The short answer is yes
Are there any positive stories about women?
Yes. Women Rising America is an unscripted television series built entirely on them. Instead of gossip and rivalry, it films real women in one American city at a time — survivors, founders, mothers, veterans, widows — describing what they came through, what they learned, and who they became. Forty women are part of the series across St. Louis, Palm Springs, San Diego, the new Midwest season, and the new San Francisco cast, and every story is told in her own words.
These aren't stories about women. They're stories from women you'd want to know — the kind you watch and think, “she would be my best friend.”
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Start here
Ten positive stories about real women, in their own words
One story from each theme, spread across every city we have filmed — a woman, a moment, and what it taught her. Fair warning: you'll want to be friends with all of them.
10 stories
Why they are hard to find
Conflict travels faster than healing.
Unscripted television and social feeds both reward the same thing: a raised voice, a turned table, a woman at her worst. It is easy to cut and easy to share, so it is what gets made. A woman explaining how she rebuilt her finances after a divorce takes longer to tell and does not fit in a headline.
What we film instead
The part that actually helps.
Each season is cast locally and filmed in the women's own spaces — kitchens, porches, studios. Nothing is staged and no storyline is invented in the edit, so what you get is the good part: how she left, how she healed, how she started the business, how she carried the loss. Told the way she'd tell you over coffee.
Find the story you need
What are you working through?
Two questions, then a personalized set.
Three ways in
Where to start if you only have ten minutes
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One short story
A single woman answering a single question, like a voice note from a friend. Most run under two minutes.
Browse the shorts02
One long conversation
After a season airs, the cast comes back on Instagram Live to answer what viewers asked — coffee-date energy, real answers.
Watch a conversation03
One woman's whole story
Every woman on the series has her own page — her words, her city, her stories in one place. Find the one who feels like a friend.
Meet the women
By subject
Positive stories, sorted by what you are going through
Each theme opens with a plain answer, then the clips where women say it themselves.
Meet them
The women in these stories are the kind you'll want at your table.