We truly believe that being vulnerable, honest, and open makes us connect and unite as a community. Personal storytelling is an effective tool to help us achieve that. Come to this storytelling showcase event to hear stories that have not been shared anywhere else and be inspired!

Are you excited to hear authentic and personal stories? This storytelling showcase is highlighting some of the rising storytellers. They will be getting vulnerable and telling personal stories that they have not shared anywhere else.

We all were excited for 2020, a new decade for creating new opportunities but then COVID-19 hit. So during this challenging time, we need to inspire each other every single day.

How? By candidly sharing our unique stories. By being honest and open, we can connect and unite as one community.

But there are two problems: 

• First, we focus too much on working and running our businesses. That sadly makes us not OPEN up to show who we really are. Being authentic, honest, and vulnerable are what we need!
• Second, there is no SPACE for storytellers to practice telling their stories. You may dream of doing a TEDx Talk in the future but there is no stage to practice.

This is why we’re organizing this storytelling showcase event. Get excited to hear authentic and personal stories. Theme: Pause.

You will be listening to raw and real stories. And maybe you will be inspired enough to share your own story one today and/or connect with the storytellers’ stories & decide to do something differently in your life. This storytelling showcase is highlighting some of the rising storytellers. They will be getting vulnerable and telling stories that they have not shared anywhere else. Each storyteller will share an 8 min story.

The Speakers:

1. Akshi Singh
   Akshi has a Thai-Indian background and has spent the majority of her life growing up in the outskirts of Bangkok. Being able to travel to many South-East Asian countries, she has been exposed to the most vulnerable communities, which sparked her interest in social impact. She has a Masters of Science in Social Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California and currently lives in Perth, Western Australia where she is a Risk Consultant for a large Insurance company and also the founder of BetterWorld Consulting.
2. Uptin Saiidi 
   Uptin is a journalist and coach based in California. He’s reported for MTV News in New York and CNBC International across the U.S, Europe, and Asia, primarily covering business, tech, and more. He hosted and produced videos amassing more than 100 Million views across YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram & more.
   
3. Hadley Driscoll
   Hadley is a radiator of positive human energy and a passionate storyteller. After quitting her job in the ski industry, she took a sabbatical to Bali where she realized the world of being a digital expat and has been living here, helping small and medium-sized businesses tell their stories across digital platforms ever since.
   
4. Ping Hendra
   Ping is a Connect With Confidence Coach who helps professionals to connect with themselves so that they can network and connect with others. He was a shy and socially awkward introvert who broke out of his shell, and his mission is to help others do the same through his proprietary FML Framework. His “Network And Connect Podcast” features his interesting conversations with ordinary people with extraordinary stories. The podcast achieved its 1,000th downloads in just a month.
5. Brittany Washington
   Brittany Washington is a filmmaker and multimedia producer based in New York City and is a senior video producer at HuffPost. She also served as the Director of Engagement for The Video Consortium, a creative community of more than 1,300 members around the globe, including some of the country’s leading video journalists and nonfiction filmmakers.
   Solutions journalism is her interest as a filmmaker. She is also passionate about stories of social change, communication, identity, and how they all intersect. The arts, culture, mental health, emotional intelligence, women’s rights, and radical compassion are strong themes throughout her personal and creative work. Her work has covered race, the criminal justice system, education, immigration, campaign finance reform, international justice, gender, and economic inequality recently in Haiti, Hungary, South Africa, Greece, Liberia, Algeria, Mexico, and various cities in the United States.
   Brittany is also certified in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell. She leads workshops and speaks publicly with universities, media outlets, and news organizations to foster more inclusive storytelling and journalism—in front of, behind the camera, and in leadership roles within newsrooms and digital spaces. Brittany has a bachelor’s degree in radio, television & film, with a focus on directing & editing, from the University of Texas at Austin.

Event Registration Instructions
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This event is ONLINE, free and open to the public. If you want to join this event, please send us an email to rsvp@dojobali.org and we’ll send you the Zoom invitation
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