We’re jealous of those who we think we could be: Patrick McNeil

We’re jealous of those people we think we could be because of the belief of missed choices, says Patrick McNeil.

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Don’t be jealous of what you don’t really want: Melissa DiPento

Story Shuffle 9 host Melissa DiPento has been jealous any number of times but often not about what mattered to who she wanted to be.

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Someone you’re jealous of, may be jealous of you: Shannon McDonald

Shannon McDonald was jealous of a childhood friend and her seven brothers and sisters. Turns out, she was jealous of Shannon.

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Jealousy can motivate you to achieve success: Christopher Wink

Jealousy, and other bad qualities, can be used to motivate you to achieve the kind of success you want to have, says Christopher Wink.

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Story Shuffle 8 Anniversaries audio is now live

Celebrating with champagne and tater tots, the one year anniversary of Story Shuffle was celebrated in Fishtown just a tad late, marking the eighth in our every-other-month series, one night after coming just short in winning our nomination as Best Podcast at the Philly Geek Awards (Talkadelphia rightly brought the award home).

All of the audio is now live.

Choose from the stories below or find  them all here. Check out the Facebook photos here.

  1. Celebrating One Year Anniversary of Story Shuffle
  2. Fuck Anniversaries by Daniel Victor
  3. “You have to go far enough away to be seen:” Christopher Wink on Voyager II
  4. Alex Irwin: Celebrate 10th Amendment Day
  5. Patrick McNeil: the Creation Myth of the McNeil Clan
  6. Sean Blanda has an empty book to record important dates
  7. Melissa DiPento talks about the kid’s table [no audio]
  8. Erica G’s worst summer of her teenage life turns out OK
  9. Shannon McDonald on Anniversary Role Models
  10. Lisa Kaneff on inauspicious wedding anniversary beginnings

Lisa Kaneff on inauspicious wedding anniversary beginnings

PR star Lisa Kaneff talks about bad starts to wedding anniversaries, namely her brother’s.

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Shannon McDonald on Anniversary Role Models

WHYY reporter Shannon McDonald talks about betting on the future anniversaries of her friends and her different philosophy on love than that friend based on differing role models.

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Erica G’s worst summer of her teenage life turns out OK

Grad student Erica G was going to go to Israel as a teenager but things didn’t work out. This is the story of celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Philadelphia Folk Festival instead.

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Melissa DiPento talks about the kid’s table

Every family anniversary or celebration, South Jersey reporter Melissa DiPento sits at the kid’s table, along with a slew of cousins who aren’t much kids anymore.

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Sean Blanda has an empty book to record important dates

Reporter Sean Blanda can’t be bothered with anniversaries and thinks he has an explanation.

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