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Hi, my name is Paul Hensel.

I'm an author, speaker, and co-host of the inspiring influencers show.

Today I'm going to share with you, when you change your story, you change your life.

How embracing my story has helped me, and how stories can help you better connect with your

listeners and build community around your message.

I'm also going to give you tips on how you can develop your own story.

I want to thank Alex San Felipe for having me on to do this pod talk.

Now here's the story that turned my life upside down.

I was working as a supervisor in a sawmill,

and I had to unjam a giant log that got stuck. The logs we were

cutting are called cants. Cants are extremely large and heavy pieces of wood. Now, I made a decision

to crawl into a very tight, confined space to manually free up this cant that was stuck against a large

steel beam.

Now, as soon as this can't was freed, the machine started and I was immediately being crushed alive by 12,000 pounds of wood.

I can hear my body cracking, gurgling, and crunching.

It felt like my head was going to explode. There was so much pressure. I thought to myself,

if this doesn't stop, I'm going to die. I then blacked out. Now, I was not breathing and without

oxygen for 12 minutes. And my coworkers had to perform amazing feats of strength just to rescue me

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