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Trisha Rose Burt

Trisha Rose Burt

Storyteller, podcast host, and speaker; founder of award-winning "No Time to Be Timid" podcast and instructor for The Moth

Jun 30, 2026

10:40
So what has that last year been for you and how has it impacted the stories that you're starting to craft now and the things that you're
10:46
doing? Yeah, this is really interesting because the thing is, as you well know, you can tell a story from several different angles and you have to decide which angle you want to tell it from, what the theme of that story is going to be.
10:58
And then that dictates which elements that you're going to put in the story.
11:02
So it all started sort of unraveling, let's say, in October, I think, of 2021.
11:12
My mother, who was a handful and I adored, she really gave me some of my best material.
11:18
But anyway, she lived in Tampa, Florida.
11:21
And for the past three and a half years, I was going down almost every two months because she was getting dementia.
12:18
Because
17:14
But also, how did you come up with that in the first place? What was the process for creating it?
17:19
Okay, so this is really interesting.
17:21
So as you know, my husband, there's a little context here.
17:25
My husband was in a horrific accident.
17:27
He's totally fine.
17:29
Very blessed.
17:30
But I spent a year dedicated to making sure he came back in one piece.

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23:21
And I guess, I guess I have a question then based on this and based on bringing all of this into clarity and knowing a little bit more how you're wired, what, what feels possible that didn't feel possible before based on the work you feel like you're here to do?

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