Telling Stories: Making Business

Wow, Chris, I don’t know where to start. First of all, I just want to say thank you, because the story was about the voices in my head, especially the voice that tells me to stay silent and interestingly enough, you know, the fact that I shared the story with a group of people and yourself, was very powerful in that it gave me a chance to express myself, express that story and actually use my voice and actually verbally speak, talking about the voice that tells me not to speak. So that was quite interesting and it was quite powerful because if you remember I got quite emotional, telling the story and I had some tears and so I found it very powerful, just even telling the story. That was really really amazing and I also found the fact that the listeners, they listened really intently and gave me very very good feedback, each listener from their perspective. The feedback they gave me was very very good, the fact my story was powerful, the fact that it was engaging and the story itself was very powerful about the voice and how it got silenced.

I think what gave me a lot of clarity Chris was the fact that when you said what are you trying to get from your audience or what is it you are trying to convey to your audience, what is it that they need to learn, I had not really thought about that and I hadn’t thought about the fact that my story is going to have an impact on an audience. So, clarifying that for me, it means that there needs to be a structure, so when you write a story or you’re telling a story, there needs to be a structure with the purpose of telling it in the first place to the relevant audience. So that was a big take-away for me actually, so I’d like to say thank you for that.

It was good. I enjoyed it. It’s difficult. I find it difficult talking about myself but I think when you find the right story, you can talk about yourself to quite a good degree. And if it’s a story that you know about yourself that you’ve retold a few times, then it’s particularly good. I enjoyed it. I wasn’t sure how I could use it in a business but since chatting with Chris and the other people on the call, I think I’ve got a forward of how I can use it to promote Hovaloft. Thanks

I have to say, that I wasn’t quite sure of what the format would be. I knew I had a story to tell and you convinced me I had a story to tell. I came and told it. I think the fact that you come out and have the opportunity to tell a story, without people being judgemental but at the same time offering positive critique is exceptionally useful. I think there’s a strong sense of purpose going forward, where we can work together to deliver more stories to help and grow our business.