The Penny Drop

This week on The Penny Drop, Penny Terry recounts an early morning announcement and what it taught her about the importance of good starts. If you'd like to chat with Penny about how she could work with you or your organisation you can book a spot here: https://calendly.com/thepennydrop/30min You can email Penny at  penny@pennyterry.com Want more? No wonder! Head over to www.pennyterry.com  to fin...

This week on the Penny Drop, Penny Terry had some thoughts (out loud) while trying to create a mock-up book cover for a book she's working on. She's wondering if we're trading 'easy' for 'interesting' and if so, what's the cost of that? Penny's 3hr Storytelling Masterclass - 15th March 2023 - online - tix and info here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/489150270627   If you'd like to chat with Penn...

This week on The Penny Drop Penny recalls one of her top five talkback segments from her days as a radio presenter with the ABC. She unpacks one of the reasons why people couldn't help but call in and contribute to the conversations and reckons this can be a useful way to get inside people's heads no matter where you are.  (Speaking of conversations, if you like to chat with Penny about how she co...

This week on the Penny Drop, Penny takes you on a tour of her home but she can't stop looking out the windows as she wanders around. Turns out, we can learn a lot about how to ask good questions by looking out windows. Yep, really. (Speaking of questions, if you have a question about how you or your organisation could work with Penny, she'd love a chat! Book a spot here: https://calendly.com/thepe...

Penny's back after a Summer break that's her with more questions than answers... which she reckons this is the best thing that can happen to any of us! In this episode of the Penny Drop, Penny asks YOU a big question that she thinks will lead to better answers.  (Speaking of questions, if you have a question about how you or your organisation could work with Penny, she'd love a chat! Book a spot h...

This week on The Penny Drop, Penny Terry re-lives an awkward conversation with her manager and chats about what she learned about authenticity from a little green weatherboard house.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, things get a bit gory as Penny explains a recent (quite ridiculous) injury and what she learned from the conversations at the Doctor's surgery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Penny's drive to work this morning was a little bit different, which got her thinking about a key point in our conversations where things become much clearer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Penny moves onto the second step of her six-step conversation framework. Somehow she links it to a recent conversation with her husband, farm equipment and a Christmas list...  SHOW NOTES:  Interested in Penny's Get Podcasting Program? It's a 6-month course for Experts and Through Leaders to help them plan, present, publish and promote a podcast. Send Penny an email to book in a chat  pe...

This week Penny goes off-script and even starts commentating her own podcast! She's got something exciting to tell (sell) you and uses it to demonstrate how metaphor stories work. _________ SHOW NOTES: If you're interested in finding out more about Get Podcasting, write Penny an email with Penny Drop Get Podcasting in the subject line and book in a quick chat. Send your email to penny@pennyterry.c...

In this week's episode of The Penny Drop, Penny recalls an 'on air' fail she had as a radio presenter and what it taught her about getting and maintaining attention. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of The Penny Drop Penny recalls a problematic yet interesting incident from many years ago that comes with a lesson on how to get our audience to 'tune in'. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Penny's been reminded of something that she recorded at this time last year and dragged it out of the archives - and the message still holds both personally for Penny and professionally for storytellers - start with the end in mind. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode of The Penny Drop, Penny puts one of her clients to the test! You get to meet Alice who very succinctly describes a useful technique to make sure your stories always have a point (so you can feel confident that you won't end up waffling).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode, Penny takes us on a walk around her garden, via an excavator! She unpacks a simple way to craft stories to make sure they seem manageable, are less messy and more memorable.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Penny hit record while listening to another podcast! She was listening to an episode of The Imperfects she heard a great example of something we often struggle with when we are trying to make an important point. You can listen to The Imperfects episode here: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-imperfects/id1476501557?i=1000561476048 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/...

Penny thinks she may have manifested this week's story! After recording the last Penny Drop episode she dropped in to see a friend who put empathy into action. It was the perfect display of how we can be empathetic storytellers and have more powerful conversations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Penny's back - and of all things - is banging on about Pictionary! After playing a game of Pictionary at the beach Penny realised that while like to think that we DO think about our audience when we communicate,  she's found that most of her clients find it harder than they realised thanks to very annoying cognitive bias. Here's a quick link to an Empathy Map originally created by Dave Grey founde...

In this week's episode of The Penny Drop, Penny is recording from the airport as she notices something that most of us do, every day in our own jobs, without realising. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Penny is trying something new as she records the Penny Drop this week. She's not sure if it's working yet, but she is sure that it demonstrates a quick way to create a storytelling habit. I wouldn't say it's rocket science but it is a nice reminder!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the Penny Drop this week Penny recalls a storytelling lesson she learned while buying a dress for a friends wedding.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're jut too busy, right? Yep, we get it. In Episode 7 of the Penny Drop you'll start to work out how you can make finding, crafting and curating your stories something that you'll actually do! It's time to start thinking about ways to make collecting your stories easy, fun and incidental to your day-to-day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ok, so brace yourselves for a massive metaphor. In episode six of The Penny Drop, Penny draws from her childhood to explain how to set up your story system for success. If you've tried collecting stories before, I reckon you'll be able to read further and further and further into this metaphor than most. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you looked up at the job titles in the world, you'd never find this one! In Episode Five of The Penny Drop, Penny explains what she does for a job using a really simple technique that will help you talk about what you do, in a way that will make others care. Liking The Penny Drop? Awesome, we'd love you to leave a review, a star rating or just share the link with someone you think would find it...

In Episode four of the Penny Drop, Penny deconstructs one of her seven-year-old son's most precious non-tech storage devices to reveal why we could all use one, to keep our stories safe. Liking The Penny Drop? Awesome, we'd love you to leave a review, a star rating or just share the link with someone you think would find it valuable. If you'd like to get in touch with Penny directly - send an emai...