By Sarah Stevens

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I’m Sarah and I’m so glad you’re here!

I am a former healthcare executive turned writer, speaker, and entrepreneur. After leaving my career in corporate healthcare in 2016, I founded The Beautifull Project - a storytelling collective that has reached tens of thousands of women across the globe with its powerful message about learning to take up space.

Today, I help other people and places share their story through Branded by Sarah Stevens, a full suite of marketing services that centers the stories that matter to you. I also take the stage as often as I can to harness the power of spoken stories and love nothing more than customizing a keynote or corporate training that will inspire change and leave a lasting impression on the people you put in front of me.

So, come on in… browse around… then reach out so that we can get started on whatever story YOU want us to share together.

WHY PEOPLE WORK WITH ME

Nicole Cisne Durbin, Family Resources

“With over 170 years of service under our belt, we’ve got a lot of stories to tell, but working with Sarah helped us focus on what matters most - our clients. She listened, led us through a rebrand, and gave us a firm foundation for telling our story for many years to come. Bottom line - no one tells a story like she does and you cannot go wrong working with her!”

Let's write your story together.
Nasreen Khan, Owner - Bespoke Beauty and Body

“With Sarah’s expertise in brand building, marketing, website development, and the integration of search engine optimization tools, she helped generate an influx of leads for my organization in a matter of weeks.”
Chris Caves, Coordinator - TEDx

“I co-coordinate a local TEDx event in Davenport, Iowa. This past March, Sarah Stevens was a speaker on our stage. She brought the house down! Sarah not only has a powerful message about body image, acceptance, and courage, but she delivers that message with oratory expertise of a classically trained philosopher and speaker.”

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If your story matters to you, it matters to me.

Over the course of my 20-year career, there is one thing that has stood out to me:

What matters most is not what we do in the world, but the way we do it.

It isn’t the power or position we have. It’s the passion and purpose that drives us. These are the stories that matter - no matter how big or small - and these are the stories I want to help you share.

The stories that matter to you. The stories that matter to me

These organizations have trusted me to tell their story…

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My story.

It all started when I wrote a brave new beginning about my body…

Learn More About Sarah

READ SARAH’S STORIES

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Save Your Scraps

A reflection about real efforts toward inclusion and equity for LGBTQ+ people during Pride month.

How Did She Dare

Because, you see, in my experience, this softer lens is the only one that allows us to create the kind of world I’m interested in creating. A world that’s better to both of us.

Not for her sake. Or for mine. But for ours.

What a Waste

I missed 5 years of living. 8 months of laughing. 3 weeks of napping. 2 days of loving. 12 hours of playing..

So that I could figure out a way to make sure there was less of me in the world. What a waste.

Gathered

A poem

Beauty to Bullshit: The Break-Up Story

And while the pain is still a bit fresh, it is a story I want to share with you. Yes, for my own healing, but also for yours because I suspect that you, too, know something about ingesting the poisonous belief that the only good body is a thin body.

So Your Kid Called Me Fat

Kids TELL THE TRUTH. That's just what they do. And so I was standing, face to face, with the truth about my body - and it looked like an unrelenting six year-old in pigtails wearing a Dora the Explorer swimsuit, observing what was obvious to anyone with eyes.

Nowhere To Go But Up

I had climbed up the side of this mountain. All 250+ pounds of me. Sweating, panting, fearing death or at least permanent disability, but I climbed it. And it was exhilarating and exhausting and breathtaking and terrifying.