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8th Sep 2018

129: Make Believe You

YOU ARE A MADE-UP STORY

Your life is make believe. I expect you to deny it and call me crazy. How can your very “real” life be make believe?

How can your dreams, your hopes, your joy, and your pain be make believe?

Bear with me. I’m not saying your life is fake. I’m saying that you and I and everyone else create our lives, our realities, through stories that begin in the imagination and are embellished by our minds. Is that good or bad?

Willie Shakespeare said it best in Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” And our boy, Willie, earned the right to say that. He was so damned good at storytelling!

So, what the hell does any of this have to do with today’s podcast? Everything. Our guest is Dr. Adrian McIntyre, a storytelling master who helps people achieve high performance communication.

Adrian understands that we are all hardwired to tell and love stories. He’s a guy with a heightened self-awareness. He will expand your mind in this podcast episode where you will learn:

  • How story is natively human
  • Why stories “wake you up” by releasing feel good chemicals in your brain
  • The brilliant insight that “story is to humans as water is to fish”
  • The simple story structure that will immediately make you a better storyteller
  • The relationship between drama and your personal and business stories
  • Why you should understand the Hero’s Journey
  • How “story listening” gives you greater storytelling power
  • Why your weaknesses hold the key to your strength and success
  • The importance of discovering your “story-print” (not unlike your fingerprint)
  • How story can help you grow by serving the world
  • SO MUCH MORE…

BOOKS IN THIS PODCAST

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (Adrian’s favorite book)

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

The Hero’s Journey: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell by Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (audio book)

ADRIAN’S FAVORITE QUOTE

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

FREE AUDIOBOOK OF YOUR CHOICE

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CONTACT ADRIAN

www.StoryProfit.com

 

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About the Podcast

Change Your Story, Change Your Life
Influences: Tony Robbins, T. Harv Eker, Wayne Dyer, Jim Rohn, Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie, Dale Carnegie, Oprah, Robert Kiyosaki, Robin Sharma, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, LinkedIn, Twitter, method acting, Marlon Brando, Marcus Aurelius
Humans are storytelling machines. You and I are constantly creating, destroying, elevating, and diminishing ourselves with our inner narratives that appear and disappear in our minds 24/7. Most people are not aware of this process. As a result, they believe that life is happening to them. This feels random, chaotic, and scary. Why do people tolerate it? Because they tell themselves, "That's the way it is. That is reality." Those seven words could not be farther from the truth.

This podcast will explore the storytelling process that is responsible for every facet of your life. It will discuss and encourage ways to take control of your personal narrative so that you can begin directing your destiny with an empowering story.

About your host

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Louis Di Bianco

Louis Di Bianco is a storyteller. He fell in love with storytelling as a child. In his teens, his ability to tell entertaining stories saved his life on the streets of the Bronx, where he grew up. He discovered quickly how to make the neighborhood tough guys like, trust, and respect him by engaging them with stories.

Louis became a professional stage and screen actor to get paid for his love of storytelling. He has appeared in numerous feature films, TV movies, and television series, as well as performing on stage internationally.

He has taught acting for both stage and camera for as long as he has been an actor. We're talking more than four decades. Eventually, he created courses in compelling communication for business people who want to present their ideas, products, and services to the world with clarity, confidence, and persuasive power.

Louis takes the words, Change Your Story, Change Your Life, very seriously. His life experience has taught him that every word we utter, every belief we embrace, is a made up story. Even your past is a made up story that seems so vivid that you swear it's real. Accept that, and you remove all the barriers between you and your dreams. You will be able to enjoy the adventure of changing your story to change your life.