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How to Captivate People With Your Story | ViKA Viktoria

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Unlock the primal power of storytelling with ViKA Viktoria, master storyteller and communications expert.


ViKA shares how cultivating self-awareness through practices like journaling and dance allowed her to break free from inherited narratives and redefine her own brave story - going from unfulfilled ad executive to trailblazing entrepreneur. Discover why "storytelling is as critical to our survival as breathing" and how to wield this ancient technology to find awe, purpose and connection in our modern lives.


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Stories can heal and stories can harm and when you become a conscious storyteller you become aware of the power to interpret events because stories are a snapshot of our emotional evolution.

0:14.0

They're also a tool for emotional regulation.

0:16.9

And once you recognize that you have this kind of superpower inside of you,

0:20.4

it changes everything.

0:22.2

How you relate to yourself, how loving and kind you are. of you're

0:23.0

it changes everything how you relate to yourself how loving and kind you are to yourself

0:25.6

and how loving and kind you are to everyone else.

0:30.0

Hey so have you ever felt like the story you're telling yourself about your life is holding you back?

0:36.0

Maybe it's a narrative about your capabilities, your relationships, or the possibilities of your future that really don't quite align with who you really are.

0:45.7

We all have these inner narratives, running on repeat, shaping our perception of reality, but

0:50.9

what if we could rewrite those limiting stories and craft brave new ones that unlock our full potential and let the world know who we really are?

0:59.0

And what if you could tell the story of who you are to others in a way that captivated and drew them in.

1:04.1

That'd be pretty cool, right? Well, that's where we're going with today's guest, Vika Victoria.

1:09.5

Vika is a Ukrainian-American moth-winning storyteller speaker and strategist.

1:14.5

She teaches the transformative power of personal narrative to everyone and anyone who wants to learn

1:20.0

how to tell stories, especially theirs, in a powerful and compelling way.

1:25.0

And Vika's really unique approach dives deep into re-examining the stories that we

1:30.1

tell ourselves in order to reimagine the stories we then share with the world.

1:35.0

In this conversation, she shares her own journey, rising up the corporate ladder, then shedding

1:39.8

the trappings of that corporate grind to reclaim the art of storytelling that had been

1:44.7

imprinted on her soul since childhood. Drawing from her Ukrainian roots and a

1:49.8

lifelong passion for dance, she reveals how storytelling is just this almost

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