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Hi guys and welcome to this week's podcast. This week I have a guest with me, who you're going to love.

Some of you might already know her.

So I have with me Nicola J. Rowley. And she helps entrepreneurs and brands in the entertainment and leisure industry to get visible through strategic storytelling. And what this basically

means is she's really good at getting people PR. So welcome to the show,

Nicola. How are you doing? Thank you for having me. It's great to be here. No worries. Let's talk about

why you do this in the first place. Like one of the things that I'm really proud of on this podcast is

it's about storytelling. The whole thing, the whole podcast is people telling their own stories and people often say to me, but I just want to talk about my business. And I say, people aren't interested in your business. They're interested in you as a person and the story and what led you to that business. And that's what people want to hear because that's what's relatable. And that's basically what you teach people to do, isn't it? So let's start with your own story. Why did you get into this in the

first place? Well, rewind all the way back to when I was six and I sat down and the teacher said to me,

go write a story and I started writing this story. It was about a cat, a witch, and the spaceship. And something

happened in that moment. I mean, I still remember exactly how I felt in that moment while I was

writing that story. Number one, I didn't want to stop. Number two, I was just like, oh my gosh,

this is amazing. You can come up with all kinds of things. I always had an active imagination. And what it showed me, at the end of it, it was more than a thousand words long. And when you're six, that's a lot of words. Yeah, and the teacher said to me, oh, my gosh, Nicola. Okay, will you stand up in front of the whole school and read your story?

And I was like, okay.

And I found the second thing that I loved as a result of that, which was presenting.

So it made sense that because I love telling stories and presenting, that I would become a journalist.

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