About

Our Brand

Nurtured Narratives offers writing services for women and workplaces obsessed with living well. Our offers range from long-form content and thought leadership to bios and boilerplates that articulate your value and expertise while focusing on five branches of wellness (including employee, financial, physical, mental, and fem well-being). We take a nurturing approach to draw out, validate, and articulate expert insights and grow them into powerful narratives that make you feel heard (and make your audience want to listen). Since founding in 2019, we’ve worked with brands like Betterment, Bloomberg, Cleo, Eden Health, Forbes, UCM Digital Health, WeWork, and Workday and have supported dozens of female executives and solopreneurs across North America and Europe.

Our core values

Growth

We love uplifting women and workplaces through copy. We aim to help you grow, whether it’s content, credibility, or connections you’re after. You can trust us to plant the seeds (as 40+ clients have).

Wellness

We are selective and choose to partner with workplaces, executives, or solopreneurs who support the well-being of the people in their ecosystem or want to be in the conversation.

Curiosity

We ask reflective questions to get you thinking about your story differently. Our attentive approach leads to deep-rooted insights that will help you nurture connections with your community.

Support

We do our best to take the stress out of storytelling. We understand that sometimes finding the right words can feel daunting, and we aim to make the process fun, supportive, and freeing.

Our writer

Meet Sonya Matejko (she/her)

The founder of Nurtured Narratives and the writer behind all our projects. Sonya loves using words to make people feel seen and heard while emphasizing well-being. Before launching Nurtured Narratives, she spent nearly a decade in the advertising industry at global and mid-sized agencies in Miami and New York City, where she gained the trust of C-suite leaders from the onset of her career. Sonya is also a part-time poet with a community of 12.4K on Instagram and a poetry book set to release in Fall 2024 with Yorkshire Publishing. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous top-tier publications, and her writing workshops have attracted over 1,000 participants. When she’s not playing with words, she’s storytelling on the mat and helping people access well-being by teaching yoga in Vienna, Austria.

Letter from the founder

Dear Reader,

I'm so glad you're here, and I want to tell you a short story about how I got here. You see, I was quite the eager scribe, writing my first book in Kindergarten and then self-publishing a book of poetry at 12 years old. Writing was a way of connecting to myself back then because I didn't feel connected to anything else. Now, writing is my way of helping others connect.

I spent most of my 20s working at a global advertising agency and writing after hours. It was the height of the personal essay craze when I saw how being vulnerable not only made me feel better but also made others feel better. Despite being around creativity all day, it was my after-hours freelancing that brought me true fulfillment. So when I got laid off from my ad job in 2019, I chose to make my after-hours, where I put all of my hours. And I never looked back.

Years later, I'm proud of this brand and those who have trusted me to tell their stories as I've shifted and refined. And of all the content I've written over the years, I recognized that one type of narrative felt the most authentic—the stories supporting well-being. From wellness in the workplace to finances to relationships to personal development, speaking to our human needs has always felt the most connective (and essential). I knew it then, and I'm even more confident now that these stories I'm meant to help tell.

When you consider the rising rates of stress and loneliness, statistics of which I was once a part, we must become more open to listening, understanding, and sharing. Only through storytelling can we start a more honest conversation on what it means to be well.

I, for one, am listening. And I'd love to hear what you have to say.