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So, I'll start with this: a couple years ago, an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event.
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And she called, and she said, "I'm really strugglingfinding something very difficult to do or deal with. with how to write about you on the little flyer."
And I thought, "Well, what's the struggle?"
And she said, "Well, I saw you speak, and I'm going to call you a researcher, I think, but I'm afraid if I call you a researcher, no one will come, because
they'll think you're boring and irrelevantnot connected with or relevant to something.."
(Laughter) And I was like, "Okay."
And she said, "But the thing I liked about your talk is you're a storyteller.
So I think what I'll do is just call you a storyteller."
And of course, the academic, insecurefeeling worried that you are not good enough or that people will not like you. part of me was like, "You're going to call me a what?"
And she said, "I'm going to call you a storyteller."
And I was like, "Why not 'magic pixie'?"
(Laughter) I was like, "Let me think about this for a second."
I tried to call deep on my couragethe ability to do something frightening or dangerous..
And I thought, you know, I am a storyteller.
I'm a qualitativerelating to the nature or quality of something rather than its quantity. researcher.
I collect stories; that's what I do.
And maybe stories are just data with a soul.
And maybe I'm just a storyteller.
And so I said, "You know what?
Why don't you just say I'm a researcher-storyteller."
And she went, "Ha ha.
There's no such thing."
(Laughter) So I'm a researcher-storyteller, and I'm going to talk to you today -- we're talking about expandingto become larger or more extensive. perception -- and so I want to talk to you and tell some stories
about a piece of my research that fundamentally expanded my perception and really actually changed the way that I live and love and work and parentto bring up and care for a child..
And this is where my story starts.
When I was a young researcher, doctoralRelating to a doctorate or the study for one. student, my first year, I had a research professor who said to us, "Here's the thing, if you cannot measure it, it does not exist."
And I thought he was just sweet-talking me.
I was like, "Really?"
and he was like, "Absolutely."
And so you have to understand that I have a bachelor's and a master's in social work, and I was getting my Ph.D.
