Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on 1/27/2008 with Alex the Jester (Alex Feldman) talks about how to use your physical relationship with your audience to build your success on the Art of Storytelling with Children Podcast.

Connecting Quickly (and Managing Behavior) through Physicality.

When telling for young audiences, even the most brilliant story is vulnerable to young audiences if the situation is compromised, or your delivery is not ideal for the setting. In this discussion, Alex reveals how his wild and mesmerizing style is methodically built, brick by brick. Small details can reap huge Continue Reading »

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This will be my last world map - I have recently switched hosted to switchpod and they do not seem to play nicely with my tracking provider podtrac. Just to be really be mean they don’t provide tracking abilities half as nice as this either. The sad reality being that I will no longer be able to provide detailed country by country counting for my international listeners.

With the hosting switch I am very interested if any listeners are having trouble downloading shows. Please leave a comment on this post if you have problems with downloads. Please include any error codes, computer(PC, Max, etc..), platform (windows, Lenex, Mac…) listening software (real player, quicktime..) Thanks.

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Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on 1/27/2008 with storyteller Priscilla Howe about how to make a living as a storyteller.

Priscilla writes…

“Is this…the only thing you do?”
“Are you a teacher?”
“Can you really make a living as a storyteller?”

I hear these questions regularly as I go about my storytelling life. Yes, storytelling is the only Continue Reading »

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Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on 1/15/2008 with storyteller Steve Denning about how storytelling can be used to effect change in any work place setting.

Steve Denning writes…
In 1998, I made a pilgrimage to the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee, seeking enlightenment. As program director of knowledge management at the World Bank, I’d stumbled onto the power of storytelling. Despite a career of scoffing at such touchy-feely stuff—like most business executives, I knew that analytical was good, anecdotal was bad—my thinking had started to change. Over the previous few years, I’d seen stories help galvanize an organization around Continue Reading »

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Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference on 12/30/2007 with storyteller Bobby Norfolk The Brain is Hardwired for Stories.

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