Meet Your Founders:
Branda Jean Piersall
and Michelle Bias
Meet Branda Jean and Michelle, the women behind OK, So Tulsa. What started as an idea to create the kind of storytelling night they wanted to attend has grown into a nonprofit, a community, and more than a decade of true stories told on Tulsa stages. They still host it together, still laugh a lot, and still believe the best stories usually start with, “OK, so…”
Branda Jean Piersall, RN
Branda Jean Piersall has been an RN for 30 years, with 20 of those years being in hospice and palliative care. She is a death doula with certifications in holistic health, nutrition, and spiritual philosophy. She is certified in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research through the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and has advanced training in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. She has graduate studies in Transpersonal Psychology and has spoken on death and psychedelics at several regional conferences. She is also a cofounder and board member of the Oklahoma Psychedelic Collective.
Ok, So Tulsa is a passion project for her that revolves around the idea that everyone has stories worth telling, and that sharing our stories honestly can create connection, challenge assumptions, and help us see the world through someone else’s eyes. Her love of stories began at the bedside of those who are dying.
Michelle Bias, MA
Michelle Bias, MA, is a story person. She works with what she calls The Story Beneath the Story — the beliefs we inherit and mistake for who we are. A Systemic Constellations Practitioner and Intergenerational Trauma Expert, she helps people trace the patterns they carry in love, family, money, and self-worth back to where they actually began — often generations before them .
Her global private practice takes in career challenges, change, trauma, grief, addiction, divorce, relationships, and family dynamics, drawing on a range of healing modalities in both individual sessions and workshops. She holds a master's degree in Transpersonal Psychology.
On stage, Michelle has spent thirteen years co-founding and running OK, So Tulsa's Storyslam, the nonprofit monthly open-mic storytelling event she co-hosts, and she coaches storytellers preparing for main stage and curated events — as well as professionals who want to use storytelling to move their careers forward. She also co-hosts OK, So Say More, a new podcast from Public Radio Tulsa. Her work extends to public speaking and writing: she is the author of the memoir String Theory, A Life, available on Amazon and locally at Magic City Books, and her second book, Ellipsis, is forthcoming in winter 2026.
If you are searching for new ways of being, visit Michelle's website for upcoming online programs and events or go here for scheduling.