Meg Bowles

Over the decades, she has helped a wide array of storytellers craft their stories and has directed main stage shows everywhere from Anchorage to London.

She is an author of the New York Times bestselling book, How to Tell a Story.

This episode of the Moth Podcast was produced by Sarah Austin Janess, Sarah Jane Johnson, and me, Mark Sollinger.

The rest of the Moth's leadership team includes Gina Duncan, Christina Norman, Marina Cloutier, Jennifer Hickson, Jordan Cardinale, Caledonia Cairns, Kate Tellers, Suzanne Rust, and Patricia Ureña.

The Moth Podcast is presented by Odyssey.

Special thanks to their executive producer, Leah Reese Dennis.

All moth stories are true, as remembered by their storytellers.

For more about our podcast, information on pitching your own story, and everything else, go to our website, themoth.org.

This is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Meg Bowles. And today we're taking you to London for a live main stage show. Now imagine you're sitting in a darkened Gothic revival style church. The sun is setting through the stained glass windows. Candles illuminate the eaves.

This is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Meg Bowles. And today we're taking you to London for a live main stage show. Now imagine you're sitting in a darkened Gothic revival style church. The sun is setting through the stained glass windows. Candles illuminate the eaves.

This is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Meg Bowles. And today we're taking you to London for a live main stage show. Now imagine you're sitting in a darkened Gothic revival style church. The sun is setting through the stained glass windows. Candles illuminate the eaves.

The wooden pews are packed and the energy is buzzing as our audience awaits an evening of stories on the theme of taking a leap and going all in. Live from the Union Chapel in London, here's your host for the evening, actor, comedian, and writer, Tiff Stevenson.

The wooden pews are packed and the energy is buzzing as our audience awaits an evening of stories on the theme of taking a leap and going all in. Live from the Union Chapel in London, here's your host for the evening, actor, comedian, and writer, Tiff Stevenson.

The wooden pews are packed and the energy is buzzing as our audience awaits an evening of stories on the theme of taking a leap and going all in. Live from the Union Chapel in London, here's your host for the evening, actor, comedian, and writer, Tiff Stevenson.

Well done. Kate Oliver has all the coolest jobs. She's an educator in environmental charities, museums and zoos, and a psychotherapy student. She spends her free time running the Radical Rest Project, encouraging people to have more rest. And she says she absolutely sees the irony in this.

Well done. Kate Oliver has all the coolest jobs. She's an educator in environmental charities, museums and zoos, and a psychotherapy student. She spends her free time running the Radical Rest Project, encouraging people to have more rest. And she says she absolutely sees the irony in this.

Well done. Kate Oliver has all the coolest jobs. She's an educator in environmental charities, museums and zoos, and a psychotherapy student. She spends her free time running the Radical Rest Project, encouraging people to have more rest. And she says she absolutely sees the irony in this.

She's only been paintballing one other time since her first adventure, and she said once again she encountered a gaggle of teenage boys, but this time she and her friends got their butts kicked. We'll bring you more of this special live hour from London when the Moth Radio Hour continues.

She's only been paintballing one other time since her first adventure, and she said once again she encountered a gaggle of teenage boys, but this time she and her friends got their butts kicked. We'll bring you more of this special live hour from London when the Moth Radio Hour continues.

She's only been paintballing one other time since her first adventure, and she said once again she encountered a gaggle of teenage boys, but this time she and her friends got their butts kicked. We'll bring you more of this special live hour from London when the Moth Radio Hour continues.