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KeepSaying

A podcast with Chris Greer

Keep saying yes to what matters.

Chris Greer, host of Keep Saying Yes, at the microphone

Practical ideas and human stories for people who want to keep participating in the parts of life that matter to them.

See Season OneRead the philosophy

It begins with a simple truth

The life you want requires things from you.

It may require physical capacity. It may require courage, confidence, practical skill, stable circumstances, meaningful relationships, or people willing to help carry what you cannot carry alone.

Desire alone does not keep participation possible. Sometimes something needs to be built. Sometimes something needs to change, be released, protected, or given more room. The question is what the life that matters to you requires now.

Where does it still matter?

What do you want to keep saying to?

Start with the part of life that still matters to you. Then look at what is supporting participation, what is getting in the way, and whether the way you say yes to it needs to change.

Season 1 · The Capacity to Participate

What Did You Quietly Stop Saying Yes To?

A life can quietly narrow through ordinary adaptations that made sense at the time. Eventually the smaller perimeter may stop feeling smaller at all. The question is what changed, whether you chose it, and whether what disappeared still matters now.

Start with one thing you quietly stopped saying yes to. Don't assume it needs to come back. First ask whether it still belongs in the life you have now.

Listen nowAll twelve episodes

In this season

  1. 01What Did You Quietly Stop Saying Yes To?
  2. 02Will Your Body Let You Keep Saying Yes?
  3. 03What Keeps the Important Things Alive?
  4. 04What Do You Need to Know How to Do?

Episodes 1 and 2 are out now. A new episode arrives every Tuesday from Sept 22. Subscribe below and each one reaches you the day it publishes.

The Capacity Map

What keeps meaningful participation possible.

Six capacities help support participation: Physical Capacity, Habits, Skills, Confidence, Courage, and Stability. Four domains are places where that participation becomes a life: Work That Matters, Love, Relationships, and Community.

They interact, but they are not ten things to maximize. Sometimes participation requires building more. Sometimes it requires doing less, changing form, creating space, asking for help, or letting something go.

The Keep Saying Yes Capacity Map. Ten places where capability and participation meet, arranged around the question: what do you want to keep saying yes to? Six support participation — Physical Capacity, Habits, Skills, Confidence, Courage and Stability. Four are where participation is lived — Work That Matters, Love, Relationships and Community.Explore the map

It begins with two questions

What did you quietly stop saying yes to?

Does it still matter to you now?

If it does, ask what would make participation possible again in the life you actually have.

Real people. Real lives.

Stories from people finding ways to keep participating in what matters.

  • A woman with long dark hair in a cream sweater, sitting with her hands in her lap and a calm, level gaze.
  • A heavyset man in a taupe button-down, leaning forward slightly with a small, easy smile.
  • An older woman with short gray curls and gold hoop earrings, smiling broadly at the camera.
  • A young man with short fair hair in a sage overshirt, half-smiling with his hands loosely clasped.
  • A woman in a cream sweater seated in a wheelchair, one arm resting on the frame, smiling slightly.
  • An older man with gray hair and a mustache in an olive overshirt, laughing warmly.
  • A woman in a denim shirt with her hair pinned up, forearms on her knees, looking directly ahead.
  • A man with a short beard in a gray crewneck sweater, sitting upright with a quiet, steady expression.
  • An older woman with shoulder-length white hair and a collared shirt under a soft cardigan, smiling gently.
  • A man with dark hair and a trimmed beard in a cream henley, hands together, looking thoughtful.
  • A woman with dark curls in a tan cardigan over a cream top, smiling with her head slightly tilted.
  • A man with graying stubble in a dark green sweater, sitting forward with a reflective look.
  • A bald man in a light overshirt, hands clasped between his knees, smiling faintly.
  • A woman with long wavy hair in a cream V-neck sweater, smiling openly.
  • A person with short dark curly hair and ear piercings in a taupe overshirt, meeting the camera evenly.
  • An older man with a gray beard in a light henley, sitting relaxed with a slight, amused smile.

This part gets written by listeners.

Keep Saying Yes is built on lived experience rather than polished advice. This is where listeners can share the choices, changes, losses, adaptations, and unexpected yeses that have shaped the lives they are actually living.

Share your story

We ask four things

  • What did you quietly stop saying yes to — and does it still matter now?
  • What changed when participation became harder?
  • Did the yes come back, or did it have to take another form?
  • Who helped make your yes possible?

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