More To The Story

Today on More to the Story Podcast: Following the Thread — Intuition, Ancestry & Storytelling with Joella AragónHow a multigenerational story finds its form through lineage, spirituality, and lived experienceToday I’m joined by my client Joella Aragón, a writer whose multigenerational, genre-bending book has been evolving for years — from memoir to fiction to speculative nonfiction and back again. Joella and I first met at a Shut Up & Write group I used to host at Old Soul Coffee in Sacramento, and from the beginning she was someone who carried a deep, intuitive relationship with story.In this conversation she talks about growing up partly in Belize, where spiritual and “witchcrafty” elements were woven into everyday life; the moment she read a pivotal piece (“Obia Child”) at my Tahoe retreat; and how her family’s history—including her great-grandmother’s kidnapping in 1904—has shaped the book’s spine.We also revisit the frightening experience Joella survived at age 15: nearly being kidnapped by an in