Voice your story; change your life.
In each chiseled episode, I reflect on some experience, connect it both to creativity and the recurring landscaping metaphor, and then edit it all down to ten minutes or less. Storyscaping exists to equip and inspire future podcasters — but bigger than that, unearth the stories inside all of us.
(But what does my podcasting work have to do with marketing? Refining my ear for scriptwriting and voiceover. Sharpening my editing tools. Increasing my precision in tailoring message to medium. And boosting my gift for bringing out the best parts of others’ work.)
Selected season 1 episodes: story structures, word choices, creative identities, performing style, and more…
When we first moved out here, I did construction to pay the rent. Along with DIY skills, that work illustrates a story setup useful for wedding toasts to podcast scripts.
Have you ever had a soul-crushing boss? This one's for you. (Also: trying to explain my work to a kid, day jobs’ effect on personal projects, and career choices shaping our identity.)
What can we learn about storytelling at school drop-off? An important lesson: the one-in-eight-billion spark inside each of us, and how to bring that to our performances.
Lots of us meet our partners online these days, but for inquiring minds, "we met online" gives the facts, but misses the story. So how do you build a story? These four elements.
Are you grieving? Do you second-guess your parenting when your kid struggles? Are your kids going through the same thing you did (or did to others)? I dig into those questions.