About Mighty Forces

Mighty Forces is a trusted partner that helps mission-driven leaders tell better stories — about the work they do and why they do it, about issues, and about ideas and solutions for building a better world.

Does any of this sound familiar?

  • I believe so strongly in what my team or organization does, but if I’m honest, I’m discouraged by how few people seem to “get it.”

  • We create content all the time, and yet it feels like we’re just running in place; it isn’t making a difference.

  • I feel pressure to have an online presence of my own, but the idea feels overwhelming — and the last thing I want to do is just add to the noise.

If so, then you’re not alone, and you’re in the right place. Let’s talk about how we can support you with the right combination of coaching, consulting, and content creation.

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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

Meet Amanda Hirsch

Founder and CEO

Amanda is on a mission to disrupt the storytelling status quo.

A writer, story coach, and strategist, Amanda is passionate about telling better stories to create a better 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 with the content they create in order to 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.

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.

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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.

Morgan Harper Nichols

Tell the stories of the mountains you've climbed.Your words could become a part of someone else's survival guide.

— MORGAN HARPER NICHOLS