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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Tami Simon speaks with Leah Lamb, founder of the School for Sacred Storytelling, about how storytelling serves as guidance through crisis and transformation. They explore the original role of storytellers as healers and guides, the power of language to shape reality, and how stories can help us navigate grief, heartbreak, and collective challenges with courage and hope.
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| 0:00.0 | The Sounds True Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.1 | What is a crisis? |
| 0:09.1 | The sacred storyteller begins to use etymology and says, |
| 0:11.6 | oh, a crisis, if you look at the atomology, says, |
| 0:14.3 | we're at a fork in the road. |
| 0:16.6 | We have an opportunity to make a choice. |
| 0:19.1 | That's what crisis needs. |
| 0:23.7 | In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Leah Lamb. |
| 0:29.1 | Leah is a writer, a creator, and a storyteller working at the intersection of myth, ritual, and personal transformation. She spent seven years working as a |
| 0:41.8 | wilderness guide, has a background in social work, theater, and environmental media. And Leah Lamb is the |
| 0:50.2 | founder of The School for Sacred Storytelling. When I first heard about the school for sacred storytelling. |
| 1:02.4 | When I first heard about the school and how Leah was bringing together storytellers from across the world to tell in a visionary and creative way the stories that we need to know |
| 1:09.9 | now, the stories of our time, I thought to myself, |
| 1:14.0 | Leah Lamb belongs at sounds true. And that's true. She has created with us a new learning series. |
| 1:22.8 | It's called Sacred Storytelling How to Tell Stories that open hearts and heal the world. |
| 1:30.3 | Stay with us. |
| 1:37.2 | This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. |
| 1:41.2 | We're joining with our friends at Better Help to celebrate and thank all of the therapists |
| 1:47.0 | in our lives. When I was in my 40s, I started regularly seeing a therapist who was a true |
| 1:55.0 | mentor for me in many aspects of my life. When it came to my relationship with myself, of course, but also in my marriage |
| 2:02.4 | and in my work. At one point, she said to me, you know, you're a real DIY type. You always |
| 2:10.3 | like plowing through by yourself. She continued, the people I know who reach really high levels |
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