Original films and media
Human stories, documentaries, short videos, editorial series, and campaign-ready media.
Stories by Pope Studios · Speaking · Strategy
Tell the story people will remember.
Stories by Pope Studios is Mike Pope's creative storytelling studio for organizations, businesses, golf courses, nonprofits, communities, and families with something real worth noticing.
Story and media projects are quoted by scope. Speaking and live work typically run $5,000–$15,000+, with travel, audience, format, preparation, and books scoped separately.
The creative studio
Start with what is true. Build the right form around it.
The deliverable might be a film, short-form series, written story, book, campaign, live presentation, or combination. The story decides the format—not the other way around.
Golf course storytelling
The people, signature holes, traditions, decisions, and character that make a course worth choosing.
Organizations and communities
Stories that help a business, nonprofit, school, town, team, or association show what it means.
Books and lasting narratives
Custom books, written histories, commemorative pieces, and stories meant to outlive a campaign.
Selected Pope Studios work
Three voices. One storytelling standard.
These are original Pope Studios editorial and concept pieces. They are not presented as commissioned client work.
Documentary storytelling
America
A Pope Studios original about the rights, duties, compromises, and shared responsibility required to keep a country.
Mr. Yeser storytelling
We All Work at the Grocery Store Now
A short-form example of Pope Studios turning an ordinary system into a recognizable story through calm, specific satire.
Mike Pope · Golf
Playing Not to Lose
A serious short-form story that starts with golf and expands into the cost of making safety the entire objective.
A simple process
Find it. Shape it. Make it travel.
Good storytelling requires judgment before production. Mike works from the real audience and outcome, then builds only what serves them.
01Listen for the story nobody else can tell.
02Choose the form that makes it strongest.
03Produce something people want to keep or share.
Why Mike Pope
A writer, performer, educator, leader, and builder in one room.
Mike spent twenty-two years in public education, writes serious books and essays, created Mr. Yeser, and built Pope Studios around the ability to see the story inside an ordinary system.
Inside real institutions
Teaching and school leadership built the listening, judgment, and trust required to tell human stories.
Serious, satirical, and narrative
Mike Pope, Mr. Yeser, and Maroa Stories prove that the same truth can travel through different forms.
From idea through publication
Writing, performance, video, books, publishing, and audience strategy stay connected.
Storytelling & Media
Build the story.
For organizations, businesses, golf courses, nonprofits, communities, and families that need more than generic content.
- Documentary and narrative video
- Golf course media and story systems
- Short-form editorial series
- Custom books and written stories
- Campaign concepts and creative direction
- Mr. Yeser satire and branded storytelling
Speaking, Leadership & Strategy
Bring Mike into the room.
For keynotes, conferences, workshops, facilitated conversations, leadership work, and difficult institutional questions.
- Keynotes and conference sessions
- Workshops and facilitated sessions
- Leadership, trust, responsibility, and systems
- Parenting, learning, and capacity
- Book-plus-event packages
Education advocacy and public-school accountability work live at Disagree Learning ↗
Work With Mike
Tell him what deserves to be remembered.
Share the people, place, organization, audience, idea, challenge, timeline, and desired outcome. You do not need to know whether the answer is a film, book, series, talk, or campaign yet.