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Bringing impossible topics to a place they can easily be understood. Using storytelling, in analogy form, to make the deeper impact understandable and helping transform the world of advocacy, allies, and survivors.

Disaster Doesn’t Have to Mean Defeat

Posted by BilliJoy on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019

The equation to refuse defeat is simple: HOPE. ERNEST SHACKLETON I first heard about Sir Ernest Shackleton when I read Nancy Koehn’s book Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times. In …

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Choose How You Will Be Remembered in a Shark Attack

Posted by BilliJoy on August 14, 2019

In July 2000, the sky over the coastal city of East London, South Africa was bright and cloudless; the air roared with the sounds of seagulls and laughter—a beautiful day for a surfing competition. Fifteen-year-old …

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Wild Blackberry Bushes of Trauma

Posted by BilliJoy on November 15, 2018May 24, 2019

I was born in Oregon. But I have very little memory of it. When I was four, the desert became my home. The land that has prickly pears and citrus. We aren’t known for fresh …

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