057: The Role of Storytelling in Your Business Growth with Hillary Rea
The Uncommon Couch
057: The Role of Storytelling in Your Business Growth with Hillary Rea
Storytelling can have a deep impact on how people relate to you and your business. In this episode, I had on Hillary Rea, founder of Tell Me A Story, a communication consulting and coaching business that teaches multi-passionate entrepreneurs, mission-driven leaders, and committed change makers how to use the art of storytelling as a powerful communication tool.
Hillary shares how she initially became interested in storytelling and why she’s passionate about helping other people discover their story and share it with the world. She and I talk about storytelling strategies and what process she uses to help her clients with their unique stories. Hillary gives her insight into how your story can display your uniqueness and how storytelling can improve your visibility.
What you’ll find in this episode:
How Hillary got into storytelling
Why you should transport yourself into the view of the listener
What she does to support clients who want to increase their visibility and thought leadership
Her brainstorming exercises that uncover peoples’ stories
How to set yourself apart through storytelling
Why you don’t have to overthink the storytelling process
How she walks clients through telling their origin story
About Hillary:
Hillary Rea is the founder of Tell Me A Story, a communication consulting and coaching business that teaches multi-passionate entrepreneurs, mission-driven leaders, and committed change makers how to use the art of storytelling as a powerful communication tool.
She’s worked with leaders across industries — social justice nonprofits, women-owned small businesses, tech start-ups and Fortune 500 companies — to communicate an authentic narrative through her Crafting Your Narrative programs (now fully virtual).
She is an award-winning storyteller (NYC Moth StorySLAM winner and 2019 Rad Award for Storyteller of the year), has been telling her own stories on stage for 12 years. In addition to running her own business, Hillary is the producer and host of Rashomon (pronounced Ra-SHO-MAHN) - a long form narrative storytelling podcast where one family tells every side of the same story. Season 3 is out now and you can listen to it anywhere you listen to podcasts.
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Quotes:
“Listening is half of the storytelling experience.” - Hillary
“It is possible for everyone to be a really great storyteller.” - Hillary
“Free yourself from the confines of the hero’s journey story.” - Hillary