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So, I'll start with this... a couple of years
ago, an event planner called me
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because I was going to do a speaking event
and she called and she said,
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"I'm really struggling with how to write
about you on the little flier."
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And I thought, "well what's the stuggle?" And
she said, "Well, I saw you speak
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I'm gonna call you a researcher I think but
I'm afraid if I call you a researcher no one
will come because they'll think you're boring
and irrelevant (audience laughter)
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And, I was like "Okay." And she said,
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"Well the thing I liked about your talk
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is that you're a story teller.So I think what
I'll do is call you a story teller."
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And of course the academic, insecure part of
me was like- "you're gonna call me a what?"
(audience laughter)
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"you're gonna call me a what?" (audience
laughter)
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And she said, "I'm gonna call you a story
teller." And I was like, "Oh,
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pfft why not magic pixie." (lots of laughter)
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"let me think about this for a second."
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And so, I tried to call deep on my courage
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Well, you know I am a storyteller. I'm a
qualitative researcher.
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I collect stories, that's what I do.
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And maybe stories are just data with a soul.
Ya know and maybe I'm just a storyteller.
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So I said, "You know what?
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Why don't you just say I'm a
researcher/storyteller." And she went,
"Ah-ha-ha (imitates loud laugh)! There's no
such thing."
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(audience laughter)
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So I'm a researcher/storyteller.
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And I'm going to talk to you today, we're
talking about expanded perception
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And so I want to talk to you and tell you
some stories about a piece of my research
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that fundamentally expanded my perception
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and really actually changed the way that
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I live and love and work and parent.
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And this is where my story starts...
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When I was young researcher/doctoral student.
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My first year, I had a
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research professor who on
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one of his first days of class said, "Here's
the thing- if you cannot measure it, it
doesn't exist."
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And I thought he was just sweet talking me,
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I was like- "Really?" And he said,
"Absolutely."
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And so you have to understand that I have a
Batchelors in Social Work, a Masters in
Social Work and I was getting my PhD in
Social Work.
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So my entire academic career was surrounded
by people who kind of believed the whole
"life's messy, love it."
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And I'm more the "life's messy, clean it up."
(audience giggles)
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"Organize it and put it into a bento box."
(more laughter)
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And so to think I had found my way, found a
career
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that takes me... you know one of the big
sayings in social work is "lean into the
discomfort of the work"
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and I'm more "knock discomfort upside the
head and move it over and get all A's." That
was my mantra. (audience laughs)
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So I was very excited about this and so I
thought, this is the career for me because I
am interested
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in some messy topics but I want to be able to
make them, not messy.
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I want to understand them. I want to hack
into these things
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that I know are important and lay the code
out for everyone to see.
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So where I started was with connection.
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Because by the time you're a social worker
for ten years what you realize is
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that connection is why we're here.
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It's what gives purpose and meaning to our
lives.
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