Posts Tagged ‘story’
Speak Up Storytelling #17: Robin Gelfenbien
Episode #17 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast is ready for your listening pleasure. We start by talking about finding and crafting stories in your everyday life using my strategy “Homework for Life.” We talk about the Homework for Life submitted by a listener, and I offer up three Homework for Life moments from the…
Read MoreSpeak Up Storytelling #15: Roquita Johnson
Episode #15 of Speak Up Storytelling is now available for your listening pleasure. Elysha Dicks and I talk about finding excellent stories in your everyday life using my strategy “Homework for Life,” including moments that storytellers see but non-storytellers might not. Then we listen to Roquita Johnson’s story about finding her calling, followed by commentary and…
Read MoreAn anonymous note about a possible murder
I arrived at Kripalu, a yoga center in the Berkshires, on Sunday night with a bag full of my novels, magazine columns, and comic books. I spread them on the table for my students to see, and then I stuffed them back into the bag and tossed the bag into the corner of the room. It…
Read MoreSpeak Up Storytelling #6: Special Storyworthy book launch episode
Episode #6 of Speak Up Storytelling is now ready for your listening pleasure. This week’s special episode features live audio from the book launch for Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling. In this episode, you’ll hear me tell three BRAND NEW stories, never before told at Speak Up (and…
Read MoreSpeak Up Storytelling #5: Renata Sancken
Episode #5 of Speak Up Storytelling is now ready for your listening pleasure. On this week’s episode, we talk about finding and crafting stories in your everyday life using my strategy “Homework for Life.” I describe how I discovered two important things about myself that apparently everyone else already knew. Next, we listen to a hilarious story…
Read MoreSpeak Up Storytelling: The Podcast available today!
Elysha and I are thrilled to announce THE FIRST EPISODE OF OUR NEW PODCAST SPEAK UP STORYTELLING. Unlike most storytelling podcasts, which offer you one or more outstanding stories to listen to and enjoy, our podcast seeks to entertain while also providing some specific, actionable lessons on storytelling. Each week we will bring our expertise…
Read MoreA call to action! Please? Pretty please?
I’m writing to you today for a different kind of reason today. I hope you don’t mind. And it’s storytelling related. I have a book coming out on June 12. It’s my first nonfiction title, and I’m excited and nervous. Excited because I’ve wanted this book to exist for a long time. Nervous because it’s…
Read MoreHow I delivered an inspirational talk at a human trafficking conference (while knowing nothing about human trafficking)
I was speaking to some of my former storytelling students – children of Holocaust survivors who had gone through a workshop series with me that culminated in a storytelling performance. One of them told me, “Now I see stories everywhere. Everything is a story.” While I don’t agree that everything is a story, I knew…
Read MoreThe Moth brought me and my elementary school principal back together
Earlier this month, I told a story at a Moth GrandSLAM in Brooklyn about a time in my life when I had to face down the principal as a third grader. After stealing a classmate’s stamp catalog, I was forced to admit to the theft or risk allowing my entire class to be punished for…
Read MoreTEDx Berkshires: Homework for Life
Watch my most recent TEDx Talk, “Homework for Life,” below. In this talk, I discuss a simple strategy – stumbled upon accidentally – that you can use to slow down time, find greater meaning in your life, and give your future self one of the best gifts imaginable. And if you’re a storyteller – on the…
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