This week Amanda is joined by professional storyteller and MBE Liz Weir who has made an international career out of writing and the art of story telling.

This episode is full of heart, purpose, humour, insights on creating community, the power of following your purpose in life, having a positive outlook to be able to look for the possibilities that present themselves along the way and how Liz has dedicated her life to promoting and encouraging/educating others to make careers out of story telling.

Liz has won many awards and has an incredibly infectious outlook on life, she shares much wisdom on how she created adventure, connection and freedom in her own life and even shares inspiring and courageous insights on her recent challenge of overcoming Cancer.

ABOUT LIZ WEIR:

Liz Weir is an Irish storyteller with an international reputation. She was the first winner of the International Story Bridge Award from the National Storytelling Network, USA, which cited her “exemplary work promoting the art of storytelling”. She has told her stories to people of all ages on five continents. She has performed in pubs and prisons and hospital rooms. She worked on stages in the mighty Vanderbilt Hall of New York’s Grand Central Station and in the Royal Albert Hall.

Liz has written two collections of stories for children Boom Chicka Boom and Here, There and Everywhere (O’Brien Press) and When Dad Was Away (Frances Lincoln Books), a picture book based on her work in prisons. 

Liz is the director of the Glens Storytelling Festival www.goastories.org and a committee member of the Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival www.capeclearstorytelling.com

In 2019 she was awarded an MBE for her services to the arts and to education.

Connect with Liz:

www.lizweir.org

www.Ballyeamon barn.com

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