
Laura Wexler
HostLaura Wexler is the co-founder and co-producer of The Stoop Storytelling Series, a popular cultural event and podcast in which “ordinary” people share extraordinary true tales about their lives. An expert in personal storytelling, Laura has presented workshops and trainings for organizations, businesses, and individuals since 2006, and has coached more than 3,000 people to tell the true tales of their lives. In addition to her work with The Stoop, Laura is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (Scribner, 2003), as well as nonfiction published in The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She has developed TV for Amazon Studios and co-created a Virtual Reality film that premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2018. She is a researcher and writer on Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” and is developing several independent projects.
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This week on the podcast, two stories about young folks in the working world getting on the job experience they never expected — or wanted.
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This week on the podcast, two stories about how Christmas is not everyone’s cup of mulled wine.
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This week on the podcast, two stories about repping Hanukkah in the land of Christmas.
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This week on the podcast, we kick off the holiday season with two tales of holiday hijinx.
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This week on the podcast, two stories about people who realize love had been right under their nose all along.
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This week on the podcast, stories from two people who not only turn the other cheek, but enlarge their hearts, after suffering harm.
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This week on the podcast, stories from two people creating their own spiritual path.
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This week on the podcast, three storytellers share tales about their relationships with animals. Let's just say, "It's complicated."
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This week on the podcast, three stories that prove we often know the least about the people closest to us.
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This week on the podcast, three dispatches from high school in which our heroes and heroines try to be cool — and fail. Which makes us love them more.