Notes from a Storyteller

My name is Gloria Rodríguez de los Reyes, and I’m on a mission to prove that the foundations of great storytelling are the same across all disciplines and mediums.

Over a three-decade career as an Emmy-winning, multidisciplinary storyteller, systems thinker, and educator, I’ve explored storytelling from nearly every angle: television, film, theater, journalism, art, workflows, and even immersive design.

Along the way, I became convinced that storytelling is far more than entertainment. It is one of the primary ways human beings organize memory, identity, culture, politics, technology, and meaning itself.

Because “reality” is also a story.

What I didn’t expect was for my work to become so incredibly urgent. In a world where AI can now generate human-like content in seconds, it is more important than ever that we learn to recognize, preserve, and teach what makes stories deeply human.

So I created The Storyteller’s Triad©, which aims to restore something missing in modern education: before we specialize in any one medium, we must first understand the universal foundations of meaningful storytelling—in the hopes that we can answer one of the most important questions of our time:

How do we preserve meaning in the age of AI?

In other words, how do we continue teaching critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and human creativity in a world increasingly optimized for speed, automation, and noise?

That’s what I intend to discover with my work, and this publication is my laboratory.

Part memoir.
Part philosophical exploration.
Part creative outlet.

And sometimes… you might get a glimpse of a unicorn disappearing into the sea.

Some posts may feel like confessions; others like field notes from a scientist observing humanity from a distance.

Because ultimately, the stories that move us most—and have the power to change the world—reflect the glorious and imperfect nature of being human.

Welcome to my observatory.

Subscribe to be part of that story.

Who’s this for?

This space is for storytellers.
Systems thinkers.
Educators.
Scientists.
Dreamers.
Artists.
Night owls.
Creators trying to make sense of complexity.
People who still believe in wonder.

And especially for those who always suspected the boundaries between disciplines were never as separate as we were taught.

Saludos from Miami,
-G

Join the crew.

I don’t want this to feel like a lecture hall.

I want it to feel like an observatory at the edge of the universe, a writer’s room, or a late-night café conversation about moons that float across the ocean.

Bring your stories.

We’re all still trying to figure out how to live.

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