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Hosted by Emmy Award–winning journalist, filmmaker and PR strategist Tara Ruff, storychaser uncovers the powerful, human stories that too often go untold.
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Season 1 Closer (opens the original)
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And that’s a wrap on Season 1 of Storychaser. Nine episodes. Nine conversations with people whose stories might not always make the headlines, but deserve to be heard.This season took us into newsrooms, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, kitchens and people’s homes. We talked about grief, addiction, race, mental health, identity, ambition, resilience and what it means to keep going when life doesn’t go according to plan. Storychaser was built around a simple idea: some of the stories most worth
Ep 9: Chef Aarthi Sampath on Setting the Table Before Anyone Comes (opens the original)
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Chef Aarthi Sampath wanted to be an actor. Her family told her that wasn't a career and when she looked at Indian film and television, she couldn't find a dark-skinned woman in any of it. So she went into a kitchen instead, and ended up on television anyway: she won Chopped, then beat Bobby Flay with a biryani she'd learned from an old master chef in Hyderabad who had to be bribed with liquor before he'd give up the recipe. In 2019 she wrote down a different idea, not an Indian restaurant, but a
Episode 8: The Trauma We Don't Choose, the Help We Won't Take (opens the original)
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What is therapy actually for and why are so many of us ashamed to need it? In this episode of Story Chaser, Tara Ruff sits down with therapist, disaster responder, and resilience expert Kamran Sakhitab to unpack the invisible wounds we carry and the reasons so many people refuse help until they’re at a breaking point. Drawing from his work in psychiatric hospitals, disaster zones, and with athletes, first responders, and communities in crisis, Kamran explains why therapy is far more than “paying
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