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100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project
by Paige Williams
100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project explores how the stories we inherit, tell, and live by shape how we see the world, who we become, and what we believe is possible. Hosted by Narrative Intelligence researcher, innovation strategist, author, and filmmaker Paige Williams, the series brings together researchers, artists, founders, leaders, therapists, storytellers, technologists, and people whose lives and work have been shaped by profound change. Each conversation examines story not simply as something we tell, but as something we perceive through, shaping identity, relationships, leadership, culture, choice, and human agency. At the center of the project is one question: How malleable are the stories we live by, and what does it take to change one? The conversations form part of Paige’s ongoing public research into Narrative Intelligence, an emer
Episodes
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The Facts Didn’t Change, the Meaning Did. — Ryan Cunningham on ADHD, Identity & NI
Writer, director, producer, and creative strategist Ryan Cunningham joins 100 Stories for a conversation about ADHD, identity, comedy, representation, creativity, and the stories we construct around our lives. Ryan’s ADHD diagnosis changed the way she understood her past. The events themselves...
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Meegan Kriley-Mackay: The Program You Didn’t Choose — Human Intelligence, AI & Narrative
Former spy, author, and speaker Meegan Kriley-Mackay joins 100 Stories to explore human intelligence, Narrative Intelligence, artificial intelligence, soft interrogation, and what she calls the “human program.” Meegan’s premise is that every person enters life inside a program they did not...
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Farrah Bostic: The Transcript Is Not the Story — AI, Human Judgment & Deep Meaning
Strategist and qualitative researcher Farrah Bostic joins 100 Stories for a conversation about listening, human judgment, data, artificial intelligence, persuasion, and everything that can disappear when we reduce human experience to a transcript. Farrah listens to people for a living. For more...
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Rachel Catherine Allen: Words Make Worlds — Inherited Stories, Identity & Agency
Writer and entrepreneur Rachel Catherine Allen joins 100 Stories for a conversation about inherited narratives, family estrangement, religious identity, writing, personal agency, forgiveness, and how language shapes the stories we live by. Rachel is the author of 23 books and founder of Bolt from...
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Jo Boaler: When the World Tells a Story About You | 100 Stories Ep. 25
Stanford professor Dr. Jo Boaler joins 100 Stories for a conversation about growth mindset, identity, public narrative, mathematical ability, struggle, and the stories we develop about intelligence. Jo has spent years studying what happens when people internalize ideas like “I’m bad at math,”…
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Pam Sherman: Authenticity Isn’t Enough — Identity, Leadership & the Believability Gap
Actor, writer, leadership consultant, and author Pam Sherman joins 100 Stories for a conversation about identity, leadership, authenticity, personal narrative, and what she calls the “believability gap” — the distance between who we think we are, how we believe we’re showing up, and how other...
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Jeremy Sauter: Who Gets to Frame the Story? — Marketing, Attention & What We Believe
Movie marketing executive Jeremy Sauter joins 100 Stories for a conversation about storytelling, framing, attention, audience psychology, and how narratives shape what people believe. Jeremy has spent decades marketing movies and thinking about the gap between the story a filmmaker intends, the...
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David Drake: Why Knowing Your Story Doesn’t Change It — Narrative Coaching, Agency & Change
Dr. David Drake joins 100 Stories for a conversation about narrative coaching, story change, human agency, identity, and what actually allows people to live differently. David has spent more than 30 years developing narrative coaching and working with the stories people carry into their lives,...
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Julián Nunez: Whose Version Becomes the Story? — Representation, Power & Storytelling
Filmmaker Julián Nunez joins 100 Stories for a conversation about storytelling, representation, history, culture, creative responsibility, and who gets to decide which version of a story becomes the one people remember. Julián grew up in New Mexico and builds films from history, imagination,...
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Dr. Mónica Lebrón: When Work Stops Loving You Back — Workaholism, Identity & Starting Over
Dr. Mónica Lebrón joins 100 Stories for a conversation about workaholism, identity, achievement, ambition, leadership, sabbatical, and what happens when a career becomes part of who you believe you are. Mónica spent 27 years working in college athletics. She loved the work, climbed through...
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Lynn Harris: Not Every Story Needs a Silver Lining — Comedy, Trauma & Culture Change
Writer, producer, and Gold Comedy founder Lynn Harris joins 100 Stories for a conversation about comedy, trauma, culture change, dominant narratives, power, and what humor allows us to see that argument sometimes cannot. Lynn believes comedy can make people listen. A joke can expose a…
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Nichelle Carr: The Stories We Love Most Can Hide the Truth — Storytelling, Power & Systems
Storyteller, attorney, technologist, activist, and AI governance leader Nichelle Carr joins 100 Stories for a conversation about storytelling, power, race, representation, cultural narratives, systems change, authorship, and artificial intelligence. Nichelle has spent her career across law,...
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Cheri Williams: When the Savior Story Breaks — Child Welfare, Power & Who Owns the Story
Cheri Williams joins 100 Stories for a conversation about child welfare, saviorism, institutional power, lived experience, fear, compliance, and who gets to define a family’s story. Cheri entered child welfare believing she was doing noble work: helping save children from harmful circumstances....
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Teneia Sanders: What If You Get the Dream and Don’t Want the Life? — Identity, Burnout & Belonging
Musician, multimedia artist, and tarot reader Teneia Sanders joins 100 Stories for a conversation about identity, creative burnout, ambition, belonging, and what happens when the dream you spent years chasing stops feeling like the life you want. Teneia built the artist life she had imagined. She...
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Angie Lipski: The Spaces That Shape Us | 100 Stories Ep. 15
What if changing your story sometimes means changing the room? Architect Angie Lipski has spent 30 years thinking about how the places we inhabit shape the way we feel, move, connect, remember, and live. In this conversation, we explore the possibility that our environments don’t simply contain…
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Whitney Williams: Progress Is Possible | 100 Stories Ep. 14
Social entrepreneur and changemaker Whitney Williams joins 100 Stories for a conversation about storytelling, philanthropy, documentary filmmaking, political narratives, community voice, and the power of a single human story. Whitney grew up in a family of changemakers with an expectation that...
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Sandy Carter: Before You Tell AI Your Story | 100 Stories Ep. 13
AI leader and Equis AI CEO Sandy Carter joins 100 Stories for a conversation about artificial intelligence, privacy, data ownership, technology adoption, leadership, and the narratives shaping our relationship with AI. Sandy has spent her career at the forefront of technology, including executive...
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Ara Tucker: The Architecture of Advantage | 100 Stories Ep. 12
What if some of the things you think are simply part of who you are were actually built through years of exposure, access, relationships, and opportunity? In this episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams speaks with board director, advisor, writer, and former...
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Casey Erin Clark: Finding the Voice Beyond the Good Girl — Identity, Storytelling & Power
Voice coach, performer, writer, and Vital Voice Training co-founder Casey Erin Clark joins 100 Stories for a conversation about voice, identity, the “good girl” story, institutional narratives, creativity, and how we learn to tell the stories of our lives. Casey grew up as “the girl with the...
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Michael Osborne: The Story Is Never Finished | 100 Stories Ep. 10
Michael Osborne: The Story Is Never Finished | 100 Stories Ep. 10 What if the story you tell about yourself is only one version of the truth? In this episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams speaks with award-winning podcast producer Michael Osborne about...
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Courtney Townley: When Knowing Isn’t Enough | 100 Stories #9
Why is understanding what needs to change so often not enough to actually change? In this episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams speaks with Courtney Townley about transformation, self-leadership, behavior change, identity, and what she has learned from…
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Julie Fogh: The Story in Your Voice | 100 Stories #8
In this episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams speaks with Julie Fogh, co-founder of Vital Voice Training, about the stories carried not only in our words, but in our voices, bodies, breath, silence, and the ways we have learned to communicate in order to…
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Thaler Pekar: Until We Feel Heard | 100 Stories #7
What changes when someone feels genuinely heard? Thaler Pekar has spent more than three decades helping leaders and organizations uncover the stories shaping their cultures, decisions, and relationships. In this conversation, she and Paige explore why Narrative Intelligence is not simply the...
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Quentin Robinson: The Stories Our Bodies Carry | 100 Stories #6
In this episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams speaks with dancer, filmmaker, educator, and movement practitioner Quentin Robinson about the stories carried through the body, the cultural history embedded in hip hop, and the ways movement can reveal what…
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Joseph Grady: Identity Reclaimed | 100 Stories #5
In this episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams speaks with filmmaker, writer, actor, producer, and social worker Joseph Grady about sobriety, adoption, cultural separation, belonging, and reclaiming the parts of a story that were once missing. Joseph was born...
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Ann Shoket: Success Is Not a Solo Sport | 100 Stories #4
In this episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams speaks with Ann Shoket, CEO and owner of The Li.st and founder of Ten Minutes to Togetherness, about ambition, belonging, community, and the stories that shape what we believe is possible. Ann reflects on the...
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Matt Anderson: Values Fatigue, Storytelling & the Courage to Leave
Social worker, systems-change leader, and Imagination Factory co-founder Matt Anderson joins 100 Stories for a conversation about foster care, storytelling, professional identity, values fatigue, systems change, and what happens when your work no longer reflects what you believe. Early in Matt’s...
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Lindsay Scola: The Story We Tell About Sleep | 100 Stories #2
What if your exhaustion is not a personal failing? Sleep educator and patient advocate Lindsay Scola lived with symptoms of narcolepsy for 19 years before receiving a diagnosis. During that time, she hid naps in public bathrooms, pushed herself to keep pace with high-performing colleagues, and...
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Eyoälha Baker: Trust, Signs, and Rewriting a Life | 100 Stories #1
In the first episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams speaks with conceptual multimedia artist Eyoälha Baker about joy, Indigenous identity, cultural memory, healing, and the stories we learn to live by. Eyoälha shares how her Jump for Joy project changed the way...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project explores how the stories we inherit, tell, and live by shape how we see the world, who we become, and what we believe is possible.
Hosted by Narrative Intelligence researcher, innovation strategist, author, and filmmaker Paige Williams, the series brings together researchers, artists, founders, leaders, therapists, storytellers, technologists, and people whose lives and work have been shaped by profound change.
Each conversation examines story not simply as something we tell, but as something we perceive through, shaping identity, relationships, leadership, culture, choice, and human agency.
At the center of the project is one question:
How malleable are the stories we live by, and what does it take to change one?
The conversations form part of Paige’s ongoing public research into Narrative Intelligence, an emer
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