The Story Engine Podcast

The week of recording this podcast episode is the three-year anniversary of my podcast, The Story Engine podcast. It has been an amazing journey creating it and I am reflecting on some of the gifts it has provided me over the last few years.  I am excited to share them with you today.  Many of my friends ask how I have benefited or made money from the podcast. I have monetized this podcast in many...

Today on the show we have something a little different.  Usually, on the show, I am the one who is interviewing the expert. I wanted to give you a slightly different perspective and see what it is like when an expert is interviewing me on one of my favorite topics about storytelling.  Today I want to share parts one and two of an expert coffee chat I did with Jane Sagalovich. I have made a similar...

On today's episode, we have Jamie Wollrab. Jamie is an actor and a voice coach. Today we are really going to get into the definition of what he means by voice.  It is not just singing or speaking, but it is mostly a way of being that is really interesting.   I am excited to break down that philosophy with him and to explore the subtle differences between acting and speaking from a stage and where...

On today's episode, we have Adrianna Foster. Adrianna is a motivational singer and business coach helping people find their unique voice and purpose and using that to accelerate their businesses.  Today we are going to explore what it really means to tune into your voice or your truth and how that plays out in a business strategic scenario. I give a couple of examples from my own life on how I hav...

On today's episode, we have TJ Nelson. We have known each other for about 6-7 years and we were both getting into the entrepreneurial scene at that time and just getting started out.  Since we parted from our adventures, we have kept in touch and TJ has become one of the greatest salesmen out there  He was the number one solar salesperson in the nation a few years back and has gone on to create hi...

On today's episode, we have Amanda Jaeger. Amanda is a news anchor in Little Rock, Arkansas, and co-host of a TV show called Eat it Up.  Today we are going to be talking with Amanda about journalism and social media. Amanda is a well-established news anchor and a TikTok influencer. The attention, clout, and momentum from her social media channels are benefitting the news channel and her profession...

Today we are talking about sales.  Shifting my perspective on sales has been one of the biggest transformations in my work.  For many of us, sales do not come naturally and the process can seem intimidating. This challenge of sales becomes even more complex when we are selling our own products and services. Improving your relationship and processes with sales is one of the most powerful ways that...

Today we are talking about one of my favorite things to explore with the clients I am working with. We are talking about mental static.  What is mental static and how does it impact your sales? That is what we are going to be exploring today.  Mental static is one of the biggest sales killers out there when it comes to speaking and storytelling. Today I am going to share five mental static creatin...

On today's episode, we have Kevin Kwan. Kevin is a friend of mine that spoke at my event at the High Ticket Wellness Summit a couple of months back and I have been blown away by the excellent content he is creating.  He is a master on Facebook in particular. He has been an excellent person to get to know, see how he is serving people, and how she is developing people. He is an expert in sales and...

On today's episode, we have Alex Moscow. I am so excited to share this episode with you.  I started working with Alex about a year ago, helping him with his presentations on how to sell more over social media, how to improve your sales over the phone, and how to run great events both in-person and virtually. His processes and systems were phenomenal and very inspiring to me.  Within a few months,...

Today we are going to be talking about a very interesting and a little bit contradictory topic. Can Authenticity Be Manipulative? If there is one story that I hear a lot of from people that I work with or people that are considering working with me, it's that the story of why they can't share a certain story.  We are going to talk about how to turn that around and make sure that we are using our a...

On today's episode, we have Dr. Jeff Spencer. Dr. Jeff is an expert in all things champions. Being a former Olympic athlete himself and now working as a high-performance coach to many executives, top athletes, and top artists.  On this episode, we get to explore a lot of elements of his philosophy around what creating goals for a champion really looks like. There is a section of the interview I ge...

I have another solo episode for you today. I have been loving creating these solo episodes and there is definitely a call for more of them.  I have been doing this podcast for three years now and I can hardly believe that.  There have been a ton of interviews, heard from a ton of experts, and it has just been fun creating my own stuff and sharing my own voice and perspective. Many of these things...

Today we are going to talk about four questions to help you come up with the perfect story. I present and speak on storytelling a lot. The most common question I get is: How do I choose the right story? Tough question.  It can be surprisingly challenging to conjure the right story at the right moment. A lot of us expect the stories to show up perfectly whether or not we have practiced them. Some o...

Today we are going to be talking about differentiating your business. We are specifically going to focus on four counter-intuitive ways to differentiate your business.  Differentiation is something that is repeated business advice and most people understand why it is so valuable.  It is easy to recognize the value of being different and it is easy to know it when you see it, but it can be hard for...

On today's episode, we have Duane Zingale from Marketing Your Movement.  Duane is a master at creating a movement, a bigger vision behind what it is that you do that can get people enrolled in what you are doing on a higher level than ever before.  Today on the podcast we are going to discuss three very simple steps that you can implement quickly and easily to start creating your own movement, mar...

On today's episode, Jane Sagalovich is joining us. Many entrepreneurs and coaches I have met want to create a course, a group coaching program, or more one on one experiences, and most of the time they don't ever try to combine these into one singular program.  What Jane does is help people scale their genius by combining elements of a good course, a good group coaching program, and a one-on-one c...

In this episode, I am coming to you from a new condominium that I have just signed a lease on from the big island of Hawaii.  I have been having adventures on the big island for the last six months and the island has totally caught me.  I am having a really good time here and I am learning how to surf.  There is a lot of deeper stuff happening too.  I feel a lot of movement in my own stories about...

On today's episode, Brian Bogert is joining us. Brian is a performance and business coach that helps people create goals without limits.  These are goals that stretch your identity of who you are and cause you to see things differently, think differently, act differently, and become a totally new version of yourself.  We talk about Brian's journey to becoming a coach and leader who supports people...

On today's episode, Brady Patterson is joining us. Brady is an expert in creating reliable, repeatable, convenient, and powerful systems to build relationships with other entrepreneurs, other companies, and other collaborators and use them to successfully grow businesses.  He is the master at all of the tiny details that go into building a relationship like this and turning it into a successful bu...

On today's episode, Owen Video is joining us from the Video Marketing School. He will be breaking down some incredible storytelling frameworks that he uses on a daily basis to grow his business.  These are the same techniques that he teaches in the Video Marketing School.  We are going to hear about Owen's incredible health journey and how that led to a pivot in his business from working very hard...

On today's episode, Alexandria Agresta is joining us. She is the master of getting on many different kinds of stages from podcasts to online summits to physical and hybrid stages and even the most famous and desirable of all stages, the TedX stages.  This is really a tactical deep dive for getting on more stages.  Alexandria Agresta believes in creating a world where people fully align what they d...

On today's episode, Dr. Justin Moseley is joining us. Dr. Justin started his career as a chiropractor.  Today we are going to talk about the moment he really realized he wasn't playing as big as he could be, what he did to create and pursue a bigger vision for himself than he ever thought possible, and what came from beyond that.  Creating a big vision like this can be challenging and scary and th...

On today's episode, Dr. Andrea Pennington is joining us. We are going to be learning from her as an expert speaker, expert storyteller, and master of self-love. She has had an incredibly prolific career spanning many different industries.  We are going to hear from her today on how she had the courage to step into a new future vision of her life going from working very hard in the television indus...

On today's episode, Mina Shah is joining us. Mina is an incredible entrepreneur that has been working with women for many years and creating huge impacts in their lives.  Today we are going to hear her story of how she really had to tap into her intuition to create a life beyond what she thought was possible.  She was living a good life, being very successful as a speaker with Tony Robbins, and st...