Your Stories Matter

Jessica Graham
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Your story is bigger than your darkest chapter. So many women have done the therapy. The courses. The personal development deep-dives. And somehow — they’re still stuck. Still making decisions from old narratives. Still living inside a story they didn’t consciously choose. That’s what this podcast is about. Your Stories Matter is for growth-minded women — especially those building businesses — who are ready to stop being run by the stories they inherited, absorbed, or were told to carry. And start living from the ones they actually want. Hosted by Jessica Graham, certified narrative advisor and story coach, each episode goes inside the real-time rewriting process — the triggers, the patterns, the identity shifts, and the moments that change everything. Because entrepreneurship has a way of dragging (often kicking and screaming) every unhealed story into the light. And when it does, you have two choices: stay stuck or rewrite. Your mess is your message. Your turning points are your treasures. Your struggle is your purpose. And being brave enough to say my story matters — that’s where everything changes, toots. 

  1. 12h ago

    18. Boobies Up On Growth and Loss

    If you're a female founder who's done the healing work, hired the coaches, read the books and you're still finding yourself stuck in the same identity that got you here, my sass and spice will resonate with you this episode! I'm talking b*tching about the thing nobody tells you about growth as a business owner: that sh*t costs you something. Every real up-level means outgrowing people, relationships, old strategies, even old versions of your business, and most of the personal development world only sells you the upside.  This episode is the other half of that story. If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right on paper but your soul is still suffocating underneath it, this one's going to hit. I also share that a Rewrite Room is OPEN. But there's been a delay in the start. Get on the WAITLIST to be the first to know when the next room opens! This is an intimate four-woman version of my 8-week interactive narrative writing program, Rewritten, starting the first week of September. Limited seats available. Save yours for just $497. Get on the WAITLIST for the next Rewrite Room:  https://jessicagrahamcoaching.com/rewrite-room ♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach ♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.  ♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.   ♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.  About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

  2. Aug 13

    17. What I Learned at Cathy Heller's Event: Your Purpose & Playing Bigger

    I'm back to share all about my takeaways from my experience at Cathy Heller's live event in LA, packed with speakers on purpose, healing, and aligning with God's plan. Cathy was my very first business coach back in 2020 and has since evolved to be my Kabbalah teacher, so this trip was part reunion, part spiritual refill. In this episode, I'm walking you through my biggest takeaways speaker by speaker, including:  Cathy Heller https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/ Ariana Del Rosario https://www.instagram.com/cosmicary_/ Rudi Riekstins https://www.instagram.com/rudiriekstins/ Samantha Skelly https://www.instagram.com/samanthaskelly/ Alyssa Nobriga https://www.instagram.com/alyssanobriga/ Alexandra Cole https://www.instagram.com/alexandrafcole/ Steffani LeFevour https://www.instagram.com/coachwithsteff/ Mignon Francois https://www.instagram.com/mignon.francois/ Craig Siegel https://www.instagram.com/craigsiegel_cls/ In this episode, we’ll get into: The difference between ego (the loud voice) and soul (the whisper)Why your nervous system resists anything unfamiliar, even good things"Consumption without integration is frustration" and what you can do about itThe four stages of love, and why most people never get past stage threeThe wound underneath needing to be understood (and what actually heals it)Why belonging and familiarity will cap your abundanceWhat your name can teach you about your purposeThe soul assignment concept: What if everyone in my story chose to be there?Main character energy, and why playing big has nothing to do with fame or moneyCurious about narrative writing? Check out Rewritten, my 8-week program that walks you through the narrative process of rewriting old stories that no longer serve you so you can make bolder, aligned decisions towards the life and business you truly desire to have. A Rewrite Room is open now. This is where 4 women do Rewritten with me as a mini group for just $497. Spots are limited, so check it out!  ♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach ♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.  ♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.   ♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.  About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

  3. Aug 6

    16. Stop Carrying That Old Story

    In this episode, I’m sharing my perspective on story ownership and posing the question: who actually interpreted your story the first time it happened? Because I promise you, it wasn't the you sitting here today. It was a younger, less-equipped version of you, making meaning with zero tools and zero perspective. And you've been carrying that meaning around like it's fact ever since. No hate, no shame. It just deserves acknowledgement.  I’m walking you through a reframe you can do on your own story right now, plus why so many women hit a full reckoning in their 40s and 50s (hint: your soul stops letting you ignore her). So be sure to have something to take notes because you’ll want to take these ideas into your next reflective journaling, aka narrative writing session.  You'll take away: Why you're not responsible for how someone receives your story, and why that means you can stop overthinking how you share yoursHow to spot when people-pleasing is really about outsourcing your worthiness to everyone but youA simple practice for reframing an old story so it stops feeling like a fact and starts feeling like something you get to rewriteWhy the hardest part isn't the awakening itself. It's living out who you become after it (so you're not blindsided when it gets messy)A first look at my new Rewrite Room — a small Rewritten group starting in AugustMentioned: Al-Anon daily readers: Courage to Change and Hope for TodayThe Saint Francis PrayerRewritten (DM on IG me @jessicagraham.storycoach if you want in on the Rewrite Room)_____________________________ ♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach ♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.  ♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.   ♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.  About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

  4. Jul 30

    15. Use Narrative Work To Manifest Your Desires

    This week I'm getting into one of my favorite things to talk about: MANIFESTATION. It used to make me cringe because I thought it was new-age woo-woo talk. Now if you bring it up, I'm like, girl, sit down, let's get into it. I unpack what manifestation actually means to me now versus how I used to see it (hint: it's not just "ask and hope"), and how narrative work supports the manifestation process. I even walk you through scripting, which is a writing practice I teach my Rewriters to help their nervous system believe a bigger story is possible. This episode is about reclaiming your agency over what you actually want, and why your nervous system — not your vision board — decides what you're ready to receive. In this episode, you'll learn: What manifestation actually means when it's rooted in co-creation with something greater than you AND healing subconcious beliefsWhy manifestation might be less about calling more in, and more about becoming someone who can recognize, receive, and steward what's already trying to find youHow the narrative question: Who would I need to be to receive it?  works alongside manifestation's question of what am I inviting inWhy manifesting from a wound (trying to fix, justify, or heal the past) blocks what you're calling in, and what to do insteadThe difference between "going with the flow" and DECIDING, and why deciding is what actually moves thingsAn introduction to scripting: A narrative-therapy-informed practice for rehearsing the story your nervous system hasn't learned yet, plus how to try it yourselfIf you're ready to start rewriting the stories that are keeping you from receiving what you actually want, Rewritten is the program for you. Start with a FREE Name the Narrative Session, and let's find the first thread together. __________________________ To Be Magnetic (affiliate) I mentioned To Be Magnetic, Lacey Phillips' guided meditation practice for subconscious reprogramming. I've used it myself for years and fold a lot of what I teach in Rewritten into it. 👉To Be Magnetic The Pathway (Payment Plan) https://login.tobemagnetic.com/a/2147524106/SVMoftp7 The Pathway Annual Subscription https://login.tobemagnetic.com/a/2148196837/SVMoftp7 Use the code: JESSICA4930 For 15% off (Disclosure: this ia an affiliate link. I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you) _____________________________ ♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach ♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.  ♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.   ♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.  About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

  5. Jul 23

    14. Nothing Is Wasted: Reconciling the Parts of Your Story You Dismiss

    Getting really personal this week and tracing a pattern I just recognized in myself: my instinct to go dismissive after a fallout, wipe the whole thing out, and "keep it moving" instead of actually processing it. I unpack where that pattern came from and why it's been costing me the chance to grieve and reconcile what I've lost. I share two chapters of my story I needed to reconcile — ten years as a teacher I never fully loved, and years working in the service industry. I talk candidly about the shame I carried around both, and how I'm now able to see the actual skills and lessons I carried forward from each — community-building from the classroom, and a deep drive to help women reclaim their worthiness from my service industry years. This episode is about the parts of my story I'd been dismissing, minimizing, or hiding, and why nothing I've lived was wasted once I was willing to find the thread. In this episode: The dismissive pattern I just uncovered and why it's not the strength I thought it wasReconciling 10 years of a teaching career that I didn't loveMy years working in the seedier side of the service industry and the shame I carried around itHow love and money wounds mirror each otherWhat 12-step recovery taught me about surrender and rewriting old beliefsWhy every experience I've lived — even the ones that feel shameful or unrelated — has a place in my storyIf you're ready to start reconciling your stories — especially the ones that have kept you stuck in shame and dismissal — Rewritten is the program for you. Start with a free Name the Narrative Session, and let's find the first thread together. ♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach ♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.  ♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.   ♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.  About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

  6. Jul 16

    13. Taking Inventory: How I Stopped Playing the Victim Role

    This one's a shortie but still powerful AF. This week I ran our first Rewriter's Collective meetup of the month, and it sparked something I couldn't not talk about: taking a story inventory. If you've been around here for a minute, you know Rewritten is all about tracing your old stories back to where they started, reframing them, and rewriting them into something that actually reflects who you are.  But the heavy lift isn't the awakening. It's the embodying. It's practicing the new story on repeat until it becomes who you are. In this episode, I'm breaking down: What a "story inventory" actually is (and how I stole the concept straight from Al-Anon's Step Four)Why "keeping your side of the street clean" might be the most freeing mindset shift you adopt this yearThe daily inventory questions I ask myself — did I tell any lies today, did I say yes when I meant no, am I avoiding a conversation I know I need to haveWhy forgiveness journals deserve just as much real estate as gratitude journalsThe moment I stopped victimizing myself over my relationship with my mom, and what changed when I finally saw her as a human being who was struggling — not just "my mother who should have been ___"What I'm actually most proud of (and it’s not what you think)This episode is a reminder that you can't control other people. You never could.  But you can take radical ownership of your side of the street, and that ownership is where your power lives. ♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach ♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.  ♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.   ♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.  About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

  7. Jul 9

    12. Stop Hoping, Start Deciding: How I'm Rewriting a Story of Loneliness

    For months, I chalked up my brain fog, low motivation, and low-grade depression to everything but the real thing. In this episode, I get honest about the middle-of-the-night epiphany that revealed the truth, the exact moment "I hope this happens" turned into "this is happening," and the wild string of manifestations that followed, including winning a ticket to see Cathy Heller in LA three days after I made the decision. We're talking about: Why chronic fatigue and brain fog can sometimes be a symptom of an unaddressed life misalignment, not just a hormone issueThe difference between hoping for something and deciding it's happening, and why that shift changes your energyHow codependency recovery reshaped the way I think about "making things happen"Why sisterhood and community outside your immediate family isn't optional, it's oxygenWhy embodiment work needs a container (and a little BTS on The Rewriter’s Collective)If you've been sitting on a hope you keep swatting away, this is your permission slip to decide instead. ♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach ♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.  ♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.   ♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.  About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

  8. Jul 2

    11. From Stuck to Speaking Up (A Rewriter's Story with Cherie Faus-Smith)

    For the first time on the podcast, I'm inviting one of my Rewriters to share her rewrite with us. Cherie Faus-Smith, a clarity and confidence coach, memoirist, and domestic abuse and melanoma survivor, joins me to share what it was actually like to go through Rewritten after years of therapy that helped, but never quite got her unstuck. We talk about the difference between processing in a 50-minute session versus having space to actually sit with a memory until it cracks open. Cherie shares how she rewrote her core story of "I'm not believed," how that shift changed her relationship with her parents and her marriage, and how naming her own narrative led directly to the birth of a business shift. This is a real, unedited conversation about what it looks like when the work actually works.  If any part of Cherie's story resonates, I'd love for you to take the next step: book a free Name the Narrative session, the first step into Rewritten, linked below. HOW TO CONNECT WITH CHERIE: Cherie Faus-Smith is a memoirist, survivor, and advocate for women reclaiming their voice. After years of self-abandonment and giving her power away, she found her way back to herself and now helps women in midlife speak up, take up space, and reconnect with who they truly are. Connect with Cherie Faus-Smith here: https://linktr.ee/cherie.faus.smith ______________________________________ ♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach ♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.  ♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.   ♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.  About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

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Your story is bigger than your darkest chapter. So many women have done the therapy. The courses. The personal development deep-dives. And somehow — they’re still stuck. Still making decisions from old narratives. Still living inside a story they didn’t consciously choose. That’s what this podcast is about. Your Stories Matter is for growth-minded women — especially those building businesses — who are ready to stop being run by the stories they inherited, absorbed, or were told to carry. And start living from the ones they actually want. Hosted by Jessica Graham, certified narrative advisor and story coach, each episode goes inside the real-time rewriting process — the triggers, the patterns, the identity shifts, and the moments that change everything. Because entrepreneurship has a way of dragging (often kicking and screaming) every unhealed story into the light. And when it does, you have two choices: stay stuck or rewrite. Your mess is your message. Your turning points are your treasures. Your struggle is your purpose. And being brave enough to say my story matters — that’s where everything changes, toots. 

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  • Creator
    Jessica Graham
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Jessica Graham Coaching
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    Your Stories Matter

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