457: How to Persuade through Compelling Stories with DonorSee’s Gret Glyer
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 28 June 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Gret Glyer discusses how you can increase your persuasion power by telling compelling stories.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Why stories succeed where statistics fail.
2) What makes a story compelling.
3) How storytelling can earn you a promotion.
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— ABOUT GRET —
Gret Glyer has helped raise over a million dollars through storytelling. He is the CEO of DonorSee, the platform that shows you that your money is helping real people in need with personalized video updates. From 2013 to 2016, Glyer lived with the world’s poorest people in Malawi, Africa where he built more than 150 houses for the homeless and crowdfunded $100,000 to build a girls’ school in rural Malawi. Glyer has been featured in USA Today, National Review, HuffPo, Acton Institute and is a TEDx Speaker. He is currently fundraising for his first ever book on Kickstarter called, If The Poor Were Next Door.
• Gret’s Organization: DonorSee
• Gret’s Kickstarter: “If The Poor Were Next Door”
• Gret’s TEDx talk: How to Wake Up Tomorrow Morning Like a Billionaire
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Person: Scott Harrison
• TV Show: Lost
• TV Show: Game of Thrones
• TV Show: Breaking Bad
• Movie: A Quiet Place
• Movie: Les Miserables
• Book: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• Previous episode: Episode 403: Hollywood Secrets for Effective Business Storytelling with Matthew Luhn
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 457 with Gret Glyer. |
| 0:23.5 | Gret has a wealth of insight |
| 0:25.5 | when it comes to storytelling |
| 0:27.0 | and he's gonna share how to be more persuasive |
| 0:29.2 | with that tool. |
| 0:30.4 | If you'll learn one, why story succeed |
| 0:32.4 | where statistics fail, two to what makes a story |
| 0:34.9 | compelling and three how storytelling can earn you a promotion so if you want to take a |
| 0:39.4 | look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adams we've referenced |
| 0:42.2 | it's on over at awesome at your job. |
| 0:44.0 | Com slash F four five seven. |
| 0:45.0 | There's Gret's story. |
| 0:47.0 | Gret Glyer has helped raise over a million dollars through storytelling. |
| 0:50.0 | He's the CEO of Doner C, the platform that shows you where your money is going to help real people |
| 0:55.8 | in need with personalized video updates. |
| 0:58.4 | From 2013 to 2016, Glyer lived among the world's poorest people in Malawi, Africa, where he built more than 150 |
| 1:05.4 | houses for the homeless and crowdfunded $100,000 to build a girls school in rural Malawi. |
| 1:11.2 | Glyer has been featured in USA Today, National Review, Huffpo, Actin Institute, and is a TEDx speaker. |
| 1:16.6 | He's currently fundraising for his first ever book on Kickstarter called If the Poor were next door. |
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