The Gardenia Project -Women's Storytelling

By Jen Dean

Society & Culture

What's The Gardenia Project -Women's Storytelling about?

A storytelling podcast from women that focuses on their incredible strength.

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Ep 26 Love and Loss in the ...

07.23.2020

In this podcast we listen to two very different stories of how Covid-19 played out in their lives and with their loved ones. These stories are intense, but just like I always say on the podcast, they are so important. ...

The Gardenia Project -Women's Storytelling episodes:

07.23.2020 Ep 26 Love and Loss in the Time of Covid In this podcast we listen to two very different stories of how Covid-19 played out in their lives and with their loved ones. These stories are intense, but just like I always say on the podcast, they are so important. ...
05.29.2020 Ep 25 Voices of Quarantine In this podcast we hear the voices of 17 people (plus my own) telling their stories of the pandemic world they live in. What are they doing? What are they thinking or feeling? What are they binge watching, eating, working ...
04.29.2020 Ep 24 Megan Jo, The Tributaries That Create Us So full disclosure here. I have participated in Rockstar Camp. I did the eight week program in learning how to use your voice and then got on stage in Portland Maine in May of 2019 to sing Firework by Katy ...
02.06.2020 Ep 23 Mary, What Intuition Tells You Often when I talk to women about their stories it is only now in the looking back that we are able to see the lessons that we learned. This story is one of those. A time of deep learning, that ...
11.13.2019 Ep 22 Many Women Many Stories - How Hair Shapes our Identity In this podcast we listen to multiple voices from women (including my own) telling their stories of vulnerability or power about their hair, how a hair cut changed their life, what other people thought about it, changes that came over ...
09.25.2019 Ep 21 Chanel, Radical Listening for the Common Good Chanel tells the story of what she decides to do with her own anger, fear, and frustration at the state of the world in the last few years. How she decides that maybe what we all need to do for ...
06.27.2019 Ep 20 Jessica, I AM Enough Jessica is an amazingly loving happy person who also has Trichotillomania, which is a hair pulling disorder. She has battled it since she was 10 years old. Her anxiety and a belief that she would never be 'enough' was pervasive ...
05.22.2019 Ep 19 Elizabeth, Rewriting Your Story (Returning for a mini Episode!) In Feb of 2017 Elizabeth told her story on this podcast. She was episode number 2. If you haven't had the chance to listen to it then just pause this and go check it out, it is so powerful! Also ...
05.01.2019 Ep 18 Leigh, Happiness is a "Holy Donut" In this episode Leigh, creator and owner of The Holy Donut in Portland, Maine tells us so many things about life in this podcast. Like what it’s like to put your heart and soul into your business idea. What happens ...
03.13.2019 Ep 11.2 Kim, Love Carries You Through This is a re-release, a second telling of this story. When I first released this episode I didn’t have a producer and it ended up being quite long which I think kept some people from listening to it. So I ...
02.13.2019 Ep 17 Jeannie \| What we Celebrate Jeannie had a regular life, just like all of us, until one day it changed in an instant. Her entire life hung in the balance and no one was sure what would happen. What Jeannie talks about throughout the interview ...
01.22.2019 Ep 16 Sarah, No Is a Nice Word “BE NICE”. That is overwhelmingly the message that girls get their whole lives. You know the old saying “Sugar and spice and everything nice. THAT is what girls are made of”. UGH! I can see now how dreadful that is ...
12.05.2018 Ep 15, Sarah, I Believe You The theme of this podcast is, Belief. Right now in the United States we are a part of the #MeToo movement and just finished the Kavanaugh hearings. It is devastating for many many women to know that if they spoke ...
10.30.2018 Ep. 14 Sarah, Embracing All Sides of Yourself Sarah was born in Calcutta, India and adopted at 6 weeks old by a family in Maine. That should have been the biggest change for her life, but it wasn't, by far. She faced alopecia as a child and then ...
09.12.2018 Ep 13 Britt, A Flicker of Light Britt's story is truly unlike any I have told here before (or ever heard for that matter). It is one of an early teen life full of sadness that ends up with her being kidnapped. And then it spirals out ...
06.07.2018 Ep 12 Suzanne, Learning to Be Kind to Yourself Suzanne tells the story of how early on she learned what she should look like. Teen magazine is not the place to get that advice, but when she was young and impressionable that is what she saw the world saying ...
04.10.2018 Ep 11 Kim, Love Carries You Through This story from a dear friend of mine may be hard for any of you that have lost a child. I want to make sure that you have that warning before listening since it is such a delicate subject matter ...
03.08.2018 Ep 10 Hilary, My Inner Voice of Strength Happy International Women's Day 2018 my friends!! I am celebrating the amazing women in the world today by releasing another podcast telling the story of a strong woman! Today's story is one of sudden trauma, how your life can change ...
11.25.2017 Ep 9 Jesseca, To Love and Accept We all learn different lessons in life and they come to us in numerous ways. Jesseca shares a lesson that she never dreamed that she would have to learn. It has taught her about love and acceptance of those that ...
11.08.2017 Ep. 8 Stefa, Galvanized to be a Different Person Warning: This episode is especially difficult and could be triggering for some people who have dealt with suicide in any capacity. We talk with Stefa about her family history. Where they came from and how their past played out in ...
10.25.2017 Ep. 7 Bambi, Rewiring My Brain Many people feel embarrassed or ashamed after realizing they had a panic attack because our culture tells us that it's all in our head and that somehow it's our fault. While we have a long way to go in changing ...
10.11.2017 Ep. 6 Michelle on Receiving the Greatest Trust that can be Bestowed Life plan= Fall in love. Get married. Have a baby. OR.... Attempt to get pregnant and experience many losses over a long period of time. Try alternatives. For months that drag out and turn into years. There are so many ...
06.27.2017 Episode 5 Nora- No Shame, Life After Attempting Suicide Nora's story is heart breaking and powerful. She suffered a huge loss as a teen and spiraled into darkness that wouldn't lift. It lead her to rock bottom. More than once. She hid her feelings and pretended she was fine ...
06.06.2017 Episode 4 - Kathy, Dealing with Darkness Kathy is just like you and me. Someone you might see in the line at the grocery store or meet in your networking group. She is married and has two kids and a runs a successful business. That's the stuff ...
05.17.2017 The Gardenia Project Episode 3-Maura, The Invisible Illness Caretaker So what happens when your child gets diagnosed with an illness that currently isn't curable? How do you deal with that pain, and then learn to cope with it every single day? That is Maura's story. Listen to her story ...
04.26.2017 The Gardenia Project Episode 2-Elizabeth - Trusting & Standing up for Yourself The second episode is all about standing up for ourselves. Or rather the times when we don't. What are the repercussions when we stop ourselves from saying what we need to. It's a pretty amazing story. This is the interview ...
03.31.2017 The Gardenia Project Episode 1-Anna, On Finding Yourself, Getting Un-Lost The Gardenia Project is a storytelling project for women started by Jen Dean in Portland, Maine. I hope that hearing these stories will inspire people to have more empathy for others, take a stand for what they believe in, and ...

The Gardenia Project -Women's Storytelling

What's The Gardenia Project -Women's Storytelling about?

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The Gardenia Project -Women's Storytelling episodes:

Ep 26 Love and Loss in the Time of Covid

Ep 25 Voices of Quarantine

Ep 24 Megan Jo, The Tributaries That Create Us

Ep 23 Mary, What Intuition Tells You

Ep 22 Many Women Many Stories - How Hair Shapes our Identity

Ep 21 Chanel, Radical Listening for the Common Good

Ep 20 Jessica, I AM Enough

Ep 19 Elizabeth, Rewriting Your Story (Returning for a mini Episode!)

Ep 18 Leigh, Happiness is a "Holy Donut"

Ep 11.2 Kim, Love Carries You Through

Ep 17 Jeannie | What we Celebrate

Ep 16 Sarah, No Is a Nice Word

Ep 15, Sarah, I Believe You

Ep. 14 Sarah, Embracing All Sides of Yourself

Ep 13 Britt, A Flicker of Light

Ep 12 Suzanne, Learning to Be Kind to Yourself

Ep 11 Kim, Love Carries You Through

Ep 10 Hilary, My Inner Voice of Strength

Ep 9 Jesseca, To Love and Accept

Ep. 8 Stefa, Galvanized to be a Different Person

Ep. 7 Bambi, Rewiring My Brain

Ep. 6 Michelle on Receiving the Greatest Trust that can be Bestowed

Episode 5 Nora- No Shame, Life After Attempting Suicide

Episode 4 - Kathy, Dealing with Darkness

The Gardenia Project Episode 3-Maura, The Invisible Illness Caretaker

The Gardenia Project Episode 2-Elizabeth - Trusting & Standing up for Yourself

The Gardenia Project Episode 1-Anna, On Finding Yourself, Getting Un-Lost

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