Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 224
Frequency: Several times a week
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 262 subscribers
Contact Information
Publicly listed emails
melsstorytellingpodcast@gmail.com
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Host
Melvin E. Edwards - Award-winning journalist, author, publisher, and podcast host; founder of Media Well Done, LLC, an independent publishing and media company focused on preserving important stories through books, po...
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Recent Guest Discussions
Margaret Eastman Smith - Growing Up In Moral Re-armament, Leaving An Ideological Community, Developmental Trauma, Attachment, History And Memory, Forgiveness, And Peacebuilding.
Michael Brandt - Facial Plastic Surgery, Confidence And Identity, Cosmetic Procedure Ethics, Non-surgical Treatments, Social Media, Innovation, Leadership, And Medical Education.
Clint Hurdle - Managing Expectations, Disappointment, Failure, Sobriety, Family, Leadership, Coaching, And Building A Meaningful Second Act.
Diane Les Becquets - Writing, Wilderness, Grief, Forgiveness, Faith, Recovery From Brain Aneurysms, Nature, Gratitude, And Purpose.
Connie Kwan - Habit Formation, Identity, Product Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Storytelling, Failure, And Human Connection.
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Episodes
Ep. 224 - Pesa & Whitney Shayo: The Marriage Behind the Marriage Advice
October 06, 2026
What happens when the person you love brings a different definition of marriage into the relationship?Pesa and Whitney Shayo, founders of Live Your Best Marriage, join Melvin E. Edwards on Stories from Real Life for a conversation about the expectations couples inherit—and the understanding they build together.With Kenyan and American backgrounds and more than two decades of marriage, the Shayos bring a personal perspective to questions about culture, family, faith, and partnership.The conver...
Ep. 223 - Lisa Heisner: When Your Politics No Longer Fit Your Faith
September 29, 2026
What happens when the political identity you inherited begins to collide with the faith that helped shape it?Melvin E. Edwards talks with educator and fellow John Brown University alum Lisa Heisner about faith, politics, race, and the difficult process of reconsidering long-held beliefs. Drawing on their shared evangelical backgrounds and years of Republican alignment, they discuss the experiences that caused each of them to question assumptions about political identity and Christian witness....
Ep. 222 - Rich Dunning: ‘Silence Was My First Language’
September 22, 2026
Content note: This episode includes discussion of childhood abuse, sexual abuse, addiction, and trauma.What happens when the silence that helped you survive becomes difficult to leave behind?Author Rich Dunning joins Melvin E. Edwards on Stories from Real Life for a deeply personal conversation about memory, identity, survival, accountability, and the decision to finally tell his story.Through his memoir, Silence Was My First Language, Rich reflects on a childhood marked by poverty, abuse and...
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