creating a compass at dusk

Dark Before Dawn is storytelling platform that serves to inform, inspire, and encourage its audiences to – embrace life’s challenges and willfully engage in a journey of transformational change believing the process will generate courage, strength, and rebirth.

The content will focus on life stories as lived by the author and host, 

Alison Stienessen, show guests and the listener community.  The proliferation of content is meant to reach and engage a community of listeners who are either experiencing, seeking, or reflecting on significant challenges and the resulting change.  

The content composition will range from the familiar to the surreal accounts of life experiences as told by those who lived them or observed them. 

The show host is a storyteller, who has travelled the world.  She has a diverse business background in corporate marketing, advertising, and entrepreneurship.  The host is a mother, survivor, consultant, researcher, and PhD student in Psychology.  She is versed in cultural and positive psychology-based frameworks and interventions and considers herself a relationship and communication expert.  She is devoted to sharing her personal experiences to inspire, inform and mentor others who may benefit from her knowledge and experiences.  She is enthusiastic about contributing to her local community, equipping, and enabling future community members and honoring veterans and veteran families for their service.