Through the end of year 2024, this small campaign serves as an end-of-year giving campaign to launch the first episode of the video podcast in Q3 of 2025.

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All of us are meant to live a full life of love, healing and meaning.

To leave a legacy, moment-by-moment, wherever your feet are - Wherever you Live, Work, Worship, Play, and for Whom Your Heart Breaks.

We are transformed through listening to stories and then creating them. Letting Love transform us internally and then Being Loving externally with others.

We are launching a video podcast (and likely multiple) to interview how others have done this and how to help you and others find their fit.

Over the past 10 years, I've collected hundreds of transformative stories.

Here is one great example that fits in the "Whom Your Heart Breaks" category.

There are 7.3 million single moms nationally. Do you know how many single parents are in your county? Likely thousands. There are 3,700 in our small county.

Do you know how these women and children transform communally?

Let me tell you about The Life of a Single Mom (TLSM).

TLSM loves single moms through starting and inviting them into support groups. Between support group gatherings they provide access to "Single Mom University", an educational training platform.

Annually, they serve 150,000 moms, in 2,000 communities around the US, and since 2007 they've served 1 Million Moms!

Do enough people know about this?

.... and that's the problem!

Our goal is to share Jennifer's story with the right people who are open to serve so that even 1 single mom support group starts in your county. If one starts, with an eye on more, then the trajectory of hundreds of single moms and their children will be changed for generations.

I have yet to hear a high-quality story/interview from Jennifer and others the way we plan to craft and distribute - using captivating and efficient story theory the way Hollywood does.

Jennifer will position herself as the guide and you as the hero. She will share the problem you and the women face. She'll expose the solutions through the story of a singular woman and her children. She will invite you to action, exposing the good if you act, and the ongoing hell if you don't.

The goal is for each listener to unleash some kind of energy into the single moms around them - whether that's by sharing the episode, or investing time, talent, and treasure to transform their lives.

And that's only one episode.

We have hundreds of transformative stories we wish we could record and share right now. Only a fraction of them are in these 45 posts and 15-page catalog. Our dream goal is for each story to 10x the impact.

For non-podcast listeners, podcast popularity continues to rise. 47% of the US population who are 12 years or older are listening to at least one podcast a month. It's how we are consuming stories. See chart below. YouTube (video-based) is now the preferred podcast platform.

In the past 8 years I've listened to over a thousand podcasts episodes. I've consumed great and awful content.

I've searched high-and-low for podcasts that will do what we'll do with the preparation, quality, hook and distribution goals we are shooting for.

... I can't find it. I challenge you to find it. Please! And even if we did find it, that'd only be one podcast.

So we need to start one. We need to share these stories. We need to start a Video Podcast.

It's time to press record on the conversations I'm already having and turn up the megaphone. Together, let's partner in unburying the lamp, cleaning it up, and putting it high on a lampstand.

We already have an amazing team ready to go. An orchestra-level audio engineer and a video agency (with collective views of 18 Billion!) have said yes to being our post-production team!

So, is it a bad idea for you to partner with us?

If you're not ready to invest, and want to talk about it, I totally get it, don't hesitate to ask. Text or email at paul@storyconnect.love

If you're ready to help get this campaign over with so we can get er' going, click on the green "Partner Here" button in the top right.

If you'd rather partner without me knowing, which I totally get, there are 2 options to do so anonymously. Review those details here. If you want to write a check or use a DAF, review those details on the partner page.

We (me, the Board, partners, and volunteers) are so excited to steward StoryConnect's existing resources to this next step.

Thank you for reading. You're awesome.

Let's Do This. If not us, who?

Paul

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Some additional context that may help provide some clarity:

Uncovering Stories: Starting a Video Podcast

By StoryConnect

Uncovering Stories: Starting a Video Podcast

2024 Year-End Campaign