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Season 2: "Therapy"

Are you in therapy? If not, we’ll convince you to by the end of this episode. Julia and Asher sat down in a panel discussion with Julie Threlkeld, Sara Shelton, and Lori Baird to talk about the venn diagram between therapy and storytelling.

Are you in therapy?  If not, we’ll convince you to by the end of this episode.  Julia and Asher sat down in a panel discussion with Julie Threlkeld, Sara Shelton, and Lori Baird to talk about the venn diagram between therapy and storytelling.

Storytelling provides us an opportunity to explore feelings and experiences that are unique, as does therapy.  Let’s talk about it!

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Julie Threlkeld is a writer, storyteller, and the producer and host of the podcast Modern Stories Mix, which presents one lovingly recorded and engineered story each episode from some of New York City’s best storytellers. She also runs the city’s most comprehensive calendar of storytelling events, found at ModernStories.com. She has written about anxiety for The New York Times and about the strange, obsessive world of professional distance running for Runner’s World and Running Times. Her own stories have been featured on the RISK! Show (and podcast), Talk Therapy Stories, The How I Learned Series and many others. She’ll be appearing next on June 6th in the NoName Super Storytellers Edition show at WordUp in Washington Heights, and on July 9th at Badyhouse Storytelling Concert in Brooklyn.

Lori Baird is a writer, editor, and storyteller. She’s currently enrolled in the Johns Hopkins Master of Arts in Science Writing program in preparation for bringing down Trump and his science-denying ilk. A two-time Moth StorySlam winner and Moth podcast featured storyteller, she believes there are only two acceptable answers to the question, “Are you in therapy?”: “Yes,” and “Not yet.”

Sara Shelton is a writer, director, and founder of We Get Depressed. She’s performed improv and storytelling for the last eight years, and has worked in the advertising industry for over a decade. She’s passionate about breaking the stigma of mental health which is why she wants you to know she suffers from depression and is currently back on medication.

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Julia Whitehouse

Julia Whitehouse (formerly Wiedeman), co-host, is a New York based performer, writer, and storyteller. Julia teaches workshops through the Story Collider. She is also currently the host of the weekly storytelling open mic, Happy Hour Story Hour, at The Duplex, she performed her solo show NAKED PEOPLE at UCBTNY, UCBLA, and for the Women in Comedy Festival. Her follow up solo showI’ll Show You Minehad a run at The PIT after being a part of the first Solocom Festival. She is a Moth Slam winner and performs her stories regularly Risk!, Nights of Our Lives, and Soundtrack Series podcasts and stages. Her acting performances are aplenty on youtube and once a video she was in about millennials was on the CBS Sunday Morning show.

Asher Novek

Asher Novek, co-host, is a writer, producer, storyteller, and community activist. His day to day work focuses on projects that utilize technology in ways that bridge community groups to local government.

He co-produces a stand up show “This Evening” at Dean Street Bar in Prospect Heights. He also produces a monthly storytelling show in Park Slope, “So What Happened Was”, and has performed on the podcasts “Can’t Make This Up”, “the Brighter Side”, and “It’s Not Complicated.” He has written and performed two solo storytelling shows: “I Wish Someone Told Me”, which he recently reprised at The Tank’s SoloFest Redux, and “The Holy Moment”, a bi-coastal storytelling show that wove in two stories across East and West Coasts with co-writer Jake Arky. He has also been known to officiate the occasional wedding.