Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Natalia Nutting shares how you can tell a story to elevate employee engagement: “We love feeling engaged because we feel that we are growing. If you overload people with instructions, they don’t feel engaged because you already told them everything that they have to do, and they have no space for their own growth, for them to figure things out. When it comes to storytelling, if the leader is able to inspire the worker with a little story, then the employee is going to feel like ‘Wow! That is interesting. I actually, I would love to do that.’ You’re not telling them what to do. You’re inspiring them with a story.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this bi-weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Natalia shares her unstoppable story about the teacher who became Natalia’s obstacle and how Natalia utilized this teacher as a challenge to prove that there is a different, engaging way to teach, through storytelling. She tells how as a school storyteller, her students taught her to be vulnerable and see the child in every adult, that children just go for it and learn quickly, and that adults really want to do this too. Natalia shares that she learned to move her body through acting without words which helped her overcome her 4th grade encounter with a teacher. She connects what she learned with what she’s learned from Tony Robbins about state, story, strategy. Natalia asserts that storytelling is essential to effective leadership. She shares her passion to help coaches, keynote speakers to become unstoppable storytellers to inspire their audience and grow their business through her signature event, Captivate, that she launches once every 3 months.

Natalia’s Storytelling Campfire for Coaches Facebook group is the website listed for this episode. To stay connected with Natalia, she recommends connecting with her on Facebook or Instagram. Her Facebook profile web address is https://www.facebook.com/NataliaNuttingStoryteller/. Her Instagram web address: https://www.instagram.com/natalianutting/. She encourages listeners who want to learn from N to email her at [email protected]. 

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