The Story Engine Podcast

Today we are going to talk about what salsa can teach you about high-ticket sales. Several times in my life I have taken dancing classes. Partner dancing is not something that comes naturally to me. In fact, it is pretty stressful and awkward.  With a partner, I am pretty stiff when I am dancing but I am the lead so I have to indicate when we are starting and where we are going. It is a lot of res...

Today we are going to be answering a very important question. Should we create a new keynote speech or signature talk? There are certain crossroads at every entrepreneur's, coach's, and visionary's journey where this may or may not be necessary. It takes a lot of energy to create a new presentation to spill your thoughts down to something you can use reliably in about 30-45 minutes over and over a...

Today I am going to tell you how I helped a client of mine create 17 YouTube videos in one day. So what does it take to create over four months of content in a single day and how would it feel knowing that is all scheduled out and planned for you? Sure sounds nice, right? Where would you even start? For most, the idea of sitting in front of a camera for a few hours to create, talk, and share your...

Today on the show we have George Bryant. This has been one of my favorite interviews of the last couple of months. George is an excellent guest. He has a ton of experience being an influencer in the health space for a long time and he has grown many different six and seven-figure companies and simultaneously is a world-class coach and somehow does this all in just a few hours a day to make plenty...

We are going to be going over some hard truths today. It may not feel good to hear but once you know about them you will be better off. We are going to be talking about ways you are leaving money on the table, blindspots in your marketing, sales, and communication that are keeping you from getting as good of results as you could.  The problem of having your best, most useful stories hidden in plai...

Today on the show we are going to be talking about one of my favorite topics - origin stories but there is a twist. We are going to be talking about why your origin story is not enough. Not enough to succeed, not enough to carry your message to the goals you want to achieve. An origin story is usually 3-10 minutes long and is used to introduce yourself to the audience, create a connection and trus...

Today on the show we are going to be talking about how to use storytelling to predict the future. It is a brand new year at the recording of this episode and I am hearing lots of people trashing New Year's resolutions. They talk about them like New Year's resolutions are the mean teacher that would scold them in class when they were a bad kid. I think people hate New Year's resolutions because 99%...

Today on the show we have Jessica Dennehy. Jessica is a coach that helps women leaders tap into their selfishness to take better care of themselves to lift themselves up so that through this they can serve their business and family better and show up as the best version of themselves. In our conversation, we dive into selfishness in the life of an entrepreneur, leader, and parent and why it is an...

Today on the show we have Scarlett Stanhope. Scarlett is a coach who blends highly practical and tactical business strategy with some mystical hippy abundance mindset and coaching work and blends both of them together to help people not only create goals that they can achieve, and that will advance them in their life but goals that get them excited to be awake every day.  Since 2023 is right aroun...

Today on the show we have Ryan Conway. Ryan is the founder of the Digital Tradesman and he helps build scalable, repeatable, and predictable sales systems and websites for contractors. Contractors are in a unique position in the world where they are typically not very technically savvy and don't exactly know what they need in terms of good digital marketing systems and so they spend a lot of time...

Today on the show we have Big Marv. Big Marv values freeing up the time of entrepreneurs, coaches, and business owners by creating what he calls "The Dual Funnel System." "The Dual Funnel System is a series of automations, sequences, and SOPs that make doing a lot of what the hard work is of keeping a business up and going something smooth, effortless, and logical. The sales process, fulfillment,...

Today on the show we have Daniella Cotreau. Daniella has been working for over 20 years in helping experts, leaders, and visionaries get in touch with the inner wisdom of their hearts and navigate some of life's most challenging decisions by tapping into their own unique knowledge and intuition.  But accessing this intuition and using it to its fullest often leads us outside of our comfort zones,...

Today I have something a little bit different for you. I am going to be talking with Nate Baumgartner, a coach in breath work, mysticism, and using plant medicines to deeper connect with yourself and get better results in your life.  I am going to be walking him through a process I call my story roadmap session.  This is something I do one on one with many of my clients to ask them stories or info...

Today on the show we have Kari Schwear. Kari is an expert in helping coaches, entrepreneurs, and leaders forge new identities that help them overcome past compulsions, addiction, and limiting beliefs and really break through to their ultimate potential. Today we are both going to be talking about some of these "gray area" habits that aren't so bad and aren't a big problem but are holding you back...

I have something a little bit different and really special to share with you today. I am going to be working with Taylor Morgan who is a masculinity, health, transformation, and fitness coach for men.  I am going to be walking him through a story roadmap session. This is a process that I walk many of my private clients and those in my group coaching programs Story Pro to create and inspire new sto...

Today on the show we have Brooks Meadows. Brooks is a friend of mine who is an amazing storyteller and coach who has worked with men and women of many different ages, skills, and professions. He has helped them to connect with better stories within themselves and achieve peak performance in their lives. Today we are going to be talking to Brooks about some of his stories and the value of storytell...

Today on the show we have Eric Patton and we are going to be doing a little bit different and a little bit special.  I am going to be giving you a glimpse into what it is like to work with me in a 1 on 1 setting. These are recorded story roadmap sessions.  I am going to take Eric, who is a coach in human design, a formula of ancient principles that are used to understand yourself on a deeper level...

Today on the show we have Kimberly Kesting and we are going to be doing a little bit different interview style than what I typically do on the show.  I am going to take Kimberly through a process that I call a Story Roadmap Session where I ask my clients and potential clients about their story, who their ideal client is, and I gather enough information to create a story on the recording for this c...

I am just completing a 14-day cleanse diet. What I eat is not usually a topic of the podcast but it was a challenging 14 days and through those challenges, some interesting insights have risen to the surface that I would like to share today on the podcast.  I wasn't doing this to lose weight. I was on a diet to clean out different bacteria and creatures living inside my digestive system. By eating...

I recently returned from my first visit to the famous and infamous Burning Man. It is a big event and festival in the desert. It is something I have been familiar with for a long time but was never fully open to committing to the time of at least seven days out in the desert, not to mention traveling. For years I wrote it off but there is a lot more to it than I thought that creates this unforgett...

Today on the show we have Mike Iskandar. Mike is an educational consultant and he particularly works with middle school-aged children and helps them create emotional resilience.  He gives them a lot of the exercises and tools that I am only just now in these last few years of my life discovering and using to heal some of the wounds, traumas, and baggage that comes from growing up as a kid in middl...

About a year ago I hosted an event called The High Ticket Wellness Summit where I interviewed over 40 experts in health, marketing, sales, and business to help anybody in coaching, business, and transformation create more high ticket clients.  Today I am going to be sharing a gem from this series, an interview with Kevin Kwan. Kevin is an expert in making high ticket sales feel as natural as your...

About a year ago I hosted an event called The High Ticket Wellness Summit which was all designed for helping people in the health and wellness space. Really helping anybody in any kind of coaching, marketing, or high ticket product sales get better results with their client, charge what they are worth, and experience the success in their business that they set out to achieve when they first starte...

About a year ago I hosted a summit with over 40 guest speakers called The High Ticket Wellness Summit. It was a treasure trove of great information, particularly for health and wellness experts but this is great for anybody in the coaching or entrepreneurship space. I am sharing a few of the gems from that event. Today I am excited to share with you one of my favorite colleagues in the world of ma...

Last year I hosted a summit with over 40 guest speakers called The High Ticket Wellness Summit. It was an incredible event with a ton of wisdom in the many interviews that I shared there. It has been a while since any of these interviews have been shared but they are so good that I wanted to dedicate this podcast episode to sharing the voices of one of the best interviews I had at that event.  Tod...