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EPISODE SUMMARY Rachel Eubanks is a copywriter and the founder of Inspire to Engage, a company helping businesses serve customers well through their written content. In this episode of Storyhouse, Rachel shares how she built her business during her sons’ nap-time hours and shows us how she still uses some of those early boundaries and […]
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LISTEN IN ON APPLE | SPOTIFY | AMAZON MUSIC EPISODE SUMMARY: Jason Rhoads isn’t the type of leadership coach who will sell you fluff or help you chase the treasures of the world. He’s going to help you build a life that aligns to who you are and who you want to become. Leading with his mind-shifting concept of Eleutheria, […]
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LISTEN IN ON APPLE | SPOTIFY | AMAZON MUSIC Andrea Butcher has spent more than 20 years as a business leader, executive coach, and advocate in the talent development and the human resources space. She leads organizations and leaders from the big picture to execution with a proven track record of growing and strengthening organizations. Andrea has an inherent ability […]
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LISTEN IN ON APPLE | SPOTIFY | AMAZON MUSIC Gratitude Guru Chris Schembra shares how he used the tipping point in his life as a force for good. Today, he shares his evidence-based framework of gratitude with leaders around the globe, and he’s teaching businesses, organizations, and humans everywhere how to rewrite their stories with the simple (yet profound) tool […]
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EPISODE SUMMARY: In this solocast, Lindsay Hotmire shares why all marketers do indeed need to be storytellers. She shares what story is and exposes what story is NOT and explains why marketers might feel a little fatigued with pressure to jump on the storytelling bandwagon. EPISODE NOTES: Why does the storytelling bandwagon exist? What do […]
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LISTEN IN ON APPLE | SPOTIFY | AMAZON MUSIC EPISODE SUMMARY: Mari Geasair isn’t a stranger to the hard-times of career success. But when life handed her a career-shattering health diagnosis, she sought out the deeper meaning within that diagnosis and made it her mission. How do you pivot successfully when real-life obstacles make it feel so hard? Mari holds […]
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LISTEN IN ON APPLE | SPOTIFY | AMAZON MUSIC EPISODE SUMMARY Sales Maven Nikki Rausch brings her 25+ years of sales experience to the Storyhouse podcast, sharing some of the same approaches that led to her shattering sales records in her industry and receiving multiple “top producer” awards along the way. Nikki’s robust Sales Maven Society ignites game-changing outcomes for […]
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LISTEN IN ON APPLE | SPOTIFY | AMAZON MUSIC EPISODE SUMMARY: Rain Bennett is an expert storyteller who teaches people how to leverage story to grow their communities, deepen their connections, and maximize their impact in minimal time. In this episode of Storyhouse, Rain shows us how to find our unique story and shares some of the most profound story […]
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“Magical endings are a sham,” I said to my husband. Twelve hours after my daughter graduated from college, she sat on the couch across from me, sharing all sorts of emotions over her final days of college. Her own feelings forced me back in time, vis-a-vis my own goodbyes. High school graduation. 1995. College four years later. […]
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I remind myself not to speed. Tillotson Avenue has evolved into a bit of a power path for the university police and the state highway patrol. Digital speed limit signs flash when you’re driving too fast, and ominous, radar-equipped SUVs conspicuously tuck themselves into alleys and driveways. The courageously feckless disregard the warnings and speed […]
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He lays his head on the pillow beside me and I make a silent mental note: Keep an early bedtime if you want to reserve an hour of magical conversation with your kids. I throw my book on the floor and stare at him as he screams back at the invisible Frank Sinatra who sings […]
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It’s a weird phenomenon, really >> this fact that for so many of us, drawing the throughline between our stories and our brands can feel. . . grueling impossible frustrating tiring hopeless pointless [fill in the blank]. I’m sure there’s some super smart psychological explanation for all of this H.A.R.D., too, but brass tacks, real […]
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Imagine with me for a hot second that the moment you took your very first breath and cried your first hello to the world, the doctor looked at your mom and said, “Congratulations! Here’s the minute-by-minute guide on how to raise this child. It’s worked with the last 300 children I’ve delivered, so it’s guaranteed […]
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I don’t know if haunted is the right word, but over the last year or so, I’ve been visited by a memory over and over again, and I can’t seem to let it go. It’s as if it’s showing up, trying to teach me something, but I’m just not connecting the dots. When I was […]
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When I was 11 years old, I moved to a new school in northwest Ohio that was colloquially referred to as The Academy. Their motto was “Excellence is our tradition,” and it wasn’t just a feel good mantra, either. They meant it. For most kids at The Academy, any grade below an A- induced the […]
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A few weeks ago, I permanently closed my business Instagram account. It was a decision I had been mulling over for months, but like a kid who can never escape the social pressures of junior high, I kept tuning in, kept playing the social capital game, kept trying to fit in to the Millennial-powered platform, […]
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In 1910, Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov changed the way films would forever be edited. He had a hunch that if you just zeroed in on an actor’s face, a whole range of emotions could be communicated. And his theory blew the lid on the whole bag of audience manipulation tricks. Using the EXACT SAME editing […]
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We are all stepping into story with a very particular paradigm. We each have a worldview that shapes how we see and how we tell stories, and that worldview shapes the TRUTH we emerge with.
And when you don’t know what your paradigm is, when you’ve not done the work of discovering the pieces of your own worldview, then story loses its power – over you + over everyone else in your orbit.
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