Anecdotally Speaking

This week, Shawn shares another story he heard on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, but in the episode featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus: https://buff.ly/3nUCfL2 

It reminds Mark of this video: https://buff.ly/2Ob4aa6

Shawn also shares some exciting news! We recently published an app on the Apple App Store called Anecdotally: https://buff.ly/3AVCYn2

The app acts as a story bank, a place to store and share your stories. The current version is beta, so we’d love to hear your thoughts.

Welcome back to another episode of Anecdotally Speaking! This week, it’s Shawn’s turn to share a story. He retells an anecdote Ryan Reynolds shared on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman: https://buff.ly/3nUCfL2

The anecdote reminds the pair of the story Mark shared in 024 – U2 can protect your tribe: https://buff.ly/2KvbKXs

They also discuss a study involving a functional MRI machine included in our paper on the science of storytelling: https://buff.ly/2KvbKXs

Anecdotally Speaking is back! We kick things off for the second half of 2022 with a story Mark found in his story bank from 2010!

You’ll notice we’ve made a small change! From now on, we’ll name our episodes based on the business point made by the story we share. We will miss the puns masterfully put together by Dave Stokes, who engineers our podcast, but we hope this change will help you navigate our future episodes a little easier!

Thanks for tuning back in!

Hello!

Today we’re coming to you with a public service announcement for our listeners! 

Anecdotally Speaking is taking a short mid-year break so that we can produce some exciting new content for you! We’ll be back on the 5th of July to share and dissect more stories!

In the meantime, you can browse our entire catalogue of episodes at www.anecdote.com/podcasts!

Bye for now, 

Shawn & Mark

Welcome to the 150th episode of Anecdotally Speaking! This week, Rob Grundel fills in for Shawn, who recently celebrated his daughter’s wedding! And Rob and Mark take turns sharing small stories. 

Rob kicks things off with a story he shared during an Anecdote team meeting last week, which inspired the theme and name of this episode—in praise of small stories. When sharing his second story, he mentions Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez (https://buff.ly/39sf7Qn), which seems to come up a lot on this podcast! 

Thank you for tuning in! We’ll be back next week with another episode!

This week on Anecdotally Speaking, we’re replaying 112 - FedEx helicopter story absolutely positively flies, which features a special guest, Doug Keeley! 

Doug is an Anecdote Partner and the CEO and Chief Storyteller at Stories Rule! He shares how he got into storytelling, met the Anecdote team, and his all-time favourite business story.

Mark mentions Dave Carroll’s 2009 YouTube sensation, United Breaks Guitars (https://buff.ly/1zDuoPK), which Shawn wrote about in this blog post: https://buff.ly/2ZRDePb

If you want to connect with Doug, you can find his LinkedIn profile here: https://buff.ly/3zFaLhl

We’ll be back next week with our 150th episode of Anecdotally Speaking! Bye for now!

If you want to change someone’s mind, you need to find a range of stories, not just one. Listen to hear how Charles Darwin formulated and gained support for his theory of evolution. 

This week, it’s Shawn’s turn to share a story, and he tells Anecdotally Speaking’s first Charles Darwin story. Given Shawn has a keen interest in Charles Darwin, the Anecdote team is surprised we haven’t had one before now! 

The story portrays Charles Darwin’s strategy for changing minds and touches on how he came up with his theory of evolution.

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This week on Anecdotally Speaking, we welcome back Shawn! And Mark shares the story of an incredibly successful but misguided campaign led by Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao. It reminds us of the story Shawn shared in 132 – Wolves, cane toads and tubby ships: https://buff.ly/3cgYC7G

If you’d like to catch up with Mark or Shawn in the United States, reach out to us at [email protected]! We love meeting listeners!

Trigger warning: this story will be confronting for some people as it deals with the destruction of a species. If you’re likely to find this too upsetting, perhaps skip this episode, and we’ll welcome you back next week.

Welcome back to another episode of Anecdotally Speaking! This week, we also welcome back Rob Grundel, who cohosts with Mark once again!

Mark shares a story of unknown origins, which may mean it’s apocryphal. It follows the attempts of a soccer coach to replicate a hot state scenario and ensure his team’s future success.

Shawn’s in the United States, so Anecdote Principal Rob Grundel is temporarily taking over as Mark’s Anecdotally Speaking cohost. And this week, Rob shares a story about how Michael B Jordan has directed and starred in Creed III: https://buff.ly/3rlauh3

If you’d like to catch up with Shawn or Mark while they’re in the United States, reach out to us at [email protected]! We love meeting listeners!