Vicarious Resilience: Storytelling for Mental Health

Our award-winning podcast, The TMI Project Story Hour enters its 7th Season with the launch of Vicarious Resilience: Storytelling for Mental Health, a collection of stories in celebration of Mental Health Awareness Month. Season 7 highlights the brave souls who stepped on stage and shared the truth about their lived experience to raise awareness and break the stigma around mental illness. 

Vicarious Resilience spans 6 episodes featuring true stories on topics including depression, schizophrenia, substance abuse, and generational trauma, and recovery, all written and performed through TMI Project’s true storytelling programs. 

Storytellers featured include TMI Project co-founder and Executive Director Eva Tenuto (she/her), Morris Bassik (he/him), Patty Curry (she/her), Tyana Gaston (she/her), Jonathan Gonzalez (he/him), and Sam Chilton (he/him).

The trailer for Season 7: Vicarious Resilience airs TODAY! Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: https://pod.link/1493621990

New episodes air Wednesdays, beginning May 1st. 

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How Laganja Estranja Taught Jay Jackson to Let Her Hair Down

A new episode of The TMI Project Story Hour drops today featuring RuPaul’s Drag Race superstar Laganja Estranja, aka Jay Jackson.

In this special 4/20 episode of The TMI Project Story Hour, Jay steps off the runway to reveal a more intimate side of herself. Tune in to hear how her drag career inspired a profound shift in embracing her trans identity, and how full self-acceptance has impacted her relationship with Laganja’s namesake plant, cannabis. 

The episode culminates with a powerful speech from Celeste Lecesne, co-founder of The Trevor Project, as they lovingly present Jay with TMI Project’s Voices in Action Award, honoring her important work as an artist and activist.

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TMI Project Welcomes Our Newest Team Member: Dacia Clay

TMI Project is thrilled to welcome its newest member. Welcome to the team Dacia Clay!

“I work in podcasts and radio because I wholeheartedly believe in the power of story to build bridges, change minds and hearts, and engage our emotions in a way that nothing else can. TMI Project is using that power for good, and I’m honored to be a part of what they do.”

Dacia Clay (Pronouns: she/they) is an audio producer, host, writer, and interviewer. She began her career in public radio as a music librarian, where she started learning audio production by sneaking into the hall studio in between shelving CDs. Since then, she’s developed and worked on many digital audio series, podcasts and radio shows, in multiple capacities, most recently KUOW’s The Wild (adventures in ecology and conservation), Rice University’s Religion Unmuted (about women in religion), Fiber Nation (tales of textiles, crafts, and culture), and Northwest Focus Stories (stories from Seattle’s classical music community with a focus on diversity and inclusion). She’s currently in production with two upcoming series, the Dr. Kimcast (using art and science to teach you about your brain), and Tiny Histories (individual histories through the lens of personal objects). Since 2013, she’s hosted and co-produced the Classical Classroom (about how she knows very little about classical music, so has experts come on the show to teach her). She lives in Seattle where she writes, runs, hikes, hangs out with her partner and their giant kitten, and probably watches way too much TV.

TMI Project Welcomes Our Latest Board Member

TMI Project is thrilled to welcome its newest member to our Board of Directors. Welcome to the team Darnell L. Pierce!

“There are millions of stories that need to be told and heard. I decided to join the board at TMI Project because I believe storytelling has always been the most compelling way to learn and unlearn ways of being and thinking.”

Darnell L. Pierce (Pronouns:he/him/his) comes from a big family, hailing from Syracuse, New York. He works full-time at Bard College as an Assistant Dean of Students and is in the Army National Guard. Residing in Kingston, Darnell loves fitness, tennis, and good Netflix Binge.

Interested in helping TMI Project share our mission to change the world,
one radically true story at a time?