What’s it like to survive a rare illness? To spend years living and working in Antarctica? To set a world record?
To become a chess grandmaster, rehabilitate wild animals, or study our trash after we throw it away?
On Tell Me What It’s Like, host Stacy Raine talks with people whose lives and work have immersed them in worlds most of us never see firsthand. They share what it was really like to live through these experiences, what they learned, and how it changed the way they see the world around them.
Listen to the latest episode:
Finding her Birth Mother at 51: Julie Melanson on Adoption and Identity
Julie Melanson always knew she was adopted, but it wasn’t until she was 51 that she searched for her birth mother — eventually finding her, meeting her birth family, and building a relationship with her mother before losing her soon after.