Episodes 291
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (95)
Since Nov 2022
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Daily
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Episodic
Consistency
4%
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feeds.captivate.fm

About This Podcast

A Fresh Story Podcast is a top 2% personal journals podcast, hosted by sisters Olivia Dreizen Howell and Jenny Dreizen, that delves into courageous life choices, creative concepts, and fresh start stories through candid conversations. The podcast explores cultural subjects often overlooked, offering listeners a fresh perspective on various life experiences. Join the sisters and guests on a journey discussing bravery, significant decisions, and fresh starts, navigating the complexities of the human experience.

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S11E70 Fresh Reads: Divorce By Design: How building a divorce team can help you get divorced efficiently (without going broke!) by Melissa Murphy Pavone

Jun 05, 2026 9m

Divorce is the intersection of the biggest trauma of your life and the biggest financial decisions of your life — happening at the exact same moment. And yet most people navigate it alone, armed with…

S11E71 Fresh Reads: Fallout by Jordan Rosenfeld

Jun 05, 2026 11m

Some writers come to the page to escape. Jordan Rosenfeld has been doing it since she was seven years old — filling journal after journal, reaching for fiction the way a child who's seen hard things…

S11E71 Fresh Reads: The Quitters Club: A Novel by Jessica Strawser

Jun 05, 2026 13m

Nobody ever taught us when it's okay to quit. We got the poster on the classroom wall, the T-shirt slogan, the well-meaning advice drilled in from childhood: quitters never win, winners never quit.…

S11E71 Fresh Reads: When We Were Feral by Shasta Grant

Jun 04, 2026 8m

Before she wrote the novel, before the residency, before the ninety thousand words that became her debut — Shasta Grant was a little girl in New Hampshire being raised by her grandparents, carrying…

S11E71 Fresh Reads: Perforated by Chloe Yelena Miller

Jun 04, 2026 7m

Perforated is Chloe Yelena Miller's second full-length collection of poetry, and it holds a particular and beautiful question at its center: who owns a loss? The book is structured around what she…

S11E71 Fresh Reads: Television for Women by Danit Brown

Jun 04, 2026 6m

Nobody tells you that the moment you've been waiting for your whole life might arrive and feel nothing like you expected. You've watched the movies. You've seen the Instagram posts. You know exactly…

S11E69 Fresh Reads: Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain by Dr. Nicole Pensak

Jun 03, 2026 15m

Nobody tells you that becoming a mother is a neurological event. Nobody hands you a map for the identity that dissolves in the delivery room — or for the one that quietly, haltingly begins to take…

S11E71 Fresh Reads: The Love Project: A Journey of Intimate Conversations by Alison van Diggelen

Jun 03, 2026 12m

Sometimes it takes being broken open to finally go looking for love. For journalist and author Alison Van Diggelen, that breaking came violently and unexpectedly — a terrifying encounter with a dog…

S11E67 Fresh Reads: The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up―and Then Pushes Them Down by Stefanie O’Connell

Jun 03, 2026 18m

There's a moment most ambitious women know well — the moment you realize that doing everything "right" didn't get you where you were promised it would. You leaned in. You asked for more. You claimed…

S11E71 Fresh Reads: Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice by Jocelyn Jane Cox

Jun 03, 2026 12m

There's a particular kind of courage it takes to host a child's birthday party while your mother is lying in a hospital bed — to blow up balloons and slice cake and smile for photos while your heart…

S11E71 Fresh Reads: Black. Single. Mother. Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging by Jamilah Lemieux

Jun 03, 2026 9m

For years, Jamilah Lemieux carried a secret fear alongside her story: that if she wrote a book about being a single mother, she would be one forever. That putting it on the page would somehow seal…

S11E66 Fresh Reads: Honest Motherhood: On Losing My Mind and Finding Myself by Libby Ward

Jun 01, 2026 25m

There's a moment most mothers know — the one where you're nodding and smiling and saying yes to everyone in the room, all while something small and essential inside of you is screaming. Libby Ward,…

S11E65 Fresh Reads: Sexual Pleasure For Dummies by Myisha Battle

Apr 29, 2026 14m

There are questions most of us carry in silence—questions we've never felt safe enough to ask out loud, things we didn't learn in any classroom, and experiences we've quietly wondered about in the…

S11E64 Fresh Reads: Parenting a Spicy One: A Compassionate Guide for Raising a Deep-Feeling and Wonderfully Strong-Willed Kid by Mary Van Geffen

Apr 22, 2026 30m

There is a moment—one most parents have had but few will ever admit out loud—where you look at your child and feel something uncomfortably close to dislike. Not a fleeting frustration, but a deep,…

S11E63 Fresh Reads: Extra Sauce: The Good, the Bad, and the Onions by Zahra Tangorra

Apr 18, 2026 20m

Some connections defy explanation. They arrive on a random Tuesday afternoon through a phone scroll, a face you haven't seen in decades, a name that pulls you back to childhood hallways — and…

S11E62 Fresh Reads: Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online by Fortesa Latifi

Apr 14, 2026 13m

There is something quietly radical about a journalist who turns her most pressing obsession—the thing that keeps her up at night, filling spreadsheets and firing off emails at 2 a.m.—into a book that…

S11E61 Fresh Reads: Rewrite the Mother Code: From Sacrifice to Stardust - A Cosmic Approach to Motherhood by Dr. Gertrude Lyons

Mar 24, 2026 19m

What if the very word "mother" has been quietly shrinking you your whole life — not because you didn't love being one, but because no one ever told you that you were allowed to be more than one?…

S11E59 Fresh Reads: UNBREAKABLE DIVORCE: The Winning Divorce Guide Every Woman Needs to Reclaim Her Life with Heather Quick, ESQ.

Mar 23, 2026 15m

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes when your life is being dismantled — not by accident, but by necessity. When Heather Quick walks into a courtroom, she carries with her more than…

S11E60 Fresh Reads: Cosmic Goodness: Surrendering the Shadows to Live in the Light by Cassidy Gard

Mar 23, 2026 17m

Some of us learned very early that love could be unpredictable. That the sound of a car pulling into the driveway meant something different in our house. That being the last kid picked up from school…

S11E58 Fresh Reads: Our Home: The Love, Work, and Heart of Family by Lori Sugarman-Li

Mar 09, 2026 17m

There are moments that crack something open in you — moments you can't unhear, can't unsee, can't unfeel. For Lori Sugarman Lee, that moment came across a desk from an insurance agent who looked at…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does A Fresh Story have?

A Fresh Story has published 291 episodes since November 2022, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Mental Health.

Is A Fresh Story still active?

A Fresh Story is currently highly active with new episodes daily. Average episode length is 29m.

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