Tell Me What It's Like
Tell Me What It's Like
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What’s it like to set a world record? To invent a new product? To survive an extremely rare illness?
On Tell Me What It’s Like, host Stacy Raine sits down with people who’ve lived through powerful and uncommon experiences. Each conversation explores how it happened, why it matters, and what it truly felt like to live through it.
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The podcast explores a range of deep and compelling topics, including setting world records, innovative product development, overcoming rare illnesses, and social activism. Specific episodes feature stories like Becca Pizzi's journey of running seven marathons on seven continents, Saundra Pelletier's fight to bring a new birth control to market, and Leigh Dzvonick's experience with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, reflecting themes of resilience, creativity, and personal empowerment.
Have you ever wished for a window into someone else’s world?
Tell Me What It’s Like is a podcast about lived experience — the experiences that challenge us, surprise us, and shape how we see the world. Host Stacy Raine sits down with people to explore what it was like to live through them, and how those experiences changed their perspective.
When Laurie Jacobson was 43, she found herself in a deeply unhappy marriage and increasingly isolated and depressed. After years of trying conventional therapies and self-help approaches without relief, she made a decision that felt radical at the time: she signed up for a silent retreat at a Buddhist monastery she’d discovered through a pamphlet in a coffee shop. Over the next 22 days of meditation and silence, Laurie experienced a profound shift in perspective that helped her see her life differently, and ultimately gave her the clarity she needed to make a difficult life decision.
“Don’t be afraid to step outside your comfort zone, because sometimes it takes stepping outside your comfort zone to find a better place.”
Hear Laurie talk about:
- What daily life was like during a silent meditation retreat
- Why she decided to go to a Buddhist monastery after trying many other forms of help
- The surprising mental clarity that can come from long periods of silence and meditation
- How the experience changed the way she saw her marriage and gave her the strength to leave it
- The lessons she carried forward about openness, desire, and letting go
Mentioned in this episode:
- Theravada Buddhism
- Laurie’s book, Unexpected Awakening: 22 Days at a Buddhist Monastery Freed Me from Abuse
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