Syd's Stories

In 2019, a group of strangers came together to help house a man named Don Lowe. For five years, they worked to ensure that Don had a roof over his head and no challenges--stray cats, inner-group conflict, and Don himself--kept them from helping him. Dawn Circle is a story about the peculiarities of trying to do something good, and the power of it. 

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Thank you to Ginny, Dennis, Maureen, Dysa, June, and Valerie for sharing your stories. To see a picture of Don and read an obituary written by a staff writer at Real Change, visit this link: https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/10/10/remembering-don-lowe-story-radiating-compassion

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Music is by Noah Kammer https://noahkammer.com/

Produced by Syd Walter https://www.storiesbysyd.com/

From the host of Teen-y, Syd Walter brings a brand new show titled: Find X.
Find X is a podcast about areas of fracture in the United States and the show follows Syd's journeys trying to uncover and work through reckoning with the future, fracture, and her place in it all.

This is a preview of the series which is live on all platforms.
Search "Find X" to listen to the whole series on any podcast platform, or visit the Find X website: www.findxproject.com

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Music from Tasty Morsels
Funding from Davis Projects for Peace
Storytelling by Syd Walter
Cover art by Saskia Gori-Montanelli
Full website to see the zine and images of everyone who was interviewed:
www.findxproject.com 

What is most terrifying about college is the fear that I may be the only one who is afraid. 

Today on this episode of Unsure is a show in three acts,  all about the fear we live with and have left behind.

For more information about the podcast visit: www.teenypod.com 

Editing, hosting, and producing by Syd Walter
Interviewees: Garner, Naomi, and Vivian 

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Music:
Tasty Morsels
Infinte Bisous
Keyboard 

In a world that has put so much pressure on one experience what does someone come into college believing about this experience they have never had.

On this episode of Unsure, expectations are grappled with, moms are called, and most of all rain prevails.

Music from this episode:
w/love
dick arkive: issue 5
small island keyboard
staying in

College is new territory, and so much is unknown.

College is one of those things that everyone has talked about for years, and then it comes and everything hits you at once. The idea of needing to know everything, having to do everything, and be the person you want to become without even knowing who you are in the present.

With this in mind, what comes now from Teen-y Pod is Unsure, a series about the unknowns and "I don’t knows” all within the context of College. Hosted by Syd Walter, a current college student and producer of Teen-y , Unsure will be a collage of storytelling, interviews, and pieces of connection for listeners. 

On January 14th 2022, a walkout was held to call attention to how students felt about in person schooling  in the Seattle Public School district..  With a recorder in hand, Syd Walter tells the story of what it means to emerge from haze feeling seen, heard, and respected.

Music for this episode is from:
J. Cole
Beach House
Stars of the Lid
and Harold Budd

For more information on Teen-y visit:
www.teenypod.com
or our Instagram
@teeny_pod

Producing, editing, writing, and hosting is done by Syd Walter

How often do you look up?
How often do you remember the true slowness and intentions of the life around you?
In this episode Syd is joined with Gavin Pretor-Pinney  to talk about clouds and the importance of pausing.

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Teen-y is produced, edited, and hosted by Syd Walter (@sydwalter / www.teenypod.com ). For this episodes guest  we feature a conversation with Gavin Pretor-Pinney (@cloudappsoc) and if you would like to learn more about Gavin's work please check out cloudappreciationsociety.org. Music in this episode is by Tasty Morsels bandcamp.com 

"While some of us just had space to exist."
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To see show notes for this episode and read Raven Two Feathers zine in its beautiful entirety, visit: www.teenypod.com 

On instagram you can find Raven Two Feathers @raven_two_feathers and you can find the zine @qualificationsofbeing 

What does it mean to be enough? 

Society often assigns  us worth and our feeling of enoughness, but when do we determine that for ourselves? 

In this episode we have two acts:

Act one: New School New Enough

Act two: She is Enough

Both  follow the journey of finding what it means to be enough and examines the world around us as a way of looking in.

For episode extras visit www.teenypod.com 

What happens when you spend all summer being someone else? What do you find out about yourself, who you were, and the world around you?

In this episode of Teen-y we explore Syd's summer camp adventure. Through 11 weeks of self taped interviews, we see the growth of a whole new identity, Suds. 

For more Teen-y check us out on instagram @teeny_pod