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If you got the chance to interview the host of one of your favorite podcasts, what questions would you ask them? On this past Season, Season 3, I got that chance. Kimi Culp, the host of the podcast All the Wiser, was a guest on my show. On All the Wiser, Kimi interviews people with remarkable stories. Stories about the darkest moments of their life.  What brought them there? How did they get through it? And what wisdom did they gain from that experience? There were a lot of things I wanted to ask Kimi, but the first question that popped into my head was about one guest in particular. This guest was Sue Klebold. Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the perpetrators of the mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. The mass shooting at Columbine wasn’t the first mass shooting at a high school, but for some reason it became the most iconic and felt like the beginning of the ongoing wave of school shootings we’ve seen in the United States. I asked Kimi about inviting the mother of one of the most notorious mass shooters on her show.  Why did she choose her? Was she nervous about how this choice would be interpreted by her listeners? Kimi’s answer to me was incredibly moving and, if you haven’t heard my episode from Season 3 with Kimi, I invite you to go back and listen to it. Thanks to Kimi’s courage in this choice of guest, I would say that my heart grew just a bit more. First, when I listened to Kimi’s interview of Sue Klebold. And second, when Kimi told me why she interviewed her.

As a bonus episode between seasons, I’m sharing Kimi Culp's interview with Sue Klebold from her podcast All the Wiser. I’ll put a link back to the All the Wiser  website so that you can read the show notes from this episode and check out more episodes from this show. 

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Today, I’m joined by Kimi Culp, founder and host of All the Wiser, a podcast that explores nonfiction storytelling through conversation. On her show, Kimi gives people from all walks of life the chance to tell their story in a way that maybe they've never had a chance to do before. We discuss Kimi’s deeply empathetic approach, what inspired her to illuminate people’s lived experiences, and reimagine what it looks like to heal in community. 

To kick off our conversation, I asked Kimi how being bipolar and sharing that she lives with that condition informs her show. She explains why she decided to share that part of her life with her audience and describes the incredible ripple effect that it’s had on her community. She also illustrates how she supports herself as a deeply emotional person, which can be challenging given the content of her show. 

Kimi shares how some of her potentially controversial episodes, like Sue Klebold's and Amanda Knox's, came to be. She talks about what draws her into people’s stories and how she goes about finding guests for the show. Kimi and I touch on how podcasting and really hearing someone’s story from their perspective has the potential to heal us as individuals and a society. She also highlights how she sees the show progressing and the decision to donate $2,000 to a charity that is near and dear to each storyteller’s heart. 

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Castbox, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Topics Covered:

●      How Kimi started to come to terms with her bipolar diagnosis 

●      Where Kimi’s deep sense of empathy comes from 

●      Honoring what it’s like to live the full human experience 

●      The intimate nature of podcasting for both the content creators and listeners 

●      Kimi’s dedication to ethical storytelling 

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●      All The Wiser Podcast 

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Tales of surviving shark attacks, abusive relationships, plane crashes and religious cults, All the Wiser host Kimi Culp knows great stories when she hears them ... and luckily she shares them with her listeners. This week, Zack talks to Kimi about her show and some of the inspirational guests she’s interviewed.  All the Wiser is a pod library must-add.