I’m Jeffery Saddoris, and this is Storywork, a podcast about stories — uncovering them, sharing them, and living them.

But more than that, Storywork is about trying to understand. Trying to make sense of a world that, at least to me, feels increasingly unfamiliar.

I’ve spent most of my adult life designing and making things — paintings, photographs, podcasts, essays — and somewhere along the way I realized that what I’m really doing, in all of it, is storywork. Paying attention. Asking questions. Listening carefully. Trying to understand how people make meaning out of their lives and their work.

This isn’t a show about success. It’s not about productivity, entrepreneurship, or unlocking a better version of yourself in ten easy steps.

It’s about the slower, messier, more human work of becoming — and about the stories we tell ourselves and each other along the way.

Sometimes these will be conversations with artists, makers, and creative people. Sometimes they’ll be with folks who might not consider themselves creative at all — but who are deeply thoughtful about their work, their lives, and the world they’re moving through.

What connects them isn’t what they do. It’s how they pay attention. How they reflect. How they wrestle with uncertainty. How they try to live deliberately in complicated times.

Storywork is a space for long-form, unhurried conversation. A place to sit with questions instead of rushing toward answers. A place to think out loud — together.

If you’re someone who feels a little disoriented by how fast everything is moving… If you’re trying to understand your own work, your own story, or your place in all of this… You’re very much in the right place.

Thanks for being here.

I’m really glad you are.

This is Storywork.