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Storytelling School

One significant change in business and the world-at-large in the past couple of decades is the rise of the storyteller. Join International Speaking Strategist and Detective of Story Kymberlee Weil each week as she, along with her notable guests, take you behind the curtain to explore the world of first person high stakes storytelling. Each episode is designed to give you tools, techniques and tactics that you can put to use immediately. If you"re ready to be seen, up your speaking game, increase

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32:43

How Storytelling Can Turn Crowd Chaos into Connection

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2025/09/10

It’s my very first time at Comic-Con. I’m with my dear friend Denise, and it’s her first time, too. The second we arrive in downtown San Diego, we’re hit with a wave of everything - cosplayers everywhere, camera crews darting around, and volunteers all over the place. There are 135,000 people moving in every direction at once. It’s buzzing, massive, and honestly thrilling! Since it’s Day One, we find our way to the convention center and step onto this long escalator. We’re heading up to the top, and

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20:15

Why Many Stories Fall Flat in the Final 10 Seconds

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2025/05/22

I am coaching a speaker as she prepares for one of the biggest keynotes of her career. Her story is powerful, full of resilience and triumph. As she runs through her story, I am captivated... until it just... stops. She smiles, says thank you, and that’s it. There is no call to action and no invitation. I deliver the news, gently: her ending isn’t serving her or the audience. She pushes back because she doesn’t want to sound salesy. And while I do definitely understand her concerns, I explain that,

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29:26

How Storytelling Can Unlock Opportunities and Shape...

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2025/03/05

I’m running a high-stakes speaking event and, as I always do, I have everyone share their name and something interesting that may not be on their bio. We go around, one by one, with people sharing surprising facts and fun stories. The energy is light and full of laughter. Until we get to the last person who says, “Hi. I'm Sandy Zabarsky, and I just got out of prison.” The whole room goes silent, and you can hear a pin drop. All eyes are on her, and for a split second, you can almost see the

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30:28

How Changing Your Internal Food Stories Can Change You

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2024/12/04

I’m in my martial arts class where we’re deep into advanced weapons training. On this day, our Grandmaster tells us that we’re going to have a special guest instructor join us. I’m thinking, “I’ve got the basics down with my knife. I’ve practiced them and know the foundation, so is this really going to be that different?” Then Grandmaster Yarrow walks in and starts his workshop. Within minutes, he’s showing us knife techniques that I’ve never considered and didn’t even know were possible! Suddenly,

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17:56

Why You Need Stakes in Storytelling

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2024/11/06

I’m helping my client Barbara get ready for one of the biggest Talks of her career. She’s preparing to stand on stage in front of thousands of people (with even more watching live online). She shares her draft with me. It’s meticulous and packed with very specific, insightful information. Yet, there’s no sense of urgency or consequence. It’s just data, so I don’t feel anything. I point this out to her gently, and I can sense her reluctance to dive deeper and reveal something personal, vulnerable

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29:05

How Story Can Help You Cultivate Courage and Bridge...

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2024/10/01

It’s the third night of a very intense survival training course with a Green Beret guy. I haven’t slept or showered. I’m muddy and exhausted and just want to go home to Santa Barbara. I tell myself I just need to make it through one more night and this will all be behind me. When it’s time to call it a night, I am given a choice: I can either sleep in my tent or in this lean-to I’ve built. The lean-to is essentially a hole in the dirt with some twigs on it. At this moment, I’d love nothing more than

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27:28

How the Price of Admission in Storytelling Creates...

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2024/09/05

I’m coaching multiple speakers for an upcoming TEDx event. During the kickoff meeting with one particular speaker, I ask him, “Okay, what’s your idea worth spreading?” He replies, “Kymberlee, that’s easy. I’m going to talk about the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage.” I think, “Wait, what? If this is what you’re focusing on for your TEDx Talk, we definitely need to make 30-year fixed-rate mortgages interesting and shift the audience’s perspective because this isn’t a very sexy topic.” So I ask him, “All

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28:36

How the Power of Play Can Change a Challenging Story

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2024/08/21

My husband and I are driving to the airport for a family reunion when we both get pings on our phones. There’s a global outage. We check our tickets and plane reservations–they’re all fine. We head to the airport, and everything seems okay. The airline confirms our flight is on time, so we’re good to go. An hour later, we get a delay, yet they assure us everything will be fine. Another hour passes and there’s another delay. They tell us again that we’ll make our connecting flight, and everything

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30:34

How Surrender, Resiliency and Reconciliation Create...

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2024/06/12

I’m on stage performing at Santa Barbara Improv. My scene partner and I are playing a game of He Said, She Said which goes like this: After every line of dialogue from one person, their scene partner will then narrate something physical for them to do. For instance, let’s say that I say to my scene partner, “I’m so angry at you right now.” My partner then narrates something like, “She said while jumping up and down on one foot.” And I actually have to do the thing. So we’re in the middle of a mob

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11:44

How to Turn Questions into Storytelling...

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2024/06/07

“Kymberlee, how are you always able to take questions and turn them into storytelling opportunities?” That’s the question my client Claire asks me as we’re getting her ready for a big keynote presentation. As I’m quickly thinking about how to answer her, I realize that I mostly do it unconsciously. Yet I know that’s not really a helpful answer, so I replay in my mind the times I’ve recently turned a question into a story. Then it hits me: I’ve been building bridges from questions asked to times in

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29:06

Shifting the Mental Health Story Within the World of...

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2024/05/29

It feels like I’m flying all the time while running my software company. Every month, I’m going somewhere to meet clients. It’s standard practice until, out of nowhere, I have my first anxiety attack. These attacks become serious and start happening randomly on different days at different times of the day. Weeks and months go by, and every single time I step on the plane, an attack triggers. While I’ve been flying on planes my entire life, I find myself having to take medication just to step on to

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25:49

Why You Need to Tell Stories to Build Your Brand

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2024/05/22

“What’s the difference between the brands everyone talks about and the ones we can’t remember?” That’s the question that me and my colleague Glenn are pondering over coffee this week. He expresses surprise at the over $1 billion valuation of the brand Liquid Death. “They sell water in a can. It’s just water,” he tells me. Yet their success doesn’t surprise me because they sell it in a cool can (with a cool slogan) and have a unique, edgy, unforgettable story their fans love to tell and show off

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33:06

How Unforgettable Experiences Make for Unforgettable...

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2024/05/15

I’m in prep mode, getting ready to host a standup comedy night. I ask myself: “What’s it going to take to move this event from good to unforgettable? Sure people are coming to see comedians who they love and may have been following for years… What can we do to make this experience last and earn a permanent memory in every audience member’s mind? What can we do to make this experience last and earn a permanent memory in every single audience member’s mind?” The answer? It’s all in the details. From

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26:44

The Power of Storytelling in Mind-Body Healing

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2024/05/08

Whenever we do a new TEDx event, our first order of business is finding the theme to get everything flowing. It influences everything we do, from the set design to invited speakers and so much more. So as we come up with theme ideas for our Santa Barbara TEDx event in 2019, nothing is really clicking. We try phrases, single words, even full sentences and they all fall short. The theme candidates feel very generic and unexciting. Then, it hits me: What if we take a deeper look at the role of stories

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27:34

How Crafting Event Experiences Can Create Memorable...

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2024/03/15

I’m ready to dazzle! I have on my heels, my dress, and my glitter as I enter the doors of Blaisdale Arena and make my way to my seat near the front row. I can feel my heart racing with anticipation. Then, the lights go out. The fog on stage gets thicker. The familiar beat begins, and it’s as if my heart starts to beat with it in unison. Suddenly, the backup singers take their places on the stage. And through the haze, I finally see him. As he comes into focus, there’s cheering, and screaming, and

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10:13

Storytelling Seven: Why Mastering Eye Contact is...

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2024/03/09

I’m on a Zoom call rehearsing with a group of speakers who are getting ready for an upcoming TEDx event. Yet something’s off. After finishing her run, one speaker admits, “I don’t really feel like I’m connected.” And that’s when I realize something. She’s scanning the room and not really seeing anyone. It’s like she’s talking into the void. So I say, “Try focusing on one person at a time, like you’re talking directly to that particular person. Then focus on the next person, and then the next.” I

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21:49

How Humor and Storytelling Converge

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2024/03/06

I’m standing backstage with my dad in a room full of speakers who are getting ready to make their TEDx debuts. We’ve been working for over eight months for this moment, yet the nervous energy in the room is palpable. So Greg, the event organizer, takes the microphone and gives a short, inspirational talk. Then he stops, walks over to my dad and hands him the microphone. Dad clears his throat and says, “What did the fish say when it ran into the wall?” And that joke breaks open a dam of levity that

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18:31

Why Your Storytelling Needs a Dash of Surprise

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2024/02/22

I’m at the Annoyance Theater in Chicago taking a week-long intensive Improv class. In the middle of a scene with my scene partner, I have this brilliant idea. So I start forcing the scene in the direction I have in mind. My partner follows along…and the whole scene ends up being pretty flat and predictable. After we’re done, the instructor says, “Kymberlee, I have a note for you. Allow yourself to be surprised on stage rather than in control.” What if we apply the same principle to our

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13:28

Why Every Storyteller Needs a Stack of Sticky Notes

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2024/02/20

I’m in the final planning stages for Story to Standing Ovation, our annual live event, when my dad randomly stops by to drop something off. He comes toward my office, stops in the doorway, and says, “What the heck is that?” As he points at my sliding glass doors, I tell him, “This is my brain on sticky notes.” What he’s looking at is three days of our event broken down, sticky style. These aren’t just randomly placed sticky notes, either. I have these organized in full outline form and broken down

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10:13

How to Begin Your Story With a Bang

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2024/02/08

One sentence from a stranger is all it took to ignite the biggest epiphany of my life. I’ll explain. I’m sitting in the audience at my first TED conference, enraptured by all the speakers when a guy comes on stage who I’ve never heard of before. He starts showing some of the most beautiful and haunting images I’ve ever seen. Then he says something offhand that gives me chills… Speaking of the impact of words, welcome to the next episode in our “Storytelling Seven” series! Today on the Storytelling

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