Changing hearts and minds and making a difference in the world rarely comes from hearing dry data and expertise. Rather, people are moved by simple, lived truth told by the everyday American.
That’s why, at Independent Women, we believe impact begins with stories. It’s our mission statement, in fact: “Tell her story, change the world.”
Take, for example, the story of Payton McNabb, a former three-sport high school athlete from Murphy, North Carolina. During a volleyball match in September 2022, McNabb was hit in the head with a ball spiked by a male athlete self-identifying as transgender on the opposing women’s team. This blow knocked her unconscious for over 30 seconds and led to lasting damage.
“I ended up going to the doctor a couple days later and finding out that I had a traumatic brain injury, a brain bleed, and partial paralysis,” McNabb told Independent Women Features, the grassroots original journalism arm of Independent Women, in a documentary released last December. “And it would take months, years, to recover, and they don’t know if I’ll ever be 100% back.”
Read the full article at Washington Examiner