This is a post about trusting our lives, and our stories, to unfold — a kind of allowing that is essential if we are committed to the ongoing practice of sharing our story with the world.

Mindy Stricke’s National Parks of Emotion participatory art project has helped her and many others process their pandemic experiences in a profoundly creative way.

Meet-21-year-old environmental justice advocate and founder of Black Girl Environmentalist Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru.

Grandma Magda, aka Magda Brown, was a Holocaust survivor dedicated to sharing her story with the world. Her granddaughter, Amy Rainey, is asking all of us to help keep Magda’s story alive.

“We have a chance to write our own history, and I want the reality of women's lives — from all walks of life — to be part of that record.” - Deborah Siegel-Acevedo, Bold Voice Collaborative

As soon as she arrived in a new city, she lost her job. Then she got sick. Read Camila Gibran’s pandemic story.

Meet Aanchal Dhar, a communications strategist who is passionate about bridging intergenerational and other divides to build civic community — and is doing something about it (…many somethings, in fact).

Please share your own story of being pushed from the workforce this year, and help elevate this discussion. It's time to change the narrative.

I’ve been a content advisor to Melinda Gates’s Evoke website for a while now, but I recently had the honor of having my first byline on the site. I wrote about how if we want to achieve gender equality, women need to tell our own stories.

Learn how Elisse launched a $1 billion investment fund to help Black entrepreneurs nationwide survive the pandemic’s economic impact.

Asha shares how the pandemic is affecting families of children with disabilities, her fear of bringing the virus home to her family, and more.

Social justice journalist and editorial consultant Carla Murphy reflects on how the pandemic has heightened the staggering dissonance between the haves and have-nots, and more.

Doctor, podcaster, and mom Neda Frayha offers a glimpse into her daily life right now.

Malala Fund CEO Suzanne Ehlers and I were recently catching up, and she shared with me the impact that our work together had for her. I asked her to put it into writing, and she graciously agreed.

Leading at a time like this doesn't mean being perfect, keeping it all together, or never breaking down. It means showing up, fully human, for the people you serve.

Everything that happens to you is fodder for your story — but that doesn’t mean you have to share it.

If self-expression takes you outside your comfort zone, know that 1) you are not alone, and 2) every time you share an idea, you change the world.

‘Just a quick note to share that the self-promotion gap research I led in partnership with two other women-owned businesses has been featured in a range of media outlets.

Instead of thinking of telling your story as bothering or assaulting people with “me! me! me!”, think of it as a chance to educate them about how you can help.

As women, we need to stop recoiling from self-promotion and instead see it as an altruistic act. Here are five ways to get started.