What can stories teach us that statistics can't?

In this Pride Month episode of A Curious Moment with Curious Becks, a simple question about why LGBTQ+ issues hadn't featured on an activist podcast sparks a much deeper reflection on representation, belonging and the power of stories.

Drawing on television programmes including It's a Sin, The L Word and Tip Toe, Becky explores why stories matter, how they help us connect with experiences beyond our own, and why progress isn't something we can ever afford to take for granted.

Along the way, she reflects on a powerful monologue by Alan Cumming, the difference between fitting in and belonging, Maya Angelou's beautiful reflection on "rainbows in the clouds", and what it means to create communities where people don't have to make themselves smaller in order to feel accepted.

Together we'll consider:

✨ Why representation matters

✨ How stories help us understand experiences beyond our own

✨ Pride as both celebration and remembrance

✨ The difference between fitting in and belonging

✨ Why progress happens because people challenge assumptions and tell their stories

✨ What stories might still be missing today

Because perhaps belonging isn't about everyone living loudly.

Perhaps it's about everyone having the freedom to be themselves.

Whether that's quietly or boldly.

Whether that's publicly or privately.

And perhaps the challenge for all of us is to remain curious enough to notice the stories we haven't heard yet.

And as always, I’ll leave you with a curious question

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Sometimes curiosity arrives in unexpected places.

In this episode of A Curious Moment with Curious Becks, a familiar mural spotted whilst waiting for a train sparks a much bigger question:

What does it take for a culture to survive?

Drawing on the Welsh anthem Yma o Hyd, Becky reflects on Welsh history, the Rebecca Riots, the campaign to preserve the Welsh language, and the generations of people who refused to let their culture disappear.

Along the way, she explores the meaning of hiraeth, the connection we feel to those who came before us, and why cultures, languages and communities don’t survive by accident.

Together we’ll consider:

✨ What Yma o Hyd can teach us about resilience and identity

✨ Why leadership work is legacy work

✨ The idea of being a good ancestor

✨ How the cultures we create today shape what endures tomorrow

Because perhaps leadership isn’t just about managing the present.

Perhaps it’s about carrying forward what matters and creating something worth leaving behind.

After all, we are still here because others came before us.

The question is: what are we helping to ensure is still here for those who come after us?

And as always, I’ll leave you with a curious question

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What if change doesn’t begin with a movement?

What if it begins with a question?

In this episode of A Curious Moment with Curious Becks, I reflect on a quote from The House in the Cerulean Sea that stopped me in my tracks:

“Change starts with the voices of the few.”

As I sat with those words, I found myself wondering about the moments that come before change becomes visible. Before there is momentum. Before there is collective action. Before there is a movement.

Drawing on themes from a recent Leadership Log conversation about activism and advocacy, I explore the idea that activism is often the spark that ignites change, while advocacy is the flame that keeps it burning.

Together we’ll consider:

✨ Why change often begins with curiosity rather than certainty
✨ The courage it takes to be one of the first voices to speak up
✨ How activism, advocacy and leadership are more connected than we might think
✨ How Connect, Challenge and Create can help us move from noticing to action

Because before there is a crowd, there is usually a conversation.

Before there is a movement, there is often a voice.

And before change happens, someone has the courage to begin.

And as always, I’ll leave you with a curious question

📌 Share your own curious thoughts with me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ or e-mail me: becky@curiousbecks.com

🎧 Listen now and let’s connect, challenge and create together.

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