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A story about your brain’s love affair

Colin Pearce — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:39:32 +0000

Your brain is in love with storytelling. Like most people who seek mastery, I stay informed about storytelling by reading books and articles. I clipped a brief article from the Harvard Business Review back in 2014 (Oct 28) and I recommend you read it. It was one of the answers to a question I often asked. […]

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A story about losing keys and kids

Colin Pearce — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:36:28 +0000

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A story about a farm boy with imposter syndrome

Colin Pearce — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:30:41 +0000

A recording of a speech I’ve spoken this presentation to countless audiences at youth camps, teacher conventions, retail convention dinners, family church services, business conferences, both in Australia and the USA. It is an adaptable story, always delivered in – I confess – my wacky narrative style – ridiculous in parts – generally inspiring faith […]

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A story about a very long winded salesman

Colin Pearce — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 08:41:36 +0000

Picture me having a nice full breakfast at an outdoor Italian restaurant waiting for a mate to rock up in an hour or so. BLISS Enjoying the background music, the morning breeze, browsing through an e-book and slowly becoming aware of someone nearby, talking. Not your usual restaurant murmuring, but real intentional talking, as people […]

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A story about commercial storytelling

Colin Pearce — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:16:25 +0000

Jordan Kelley, Content Director, Brand Storytelling writing for Forbes magazine reported 30th October 2019 that corporations are finally waking to the value of storytelling through Impact Entertainment to express support for social and environmental causes. Storytelling Works He cites the award-winning documentary, ‘B5’ as an example. Johnson & Johnson funded the film about the men […]

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A story quiz

Colin Pearce — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 01:05:37 +0000

People with strategic messages are still trying to get them over without storytelling and wondering why they get such a poor response from their listeners. These groups should all be telling stories; Speakers. Teachers, Preachers, Advertising, Marketers, Board Chairs, Salespeople, Bosses, Team leaders, Government leaders, Political leaders, But they don’t. Their audiences are missing out. […]

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A story about a speaker who told a great story

Colin Pearce — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:04:14 +0000

You’ve seen this 1,000 times haven’t you: Not a storyteller in sight! Like thousands of others meeting every day of the week, my client’s business group has the featured member of the week give a walking, talking, ramble as he or she stumbles through too many slides with too many words, fiddling with two A4 […]

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A story about self belief and our stories

Colin Pearce — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 06:57:07 +0000

I had two older brothers whom I adored and idolised. I’ve still got them. One has lost his wonderful singing voice and the other has lost his mind. Please don’t tell him about his mind though. He thinks he’s me and that would be his worst nightmare. They are nine and twelve years older than […]

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A story about street kids and my clothes

Colin Pearce — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 04:42:54 +0000

I was in the foyer of the elite Hilton International Hotel waiting for a sales dinner to start. I had been a TV producer and writer for six years and when the show closed I couldn’t think of anything better to do than sell books door to door. The parent company was about to host […]

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A story. What’s yours?

Colin Pearce — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 08:01:06 +0000

It’s an odd question asked in a different manner according to circumstances: ‘What’s your story?’ A tease A mate saw his wife’s T-shirt wedged between the trailer and the fence as we pulled into his driveway. ‘This’ll be good’, he said to me. Inside he asked his sheepish looking wife, ‘What’s your story?’ She reported […]

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