PART 8: Conservation Life Vs. Career Life with Phoebe Stoner

Artemis

Phoebe Stoner has done advocacy a number of different ways: She's worked at non-profits, embedded in the field, and she's also sometimes separated her conservation-life from her professional life. Advocacy doesn't have to be a full-time job for you to make a difference. Stoner is currently on the board of the Northwest Steelheaders, a panel her board colleagues joke errs on the side of male, pale and stale. So... how do you fix that?

2:00 Artemis Podcast – April 22,2021: Saying 'Yes' to Serving on a Board with Phoebe Stoner

7:00 From volunteering to advocacy as a professional life, and back to a side hustle again

11:00 Prioritizing your battles: You can't win them all, so choose where to devote your energies wisely

12:00 Sometimes the most invigorating thing for your conservation/advocacy life is to detach it from your career

13:00 "If you can't advocate for yourself, how can you advocate for anyone or anything else?"

15:00 Conservation is not a sprint, and it's important not to take on the burden of success or failure

16:00 Count your small victories and celebrate them

18:00 Keeping your focus on the long game versus existing in reaction mode

20:00 Sometimes imposter thoughts just don't go away

21:00 Storytelling as a communication strategy

23:00 Northwest Steelheaders, NWF affiliate in Oregon

26:00 Data versus story-driven advocacy; Each has a place

32:00 "The culture in hunting revolves around storytelling... it's the #1 thing people do."

34:00 Storytelling = let's get vulnerable

37:00 Storytelling School with the Moth: How to tell a good story

43:00 Knowing when your group skews male/pale/stale... how do we get more people involved?

48:00 Recruiting would-be leaders into the pipeline is hard work; It takes foresight and planning to help someone step into a bigger role

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