I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting

their story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.

I could touch but never hold.

Hello, everyone, and you are listening to The So Before Podcast, and I am joined today by

Megan Perry. Welcome, Megan.

Thank you. I'm psyched to be here.

It's nice to see you. I'm psyched to be here. It's nice to see you.

I first came across Megan, God, it was a year ago, over a year ago now, right?

At the final she recovers event in Chicago, Megan was a big part of that.

And I just found her really impressive.

Well, why don't you tell people what you do

because I don't think I'm going to be able to explain it correctly yes I basically built a business

out of the things that I felt helped me the most and were most compelling to me so I train the

peer workforce I've been a recovery coach for 10 years, and so I design trainings for the workforce.

But what I'm known for the most is my work with storytelling and theater.

And kind of working at an intersection of storytelling as, you know, an art form, an advocacy tool, and especially as a way of healing ourselves.

And so that's what I've been doing for the last almost 10 years.

And that's what I want to hear more about is the tool of storytelling and why stories are so

compelling and how we respond to them.

I want to hear all of that, but I want to hear first a little bit about your background and

story because you're also a person in recovery, right?

I am. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's a whole big lot of stuff there, isn't there?

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