The story behind the work
Kirby Heyborne is an Emmy and Grammy nominated actor, musician, and narrator known for heartfelt storytelling, humor, and performances that lift the people watching. He hosts the Emmy nominated TV series Making Good and the global RootsTech conference, where his interviews with guests including Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Astin have reached millions. He is also the co-founder of the Help Them See Foundation, a 501c3 that funds productions meant to entertain and illuminate light. His faith and his family sit at the center of all of it.
With more than 2,000 audiobooks to his name, including Charlotte's Web with Meryl Streep, Kirby is one of the most recognized voices in narration. On screen he played the father in Faith of Angels, the true story of a young man lost in an abandoned mine for five days. Eight years and six seasons of Making Good have taken him to nonprofits around the world. The first Help Them See film, a comedy about a man whose kindness led the East German government to assume he was a spy, goes into production soon.
On the YES! Women's Network Podcast, Kirby joined Michele Morley for a conversation about gratitude, marriage, and the small daily choices that hold a family together. He talked about the day his wife asked why he reached for his worst imagined grief to produce tears on camera, and what happened when he tried gratitude instead. He spoke candidly about 29 years of marriage, about hearing no in roughly 99 of every 100 auditions, and about why serving shoulder to shoulder with someone connects hearts in a way serving for them does not.
