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George Dawes Green on The Moth and the art and power of sharing our stories

What makes a powerful storyteller? Those able to tell a story that – whether it’s from a porch, a stage, a bar or an auditorium – can literally change the fabric of the air around you. Those able to, from their first breath, plunge us into a world completely different ...

Ben Jones is back to talk AI, the 4 hour advert and The Third Era of Marketing

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 ...

POWERCUT: Colin Boyd – how to convert attention into action every time

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 ...

Bobette Buster – How to tell your story so the world listens

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 ...

Devin Marks – Decoding the breakaway TED Talk: How to create an idea worth sharing

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 ...

Nancy Duarte – Resonate: The secret structure of great presentations

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 ...