I grew up watching women from all across the country sharing their personal stories on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
I also spent a good amount of time watching CNN with Christiana Amanpour asking direct and sometimes though questions to incredibly controversial world leaders. I loved author James Baldwin always speaking truth to power, and Louis Theroux from the BBC during Weird Weekends. I’ve been greatly inspired by them and many others, but especially by the way a medium like television can be used as a way to transform lives.
It’s very refreshing and inspiring that an extremely powerful medium like that can be used in such a way that it can touch lives, inform us about something we didn’t know yet, or remind us that we might be more connected to one another than we might think sometimes. I believe great stories can be so powerful that they inspire people to think and act differently.
Since the beginning of this online publication, I’ve been dedicated to keep this place advertisement-free – making it a platform solely focused on quality stories and readers’ support. The relationship between a writer and reader should, in my opinion, be personal and real. Ads intervene in that dialogue and disturb – as you will, the authenticity it needs and deserves.
Therefore, I like this platform to be a destination for people to share stories and ideas that matter. As the world keeps getting faster, there’s actually a shortage of thoughtful, timeless stories and ideas that are worth sharing an hour or even a week later. While the web can be a crowded place of anonymity, clicks, self-exposure and sometimes bullying, it can also be a destination of unity, real and meaningful conversations, and bringing people together.
