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What’s a story coach? What’s a story, coach?

If only there was someone who could help you enhance your message, elevate your performance and train you to become a better, stronger storyteller. Business coach. Life coach. Health coach. Wellness coach. Fitness coach. Sports coach. Mindset coach. Financial coach. Nutrition coach… There’s a coach for almost everything these days – and for good reason. We are stronger, more focused, …

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2020 is hindsight. The future is yours to write.

As we turn the corner into a new year still in the midst of this pandemic – though finally with some hope and light at the end of the tunnel – it’s time to consider the stories of transformation we need to tell. The stories of our future, forever changed, are still ours to create anew.

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Energy, Intention, and a Body

I just finished watching the Season 1 finale of Lovecraft Country, HBO’s new horror/adventure series featuring Black protagonists battling monsters – real and fantastical – against the backdrop of 1950s Jim Crow America. While each episode could be dissected as a masterful, entertaining and often satisfying piece of storytelling, I’m going to focus only on one particular element from the …

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Words to the Wise

As a general rule, if you have to explain a joke it’s probably not a very good one.  This doesn’t mean the joke isn’t funny. That’s a much more subjective concern and, as the joke teller, it must have been funny to you. No, what “not a very good one” really means is that the joke was unsuccessful. It didn’t …

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Stuck

One of my son’s favourite books is Stuck by Oliver Jeffers. It’s also one of my favourites to read to him. If you don’t have kids or you have never read it, here’s a quick preview: A boy name Floyd gets his kite stuck in a tree. In order to get it out, he throws first one shoe and then …