Hey, my guest today, Dallas Graham, never planned to help kids tell their life stories.
A fiercely creative and compassionate Salt Lake City graphic designer, poet and writer, he has worked on a wide variety of projects, industries, endeavors over the years.
But his experience of one particular moment in family and child, it would change everything.
Setting him down a path to blend everything he learned about writing, poetry and design with his deep love of people and kids and story to create an offering and an experience that would change so many lives.
As the publisher and executive director of the Red Fred Project, Dallas is currently creating life legacies in the form of books written and created by kids as a way to help them share their stories, ideas and lends on the world at a moment of otherwise profound challenge.
After seven years of this really life altering work, his belief has strengthened in a single idea, and that is that we are producing the greatest stories ever told.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
There's so many places I want to go with you and dive in and also know it's been a bit of a tough month for you.
So I just kind of wanted to also ask, just like, how's your heart?
It's like it's, you know, feeling out again.
And it's.
It's quieter.
It's quiet, but it's.
It's.
It's feeling grounded and it's, oh, look at these pauses.
Yeah, that's how it is.
Yeah, but it's.
It's better than when it was, than when she was admitted.
And we had heard certain things about, like, it was honestly much more difficult to me when I found out she was being admitted and she was on end of life care.