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Where We Rise: Exploring and Connecting
Where We Rise Podcast | Episode 20 | "Exploring and Connecting" | Adventures in Traveling
June 25, 2026
In this episode of Where We Rise, Khalila sits down with award‑winning author and world traveler Meg Stafford to explore how curiosity, courage, and connection shape a life of adventure. Meg shares the stories behind her book Who Will Accompany You?, the travels that shaped her, and the journeys her daughters took that stretched her heart in new ways.
Meg Stafford Shares Transformative Mother-Daughter Journeys in “Who Will Accompany You?”
A moving memoir about love, trust, and discovering independence through travel.
Lawrence Township, NJ, USA – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Meg Stafford’s memoir, "Who Will Accompany You?: My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far From Home and Close to the Heart,” offers an intimate exploration of mother-daughter relationships set against the backdrop of Nepal, Bhutan, Colombia, and home. A licensed psychotherapist and award-winning author with 17 literary honors, Stafford brings decades of professional insight to this reflective and heartfelt narrative.
Who Will Accompany You
January 27, 2026
Book Trailer for Who Will Accompany You? My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far From Home and Close to the Heart.
Ones to Watch: Women Impacting Thought Leadership in 2025
Grit Daily - by Spencer Hulse
November 18, 2025
Meg is featured in this latest installment of the "Ones to Watch" series, Grit Daily partners with Heather Burgett’s Shine Collective to spotlight ten women whose ideas are actively shaping how we think about life, leadership, money, and health in times of transition and uncertainty in 2025. These are the women others turn to when the path forward is unclear and new frameworks are needed.
YV Museum concert: fascinating sounds from fantastical instruments
The Acton Exchange - by Meg Stafford
May 31, 2025
It was impossible to know what to expect from the May 18 concert at the YV Museum. The photo alone does not conjure the possibilities of sound and motion that are created by this metal sculpture composed of some recognizable parts (Buddha head, horse shoes, hubcaps, parts of wheels, hoses, levers, switches to name a few) and many many other metal parts. They were assembled by Viktor Lois, sculptor, musician, and cofounder of YV Museum, over the course of two years when Covid created a reason for him to stay inside and focus on his artwork.
Focusing on Healing with Heart, Humor, and Humanity with Meg Stafford
Selective Hearing with Julie Dammar
May 19, 2025
In this soulful and uplifting episode of Selective Hearing, host Julie Dammar sits down with guest Meg Stafford, a social worker in private practice for over 34 years, an award-winning memoirist, and a lifelong mental health advocate. With over four decades of experience supporting others through their emotional journeys, Meg shares the wisdom she's gathered from the therapy room and her vibrant life.
Author Interview with Meg Stafford
P. English Literature
February 23, 2025
Meg is an award-winning author of two memoirs, speaker, and storyteller, featured on WGBH’s “Stories from the Stage. As a 16x literary award winner and columnist, she is an observer of humans’ and animals’ delightful quirks. Her column, “A Moment’s Notice,” was featured, for many years, in a number of local Boston area newspapers.
Meet Meg Stafford
Bold Journey
February 11, 2025
Hi Meg, so excited to talk about all sorts of important topics with you today. The first one we want to jump into is about being the only one in the room – for some that’s being the only person of color or the only non-native English speaker or the only non-MBA, etc Can you talk to us about how you have managed to be successful even when you were the only one in the room that looked like you?
Meet Meg Stafford
CanvasRebel - Stories & Insights
February 6, 2025
What were some of the challenges you faced?
Thanks so much for having me. Challenges and lessons- so important and a part of almost everyone’s story! It’s important to see our challenges as lessons. What we may perceive as ‘failures’ often turns out to be our biggest lessons. That’s why on my business card as a psychotherapist I have a symbol of three dots in a triangle. I was told that in Chinese, this character represents crisis, and it also represents opportunity. I fully believe and embrace this notion, and when I meet with therapy clients I see this over and over.
Meet Meg Stafford
CanvasRebel - Stories & Insights
November 17, 2024
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Meg Stafford a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Travel and Personal Growth: Meg Stafford On Why & How Traveling Can Help Us Become Better Human Beings
Authority Magazine - An interview with Maria Angelova
November 4, 2024
Thankfully, the world is open for travel once again. Traveling can broaden our horizons and make space for people to become more open-minded. How can travel give us the opportunity for personal growth? What are some ways that travel can help us become better human beings? As a part of our series about “How Traveling Can Help Us Become Better Human Beings”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Meg Stafford.
Episode 146: The Healing Power of Authentic Storytelling with Meg Stafford
Eclusive Interview with Award-Winning Health Writer Meg Stafford
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Meg Stafford: Creating Connection Through Mindful Truthtelling
Women's Journal - Megan Wilson
July 29, 2024
Meg Stafford, best-selling author, speaker and storyteller delivers first international talk, “Speaking Our Truths: Where Everyone Wins.” Stafford, a literary award winner discussed key components in communicating—from the importance of clarity to speaking from the heart, and delivering a message sooner rather than later.
She notes that the most common “lie” is people saying “I’m fine,” rather than conveying actual feelings. This small untruth serves to keep people separate from one another. And it’s likely part of the 80% of people who tell half-truths some of the time.
Meg Stafford - On The Topic of Cancer
Mother & Daughter Travel Inspires Heartwarming Book
WKRN - 2 ABC - Local on 2
April 26, 2024
WORLD Channel: Stories from the Stage
Quest
January 22, 2024
Meg: Just Friends
The Volume Knob
May 6, 2024
Hillside Stories
Fruitlands, Harvard, MA Theme: Wild Oats
January 17, 2024
Creating Meaningful and Lasting Memories during Trips with Your Kids
Wandering Educators
March 21, 2024
If you are wondering about how to create meaningful and lasting memories during trips with your kids, you are already heading in the right direction. Simply by asking the question, you are not assuming that what would be fun for you would also be fun for your offspring.
A doctor of mine once said that when they’re young, your children follow you in your travels, but as they get older, you start to follow them.
MEG STAFFORD ANNOUNCES NEW BOOK, Who Will Accompany You? My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far From Home And Close To The Heart
BOSTON (PRWEB)
April 27, 2022
Accomplished author, psychotherapist, executive coach and newspaper columnist, Meg Stafford, announces the public release of her second book: Who Will Accompany You? My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far from Home and Close to the Heart. Award-winning memoirist Meg Stafford has an adventurous spirit, and this time she takes us along for the ride. When her daughters venture into terra incognita – one of them meditating in the Himalayas and the other providing unarmed protection in the Colombian countryside – Stafford decides to go too. In the process, she reflects on her own lifetime of wanderlust and what it means for a parent to love and let go. Generous, insightful, and deeply funny, Stafford is the ideal tour guide for a journey as big as the world and as intimate as the human heart.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder: Littleton author details journeys abroad with her daughters in new memoir
Lowell Sun / Sentinel and Enterprise
April 7, 2022
LITTLETON — Few mothers would allow their young daughters to work in war-torn countries and travel thousands of miles away as teenagers, but Meg Stafford is no ordinary mom.
Her only stipulation? She comes with them.
The Littleton resident chronicled the long journeys she and her two daughters, Kate and Gale, took in her memoir, “Who Will Accompany You?: My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far From Home and Close to the Heart,” published in January. Incorporating her own writing, years after her trips, with her daughters’ diary entries and old emails allowed Stafford to compare the perspectives of her children with her own experience while abroad.
Author Meg Stafford, of Littleton, holds a copy of her new book, Who Will Accompany You? which describes spending time with her two daughters on their world travels. Courtesy Photo/Meg Stafford
Who Will Accompany You?
Wicked Local
February 4, 2022
Littleton -- From a Buddhist monastery in Nepal to the countryside of Colombia, writer Meg Stafford visited her daughters in their travels.
These experiences are the subject of her new book, Who Will Accompany You? My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far from Home, and Close to the Heart.
Stafford, a social worker in private practice, is a familiar to Eagle-Independent readers as a regular columnist.
Stafford's 2011 memoir, Topic of Cancer: Riding the Waves of the Big C won six literary awards (including being named Best First Book by the Independent Book Publisher's Association Benjamin Franklin Awards.
Ann Ringwood/Wicked Local
Chronicling a voyage through the ‘Big C’
Littleton Independent
March 11, 2011
Littleton — After enduring two years of chemotherapy, mastectomy, radiation and reconstructive surgery, Meg Stafford’s oncologist asked whether she felt able to resume her life.
“I never stopped living it,” was Stafford’s response.
That outlook is a central theme of “Topic of Cancer: Riding the Waves of the Big C,” a lively account that evolved from an e-mail distribution list Stafford maintained to inform family and friends about her treatment, the choices she made and the emotional ups and downs accompanying them.
International Conference - Speaking our Truths: Where Everyone Wins - Dr. BETKAR M M - 7/3/2024
The Himalayas with Meg Stafford: the meaning of happiness, mother-daughter trips, and trekking in the Himalayas - The Trip That Changed Me - 9/21/2023
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3 minute spot on Fox5 Bethesda on 5/14/2023
"Who Will Accompany You?" Shares Mother-Daughter Adventures - KATU on 5/10/2023
Building deep trust with teams - Maverick Paradox Magazine 4/21/2023
My interview with Mike Carlon from Uncorking a Story on 3/1/2023
Meg Stafford "Who Will Accompany You", Tami Charles "We Are Here" "All Because You Matter", Verizon Frontline at Superbowl LVII - 2/9/2023
Hosted by Frankie Boyer
Ep.1523: How Heroes Heal and Ep.1524: Mothers & Daughters - 12/28/2022
Hosted by Kathryn Zox
Meg Stafford - Who Will Accompany You? Event by George Monty 12/23/2022
My interview with George Monty from True Life podcast on 12/23/2022
IBPA Author Interview –Who Will Accompany You? - Meg Stafford - 11/7/2022
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Who Will Accompany Me? Mother-Daughter Journeys with Meg Stafford - The Empowered Spirit Show - 9/16/2022
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Meg Stafford with host Kristen White on Bestselling Celebrity Author TV
Meg Stafford Extended Interview from “The Ripple Effect” with Kristen White
Meg Stafford ad for “The Ripple Effect” with Kristen White
Meg at the Ben Franklin Awards
Karma Kitaj Interviews Meg Stafford
Book Signing – Willow Books – March 14, 2011