Because quitting isn’t the story.
we Build Anyway
We turn experience into action through strategy, storytelling, and movement work that helps people, projects, and policies take root.
What We Do
Strategy and Consulting
Political, cultural, and creative strategy for campaigns, coalitions, and organizations that want to lead with heart and results.
Writing and Speaking
Essays, talks, and op-eds on resilience, equity, and the messy art of progress.
The Podcast
Ongoing conversations from the wild middle that remind us we are all still building.
Explore Our Work
Political and Movement Work
We bring years of experience in organizing, campaign strategy, and storytelling to the work of change.
Our focus is on people and possibility. We help campaigns, coalitions, and civic leaders build strategies that connect vision to action.
We design messages that move people, shape culture, and make policy feel human.
The goal is not only to win the moment but to build the future that follows.
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Consulting and Creative
We work with campaigns, creatives, and small teams that want to build with purpose.
Our consulting brings structure to ideas and energy to execution. We listen, translate, and help you turn vision into action that lasts.
Our studio work supports projects in transition. We create space for clarity, collaboration, and momentum so your next step feels possible and real.
Do the work and stay human while you do it.
Leadership and Coaching
We coach leaders who build things that matter.
Our work with unions, campaigns, and organizations helps people lead with clarity, accountability, and imagination.
Coaching is not about performance or perfection. It is about staying present in complex systems and learning to move through conflict, fatigue, and change with purpose.
We bring the same grounded, creative approach to coaching that we bring to strategy. We offer practical tools, honest reflection, and space to grow into what is next.
Workshops and Sessions
Our workshops create space for reflection, strategy, and skill building in the middle of the work.
They are built for organizers, labor leaders, and creative professionals who are leading change and trying to stay human while they do it.
Each session is practical and conversational. We talk about real challenges, share tools, and leave with a clearer sense of what is next.
Story and Strategy for Organizers
Every campaign and movement starts with a story.
This session helps organizers connect personal experience, shared values, and public action in ways that move people.
We work through how to name what matters, how to listen for what connects, and how to tell a story that builds trust and momentum.
Participants leave with practical tools for message design and a renewed sense of purpose in their work.
It is storytelling for the long haul, built on honesty, clarity, and care.
Leading Through the Wild Middle
Most leadership happens in the middle of things, between what fell apart and what is not yet built.
This session is for organizers, labor leaders, and creative professionals who are working through change and still showing up.
We talk about what it takes to lead in real time. We look at how to manage conflict, hold boundaries, and stay grounded in purpose when the path is messy.
Through conversation and reflection, we practice tools that keep imagination alive and help people lead with steadiness, honesty, and hope.
It is not about having the answers. It is about learning to keep building while you find them.
Creative Grounding for Changemakers
It is easy to lose imagination inside hard systems and long fights.
This workshop offers space to slow down and reconnect with the creative part of the work.
We use writing, reflection, and conversation to help people remember why they started and to find small ways to keep that energy alive.
The goal is not to escape the work but to stay rooted in it with more clarity and compassion.
You do not need to call yourself an artist to create. You only need to keep making meaning.
The Wild Middle
The Wild Middle
The Wild Middle is our upcoming podcast, hosted by Jessica Podhola and Lisa Honn.
It grew out of the conversations we kept having about work, life, leadership, and what comes after the breaking point.
We talk about what it means to rebuild when the map is unclear and the world keeps shifting.
There is humor, honesty, and a lot of learning in public.
It is not a show about having it all figured out. It is about showing up anyway.
We are recording the first episodes now and cannot wait to share them.
If you want to hear when the podcast launches or get behind-the-scenes updates, join our list and come build with us.
We Build Anyway 