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“Create Your Story” Intensive Storytelling Workshop by Storytelling for Entrepreneurs

Just under 4-weeks till the ‘Create Your Story’ Intensive Workshop in Austin, TX on Sep 30th and Oct 1st, 2019. We have a great group of entrepreneurs already signed-up and the content schedule and speaker line-up up is shaping up in stellar fashion.

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How to Connect Your Story to Audiences – Make it Relevant

Connection. One of the most important aspects of entrepreneurial storytelling.

In this video, I explain you need to connect with your audience as a hashtag#founder and a specific method on how to do so in order to get the assets you need.

This is just one of the key topics we are going to cover...

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Why You Need to ‘Test’ Telling Your Entrepreneur’s Story

We have all heard that we need to practice telling our story.

But rarely are we told that we need to ‘test’ telling our story.

In this video I share the difference between practicing and testing sharing your story.

I also cover the reasons why it’s important to do so and give...

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The ‘So What’ factor. What it is & why you need to get over it when sharing your story

“So what.”

This is a factor every entrepreneur is going to encounter when sharing your story. Audiences are constantly going to be judging your idea or concept whenever you get it in front of them based on a number of factors relevant to their world regardless of how good your...

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Imagination – One of the Most Powerful Forces in Storytelling

As an entrepreneur, imagination is one of the most powerful forces you have in storytelling.

That’s because imagination is the seed of all great accomplishments.

Albert Einstein once stated that ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge’ because it has this unique ability...

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The Number 1 Audience You Need to Practice Your Story With

We all need to practice telling and sharing our story before we share it with the ‘real world’

And there is an ideal #audience for you to share it with that you can access any time and in any location.

In this video, I’ll share who this audience is and why you need to take...

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The Story of ‘Life is Good’ & Why Entrepreneurs Need a Story

Bert Jacobs, Founder of Life is Good, speaking at @TexasWomen Event

THE LIFE IS GOOD STORY

Bert and John Jacobs were the youngest of six kids raised outside of Boston, MA. Their family had a small house, and though they were always short on money, the kids had a fairly good childhood. Their...

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Why Authenticity Needs to Permeate Your Story: The Story of Scott Harrison, Founder of Charity: Water

Scott Harrison left his NYC party lifestyle to change the world with water. Now his organization, Charity: Water, has raised over $95 million for 17,000 projects in 24 countries.

Scott Harrison, Founder Charity: Water. Photo by Charity Water[/caption]

A REBEL WITH A CAUSE

After a conservative...

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Turning a Personal Disaster Into a Story That Disrupted An Entire Industry: Carley Roney and The Knot

Carley Roney, Co-Founder of The Knot

WHEN DISASTERS GO RIGHT

In 1996, Carley Roney, her husband David Liu, and two friends from film school, were sitting in a café trying to think of ways they could capitalize on this new thing called the Internet. They knew that it had all kinds of...

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The Rule of 3 in Business Storytelling

The rule of 3 in business storytelling is basically a principle that suggests a trio of elements is more effective than the combination of other numbers. But it’s not just in storytelling, the rule of three is everywhere.

We have been brought up with it, educated on it and presented...

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Simplicity – Why It Matters and How To Make it Part of Your Story: Drew Houston And The Founding Of Dropbox

How Drew Houston used the story of forgetting his thumb drive on a 4-hour bus ride as a catalyst for creating Dropbox, a cloud-based storage solution now used by 400M people

KEEPING STORAGE SIMPLE

Headphones and laptop in hand, Drew Houston stepped on a bus in Boston fully prepared to start...

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