Live storytelling
I bring the circle into your room.
Most women have never heard another woman tell the truth about her life, out loud, without a punchline to soften it. When they do, something in the room loosens. Ten women in a living room or five hundred in a hall, I come as one more woman in the circle.
Talk one
The Story of the Crone
Somewhere along the way we turned crone into an insult. It was never meant to be one.
The crone was the wise one the whole village came to, the woman who had lived enough to stop performing and start telling the truth. This talk traces how we lost her and why women’s stories matter more in these years, not less, told through the real women of The Crone Stories. Warm, a little funny, quietly radical.
Talk two
Finding Your Story
Nobody has to stand up. Nobody has to confess anything.
I tell a story or two from the podcast, then give the room a simple framework for telling stories to each other: a few good questions, a little structure, and time to talk. Women turn to the woman beside them and share the ordinary moments that make a life. Nothing has to be big, and nothing has to be a secret. Nobody is put on the spot. Everyone is heard.
Who you're booking
A story keeper. For thirty years I have sat with women while they told me the stories of their lives, and now I host The Crone Stories, where those stories get told out loud. I'm warm, I'm direct, and I'm a little funny. I shape every talk to your gathering and the women in it. You won't get a polished stranger. You'll get a woman who listens, and who will hold the room while yours begin to talk.
Tell me about your room
For women's circles, retreats, libraries, conferences and gatherings of every size.