Intentional Documentary Podcast Archive

Before Dangerously Good Stories, this podcast began as Intentional Documentary®, a show focused on using photography to preserve our most meaningful stories. Some early episodes remain available in the feed for those who still find value in that season of work.

Below, you’ll find an archived list of those original episodes. While I no longer offer many of the programs mentioned, I’ve kept the most requested materials active here for ease and continuity.

How to Use This Page

  • In the episode list below, click guest names to explore or connect with them (where current contact links are available).

  • Episodes with Mini Mags are marked with ‘MM available’ — all of these are included in the Freesources for Photographers collection.

  • Looking for a resource mentioned in an episode? Scroll down — there’s a section below with all currently active materials.

Legacy Resources from Early Episodes.

episode list

  1. Welcome to the Intentional Documentary® Podcast

  2. 7 Exercises to Gain Total Clarity Around What Matters Most (To You) — MM available

  3. Why Intentional Documentary® is a Movement Worth Paying Attention To — MM available

  4. Documentary School Photography with Katie Jett Walls

  5. Creating a Legacy Box: For You, For Them, For Later

  6. Trying to “Elicit Emotion” in Your Photography? Listen In.

  7. Family Connection & Real-Life Photography with Justine Curran — MM available

  8. Marketing with Identity, Not Noise with Nick McArthur

  9. Loosen Your Grip: 5 Stress-Shifting Questions for Big Life Seasons

  10. Life-Proof Your Business: 10 Ways I Created Breathing Room to Heal, Move, and Rest

  11. Shed Your Mask, Reveal Your Voice with Eboni Rivera — MM available

  12. Assessing the Damage (and the Goodness): A Real-Time Look at Failure, Love & Business

  13. Connection Without an Agenda: The Most Powerful Outreach You Can Do

  14. Let It Be Easy: Flow, Alignment, and Reclaiming Play with Susan Ferraro

  15. Marketing, Moving, and Meaningful Promotions with Michelle McKay

  16. Documenting What Matters: Love, Legacy & Everyday Storytelling with Seshu — MM available

  17. Do Something Beautiful With Your Phone Photos (Without Overwhelm)

  18. Pricing Documentary Family Photography with Confidence with Ashleigh Raddatz

  19. Keep the Kind Words: A Reminder for When Doubt Gets Loud

  20. How Photographs Impact Healing After the Sudden Loss of a Child with Brittni Schroeder — MM available

  21. Staying Creatively Fueled with Personal Projects with Stacey Ilyse — MM available

  22. Launching for Revenue Without the Burnout with Kyla Roma

  23. 7 Phases to Design Your Next Workshop with Intention and Ease

  24. Filming Life, Music, and Teaching Workshops with Heart with Allison Redmon

  25. Staying True to Your Work, Even After Success with Kirsten Lewis

  26. Sharing Your Truth Through Photography (Not Just the Highlights) with Angela Yarbrough — MM available

  27. Showing Up Fully Expressed: In Service, In Faith, In Story with Davina Fear

  28. Why You Need a Memorable Story Collection for Life, Legacy, or Business (And How To Start It)

  29. Staying True to Yourself: Visibility, Burnout, and Creative Voice with Erin Hensley

  30. Your Creative Work or Business Stopped Feeling Fun? Try These Gut-Check Prompts

  31. Creative Relationships: Seasons, Shifts, and Self-Trust with Ashley Manley — MM available

  32. You’re Already Preserving Your Life. Here’s How to Make It Count.

  33. Starting with Curiosity: Katie Jett Walls on Personal Projects

  34. Protect the Magic: Legal Tools for Creatives with Shay Lawson

  35. Zoom In, Zoom Out: A Practice for Clarity, Creativity, and What Matters Most

  36. The Day-to-Day Can Be a Visually Loaded Feast Too with Paul Gero — MM available

  37. If You Had 24 Hours to Live... On Living a Meaningful Life on Your Own Terms with Alexandra Franzen

  38. How Documenting My Life Helped Me Come Home to Myself (And Your Stories Are Ready to Bring You Home, Too)

  39. She Meant to Document That Dinner. Then the Wildfire Came. A conversation with Nicole Miller-Cline.

  40. Documenting the People We Overlook: Who’s Your Uncle Perry? from Dreama Spence

  41. Organizing Your Photos, Finding Your Stories with Cathi Nelson

  42. 7 Sneaky Ways Creatives and Service Providers Self-Sabotage in Business

  43. My Monthly Review Practice for Clarity and Self-Trust

  44. Track What Matters: A Business Metrics Framework for Creatives and Service Providers

  45. Parent Loss and the Details That Remain: Story Work After Death from Lora Wallenstein

  46. Creating Systems That Work For You with LaToya Dixon Smith

  47. Awareness is a Gift, Especially Before It’s Gone

  48. Seeing Differently: On Photos, Meaning, and Family with Kelly Wagner

  49. Looking Deeper: A Snow Day Story of Only Childhood from Anna Nodolf

  50. Lighter Stories, Silent Obsessors, and Marketing That Feels Good with Melissa Cassera

  51. Your Creative Work Matters Too: Navigating Unpredictable Seasons Without Guilt

  52. Speak Your Stories with Confidence (Even If You’re Not a “Speaker”)

  53. Documenting Real Life: Permission Slips and the Beauty in the Everyday with Kelly Haymes

  54. Intentional Acts of Acknowledgement: Turning Memories into Meaningful Connection

  55. Sara & The Beach House from Angela Douglas Ramsey

  56. Writing That Sounds Like You: Copywriting Checkpoints with Rachel Greiman

  57. I'm Grieving My Biz Passion. Now what?

  58. Pat Flynn on Parenting, Entrepreneurship, and Building Meaningful Audience Relationships

  59. Presence, Priorities, and Feeling Understood: A Summer Q&A

  60. 5 Ways to Use Your Stories as a Guide for Meaningful Living

  61. Togetherness, Blind Spots, and the Stories That Stay with Linsey Davis

  62. The Exotic Everyday: On Seeing, Legacy, and Loving the Life You Have with Chloe Lodge

  63. Here’s How I Write My Way Back to Myself: 11 Journaling Approaches

  64. Journaling for Clarity, Healing, and Memory with Jayne Swallow

  65. A Reminder to Start with the Stories You Already Hold (The “Monkey Up” Story)

  66. 7 Fears & Opinions I'm Afraid to Share

  67. Redefining Meaning and Documentary with Courtney Holmes

  68. This Year, Cultivate Meaning (Not Just Milestones)

  69. When the Holidays Feel Different: A Reflection on Change and Story

  70. Sharing Your Story as Service with April Adams Pertuis of LIGHTBeamers

  71. Video Journaling as a Practice of Witnessing Yourself with Jason McGarva

  72. Get Off Survival Mode: Use Your Stories to Live Awake in 2020

  73. On Separation, Showing Up, and Making Art Anyway with Michelle McKay

  74. Document the People Around You, Not Just the Kids with Ashley Manley

  75. The Client Experience and Mom Guilt: Building a Business with Life in Mind with Alicia Bauer

  76. Nature, Loss, and Learning to Listen Again with Jessica Hachey

  77. The Power of Your Future Self, Hypnosis, and Identity Shifts with Aubrey Vejvoda

  78. Keep the Fire Going: Life, Loss, and Legacy with Caryn Dodson

  79. Let’s Begin Again, Storyteller (j/k — life pivoted so hard after this ep)

  80. Tell Your Stories and You’ll Start to Notice More of Them with Caryn Dodson

resources

Resources coming soon.

In the meantime, if you’re looking for something, send your request here so I can point you in the right direction.