188 - How to tell better stories — with Kindra Hall

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Kindra Hall is a storyteller, acclaimed keynote speaker, and bestselling author of Stories that Stick: How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business. She's here to remind you how important storytelling is, especially for your business. We all recognize the need for connection, now more than ever. And telling stories is an excellent way to connect with people, but being a great storyteller is not easy. Like most important things, great storytelling requires strategy and effort. It's more than simply reporting information. You've got to feel it. By feel, we mean you have to care and communicate emotion in your story. That doesn't mean sharing your deepest, darkest, most private pieces of yourself. It could be fundamental, like feeling frustrated, nervous, or curious. In this episode, Kindra offers tips on what makes for good storytelling and how you can practice telling them. According to her, there are four critical components to storytelling, and you can start using them right now. Whether you give weekly presentations or are working on your very first, Kindra's advice for telling better stories can only help. Sponsored by Athletic Greens - https://athleticgreens.com/futur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your audience likes hearing stories. The DNA within them says,
0:06.3	ooh, you get to hear a story and they are excited about that and you can feel that energy shift. hostility drops and they're just more open you feel that
0:17.4	which then in turn makes you feel more comfortable as a presenter. I'm going to do. I've been tracking you down on social media for I feel like years now and I am so glad I'm so happy that we're
0:56.7	actually here today doing this conversation because I have gone through your first
1:02.0	book I think so many times and I've been quoting it, referencing
1:06.3	it, recommending it to people.
1:08.2	And then I see you going on this journey about writing your follow-up book to it, which is in my hands here,
1:14.3	choose your story, change your life.
1:16.2	And I was just super impressed at how focused you were.
1:20.0	Everywhere you went, you were like writing and you were documenting this so cool.
1:23.5	Yeah, you know, I think as any creative knows that it's a great mystery right
1:30.8	trying to figure out how you can best be your creative self and
1:35.8	what those environments look like and what it means and I think I figured out
1:41.7	what mine is and so when you say it was so focused it really is because I learned that if I do not have a full runway to only focus on that I am zero focused so so it was so for that I think it was a
1:58.1	total of six weeks that is all I did I had no conference calls. I had no podcasts. I had I was responsible to no one even the kids knew like my husband knew like just leave her alone.
2:13.4	And that is how I've learned I write the best.
2:17.0	Mm.
2:18.0	Wow, okay, there's a lot of super impressive things to talk about, and I need to introduce you to our audience so for people who don't
2:24.8	know who you are can you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit of a story?
2:28.0	Yeah, oh no pressure right from the storyteller I got you but I'm Kindra Hall and I also have to say not that I've been tracking you
2:36.3	it down but I will never forget the first day we met and just knowing in an instant what an
2:42.1	incredible person you are and it's been it's been so
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