Share Your Story

Share Your Story

By Michael de Groot - @stayingaliveukBusinessEducationSelf-ImprovementCareers
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Share Your Story episodes

  • #TheOpenMike Podcast S5:E1 - Storytelling with Michael de Groot

    In the Podcast Michael shares these 3 pro tips for you on Storytelling to help you get started fast, including:

    How to understand what are your clients pain points, how can you create more and amplify the pain identification and relevance

    Tips on ensuring you focus hard and understand the audience you are addressing, with a target target target approach.

    How to be clear about the output of your story, what are you expecting in advance, is this to ask the audience to buy something, book a call and, when they speak to their friends, what would they say about your story?

    We also cover how Storytelling affects the brain to make decisions including:

    Neurocoupling turns ideas and connects the story as their own in our brains

    Mirroring is where you see yourself in that position or recognise it as something similar to what you are or have experienced

    Cortex Activity is when the brain fires what you are imagining as real (like a runner) pretending and visualising running the 100m - their body reacts even though its imaginary

    The pleasure chemical the emotion that stories provide is known as Dopamine.

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    1 hr 22 min
  • Amit Raj - The Links Guy
    I run an agency that specialises in SEO & more specifically link building but prior to that have worked in a family business, had past online ventures (successful and failed ones), qualified and worked as a pharmacist - before delving into SEO/link building around 5-6 years ago and never looking back!
    Website: https://amitdigitalmarketing.com
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/link-building-expert
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amitdigitaluk
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/thatlinksguy
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelinksguy
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV9My996TcHFbouizk0rfBA
    1 hr 19 min
  • Emily and Paul Hughes - The Parent Guide to GCSE

    Emily has a Masters from Cambridge in Maths with Education, while Paul has a Masters in Information Management and Computing from University of Sheffield, which will probably tell you what they each taught for 15 years.

    Emily also runs a Pop Choir in her spare time, as she says she still needs to be able to boss people around having left teaching.

    Paul says he thinks that’s already covered at home...

    1 hr 16 min
  • Debra Levitt - The Podcast Launcher

    Later that summer, I was asked if I had considered helping others to start their own podcasts – I hadn't! The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea and, in January 2019, I fully launched the Podcast Launcher and Podcast Concierge. Providing a range of services to meet each individuals needs.

    The Podcast Launcher, 5 Steps to Start Your Podcast and Podcast Concierge services let you decide what type and level of support you want at any stage of your podcast – even if it is just an idea!”

    In addition, she has started exploring her creative side and is also starting to transform her digital artwork into actual products. Learning how to develop this side, understanding the wealth of opportunities, the competition and determining where to focus her attentions is an amazing change of direction for her on both a personal and business level.

    Between the work on Bridge Road and her design endeavour, DebEl Designs, Debra finds that she is challenging herself from many different angles – time management, skill sets, technology and so much more.

    In her personal life, Debra has had the normal ups and downs that we all do. Most recently, she has discovered that she is more of an “outdoors” person than she ever expected with horses and dogs playing an ever more important role in her life.

    57 min
  • Ashleigh King - Nurture Your Zest

    I am passionate about entrepreneurship, even though it can be an emotional rollercoaster sometimes - the highs and lows of entrepreneurship can be lonely, and it can be easy to get lost. I have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and I am a survivor of child trauma. I am intrigued by the creative and the curious, who have the courage to overcome difficult circumstances and re-create their world through hard work and determination.

    I hope that through the stories shared on my podcast, people will feel inspired to change their world through self-growth, self-belief and self-care.

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  • Dr Julia Bramble - Social Buzz
    Dr Julia Bramble - Social Buzz
    Michael de Groot - @stayingaliveuk
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    Julia brings her skills from a career in forensic science to the world of social media marketing.
    As an international strategist, speaker and trainer for small businesses, her work centres on the human behind the digital.

    Her experience as a Business Growth Advisor for a national business membership organisation, working closely with businesses from all sectors, is invaluable in her work today.

    She writes regularly for Social Media Examiner and is also Mum (aka crisis control manager) of 6 crazy kiddos.

    Website: https://www.bramblebuzz.co.uk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliabramble 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/juliabramble

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliabramblebuzz and www.facebook.com/BrambleBuzzSocialMedia  

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliabramble and https://www.instagram.com/celebratedevon 

    1 hr 6 min
  • Michael de Groot - The Results Podcast
    Michael de Groot - The Results Podcast
    Steve Mills - Croften
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    I’m going to start with a question, with a proud show of hands who has ever been to the cinema? Great, that’s everyone in the room.

    I’m a Dutchman and I’m passionate about storytelling and the movies you enjoy are of course all stories.

    No! I don’t have jokes up my sleeves, tell children’s stories and I’m not even a published author. I don’t even like novels.

    We produce bespoke and visually impactful cartoons and animation campaigns, engaging audiences and giving them a unique insight into an organisation's story and value proposition. And now Storytelling Workshops too!

    You are actually already the biggest storyteller in your life, so why not tell your business story in a fun way?

    I also host my own podcast called ‘Share Your Story’, I’m a volunteer with Crisis UK in Birmingham, the homelessness charity and I’m a student of Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation, Taiko Drumming and Minimalism. Just my way of developing a more meaningful life.

    The Results Podcast Link

    Website: https://stayingaliveuk.com

    LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stayingaliveuk

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/stayingaliveuk

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  • Esther Pesie - Soul Women
    Esther Pesie - Soul Women
    Michael de Groot - @stayingaliveuk
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    Hi, my name is Esther. I am originally Dutch, but I live in France for many years!  I support women online to feel good and energised. I use Qigong which is Chinese yoga and Reconnective Healing. The Qigong exercises are easy and give you an instant boost of energy. It helps you calm your mind. You can say it is meditation in motion and at the same time you work on relaxing your muscles. Sounds cool doesn’t it! Reconnective Healing is a treat. A treat for yourself. It supports balance on physical, emotional and mental levels. Many imbalances can be resolved in a session so you start to feel good and aligned again. It is like an upgrade of your system. I also treat animals which makes me feel very happy. In my private life I enjoy good food, art, architecture, the ocean, my doggie and all the good life has to offer. 

    Hope to meet you soon! ~ Esther Pesie

    Here are the links where you can find me:

    My Facebook business group for heart minded people: https://www.facebook.com/groups/626036001197583 

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/behappynow.fr

    Website: http://www.soul-women.com

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esther-pesie-39075b4 

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  • Steve Mills - Raise Your Game

    We help Companies to grow Sales by making Sales and Marketing more effective. I do this by finding overlooked sales and marketing opportunities and customising the sales and marketing processes. We have worked with Microsoft, BT, Cimbali, Sport England, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Dubai Oasis Authority & 1,000’s of small businesses. We have assisted clients to increase sales by over £100m+ in sales through my training, mentoring, speaking & ‘done for you’ marketing services.

    I am a Coach and adviser and I focus on helping my clients to 10X their businesses. I improve a company’s revenue by improving their sales and marketing strategies.

    We work with anyone from a single entrepreneur to multi-million pound companies helping to increase sales through customisation of sales and marketing approaches and training processes. The Steve Mills Results Club is one of the most popular online sales and marketing training associations for small businesses – http://www.stevemills.co/resultsclub. The Results Programme is our cornerstone programme aimed at helping businesses to 10X their business – http://www.stevemills.co/business-mastery/

    When I am not working I can be found keeping fit on the tennis court, or at the gym, playing golf (very badly), following my beloved Sheffield Wednesday, or walking along the beach in my new home in Southsea.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Liz Johnson - Composer

    Several of Johnson’s works engage with wider issues of wellbeing: Scintilla explores issues of isolation and mental health, and the series of Triptych pieces for early instruments focuses on female body image after major surgery, inspired by the artwork Triptych – a scarred series by Dora Williams. Johnson has herself recently overcome serious illness leading to isolation. Having now regained her health she is passionate about creating work that allows people to engage with the most difficult issues. Colwall Requiem for Aleppo – a Requiem for Refugees – juxtaposes music for amateur choir and children’s choir with virtuosic meditations and transcriptions of traditional Arabic music for the viola soloist. ‘I can’t remember the last time I actually dripped tears during a concert. And then she brought us back to a place of hope by the end of the piece so we were emotionally safe to head back into the real world.’ (Liz Garnett) http://www.helpingyouharmonise.com/colwall

    Johnson’s debut double album Intricate Web (2017) has been met with wide critical acclaim ‘The Cello Suite is stunning… The music explores a vast canvas… To me, this suite is Johnson’s masterpiece (so far). It is not too much to say that it takes its place beside Bach, Britten and Ligeti.’(Musicweb-International). Johnson’s close working relationship with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, who recorded the album, has given rise to two impressive large-scale works: the clarinet quintet Sea-change, featuring twenty-five different instruments, including string quartet with Swannee whistles and egg shakers and five different sized clarinets from Contrabass to E flat, and Sky-burial for female voice and string quartet. 'The music is in turn rugged, anguished, languid, and resigned, producing a haunting scenario that will not quickly be forgotten' (Fanfare), sung by vocalist extraordinaire Loré Lixenberg.

    Liz Johnson started her career as a Primary School teacher and it was not until her mid-30s that she began studying composing for the first time. Taught by Philip Cashian she went on to gain her PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2006. She lectures at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and is currently overseeing a new creative collaboration between student musicians and composers with choreographers and dancers at the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

    1 hr 30 min

About Share Your Story

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The ‘Share Your Story’ podcast are interviews with small business owners. They begin by sharing their personal back story and their business growth journey, often sharing challenges along the way.…