What’s Your Story? | Healing Through True Stories
by J.D. Murgolo | Story House Studio · 111 episodes
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What’s Your Story? is a collection of unhurried conversations exploring the intersections of grief, memory, and the threshold spaces we all inhabit. Through unhurried interviews and personal reflections, this show dares us to move from survival to meaning-making. Whether you are navigating life transition or looking for the language to describe your own journey, join us as we crack open the stories we carry and learn to heal out loud.
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2 min
Authors Note: The Door Is Open
The show is going quiet for a while. Before it does, I wanted to leave one question in the feed."What's the story you never tell, not because it hurts too much, but because it felt…
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3 min
Story 106 - How to Find Closure: A Season 3 Solo Reflection
Finding closure isn't always loud, sometimes it's a quiet return to yourself. In this Season 3 finale, host J.D. Murgolo offers a solo benediction: a reflection on healing, persona…
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30 min
Story 105 - Reclaiming Your Narrative: Who Controls Your Life Story?
What happens when a community decides to tell its own history?For too long, the stories of many cultures have been told from the outside looking in. Today, we sit with the work of…
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4 min
Story 104 - What Lingers After Trauma: A Solo Story on What Returns
A quiet pause before the season’s final stretch. In this solo reflection, J.D. revisits the stories of Season 3 and asks one simple question: What part of you is still returning?Ha…
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37 min
Story 103 - The Power of Generosity: Turning Lived Experience Into Healing
What happens when healing turns outward — when the hard-won wisdom of your own story becomes something you offer to someone else?In this episode, we sit with a story about generosi…
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39 min
Story 102 - Leaving a Legacy: How Memory and Stories Echo Through Time
How does a story live on after it is told?A story becomes a "living legacy" when it is shared; it no longer belongs solely to the teller but begins to echo through the listener. Th…
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45 min
Story 101 - Healing Trauma: Tuning Into the Quiet Intelligence of Survival
What does it mean to "come back to yourself" after trauma?Healing is often less about pushing forward and more about returning to the body. This "coming back" involves recognizing…
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34 min
Story 100 - Navigating Grief and Identity: How to Handle New Beginnings
What happens when the life you planned disappears? How do you begin to build a new identity when the foundation has shifted?In this episode of What’s Your Story?, we’re sitting wit…
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43 min
Story 99 - Breaking Free from Performance: Choosing Authenticity Over Hype
What happens when the reflection stops cooperating?There is a quiet reckoning that begins when the mask we show the world no longer matches the truth we feel inside. Today, we sit…
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34 min
Story 98 - The Strength of Silence: Finding Dignity When Words Fail
What happens when the most meaningful response is silence? We explore the power of silence as an act of dignity and the art of holding space for others.Host J.D. Murgolo reflects o…
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33 min
Story 97 - Naming Your Hidden Pain: The First Step in Healing Emotional Grief
What happens when silence stops working? We explore the power of naming your feelings and how setting healthy boundaries becomes an act of care for those we love.What happens when…
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39 min
Story 96 - Choosing Yourself: Overcoming People-Pleasing to Find Your Voice
What happens when survival isn’t the finish line, but the beginning? We explore the power of reclaiming your narrative and choosing yourself during life transitions.What happens wh…
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37 sec
The Art of Returning — A New Story from What’s Your Story?
A new story is arriving.What’s Your Story? returns this February with a new season titled The Art of Returning — a cinematic exploration of what it means to come back to yourself a…
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41 min
Story 95 - The Courage of Empathy
Every season has a thread — a fragile line of truth that weaves its way through each story. For Season 2, that thread has been about return: to resilience, to tenderness, to the qu…
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3 min
The Coffee Mug Philosopher: The Wisdom in the Pause (Bonus Episode)
There’s a small wisdom tucked inside every pause. Not the ones you schedule, but the ones that find you—when the kettle takes its time, when silence lingers in conversation, when y…
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3 min
Tales from the Deck: The Fool — The Leap into the Unknown
In this first episode of Tales from the Deck, we explore The Fool, the card of beginnings, trust, and the leap into the unknown.Join me as we sit with the archetype of the traveler…
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43 min
Story 94 - When the Prayer Finds You
You don’t have to be a believer to pray. Sometimes the prayer isn’t even words.Sometimes it’s just the ache of being lost long enough to finally ask for help — not from a person, n…
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2 min
Before the Day Begins: Introducing The Coffee Mug Philosopher
There’s a certain magic in the moments before the day truly begins—when the coffee is still hot, the light is still soft, and the world hasn’t yet asked anything of you.That’s wher…
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1 min
Introducing Tales from the Deck — A New Bonus Series
I’m excited to introduce Tales from the Deck, a brand-new bonus series within the What’s Your Story? podcast.In this series, I’ll pull a tarot card twice a month and follow it into…
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46 min
Story 93 - Under the Willow
There’s a kind of wisdom that doesn’t announce itself.It doesn’t arrive in the form of a five-step plan or a TED Talk voice.It arrives slowly — in stillness. In the breath you didn…