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Follow Lea Thau— it's freeFrom her home in Burbank, Aarhus-born, Peabody Award-winning Danish podcast host, director, and producer LEA THAU retraces her journey from New York to Los Angeles, first leading The Moth, the live platform for storytellers, to creating the podcast Strangers. Lea describes the gradual insertion of own self at the center of her storytelling, exemplified by the "Love Hurts" and "Lea in Trumpland" miniseries. And after a 7-year hiatus, she hints at upcoming shows of yet another kind of storytelling. ---------- For today's episode, Lea Thau chose Erik Henningsen's Sat ud, or Evicted Tenants, from 1892 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark. https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1454 ---------- Photographer: Kevin Zacker ---------- This conversation with Christian D. Bruun occurred on December 10, 2025. ---------- We invite you to subscribe to Danish Originals for weekly episodes. You can also find us at: website: https://danishoriginals.com/ email: info@danishoriginals.com
Starting as an unpaid intern at The Moth when it was still a local storytelling group in New York City, Lea Thau rose up to become the Executive & Creative Director, where she remained for a decade. During her time there, she co-created The Moth Podcast and The Moth Radio Hour, helping to launch the "brand" into a global phenomenon. Thau has since become a Peabody Award-winning producer and director, now hosting her own popular podcast Strangers, which won the 2015 Public Radio March Madness Contest. She is also a storytelling teacher and coach who's worked one-on-one with people like Ethan Hawke, Marc Maron, Gabriel Byrne, Darryll “DMC” McDaniels, Margaret Cho, Suzanne Vega, as well as post-graduate fellows at Harvard, inner-city kids in New York and Los Angeles. Thau also teaches storytelling for businesses like Google, Nike, Intel, and many other companies. You can find Lea Thau at: Website : http://www.storycentral.org/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/strangerspodcast/ ------------- Have you discovered your Sparketype yet? Take the Sparketype Assessment™ now. IT’S FREE ( https://sparketype.com/ ) and takes about 7-minutes to complete. At a minimum, it’ll open your eyes in a big way. It also just might change your life. If you enjoyed the show, please share it with a friend. Thank you to our super cool brand partners. If you like the show, please support them - they help make the podcast possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Are you afraid of the new and the unknown things in your life? In this episode of FEAR NOT, Peabody Award-winning Producer and Director, Lea Thau talks about the fear of the transitions in our lives and the unknown, and how not to be overwhelmed by them.
I dette afsnit vil du møde den danske podcastskaber Lea Thau i samtale med Susanna Sommer - kendt fra bl.a. P1 Podcaster. Lea Thau var medskaber af den prisbelønnede amerikanske storytelling-gruppe The Moth, der har lavet podcasts siden 2009. Hun har efterfølgende grundlagt sin egen podcast Strangers, der årligt har 8 millioner downloads. Med Strangers undersøger Lea Thau den personlige og sårbare historie, og hvad der sker i et rum, når mennesker åbner sig for hinanden. I podcasten fortæller Lea Thau om at udlevere sig selv for hele verden, stress og at være fremmede for hinanden. Samtalen fandt sted den 19. juni 2017 i Den Sorte Diamant i København. Læs mere på Strangers' hjemmeside Følg Lea Thau på Twitter Følg Susanna Sommer på Twitter Find alle podcast-afsnit på kb.dk/podcast Følg Den Sorte Diamant på Facebook
Lea Thau is a Peabody Award-winning producer and director, and she is also the creator and host of Strangers. Her podcast features true stories of people she meets. These ‘strangers’ bare it all on her podcast, and some even discover they aren’t who they thought they were. Lea has also taught storytelling to organizations around the country, including Google, Nike, Time Inc. and many others. Lea talks on the subject of living in New York City, the differences between Denmark and the U.S., and what her creative process is like. Show Highlights 07:45 – Why are people’s stories important to Lea? 12:15 – Lea talks on what it’s like to live in New York City. 25:20 – Lea discussed what people’s emotional states were like after 9/11. 33:50 – What was Lea’s experience like with India? 41:35 – Lea believes that being from Denmark has helped her gain interest in strangers. 49:15 – I talk about the book Spiral Dynamics. 51:15 – Lea is sometimes shocked by how brutal the U.S. system is. 58:15 – There’s two sides to the coin, especially as an immigrant living in the U.S. 01:05:10 – Lea describes her thought processes after talking to guests. 01:12:15 – Lea is personally invested in her guests and has cried during interviews. 01:17:25 – Lea talks about Nate DiMeo. 01:19:25 – How has Lea grown as an interviewer? 01:20:07 – What has Lea changed her mind about recently? FULL SHOW NOTES: http://www.podcastjunkies.com/65 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Lea Thau is one of the strongest influencers of the modern storytelling style that has taken off in radio, television, advertising, and, of course, podcasting. She is a Peabody Award-winning producer and director, the former executive director of The Moth storytelling organization, and now the creator and host of the podcast Strangers. On this episode Lea tells Adam why she left The Moth and how Strangers came together, explaining the show’s relationship to public radio station KCRW and the Public Radio Exchange’s Radiotopia podcast network. Since Radiotopia is funded through both Kickstarter and sponsorships, Lea touches on the difference, and how listeners respond to hearing her read advertisements. They discuss the recent evolution of storytelling, why Lea is drawn to it, and how the kind of narratives she presents on Strangers differ from journalism. She also shares the process of revealing her life more in the show, and what her advice is for the podcaster who wants to be a good storyteller.
Sam Feirstein takes a broken heart to Alaska and finds surprising kindness in "enemy territory." Also, producer Lea Thau takes a broken heart to India and has a "stranger" experience that inspires her to create this show.
Lea Thau, creative director of TheMoth.org for a decade (2001-2010), Lea teaches business people not so much how to tell personal stories, but how to use the principles of storytelling to shape strategy, to roll out new initiatives, or frame business proposals. However I learned most by asking more about her process at the Moth and […]
