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· Breaking News

· I'm a Slow Learner

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· Black Messiahs

· Don't Forget to Breathe

· Covering Ronald Reagan

· Life After Loss

· Grappling with Grief

· Cold War Spy Thriller


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· Biker Therapist

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· Don't Forget to Breathe

· Covering Ronald Reagan

· Audacious Living Podcast

· Life After Loss

· Grappling with Grief


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· Of Frosted Flakes and Southern Comfort

· Half Our Lives Ago

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· Press vs. Prez


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Audacious Living Podcast
By John DeDakis
Last edited: Monday, May 18, 2026
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On Being Vulnerable


 Audley Stephenson does an excellent interview.

In less than an hour, he got me talking about how grief shapes my fiction, about how journalism influenced my writing, about how artificial intelligence can be a blessing--and a menace, and how an aspiring writer can overcome impostor syndrome.

See and hear it here on his Audacious Living Podcast: https://www.bestaudaciouslife.com/episodes/curiosity-storytelling-grief-writing-john-dedakis



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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 19, 2026
Oddly, Audley was audaciously inviting to listen to. Unfortunately you lowered his voice while interviewing you and I wasn't able to hear him without closed captions.

I wonder if he was inspired by Obama's book?

During the first part of the conversation you repeated a lot of what I've heard from you before in previous podcasts. But near the end I also learned a few more things, particularly about agents and AI that I haven't heard from you before.

I may have written this before but my grief has been minimal compared to yours. And I've always written about about things that happened without my control with ease and never a sense of regret or worry about what someone might think about what I was writing. It's just in me.

Looking forward to all your ventures and your memoir that you say you're going to be doing next.

Ron