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The transcription is promoting a podcast called Speaking and Storytelling Podcast, hosted by Emanuela, a speaking coach and story consultant. The podcast is targeted towards Christ-led entrepreneurs and leaders who want to make an impact in the world. The host offers tips on how to improve speaking skills and storytelling abilities to connect with the audience and achieve business growth. She mentions a free masterclass called "Stories for Impact" where she will discuss the importance of storytelling and provide a proven story outline. The host emphasizes the need to know the audience and tailor stories that connect with their desires and struggles. She also highlights the significance of being passionate about the topic and sharing stories of personal overcoming. The host encourages listeners to join the masterclass for a more in-depth understanding and practical guidance on crafting impactful stories. Let me just say this plainly. If you are not lit up about the thing that you are talking about, nobody else is going to be lit up about it. Do you dream of sharing your message on stages that are still terrified you'll mess it up? Want to crush your online videos so that you can grow your business but you feel super awkward and hate the sound of your voice? Or maybe you simply want to feel more confident in the boardroom without reading your notes and fumbling over your words? Hello, new friend, and welcome to the Speaking and Storytelling Podcast, a show for Christ-led entrepreneurs and leaders who want to make a humongous impact in the world. I'm so glad you're here. I'm your host, Emanuela, a stage actress and playwright turned speaking coach and story consultant. Whether you want to master speaking on stages, online, in the boardroom or the classroom, if you believe you're meant to make an impact in the world and you know your voice and story is the ticket to get you there, then this podcast is for you, my friend. Over the past four years, I've helped dozens of entrepreneurs find and tell their stories, speak with authority and captivate their audience so that they can grow their visibility, further their God-given mission and change the world. If you're ready to do that too, then sit back, grab a pen and paper and enjoy the show. Hello, hello, welcome back to the Speaking and Storytelling Podcast. I am so excited to be here with you today. We are gonna talk about which stories make the most impact on your audience as an entrepreneur. But before I give you those tips, I wanna make sure you know that on Wednesday, August 28th, I'm gonna be hosting one of my signature free masterclasses called Stories for Impact. If you are someone who feels called to share your story in order to further your mission, grow your business and ultimately change the world, then I wanna invite you to this masterclass because a lot of times people don't know how to tell their stories or exactly which stories they should tell or if it even matters. In this masterclass, I'm gonna walk you through why I believe that now is the perfect time for you to be telling your stories, which stories will have the most impact on your audience, where you can start to find those stories and a proven story outline. So you can actually sit down and start writing it out. You are gonna get a great little handout to go along with it, a fun sheet as I like to call it, and you're gonna walk away feeling a lot more confident to get out there and share your voice. The link to join is in the description for the show notes. Go ahead and join us there. I would love to have you. I would love to meet you face to face. That would be super exciting. And if you can't come live, sign up anyways because you will get the replay automatically and you'll have access to that for a couple weeks after the masterclass. All right, my friends. So there are so many stories, I'm sure. If you've lived many years on this planet Earth, you probably have an array of stories, but maybe you think they're not very interesting or maybe you think why would anybody wanna hear about that? Last week, I told you about my one-woman show called My Breast Self, and I wanna say when I was in the process of creating that play, I thought to myself so many times, who is going to want to listen to or watch a play about breastfeeding? But then I realized that this is a very niche topic. Probably women who have breastfed or are hoping to breastfed or who had struggled breastfeeding or people who supported people who breastfed. So it turns out there was quite a lot of people who were interested in that story. And I'm sure there are stories of yours that you think, well, who the heck is gonna wanna hear this? Or is this even worth it? Or maybe this is just too hard for me to put out there. So we're gonna answer a few of those questions today. And I wanna let you know that I'm gonna be covering this in the masterclass, but you're gonna be getting a worksheet to go along with it so that you can actually leave with some concrete things. But if you want, go ahead and grab a pen and paper now and write these things down. The stories that are going to instantly connect with your audience and get them to act are ones that connect deeply to them, connect deeply to what they dream about, what they struggle with, what they desire. It goes into their life, maybe a day in the life. What are their stumbling blocks? This all comes down to knowing who your audience is. If you are an entrepreneur, you probably have heard of finding your ideal client. It's the same idea for speakers and entrepreneurs who want to speak more, maybe online and get more visible. They are your audience. Your potential clients are your audience. You can think of those two things interchangeably. And you really wanna know them inside and out. In my three years of being an online entrepreneur, I have seen that most of the time, especially if you are a coach, not always, not always, but many, many, many times, your dream audience member, the person that you would love to speak to is someone who is experiencing what you have experienced before. So it's very easy to know them. And if it's not, try and think of who has asked me for help? Who would I love to speak to? Who do I know that I could help and make a difference in their lives with my product or service? Who needs this story right now? Okay, so the first thing you wanna do, and I actually have it in a beautiful little Venn diagram when you come to the workshop or the masterclass. So that's kinda how you wanna think about it. You want your perfect story that's gonna make the most impact to have at least two of these three things I'm gonna share with you. The first thing is it has to be about them. It has to be somewhere, illustrate somewhere where they currently are so they can instantly go, oh, me too, right? Oh, I feel that too. The next little circle in your Venn diagram is your passions. You have to be passionate about the story that you're gonna tell. It has to connect to things that light you up because let me just say this plainly. If you are not lit up about the thing that you are talking about, nobody else is going to be lit up about it. That doesn't mean you have to be loud and sing and dance about it like I might, but if you do want to do that, that's totally fine too. But you have to have that fire, that excitement within you. The problem I found in high school and grade school as well was a lot of teachers were teaching things that they were not lit up about and then I wasn't lit up about it and now I don't really know much about that topic. I loved biology because I had a teacher that was so obsessed with it and he just taught from the heart. He never opened the textbook. He knew all of it because he was passionate about it. And then I had another teacher who was a history teacher and he would just write the whole lesson on the board and he wouldn't really say much about it and he spoke really monotone and I couldn't tell you most of the things I learned or pretty much anything I learned in history. I digress. So make sure you are lit up about it. And then the third thing that is going to make your story super impactful is talking about things that you have overcome. And if those things coincide with where your audience is now then bingo. Now again, this isn't always going to be the case but even just having a running list of things that you've overcome in life, they can be big things or little things, lessons you've learned along the way. They're really gonna connect with people. We love hearing stories of triumph, hearing stories of that hero journey who went from this dark, difficult, maybe gloomy place and now has come through to the other side and knows this thing. So if you're sitting down and you're thinking what is a good story to tell or how is this gonna impact people? I want you to think of a Venn diagram with these three pieces and ideally this story hits all those pieces, hits all those boxes. It doesn't have to. It could just have one, two is better, three is awesome. So the first is does it connect to your ideal audience member, your dream audience member in terms of what do they desire? What does their day look like? Can you relate to that? Number two is are you passionate about it? Do you care enough? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? And then number three is is it a story of overcoming, something you learned? And it can just be these little stories that you can share with your audience. So number three is is it a story of overcoming? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? Do you wanna talk about it till the cows come home? Where they are now, even if you aren't there currently, right, so that they feel like this is for me. I'm gonna lean in, I'm gonna save this podcast, I'm gonna come back and listen to it later. I hope that this has been helpful for you, but if you want to do this together in a more concrete way and get some feedback on it, I would highly encourage you to join me for the Stories for Impact Masterclass where you're gonna actually walk away with something to get you started on writing that impactful story. Okay, my friend, I love you, I'm praying for you, and until next time, go out there and share your unique God-given voice. God bless. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode of the Speaking and Storytelling Podcast. Now, I'd love to hear your voice. What's one thing you learned from today's episode? How did it inspire you and how will you take action today? You can let me know by leaving a review or visit me on Instagram at Emanuella.Paul. My friend, remember that you were born for such a time as this, so get out there and fearlessly share your unique God-given voice because it just might be the thing that changes the world.