The storyworthy Learning Zone

The best strategies for delivering a talk from the stage. I also include lessons I have used to help others craft, prepare, rehearse, and deliver their talks. These lessons will empower you to deliver...

Back in the spring of 2016, five years into my storytelling career, I won a Moth GrandSLAM championship in Somerville, MA.

I told the story of my decision to confess to a crime I did not commit after...

I often say that everyone should learn to tell a better story for lots and lots of reasons.

My TEDx Talk - What Is a Story? ( Watch it here) - offers five of those reasons.

Storytelling can enrich t...

I spotted this sign at the wedding of my former student, sitting atop the bar.

I love it so much.

Designed by the same couple who advised guests to respond to their wedding invitation by a certain...

I like to think that I have been a supportive and positive force on the thousands of storytellers who I have performed alongside over the years, but I've also had moments when my judgment and disposit...

I’ve been working on a story for The Moth about the beginning of my relationship with my wife and some of the more uncharacteristically awkward and foolish decisions that I made in those early days. I...

I don't follow the British royal family and their machinations in any way - nor do I think anyone really should - but I've been unable to avoid the news of Prince Harry's new tell-all memoir.

The sibl...

There are many reasons to be nervous onstage. One of the more popular reasons offered - and possibly the only reason I've ever heard someone offer - is that people are nervous about public speaking be...

 A friend of mine was recently debating about how she should respond to a man on Hinge - a dating app - who had just liked her photo.

• Casual but interested?
• Flirty and fun?
• Short and sweet?
• Caut
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When stumped by a life choice in 2023, let me suggest you choose “expansion” over happiness.

Jungian therapist James Hollis argues that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will th...

When it comes to humor, I teach 25 easy-to-use strategies to write jokes, develop humor, and make people laugh.

One of my favorites is something I call “Definitions.”

Simply put, define an object, p...

A client told me a story that I thought was emblematic of everything I teach:

His company recently purchased a facility in Europe, so he traveled there to visit the campus and meet the folks now work...