I'm Okay, You're Okay

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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From the RISK! archives, this January 2014 episode gathers three storytellers around a theme that sounds simple and turns out not to be: actually being okay with yourself. Joel Kim Booster grew up as a gay Korean adoptee in an evangelical family, and it wasn't until he fell for a man who specifically desired him because of his race that he realized how thoroughly someone else's rejection had shaped his sense of his own worth. Dylan Brody has been performing the postmortem on his own victories since fifth grade, and it took competing in a full-contact TaeKwondo tournament at 41, with blood running down his face, to get a piece of advice he hadn't been able to give himself. Jolenta Greenberg built an entire adolescent identity around the belief that she was a diamond in the rough, and her high school crush Brian eventually put that idea to the test. Full episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/im-okay-youre-okay-cre513 Support RISK! & Get Involved 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in New York City on Tuesday, June 9th ✍️ 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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1:12.4	dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday, we release these special episodes
1:18.2	where we look back at content from our earlier years. This week, an episode that premiered in
1:23.5	January of 2014. It's an episode we call I'm okay, you're okay.
1:29.5	Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm okay I'm okay
1:45.0	I'm okay, you're okay, we're okay, we're okay, I'm okay to share, I'm okay to you, you show where people tell true stories they never thought they
2:19.1	dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and this is American Gypsy behind me now. The very best
2:26.9	village people imitating group out of Holland, circa 1979, because today's episode is called, I'm Okay, You're Okay, three wonderful
2:38.4	stories from recent risk live shows in New York and Los Angeles about being okay with
2:45.4	yourself, not just being okay, but not beating up on yourself. Let's just say it. Loving yourself, damn you.
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