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Stories & Lives

Stories from the Goodyear Foundation

These are not polished marketing stories. They're real experiences of loss, mental health, chronic illness, and quiet resilience — starting with my own and eventually including voices from across our community.

You don't have to relate to every detail. If one paragraph makes you feel a little less alone, or helps you understand someone you love a bit better, then this archive is doing its job.

Featured Story

My Dad's Story

Grief & Loss

Losing my dad to suicide at six years old, the ripple it created in my life, and how that loss quietly shaped everything from masculinity to mental health.

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Read "My Dad's Story"

More stories from our community

As the foundation grows, this will become a living archive of grief, diagnosis, healing, and the small ways people keep each other going.

Finding Community in Sheridan

How a small Wyoming town became the foundation for building something bigger.

Want to share your story someday?

If something in these stories resonates with you and you feel like you might want to share part of your own journey — whether now or months from now — you can quietly raise your hand.

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Built in memory of one good man from small-town Kansas who didn't get to see this part.