California Voices
'California Voices' is a new podcast that gives us the opportunity to hear the recollections, observations, viewpoints, the hindsight and foresight, of the extraordinary human beings that live in the Golden State...and the chance to get to know one another through the stories…
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 3
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- Sep 9, 2026
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- Aug 5, 2026
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A Mortician's Views on Death & Life: "I can tell you right now that I cry at every funeral..." (opens the original)
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Hannah Broyles-Grundy is a Northern California funeral director and apprentice embalmer. Having dealt with much loss and grief in her young life, Hannah brings to her work not only a licensed skill at handling 'dead bodies' but an instinctive sensitivity to helping and caring for mourning families. And she wants to change the perception the public may have that morticians don't care; "You can't see this side of people without feeling for them, without understanding what they're going through..."
From Afghanistan to America ~ "Holding Two Cultures in One Hand" (opens the original)
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Nesar Ahmad served as a battlefield interpreter for the US military in Afghanistan, Yalda Rahmatee graduated with a college degree in business administration; they secretly fell in love as Afghan teenagers, married, then immigrated to the US in 2014. Now, as American citizens and sucessful professionals in their respective fields, Nesar and Yalda share their story of leaving their 'home country' and making a new life with their children here in Northern California, balancing respect and obervanc
"What's the danger, talking about it or keeping it in?" ~ A Sister's Story (opens the original)
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Sara Hansen's sister was murdered by a serial killer in 1981. Sara has kept her grief, her trauma, her anger, inside of her for nearly 50 years. Now, Sara has decided to share her story.
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