My Story
Hi, I’m Liz.
tldr: I’m a former teacher who spent a decade telling stories before returning to teaching to help other people do the same.
I grew up on a farm with no exposure to mainstream culture, but an insatiable appetite for telling stories. When I wasn’t milking goats or baking bread, I was writing a weekly newsletter detailing life on the farm, complete with a Lego politics column and fictional stories about my cat’s secret lives. College was my first real introduction to mainstream culture, and the culture shock kick-started a lifelong fascination with the experiences that shape perspectives.
In my first job as a special education teacher, I designed educational experiences for neurodivergent students, but struggled with a system that emphasized what was “wrong” with my students over what was right. This led me to take a sabbatical, where I studied positive psychology and designed an after-school curriculum for a non-profit in Costa Rica.
I found myself drawn to telling stories that inspired whimsy and illuminated different perspectives. I worked as a journalist for organizations including The Guardian, I was a filmmaker for a variety of outlets including PBS, and I started an artist collective where I employed and coached numerous creatives in capturing authentic stories.
Organizations started hiring me to design storytelling campaigns, including many space-based brands such as Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts. As I told stories to bring people together, I realized the most powerful story is not the one you tell, but the one others tell about you. I blended my approach to include community building through shared experiences. I began teaching workshops, speaking, organizing community events, and building cohorts to achieve a common goal.
I learned a lot in this journey through something I call The School of Post-Its. Every time something went awry, I wrote the lesson learned on a post-it and put it on my desk until it resembled the movie poster for Office Space. What consistently stood out was our collective suffering from a loss of connection to ourselves and the world around us. So I compiled my post-its and workshops to design a curriculum to help others use storytelling to reconnect.
Now, I’m on a mission to help people tell stories that nurture creativity, belonging and connected communities.
