Digital storytelling is often described as a short film with voiceover, personal images, and careful editing, but its real power is how it helps people make meaning. When the topic is antimicrobial resistance (AMR) or antibiotic resistance, meaning matters because the public rarely experiences “resistance” as a clear event. In this conversation, we explore how a PhD can sit at the intersection of arts-based methods and biomedical research, and why that hybrid creates both opportunity and friction. For health communication, patient stories can create empathy and memory, yet they still need structure, context, and timing to become true knowledge mobilization.