Listener Stories: This season we had some listeners email some stories, so we put them together in an episode! If you have an interesting story to share about your grandparent, please email us at storiesfromgrandparentspodcast@gmail.com. We’d love to hear it!  ..read more

When you have multiple identities, how do you find connection to your culture or heritage? For Sam, it meant embarking on an epic journey to India to find his grandfather’s home, with nothing but a faded photograph and vague family memories to guide him ..read more

As listeners know, we’re always looking for different types of grandparent stories because not everyone has heartwarming, positive relationships with their families.  Lauren gave us stories of family dysfunction, where her battleax grandmother was often at the center ..read more

Jason’s grandfather was a lover of horses and horse racing.  Jason took the opportunity to interview him on tape before he died, so our listeners will get to hear pieces of their conversation.  It’s a heartwarming special treat!  Turns out the qualities that make someone good with horses, also make them good at being a grandparent ..read more

Sonia Lewis is an author and anti-racism advocate who joined us from California.  She discussed her role as a grandparent figure in her family, and shared how an early life experience as a young girl in the 1970s propelled her into anti-racism work. This experience is also the premise of her new book, Monsters and Aliens, which is meant for both children and adults.  Interspersed is advice on how to have tough convos about race and discrimination with family members, particularly an older generation.  ..read more

Welcome to Season 2 of Stories from Grandparents!  In this episode Madison interviews her amazing grandmother, G about her various adventures.  G is probably the most badass grandmother we'll ever have on the show.  She went skydiving for her 80th and 90th birthdays, worked as a Medevac nurse in the Canadian Arctic, and has travelled all around the world.  As you'll hear, she never let her busy life get in the way of family ..read more

This episode is a very special one.  Our guest, Talisa, is one of Robin's best friends, and  inspirations for the podcast.  She was raised by her old-school Italian grandparents in their hometown of Quesnel, BC.  Having grandparents as parents is a unique experience  --both in terms of hilarious generational gaps, but also loss of parent-figures at a young age ..read more

Having lived through hardships such war and the Great Depression, our grandparents come from a time when saving and using everything you had was necessary for survival.  This episode touches on the importance of not wasting anything ..read more

This is another epic tale that comes straight from a grandfather’s memoir. Jenna tells of her grandad’s adventurous life as a teenager between 1936 and 1939.  You’ll hear thrilling, and heartfelt coming of age stories, that include crossing oceans, jumping trains, and stowing away on ships.  The memoir ends ominously, at the start of WWII.  Bookending these tales of course, are stories of what Jenna’s grandfather meant to her, and taught her about life.   ..read more

Our first guest, Chris, was one of the inspirations for the podcast!  Originally from Newfoundland, he tells stories with his Newfie charm, and gives us a sense of what life was like for his grandparents, who had great impacts within their rural communities ..read more