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  The Story Lady: Are You Running Your Business - Or Is Your Business Running You?

  The Story Lady

  Date / Time: 6/24/2009 5:00 PM UTC

  Category: Business

  
  

  today's show is all about you in business. Is your business running you ragged? Find out how to simplify, strategize, and work from your strength - and discover the single most important element of your life and business. Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady shares an empowering story.

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  Original Air Date: 3/25/2009 7:00 PM UTC

  The Story Lady Interviews Michael Brewster, Former Rocket Scientist Now Tax Help Expert

  What? How did a kid who grew up in a flower shop become a rocket scientist - and then go on to be a tax help expert? Find out this week as author Michael Brewster shares his empowering story. get the book here.
  
  Each week Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady interviews another amazing author with an empowering story.
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  • Tags:
  • Ronda Del Boccio
  • The Story Lady
  • Michael brewster
  • Negotiate with IRS
  • tax help
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• Date / Time: 3/25/2009 6:04 PM UTC

  Want to Know Exactly How to Write a Book that Positions YOU as the Natural Industry Leader?

  If you are a coach, speaker, mentor, entrepreneur, business owner or any sort of expert, you NEED to be the author of your own book to attract things like media attention, customers, etc.
  
  Imagine you're in a meeting. You have a problem for which you need help. Two people with solutions are right in front of you. One is an author of a book, adn the other is not.
  
  Who are you instinctively going to trust?
  
  The author, of course.
  
  And maybe you know that you need a book but don't know how to write a book that positions you as the industry expert worth following.
  
  I'm not going into detail here, but let me direct you to some articles and to a free class that will teach you a specific formula for how to write a book
  
  What do you need on an author's website before the book comes out?
  this article shows what you need in place with regard to your website BEFORE your book is out.
  
  If you want a template for how to write a book, read this article. You'll see the structure.
  
  and for an overall idea of what you'll want to do that is very specific for how to write a book, check out this article. It will tell you what you need to include in the book, such as testimonials and specific instructions on how the reader can interact with your material..
  
  .The teleclass on April 2 is free. On the call you will get the proven formula for structuring your business building book, plus tips for finding and courting promotion partners and spreading teh word about your book. Check out the How to Write a Business Building Book now.
  
  • Tags:
  • how to write a book
  • free writing class
  • writiing class
  • book launch
  • publish a book
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• Date / Time: 3/25/2009 5:30 PM UTC

  On Today's show: Michael Brewster- Flower Shop Kid to Rocket Scientist to Tax Help Genius

  Today you'll meet a man who started out his life in a flower shop. He eventually took a spin as a rocket scientist, and now he is a tax expert. His name is Michael Brewster, and his new book, The Ultimate Straight Shooter's Guide to Negotiating with the IRS to to Resolve
  YOUR Tax Problems, is now available!.
  
  That's one wild ride from the flower shop to rocket to taxes. He'll tell us all about it today.
  
  More importantly, he'll share some secrets about taxes and the IRS that could really save your seat. And if you are saying that you have no tax problems - you have home insurance and car insurance, right? His book is tax problems insurance!
  
  be sure to listen to the show!
  Ronda Del Boccio, the Story Lady
  PS if you want to know how to write a book that grows your business, be sure to check out the Profitable Storytelling Blog.
  
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  • Michael Brewster
  • tax help
  • tax guide
  • business taxes
  • avoid audit
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• Date / Time: 3/22/2009 8:57 PM UTC

  Watch This Empowering Story by Collin Raye - Quitters

  Collin Raye song Quitters will really get you thinking. You might feel sad and/or you might feel inspired. but you WILL feel.
  
  This is the song. Collin Raye sings “Quitters”, in which you'll witness some excellent personal narrative examples. Yes, I have to give you a bit of a storytelling lesson, as your own life experiences (personal narrative examples) are the fuel for you growing your own influence. Your stories can empower both you and other people.  Watch this.
  
  
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  • Collin Raye
  • Ronda Del Boccio
  • Blind Mentor
  • The Story Lady
  • empowering stories
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• Date / Time: 3/18/2009 9:09 PM UTC

  Today's Storytelling for business Teaching: Find Your Singin' hole

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• Original Air Date: 3/18/2009 7:00 PM UTC

  The Story Lady Interviews Authors with Empowering Stories Who Change Lives

  Each week Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady interviews another amazing author with an empowering story.
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  • Ronda Del Boccio
  • The Story Lady
  • Profitable Author
  • book launch
  • book marketing
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• Date / Time: 3/17/2009 11:07 PM UTC

  How Do You Use Personal Narrative Examples and Metaphor Examples in Storytelling?

  This is what you discover on the March 11 show.
  
  Personal experiences - often called "personal narrative examples" are a great way to build a bond between you and yothe receiver of your message (in business, a prospect, customer or associate).
  
  Here's just a tiny snippet of an example from the Profitable Storytelling BLog
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  begin quoted text)
   
  

  "Drama, Drama, Drama!

  "During the dinner, something baffling happens. I honestly have no clue where she got the ideas that she later shared in cutting emails. Negative Nelly takes issue with what she dramatizes as Angela and I being secretive. Rather than speak to us and ask questions, she sends a volley of nasty emails to us. I delete them and purge them from the computer without reading, as I can feel them oozing with snottiness.
  

  
  

  "The only one I respond to is a prayer request for someone she knows. Angela is more concerned with why Nelly would act that way and is putting time and energy into the drama. I coach her to drop it and forget it, then listen to someone uplifting like John Di Lemme so she can get her head on straight."

  END quoted text from ProfitableStorytelling.com.

  
  

  Metaphor Examples are when you say that something IS something else. Like "Jan is a firecracker." You don't literally mean she's an actual firecracker, but she has that celebratory spark in her.
  

  
  

  What makes that personal narrative examples? The "I-story" personal style. It's the author writing about her own experience.

  There are lots of personal narrative examples and metaphor examples in the show, and you'll discover ways to blend your personal experiences into your storytelling for business.
  

  • Tags:
  • metaphor examples
  • personal narrative e
  • storytelling for bus
  • storytelling
  • Ronda Del Boccio
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