This Mother + Storyteller Is Giving Women The Opportunity To Be Listened To

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Mother + Storyteller, Jamie Yuenger has a background in radio, TV, and folklore. She describes her interests as a merger of "identity and how one expresses one's identity," which has led to her current project the podcast "If You Knew Me," which documents the inner lives of women.

In this episode...

1. Find out why Jamie hated her NPR internship—"I didn't know, but I was an entrepreneur,"—and instead pursued helping families and businesses document their histories and share their stories.
2. Jamie shares her perspective on the threefold power of women sharing their stories: defining and creating meaning from your own narrative, the revolutionary connection that occurs when we realize we aren't alone, and the fact that women's lives are finally being highlighted after having been absent from the history books for so long. 
3. "The inner lives of women are big enough." Learn why Jamie decided to pivot from a show about life purpose to one about women's inner lives.
4. Hosting "If You Knew Me" has shown Jamie the value and power of giving women the opportunity to be listened to. She provides a container, as a witness, for women to really process and understand their own stories. 
5. "I was constantly having this sense that I used to be somebody." Jamie shares her identity journey after becoming a mother, and how important it is for her career/life balance to have a partner who doesn't "help," but rather does more than half the work.

Bio: Jamie Yuenger is the co-creator and host of the podcast “If You Knew Me” that documents stories about women’s inner lives. She is also the founder of StoryKeep, a company that works with families and firms to create films and podcasts about their histories. She writes, mothers and cooks out of her home in the Netherlands. Listen to the "If You Knew Me" podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-you-knew-me/id1592658728

Link to Steph's episode on If You Knew Me: I Kept Losing My Voice. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-kept-losing-my-voice/id1592658728?i=1000606696704

Link to Jamie's story, Pandora's Box: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pandoras-box/id1542094287?i=1000517150695

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