979: Building Greater Trust and Connection through Storytelling with Scott Mann

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Retired Green Beret Scott Mann shares battle-tested strategies for motivating people in low-trust, high-stakes environments.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why storytelling is super powerful

2) The key shift that makes stories memorable

3) How to regulate emotions (both yours and others)

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— ABOUT SCOTT —

Lt. Col. Scott Mann is a retired Green Beret with over twenty-two years of Army and Special Operations experience around the world, and a New York Times bestselling author. He has deployed to Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is the CEO of Rooftop Leadership and the founder of a 501c3, The Heroes Journey, committed to helping veterans tell their stories in transition. Scott regularly speaks to and trains corporate leaders, law enforcement, and special operations forces on best practices for going local, storytelling, and making better human connections.

Scott has frequent appearances on Fox News, CNN, and other national platforms as a thought leader on building organizational relationships, restoring trust in our communities, and a range of national security issues. He is also an actor and playwright who has written a play about the war called Last Out—Elegy of a Green Beret on Amazon Prime. Scott lives in Florida with his wife Monty where they are deepening their skills on empty nesting.

• Book: Nobody Is Coming to Save You: A Green Beret's Guide to Getting Big Sh*t Done

• Website: ScottMann.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life by Stuart Diamond

• Book: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz

• Previous episode: 311: Communication Secrets from FBI Kidnapping Negotiator Chris Voss

• Book: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

• Book: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond

• Play: “Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret”

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's personal is universal, stories of struggle, stories of overcoming pivotal moments,
0:10.7	stories of lessons learned. This is what people actually crave.
0:15.6	When you lead with story in how you engage people, it makes you more relatable to their pain and
0:21.8	it makes you more relevant to their goals and
0:24.0	that's actually what people follow way more than they follow experience or title or
0:29.8	the money we follow people who are relatable and relevant and storytelling by
0:34.5	definition makes you that. Story is a sense-making tool. We start to make sense of
0:40.1	our lived experience, the tough parts in the safety of somebody else's narrative.
0:46.4	And that's where the love and the courage and the relatability comes in because now you're
0:50.5	holding space so somebody else can make sense of their life in the safety of your story.
0:59.0	That's Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann, a retired Green Bare with over 22 years of Army and Special Operations
1:04.8	experience. He's also a New York Times best-selling author and the CEO of Rooftop Leadership,
1:09.2	providing thought leadership on trust and other important skills.
1:12.6	So you'll learn one, why storytelling is super powerful.
1:15.6	Two, the key shift that makes stories memorable.
1:18.5	And three, how to regulate emotions, both yours and others.
1:22.7	I'm Pete McKitis.
1:23.8	This is how to be awesome at your job.
1:25.4	And now, here's Scott.
1:27.2	Scott, welcome.
1:31.8	Hey, thanks for having me pee.
1:33.0	Well, I am excited to hear your wisdom,
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