The ‘Tell Your Story Live’ event was a lot more than a workshop on how to script my marketing message.

It was about discovering my own value, my audience’s own story, and how to connect with them naturally and honestly.

First, Megan managed to assemble a small group of incredibly humble and respectful people, which I guess is testament to how a well-crafted story can attract persons from various backgrounds but with similar values.

She created a “safe space” where I felt comfortable sharing details about my life that I wouldn’t usually reveal openly, but that were a necessary part of uncovering the themes of my story. Then Megan worked her magic and pieced together my story from the seemingly random vignettes and ideas I had come up with.

My hot seat gave me a lot of clarity about the worthiness of my life journey so far and how to best express it, and about the value I can offer to my audience. The debrief call a few weeks later was also particularly helpful to refine my story into something truly coherent that really felt “true to me”.

In many ways I learned as much from my own hot seat as I did from seeing Megan work on other participants’ stories. She masters the subtleties of the story structure, and the human details that matter, to make it flow seamlessly and truly connect with the audience. I had read various books on storytelling and scriptwriting in the past but Megan’s approach goes deeper. It’s tailor-made, with a true respect and understanding of the person whose story she’s helping to shape.