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:

A Love Story, 80 Years and Counting — Ruth, in her eighties, has stood at her town square every Wednesday for eight years, holding a sign that just says LOVE.

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.

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.

There are others too: a self-taught 17-year-old physicist in Zambia, a woman who knocked on 185 doors of worship in one month, a self-published teen writer, and a healer who found grace on both sides of a long illness.

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.

📜 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!