Murphy Funkhouser Capps

“There is no shame in a life well traveled.”

Of all the lines said by Murphy Funkhouser Capps, this one is my favorite. We all have shame. But when you take it apart, no matter what the cause, it always looks the same. It always looks like being human.

And Murphy is very human.

Murphy has lived many, many lives. She’s been a military preacher’s daughter. A theater geek. A bible college dropout. Lived in a car. A party girl. A six-figure earner. Broke. A single mom. A married mom. A playwright. An entrepreneur. A branding specialist. Unemployed. Fired. A CEO. A storyteller.

And, above all, a survivor.

This is Murphy’s story. Much of it anyway. From the child to the woman, through the dark and into the light. It’s all here. A gloriously beautiful, totally messed up, well-traveled life.

“I knew that I was collecting, I was gathering. I knew that I had to go through this process because eventually, it would be a part of what I was going to give to the world.”

“Stories connect us in ways that charts and numbers never can. Stories give us permission to hurt, to have weakneseses, to be human. Story is how we carry. We carry our past. We carry our future. Our stories are how we carry on.”