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How do you tell a great brand story? Step one: Start with a storyteller's posture. 

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It’s a trend I’ve noticed over the last 3 years.  Whether I’m talking with independent financial advisors who rely on third-party custodians like Raymond James, Stifel, Fidelity, or Schwab, I run into something I’ve come to call the Big Heart, Small Story Problem.  Almost always, these financial advisors are highly relational and extremely mission driven.  […]

Financial advisors: Stop hiding your brand story behind your brokerage firm

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LISTEN IN ON APPLE | SPOTIFY | AMAZON MUSIC Either/or is a choice for a narrow range of categories, and the rest of life generally fits into the wild, tangly box of both/and. You can chase your theater dreams AND be a story coach. You can keep your foot in the corporate world AND build your consulting business. You can […]

Episode 20: Reach more people with tiny stories (solocast with Lindsay Hotmire)

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Podcast

You’ve felt the burn of your heart pounding in your chest, racing to marathon-level speeds as you wonder if you’re going to be able to show up with the right words to convince the right client to buy the right package so you can build the right business.  You’ve gone through all the story-finding bootcamps, […]

Here’s why your sales copy keeps missing the mark

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Long before I was born, author Earnest Hemingway coined a philosophy on writing called The Iceberg Theory.  The idea behind his theory is that as a writer, you should know so much about your idea that you’ll actually need to use FEWER words to engage the reader.  He explains it here:  “If a writer of […]

Why your brand story needs a worldview (and how to find it)

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