Kate Tellers on The Power and Skill of Storytelling
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week I was excited to welcome Kate Tellers to the show to help us understand the power, purpose, and practicality of effective storytelling. Kate is the Director of Mothworks at the Moth, a live storytelling podcast that features everyday people sharing powerful, humorous, and insightful stories about their lives and experiences.
In this conversation Kate shares her experiences with both helping to craft stories and why effective and well conceived storytelling is so important in both our professional and personal lives. We discuss how storytelling is not only a key element of empathetic, and impactful communication but also how it can be a key productivity tool for laying out your ideas, visions, and concepts in a way that is both authentic and relatable.
Kate Tellers is the Director of MothWorks at The Moth, a host of their live storytelling series and Webby award-winning podcast, storyteller and director. Since then she’s developed stories with her heroes from her Pittsburgh childhood to the present day, designed storytelling programs with non-profits including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and Ashoka, as well as Facebook, Nike, Google and the U.S. State Department. Her writing has appeared on McSweeney’s and The New Yorker.
Kate’s new book that she co-wrote alongside other storytelling experts is entitled How to Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Story Telling from The Moth
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| 1:06.6 | referral that's LinkedIn.com slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To-Do List. I'm your host Eric Fisher and this is the show where I talk to the |
| 1:35.8 | people behind the productivity. This week I'm excited to share with you a conversation |
| 1:39.8 | I had with Kate Tellers. Kate is the director of Moth Works at the Moth, a live storytelling |
| 1:48.0 | series and podcast. It's a very popular podcast. In fact, it's been around since I think I've known of |
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