When schools in Arkansas and most of the country shut their physical doors and moved to remote instruction in March 2020, Rachel Evans, Christian Goering, and Seth French planned to engage in a multifaceted experience that bridged personal narrative writing, songwriting, and podcasting. Undaunted by the shutdown, they offered Evans' ninth-grade students the opportunity to engage asynchronously in what Evans named The Podcast of Our Lives, a project with three distinct goals: (1) use music to connect to their lived experiences; (2) build from that music as a springboard to write a new original song; and (3) develop a reflective podcast about the songwriting and overall process. Given the traumatic impact of COVID-19 on the well-being of students and teachers across the country, there is an urgent need to design and implement lessons that center student emotions, feelings, thoughts, and voices. Evans' students shifted ideas from one form to another, creating a multimodal podcast while revealing their deep emotions as humans in the middle of a global pandemic. Evans, Goering, and French present the article with the end in mind, providing an example podcast, three stages they used with students, and their reflections and ideas for next steps.