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Along The Seam

Rachael Cerrotti

28 episodes

5 months ago

Meet Dion Flynn. Dion is a NYC-based writer, performer and producer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as an educator and army veteran. He's known for his many characterizations and songs on the show and even played Barack Obama for over a decade. In this conversation, Dion joins Rachael to talk about his family life including his one-man show titled, The Only Brown Kid in the Trailer Park. Together, they dig into the importance of laughter, play, and meditation in the service...

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Meet Dion Flynn. Dion is a NYC-based writer, performer and producer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as an educator and army veteran. He's known for his many characterizations and songs on the show and even played Barack Obama for over a decade. In this conversation, Dion joins Rachael to talk about his family life including his one-man show titled, The Only Brown Kid in the Trailer Park. Together, they dig into the importance of laughter, play, and meditation in the service...

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Episodes (20/28)

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27. Dion Flynn - Truth & Humor

Meet Dion Flynn. Dion is a NYC-based writer, performer and producer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as an educator and army veteran. He's known for his many characterizations and songs on the show and even played Barack Obama for over a decade. In this conversation, Dion joins Rachael to talk about his family life including his one-man show titled, The Only Brown Kid in the Trailer Park. Together, they dig into the importance of laughter, play, and meditation in the service...

5 months ago

47 minutes

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26. Shaunta Scroggins - Faith Was Home

This conversation is with educator Shaunta Scroggins who has spent more than 20 years mentoring teens and adults along their leadership journeys. Her doctoral research was completed at Dallas Baptist University in her home state of Texas and focused on the study of toxic leadership, transformational leadership, and effective mentoring. We talk about all of that through the lens of faith and the ideas passed from one generation to the next. Shaunta is now a lecturer and Assistant Director of t...

6 months ago

33 minutes

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25. Marina Cantacuzino - Forgiveness

This conversation with Marina Cantacuzino takes on the topic of forgiveness. Marina is an author, broadcaster and an award-winning journalist who has been widely published in British media. In 2003, in response to the invasion of Iraq, she embarked on a personal storytelling project collecting stories of people who had lived through trauma and injustice, and yet sought forgiveness rather than revenge. As a result, Marina founded The Forgiveness Project. She has published multiple books about...

1 year ago

50 minutes

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24. Freddy Mutanguha - Peace Education

This conversation with Freddy Mutanguha is about peace education and what it takes for neighbors to heal from generations of violence, discrimination and weaponized rhetoric. Freddy is CEO of the Aegis Trust and Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Freddy led the development of Aegis’ peace education programme in Rwanda and is now leading Aegis’ work to take this model beyond the borders of Rwanda to areas at risk, including the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Kenya. He is al...

1 year ago

52 minutes

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23. Barak Sella - Identity, Not Ideology

Barak Sella is an educator, activist, writer, researcher, and one of the leading Israeli experts on US-Israel relations and World Jewry. Born in Texas, Barak moved to Israel in 1994, exactly one year before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who was most dedicated to making peace with the Palestinians. This event deeply affected him and became an inseparable part of his socialization in Israeli society. Ten years later, as a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, B...

1 year ago

1 hour 48 minutes

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22. Derrick McQueen - Dream Dreams

Rev. Dr. Derrick McQueen is a pastor, theologian, singer, and a truly gifted storyteller whose life is full of intercultural and interfaith dialogue and relationship. His work is very much rooted in the belief that preaching is persuasive speech and that the way we communicate our stories is just as important, if not more, than what the story is about. He his phD in homiletics which is the art of preaching as well as in the New Testament. In this conversation, Derrick shines light on th...

1 year ago

51 minutes

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21. Kenny Andejeski - Connection To Place

Kenny Andejeski runs why [here] matters, a social enterprise that supports clients in building community to foster social cohesion, belonging and civic health towards the practice of everyday democracy at a national, regional and local scale. He was born and raised in the Midwest, but now resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where most of his place-based work is focused on ecosystem & capacity building throughout the Southeast and Appalachia. In this conversation recorded on November 13, 2...

1 year ago

25 minutes

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20. Micaela Blei - Small Moments Matter

Micaela Blei, PHD has been teaching, studying and performing true, personal storytelling worldwide since 2012. She is a two-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and former founding Director of Education at The Moth. Her storytelling (watch a story here) has been called “heartbreaking and hilarious” and her memoir, “You Will Not Recognize Your Life,” will be released in late 2024 as an Audible Original. Micaela is a senior story editor and writer for the podcast network Wondery. And, currently she’s the...

1 year ago

59 minutes

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19. Lois Lowry - Give Sorrow Words (unedited)

Lois Lowry is a beloved American author. She has written more than 50 books throughout her career and has twice been awarded the Newbery Medals for “the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children." She won for her books Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. Lois’ books vary in content and style yet deal with many of the same general themes including the importance of human connections. They tell stories about the effects of loss on a family and the ro...

1 year ago

1 hour 23 minutes

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18. Elana Israel - These Callouses

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- On the final episode of Season 1, Rachael is joined by her cousin, Elana Israel, to talk about their matriarchal grandmother, Hana Dubova. Rachael spent more than a decade researching and retracing Hana's survival story and turned it into an award-winning documentary podcast, book and museum exhibition, all titled We Share The Same Sky. Thi...

2 years ago

46 minutes

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Bonus Episode: We Share The Same Sky

Enjoy the first episode of Rachael Cerrotti's first podcast - We Share The Same Sky. This is a 7-episode narrative series that takes you into Rachael's decade long journey to retrace her grandmother's wartime history. The show was listed as one of the best podcasts of 2019 by HuffPost, received a literary award from The Missouri Review, was a reader's choice for Vulture Magazine and listed as a "Show We Love" by Apple Podcasts. You can listen to the whole series by searching "WE SHARE THE SAM...

2 years ago

21 minutes

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17. Juan Zambrano - The Uber Ride

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- For this episode, we are bringing you a short narrative piece that is all about the power of sharing our stories with strangers and highlights how we never know how our everyday conversations can have a ripple effect in other people’s lives. In the case of this story – it all starts with an Uber ride. Featured in this episode is Juan Zamb...

2 years ago

12 minutes

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16. Phuc Tran - Sigh, Gone

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- Phuc is an award-winning author, high school Latin teacher and tattoo artist based in Portland, Maine. His memoir Sigh, Gone was published in 2020 and is a coming-of-age story that explores growing up in rural Pennsylvania as a punk rock Vietnamese refugee. In this conversation, we talk about his realities being the only Vietnamese family ...

2 years ago

30 minutes

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15. Mira Ptacin - The Love You Have

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- Mira Ptacin is a writer, educator and activist who lives on an island in Maine with her husband, two children and a whole bunch of rescue animals. She teaches creative writing at Colby College, leads memoir workshops to incarcerated women at the Maine Correctional Center, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. She has written...

2 years ago

32 minutes

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14. Dubbs Weinblatt - Belonging

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- In this episode of Along The Seam, we explore memory through a contemporary queer experience. Dubbs Weinblatt is the founder of Thank You For Coming Out which is an improv show, podcast and soon-to-be book that aims to create a space of belonging for the queer community by uplifting and celebrating stories of coming out and coming in...

2 years ago

35 minutes

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13. Gina Martin - Bob & Diane

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- On this episode of Along The Seam, we are joined by Gina Martin to talk about memory loss through the lens of Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Gina has been a force in the photography world for decades and spent 21 years working for National Geographic representing photographer’s work worldwide. Her mother was diagnosed with early onset Alz...

2 years ago

30 minutes

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12. Elizabeth Rosner - The S-Word

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- In this episode of Along The Seam, Rachael talks with author Elizabeth Rosner about her book Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory. Both of Elizabeth’s parents were Holocaust survivors and she has carried their stories from the day she was born. Some stories she was told and others she learned through the si...

3 years ago

47 minutes

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11. Betty Grebenschikoff - Reunited

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- This story starts with two best friends and grew up in Berlin in the 1930s. Together, the young girls experienced rising antisemitism and in 1939, each of their families fled. At just 9-years-old, they said a tearful goodbye to each other and promised to keep in touch, but neither knew where the other one went or if they even survive...

3 years ago

19 minutes

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10. Alina Zievakova - Not A Word

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- On this episode, Rachael is joined by actress Alina Zievakova who is originally from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine but now lives in Kyiv. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Alina has been using theater as an act of resistance and as a way to help others process their trauma and wartime experiences. Alina (who speaks 7 languages) shares...

3 years ago

49 minutes

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9. Pete Muller - Solastalgia

*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.* -- On this episode of Along The Seam, Rachael is joined by National Geographic photographer Pete Muller. Pete is an award-winner photographer, filmmaker and artist who has covered topics of war, uprisings, gender constructs, and social movements around the world. In this conversation, they dig into Pete's recent project for the magazine...

3 years ago

40 minutes