Celebrate the beauty and messiness of human connection. Real stories of real, complicated relationships. How does it feel when your dead mom’s Italian ex-lover won’t stop writing you? Or when you try to connect with your queer identity by... doing drag as your grandpa?
Award-winning documentary storytelling that cuts right to the heart. Season 4 coming October 6.
Hosted by Lu Olkowski. Produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime.
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Love Me Introduces: Voice Lessons from Signal Hill
In the middle of Amelia's family, there's a silence. She wants to crack it open, so she starts learning to sing.
Voice Lessons is a special feature from Signal Hill, a new, independent audio magazine. You can listen to more Signal Hill stories at www.signalhill.fm (www.signalhill.fm) or wherever you get podcasts. Sign up to support Signal Hill through their membership program (there are perks!) here.
Voice Lessons was reported and produced by Amelia Schonbek, with sound design and additional production by Jackson Roach. It was edited by Annie Rosenthal and Liza Yeager.
10 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
Love Me Introduces: Creation Myth
Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites you to explore the human experience in all its complexity, one story — or season — at a time.
In the latest season of Personally: Creation Myth, Helena does not want kids. Her husband believes she’ll change her mind—she has so much love to give, she would be a perfect mother. That will never happen, she tells him. Again. And again. Until one day, he leaves.
In the silence, doubt starts rushing in. So she asks her close friends, her mother, her sister, even a perfect stranger—did she make the right decision? What is the purpose of life? Center your pleasure, says one friend. Go for adventure, says another, and isn’t parenthood the biggest adventure of all? Be true to yourself, says a father who regrets his decision. But the voice she needs to hear is her own. More episodes of Creation Myth are available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://link.mgln.ai/CMxLM (https://link.mgln.ai/CMxLM)
10 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
Worries
Story 1: Safwat has A LOT of anxiety for his daughter's future: that she won’t learn enough Urdu to be able to talk with her grandmother while she’s still alive. That she’ll grow embarrassed by his accent. That she’ll bear the brunt of climate change. Now that she’s 7 years old, Safwat confesses some of these worries to his daughter and tries to uncover her own anxieties for the future.
Story 2: Julie used to hum in class as a kid to soothe her anxieties. Until her teacher complained that Julie’s humming was distracting the other students. So she found herself in a doctor’s office, being diagnosed with Tourette’s. And there, the doctor pointed to Julie’s mom and said “your daughter has it… because you have it.” Twenty years later, when Julie’s ticks reappear following a great loss, Julie and her mom talk about this shared connection.
Featuring Julie Piñero and Safwat Saleem. To see Safwat’s anxiety charts, go to: safwatsaleem.com
Inside a recent episode
Love Me Introduces: Voice Lessons from Signal Hill
Published 30 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] She walked extremely quickly at all times. Crossing the road she would grip my hand like it could turn blue and sort of pull me across. Would she tuck you in? Of course. She would give me a kiss, she would say goodnight. But the sort of dealing with fears such as every child has that she delegated to Grandpa. If we were afraid of the dark or afraid of a monster, Grand didn't have the bandwidth to deal with comforting a kid in that sense and saying there's nothing to worry about. But that Grandpa did endlessly and with extreme patience. When there was a thunderstorm, I mean again, Grandpa would take us outside. […]
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