What happens when you stop letting algorithms shape your life and start becoming the author of your own story?

In this episode of The Story Craft Podcast, Meg introduces Whole Story Living — a human-centered framework for reclaiming your attention, reconnecting with your values, and showing up more fully in your work and relationships.

After growing disillusioned with social media, hustle culture, and performative productivity, Meg shares why she’s treating 2026 as a living research experiment: slowing down, listening more deeply, and rebuilding her rhythms around connection, creativity, and meaning.

You’ll hear:

• Why algorithms quietly shape how we think, create, and relate

• What it means to become the author of your own life instead of a passive consumer

• The origin of Whole Story Living — and how it blends storytelling, leadership, and embodied presence

• Simple practices for reclaiming your mornings, your voice, and your inner narrative

• How small, intentional habit shifts can restore confidence and clarity

This episode is both a personal reflection and an invitation — especially for women leaders, creatives, and thoughtful humans who feel tired of being optimized and ready to feel alive again.

If you’ve been craving slower mornings, deeper connection, and a more honest relationship with your own story, this conversation is for you.

👉 Follow along with the Whole Story Living experiment

Subscribe to Meg’s Substack for monthly field notes, research reflections, and behind-the-scenes insights from this year-long journey — and connect on Instagram @drmegadams for weekly story prompts and practice ideas.

Have you ever noticed how suddenly everyone is talking about the same thing online?

In this episode of The Story Craft Podcast, Kyle Adams explores how social media algorithms quietly shape what we see, what we think about, and even what we believe matters — using the flood of posts surrounding the Super Bowl halftime show as a real-time example of collective attention being redirected.

But this conversation goes deeper than trending topics.

Kyle unpacks how algorithmic feeds can:

• Hijack our attention and emotional energy

• Create manufactured consensus

• Pull us away from our own values and lived experiences

• Replace meaningful connection with performative engagement

More importantly, he offers grounded, practical ways to resist the pull.

This episode is an invitation to reclaim your agency — to slow down, stay rooted in your values, and choose face-to-face human connection over algorithmic validation.

You’ll walk away with simple practices for:

• Becoming more aware of how algorithms influence your thinking

• Re-centering on what actually matters to you

• Prioritizing real relationships over digital noise

• Living and leading with intention in an attention economy

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by social media, exhausted by online discourse, or disconnected from your deeper sense of purpose, this episode will help you reconnect with your humanity — and remember that you still get to author your own story.

We are living in a moment where stories shape everything—what we believe, who we trust, how power moves, and whose voices are heard.

In this solo episode of The Story Craft Podcast, Dr. Meg Adams explores the urgency of telling your story and what it means to live—and lead—a Whole Story in a time when narratives are constantly being written for us.

Drawing from her Whole Story Living framework, Meg unpacks the idea that storytellers are not just content creators or communicators—we are meaning makers. The stories we tell (and the ones we silence) shape culture, build communities, and influence how power is understood and distributed.

This episode is a call to presence and authorship. To stop outsourcing your story. To show up with confidence. And to recognize that your lived experience carries weight—whether you claim it or not.

• Why storytelling is not optional in today’s cultural moment

• What it means to live a Whole Story—not a curated or fragmented one

• Why confidence comes from ownership, not performance

• How storytelling builds community and shifts narratives

• The responsibility storytellers carry as cultural meaning makers

This episode is especially for leaders, creatives, educators, and anyone who has ever felt hesitant to take up space with their story—but knows, deep down, that it matters.

If you’ve been waiting for permission to own your voice, consider this your invitation.