What’s the future of storytelling? Before you try to answer this question, consider these facts. AIl software can now generate video content on demand – in one year’s time you will be able to generate an entire movie based on a few simple lines of text. Short story platforms (Tik ...

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We are coming to the end of another eventful year, another 12 month bundle of opportunities, challenges, plenty of highlights and some definite unforeseen low lights. Hopefully you are about to embark on a well-deserved break. This is exactly what the inside influence team and myself will be doing. So ...

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Why are stories so important? I talk a lot about storytelling on this podcast, but let’s for a second explore the word itself. I like to think about stories as gifts. In telling our stories we take a moment from our own experience, we wrap it up the best way ...

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What makes a breakaway TED Talk? If there’s one phenomenon in the world of storytelling that’s been impossible to ignore over the last decade. It’s this one. The TED Talk. Sometimes inspiring, often igniting, potentially career defining – think Simon Sinek, Brene Brown and Amy Cuddy. The TED Talk has ...

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Hey everyone – the Inside Influence team and I are taking an eight week sabbatical this winter (or summer if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere) to generally reset, recalibrate and refill our creative tanks. For many of us, myself included, that means traveling across the world to see family members ...

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Here is today’s question – what’s your signature story? The story that you know works every time.  That when you tell it in a pitch, presentation or meeting – you can feel the room or individual you’re speaking to start to SHIFT.  A shift from logically thinking about the transformation, ...

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