By Mike Ganino
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In this episode, we talk about storytelling from all perspectives -- how to find your story, how to shape the story, and what it takes to tell it on stage.
My guest this episode is Margot Leitman.
Margot Leitman is an award-winning storyteller, best-selling author, speaker and teacher originally from Matawan, New Jersey.
A leading expert in the growing field of storytelling, Leitman has written two books on the subject: the best-selling, Long Story Short- the Only Storytelling Guide You'll Ever Need and her latest What’s Your Story? A Workbook For the Storyteller in All of Us both from Sasquatch Books. Her comedic memoir, Gawky…Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase is available from Seal Press/ Perseus Books.
She has written for NBC, DreamWorks TV, the Hallmark Channel and the PixL Network and a variety of print and online sources including Cosmo and Backstage Magazine. In 2016 she worked as the west coast story scout for This American Life.
Margot is a five-time winner of The Moth StorySLAM, and was the Moth GrandSLAM winner in New York City achieving the series' first ever score of a perfect 10. Her stories have been featured on NPR's “The Moth Podcast,” “Good Food," “Unfictional,” "Strangers," and is a frequent contributor to the popular podcast “RISK!"
Leitman is the founder of the storytelling program at the UCB Theatre, where she has performed in dozens of shows over the years and is a frequent monologist at their flagship show "Asssscat."
Margot travels all over the world as a public speaker, storyteller and teacher. Internationally she has performed and taught at the SPOKEN FEST in Mumbai, India as well as a six-week teaching residency at the Blue Room Theatre in Australia.
In her spare time Leitman is an amateur baker, avid yogi and a devoted bibliophile. A proud graduate of the Ithaca College Theatre Department, Leitman now resides in Los Angeles.
Links
https://www.margotleitman.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/margotleitman/
Books
Long Story Short https://amzn.to/3m8XmM9
What’s Your Story https://amzn.to/3SzgDCF
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In this episode, I speak with UK-based comedy director -- Chris Head about storytelling, humor, adding contrast to your speech, and how the Jungian archetypes applying to performers.
We also look behind the scenes of Caroline Goyder's hugely popular (like 9 million views popular) TEDx talk -- where Chris directed her -- to see how these ideas come to life on stage.
Chris Head is a comedy director, teacher and script-editor. He has taught stand-up, sketch and sitcom for twenty years and teaches on the BA Comedy Degree at Bath Spa University. Chris recently script-edited BBC Radio and Channel 4 sitcom scripts, a comedy short film that was a global hit, and a sell-out comedy play seen at Assembly in Edinburgh and Soho Theatre in London (that he also directed). His stand-up directing work has been seen at Soho and Bloomsbury Theatres, Pleasance, Assembly and Underbelly in Edinburgh, and internationally.
Links
www.chrishead.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/xopherhead/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/chrisheadcomedytraining/
Books
Creating Comedy Narratives: https://amzn.to/3ILobii *affiliate link
A Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand Up: https://amzn.to/3SiAmX9 *affiliate link
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In this episode, Mike talks about the big list of "dos" and "donts" when it comes to writing your speaker or podcast introduction.
It's an excerpt from The Mike Drop Method's Magnetic Intro + Bio course -- which helps experts, entrepreneurs, and speakers craft engaging introductions for stages and podcasts as well as bios for show notes + event marketing.
You can get your hands on the workshop at www.mikeganino.com/intro
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Jermaine Fowler is the founder of The Humanity Archive. He has spent his life in pursuit of knowledge earning the nickname “the professor.” He is an author, speaker, and storyteller sharing the untold stories of history.
After years of dedication to scholarship and storytelling, Jermaine launched the website and podcast and was able to go full-time to running The Humanity Archive in 2021. He goes “outside the textbooks to find stories that are recognizably human.”
His new book, The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth releases February 28, 2023.
Retelling History with Jermaine Fowler
Links:
Book: The Humanity Archive, available February 28, 2023 *affiliate link*
The Humanity Archive Patreon
Follow Jermaine:
IG: @thehumanityarchive
TikTok: @thehumanityarchive
Web: thehumanityarchive.com
Patreon: @thehumanityarchive
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Neen James is the author of Folding TimeTM and Attention PaysTM. She has been named one of the Top 30 Leadership Speakers by Global Guru several years in a row because of her work with companies like Viacom, Comcast, and Virtuoso Travel among others.
Neen has boundless energy, is quick-witted and always offers powerful strategies for prioritizing focus in what matters most — all so you can pay more attention, create more significant moments and increase productivity at work and home.
Whether presenting in person or virtually, Neen is the kind of speaker that engages, educates, entertains, and delivers the real-world solutions that apply in your organization, your home, and your community. She also provides one-on-one consulting in a variety of leadership topics and loves serving her audiences.
Links
www.neenjames.com
https://www.instagram.com/neenjames/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neenjames/
Books
Attention Pays” https://amzn.to/3kvMB5A *affiliate link
Folding Time: https://amzn.to/3iR8BaN *affiliate link
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In this episode, I chat with Maggie Bayless – Founder of ZingTrain, about her entrepreneurial journey of 30 years where she has built training organization that's delivered for hundreds of organizations, including banking, real estate, health care, manufacturing and non-profits.
Maggie’s entrepreneurial journey taught her how to turn failures into positives, or at least how to look deeper and say, “What's the lesson here? How can we improve, improvise, make something different?”
Her decades of running a training and seminar-based business shaped the cultural impact of training and seminars on every organization she worked with. From workshop design to making sure that when someone leaves the room, that they are actually improved afterwards.
Maggie brings an honesty to her training that people appreciate by saying, “This is what we do, this is what's working, this is what's not working. Here are some things we've tried that didn't work. Here are some things that aren't working as well as we'd like them to be, but we think are important and we're continuing to push on.”
Find out more about Maggie
IG: https://www.instagram.com/zingtrain/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/ZingTrain/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zingtrain-zingermans-training-inc/
Web: https://www.zingtrain.com
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If there's a place where scholarship and smart ideas are spread, then Dr. Anthony Jack has probably been featured there.
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Anthony Jack -- the Assistant Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of the book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, about his journey to the testament that “even undreamt dreams come true” and how communication is pivotal in creating accessible content, both written and spoken.
Anthony’s TEDxCambridge talk from 2019 created conversations in a time when acceptance scandals dominated the headlines. He was, and is, the expert on inequality in higher education.
His ideas have been on the front page of the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Huffington Post, among others.
His book, The Privileged Poor, continues to create conversations around access and inclusion in higher education. And while one reviewer of his book said, “It is so well written that anyone can pick it up and understand it. There's no specific academic language in which to signal to other academics.” His take is, “If my mama can’t read it; I don’t wanna write it.”
The Privileged Poor on Amazon.
TEDxCambridge Talk, “On Diversity: Access Ain’t Inclusion”
Washington Post article, “I was a first-generation college student, an elite college admissions scandal reopens old wounds.”
New York Times article, “I was a low-income college student. Classes were not the hard part.”
anthonyabrahamjack.com
Instagram: @aajack07
Twitter: @tony_jack
Website: anthonyabrahamjack.com
The Privileged Poor on Amazon
www.mikeganino.com/blog/undreamt-dreams-with-anthony-jack-episode-43
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Are you looking for ways to make your business more successful in 2023? In this episode, Mike Ganino shares insights on what worked in 2022 and what's ahead in 2023. He also talks about the importance of making bets and staying improvisational in your business. If you're looking for ways to take your business to the next level, this episode is a must-listen!
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When it comes to being introduced on stage, podcasts, and panels - it's common to just grab you About Page bio and send it over. But that's cost you A LOT when it comes to propping up your topic, expertise, and voice.
In this episode, we explore why you shouldn't be using your "About Page" as your introduction for public speaking gigs, podcast interviews, and panel conversations.
This episode is pulled directly from our Magnetic Intro + Bio workshop which gives you everything you need to have a stellar introduction and sizzling media bio (including some fill-in-the-blank Mad Lib Style worksheets).
Learn more about the course (and how ridiculously affordable it is) at www.mikeganino.com/intro
Let's talk about a little problem that a lot of coaches, entrepreneurs and public speakers run into. And you never really realize it until the moment you need the help. And it's usually too late. I'm talking about that podcast introduction, I'm talking about that stage introduction. And that little bio that goes along with it. You know, the thing that's listed in the podcast notes, the part that's put on the website for the event or printed out in the, in the event details for people. And then that part of it, where they introduce you before you go on stage, where they're saying your name, and your accolades, and what you've done and who you are the part when you're on a podcast, and they say, let me tell you about the guest today. Yeah, that part, it's one of the most important pieces of your whole package as an entrepreneur, coach, or public speaker. And yet, it's one we often give little attention to. Well, we've given some attention to it, we have a course called magnetic intro and bio. And we're grabbing one of the modules from that course, to put into this episode of the mic drop moment to kind of give you some ideas of how you might think differently. This is all about why your about page copy isn't going to work as your stage intro or your media bio, why you need to think differently about it and how to start understanding that. And if you want our help in the full course, kind of version, you could go to Mike ganino.com/intro, to grab the full version of this. But here is just a little bit of why your about page copy should not be your intro for podcast and stages. So you have a story to tell. And you wonder how to own the stage and give that killer speech that will captivate the masses, you don't just want to speak to them. You want to transform your audience. Welcome to the mic drop moment. It's bold conversations about public speaking, storytelling and business that give you real world valuable takeaways. So you can craft a speech, a story of business and a life that the world can't stop talking about. It's time to find your mic drop moment. Here's your host, Mike De Nino. Unknown Speaker 2:04 You probably have an about page bio somewhere you have this thing that's on your website that talks about what you do, how you came to be, why you do it, who you do it with all of those things. And that doesn't work for a stage intro or podcast intro and it doesn't work for your media bio. Here's the reason why your stage intro has a different job. It is not about a passive website visitor coming to your website and saying, let me learn about Kathy, let me see what Kathy is all about. Let me see how Kathy works with people. It's not somebody popping in and being like, let me see if Christy's values align with mine if she's been where I've been before. That's not the job of your that's the job on your about page. But it's not the job of your intro, your intro was there to pump them up, we're going to talk about the three jobs it has in a moment when clo comes back with us. It is about really helping the audience get excited about what's going to happen on that podcast or on that stage. The same thing happens for your media bio, which is printed in the show notes or is printed in the I call it a playbill theater guy here. But the little pamphlet or agenda that they give away at a conference, maybe the app for the conference of the website that is about when I see that Brandon is going to be on stage. I go and look up Brandon in the manual in the in the workbook in the playbill to see who's Brandon, what's he all about? That is about credibility. And that is about setting you up of how you work with people. We're going to dive into all of this, those are two different jobs than your about page bio. And you should have all three, an intro, a media bio, and then you're about page with however you're going to approach that there's lots of schools of thoughts there. So let's talk about what's changed a little bit here. The the to do to do there we go. Let's talk about what's changed your audience has more options than ever when it comes to podcasts. When it comes to speaking they have more options for their attention. So if you right off the bat, don't get our attention. If you right off the bat at the beginning of your speech don't before you even take the stage don't get us saying wait a second this might be for me. Then I am just seconds away from watching the Meghan Trainor, Taylor Swift whatever the latest trending dance song is on Tik Tok. I'm gonna be over there scrolling and scrolling and you know how they tell you on reels and tick tock to caption it because a lot of people listen without sound. Have you heard this? Put your captions because people listen that's on. It's the people sitting in the audience of boring speeches who can't turn it on because it's rude. So they're scrolling through watching tick tock and reels. And if you aren't a podcast and the introduction that the host gives you doesn't set it up then guess what I'm going right on down to the next podcast. There's someone else with a clear setup for me. So the attention of your audience is is really changed quite a bit. Everyone today is also an expert. There a speaker go type and speaker on LinkedIn and you will see 1000s and 1000s 10s of 1000s maybe a million people who are speakers, maybe their TEDx speakers, even their keynote speakers there Unknown Speaker 5:00 corporate trainers, all of those things don't make us stand out. And so if that is what your bio is full of is, is an expert is a speaker has worked with big brands like Disney and this and that I cloud that I've worked with Disney before. Sony, like a million other people, it's not that special. Although you are special, don't get me wrong, I think you're very special. Unknown Speaker 5:19 And everyone, everyone's coached everyone to be a nine figure entrepreneur, okay? So that being the thing you lead with isn't enough to get me to stick around. Because there's a lot of other options with similar credentials, and you are a unicorn, you're not made to not stand out. And your audience also has more access to knowledge and information which needs they they need your angle they need to help understand in your introduction, and in your bio, what exactly is your take on this topic? If you're here to share the five ways to grow your Instagram? Is this the same thing? I can Google and read a blog post about properly 1000s of blog posts about what is your specific angle on this that's going to be refreshing and different? We're gonna show you how to do that in a moment. So that's what's new. But let's talk about how it's always worked before with Chloe. Chloe DiVita 6:02 Yes, the old way. You know, we all have been here where we could, we didn't want to do this, right? So we did. But we saw the people who thought oh, they could fool them with their pinstripes, they get on stage, they look classy. They're all nice, right? You just think the intro doesn't matter, because I'm gonna get up there. And I'm gonna just look the part. And that just doesn't work anymore. Maybe it used to be that they didn't know other authors. They didn't know show hosts. They didn't know coaches, it was sort of a unique thing, right? It wasn't everybody had it. It wasn't in everybody's bio, like Mike just mentioned, it wasn't like they, you could just tune in to someone's radio show. And that was special. Now there's podcasts and many, many, many people have podcasts. So it's not important anymore. The way it used to be right, because everything is fancy. Now, everybody who takes the stage is fancy in some way now, and has those things behind them. So that's the old way. And Mike already hinted at this is what's changing. But in the past, they literally couldn't go anywhere, right? They were in front of you whether they were listening, whether they were watching whether they were seated, they didn't have a device that you could pull out of their pocket, watch captions of TiC tock videos, that just didn't happen. There was no little dopamine they could get from a different place because you weren't providing it. That's the way it used to be. But it's not that way anymore. It's shifting. Unknown Speaker 7:28 Yeah. And Sylvia, I see your I see your comment over here. Great info. It's only the first few minutes looking forward to the rest. Thank you. We love you know, we are performers. And we love praise. So thank you for that kind word. Okay, close. So if that's the change, and that's the old way, what what are we after here? What are we trying to do? Yeah, so our big goal here, right? What we should be working towards what we need to do is to set the stage right, what are we there to share with them, we want to be laying it out so that they are doing all the things Mike has already mentioned going, I'm excited to listen, I want to hear, right, you want to get them on your side and your side of the topic specifically. So the minute someone starts talking about you, you're you have started, right? It might not be you speaking yet your words are coming out just yet. But somebody else has started talking about you, which means you have started. So that's the beginning of your speech. That's the beginning of your interview. That is the very beginning and you want to use it. So the audience thinks, hmm, that's interesting. I need to listen, I'm curious, you know, you want them to know your topic and be on your side. And the other thing is, you really want them to feel excited so that you feel the swagger that sort of comes from a pumped up audience. And now that's a little bit that can vary, right? If we're talking about walking into a stadium, there's definitely an energy you're trying to live there. If you're talking about walking into a room of 12 people, it might not be the same podcast also a little bit different. But the goal is to get them excited, the audience should be excited so that when you walk out, you feel their energy and you can bring everything you have to get them excited. I love it. And so so where do we get stuck? Where do we end up getting stuck, we get stuck because Unknown Speaker 9:15 and I'm not going to make anyone raise their hands because my dang hand would be raised the whole time through this. I'm guilty as charged, I have sinned when it comes to doing all of this. We hope that the intro that we give will buy us enough credibility that the audience either listening to the podcast or reading about us in the booklet for this stage intro. We hope that the control bias enough credibility that the audience leans back and says, Oh, he is more important than me. So I should shut up and listen. Unknown Speaker 9:44 By the way, if we can learn anything from the Gen Z's out there is that we don't need to listen to authority just because their authority, they gotta earn that right. Okay, that's a little nod to my gen z's. I love my gen z's. I think we got a couple in here today. So hoping that the intro will buy us enough credibility that they say oh, I should Unknown Speaker 10:00 Listen, because he wants to read a book by Steve Jobs, who cares? Nobody cares. What are you here to help me with today? We think that Unknown Speaker 10:08 we mess up by putting our insights edge I call your insights edge, that moment where you're on the edge of like really being excited learning about something, what you're here to share, that's your insights edge, we put it into bondage, because we dress it up for church. It's like when Bart Simpson goes to church on that TV show The Simpsons, and he comes over his hair and puts on a suit and he loses all of the things that make him him. That's what happens so much to our creativity, our individuality and the specific edge we have and the insight when we start to wrap it up and make it sound professional enough, professional enough to who you know, like, Unknown Speaker 10:45 you know who I'm talking about, we don't need to be professional for them. And then finally, the last one is putting out the buffet hoping that something sticks we put in everything we've ever done being like someone somewhere will relate to this and find it important. So let me put in every acronym, every certification, every school, every stage of ever shared, every person I've ever shake hands with hoping something will do. I am guilty of this, you're probably not guilty of all of them. I am, but maybe you've done one or two over the days, we're gonna help you break that habit. That's just a little snippet of our course magnetic intro and bio, where it walks you through exactly things like this video, but also how to craft your intro, we've got the intro formula, there's the madlib formula where you just fill in the blank, and then also how to write a media bio, the bio that goes along with this so that you really do build the case for what you're there to do and create all this SEO worthy power for being all over the internet on podcasts and event, event placements event websites. So if you're interested in learning more about this course and hearing the rest of it beyond this video, this is just one of like 14 small modules, then go over to Mike ganino.com/intro. And that will get you access, give you all the information so you can get access to the course and and even possibly work with us a little bit so you can get feedback on your intro and bio. That's it for this episode. We'll see you next time. Unknown Speaker 12:10 This episode has ended but your journey doesn't have to head on over to Mike De nino.com. access all the resources and links that Mike and his guests share today and keep on crafting your own story. That's Mike De nino.com. Your audience is waiting, isn't it time to find your hashtag mic drop moment.
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In this episode, I chat with Adela Hussain -- the creator of Pitch to Press, PR Hero School, and The Spotlight Salon about how speakers and entrepreneurs can get more media by learning how to create an irresistible pitch.
Adela’s the founder of Starts Ups & Co and is a master at helping you pitch your business to people that don’t know you…yet.
Adela discovered she had a talent for pitching when she first started doing PR for her own fashion tech start up and was featured in 14 publications in 12 months, including the Harvard Business Review without pitching!
Known for her high energy and laser-sharp thinking, Adela she spent 20 years as a management consultant and did cool stuff like help British Airways acquire an airline, be a on a new board for Sky and boss men around in India for tech tool launches.
Her Pitch to Press programme and PR Hero School have helped hundreds of founders fall in love with PR and master their media pitching to sky rocket their sales.
Find out more about Adela
IG: https://www.instagram.com/startupsandco
FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/prhero
Download my free guide 10 steps to get your business in the media on zero budget at https://www.pitchtopress.com/
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