A claim that Hallward made that I can resonate with is the overall idea that telling our stories can change the world. When I was in high school, I was in a class called peer leaders and we were partnered with an organization called the NAN Project. The NAN Project’s goal was to just get people talking about mental health and letting people know that it is okay to talk about. Volunteers with this organization that suffered from mental health would come to classrooms in my school to tell their stories. The speakers would tell the class how nerve wracking it was getting in front of an audience, but that they do it in hopes to help someone else and that is is part of their healing process accepting that they suffer from their mental illness.  This can somewhat correlate with the speakers in Hallward’s radio station, she says all of her guests say the same thing, “Its was so painful. If telling my story will help one other person, I will do it.” In addition, Hallward has experienced this herself when sharing her story about her dad. She begins to heal after sharing her story. She says, “It was just so terrible and I was there on the side of the road feeling so much compassion finally for my own sadness and it was that healing; I told the shameful story..”. Through this quote it supports both the speakers from the NAN Project and Hallward’s claim that telling our stories can change the word and also help heal one as an individual.

There are definitely connections between the message that Hallward and Davis portray in her excerpt is that they both promote sharing how you feel. Like I had said before, Hallward says that sharing silenced stories is what changes the world. Similarly, Davis is one to set apart from the group and take action in something she doesn’t agree with when no one else will. When watching the dog fight happen right in front of a young Davis and many other shaking heads, she writes, “I couldn’t stand it any longer; I rushed in and tried to pull the dogs apart.” Both Hallward and Davis are very influential in their messages they want to share with the world.