About April

April Capochino Myers is an author, journalist, and podcast host who has spent 25 years asking questions, telling stories, and trying to understand how people make sense of difficult things. Her work has appeared in publications including The Washington Post and National Geographic Kids, and her reporting has covered business, education, criminal justice, disasters, addiction, and everyday life.

Today, much of April’s work centers on the questions that came out of her own life and reporting: What helps us move through loss, upheaval, and change? How do we find peace without pretending life is simple? She explores those questions in Living in the Gray, her podcast, speaking, and one-on-one conversations.

April spent years doing her own work and learned pretty quickly that there isn’t one answer, one program, or one way through. What helped her was pulling useful ideas from therapy, books, podcasts, programs, conversations, and lived experience, then figuring out which pieces actually fit her life. She knows that process can be overwhelming. One of her strengths is helping other people sort through what’s out there, make sense of it, and identify what might be useful for them — not as a way around the work, but as a more informed place to begin.


How it came together

Journalism taught April to ask questions, listen closely, and get comfortable with complicated answers. Eventually, her own life demanded the same kind of attention. Loss, change, relationships, grief, and her search for peace made the questions she had spent years asking other people much more personal.

The reporting

For 25 years, April has written about people navigating difficult circumstances, big changes, and decisions that rarely fit neatly into black and white.

The personal work

Her own experiences led to years of therapy, reading, listening, and trying different approaches — work that eventually found its way into Living in the Gray, her podcast, and what she does now.