Collected Stories
By Nest & North
Created to nourish ambition and root fulfillment: a monthly podcast offering journey-based, grounded, and actionable conversations to inspire women in transition.
Collected Stories features candid conversations with people who’ve designed lives on their own terms: blending ambition with presence, and achievement with joy.
We host conversations that inspire women to become their own source of validation—finding autonomy through authenticity, and building a life anchored in what truly matters.
Why This Matters
Motherhood and ambition often collide in ways that feel isolating.
Collected Stories was created as an accessible bridge between inner clarity and outer confidence. Many women crave insightful conversations, but rarely find the space or community to have them.
Relatable insights spark the kinds of perspective shifts we seldom make time for, especially in motherhood. Hearing from others who redefined what it means to “have it all” can be both grounding and catalytic.
It creates possibility.
Possibility builds inner confidence.
Confidence fuels creativity, connection, and curiosity.
We want curious and creative mothers to feel deeply rooted in who they are, and confident in who they’re becoming.
To nurture their nest—and take flight.
Our Guests
Featuring grounded creators, founders, and artists (who also happen to be nursing babies or chasing toddlers), we talk about what it means to define success on your own terms. While rooted in motherhood-led transitions, this is more than a parenting podcast: it’s about making a life of your own design.
Each episode feels like an intimate mentoring session.
It’s a love letter to the makers of great stuff: those trailblazing new ways of living, building, and achieving with both purpose and presence.
What We Cover
Real Talks
Conversations that feel like sitting at a kitchen table with someone you admire.
Rooted Wisdom
Stories of reinvention, resilience, and redefining what it means to “have it all.”
Rising Voices
Leave every episode feeling grounded, inspired, and a little more you.
“Stories create possibilities. The moment you see someone who resembles you attaining the seemingly impossible, success is no longer a far-fetched idea.”
— Laís de Oliveira, Hacking Communities
Stories create possibilities.
In my book Hacking Communities, I shared a moment that stayed with me while researching startup ecosystems around the world.
In Helsinki, I met Anssi—an entrepreneur whose path became clear after hearing success stories from peers his own age. I call these accessible success stories.
They weren’t about billion-dollar exits, but relatable wins: like a fellow student who joined an accelerator and raised a six-figure seed round. These stories made success feel attainable, inspiring Anssi—and many others—to take the first step. Also, these helped propel Helsinki into the ranks of the world’s top startup ecosystems.
Collected Stories follows the same principle.
Your story matters.
When we hear real, resonant stories from other women defining success in their own terms, something shifts.
Insight becomes action. Possibility becomes confidence.
We need more stories that inspire new realities where ambition and nurture can coexist. Because the only way to “have it all” is to create a new model: one that renders outdated systems obsolete.
Let’s make—and tell—resonant stories together.
Coming Soon
Fall 2025
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📅 Private Beta: May–June 2025
5 episodes recorded with a private audience
🌍 Public Launch: Fall 2025
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Rooted in nourishment, rising in ambition.
Crafted by Laís de Oliveira, creator of Nest & North.