible force that shapes our thoughts and behavior as we try to find our place, our people--and it’s not always healthy. Would you be able to recognize your own participation in a dangerous culture, let alone talk about or change it? This storyteller did.

Rearview is an anonymous storytelling project created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Head to our Facebook to see what's new and check out our Instagram to enjoy some artwork! If you like what we're making, please share, like, comment, rate and review us, tell a friend, talk about us, put a Rearview doormat at your front door.

Theme music by Charlie Romano; this episode’s music is Watercool Quiet by Blue Dot Sessions. Visuals by Sara Pinsonault, Karen Xu,  and Fig.

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What’s lurking in the handwritten notes in your dusty old yearbooks? What words did your peers use to describe you, to evoke your friendships back then? Would you let them write the same things now? Meet a storyteller who has grown to recognize the “racial nonsense” that she can’t let slide anymore, and who has learned to turn hurtful words into conversation.

Rearview is an anonymous storytelling project created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Head to our Facebook to see what's new and check out our Instagram to enjoy some artwork! If you like what we're making, please share, like, comment, rate and review us, tell a friend, talk about us, sing “I Will Always Love You” but make it “I Will Always Love Rearview”.

Theme music by Charlie Romano; this episode’s music is Joy by Jon Watts. Visuals by Sara Pinsonault, Karen Xu,  and Fig.

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Do you pick up calls from phone numbers you don’t recognize? Well, maybe you shouldn’t. But you SHOULD listen to what happened--and how high the stakes were--when our storyteller did.

Rearview is an anonymous storytelling project created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Head to our Facebook to see what's new and our Instagram to enjoy some artwork! If you like what we're making, please share, like, comment, rate and review us, tell a friend, talk about us, name your new dog Rearview.

Theme music by Charlie Romano; this episode’s music was Undersea Garden by Podington Bear. Visuals by Sara Pinsonault, Karen Xu,  and Fig.

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Dive into the dating pool with Rearview’s first Mini-stories release, an episode that features multiple storytellers all sharing short narratives on a given theme! This week, it’s stories about unexpected encounters that led--or nearly led--to dates. So come along for the ride to learn three ways to get a date.

Rearview is an anonymous storytelling project created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Head to our Facebook to see what's new and our Instagram to enjoy some artwork! If you like what we're making, please share, like, comment, rate and review us, tell a friend, talk about us, make snow art that reads “REARVIEW ROCKS”.

Theme music by Charlie Romano. Visuals by Sara Pinsonault, Karen Xu, and Fig.

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Fromage, baguette, parlez-vous français? This episode’s storyteller does! But don’t worry, Anglophones, the story’s still in English. Come hear what happens as our storyteller goes searching for the right words at the right time--in the right language.

Rearview is an anonymous storytelling project created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Head to our Facebook to see what's new and our Instagram to enjoy some artwork! If you like what we're making, please share, like, comment, rate and review us, tell a friend, talk about us, blink REARVIEW in Morse code to every person you meet.

Theme music by Charlie Romano; this episode’s music was In Pursuit of Silence by Daniel Birch. Visuals by Sara Pinsonault, Karen Xu, and Fig.

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What’s the best way to get over your dating anxiety? A social experiment. On yourself. Every single Wednesday. Come hear about this storyteller's scientific method for learning about love. You may just fall for Rearview :'-)

Rearview is an anonymous storytelling project created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Head to our Facebook to see what's new and our Instagram to enjoy some artwork! If you like what we're making, please share, like, comment, rate and review us, tell a friend, talk about us, blink REARVIEW in Morse code to every person you meet.

Theme music by Charlie Romano; this episode’s music was Where the Sunshine goes by Yshwa. Visuals by Sara Pinsonault, Karen Xu, and Fig.

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Season 2 of Rearview is here!!!

To kick off another great season of true, intimate, anonymous stories, this storyteller explores the way that sexual identity redefined their family dynamics and tested interpersonal boundaries. At what point does information about a parent's sex life become too much information? There’s only one way to find out… (Hint: it’s listening to this story.)

Rearview is an anonymous storytelling project created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Head to our Facebook to see what's new and our Instagram to enjoy some artwork! If you like what we're making, please share, like, comment, rate and review us, tell a friend, talk about us, get a Rearview tattoo.

Theme music by Charlie Romano; this episode’s music was Laid Back Fuzz by Podington Bear. Visuals by Sara Pinsonault, Karen Xu, and Fig.

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Season 2 of Rearview is coming your way every other Monday starting December 7, 2020! End the year on a good note and give us a listen. 

Rearview is a storytelling podcast that brings you true, anonymous stories in the uninterrupted voices of those who lived them. These are stories larger than they appear, stories we look on to move forward.

Created, hosted, and produced by Claudia Schatz and co-produced by Eliza Wilkins. Visuals by Sara Pinsonault and Fig. Find us on Facebook and Instagram @Rearviewpodcast!