Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"If all knowledge is experience, all wisdom is framework" | Laura Gassner Otting, Keynote Speaker & Author
Episode 13
What is a super-story? And how can you flex yours to fit different audiences, mediums, or conclusions? That’s what we dive into today with powerhouse…
1 year, 5 months ago
Working out a new TED Talk with Simone Stolzoff, Author & Journalist
Episode 12
Go inside the development of a brand new TED Talk, as Jay offers notes to friend Simone Stolzoff on his v1 draft. Simone is the author of The Good En…
1 year, 5 months ago
“A perfectly competent character is boring” | Nat Eliason, Author & Essayist
Episode 10
Telling stories about your life feels fraught. How do you weave together a story that is deeply personal to you and others, contains the right amount…
1 year, 6 months ago
Is This Anything? with Simone Stolzoff, Author & Designer
Episode 10
You know how a comedian will test out new material, and turn to their colleagues and ask, “Is this anything?”
Welcome to a new bonus episode series—a…
1 year, 6 months ago
What it takes to craft a signature story | Susan Boles, CFO, Business Strategist & Podcaster
Episode 9
What should you include or omit to ensure your stories carry your message, resonate with others, and deliver something that could only come from you?…
1 year, 7 months ago
To tell stronger stories, understand yourself first | Ryan Hawk & Brook Cups, Coauthors of The Score That Matters
Episode 8
Storytellers often face a paradox: to connect deeper externally, you have to turn deeper internally. You have to know yourself and get more honest wi…
1 year, 7 months ago
“You have to work against people assuming they know how this goes” | Danielle Bayard Jackson, Author of Fighting for Our Friendships
Episode 7
How do we compress our lifetime into their runtime? When we’re asked to explain our backgrounds and bios, we need a structure, some practice, and a f…
1 year, 7 months ago
“I could tell this story in 1950 or 2024” | Scott Monty, Exec. Coach and Speaker
Episode 6
While everyone scrambles to learn the new trends and act like a futurist, it’s the folks who understand what parts of this work are timeless – becaus…
1 year, 8 months ago
“Words can do WHAT?! Are we serious right now?!” | Tucker Bryant, Poet & Keynote Speaker
Episode 5
How do we craft a metaphor that works? More importantly, perhaps, how do we ensure the metaphors we use pivot to the audience to teach them something…
1 year, 8 months ago
“We congregate around emotional stories” | Rand Fishkin, CEO of SparkToro
Episode 4
The hardest question to answer when we show up publicly might be the simplest question we receive: “Tell me about yourself.” Who are you? How’d you g…
1 year, 9 months ago