October 2024
As an oldest child raised in the U.S. South in a religion known for reservedness, bland coffee, and casseroles made with equal parts …
September 2024
September has been a huge month for me. Since you’re reading this on the Stories Change Power website, you might assume I’m referring …
July 2024
"Oh, thank goodness. It's ‘CREATE HOPE,’ not ‘BRING HOPE,’” I sighed with relief as the shuttle pulled into Carthage College last …
June 2024
I’m a talker. To horror of family and friends, I’m the type of person who will chat the entirety of a cross-country flight if you’re up …
May 2024
(Part III) Both the first and second parts of my answer to a webinar participant’s question about responding productively belied my …
(Part II) A participant in our webinar about taking a direct, deliberate, and depolarizing approach to controversial topics asked a …
A participant in our webinar about taking a direct, deliberate, and depolarizing approach to controversial topics asked a powerful …
Every now and then, a comic strip comes along that is both hilarious and humbling. As someone who has felt trampled by a herd of “shoulds” …
April 2024
At its core, advocacy communications is about ensuring a message reaches people and moves them to take action. Unlike marketing or …
How quaint to look back to the early days of developments like the fax machine, email, and smart phones when people sincerely thought, …
March 2024
When I entered the world of documentary filmmaking, I quickly learned that nearly everyone underestimates the cost of the craft. It’s …
In my first post about the Good-Better-Best approach, I focused on prioritizing time, talent, and funding at mission-driven …
Just over a year ago, Judy Woodruff began a series called America at a Crossroads that “examine[s] the many differences fracturing the …
February 2024
I can still hear the combination of frustration and resignation as he sighed, “Sometimes they treat us like McDonalds.”
“He” was the …
In 2024, Stories Change Power is hosting a free webinar series to support more people than our small-by-design cohorts can serve, all with a goal of …
What’s a problem that you deeply want to solve?
Have you ever thought that if you could just get other people to understand the scale …
January 2024
I'm the first to admit I'm a word nerd. I geek out over words that capture particular feelings and sentiments and love to know the …
December 2023
If you're like most people, you know the feeling of arriving home and not remembering driving there, or walking your usual route to …
You've likely heard the phrase "With great power comes great responsibility." Fans of Spiderman may already know the adage was …
We can agree that part of being professional means being competent in your field, yes? But riddle me this: if you don’t know what you …
Candidly, we wrote about this value out of order.
You'll find what motivated our focus on Radical Candor in our October 2023 post.
(Use…
Dominos? Links in a chain? Boats that rise? Passing relay batons?
These were just a few of the analogies bantered about recently as I …
After decency, our second core value is inclusion. Inclusion flows naturally from decency -- after all, if everyone has inherent …
November 2023
In the current political climate, the word "radical" may feel divisive. In fact, the word's definition reveals the opposite is true in …
While the weather wasn’t cold enough to sport my orange and blue hoodie, I nevertheless felt like an honorary Gator a few weeks ago at …
Our founder, Piper Hendricks, recently sat down with Chezuba Talks to discuss our professional development programming, including:
th…
October 2023
I am a word nerd. I love cryptoquotes, word jumbles, and learning big words I’ll never use like “floccinaucinihilipilification.”
And …
After graduating from college, I set off for Washington, DC with new hopes and old clothes… very old clothes.
A neighbor who had been …
June 9, 2023
First I wanted to be a veterinarian, but by 11 I’d landed on marine biologist in order to protect baby harp seals. That was before an …
Summer 2023
Nearly one year ago, I sipped coffee on the back porch of a cottage overlooking a pond as the owner explained why she had taken …
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