For Love of Memoir

For the Love of MemoirCalling all memoir junkies! 🎙️ This channel is dedicated to raw, honest conversations with memoir authors and industry insiders. We dig into the stories behind the stories—what it takes to write them, survive them, and share them. Whether you're an aspiring writer or just love a good, real-life narrative, you’re in the right place. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe and join the journey🎥 Watch full interviews on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ForLoveOfMemoir📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ForLoveOfMemoir💬 Share your favorite memoir with us here: 4theloveofmemoir@gma

For Love of Memoir is a arts podcast hosted by Erin Swanson, with 32 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Erin Swanson hosts For Love of Memoir, a arts show with 32 episodes published.

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  A Life Measured by Impact: Dr. Abraham George

  Sep 20, 202658 min

  At eighteen, Dr. Abraham George survived a dynamite explosion while serving as an artillery officer in the Himalayas. The experience sharpened a question that would follow him through military service, graduate school, banking, entrepreneurship, and eventually back to rural India: what was his life for? In this conversation, Dr. George discusses his memoir, Mountains to Cross, and the convictions behind the residential schools he has built in India. We talk about how Shanti Bhavan selects children from families facing extreme poverty, provides the stability and education needed to pursue college and professional careers, and uses one child’s opportunity to help transform an entire family. We also discuss the opening of a second school, why he rejects the language of charity and sacrifice, and why compassion has no effect until it becomes action.This is a conversation about purpose, duty, and redefining success by the lives and institutions we leave stronger than we found them. Purchase Mountains to Cross here:https://mountainstocross.com/ Support Dr. George's mission here:https://www.drabrahamgeorge.com/

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  Jane Buyers: On Walking Away From Wall Street

  Sep 6, 202644 min

  Jane Buyers was working four blocks from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Seven years later, she made the final margin call on Lehman Brothers as the financial system moved toward collapse. Those two Septembers became the bookends of her memoir, Eight Septembers: A Woman on Wall Street from 9/11 to Lehman. But the historic events are only the external story. During those years, Jane lost both parents, watched her marriage unravel, and reached the limits of a life built around competence, compliance, and external validation. We discuss the way professional success can conceal personal misalignment and the inner work that made the memoir possible. Purchase Eight Septembers here: Eightseptembers.com Follow Jane here: Janebuyers.com

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  AI and Memoir: When Does Assistance Become Authorship?

  Aug 23, 202642 min

  AI can help a memoirist find questions, test clarity, identify repetition, and surface possibilities. But what happens when it begins doing the writing itself?This week we meet Raven Petty, co-owner of Raven and Grace Press and a writing coach, about where AI can support memoir and where it begins to erase the very thing readers come for: a human voice.We discuss How to use AI responsibly, how the labor of memoir can be transformative, and why writers still need to do the work that makes the story theirs.Learn more about Raven at ravenandgrace.com or https://ravenpetty.com/ and follow her @tigressmuse.

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  Willima Holst on the Life and Music of Alan Hovanas

  Aug 9, 202649 min

  What does it mean to finish a story someone else could no longer complete?In this episode, I sit down with William Holst to talk about completing his late mother Hinako Fujihara's final project—a biography of acclaimed composer Allan Hovhaness that became something more than a historical account. It became a love story, a family legacy, and a tribute to two remarkable lives. Together, we explore what it means to preserve another writer's voice, balancing editorial decisions with authenticity, the responsibility of carrying forward someone else's dream, and why Allan Hovhaness's music continues to resonate decades after his death.Whether you're interested in memoir, biography, music, or the stories we leave behind, this conversation is ultimately about legacy—and the people who choose to protect it.Learn more about Alan Hovaness and purchase the book here:https://alanhovhanessmusic.com

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  On Second Thought, Maybe I Can with Debbie Weiss

  Jul 26, 20261h 13m

  What happens when you stop saying "I can't" and start asking "Maybe I can?" In this episode, I sit down with memoirist Debbie Weiss totalk about the mindset shift that changed the course of her life and inspiredher memoir, On Second Thought... Maybe I Can . Debbie shares how writing her memoir helped her see her ownstory differently, why ordinary lives are worth writing about, and how findingher authentic voice on the page gave her permission to stop trying to be anyonebut herself. We also explore victimhood versus agency, writing later inlife, trusting the reader, and what memoir can reveal about the stories we'vebeen telling ourselves.

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