Speak 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…
Don’t be selfish. Tell a story.
I tell people to tell stories a lot. I know. It's my clarion call. But allow me to say it again. Last Wednesday night, I performed in The Moth GrandSLAM at the…
Run to The Moth. Allow stories to lighten your load.
Here is my suggestion:Run to The Moth. On the radio, the podcast, or a live show. As you probably know, The Moth changed my life. It gave me a stage to…
I performed in the dark. Without amplification. The results were surprising.
The worst experience I ever had while telling a story was on election night 2016 at a live show of Slate's The Gist. I was telling the story about my…
Five sausages and a good story
The New England Patriots defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday in the AFC championship game at Gillette Stadium. It was the eighth AFC championship game that I have attended in…
When cowards hide behind digital walls and hurl grenades…
Someone did something rotten to me a few weeks ago.A person who I have never met but who performs in the same New York storytelling community as me, who knows…
How 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…
How can you possibly have so many stories?
It's a question I get a lot. Whether it's stories that I'm sharing on the golf course or at the dinner table or on the stage, I always have a…
Teaching is full of unexpected surprises
One billion years ago, I taught a third grader named Kaity to multiply. Last night, as Elysha and I were leaving for a Moth StorySLAM in Somerville, I asked Kaity, now…
A possible (though not advised) replacement for heart medication
I spent a week at Kripalu Institute for Yoga and Health last week, teaching storytelling to a dozen remarkable people. On Tuesday night I performed my one-man show, and on Thursday…
