How We Build This

Heather Box & Julian Mocine-McQueen: How Your Story Sets You Free (Live at KALW)

Episode Summary

Host May Boeve sits down with Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen, co-authors of How Your Story Sets You Free, live at KALW Studios in San Francisco.

Episode Notes

In our first-ever live taping at KALW Studios in San Francisco on January 29th, May Boeve sits down with “power couple” Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen, co-founders of The Million Person Project and co-authors of How Your Story Sets You Free, for a funny, heartfelt deep dive into storytelling as a tool for movement building.

Heather and Julian unpack why so many leaders default to “facts and figures” when what actually brings people in is values, honesty, and a story that says the thing. They share how they got their start in organizing, how parenting and movement life collide, and how they coach people past “I don’t have a story” (or “my story is too much”) into real ownership.

Then May gets meta, revisiting the cringe (and power) of learning to be vulnerable on the podcast, sharing wins, regrets, and lessons from 15 years in the climate movement.

How We Build This is created and hosted by May Boeve

Producer: Phil Surkis

Theme music: ‘Within’, composed by Ruthie Dineen, and performed by Negative Press Project.

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