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The Speaker Lab Podcast

5 Strategies for Storytelling From Stage with Mike Pacchione

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

Authors, Public Speakers, Public Speaking, How To, Marketing, Smallbusiness, Coaching, Education, Entrepreneurship, Speaking, Business, Side Gig

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Our guest for episode 263 of The Speaker Lab is Mike Pacchione and he's giving us his 5 strategies for storytelling from stage.

Mike is a speaker and coach who works with a lot of names you'd recognize and he helps his clients tell better stories during their speaking engagements. You can find out more about his back story on his first visit to The Speaker Lab in episode 9.

We will also do a brief breakdown of one of Seth Godin's stories. You can hear that breakdown and more on the 263rd edition of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW

  • What does it mean to prime your audience for a story?
  • How do you build credibility into your stories?
  • When do details help and when do they hinder your story?
  • How many characters in a story is too many?
  • Why stories need tension and a release of that tension.
  • What does it look like to build the right amount of tension?
  • How do you summarize the lesson of your story properly?
  • Can you tell a longer story at the beginning or at the end of your speech?
  • And much, much more!

 

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Transcript

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0:50.9

Hey, what's our friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Good to have you here

0:54.0

with us today.

0:54.7

We appreciate you hanging out with us, whether this is your first time listening or you've listened to all 200 and this point, 63 episodes. We really are glad that you're joining us today. We've got a great guest for you. Today we're going to be hanging out with my friend Mike Pacione, and Mike is a speaker coach. She does a lot of work with a lot of names you would probably recognize.

1:12.3

But today we're going to be digging into the Art of... Mike Pacione, and Mike is a speaker coach. He does a lot of work with a lot of names you

1:11.1

would probably recognize. But today we're going to be digging into the art of storytelling.

1:16.0

So Mike's got five strategies. He's going to give us for telling better stories from stage.

1:20.6

And also we are going to, you may have seen some of the speech breakdowns that we have done on

1:24.7

YouTube. If you haven't, go over to YouTube and search for speech breakdowns or search for the

1:30.4

speaker lab, and you'll be able to find all kinds of stuff from us there.

1:33.4

But we do a bit of that with a story that Seth Godin told.

1:38.1

So we do that a little bit towards the end of the conversation here, so I think you're going

1:42.0

to enjoy that.

1:42.6

But let's get right in this conversation with Mike Pekion. Enjoy. Hey, what's up, French? Grand Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast today. I'm excited to have a repeat guest and one of my good friends. One of my favorite people, not just favorite people in the speaking industry, but just favorite people. My brother, Mike Pekillon, how are you, well? Oh, dude, oh dude i'm doing great great to have you great to have you it's my podcast apparently thank you i

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