Hello Unleashes!
Welcome to another episode of season 9 Unleash Your Focus.This season, season 9 specifically is about the experts. What makes them the expert in their field? What is that niche or that expertise that they have that they can share with you? But most importantly, what are they sharing with you in this upcoming season and currently this episode that you can implement in your business to help you in your business.
Now, today, I have a very, very special guest. His name is Norman, and he is based in Seattle.
Norman is a storyteller, and he is also a presentation coach, an award-winning speaker of theatre and film actor. And he's also an author of a book called The story powered speaker: how to own the stage and enchant your audience.
I'm very excited for Norman to be on our podcast today. He is very passionate about helping purpose driven entrepreneurs and organisations communicate the story and message more effectively, so that you can connect with the audience on an emotional level.
05:33 What do you think is something that hooks people into listening to a story?
11:29 Yeah, so true. So this podcast is about also inspiring people to become entrepreneurs, or when you are stuck in your business and moving forward, what is the type of advice that you can give somebody if they feel like they are stuck? What advice can you give somebody?
16:22 Mastermind groups are a great way to just brainstorm and talk with people talk it out. So you say you brain dump in the mornings? Is that something that you do every time every morning? Or is that only something that you do when you struggle?
22:48 That would be in the fine-tuning stage. Basically, I try to keep it simple. So actually, in the heroes, Joseph Campbell's hero's journey, there are 12 steps there, right. So I tried to keep it a little simpler than that because that can get intimidating. So three is a magic number.
31:17 Great tip. And it's something that I do myself as well, and an accurate story inventory, but exactly the same concept. And another tip that I can add to Norman's one for the audience is that if you really feel like I had enough stories to tell my life is boring. Go through photo albums. Like that's what I've done. I go through photo albums, my school years, and my childhood years, and it's amazing how things trigger you when you just see photos of your life.
32:27 Yeah, that's right. That's right. And you don't need to have climbed Mount Everest to tell great stories people are interested in big stories, but really little stories, too like just everyday stories.