Q&A: What’s the best way to share personal stories of recovery?

Notes from Chris

Episode 1561

Today’s listener question deals with a sensitive topic. The caller has struggled with an eating disorder and is now going through recovery. I really admire and respect her bravery in calling in!

She’s wondering about serving others who’ve had the same struggle. As a natural storyteller, she’s noticed some things she’d like to highlight and is trying to figure out how to do it.

How might a person go about deciding the best format or medium for such a project, and is there an obvious moneymaking angle from it? I thought about that for a while before deciding on the answer that I’ll share with you.

"Hi, Chris, this is Kit and I'm from Chicago. I've been reading your books and listening to your podcasts for probably four or five years now. I'm a natural storyteller. I have a lot of funny stories from travel experiences or from random research, deep dives I've done about historical or scientific topics, usually obscure and McJob and entertaining. Most recently, though, I entered treatment for an eating disorder at an age that's much older than most of my peers and even the staff, I found that recovery has been a new source of so many unusual experiences that are shared among eating disorders survivors but rarely written about or expressed.

So I've learned that eating disorder survivors really are a neglected community. So I would like to share my stories, my experiences in the things that I learned along the way in an educational dark, funny, ultimately helpful way. But I can't decide on the best format for stories. YouTube, podcasts, blogs all seem like really crowded arenas. So what format would you advise for a storytelling based side hustle? Thanks so much."

Listen to today's episode to learn more...

 

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Yours in the revolution,