Amanda Johnson alchemizes twenty-five years of transformative experiences through story literacy, writing, and narrative medicine to fulfill her mission: to equip individuals to use humanity’s most innate tools to transmute the pain of their backstory into a more magically-ever-after for themselves, their loved ones, and those they serve.

After several years of helping others question, recognize, and articulate ideas and arguments as a teacher and writing coach, Amanda uncovered her true intention. Merging lessons, skills, and tools acquired from experiments with self-image and psycho-cybernetics, a Socratic approach to the Classics in the honors program, child development and psychology of learning classes in the teacher training, social-emotional literacy workshops in the transformational facilitator program, and adventures in motherhood, she committed her life to changing the world with more powerful messaging. Immediately, she realized the deeper call to adventure was supporting helping professionals as they excavated and saved the backstories that prevented them from living, loving, and leading without sacrificing too much safety, sanity, and soul. The value of the books and brands they developed paled in comparison to the renewal that resulted from learning how to intentionally co-author their lives.

Known today as The Story Oracle, Amanda partners with organizations and individual helping professionals, creatives, coaches, CEOs, educators, and parents who want to learn how to use Story, Writing, and Community to open portals of (re)connection and belonging, (re)build resilience and trust, and (re)claim and leverage latent superpowers in themselves and their families, workplaces, and communities.   

With her partners at Saved By Story, she midwifes paradigm-changing brands, content, and more whole thought leaders and storytellers into the world with story-saving quests and message-manifesting retreats. From inspiration to impact, she and her team help inspired souls dissolve the pain, reorganize their sacred material, and become truer to intention with every piece of content they craft, offering they launch, and system they develop to change the world.

In 2013, Amanda wrote Upside-Down Mommy and shared The Butterfly Approach philosophy responsible for her personal and professional growth. In 2018, she published Upside-Down Messenger and made The Messenger Matrix more visible. In 2022, she published two titles: You Can’t Make This St*ry Up is a collaboration with twenty clients curated to help creatives and coaches recognize and lean into the magic and mess of the process, and Raised by Story is a collaboration with her son crafted to share the experience and results of mindfully engaging Story to cultivate character and agency in children and eventually culture.

She lives in Prescott, Arizona, with her high-school-sweetheart-turned-husband and loves spending time with her favorite story buddy, business partner, and son when he returns home from his world-changing adventures.