A Story Doesn't Need Publicity to Be Valuable.

A story doesn't have to be seen by the world to be valuable.

And yet, we can serve people by making visible stories that would otherwise remain unseen.

Something that has been on my mind for a while now is the idea of sharing stories from people who never had the chance to tell them to the world themselves.

Because often, these are precisely the stories that could help us as a society. That reconnect us with each other. That do us all good to hear – just as it can do a person good to be allowed to tell their own story.

Sharing stories with each other creates community. And we could definitely use more of that again.

For years, I've had the urge to reconnect young and old generations more strongly. Because we can learn so much from each other.

I was repeatedly condemned for wanting to make "accompanying people" my profession. After all, I didn't have much life experience myself yet.

Today, it's sometimes people from exactly these generations who come to me and let me support them – while I, at the same time, learn an incredible amount from them.

And sometimes I sit in a conversation, and tears well up in my eyes.

For example, when a 60-year-old man, who truly has his heart in the right place, tells me:

"We printed labels for wine bottles. Then, because of the war, the vintners couldn't get bottles anymore and couldn't sell any wine.

So we sat there twiddling our thumbs. None of us had ever experienced anything like that.

Someone had to go. And because I was the last one to arrive, I said I'd be the first one to leave."

Or when a young woman from nursing tells me how she accompanied a patient shortly before her death. What the doctor had told her to do. How sad the circumstances made her. And that this patient later reappeared in her dream and said goodbye to her.

Yes.

Then I sit on the call and cry.

And afterwards, I pray.

Because so often I see people in front of me who are trying to do the right thing – in a world where the right thing sometimes seems wrong and the wrong thing right.

And I believe these stories should be told.

Not because a person must first be seen for their life to gain meaning.

Not because public attention gives a story its value.

But because some stories remind us of what was already valuable long ago.

I still lack the right impetus and suitable support for how I can approach and finance this whole thing.

I think I'd like to visit these people at home. Set up a small podcast setup there, sit down with them, and simply listen to them. As personally and authentically as possible.

I know there are many ways to implement something like this. But I'm still missing the "GO" from above.

If you have any ideas, please share them with me.

Perhaps one of you can contribute exactly the missing piece that I'm still looking for. :)

All my love Lena