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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Nikki Groom: Why Everyone Has a Story Worth Telling

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What makes a story worth telling? According to Nikki Groom, all it takes is being transparent and “owning your story.” Whether that’s from a personal perspective or a business perspective, sharing your story is important and helps move your cause forward. And according to her, everyone has a story worth telling no matter how many people it may reach.


Nikki Groom is a digital marketer, brand strategist, and content marketing expert for business leaders and entrepreneurs who want to build a successful business while making the world a better place. She is the host of Movement Makers, a podcast featuring in-depth conversations and unfiltered stories from business leaders and change agents who are making a difference on the planet, and founder of The 100 Stories Worth Telling Project. You can follow her on Twitter @nikkigroom

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0:00.0

The best stories that I wrote, or I should say probably an early teen because I read a story that I wrote when I was a kid recently, my mom found it and it was really embarrassing.

0:12.0

So let's say when my skills

0:13.6

developed a bit in my teens the best stories that I wrote were the stories

0:18.8

that pulled directly from my own experience. So say I had been sat in a room, you know, I could describe the exact

0:26.8

situation and the emotions and the feelings and the smells in that moment and that's what really would bring a story to life.

0:35.0

And so as I began to embark on this career as a copywriter, client after client would come

0:41.2

to me and I would be able to hold space for them and they would just open up to me.

0:47.0

And I know that you were experiences all the time with your podcast guests.

0:50.0

But it was just incredible, like, wow, they're really opening up they're really telling me

0:55.1

everything that they've been through everything that led them to this moment and

0:58.1

it was those stories that I realize other people so needed to hear it was those stories that enabled them to be really authentic and really honest about who they were.

1:10.0

And let's face it, if you have any kind of online business or you're expecting

1:14.4

someone to do business with you when you've never actually met. Like they need to

1:18.2

get that sense of you, they need to get a sense of like, well, why do you care?

1:22.8

Like, where do you come from?

1:23.9

What's your deal?

1:24.8

Like, so, yeah, so I think it's a really obvious thing to say,

1:30.3

but yeah, just really being completely transparent.

1:33.2

I even think about the stories that I share,

1:35.3

and I always say, oh, you know, I'm an open book.

1:38.2

But even with me, I think that there's another level deeper

1:41.5

that I could go in terms of really opening up and I think that the more

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