Ep.011 Athlete Story PodcastStorytelling for Athletes. Tips From Emmy Award Winning Michael Baltierra, ESPN E:60 ShowStorytelling for athletes – What makes your story great?I love ending the year with this episode with my friend, Emmy Award winning Michael Baltierra from ESPN’s storytelling show, E:60.I really do believe that one of the most important assets you have as a world class athlete is the journey you’ve been on, going above and beyond – and even deep down under – to become the best at your sport. You may have won a medal or a title and that’s awesome – but it’s the investment you put in and the lessons you got back that will stay with you – and that you can use and contribute with to help other people if you want to share. That’s the basic philosophy of Athlete Story and what I’m here to help you tap into.And the cool thing about this episode is that you will get to know more about how to share your story so that it’s interesting to other people and why it makes you special and valuable.You can also watch a video version of this interview here.

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Anja Bolbjerg : Let’s talk about one of the best ways you can leverage your sports career in life after sports: Using the stories from your journey as an athlete to help other people.How do you do this? How can your story help other people? Let’s look into that because once you find that out, you’ve found gold. That’s kind of your education as an athlete. Sports you can bring with you in life. It’s your degree. It’s one unique asset that you can always contribute with. Whether it’s just to make a point or inspire people to take action on something or shed new light on even an old concept or invent a new product.It’s not about bragging or about what you did or accomplished, it’s about taking other people on a little journey that will teach them a lesson or give them an emotion or an aha moment in a way.That’s storytelling and that’s why I’m super stoked for this episode because I’ve invited a storytelling champion to share his wisdom and insight with us today, He’s ESPN’s, Emmy Award-winning, executive editor to the E60 show, Michael Baltierra. Stay tuned, this is Athlete Story and I’m your host and coach Anja Bolbjerg dedicated to helping athletes like you own your sport career.If you are a world-class athlete or simply into sport, I suggest you should subscribe to my show right now. I will be posting a lot more athlete stories and chats with world-class sport insiders and experts.Before we get on course, let me introduce our guest briefly. Michael Baltierra’s career as a storyteller in broadcasting includes nine years as a producer at ABC News. Traveling the world to cover stories and put them into context so that we can relate to them in our own little pond back home.His passion for sport and apparently, a great working environment at ESPN led him to become an executive editor for The E60 Show. For those of you who don’t know the show, it’s a weekly sports show magazine style where they bring great sports documentaries that are always relatable and relevant, no matter what the sport or the results because those stories go way beyond sports.Knowing Mike, I can already tell you that empathy and the ability to see things from different angles, probably part of what makes a champion storyteller.Let’s jump in and see what Mike has to say about what makes a good story and how to pitch it and why he likes to work with athletes. That’s always good to hear, right? Okay, let’s welcome Michael Baltierra from ESPN. Hi, Mike, welcome to the show, Athlete Story.Michael Baltierra: Thank you.Anja: Mike, you’re working at ESPN at a program called E60.Michael: That’s right. I oversee the show. What I do particularly is to help select the stories that we’re going...