How Can I Tell You?

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Stella Mayerhoff and Rebecca Heron tell stories about the unbearable weight of truth. 🎙️Radio Story: In Ways I Never Could Have Imagined by Stella Mayerhoff In the Democratic Republic of Congo, out in the field studying bonobos, Stella has to get a local man back home by lying to him, saying his baby is sick, when in fact, his baby has already died. Keywords: Congo field research, bonobos, primatology, grief in the jungle, moral dilemma, scientific fieldwork, malaria loss, human conflict abroad 💻Workshop Story: Unfolding by Rebecca Heron (Content note: sexual assault, emotional abuse, child sexual abuse.) In a Zoom session for Kevin’s online storytelling workshop, Rebecca considers how her uncle, a victim of child sexual abuse never shared his story and she feels holding that in killed him, so she shares her own story of her own survival of sexual abuse. Keywords: trauma memory, dissociation, childhood coping, sexual assault survival, storytelling workshop, inherited pain, silence and disclosure 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC on March 17, 2026 ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of Risk, you'll hear...
0:05.0	It was so much pain and he would come in and just sort of guide me into this really beautiful soft spot.
0:13.0	And you'll hear...
0:15.0	As we walked, we would stop periodically and we'd let out one of these calls.
0:19.0	Woo! But we didn't hear of these calls. Woo!
0:22.6	But we didn't hear anything at return.
0:23.4	And of course you'll hear me,
0:25.4	Kevin Allison.
0:26.4	On the show where people tell true stories
0:28.8	they never thought they'd dare to share.
0:41.0	We'll be right back.
0:42.8	Hear that?
0:44.6	It's your big McDonald's hunger calling.
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