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How I suffered an actual storytelling injury

By Steve | Published: September 30, 2010
When my siblings and cousins get together we tell stories about those idyllic days 40 years ago when we frolicked and dodged death and dismemberment at The Cabin. Even our in-laws tell the stories — and they weren’t even there. The Cabin was a tiny A-frame that sheltered six adults and 10 kids at a [...]
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Three narratives told on Yoga Day

By Steve | Published: January 23, 2010
The Magician’s story In town only four days, she serendipitously had met the hostess of the Yoga Day USA open house just hours before. Now she stood in the suburban basement, surrounded by strangers sitting cross-legged on mats, and talked about her lineage. She is a descendant of ancient Jewish high priests and of Dakota [...]
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A book for resolve: Change or Die

By Steve | Published: January 1, 2010
Change or Die by Alan Deutschman was referred to me by a physician who is using its ideas to help her patients make life changes (thanks, Deb). It was an ideal read to usher in a new year, a new decade and a new phase in my career. Many of the change ideas were familiar to [...]
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Filmmaker’s advice for great business storytelling

By Steve | Published: December 18, 2009
Filmmaker Peter Guber (Rainman, Batman, The Color Purple) once used storytelling to win Fidel Castro’s support for filming in Havana Harbor. The official application form had been torpedoed, but El Presidente enthusiastically endorsed the project once he heard Guber tell of the harbor’s historic significance and Castro’s responsibility to the world to share that piece of [...]
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What if you did PR for sausage makers?

By Steve | Published: June 18, 2009
On the bulletin board at the Longmont Times-Call in the ’80s there was a picture of four men marveling over a cold white lump of processed turkey. The men were agriculture officials from the Soviet Union and their object of fascination was the ingenious mash-up of turkey parts that normally are scraped into the trash [...]
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Story of the week: Memorial service for a “baby killer”

By Steve | Published: June 14, 2009
Maybe sticks, stones and names can hurt you. Denver Post columnist Mike Littwin went to a memorial service for murdered abortion doctor George Tiller last week and came back wondering whether poison words lowered the barriers to violence. Might the value of Tiller’s life eroded in the eyes of anti-abortion activists who tagged him “Tiller the baby [...]
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