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Valley Voices
Hosted by Vanessa Cerillo

Our podcast features the outrageous, funny and heartwarming true stories told by your friends and neighbors at Valley Voices Story Slam events throughout western Massachusetts.

Valley Voices Story Slam is presented by New England Public Media and the Academy of Music Theatre.

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Latest Episodes
  • Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Messy Desks
    When you know you are the “keeper of a messy desk”, might as well just own it! Angela Combest is this week’s storyteller for NEPM’s Summer Shorts podcast. She looks back on a memory from grade school and gets a peek into how it relates to her head space as an adult.
  • Mother Teresa and a Pit Bull
    On NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts this week, Sarah Madden shares her story “Mother Teresa and a Pit Bull” including a few memories of her early days of teaching. This one should come with a language warning - you probably want to keep this away from kids if you don’t want them learning certain words that they could use against you!
  • True Therapy Crime
    Jennifer Baker is up next in NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast. At our “Valley Folklore” story slam this season, Jennifer takes a look at an unexpected guest who showed up at her office.
  • Valley Voices Summer Shorts: It's Going To Be Fine
    Another veteran storyteller this week for NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast. Paul McNeil takes a minute to examine his life’s philosophy while in the back of a cop car.
  • Valley Voices Summer Shorts: The Smartest Bird The World Has Ever Seen
    Jessica Geil takes us back to elementary school on NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast this week. She seems to be remembering a lot of emotions that were specific to her situation, but somehow those feelings are pretty relatable for all of us!
  • Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Dancing With the In Laws
    This week on NEPM’s Summer Shorts podcast, veteran story slam participant Matthew Dicks takes a look at one night from the past that could have been just embarrassing, but in the end gave him a chance to re-think his relationship with his in-laws.
  • Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Talking Trees
    As part of NEPM’s 10th season of our Valley Voices Story Slam, we asked for people’s “Valley Folklore” - tales about the unique place that we all live.Helene Busby went to Hampshire College, surely one of the most “unique” parts of our “unique” Valley! For this week’s Summer Short, Helene brings us a funny remembrance of Hampshire and its quirky students in her story “Talking Trees”.
  • Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Gratitude Lists
    Up next in our Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast season, it’s Valerie Reiss with a story about her and her dad that swoops from the present to the past and back again. Enjoy!
  • Suite Disaster
    Storyteller Wesley Blixt kicks off 2025's Summer Shorts season of Valley Voices from NEPM - check out his nostalgia for his younger days and how they led him to where he is now.
  • Best of Season 10
    It’s the Valley Voices Story Slam podcast: We had the winners of season 10’s Story Slams on stage at the Academy of Music in Northampton in April. And now we present to you - the Best of Season 10! There were great stories all year long, but Chris Bell, Ann Marie Zanfagna and Susan Cocalis were the audience’s favorite that night. Enjoy!