Hey folks! 👋🏽 Welcome to October's theme! This month, we're wrapping up the Explore step of the EquaStory® Framework with the piece that runs underneath everything else: power dynamics. Even with the best intentions, you hold more power than you might realize every time you ask a story owner for something. Learning to see that power is the first step toward sharing it. 📎 Inside this month's attachment: 🔹 What power dynamics are, and why they come first in the framework 🔹 Scenario 1: Asking a story owner to participate on the spot 🔹 Scenario 2: Knowing where the yes is coming from 🔹 Scenario 3: Inherited media and "we've always done it this way" 🔹 How to share power in the Explore step Find the scenario that resonates and start there! 💜 🎯 Your Next Action Power dynamics can feel heavy to carry, especially if you're the only one at your organization who sees them. But you don't have to figure this out alone; that's exactly what this community is for! Pick one storytelling ask coming up for you, whether it's a photo at your next event, an interview request, or a story you're about to pull from the shared drive, and run it through these three questions: 1️⃣ What is my relationship to the story owner? 2️⃣ What is the distribution of power between us? 3️⃣ What could I do differently to correct the imbalance? 💬 Then come back and share in the comments: what's one small change you're going to try to create more balance? Someone here has likely been exactly where you are, and your answer might be the nudge another member needs! 🙌🏽 🗓️ Keep an eye out for new discussion questions later this month! Hasta pronto, Diana

Welcome to the Vault Community 🎉. We're so happy you're here! Vault Premium Members: Go to Classroom and open the first course, “30-Day Ethical Story Challenge,” then the first module, “Take a Stand and Start.” Vault Standard (Community-only) members joining for the first time: Post an introduction comment and share what brought you here!