Your Stories Don’t Define You, How You Tell Them Will
It's not the things that happen in your life that define you, that create your identity. It's how you talk about those things.
That’s the theme behind this podcast. Research shows that the stories you tell have a major influence in how you see yourself and in how others perceive you, so it’s important to be intentional about which stories you share and how you share them.
Guests on the podcast share the pivotal moments in their lives and careers, offering keen insights and “ah ha” moments to listeners, while triggering related memories of listeners, opening up opportunities to uncover their own patterns and discover better ways to share their stories.
During this podcast, I’m asking you to listen to consider your related stories, and to listen to consider which stories in your life might have impacted you in a similar way.
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Sarah works with executives who know that story sharing makes them more compelling as speakers and leaders, and who want to improve how they connect with audiences, by uncovering the right stories and learning how to share them effectively so they can clearly and actively demonstrate their character, values, and vision.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
357: Sarah's Hike
357 Sarah’s Hike
Many times in life it feels like we’re in the plot of a movie franchise from 2003, hopelessly watching and waiting for the inevitable drop of the other shoe, the logs or cars to fly …
356 Anchored in Time
Labels and judgment are an unfortunate symptom of society, more often than not people will be framed in a particular light without any chance to defend themselves or for a full explanation to be give…
354 Amy's Mess
354 Amy’s Mess
Hunger, for the lucky among us, is an inconvenience, the final straw during a bad day that fuels a bad temper, or an awkward moment in a silent room. But for many in our community hung…
355 Create The Community You Need
355 Create The Community You Need
Building a community can be a daunting yet very rewarding task, in order to find this community often you need to spread out and meet strangers, expanding both you…
353 Food Stories Revisited
353 Food Stories Revisited
Revisiting episode 292 “Food Stories” Sarah Elkins reminisces on the importance of love languages and how important it is to show those you love how much you care.
Love l…
352 Human Curriculum
352 Human Curriculum
Human connection is imperative to our growth and success as people, however if we do not take time to work towards creating a community to feed our social needs we will end up …
351 Communication Is In Everything We Do
351 Communication Is In Everything We Do
We are always communicating in everything we do, from overtly talking to or texting someone, to smiling and nodding to strangers you pass on the street, it’…
350 Growing Through Failure
350 Growing Through Failure
It is vital to our success to fail, we need to try things that are new and be comfortable in the fact failure is normal and expected. By letting ourselves be uncomfortab…
349 Community Building
349 Community Building
How we choose to spend our time directly impacts the way we live both in our careers and in our day to day lives, however if we are spending our precious time surrounding our…
348 Artistry in Community
348 Artistry in Community
Art has always brought people together, even in the darkest times of human history there is always a creative trying to give the world just a little bit of light.
In today’…
347 Find The Hidden Prize In Failure
347 Find The Hidden Prize In Failure
Everything you do, starts and ends with you. From habits we try to make consistent, to our careers, everything we do comes from ourselves, and sometimes we fail…
346 The Words You Use
346 The Words You Use
You lead from wherever you sit, which is why it is so important to be intentional with your thoughts, words, and motives as you go through life.
In this episode Sarah Elkins …
345 Staying Embodied As An Artist
345 Staying Embodied As An Artist
Like everything in existence, we change and grow and it can become difficult to stay involved in the things that make our lives fulfilling and enjoyable. Our passion…
344 Evolving Stories
344 Evolving Stories
Returning for his second episode, Tom Jackobs and Sarah Elkins discuss how storytelling has changed for both of them since their last conversation, how their tools and strategies…
343 Incremental Improvements
343 Incremental Improvements
Our environments influence how we function and how we are able to deal with the things in our life mentally and emotionally so that we can choose to rearrange or shed the…
342 The Best Teacher Is Life
342 The Best Teacher Is Life
Throughout life we all have to learn some difficult lessons, some lessons are harder than others, but if you persist and remember your core values you will succeed with…
341 Cycles of Relationships
341 Cycles of Relationships
Growth, change, and accepting that sometimes we are just as much at fault as anyone else, are vital to the health and longevity of the relationships we build. It is only t…
340 Unity in Connectedness
340 Unity in Connectedness
How we present ourselves with our intentions and energy is as important as a freshly pressed suit when building community and connection in both our work and personal li…
339 Help Is Not A One Way Street
339 Help Is Not A One Way Street
Our personal narratives and clutter can take up a lot of mental bandwidth, often leading us to hold on to the stories and labels that no longer serve us and keep us…
337 Invest In Yourself
337 Invest In Yourself
Life is complicated. Just like Frank Sinatra’s song That’s Life, we could be on top of the world one moment and the next we could be pushing boulders up an endless hill, howe…