What happens when a veterinary technician, end‑of‑life doula, and legacy specialist decides to put story at the centre of care and education? We sit down with Angie Turner to explore how digital storytelling can build resilience, clarify identity, and spark brave conversations in veterinary medicine.

Angie shares her path into facilitation through Common Language training, including the craft and care behind her first personal story and the decision to add a clear trigger warning for sensitive content. We talk about the power of mentorship inside the collective—archived continuing education sessions, peer feedback, and mentorship meetings that turn big questions into practical steps.

Episode Key Messages

• Angie’s path across vet tech, doula, and legacy practice

• training insights, first stories, and trigger warnings

• the Common Language Collective’s mentorship, continuing education, and peer learning

• two tracks: client legacies and veterinary resilience

• building a third‑year vet elective with practitioner panels

• student origin stories as reflective practice

• making a digital story about digital storytelling watch here

• practical ways to capture and share family histories

Other Links Mentioned

• Watch Angie's story, My Journey to Life Story Work
• Watch the video Angie inspired Kristy to make here
• Read this episode's blog post
• Check out Angie's website

About Our Guest

Angie Turner is a veterinary professional and digital storytelling facilitator who bridges clinical practice with narrative medicine. Through SOS Legacies, she helps veterinary professionals build resilience and strengthen their professional identity by capturing and sharing the stories that define the essence of their personal and professional journeys. By combining years of experience as a veterinary technical instructor with expertise in legacy preservation and digital storytelling, Angie creates pathways for practitioners to process their experiences, connect with purpose, and sustain their passion for animal care in an emotionally demanding field.

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A preemie parent and digital storytelling facilitator, who just happens to also host the Co-Created podcast, Kristy Wolfe, shares how a simple bedtime ritual became a lens for resilience, advocacy, and neurodevelopmental care, weaving Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) experience into digital stories that move clinicians and empower families. We show how short films, crafted with consent and care, can change practice, spark equity conversations, and help kids speak for themselves.

Episode Key Messages

• why stories carry what data cannot
• how a two to four minute digital story influences conferences and policy
• Kane’s voice on pacemakers, echocardiograms and hospital Lego
• reflection prompts for clinicians to change practice
• consent and whose story gets told
• the four-phase Common Language digital storytelling method
• process versus product goals in advocacy and education
• readiness, emotional safety and caregiver well-being
• practical ways to bring neurodevelopmental care into daily life

Other Links Mentioned

• Watch the full Preemie Chat episode
• Watch Hugs & Bugs
• Watch Kane's Story
• Read this episode's blog post
• Learn more about Canadian Premature Babies Foundation's Preemie Chats

About Our Guest (aka the Co-Created host!)

Kristy Wolfe is a digital storytelling facilitator and owner of Kristy Wolfe Stories. She believes there is beauty in every story and she champions real stories in marketing and communication. Kristy exposes the human side of any organization, with consideration for ethics in storytelling, as well as storyteller wellness every step of the way. As a Common Language DST certified facilitator and trainer, Kristy helps individuals and social purpose organizations share meaningful stories, turning their unique experiences into compelling narratives that inspire action. Kristy shares some of her own lived experiences within the context of each workshop she facilitates to validate that authenticity, openness, and vulnerability are essential to creating meaningful digital stories.

Fabiana Bacchini is the Executive Director of the Canadian Premature Babies Foundation. She is a journalist and the published author of From Surviving to Thriving, a Mother’s Journey Through Infertility, Loss and Miracles.

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If you’re a parent navigating loss, a health professional seeking empathy-building tools, or a changemaker curious about narrative practices, you’ll find practical insights on peer support, ritual, and the craft of story in our conversation with Gillian Hatto. Gillian is mom to Hazel, Elliot, Lily, and Olive and she opens up about how sudden child loss upended her world and how she found her way to community and purpose. She shares the origin of Hazel’s Heroes, a free Alberta retreat for bereaved parents. We also open the door on digital storytelling: how a guided workshop, a story circle, and careful editing help distill a life-altering experience into a two-to-four minute film. Gillian describes the nerves of drafting, the surprise of supportive feedback, and the power of pairing voice with images to say what words alone can’t. These personal films now live on websites and in small gatherings, helping families explain the why behind their work and giving clinicians and communities a tool to listen better.

Episode Key Messages

• defining SIDS and the shift to undetermined terminology

• founding Hazel’s Heroes and designing an annual retreat

• how peer support reduces isolation and builds language for grief

• the digital storytelling process from draft to story circle to edit

• using short films as advocacy, education and legacy

• carrying grief and joy at the same time

• the ladybug symbol as a living thread to memory

• links to SIDS Calgary Society and Hazel’s Heroes for support

Other Links Mentioned

• Watch Gillian’s digital story
• Read this episode's blog post

About Our Guest

Gillian Hatto is mother to Hazel, Elliott, Lily, and Olive. She holds two of her children in her arms, and two of her children in her heart. Gillian is the founder of Hazel’s Heroes, a non-profit society that hosts annual retreats for mothers who are grieving the loss of a young child. She is also the Vice-Chair of SIDS Calgary Society. Gillian has found so much healing through the relationships she has made with other grieving parents, as they are the only ones who truly ‘get it’ and that inspired her to create a space for other bereaved mothers to feel supported and understood. When Gillian is not planning for an upcoming retreat or fundraiser, she is working as a Learning Support Teacher for students with disabilities in an elementary school. She can also be found walking her gentle giant, Maigs, or snuggling on the couch with her earth-side children, Elliott and Olive.

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