Title TBD: Tell Me a Story

It’s a privilege to have someone share their story with you. An honor to be present with someone offering vulnerability. A blessing for them to share a hard-earned lesson learned with you. That’s exactly what Adolfo offers with his story about growing up in gangs, losing his father at a young age and how it fractured his family, being the first of his family to attend and graduate college and how...

“You better check yo' self before you wreck yo' self.” - Ice Cube - Much like Ice Cube, we’re big fans of self awareness and personal development. In this episode of Tell Me a Story , Kristin shares a unique path to self awareness and personal discovery that you might have overlooked - astrology. Kristin’s experience with astrology stemmed from a difficult time in her life when she was searching f...

It’s a turn-of-the-century love story started in a Yahoo chat room. There’s drama, intrigue, interstate travel, car crashes, wicker furniture, Beatles records and more. In this episode of Tell Me a Story , Daniel recounts growing up with a highly-involved mother, falling in love with a girl on the internet, moving away to be with that girl and flipping his life upside down, both metaphorically and...

To have time with a grandmother, and certainly a great-grandmother, can be a tremendous blessing. Keiona was able to have 21 important, formative years with her great-grandmother. In this episode of Tell Me a Story , Keiona reflects back on the tribute she gave following her great-grandmother’s passing in 2011. She was known by many names, but it’s clear Sister Viola left an imprint on her communi...

Rebecca is an accomplished professional communicator and public speaker. Long-time toastmaster. Frequent conference presenter. Multilingual. She knows how to put words together, so to speak. There was one stage she hadn’t appeared on yet. After gifting a comedy workshop to a coworker, Rebecca was inspired to try it out for herself. The workshop was six weeks, three hours every Sunday and included...

When Laniece mentioned she wrote a book as a gift for her husband on his 40th birthday, my ears perked up and I had to learn more. In this episode of Tell Me a Story , Laniece talks about the inspiration, the process and the outcome of writing a book of 40 affirmations (plus extras) for her husband… …in the middle of COVID… …while pregnant with their second child. Her husband had a unique childhoo...

I introduced Nigel in the first episode of Tell Me a Story - I hope you listened to it and enjoyed his laughter as much as I do. Because here he is again. In this special bonus episode, Nigel shares a story that can only happen in Tokyo while riding a go kart and dressed as villainous Wario with the gas pedal mashed all the way down. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with...

For Brittany, her dad’s stories are peculiar and sometimes unbelievable – in a “you didn’t really get away with that, did you?” way. So much so, she’s been working on a book about him and his life before he had kids. But for our purposes today, she’s sharing a story of when he definitely had kids, And a van And a freewheeling spirit. It was the ‘80s. Have your ever tried to install seatbelts in a...

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This is the start of the Tell Me a Story series. I ask folks to share with me the big and small, but always significant, stories in their lives. In this episode, Nigel shares some details from his trip with friends to Barcelona, Spain, and how unexpected and wonderful things can happen to us when we go somewhere we've never been before. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this w...