Ana Hebra Flaster was nearly six when her family fled Cuba and settled in Nashua, New Hampshire. After graduating from Smith College and enjoying a career in software consulting, she began her writing career. Her writing about Cuba and Cuban Americans has appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and elsewhere.

Her commentaries and storytelling have aired on NPR’s All Things Considered and PBS’s Stories from the Stage.

Property of the Revolution, her first book, was shortlisted for the 2023 Restless Book’s New Immigrant Writing Prize and the 2022 Cintas Creative Writing Fellowship.

After forty years in the Boston area, she recently moved to southern New Hampshire with her family. When she’s not writing, Ana loves birdwatching, walking in the woods, and digging in her garden.

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Lena Fein is an author, retired engineer, and philanthropist based in San Francisco. A graduate of Engineering at UC Berkeley, Lena spent decades as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at a successful high tech company. When Lena was fifty-one, her mother died which propelled Lena on a path of healing from childhood abuse and trauma. Her debut memoir, Shattering the Mirror, explores her transformative journey to wholeness. Lena believes it is never too late to reclaim your freedom and truth. Now in her late sixties, Lena can often be found taking long walks by the San Francisco Bay and hugging her grandchildren. Executive Producer Jake Landry.

Hello Co-journeyers! Nancy Shear, author of I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms, was only fifteen when she began sneaking into Philadelphia Orchestra concerts through the stage door, and seventeen when she was hired as a member of the orchestra’s library staff to help prepare the music; one year later, she became Leopold Stokowski’s musical assistant. Being young and female, she was a pioneer in both positions.

It is a privilege to share with you my conversation with Nancy that is both inspiring and insightful. Where she takes us into rehearsals and concert halls, revealing the choices musicians must consider, and what conductors, players, and composers really do.

Executive Producer Jake Landry

Hello Co-journeyers! Join me and my special guest, Mario Cartaya, author of Journey Back Into the Vault: In Search of My Faded Cuban Childhood Footprints, to hear the amazing story of his return to Cuba after 56 years to rediscover his childhood memories reconnect with unknown family members, and find inner peace through reconciliation with his past. Executive Producer: Jake Landry

Hello Co-journeyers! Join me for my discussion with Dr. Craig Yorke as we explore the meaning of success and failure, and how they both shape our life journey.

Hello Co-journeyers! Welcome to Season 3 of The Truth So Help Me Good! As we enter this New Year, and for reasons that require no explanation, it is incumbent upon us to take our exploration of the bigger questions about this journey we call life to a new level. Why? Because our hearts and minds demand it. As human beings, our longing for meaning and purpose are at the core of our very existence. Please join me together with my special guest, Jake Landry, and get into the weeds (light brush) about memoir in its most expansive form. Jake is an educator, anthropologist by education, and Executive Producer of The Truth So Help Me Good podcast. He is also my son. This is a conversation you will not want to miss, including questions about meaning, literacy, philosophy, and what is memoir anyway? You may even find yourself smiling, just like Sisyphus. Thank you for listening. Take care and be well!

My special guest is author Wendy B. Correa. Wendy is a writer, hiker, as well as a licensed massage therapist she has worked in the film, television, multimedia, and music industries in Los Angeles and as a radio DJ in Aspen Colorado. Wendy holds bachelors degrees in psychology and theater arts and his contributed articles to Mothering magazine. She is a wife and mother and resides in Denver Colorado. She joins me on the pod to speak to us about her new memoir My Pretty Baby. Executive Producer: Jake Landry

My special guest, Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor is a board-certified

neurologist with over 30 years of experience in general

neurology. In her poignant memoir Whispers of the Mind, Dr.

Taylor shares a series of essays that trace her path from

medical school to private practice, revealing moments of

triumph, heartbreak, grief, and healing. Each story offers a

window into the complex interplay between the brain, heart,

and soul – a connection that defines both the practice of

medicine and the human experience. These essays are more

than reflections, they are testaments to the courage, strength,

and profound lessons learned along the way. Executive Producer: Jake Landry