Podcast Spotlight: Kristen Oliveri on the “Who We Remember” Podcast

By Kristen Oliveri 

Join Kristen Oliveri as a guest on Story Keep’s “Who We Remember” Podcast as she honors her grandmother Maura O’Brien Healy—an Irish immigrant whose quiet strength shaped three generations.

Prompted by a single clover pin and a surprising scarcity of heirlooms, Kristen reconnects with her mother and aunts, sparking a shared family archive and fresh conversation about memory, migration, and meaning. She revisits Maura’s extraordinary path—from leaving Wicklow at 14, enduring a full dental extraction to pass Ellis Island’s exam, to a five-year courtship and six children in Brooklyn—and the “village of women” who helped raise 25 cousins.

Along the way, Kristen traces the thread from tea-table interviews with Grandma to her own calling in storytelling, hospitality, and amplifying women’s voices.

It’s a tender, grounded portrait of legacy in everyday ritual: a brooch, a cup of tea, a slow meal—rooted, not rushed—and how those gestures echo in the work and lives we build.

Listen Here: https://www.storykeep.com/podcast/kristen-oliveri