96 and Still Painting

When Jacksonville sculptor David Engdahl commissioned a film about his 96-year-old mother who’s been painting for more than 40 years, I jumped at the chance to explore where David and his sister, watercolor artist Ellen’s artistic talents come from. Nathalie uses a palette knife to give people a glimpse of nature raw and untouched. She […]

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These Consultants Really Talk the Talk

Stop at Nothing, headquartered in Jacksonville Beach, works with companies around the world to increase leadership effectiveness and transform corporate culture. They needed a powerful way to capture their consultants’ passion for unlocking the potential of leaders and teams to collaborate more and innovate. Its founders decided that would be best accomplished through visual storytelling […]

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How to Live to Be 100

We learn about ourselves, our families and our history through stories. Stories are how we are remembered, a record that we were here and made an impact on the world. My most recent project, a film about 96-year-old painter Nathalie Engdahl, is a tribute to this mother of four children, two of them artists—sculptor David […]

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The Power of Story

A few weeks ago I gave my first official presentation on story and why it’s so powerful to us as human beings, as a community and as a way to connect brands to consumers. Stories are how we remember, how we experience emotion and how we connect with others. I presented at a July 12 […]

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The Power of Story

This is the first in a series of stories I’ll be blogging about on the impact stories have on our lives and for our brands. Stories are central to the human experience. Delivering information with emotional impact, they engage and entertain us. People want to learn, seek inspiration and connect with others through stories. Companies […]

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Accept the Challenge

Each year thousands of cyclists and their corporate sponsors accept the Bike MS challenge – riding 150 miles from St. Augustine to Daytona Beach and back to raise money for multiple sclerosis. I don’t actually know how to ride a bike (it’s true…) but instead was given the opportunity to capture the energy and excitement […]

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Story Matters

Documentaries about people overcoming great obstacles to achieve their goals are inspiring. They provide a sense of hope that, like the film’s characters, we too can make our biggest dreams come true. The two young women featured in my documentary “Africa’s Daughters” continue to inspire me. Now 20, they’re both in college in Uganda—Ruth at […]

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Visual Griots

In January of 2005, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit AED sent a team of Malian and U.S. photographers to two remote villages in Mali. They taught sixth graders how to tell their stories of village life with cameras. The project became known as “Visual Griots.” An exhibit of the children’s photographs opened at the Smithsonian Museum […]

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