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This is Power Your Story, a podcast made for students by students at high schools across Chicago. Representing diverse voices, we tell real life stories through the power of podcasting technology, interviews, and round table discussions.

Production support from After School Matters and Andrea Klunder from The Creative Impostor Studios via the Podcast Tech and Production: Power Your Story programs.

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How to Deal with Stress, Anxiety, and Bottled Up Emotions with Sarah Buino from Conversations with a Wounded Healer

Mar 22, 2021

We talked with Sarah Buino, licensed clinical social worker and founder of Head/Heart Therapy in Chicago, about addiction, and our experiences with stress, anxiety, OCD, and bottled up emotions. 

Sarah shared tips about using the things you love to do to help when you have these kinds of experiences -- like listening...

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A convo about gaming with Junae Bennett, Black Girl Gamers

Mar 18, 2021

This story is about Junae Bennett from Black Girl Gamers and how she experiences playing video games from the time she was a little kid to now as an EA sports journalist. 

Check out Junae's website and if you're thinking of a career in gaming, you can buy her ebook How to Become a Successful Video Games Journalist.

This...

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Behind the scenes: Favorite moments of podcasting with Aliyah

Mar 7, 2021

Senior Producer Aliyah shares some highlights of the Power Your Story podcast program as well as favorite guests, tips for discovering podcasts to listen to, and what we've learned about being flexible and prepared as producers. 

 

On season 5 of Power Your Story, we are talking all about making podcasts. This...

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StoryCorps: Connection, compassion, and helping people tell their stories with Amy Tardif, Mark, Elvis, Carlos

Mar 6, 2021

Mark, Elvis, and Carlos interviewed Amy Tardif, Regional Manager at the StoryCorps StoryBooth in the Chicago Cultural Center.

The mission of StoryCorps is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

This basically means that when...

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