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Write Up The Coast – Step-In! Stories

Write Up The Coast – Step-In! Stories

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Write Up The Coast – Step-In! Stories brings community voices to life — recorded live in the moment. At its heart is the mobile Step-In! booth, a small traveling space where people pause amid the noise of daily life to share a thought, a memory, or a feeling.


Beyond the booth, Step-In! also meets people where they are — on the street, at events, or in quiet one-on-one conversations — capturing the same spirit of openness and spontaneity wherever it happens.

Season 1: Write Up The Coast — curated conversations and reflections that explore the meaning of community through storytelling.
Season 2: Step-In! — spontaneous recordings from public spaces and personal exchanges that reveal real voices, real moments, and real connection.

Created and hosted by Mark Sanford Gross, Step-In! invites us all to pause, listen, and remember: every story matters.



© 2026 Write Up The Coast – Step-In! Stories
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  • FOG Design+Art — Voices from the Floor
    Feb 14 2026

    Live from FOG Design+Art
    Fort Mason Center, San Francisco — January 2026

    For two days, I roved the halls of FOG Design+Art with a microphone — listening.

    Artists. Gallerists. Collectors. First-time visitors. A security guard. Conversations at the bar. Reflections between booths.

    This episode is a mosaic of those voices.

    Not commentary about the fair — but the feeling inside it. The risk, the pressure, the beauty, the curiosity, and the quiet exchanges that happen in the spaces between.

    Recorded live. Produced and edited after.

    Write Up The Coast — bringing people back to people, one voice at a time.

    for more information on Write-Up-The-Coast visit writeupthecoast.com or email writeupthecoast@gmail.com

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    39 min
  • Staying Present: A Conversation with Lynn Hershman Leeson
    Jan 21 2026

    In this episode, I sit down with Lynn Hershman Leeson, an Art:21 honoree, for a conversation that moves well beyond a traditional art interview.

    Recorded live in the studio, the discussion unfolds naturally—guided less by chronology or critical frameworks than by curiosity and presence. We talk about memory, identity, personas, technology, resilience, recognition, and the long arc of a creative life, allowing the conversation to follow its own course rather than a prepared agenda.

    This is not a survey of work or a career retrospective, but a listening-forward exchange shaped by reflection and lived experience. A reminder that some conversations are most meaningful when they remain open, unforced, and attentive to what emerges in the moment.

    Recorded live in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s studio., San Francisco, CA
    Hosted, recorded, and produced by Mark Sanford Gross.

    for more information on Write-Up-The-Coast visit writeupthecoast.com or email writeupthecoast@gmail.com

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    29 min
  • Step-In: New Year’s at The Sea Ranch Lodge
    Jan 11 2026


    On New Year’s Day—the first day of 2026—Write Up the Coast set up the Step-In Story Booth at The Sea Ranch Lodge, on the rugged northern edge of California’s Sonoma Coast.

    Set at the entrance to the Lodge, the booth drew people in by curiosity rather than invitation. Some were gently nudged to step in; others arrived entirely on their own. One at a time, they recorded a two-to-three-minute, stream-of-consciousness response to a simple New Year’s prompt, offered just before entering:

    What is something you’re leaving behind, and what is something you’re taking with you?

    There was no preparation and no performance. Each person spoke in their own voice, in the moment, without names. Those voices were later woven together in this podcast—just a moment of sharing, held in sound.

    Credits
    Music: Still Blue Quartet
    stillbluequartet.com

    Produced by Mark Sanford Gross
    Gualala, California

    Write Up the Coast — Step-In Story
    writeupthecoast.com
    writeupthecoast@gmail.com

    for more information on Write-Up-The-Coast visit writeupthecoast.com or email writeupthecoast@gmail.com

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    27 min
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