Your Stories Dont Define You, How You Tell Them Will

325 Writing Our Own Stories   Although hard work and dedication can get you quite far in life, it helps immeasurably to have someone at your back who believes in you and inspires you to strive towards your goals and future. Our stories, though valuable, do not define us and should be used as kindling for the fires of ambition.  In this episode Sarah Elkins and Kïrsten Blake discuss the importance of how our stories shape our paths in life but most importantly how the people involved in our stories inspire and guide us to success.   Highlights Sometimes you need to trust people to know you and perceive you in their own unique way. The people who help you through your struggles help to define you and inspire you to grow and change, especially when dealing with an othering experience. We don’t know where we are going until we look backwards.  We need to experience so many different things   Quotes “I think belonging is such an important aspect of my work, and so it’s not surprising that that story was