A New DailyGood Project
Story Booth
A machine can generate endless words. It can’t live a life, or tell you the truth of one. |
| Dear Friends,
For nearly 30 years, DailyGood — a project of ServiceSpace — has shared a daily dose of good news with more than 138,000 readers. We’d love to introduce you to something new it has been building: Story Booth. |
| We’re surrounded by more words than any generation before us, and plenty of them were written in seconds by something that isn’t a person. But the thing that actually moves us hasn’t changed: someone telling the truth about their own life, while other people listen.
The theologian Howard Thurman had a name for this: the sound of the genuine. He thought each of us carries it, and that learning to hear it in yourself takes most of a lifetime. Story Booth is our attempt to make room for that sound.
Here’s how it works. One person shares a real turning point from their life in an unhurried Zoom conversation. A moderator draws the story out with gentle questions. A few listeners keep their cameras on and quietly hold space, there to give of their attention rather than react. We record it, and from that, a first-person story takes shape and gets published here on DailyGood. No stage, no slides, nothing to sell — and no agenda but love. |
| Stories Already Told
A few of the lives that have passed through the booth so far: |
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A Hummingbird at Every Crossroads — Vasco learned to follow the small signs instead of the big checks, even turning down €50,000 for a month’s work when just €2,000 sat in his bank account. |
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What the Glitter Couldn’t Give Me — Rudy sold his company for over a billion dollars, felt strangely nothing, and found his way back to joy through three words: I don’t know. |
Step Into the Circle
Story Booth only works because people hold space for it. There are three ways to join us:
● Be a listener. Join an upcoming session on Zoom and just be there while someone tells their story. You don’t have to say a word.
● Share your story. Carrying a turning point you’ve never quite told? We’d love to hear it.
● Nominate someone. Know a quiet hero whose story deserves to be witnessed? Point us toward them.
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| 📜 Coming Up — Join as a Listener
Each of these is an open circle. Click any session to reserve your spot — times will show in your own timezone. |
| Tue, Jul 7 · 2:00 PM PT
Dr. Scott Levine — “Holistic Healing in Community Presence” — A chiropractor and holistic healer on tending the body as a whole system and nurturing a digital community of well-wishers. Join as a listener → |
| Fri, Jul 10 · 4:00 PM PT
Claudia Chee — “How I Became Costco Claudia” — From a Google job and burnout, to teaching yoga and piano, to an unexpected second act built entirely out of joy. Join as a listener → |
| Sat, Jul 11 · 7:00 AM PT
Leena Wilde Ryan — “Motherhood Sparked Heartful Creation” — Author, storyteller, and co-founder of a digital community of blessings (literally!) on heartful creation sparked by her motherhood journey and beyond. Join as a listener → |
| Wed, Jul 15 · 8:00 AM PT
Rama & Alex — 7 Years Connecting Hearts — On a 7-year walking pilgrimage around the world, fostering a “home for humanity” from one place to the next. Join as a listener → |
| Fri, Jul 17 · 11:30 AM PT
Bronson Chang — Pure Aloha ‘Dreamalization’ — A serial entrepreneur, writer, and father with an expansive heart, Bronson’s journey is one of community, family, faith and “pure aloha dreamalization”. Join as a listener → |
| And on the horizon: “What’s Your Relationship to Prayer?” with Wanjiru (Veronica) Macharia — a mystic in her seventies who attends daily mass, serves as a death doula, knits booties for premature babies half a world away, and is learning to play the piano. Plus, a Catholic nun serving unhoused and refugee populations, and young peacemakers around the world! |
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| Somewhere in you is a story only you can tell.
Come listen for the sound of the genuine, in someone else’s life and maybe in your own. 🙏 |
| For over 29 years, DailyGood has been a volunteer-led movement sharing uplifting stories that connect hearts and inspire action — reaching 138,000+ readers with no ads, no agendas, and no asks. Change the story, change the world. |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 
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