Mikayla (Michaela) Hedrick
speaker
129 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Mikayla (Michaela) Hedrick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There was a hot debate between 12-year-olds and 16-year-olds.
about whether that was the right thing to do.
And so we knew, okay, this is a story that's got to resonate.
This is a story that has modern application for these young people.
And we picked it and then we would thoroughly research it and we would test it at every level on the audience target, which is starting around age 12.
I know I heard adults.
I've had adults come up to me a lot and tell me that as they were reading the story, they were on the edge of their seat.
And at one time I was sitting near someone who was reading it and they were reading it and they were like,
So it's probably a 45 year old.
And that's such a high compliment to us that it's thrilling all ages.
We're really grateful.
This is your genius, Glenn.
And the answer was to forbid it.
It was to take these stories that are so accessible to us that are being offered to us in so many different ways.
You can have a book on your doorstep in four days if you want any book in the whole world.
And in Chasing Embers, we took all those books that we want everyone to read, the stories we want everyone to know, and we made them forbidden.
We hid them.
We made them something you have to go seek out, like a treasure to find, a quest to go on,
And at the end were these stories.
And so they became something worth fighting for instead of something that we take for granted.
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