{"id":9,"date":"2015-06-30T20:49:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:49:42","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacy Cacciatore, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-gravatar wp-block-social-link\"><a rel=\"me\" href=\"https:\/\/gravatar.com\/valiantlyswag7cd4684eb7\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M10.8001 4.69937V10.6494C10.8001 11.1001 10.9791 11.5323 11.2978 11.851C11.6165 12.1697 12.0487 12.3487 12.4994 12.3487C12.9501 12.3487 13.3824 12.1697 13.7011 11.851C14.0198 11.5323 14.1988 11.1001 14.1988 10.6494V6.69089C15.2418 7.05861 16.1371 7.75537 16.7496 8.67617C17.3622 9.59698 17.6589 10.6919 17.595 11.796C17.5311 12.9001 17.1101 13.9535 16.3954 14.7975C15.6807 15.6415 14.711 16.2303 13.6325 16.4753C12.5541 16.7202 11.4252 16.608 10.4161 16.1555C9.40691 15.703 8.57217 14.9348 8.03763 13.9667C7.50308 12.9985 7.29769 11.8828 7.45242 10.7877C7.60714 9.69266 8.11359 8.67755 8.89545 7.89537C9.20904 7.57521 9.38364 7.14426 9.38132 6.69611C9.37899 6.24797 9.19994 5.81884 8.88305 5.50195C8.56616 5.18506 8.13704 5.00601 7.68889 5.00369C7.24075 5.00137 6.80979 5.17597 6.48964 5.48956C5.09907 6.8801 4.23369 8.7098 4.04094 10.6669C3.84819 12.624 4.34 14.5873 5.43257 16.2224C6.52515 17.8575 8.15088 19.0632 10.0328 19.634C11.9146 20.2049 13.9362 20.1055 15.753 19.3529C17.5699 18.6003 19.0695 17.241 19.9965 15.5066C20.9234 13.7722 21.2203 11.7701 20.8366 9.84133C20.4528 7.91259 19.4122 6.17658 17.892 4.92911C16.3717 3.68163 14.466 2.99987 12.4994 3C12.0487 3 11.6165 3.17904 11.2978 3.49773C10.9791 3.81643 10.8001 4.24867 10.8001 4.69937Z\" \/><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Gravatar<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>Communications Executive. Rhetorician. Writer. Embodied Performance &amp; Wellness Coach.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<h3><em><strong>I help people and organizations communicate with clarity and integrity by translating embodied truth into stories that invite meaning and build trust.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\r\n<p>Authentic communication begins before the message.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>It begins with truth.<\/p>\r\n<p>My work lives at the intersection of strategic communication, rhetoric, storytelling, scholarship, writing, movement, and embodied wellness.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Across each of these disciplines my purpose is the same: to help people and organizations uncover what is real, give it language, and communicate with clarity, humanity, and integrity.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>For more than 25 years, I have helped leaders and organizations craft narratives that create alignment, build trust, and move audiences.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>As a rhetorician, I understand that the most important aspect of communication is audience. Connecting with your audience requires more than customizing a message based on assumptions about a homogenous &#8216;group&#8217; mentality, preconceived notions, and tropes. \u00a0An audience is not merely a &#8216;group&#8217;, rather audiences are comprised of individuals. Each of whom have their own individual fears, values, expectations, needs, and histories. Meaningful communication requires empathy, discernment, audience intelligence, and the ability to listen deeply enough to understand what people are truly asking to hear.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I believe the most powerful communication is not performative. It is not institutional . It is not manufactured.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>It is clear.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is human.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is grounded.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is trustworthy.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is true.<\/p>\r\n<p>Communication fails when organizations focus solely on what they need to say. It succeeds when institutional goals are translated into language that reflects the realities, concerns, and experiences of the people receiving the message. My approach bridges the gap between institutional and vernacular perspectives, helping organizations communicate with clarity, authenticity, and integrity while building trust and understanding across audiences.<\/p>\r\n<p>Whether I&#8217;m advising executives, shaping organizational narratives, writing, coaching movement, or teaching embodied wellness, my work is rooted in the same conviction:<\/p>\r\n<p><em><strong>Communication should reveal what is true, \u00a0honor what is human, and build trust through integrity.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<h2>Explore my work<\/h2>\r\n<p>My work moves across communication, rhetoric, scholarship, writing, running, and embodied wellness, but the purpose remains the same: to help people and organizations find what is true, give it language, and communicate it with clarity, humanity, and trust.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Review my <a href=\"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/portfolio-resume\/\">Resume<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n<h2>Strategic Communication Rooted in Trust<\/h2>\r\n<p>I help leaders and organizations communicate complex ideas with clarity, humanity, and integrity, crafting narratives that create alignment, build trust, and move audiences.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Explore my <a href=\"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/insider-threat-case-study\/\">Insider Threat Communications Case Study<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n<h2>Rhetoric, Audience, and Meaning-Making<\/h2>\r\n<p>As a rhetorician, I study and practice how language, audience, story, identity, context, and power shape meaning. My work centers ethical communication that honors people, their identities, and needs.<\/p>\r\n<p>My scholarship examines gender, identity, embodiment, motherhood, running, and vernacular meaning-making. I hold a PhD in Rhetorics, Communications, and Information Design, Clemson University (<a href=\"https:\/\/open.clemson.edu\/all_dissertations\/2860\/\">Dissertation: <\/a><em data-start=\"2127\" data-end=\"2166\">Princesses, Divas, and Mother Runners) <\/em>I established a theoretical framework, coined <a href=\"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/running-rhetoric\u2026etical-framework\/ \u200e\"><em data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"322\">Running Rhetorics, <\/em><\/a>as a new way to understand running as a form of communication between body, self, and world.<\/p>\r\n<p>View my <a href=\"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/category\/ph-d-digital-portfolio\/\">PhD portfolio<\/a><\/p>\r\n<div>\r\n<h2>Writing, Story, and Narrative Identity<\/h2>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">I write to make meaning.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">Across corporate communication, scholarship, creative nonfiction, academic publication, and personal narrative, my writing explores how people and institutions tell the stories that shape identity, culture, belonging, power, and transformation.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">I help people and organizations craft narratives that are not generic, borrowed, or performative. The strongest stories emerge from lived experience: what has been endured, chosen, built, lost, reclaimed, and imagined.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">My work asks deeper questions:<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">What story are you telling?<br \/>Is it true?<br \/>Does it build trust?<br \/>Does it reflect who you are becoming?<br \/>Does it help others understand, connect, and act with integrity?<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">I believe story is not decoration. Story is architecture. It is how we organize experience, communicate purpose, and create a future others can believe in.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>View my <a href=\"http:\/\/: https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/writing-and-publications\">Writing &amp; Publications<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h2>Embodied Performance and Wellness<\/h2>\r\n<p>As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrca.org\/programs\/coaching-certification\/\">running coach (RRCA)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.nasm.org\/ff1d930c-b63c-4b31-95a1-2dfd2a6c6d22\">certified personal trainer,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.nasm.org\/3667145a-de4b-4516-b6d5-d72f9e545537\">certified nutrition coach<\/a>, and certified yoga instructor, I approach movement as more than fitness. I see the body as a source of knowledge, communication, strength, and self-trust.<\/p>\r\n<h2>Mile Marker Matriarch<\/h2>\r\n<p>I created <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/milemarkermatriarchpodcast.com\/\">Mile Marker Matriarch<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/milemarkermatriarchpodcast.com\/\">podcast<\/a> and platform that centers women\u2019s embodied experiences in running and empowers runners at all levels, to help women run for <strong data-start=\"2946\" data-end=\"2978\">purpose, healing, and power.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/milemarkermatriarch.buzzsprout.com\">Listen to the Mile Marker Matriarch Podcast<\/a><\/p>\r\n<h2>Running<\/h2>\r\n<p>Running has never been just about miles for me.<\/p>\r\n<p>I have run more than 150 road races across a variety of distances, from 5Ks to marathons. My favorite running event is the Chicago Marathon, which I have run every year since 2017. But beyond finish lines, race medals, and pace charts, running has become one of the primary ways I understand myself and the world around me.<\/p>\r\n<p>For me, running is discipline, freedom, grief, resilience, self-trust, and becoming. It is where the body speaks before language arrives. It is where I have learned to listen to myself, move through hard things, reclaim strength, and make meaning from lived experience.<\/p>\r\n<p>My philosophy of running extends beyond performance. I believe running can be a rhetorical act, \u00a0a way the body communicates with the self, with others, and with the world. Running reveals what we carry. It teaches us what we are capable of enduring. It gives form to emotions that often have no words. It invites us to become more honest, embodied, and alive.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is the essence of my work as a runner, scholar, coach, and founder of Mile Marker Matriarch: running is never just running. 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