Reading the stories we
thought we outgrew
Curiouser was born out of a simple belief: that the most profound insights are often found in the simplest tales.
As a parent reading to my four-year-old each night, I kept getting caught off guard by how much the stories resonated with me. Books written for a child often showed me something new about being an adult. These were not lessons for children from pandering adults. In fact, most adults needed to sit with them time and again. A well made picture book is a distillation engine. It squeezes out everything unnecessary until one unshakable truth remains, and that clarity lands straight in the gut.
Meanwhile, the conversations that matter most in our working lives are the hardest ones to start: conversations about change, resilience, listening, empathy, and inclusion. Most training meets them with jargon and slide decks. I'd spent years leading Socratic discussions, and I knew what happens when a group gathers around one clean idea: the story creates a shared world and a little distance from ourselves, and suddenly, we are able to peel back layers of preconceived ideas.
Sometimes the wisdom we need isn't hiding in the complicated. It's sitting on the bottom shelf, waiting for us to bend down.
We're passionate about the magic that happens when a simple story opens the door to understanding, empathy, and connection.
“To spark meaningful conversations, one simple story at a time.”
For teams
Every team has a conversation it's been putting off — about trust, a hard change, or the mindset to grow. We find the story that opens it, and the questions that carry it through. No jargon, no slide decks. Just one clean idea, and a shared reference the team keeps coming back to long after the session ends.
For cohorts & gatherings
Founder cohorts, incubators, conferences, retreats — any group that comes together with a shared purpose. We turn one small book into a featured session that bonds a room of near-strangers fast, and leaves them with language they're still quoting when the program is over.