EFR 627: How to Better Tell Your Story and Why It Matters with Ivana de Maria

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Chase Chewning

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5 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ivana De Maria is a producer, actress, activist, and tech entrepreneur. She is the founder of Storyplace, an empathy-driven digital platform where you can write and read stories from people all around the world.

Tying all of Ivana’s varied passions is the same mission: to promote empathy through the most basic and powerful form of education, storytelling.

Listen in as Ivana breaks down the magic of stories in their power to learn more about not just other human beings, but ourselves as well. It was thanks to her strong belief in the ability of storytelling to unite people of disparate background and beliefs that she was inspired to create the Storyplace platform.

In the latter half of our conversation, Ivana reflects on her experience with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, as well as her very first Ayahuasca ceremony, and how these sessions caused her to wake up to a truer version of herself for the first time in her life.

Asked what story she is currently writing now that she is in her third decade of life, Ivana tells Chase:

“I feel like I was just born again. I realized I had never, in 30 years, asked myself, ‘What do I want?’”

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Key Highlights

If you open yourself up to hearing the stories of everyone around you, you level up your own life. It all starts by slowing down and truly listening to the other person. Going further embrace empathy by consciously separating listening from agreeing.
Ivana shares what inspired her to establish her unique platform built to bring people’s stories together.
Addressing the all-too-common reply of, “I don’t have a story,” Ivana explains that, instead of saying to someone, “Tell me your story,” it’s so much more powerful to say, “Tell me a story about…”
Ivana talks about how her psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy experiences made her feel like she had “woken up from a 29-year-nap”.

Episode resources:

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Watch this on YouTube https://youtu.be/TeQsJYBYIMc
Learn more about StoryPlace https://storyplace.com/en/about

Transcript

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0:00.0	The following is an Operation Podcast Production.
0:03.0	Hi, my name is Ivana de Marilla.
0:05.0	I am an actress producer and the founder of Storyplace.
0:08.0	And on today's episode of Ever Forward Radio, we talk about the power of stories and my experience being
0:15.2	reborn. Learn faster, get smarter. That is the promise over at short form. This
0:22.4	platform I found that I am absolutely in love with
0:24.8	because look you probably heard me talk about the latest and greatest book that I'm
0:28.1	reading I always got my head in a book hell I probably have my head in two or three at one
0:32.2	time but I'm really trying to get better at reading things more efficiently and sometimes that means looking for a condensed version.
0:41.0	Something that is going to get my non-fiction wisdom in my head as fast as possible
0:46.7	in a way that I can keep, that I can retain, and that I can apply. Short form has the world's best guides to a thousand plus non-fiction books.
0:55.0	Learn key points and gain insights you won't find anywhere else.
0:59.0	Understand the world's best ideas.
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1:31.8	Short form, get access to the world's best book
1:34.4	summaries and so much more. Welcome back everyone. This is your number one source for inspiring content from people who are putting a purpose to their passion and truly living a life ever forward.
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