Storytelling Fundamentals for All - 1 Hour Super Course

It's been almost 10 years since I first published Storytelling Fundamentals for All. And not only have I gained a lot of practical experience telling stories for brands and executives, but your feedback has informed a brand new course I can't wait to share with you: The Story-Powered Leader:  How to Inspire, Persuade, and Connect Through Story

This course uses real business use cases for story and helps you level up your skills to become the kind of leader people want to follow. I've used these same lessons to empower CEOs, sales leaders, HR executives, founders, people managers and more - and I know it can help you inspire your team, be more memorable and build engagement around relevant applications. 

To say thank you, this link in this video gives you $100 off my brand-new program that's over a decade in the making (normally $299).

Everything you're currently learning still applies. But this new course is bigger, deeper, and built directly from your feedback - designed to help you lead, persuade, and inspire with story.

What you’ll get:

• 4 hours of video lessons, a 60 page workbook and downloadable resources to condition your storytelling muscles

• A complete storytelling blueprint to turn any idea into a message that inspires action

• Proven playbooks from the world’s top leaders to command attention and win trust

• A repeatable system for uncovering the endless stories hidden in your own life

• Practical tools you can use immediately in pitches, presentations, meetings and more

This isn’t theory. It’s a tactical toolkit you can use immediately to lead with influence, clarity, and confidence.

Learn at your own pace, with downloadable resources and exercises you’ll come back to again and again.

You can continue on with the course whenever you like, but if you want to take this lesson deeper, be sure to download the workbook. It includes links that will help explain more of why you should start with WHY as well as simple thought exercises to get your WHY muscle pumped up!

Some great previous students asked for more tension examples, well now you've got them! This lesson is a bonus to the main 1 hour video course but it's a good one. The understanding of the power of the release and how some great storytellers occasionally choose to NOT RELEASE! Whattt??

The Lubitsch Touch is a delightful aspect of storytelling that is hard to define - filmmaking legend Billy Wilder does it best -- the full link to the Lubitsch Touch video is in your workbook. Also, SHAWN OF THE DEAD (2004) is an amazing film that uses this technique in a fantastic way - highly recommend!

Have a concept but don't know where to begin? Intimidated by the massive story you have to tell? Writers block? This lesson came from a prompt by student Paul from Germany - thank you so much for the great question! I share a tip that I use all the time in my storytelling, using an award-winning podcast I created on a very tight deadline. Link to the full piece is, you guessed it, in your workbook!

This lesson isn't part of the timed "1 HR Supercourse" -- you can skip if you like -- or you can relish in the slow, lovely pace of a normal human being talking at a sort of normal speed. Ah!

Take your knowledge deeper! Download this workbook for helpful links and activities to begin creating tension in your own stories!

What the hell was that taste test all about?? In the previous video, you had a prompt that should get to the heart of identifying your taste - in this video, I'll explain a little more about why it matters and how it can be used in many aspects of your creativity.

This is a big one -- you've got the storytelling tools, you understand your taste, now how do you let it flow out of you? This is a helpful lesson for any storyteller.

Telling you what I told you! This gives a quick recap of the course - what a journey we've been on!

Thank you all so much for taking the class - if you feel you've gotten value from the course, recommending it to others or reviewing this course positively helps SO much. I work really hard to create the best possible course in the shortest amount of time - and I'm constantly adding to this course with new inspirations and from amazing student's input.

I hope I've earned your five star review, if there are suggestions you have for me or course additions you want to suggest, please message me on Udemy or find me on Instagram @m_to_the_liva

Thank you so much -- and happy storytelling!

These are the links I reference in the course. Hope you enjoy!