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Performing Arts, Comedy, Arts, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Valerie Ward and David Patteson share stories about calling for help when the world gets dangerous. 🎤Live Story: Treading Water by Valerie Ward In her younger days, Valerie got stuck under a dock while swimming in a lake. It brought about mixed feelings about calling for help and how much people might or might not care about her. keywords: lake, swimming, dock, childhood 🎙️Radio Story: Rescuer by David Patteson As a kid, David is in danger of drowning till he's rescued by his big brother Mike, who goes on to fill in as surrogate mother to his brothers and sisters once their real mother abandons them. keywords: swimming, drowning, childhood, family 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC September 25 or December 11 • ✍️ 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

Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Risk, you'll hear Valerie Ward.

0:05.8

I was at a storytelling workshop, the What's Your Story Workshop for the Risk podcast. And when I

0:13.1

started telling that story out loud to strangers, and I saw that they cared about me and they were worried about me and they just, they just met me. And I saw that they cared about me and they were worried about me.

0:22.2

And they just met me.

0:24.3

And I'm there.

0:25.3

I'm okay.

0:26.0

But that they cared.

0:28.9

That really made me rethink what this story has to tell me.

0:34.6

Yep.

0:35.7

I'm familiar with that whole thing. But first, folks, we have a little ways off,

0:41.9

but they're coming. Two big holidays. There's Halloween. And then there's, well, many holidays,

0:48.5

the winter holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, Kwanza, et cetera, et cetera. So, pitch us your scary stories or your fun winter holidays kinds of stories.

1:00.7

We need them at risk dash show.com slash submissions.

1:07.0

We'll be right back.

1:09.1

Now here's the show.

1:10.3

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