🎙️ Living Out Loud: A Memoir of Truth, Resilience & Purpose | Sarah Locke Podcast

In this powerful episode, author and advocate Sarah Locke opens up about her deeply personal journey captured in her debut memoir, Living Out Loud, releasing October 28.

From growing up on a New Hampshire farm between two competitive brothers, to coming out later in life at 35, to facing a life-changing diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis—Sarah shares the raw, honest truth behind her story. She talks about the emotional weight of living a life that looked perfect on the outside but felt incomplete within, and the courage it took to finally live as her authentic self.

Sarah also discusses why she chose a memoir format, the mindset that carried her through adversity, and how she founded Locke’s Promise, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to supporting those living with MS in her home state.

💬 Topics Covered:

• The inspiration behind Living Out Loud
• Coming out and redefining the American dream
• Living with MS and building resilience
• Founding Locke’s Promise to advocate for others
• Why living authentically is worth the fight

📘 Pre-order the book: www.lockespromise.com/living-out-loud

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Welcome to Your Story is Your Strength Podcast!

Join us for Episode 12: "The Next Chapter." I'm Sarah Locke, your host, sharing my journey with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and how it transformed my life. From hiking Mt. Washington to founding Locke’s Promise, Inc., we're building a community and driving change.

Discover how we’re raising awareness, funds, and hope for those living with MS. Together, we climb, grow, and make a difference. 🧡

Tune in and own your story!

This podcast is about how people's stories or journeys through their lives, events and activities are their strengths.

Hosted by Sarah Locke, MS advocate and ambassador. She is joined by guest, Julie Stamm, who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 2007 and became a person on a mission to educate, advocate and support others with chronic illness. She is also a mom, an author and an MS warrior.

We take the time to talk about Julie's experience with MS, the different kinds of MS, the challenges of living with a progressive condition, and the projects that Julie has been involved in to raise awareness and inclusion for people with diverse abilities and messaging it all toward explaining it to children. She takes the fear out of the topics and lets the conversation flow as children are amazing, thoughtful and insightful little humans with feelings and worries too.

The overall message is that telling one's story is a way of showing strength, vulnerability and courage, and that spreading MS awareness is important because a cure is on the line. Take a listen!