Truth In Fiction: Storytelling for Social Change with Juliet Rose, Author and Activist
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this discussion, we are invited to learn more about social and sustainability issues we all face through the power of storytelling with fiction. From the pages of We Don't Matter to Prick of the Needle, we gain perspective through the lives of people living in incredibly difficult situations, where protests rage, fires swallow hillsides and drug addiction separates people from mainstream society. We are invited to think differently, and gain a greater understanding for and love of one another as we a journey into lives we might otherwise never have known.
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Why write "We Don't Matter" and focus on bringing truth to fiction?
07:20 Telling the story of Wren, the main character in Prick of the Needle, a recovering addict who becomes a woodland firefighter
11:00 Repairing the damage we've done to earth (regeneration commentary)
13:30 Pushing for change through storytelling
17:00 Regeneration podcast series and Paul Hawken's important work
23:15 Why we matter
27:00 Leading with compassion
About Juliet Rose:
Juliet is an author whose goals are to bring truth to fiction and change the narrative. She brings a lot of social issues into her work and is determined to use her voice. She has three published novels, and a short story in a horror anthology, We Don't Matter, Do Over and her latest release, Prick of the Needle, released in May. Juliet lives in northern Georgia with her rescue animals.
Connect with Juliet Rose:
email: [email protected]
instagram: instagram.com/authorjulietrose
facebook: facebook.com/authorjulietrose
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:10.0 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:16.0 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars dollars and get involved today. Here's your host, |
| 0:21.8 | Carina Belizzi. Hello, fellow do-gooters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist and |
| 0:29.9 | cause marketer who's passionate about everything's social impact and sustainability. Every |
| 0:35.7 | week, I invite you to care a little bit more so that together we can all |
| 0:40.2 | be a little bit better. Today, I'm inviting you on a different sort of journey as a part of a |
| 0:45.9 | new series I'm releasing as we explore the power of fiction to push forth social issues. |
| 0:52.7 | Story is a powerful way to communicate the complex challenges we face, |
| 0:57.7 | especially when those challenges are multi-layered and seemingly difficult to tackle. |
| 1:02.7 | To begin the journey, I'm joined by Juliet Rose. She's an author whose goals are to bring |
| 1:08.0 | truth to fiction and change the narrative. |
| 1:17.7 | She brings social issues into her work and currently has three published novels and a horror story published in an anthology. |
| 1:24.8 | Her latest book, Prick of the Needle, is available now on Amazon for Kindle or even a traditional paperback. |
| 1:31.0 | Well, wow, Juliet, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me on. |
| 1:38.1 | Well, I'm an avid reader. I personally love to read fiction, though I often don't make enough time for it. And lately, I've been bringing on so many authors onto this show that I've been busy reading a lot of |
| 1:43.3 | nonfiction by doctors. |
| 1:45.4 | So your book was a welcome relief for me. |
| 1:49.3 | I recently finished your copy of We Don't Matter. |
| 1:54.6 | So I'd like to start by talking about that particular book. |
| 1:59.0 | What inspired you to write, We Don't Matter? |
| 2:04.1 | Yeah, so I think my inspiration really came from, I've spent, I feel like, decades kind of |
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