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Your Work Deserves a Life: Learning to Share Without Fear | Keith Giles & Matthew J. Distefano

communication creative process storytelling Jan 06, 2026

Keith Giles and Matthew J. Distefano are authors, publishers, and co-owners of Quoir, a media company dedicated to publishing bold, thoughtful work from people navigating faith, doubt, and deconstruction.

Keith is a former pastor turned full-time writer. Matthew describes himself as a “working-class theologian.” Together, they write (and publish) at the intersection of spirituality, culture, justice, and storytelling, helping creatives give language to ideas that don’t fit neatly into inherited belief systems.

In this conversation, we talk about what it actually means to share your work when you’re still evolving…when certainty is gone, relationships are at stake, and false humility can quietly keep your work hidden.


TOPICS FROM THIS EPISODE:

  • Creating when your beliefs and opinions are evolving
  • Why promoting your work isn’t ego (and how false humility keeps good ideas buried)
  • Leading without hierarchy, rejecting guru culture, and embracing mystery


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