Society & Culture

Stories from a Stranger

by Higher Ground

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Canada · Society & Culture

#196

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Brazil · Society & Culture

#177

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About the show

“Every stranger has a story.” This is what Hunter Prosper realized when he began posting man-on-the-street interviews with real-life strangers to his social media accounts. Hunter’s genuine connection with strangers and emotional interview moments quickly captured viewers' hearts across multiple platforms and a New York Times Best Selling book. Now, Hunter is expanding his social media series into a new weekly video and audio podcast, Stories from a Stranger, featuring portraits of multiple strangers connected by themes of love, loss, regret, inspiration, illness, family connections, and more. In each episode, Hunter brings his innate warmth, curiosity, and charm, interviewing people from all walks of life and sharing anonymously submitted confessions. Interviews start with a question and then grow in unexpected ways as strangers open up and share their most defining moments. From the deaths of loved ones to using their most painful moments as inspiration to finding their greatest loves, no subject is off-limits. Their stories are raw, intimate, and bursting with humanity. Right now, it is easy to feel like the world is irrevocably divided. Stories from a Stranger is a warm reminder that we are all human and more connected than we realize. It’s an invitation to empathy. Every stranger has a story. Let’s start listening. New episodes every Monday on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Latest episodes

Invisible Battles: Living with Chronic Illness

October 5, 2026 · 41 min

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 doctors attributed her…
Chosen: Stories of Adoption, Identity, and the Search for Belonging

September 28, 2026 · 40 min

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 visually apparent…
Fill the Space: How Heartbreak Becomes a New Beginning

September 21, 2026 · 42 min

-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 the app before…
Some Wounds Never Heal: Conversations on Love and Letting Go

September 14, 2026 · 45 min

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 dementia. She describes…
Loving Yourself: Stories of Identity and Healing

September 7, 2026 · 43 min

-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 those experiences…
Fathers: The Wounds, The Love, The Legacy

August 31, 2026 · 37 min

Hunter speaks with three people about their unique relationships with their fathers. Meet this week’s strangers: - William recently lost his father. William’s father, also named William, was a Marine Corps sergeant, a decorated combat…
Learning to Belong: Immigrant Childhoods, Family Sacrifice, and Self-Discovery

August 24, 2026 · 33 min

- Peter immigrated from Korea as a child. As the only person of color in his school, he felt alienated and othered. He dealt with bullying because of the food he brought to school, called “Kim Jong-un” and told to go back to his own…
Falling in Love is Beyond My Control

August 17, 2026 · 42 min

Hunter speaks with three strangers about meeting partners who changed the course of their lives. Meet this week's strangers: - Niko is a school teacher from New York City who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. During treatment…