Find Your Best Stories Using the Story Inventory Guide
Finding your best stories is the key to speaking with less anxiety & greater success
Why you need this guide
Finding your best stories and practicing them is the key to speaking with with less anxiety and greater effectiveness.
I've created a simple worksheet for you to identify engaging stories you can easily tell.
Here's why you need it.
You'll be much more confident in a speaking situation if you have a few great stories ready to tell that you've tested & you know are winners with an audience.
And the easiest way to find your best stories is to develop an inventory of ALL your personal stories and then test them out in a friendly environment, so you can see which stories most resonate with others.
Taking inventory of all your stories may sound daunting, but it's easier than you think.
That's why I created a story inventory guide to streamline the process and make it painless.
The guide prompts you in all the right ways to develop an inventory of your life experiences that will engage an audience.
I used this basic process when I wrote my 5-star business book, 7 Rules You Were Born to Break.
Recording my life stories was hands down the best career investment I've ever made. It's served as the blueprint that's driven most of my speaking work.
If you take the time to do a story inventory, you're going to feel 100% more confident about speaking:
live on stage
in a company meeting
for a sales presentation
on a video call
in an interview
on a panel
on a podcast
or in any situation that requires public speaking.
You can get the worksheet for free here at Pivot to the Podium. Just become a FREE subscriber and a link to the guide will arrive in your welcome email.
It's all yours.
Having great stories to tell in a public setting is like holding a bunch of aces while you're playing poker.
While everyone else is feeling nervous, you can't wait to show your cards.
Imagine the relief of feeling that confident about public speaking.
Once you’ve downloaded the Inventory Guide, come back here for instructions on how to use it.
How to use the Story Inventory Guide
It’s a Google sheet that’s easy to use.
Simply choose a life circumstance in your past from the vertical column and tell a story about how you responded with one of the characteristics from the top horizontal row.
Start with how you failed, and then how you finally succeeded. For instance, tell how you weren’t being BRAVE with a FRIEND, but how you finally became BRAVE with that friend in another circumstance.
Click on any cell to make notes about any memories of life experiences that come up as you consider each combination of categories from the column and row combination prompts.
Having this document filled in will give you stories to work with in our MasterClasses and community storytelling practice sessions called Podium Day.
This document is also an ideal resource for writers who want to keep a record of story ideas based on their life experiences.
If in your use you have ideas about how to improve the guide, please let me know.