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Your Story Is Not For Everyone
There’s this little thing called the #Erastour happening, and I have been obsessed with Taylor Swift’s ability to connect so meaningfully and personally with, oh, millions and millions of people. Sure, it’s her brilliant storytelling – I don’t think that’s news to you, but I think it’s more than that.
Avoiding the Storytelling Trap
One winter morning last December, P walked into the kitchen asking me when I planned to “start my stuff.”
Say What You Mean To Say
Usually, I’m a fan of brevity.
The satisfaction in replacing four or five words with one can be hard to beat. Some people like playing golf and hitting the ball just right, others like leveling up in video games, me – I just want to see how few words I can use to communicate something.
Stories That Make People Lean In
Why do stories make people lean in? Chad Littlefield was running a session teaching facilitators how to design for contribution.
Stories That Get People to Act
There is a buffalo on a ranch I drive by almost every day. I’m not sure, but the buffalo looks sad and lonely. I wish it were free to roam around and that it had friends.
Finding Your Voice
Why are we, as women (and it’s not always women, but let’s be real, I think more often than not it is), afraid to speak our minds?
Bursting the Thought Bubble World
In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey contemplated the lives of ancient cliff dwellers who made their homes far up above ground in caves in the rock of the Utah desert:
Shedding the Should
When we try to fit in or be the way that we think we should be, we tend to hold our stories back. But our stories are the very thing that makes us memorable and creates connection.
The Language to See (and act) Differently
In sixth grade, I played on the soccer team and secretly hated it. But all my friends were playing, and there had to be something wrong with me if I didn’t like it.