Andrea Smardon, an award-winning producer, left her job at KUER 90.1 FM to podcast Changing Our Stories wanting, “freedom to follow my curiosity,” Smardon said. She hopes “to pursue big questions, bigger than I could approach with daily news.”

Smardon craves wisdom from “stories that will help us navigate the way forward in changing our lives,” she said. I’m interested in how the human race is transforming itself in the face of so much rapid change.”