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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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25:47

How Telling Hard Stories Helps Healing Through Times...

Storytelling School ·

2022/12/07

I’m coaching a client on her TEDx Talk and she says, “Kymberlee, I don’t know if I can get through this story I’m telling. Every single time I get to a certain part, I start crying and I can’t even stop!” Having an emotional response like that means you’re very present in your storytelling - which is what you want! So I tell her, “Try refocusing on your audience while you’re telling the story. How can you serve them?” In other words, focus on what the audience needs and take care of them instead of

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27:35

How to Develop Your Delivery in Storytelling and...

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2022/11/30

As a storyteller and speaker, how you deliver your content is as important as what you write on the pages in front of you. And there are many things that can affect your delivery and enhance your story or speech and its message for your audience, regardless of the size of said audience or the method of delivery. While working with speakers and storytellers over the years, I’ve seen many go through draft after draft after draft of their content. Yet, in the end, they don’t have as much time to work

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01:17:30

Telling One Hundred Weeks of Stories

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2022/11/23

In 2020, I launch Storytelling School with programs, courses, workshops, masterminds, and one-on-one training. One of my colleagues notices that there’s something missing. She says to me, “Kymberlee, you also need a podcast.” I’m thinking, “Do I, though? I’m so busy already, and there are a TON of well-established podcasts out there. Does the world need another one? Plus, would anyone even bother listening to mine?” My colleague insists, “None of those podcasts have your unique perspective on

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27:26

Creating Connections and Saving Lives Through Our...

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2022/11/16

A few years ago, I’m getting Morgan, a new client, ready for a high-stakes Talk. It’s a controversial one designed for a military audience. So we craft this Core Idea for his speech: The greatest epidemic of our time is one we can’t see. Morgan tells me, “In the military, you’re thought of as weak if you speak out about or admit any challenges about mental health. That’s why we have an epidemic of 22 veteran suicides a day in this country. I want to change that.” Woah. “Okay,” I respond. “Let’s

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28:02

How to Make Your Audience Sit Forward in Storytelling

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2022/11/09

My grandfather Joe is serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He isn’t married... yet. But he is head over heels for someone who’s there waiting for him in Seattle every single time his ship comes into port. That someone is my grandmother Beverly, who’s just as in love with him too. She moves from Hollywood to the Pacific Northwest to be there as he comes back from his deployments. Whenever he’s away, they write letters back and forth to each other constantly. Over 100 letters (and a marriage

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29:00

How to Explore the World of Possibility in Your Stories

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2022/11/02

I’m at a dinner party in this cool, old house that belongs to one of my stepmom Sandy’s best friends. This castle-style home stands three stories tall and has winding staircases inside and trees surrounding it. And I’m a fourth-grader surrounded by adults at this get-together. So despite this cool house, I eventually get bored. I’m still sitting in my chair trying to behave, though. Just as we’re about to start on dessert, Denise (who lives there) notices my boredom. She takes a leftover dinner roll

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32:30

How Stories Can Protect Us

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2022/10/26

I’m nine and living in a wonderful residential neighborhood in southern California. And someone has just broken into our house while I was at school and my Dad and Step Mom were at work! As I watch the police interview my parents outside, I know what I have to do. I go into my Dad’s tool shed and look around until I find it: the caulking gun. I then traverse my backyard and cover everything I can see--the bushes, the furniture, all of it--with white caulking paste. Why does nine-year-old me do

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28:26

What It Means to be Real in Your Storytelling

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2022/10/19

It’s the end of my first semester at the University of Hawaii and my roommate Shannon and I are cramming for finals. At around 9p at night, we decide to take a break so we go get a bite to eat at King’s Bakery. After our delicious late night snack of Sweet Hawaiian Bread French Toast, we hop back on our mopeds, wind in our hair, heading back towards our dorm. That’s the last thing I remember. The next thing I do remember is waking up in a hospital bed five days later. The pain is so severe I can

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29:01

How the Art of Letting Go Can Strengthen Your Stories

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2022/10/12

I’m sitting with my mom looking over old photos. At one point, I ask her if I ever played with dolls as a kid. She kind of smirks and says, “As soon as you received any doll that was given to you, off came the clothes. The doll was tossed aside, and your stuffed animals became the best-dressed toys in the world.” My mom then points to one particular photo of me with our Siamese kitty Samantha. In it, I have her under my arm dressed in one of my nightgowns! “We had to capture this moment. And you

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06:34

How to Skyrocket Your Success With Storytelling

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2022/10/05

It’s 2016. I’m putting on a high-stakes speaking and storytelling workshop. One of the attendees “Shawn” is the CEO of a tech company, and he’s not buying the idea of using storytelling to raise money and land deals. I say to him, “Give me two days. But you’ve got to play all in. Are you in?” Despite his skepticism that anything will drastically change for him, he reluctantly agrees. When the workshop concludes, he feels he has a new competitive edge with this storytelling knowledge. Fast forward

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29:35

Why Brevity is a Storytelling Superpower

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2022/09/28

I’m getting buzzed with a text message from my friend Mike. Kymberlee, you’ve got to check out this newsletter! My inbox is already overflowing, so the last thing I need is another newsletter on my to-read list. Thanks for thinking of me, I let Mike know. This is different! It’s micro content which is exactly how you teach. He knows I’m always talking about short-form storytelling and how it’s a superpower. So I check this must-see newsletter out. And wow! Not only do I read the entire thing in

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27:32

Bringing your ideas to life through sound, song and...

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2022/09/21

I’m sitting alone in my car with the radio on. One of my favorite songs of all time begins to play. I start moving my head and tapping along with it on the steering wheel. Pretty soon, I can’t help myself: I’m belting out this song. I look around to see if anyone notices me because I’m in the middle of traffic. I realize I don’t care, though. I love this song so much and am so in the moment that I’m even getting chills during certain parts of it! Like stories, music has the power to take you to a

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34:15

So You Think You Want to Become a Storyteller…...

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2022/09/14

It’s 7 o’clock in the morning in Des Moines, Iowa. I’m ready to give my first ever keynote speech. My hair and makeup are done and I’ve got my power dress on. I’m ready to dazzle! Only one thing’s missing: my bulletproof matcha tea. It’s my magic elixir that’ll turn my speech from amazing to extraordinary. I gotta have it before I walk out of my hotel room. So I take out my Ninja® blender I’ve brought all the way from California, put all the ingredients in it (hot water, matcha tea powder, high

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29:32

What The Ocean Can Teach Us About Storytelling

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2022/09/07

I’m being recruited by colleges throughout the country as a high school softball pitcher. The NCAA rules say I can go on up to five paid recruiting trips. So I have to pick and choose - it’s a tough decision! The first school has an incredible coach... but I’m not sure if it’s really a great fit for me. The second school I visit has a really strong team (and skiing which I love almost as much as softball)... but it’s very different from my SoCal roots. Then I get approached by the University of

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32:57

Why Truth, POV and Risk are Vital in Storytelling

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2022/08/31

I open an email from the creative director of a local theatre. In it, she’s asking me if I’d be willing to step in as the replacement lead in a two-person play… that opens in 10 days! I take a look at the play and a couple of things immediately catch my attention. First, it includes Shakespeare. I’ve never done Shakespeare before. Second, it involves singing in multiple genres. The genres part? Cool. The singing? I don’t sing. And I would only have a few days to memorize this entire play and prepare

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30:17

Why Your Voice Can Make or Break a Story

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2022/08/24

I’m rehearsing with my Improv team for a big upcoming show when our coach John says to me, “All your characters sound… like Kymberlee.” I’m thinking, “Well, of course, they do! I’m the one creating them.” I must’ve said what I was thinking out loud because he responds back, “Actually Kymberlee, we want to meet these characters as themselves.” So he gives me an exercise to do. I’ve got to stand in the center of the stage and do a completely different voice whenever one of my fellow performers

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27:34

How Lenses, Lashes and Storytelling Intertwine

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2022/08/17

I’m in a hotel room in San Francisco trying to perfect my geisha makeup for Halloween 2006. I’ve already made many DIY attempts, and it’s just not working out. I resemble Batman more than a geisha, so I decide to let a professional makeup artist do it instead. Off to the mall department store I go and my husband Mark comes along to see me undergo this transformation. And I swear, once the pro is done with me I look like I could’ve stepped out of 1800s Japan. We have an epic time that night and

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25:41

Why Improv Can Make Your Storytelling Stronger

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2022/08/10

It’s 2015 and I’ve just become addicted to this thing called improvisational comedy. I’m consuming every bit of information I can find: taking classes, reading books, and Googling everything about it. I’m completely immersed. Then I hear about an Improv performance just south of where I live. Obviously, I have to go and see it... and it is amazing! The characters, the music, the performers--they’re all mesmerizing! And I’m thinking, “There’s no way I’ll ever be as good as they are.” After the show

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29:09

Using Curiosity to Power Up Your Storytelling Game

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2022/08/03

I’m running for 6th-grade student body president and it’s a big day for me. When it’s my turn to make my speech, I walk up the stairs to the podium on stage with my script in hand. I’ve worked and re-worked this speech for hours and hours, day after day, just for this moment. The entire school auditorium is full as I begin… And as I get further and further into my speech, I look up from my paper to see that the students aren’t paying attention. One kid named Stu is even asleep in the front row

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28:55

How Storytelling Can Make Opportunities Appear

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2022/07/27

It’s 2010 and I’ve been attending the annual TED conference for seven years. I want all my friends and family to experience TED too, but it’s by invitation only. I learn that the head of TED, Chris Anderson, has announced that TEDsters can apply to create independently organized TED events locally. I’m thinking, “What an incredible opportunity, but can we pull it off?” I worry about our ideas not being big enough to share. Not to mention, I’ve produced events before but not at this magnitude.

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