Yep, we're doing it. Everyone’s weighing in on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — the box office numbers, the armor discourse, the modern-English dialogue debates. So here are three insights from The Odyssey for advocates sharing their stories from lived experience to make a difference in the modern world.

This can’t be done. How do you hold space for someone’s story when there’s a screen between you?

In a guest post, advocate Jim Kuhn shares why it is so important for members of the rare disease community to share their lived experiences.

We love the podcasts (of course) that feature personal stories from lived experience. Better still if they point toward some type of advocacy. Here are a few of our favorites.

Without taking the time to reflect and explore, I might have forgotten that memory and missed the connection it holds to one of my deep beliefs about the value of museums (or all encounters with art and artifact, for that matter).

Should you write out your story before you speak it? Yes and no.

“It was such a safe space LPA had created.”

Compared to the more serious health conditions or life circumstances that many advocates are managing, will my advocacy be viewed as overblown or overwrought?