What does it take to believe in yourself when others don’t? And how do you build a thriving small business rooted in relationships instead of algorithms?

In this episode of The Story Craft Podcast, Dr. Meg Adams sits down with Jenny Young, founder of SHE Did It Videography, to explore the power of self-trust, community-centered entrepreneurship, and storytelling as a force for local impact.

Jenny’s journey from Akron, Ohio to becoming an award-winning videographer serving small businesses and nonprofits across Northeast Ohio is a story of courage, resilience, and returning to your creative roots. A graduate of The University of Akron, Jenny spent years honing her craft—filming up to five videos a week across cities like Wadsworth, Medina, and Cleveland—before launching her own business in 2018.

But her success didn’t come from chasing trends. It came from investing in relationships.

In this conversation, we talk about:

• How to believe in yourself when support feels scarce

• Why community is the strongest marketing strategy for small business owners

• What it means to build a brand people talk about (“SHE did it!”)

• The courage it takes to leave stability and start your own creative business

• How serving small businesses and nonprofits can create ripple effects of kindness

Jenny shares how SHE Did It Videography was born from a desire to serve “small first” — making high-quality, accessible video production available to local entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations. Her work isn’t just about content creation; it’s about strengthening the conversation around storytelling, visibility, and generosity in Northeast Ohio.

At its core, Jenny’s story is a Whole Story Living story.

Whole Story Living is about stepping into authorship — choosing courage over comfort, connection over competition, and contribution over comparison.

Jenny embodies:

Narrative Aliveness – Returning to the creative spark she had as a child with a camera.
Relational Intelligence – Building a business around trust, community boards, and collaboration.
Human-Centered Rhythms – Designing a business that works alongside motherhood and family life.
The Sacred Ordinary – Seeing videography not just as a career, but as a way of giving back.

Her story reminds us that entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be loud to be powerful. It can be local. It can be relational. It can be rooted.

If you’re a creative entrepreneur, small business owner, nonprofit leader, or someone trying to build something meaningful while staying connected to your community — this episode will encourage you to trust your story and take the next brave step.

If this episode resonated with you:

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And for more reflections on building a life and business rooted in connection, follow along with Whole Story Living on Substack and Instagram @drmegadams.

Because when you believe in your story — even when others don’t — you don’t just build a business.

You build a community!

What happens when you stop letting algorithms shape your life and start becoming the author of your own story?

In this episode of The Story Craft Podcast, Meg introduces Whole Story Living — a human-centered framework for reclaiming your attention, reconnecting with your values, and showing up more fully in your work and relationships.

After growing disillusioned with social media, hustle culture, and performative productivity, Meg shares why she’s treating 2026 as a living research experiment: slowing down, listening more deeply, and rebuilding her rhythms around connection, creativity, and meaning.

You’ll hear:

• Why algorithms quietly shape how we think, create, and relate

• What it means to become the author of your own life instead of a passive consumer

• The origin of Whole Story Living — and how it blends storytelling, leadership, and embodied presence

• Simple practices for reclaiming your mornings, your voice, and your inner narrative

• How small, intentional habit shifts can restore confidence and clarity

This episode is both a personal reflection and an invitation — especially for women leaders, creatives, and thoughtful humans who feel tired of being optimized and ready to feel alive again.

If you’ve been craving slower mornings, deeper connection, and a more honest relationship with your own story, this conversation is for you.

👉 Follow along with the Whole Story Living experiment

Subscribe to Meg’s Substack for monthly field notes, research reflections, and behind-the-scenes insights from this year-long journey — and connect on Instagram @drmegadams for weekly story prompts and practice ideas.

Have you ever noticed how suddenly everyone is talking about the same thing online?

In this episode of The Story Craft Podcast, Kyle Adams explores how social media algorithms quietly shape what we see, what we think about, and even what we believe matters — using the flood of posts surrounding the Super Bowl halftime show as a real-time example of collective attention being redirected.

But this conversation goes deeper than trending topics.

Kyle unpacks how algorithmic feeds can:

• Hijack our attention and emotional energy

• Create manufactured consensus

• Pull us away from our own values and lived experiences

• Replace meaningful connection with performative engagement

More importantly, he offers grounded, practical ways to resist the pull.

This episode is an invitation to reclaim your agency — to slow down, stay rooted in your values, and choose face-to-face human connection over algorithmic validation.

You’ll walk away with simple practices for:

• Becoming more aware of how algorithms influence your thinking

• Re-centering on what actually matters to you

• Prioritizing real relationships over digital noise

• Living and leading with intention in an attention economy

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by social media, exhausted by online discourse, or disconnected from your deeper sense of purpose, this episode will help you reconnect with your humanity — and remember that you still get to author your own story.