About

The Brand

Nurtured Narratives, by Sonya Matejko, is writing services company serving wellness-driven brands and female solopreneurs. Our offerings range from long-form content for brands to thought leadership for founders, articulate your value and expertise. 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 American Express, Betterment, Bloomberg, Eden Health, Forbes, UCM Digital Health, WeWork, and Workday and have supported dozens of female solopreneurs across North America and Europe.

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.

THE writer

Meet Sonya Matejko (she/her)

The founder and writer behind Nurtured Narratives. Sonya Matejko adores writing words and helping people find them(selves). As a writer, poet, and author, she uses words to make people feel seen and heard (and does so using the Oxford comma).

Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Forbes, Business Insider, HuffPost, Yoga Journal, and more. Her writing will also soon appear on bookshelves with “Everlasting Spring,” her debut poetry collection (Yorkshire Publishing, Jan. 2025).

Before launching Nurtured Narratives in 2019, she spent nearly a decade working at advertising at agencies in New York City and Miami. These days, when she’s not writing, she’s teaching writing workshops or—plot twist—teaching yoga.

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.