#Telling your story how to

Sometimes you can use your stories and ideas to make something new that resonates with the world.

It helped her to re-connect with her roots. In this 2012 TEDx talk given at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, “ Maka Maoli: Storytelling On a Screen Beyond Stereotypes,” independent filmmaker and hula dancer Lisette Flanary tells how she began creating her award-winning documentary films that celebrate a modern renaissance of the hula and Hawaiian culture. Sometimes telling your story becomes an exploration and an uncovering of a passion that sustains you and connects you to the world. This YouTube video by spoken-word poet Jon Jorgenson is called “ Tell Your Story.” In it, Jorgenson tells what happened when he opened up before a group of interested, well-intentioned Christians. Sometimes telling your story helps to ground you and helps to start your healing. Telling your story is generally agreed to be a good thing.

And then, of course, there are the folks who basically seem to be bent on listening their way into your wallet.

There are folks who collect stories as part of an effort to help preserve a culture or to build a consensual sense of history.

Often they are working on using the anecdotes they collect to help you and fellow sufferers heal.

There are support groups who collect stories to show other people with similar issues and problems that they are not alone.

And there are the other ones as well.Įvery kind of organization – for-profit and not, religious and not, beneficial and (perhaps) not - are listed in the search.

#Telling your story how to

Of course there are all the ones who want to teach you how to tell your story and others who want to tell you why you should, especially if you are a business. Ears are everywhere, waiting to hear, it seems. It seems the world is hungry for stories…your story.

When I Googled “tell your story,” I got 166 million search results.