Slow Stories
By Rachel Schwartzmann
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Episodes: 61
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Hear from leading writers, artists, and innovators who share slow stories—and big ideas—about living, working, and creating more intentionally.
Hosted by Rachel Schwartzmann
Subscribe at slowstories.substack.com/
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Kate Baer — "People are much more willing to help than we think."
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Maggie Smith — "You're a human before you're an artist."
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May 19, 2025 |
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Pico Iyer — "Words are only as rich as the silence that underlies them."
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Caleb Femi — "Poetry never leaves you."
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Gloria Noto — "Awareness is a reflection."
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Ayşegül Savaş — "We're always in the midst of it."
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Lauren Elkin — "To me, it's all interesting."
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Rachel Schwartzmann — "Was it a beginning, or had the story been writing itself all along?"
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Amy Lin — "Grief is a problem of narrative."
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Claudia Dey and Heidi Sopinka — "We're very conscious of that aliveness in our relationship."
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Victoria Chang — "It takes a lot of energy to be slow."
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Brandon Stosuy and Rose Lazar — "Crying is a cool thing."
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Mason Spector — "I find a lot of value in the sadness."
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Chelsea Hodson — ”I’m genuinely excited about creating things.”
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Katherine May — ”It’s okay to get on with the business of living.”
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Tembe Denton-Hurst — ”Growing isn’t always in the big moments.”
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May 30, 2023 |
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Allie Rowbottom — ”The questions in your writing are the questions in your life.”
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May 08, 2023 |
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Ross Gay — ”There’s always a gathering inside of us.”
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Tarajia Morrell — ”We imagine our future, our family, ourselves.”
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Ella Frances Sanders — ”People ask questions differently, and they also answer questions differently.”
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Naj Austin — ”What does it mean to put ourselves on a platform that requires less of us?”
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Kayla Maiuri — ”Fiction teaches us so much about reality.”
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Jon Staff — ”Our words matter, and our lack of words matter.”
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Lisa Taddeo — ”I’ve been there, and you’re not alone.”
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Ashley Merrill — ”Design is in service of your rest.”
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May 31, 2022 |
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Coco Mellors — ”If you create something and no one sees it, does it count? Yes.”
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May 10, 2022 |
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Hannah Traore — ”The context is always important.”
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Laura Cramer and Starr Hout — ”We’re so capable of realizing dreams.”
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Katie Kitamura — ”There’s also incredible power in grief.”
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Grace Miceli — ”Slowing down is about trusting myself more.”
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Matthew Herman — ”I hope we’re all realizing that we can live by our own rules.”
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Meredith Westgate — ”Being a writer can often be empathy overload.”
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Larissa Pham — ”I think everyone woke up to just how impossible it is to survive.”
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Jen Spyra — ”How much doubt attends every stage of your writing?”
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Melissa Febos and Forsyth Harmon — ”Writing is the very solitary room where I practice articulating things that feel unspeakable.”
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Jen Batchelor — ”I take it very seriously when a word gets hijacked out of our vocabulary.”
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May 31, 2021 |
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Suzanne Koven — ”Literature opens the conversation.”
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May 17, 2021 |
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Courtney Marie Andrews — ”Poetry is asking you to get beneath the surface.”
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Lesley Thornton — ”My self-care is preparation for community care.”
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Dina Nur Satti — ”Art is really asking people to listen to the process.”
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Jessica Manning — ”Your vision for your future changes.”
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Zak Williams — ”You need to be engaged with your environment and the people around you.”
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Deja Foxx — ”We should be making statements about who we are.”
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Becky Cooper — ”What is the story that I should be the one to write?”
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Nicole Caputo — ”I really see design as a lifestyle.”
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Mélanie Masarin — ”You never remember the time you spent on the internet.”
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Lindsay Adams — ”Slow storytelling means giving yourself the grace and the space to evolve.”
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Orion Carloto — ”Slowing down is the most beautiful thing you can do for yourself.”
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Makenna Goodman — ”I do think that we want to escape, but I don’t think we want to flee.”
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Taylor Sterling — ”I want to be more empathetic to how I can help versus how people can help me.”
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Jordan Taylor — ”The most meaningful learning comes from deeper experiences.”
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Jenn Tardif — ”You get to define what success looks like and how it feels.”
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Sophia Amoruso — ”The only way to know is to see the results that come of people’s lives.”
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Sanaë Lemoine — ”There’s something that’s almost unlocked when I begin writing on paper.”
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Suleika Jaouad — ”Focus on cultivating a practice.”
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Ali Kriegsman — ”It’s on us to take that pause.”
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Dianna Cohen — ”Everything is so much better when it’s low and slow.”
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Vanessa Barboni Hallik — ”We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Eryn Danielle — ”Whose voices are going to be highlighted and amplified?”
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Stephanie Danler — ”Compassion depends on being able to pay attention and feel.”
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May 26, 2020 |
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Nichole Powell — ”There is tremendous power in the pause.”
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Sep 27, 2019 |