How I Launched A Startup, Failed, Moved To Australia, Got Fired And Wrote A Best Seller

Someone asked me tonight what my “story” was – and I always wish for a better answer to that question. After all, I spend a good part of my life telling stories and helping companies to tell them as well. Tomorrow I will be spending an entire day at an event called the Future of Storytelling. Every night I read a story to my kids at home. And I write stories almost every day.

Most of us are the same way. We live surrounded by stories and yet when we are asked to share ours … we pause. Why?

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