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Look Back: Lessons Learned + WRITE HOME with Melanie McGehee

49 min · 9. Jan. 202649 min
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What a year! Melanie and I discuss the top 3 learnings from last year...most of which were from our BELOVED new anthology WRITE HOME, and the new writing besties we have met along the way!

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Episode How one phone call changed my confidence... Cover

How one phone call changed my confidence...

Shannon Ivey, of the #whatshesaidproject, talks about the work of the project over the last year. From her: I decided to not participate in Midlands Gives this year.Why? I live in a capital city, and I know the hard work of my nonprofit peers. I know the cuts they are facing. Us, too, actually. When budgets are cut on arts grants and other funding agencies, we lose work, too. We lose funding sources, and yet the work continues.AND THEN...I got a call yesterday from the community foundation in the area, and they told me how important our work was.How we were seen and valued.How, thought I am a white female founder, how prioritizing marginalized/equity seeking folks with our programming meant the world to them. If I had been less caffeinated, I would have cried. So, I did an audit of what we (we = me and Melanie McGehee [https://www.facebook.com/melanie.mcgehee?__cft__[0]=AZWX4TVkC7iXTWwywdl5Fm2VOOqEH3u1fXy8h7XctH8BrJTXmVNUpRonAbk3jKvp1mCkY7xTmgkPr2yhyv6BgMHwUVckssOgA9n_2fAQqEy6YkRGcOjWpP_i_zQlgXV3UFS8gjawAKtLD1RKZf-LKA_qjAfnntERDucRf9kX9On3fw&__tn__=-]K-R], with support from lots of other folks) had done with the #whatshesaidproject [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/whatshesaidproject?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZWX4TVkC7iXTWwywdl5Fm2VOOqEH3u1fXy8h7XctH8BrJTXmVNUpRonAbk3jKvp1mCkY7xTmgkPr2yhyv6BgMHwUVckssOgA9n_2fAQqEy6YkRGcOjWpP_i_zQlgXV3UFS8gjawAKtLD1RKZf-LKA_qjAfnntERDucRf9kX9On3fw&__tn__=*NK-R] over the last year.Wanna see what I found? It's quite a bit. Scroll through.And, if you have any tiny amount to support our work moving forward, know it will be used to directly benefit folks in our community. We need 100 people to give any amount between today and May 6th to be in the running for a cash prize. Are you one of them? Please donate using one of these two methods: Up until May 7: https://www.midlandsgives.org/organization/whatshesaidproject After May 6th: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=34HAKESVDQVFL&source=qr

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