The Podcast, Ep 4: Bad Tango, Good Story
New podcast episode! Let's make a brand new story, in real time.
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Hi friends! New podcast episode:
Episode 4: Bad Tango, Good Story
Let’s get tactical! This week I’m breaking down the three key elements that turn a story idea into a capital-S Story: context, stakes, and change. Plus you’ll hear these tools in action as I workshop a brand new story live, sharing my thought process and decisions along the way.
I loved doing this episode because it’s a little bit scary, as someone who tells stories for my job, to tell you a story that I hadn’t practiced or really figured out. But scary can be fun. Also, when I teach teachers how to teach storytelling, we talk a lot about “walking the walk.” Basically, if you’re going to ask your students to do something vulnerable, you should be ready to do it yourself, too. So that’s what I’m doing. Deep breath. Here we go!
Ready for Episode 5? It’s here!
Want to start from the beginning? Go here!
This week’s prompt:
Take a story idea of your own and ask yourself those three questions: What’s the context we need? What’s at stake for you? And how did this experience change things for you, a little or a lot?
Resources & Links:
Alejandro Puerta on TripAdvisor (he’s the best - check out the reviews)
Need story help? Work with me!
Listen to my Audible Original, You Will Not Recognize Your Life
Reviews for The Story Letter
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XO,
Micaela
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Just shared this wonderful episode with a friend who has been taking dance lessons, including tango, for years. She will now be a subscriber!
Such a satisfying story workshop presentation and so motivating!! My friend and I are both retired academics--story tellers about the plights of refugees and English learners in classrooms for audiences that feel pretty dry and distant. We are both energized by the deeply intuitive process of crafting stories and stoked by Micaela's straightforward guidance. Love!
Thanks for letting us be on the inside of your story shaping! It made me rethink a story that I have been wanting to tell but hadn't figured my way into it. It has a similar theme (people pleasing). I just need to find the beginning of the story - I know the ending.