The Whole Story

Samantha Stilwell
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  • Entrepreneurship

The Whole Story is a living archive of women building things before we know how their stories end. Businesses, creative projects, community initiatives, side hustles, new chapters — we record women in the middle of making them, while the decisions are still decisions and not yet lessons and we follow-up with them to see how those decisions turned out later! These aren't success stories. They're records of uncertainty, experimentation, pivots, pauses, ordinary days and everything else that usually gets edited out. The Whole Story is a record of women in the act of becoming.

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  1. Aug 26

    AR 001 -The Woman With 100 Projects: Samantha Stilwell

    Recorded: August 15, 2026Place: Nunavik, QuebecBuilding: incubateHER · The Whole Story · a book about belongingSeason: slowing down, experimenting, letting things incubateQuestions being carried: What happens when I stop forcing clarity? What might grow if I give it more time? Unresolved at time of recording:What CultureDynamiq will become. Whether the belonging project becomes a book. What incubateHER will grow into. Whether this archive will hold three stories or 300,000.  Mentioned in this record:[financial resources] · [incubateHER] · [Belonging] · [bathroom photos] This is the first record in The Whole Story archive. And appropriately, almost nothing in it has an ending. I (Samantha, your archivist) am building incubateHER, writing a book about belonging, reconsidering a consulting business, working as a flight attendant in the Canadian Arctic, and beginning this archive with no idea what any of it will become. This record is about the parts we tend to edit out later: financial mistakes, accidental opportunities, identity shifts, unfinished projects, strange detours and decisions that only look strategic in hindsight. It's a record of building before the story knows how it ends — the act of becoming, while it's still happening.

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The Whole Story is a living archive of women building things before we know how their stories end. Businesses, creative projects, community initiatives, side hustles, new chapters — we record women in the middle of making them, while the decisions are still decisions and not yet lessons and we follow-up with them to see how those decisions turned out later! These aren't success stories. They're records of uncertainty, experimentation, pivots, pauses, ordinary days and everything else that usually gets edited out. The Whole Story is a record of women in the act of becoming.

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  • Creator
    Samantha Stilwell
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Samantha Stilwell
  • Show Website
    The Whole Story