About
Mighty Forces helps people and organizations that give a damn clarify the stories they want to tell, and tell them in compelling ways.
The stories we tell matter. They shape the world we live in. This is true whether you are a leader who stands on world stages or anyone else; whether the media is filled with stories about people like you, or you’ve never seen a story like yours represented.
If you have a story to tell about something that matters — a vision for change, a community or issue that demands attention, a life experience yearning to be shared — then we want to help you tell it.
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Does any of this sound familiar?
My team or organization does such important work, and yet, no matter how hard we try, so few people seem to “get it.”
One-on-one, or in a room, I know how to share my passion and expertise…my story. But when I go to write about it, or, god forbid, create social media, I don’t know where to start.
Or, I’m putting out all this social media content, but it isn’t making a difference for my business/cause/creative project/career goals.
I feel stuck — I’m not getting the opportunities I most deeply crave — and I sense that it has to do with how I’m telling my story. I need more people to understand what makes me unique, what I do, and how good I am at doing it.
If so, then you’re not alone, and you’re in the right place. Schedule an intro call to explore how we can best support you.
Meet Amanda Hirsch
Founder and CEO
Amanda is obsessed with the stories we tell, how we tell them, and why it matters.
A writer, story coach, and strategist, she believes that when we change the stories we tell, we change the world.
Her primary storytelling influences include:
The indie filmmakers she worked with during her time at PBS
Seeing the internet and social media demonstrably drive connection and social change — from helping parents with babies in the NICU feel less alone to the Arab Spring
Improv comedy (performing it and studying it)
Professional background
Amanda has spent her career helping mission-driven leaders and teams at nonprofit organizations, independent media companies, and socially conscious businesses tell strategic stories that increase the reach and impact of their work and ideas. She is skilled at clarifying and shaping narratives in service of clear goals, and at conceptualizing creative, compelling ways to amplify narratives through content and experiences.
The former editorial director of PBS.org, and a producer for Washingtonpost.com before that, Amanda has been a featured expert everywhere from SXSW (where she was voted an audience favorite) to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Nonprofit Technology Conference, Etsy, and the National Film Board of Canada.
Author & improvisor
Amanda is is the author of two books, “Improvising Adulthood: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me” (2025) and “Feeling My Way: Finding Motherhood Without Losing Myself”(2013).
She is also a long-time comedic improvisor who performs with her husband, Jordan, in a show called Til Death.
Follow Amanda’s creative work at amandahirsch.com
So, what’s with the “we”? Other than Amanda, who’s part of Mighty Forces?
When a project calls for it, Amanda calls upon her rich network of collaborators, from designers and media producers to journalists, writers, editors, actors, directors, strategists, marketers, social media specialists, and more.
Anti-racism, anti-hate statement
Mighty Forces is anti-racist and anti-hate. We stand in solidarity with people who are BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodiverse, and from all countries of origin…who follow any religion, or no religion…and who identify as any combination or intersection of these identities. We work actively to create and support a more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative world within the media industry and beyond. We use our platform and network to amplify diverse voices and to call out hate, bigotry, bias, and harm when we see it.
This statement will continue to evolve as we learn and unlearn. If you identify with any of the groups listed above and feel uncomfortable with the language we are using, or feel there’s more we should be saying or doing; have stories or resources you’d like us to amplify through our platform and network; or want to explore ways we might work together, please reach out.
Thank you to editor Nevin Mays, whom Amanda met through the Women’s Media Group, for allowing us to crib heavily from a similar statement that she put on her website.
