Where the River Took Us

Aaron Parsley

eallen@texasmonthly.com

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Booking Overview

This limited-series interview podcast focuses on personal loss, flood recovery, and community rebuilding through intimate conversations with survivors, family members, and people directly connected to the tragedy. Credible pitch candidates include disaster survivors, recovery advocates, mental-health or spiritual-care professionals, and community leaders with firsthand experience; booking difficulty is medium because relevance and personal connection matter more than conventional celebrity status, while the subject matter is highly sensitive.

Metrics

Episodes: 9

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 5.3k subscribers

Contact Information

eallen@texasmonthly.com

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Host

Aaron Parsley - Senior editor at Texas Monthly and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose reporting documented the Central Texas floods and their aftermath.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Firsthand experience surviving a devastating flood or comparable mass tragedy; involvement in disaster recovery, community rebuilding, spiritual care, or related support work.
Required Achievements:  
Professional experience supporting affected communities, Direct personal experience with disaster loss and recovery, Relevant expertise in spirituality, resilience, or rebuilding

Recent Guest Discussions

Alissa Parsley - Life And Family Experiences In The Aftermath Of The Flood.

R.J. Harber - Faith, Spirituality, Loss, And Coping After The Flood.

Recent Topics

Flood Recovery, Natural Disasters, Grief, Resilience, Spirituality

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Where the River Took Us
:

Where We Go

June 30, 2026

In the final episode, Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley speaks with his sister, Alissa Parsley, about life in the aftermath of the flood.To read Aaron Parsely’s Pulitzer Prize-winning feature, go to:https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/.

Those Days are Gone

June 23, 2026

The Guadalupe River, and what it meant to so many Texans, changed forever on July 4, 2025. Whether to return and try to rebuild is a question each flood survivor must answer for themselves.To read Aaron Parsely’s Pulitzer Prize-winning feature, go to:https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/.

Faith After the Flood

June 16, 2026

A conversation about faith with Dallas attorney R.J. Harber, who lost most of his family in the July 4 flood. We connected as survivors and during our conversation, I learned that even though we believe very different things and engage spiritually in very different ways, the result is kind of the same.To read Aaron Parsely’s Pulitzer Prize-winning feature, go to:https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/.

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