[ENCORE] Storytelling Roots with Christopher Ward

<p>Ep 83: This one&#39;s back by popular demand. Christopher Ward, the photographer behind Model Strangers, joins me for a conversation that turns up one of my favorite discoveries yet — his family&#39;s direct line back to the Brontë family, yes, those Brontës.</p><p><br></p><p>We trace Christopher&#39;s roots from a two-story cottage in County Down, where storytelling nights around the fire were a nightly ritual, all the way down through generations of laborers, a servant at a grand manor house, and a great-grandmother whose death just ten days after childbirth changed the whole shape of the family. And there&#39;s a twist in the family name itself that ties back to storytelling in a way neither of us expected.</p><p><br></p><p>Christopher shares how it feels to trace a creative thread through people who mostly just had to survive — and what that means for the work he&#39;s doing now, one stranger at a time.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Find Christopher and Model Strangers on </strong></p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/modelstrangers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.instagram.com/modelstrangers</a></p><p>TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@modelstrangers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.tiktok.com/@modelstrangers</a></p><p>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/modelstrangers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.facebook.com/modelstrangers</a></p><p>YouTube:  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@modelstrangers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.youtube.com/@modelstrangers</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Grab my free guided meditation here: The Pattern That Isn&#39;t Yours: ⁠<a href="https://knowyourancestors.co/pattern" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://knowyourancestors.co/pattern⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p>If this one landed for you, I&#39;d love a rating and review — it&#39;s still one of the best ways to help people find the show.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Follow me on:</strong></p><p>Instagram: ⁠<a href="https://www.instagram.com/meganhillyer " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.instagram.com/meganhillyer ⁠</a></p><p>TikTok: ⁠<a href="https://tiktok.com/@meganhillyer " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://tiktok.com/@meganhillyer⁠ </a></p><p>Facebook: ⁠<a href="https://www.facebook.com/knowyourancestorsco" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.facebook.com/knowyourancestorsco</a></p>