Have you ever encountered obstacles so large, you’re worried you won’t reach your goal, but you keep going anyway? Come join our storytellers as they share stories of how they kept on keeping on.
Stories by: Theresa Ball, Kayt Hester, Ted Olds, and Mariah Wilson
Theresa Ball is a registered nurse, who works in the ER of a very busy, level 1 trauma hospital. She has a total of 21 years of healthcare experience.She is a mom of 3, an avid hiker, a yogi and an amateur chef. She’s also a success and wellness coach for nurses, who lives to inspire others to be better, even in the smallest moments.
Kayt Hester is a comedian and visual artist from Jersey City, NJ. A year to the day after her first open mic set, Kayt won Audience Favorite in the Jersey City Comedy Festival’s Jersey Strong Showcase and was named one of the judges’ Top 3 in The Best of the Fest. Other credits include the Boston Comedy Festival and the NY Underground Comedy Festival. Her jokes have been featured in the New York Post. The Pixies used her artwork as a backdrop in their last tour. When not creating, Kayt enjoys bothering cats and wearing comfortable pants.
Ted Olds is a mechanical engineer and patent lawyer. He has worked on protecting technologies as wide ranging as Pratt and Whitney's geared aircraft engine to the Rainbow Loom. He also tells stories around the country. He has appeared on Story Collider and its podcast before. Ted has won the Moth Story Slam 20 times across eight cities.
Mariah Wilson is a documentary producer and director with a focus on wildlife conservation whose work has taken her to six continents. She has worked on series for PBS, Amazon, Netflix, National Geographic, Vice, A&E, Al Jazeera, History, Mongabay, Discovery, Animal Planet, and more. Her 2019 feature documentary SILENT FORESTS is about the fight to save forest elephants from ivory trafficking in Africa’s Congo Basin. It screened at Santa Barbara, Big Sky (Finalist – Feature Competition), Brooklyn Film Festival (Spirit Award), Jackson Wild WWD (Winner – Stories of Hope) and is a One World Media Award Winner. Her other producing credits include MADINA’S DREAM (SXSW, Telluride Mountainfilm), MARY JANES (Woodstock, Mill Valley), END OF THE LINE (DOC NYC), and most recently WILDCAT (Sundance Doc Fund, Telluride Film Festival, IDFA – coming to Amazon Studios 2023)