Stories from a Stranger
Higher Ground Visit website › Society & Culture · EN · 28 episodes · latest 2026-11-09 · explicit
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Latest episodes
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S E27: Keeping Friends Alive Through Stories E
Hunter speaks with three strangers who lost cherished friends about keeping their memories alive.Rob lost his best friend Charlie Keating, a Navy SEAL killed in action on May 3, 2016. Rob and Charlie met freshman year…
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S E26: Hope After Heartbreak: Finding Love After A Bad Relationship E
Hunter talks to three strangers who left bad--and in some cases, abusive-- relationships only to find their soulmate.Samantha's greatest love is her fiance Eric, whom she describes as "the first man that I actually…
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S E25: Nobody Hurts Forever: Stories of Survival and Healing from Trauma E
Hunter speaks with two strangers about traumatic experiences and how they're coping with the lasting effects. Ashbey and her son Beau survived a horrific mass shooting at a parade in Highland Park, Illinois. She…
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S E24: You've Made It Through 100% of Your Darkest Days: Mental Health and Healing E
Hunter talks to three strangers about their mental health journey.Justice describes the most beautiful thing she's been told: "that everything is temporary". She explains this perspective has helped her throughout…
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S E23: Finding My Perfect Partner: Love, Loss, and Reinvention E
This week Hunter talks to three strangers about meeting their perfect partners.Frank met his wife on Tinder following a painful emotionally abusive breakup that had caused him to give up on dating entirely. He initially…
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S E22: Invisible Battles: Living with Chronic Illness E
This week Hunter speaks with three strangers who are struggling with chronic illness.Lulu is a young woman who battled Lyme disease beginning at age 11. Her background includes years of misdiagnosis, during which…
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S E21: Chosen: Stories of Adoption, Identity, and the Search for Belonging E
Hunter speaks to three strangers with one thing in common: they’re adopted.Alyssa is a Black woman who grew up in a predominantly white community as an adopted child of an Italian-American family, making her adoption…
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S E20: Fill the Space: How Heartbreak Becomes a New Beginning E
-Jeremy is a Canadian actor and comedian who put his career on hold to move to New York for his second husband, Zach, whom he met on Tinder. He describes Zach as the greatest love of his life, noting they met briefly on…
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S E19: Some Wounds Never Heal: Conversations on Love and Letting Go E
Hunters speaks with three strangers who are remembering family members they’ve lost, or are losing.-Caty shares the story of watching her mother decline from primary progressive aphasia, a form of frontotemporal…
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S E18: Loving Yourself: Stories of Identity and Healing E
-J’Quay reflects on “heartache” rather than just heartbreak, describing how investing deeply in something that doesn’t work out leads to emotional crashes, but also to the realization that time helps us cope and reframe…
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- Oldest episode in feed
- 05/2026
- Typical length
- 44 min
- Format
- Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
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