Stories Episodes

“You're not going to be happy every single day, but it's part of the human experience and it makes life meaningful." – Megan Conner

“Everyone really has the ability to be their healthiest and their happiest. And it can be enjoyable to get there.” – Deborah Charnes

“Think of how many jobs the internet created that didn't exist 30 years ago. Web designer…there's so many jobs now, and it's going to be the same with AI, there are going to be so many different jobs developed to merge with and move forward with AI that, I mean, we haven't even conceptualized because we don't know all the possibilities that there are for this technology.” – Richard Rosser

"You don't know who needs to hear what you've written." – Stephanie Feger

Anything that you wouldn't say to your best friend, stop saying it to yourself.

"Storytelling helps the data go down." – Park Howell

" When you're eating for emotional reasons, you're eating because you're escaping how you feel." – Molly Zemek

"Everything happens for a reason, and everything will make sense at some point, because everything you're going through, good or bad, serves you in the end." – Christine Michaelis

“For her to stand out that much, to be mentioned in mostly a patriarchal view of that time, she had to be exceptional. She had to be courageous and strong and intelligent and dynamic to make an impression on these people that have lasted for 2,000 years.” - Donna D. Conrad

"As human beings, it's our responsibility to help each other. It's not a choice, it's a responsibility.” – Dr. Amani Ballour

“We have to be wise when we have dreams that are important to us.” – Charlotte Friborg

“As an entrepreneur, if you can bring people into your world and make them feel seen and heard. It's going to be really, really helpful.” - Heather Vickery

"Instead of complaining, though it felt good to complain and moan and groan and kind of wallow in our misery of not getting published, we decided to sort of funnel that energy into something positive." – Rachael Mitchell

“Silence speaks and when we're willing to sit with ourselves, we have everything we need inside to have the best life imaginable.” – Dee Delaney

"The process of writing was very therapeutic for me. I'm a busy person, always doing, doing, doing, and when I was writing, I was in this place of meditation." - Dr. Audrey Birnbaum

“Don't carry into tomorrow the things that have hurt you and weighed you down for today. Learn, take from it what you need, but let the rest go. You're too precious and too valuable to have your back broken by burdens you are not meant to bear." – Katherine Norland

"Detours are not dead ends." – Annie Meehan

"Sometimes it's not what you say, it's just being there." - June Kraholik Collins

“Everything happens for us. We can either choose to become a victim of it, or we can choose to rise up." - Dawn Bates

“Remember how powerful you are and that you really can do anything you decide is important enough and achieve whatever you deem worthy.” – Kate Eckman

"When you start to write, you're almost opening up this magic chest, gaining access to different parts of your brain that may not be available to you when you're speaking." - Lâle Davidson

“I've learned over the years to accept my imperfections and to just continue going forward.” – Kelly Majdan

“We have this terrible attitude that sacrifices are bad things. No, sacrifices are the things that make things meaningful to you." – August Turak

"You are far more powerful than you've been told. We have a sense of powerlessness now…I just want you to know that this power, which is usually denied by authority figures, is something you were born with." - Lynne McTaggart