People get value from your work and experiences when you publish it and they experience it.

There are two ways to increase the value of your work:

You can improve the experience (e.g., through crafting the story, or telling it in a new and interesting way). You can contextualize it further.

Or, you can get the work in front of more people through promoting it and finding new ways to distribute it. Treat it for the craft that it is. 

Another useful thing to keep in mind: it generally feels easier to improve work that already exists, even if it is scruffy, than to start from scratch. Anne Lamott helped unblock millions of talented, frustrated, writers when she introduced this useful idea called the “shitty first draft.”

Once you increase the value of your work, you will also come across new opportunities to extract more value as well.