Moth stories have the power to bring you into a world that is often not your own and leave you wishing that you could live in that world

Just a little bit longer since 1997 the moth has shared more than 50,000 stories with audiences around the world through shows

Workshops and on the moth podcast and the moth radio hour once the curtains have closed the rooms emptied and the voice is quieted

It's the stories still ringing in our ears that whisper over and over

We are all of us more alike than we are different

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Tools and resources needed for more people to embrace the art and craft of personal storytelling in their own lives. Thank you

Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm your host Kate Tellers

What happens when a community comes together? For the past two years

I've been working on a book with my colleagues here at the moth

It's called how to tell a story the essential guide to memorable storytelling from the moth

It's been a lot of late nights epic zoom calls shared Google Docs and edits on edits on edits

But together we did it we wrote our book to share everything that we've learned over 25 years of helping people tell their stories

It's a behind the scenes look at the moth process and this book is for everyone not just for people who want to get on stage

Maybe you want to tell a story in a wedding toast or a uology to open up a presentation at work or be extra charming on a date

This book helps you do that

Stories build community and this week on the podcast. We're going to share a story about what happens when people come together

Hang on after the story to hear more from the authors about how we wrote how to tell a story with five authors and hundreds of

Contributors it's a community and in of itself

Catherine Bendell told this story in 2015 at our very first

Story slam in Sydney where the theme of the night was firsts before you listen if you're not familiar with politics down under

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