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Peace Corps Stories: The Unofficial Podcast

The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of New York City

An unfiltered look at the toughest job you'll ever love. Each episode features true stories about the Peace Corps, told by returned volunteers reflecting on the thrilling highs, the debilitating lows, the near-death experiences and the crazy adventures that you may not hear about from the Peace Corps organization itself.

  • 15 minutes 8 seconds
    Episode 22 - Michelle Obama and the Soviet YMCA
    There are many ways to learn about the local culture as a Peace Corps volunteer, but often the best lessons happen by accident rather than by design. In this episode we hear two stories out of the Ukraine, from Victoria Walker and Allison Miller, who made strong impressions on the locals, but maybe not for the reasons they would have chosen.
    22 October 2020, 11:00 pm
  • 14 minutes 8 seconds
    Episode 21 - Circus of Love
    Shawna Miller finds much more than love when the circus comes to her little Honduran town.
    24 September 2020, 9:20 pm
  • 16 minutes 8 seconds
    Episode 20 - The Mutt And The Machete
    Pets and animals tend to play outsize roles for Peace Corps Volunteers. As companions who, like us, don’t speak the local language, they can make the experience a lot easier. For Helen Alesbury, her dog was at the center of one of her most memorable moments in her time in El Salvador.
    14 August 2020, 5:24 pm
  • 10 minutes 48 seconds
    Episode 19 - The Chinese Sushi Icebreaker
    At some point, every volunteer finds themselves too far from a bathroom at the time they need it most. For Denver Governor, that moment turned out to be one of the most important.
    28 July 2020, 11:06 pm
  • 13 minutes 16 seconds
    Episode 18 - A Shakespearean Crime in Zimbabwe
    Bob Nolan considers what “justice” means when confronting one of his students and friends in Zimbabwe.
    16 July 2020, 2:38 pm
  • 8 minutes 36 seconds
    Episode 17 - Guyanese Fish Flop
    All it took was a fish and a flip flop for Gabriella Miyares to find common ground with her host mother in Guyana.
    4 July 2020, 5:52 pm
  • 7 minutes 26 seconds
    Episode 16 - The Watermelon Coup
    Kevin Kwok remembers his gardening efforts in Mali, cut short by a military coup in 2012 that sent him home early.
    27 June 2020, 1:02 am
  • 8 minutes 22 seconds
    Episode 15 - Peter's $#!{{? Day
    Peter Clark (Kyrgyzstan, 2009-2010) recalls a challenging day on the playground early in his service, and we take a look back at the scatological memories that defined his service as emcee of the Peace Corps Story Slam in the final episode of Season 1.
    19 December 2016, 2:38 am
  • 12 minutes 38 seconds
    Episode 14 - A Gambian Funeral
    Ryan Smith (The Gambia, 2007-2009) sees how a community deals with death during his first months in the Peace Corps.
    2 December 2016, 1:46 pm
  • 13 minutes 23 seconds
    Episode 13 - Sometimes you just have to vomit
    Julie Behrens (Honduras, 2004-2006) takes her first work trip and almost makes it home in one piece.
    18 November 2016, 2:01 pm
  • 10 minutes 58 seconds
    Episode 12 - Josh makes a tough decision
    Josh Norman (Togo, 2000-2002) remembers a tough decision when he had to choose between a project and a person.
    4 November 2016, 12:20 pm
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