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South African mountaineer Cathy O’Dowd is best known as the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest from both sides. Her most significant expedition was participating in the first ascent of the Mazeno ridge of Nanga Parbat, the world’s 9th highest mountain.  The insights she has discovered about individuals and teams under intense stress in the face of overwhelming challenge, are ones she has been sharing with her corporate audiences ever since. She is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker who has spoken in over 40 countries. She lives in Andorra, in the Pyrenees mountains, from where she pursues technical rock-climbing and ski-mountaineering.  https://thebusinessofadventure.com/ http://cathyodowd.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life. 73Mentors Podcast http://73mentors.com/

Chris works with individuals and teams from around the globe and across industries to develop the critical skills and self-awareness needed to produce extraordinary results. With over 10 years of experience designing and leading programs that create understanding and trust between youth and adults from areas that have seen protracted international conflicts such as the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland, Chris has developed a keen depth of knowledge and insight into the dynamics of human relationships.He has translated this knowledge into the development of Acknowledgment Works’ highly interactive consulting, training, and coaching services. Based jointly in Santiago, Chile and the United States, Chris is Harvard University trained in negotiation, certified in mediation, and has a BA in Global Interactions from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Website: www.acknowledgmentworks.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-littlefield-88b36b5/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.c

Mike Robbins is the author of three books, Focus on the Good Stuff, Be Yourself Everyone Else is Already Taken, and Nothing Changes Until You Do, which have been translated into fourteen different languages.  His fourth book, Bring Your Whole Self to Work, comes out May 1st. As an expert in teamwork, leadership, and emotional intelligence, Mike delivers keynotes and seminars around the world that empower people, leaders, and teams to engage in their work, collaborate, and perform at their best. Through his speeches, seminars, consulting, and writing, Mike teaches important techniques that allow individuals and organizations to be more appreciative, authentic, and effective with others and themselves.   https://mike-robbins.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.   73Mentors Podcast http://73mentors.com/

As a maritime historian, Explorers Club member, shipwreck expert and avid world traveler, Taylor Zajonc’s real-life adventures nearly exceed those of his fictional counterparts. His fascination with exploration began when he joined a Russian expedition to the deepest archaeological site on the planet, descending nearly three miles into the abyss of the Bermuda Triangle aboard a Soviet-era submersible.   http://taylorzajonc.com     StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

Michel Neray has helped thousands of individuals craft and perform ‘purposeful’ stories to become more effective leaders, salespeople, coaches, teachers, trainers, speakers, and influencers of all types. He also uses Purposeful Storytelling to more effectively differentiate, position and brand organizations in the market.Michel combines a science degree from the University of Waterloo, an MBA from McGill University, and a career as a creative marketing copywriter, advertising agency director and marketing executive. A visionary and entrepreneurial game-changer, he created the world’s first online searchable directory of creative professionals (in 1995, before Google).Michel co-authored The Great Crossover, which made it to Jack Canfield’s Achiever’s Recommended Reading List. He has spoken at conferences in more than eight countries worldwide and founded momondays in 2012 as a monthly variety show that combines storytelling, comedy and live music. momondays has since expanded to more than 12 cities.   http://n

Julie Broad is an Amazon Overall #1 Best Selling Author, an International Book Award Winner, and recipient of the Beverly Hills Book Award for Best Sales book. As an entrepreneur and successful real estate investor she was also awarded the Top 20 under 40 Award. Her latest venture, Book Launchers, helps entrepreneurs and professionals build their brand and boost their business by writing, publishing, and selling a top quality book. In 2017, she also became a new Mom and moved from Vancouver Island, Canada to Los Angeles, California. https://booklaunchers.com/ Facebook: facebook.com/booklaunchers  Twitter: @thejuliebroad  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/juliebroad   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

  Chris Deardorff is a driven and creative marketing professional.  He possesses in-depth global sales and marketing experience working with Fortune 500 companies such as GE, Medtronic, Terumo BCT, and Seagate Technologies. He also has consulted and worked with numerous startups and small businesses including Kickfurther, Pixmoto, Fanzee, EvolveLab, Zometool, Clexia, Incuiry, Ascent CC, and FloDoggie. Throughout his twelve-year career, Chris has been responsible for developing story, marketing and business strategies that have generated rapid, double-digit financial growth and success. His experience includes developing story concepts, marketing and business plans, product roadmaps, and go-to-market plans that have helped companies effectively launch, market, and grow new products. Chris is currently completing the Stanford Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. Chris also has an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado - Boulder.   https://magicf

Joanna Penn is an author, speaker and entrepreneur.  Award-nominated author, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under J.F.Penn. She also writes inspirational non-fiction for authors and is an award-winning creative entrepreneur and international professional speaker. Her site, TheCreativePenn.com is regularly voted one of the top 10 sites for writers and self-publishers.   https://www.thecreativepenn.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

Alexa is a freelance writer, wife, and mother of three children and a dog. In addition to raising her children, managing her home, and writing, Alexa’s heart is in advocacy and raising funds to support nonprofit organizations involved with infant, children and women’s issues. Alexa launched her writing with her personal blog No Holding Back. Here she chronicles topics including health and wellness, living with autoimmune diseases, and most importantly, her grief after the loss of one of her twin daughters to complications from Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS). Alexa took the experience from that painful life event and channeled it into a compilation book for grieving mothers entitled Sunshine After the Storm: A Survival Guide for the Grieving Mother. She has also been published in two anthologies, The Mother of All Meltdowns and The HerStories Project. Alexa enjoys writing articles about parenting and children’s health and wellness topics for regional parenting publications and online magazines. In he

Awarded the Silver Stevie for “Mentor/Coach of the Year” by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, Lisa Tener is an inspiring book writing and publishing coach, author and speaker. Her clients have signed 5- and 6-figure book deals with HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Random House, Scribner’s, HCI, Beyond Words, New World Library, Hay House, New Harbinger, Yale University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, ABC-CLIO and other major publishers, as well as self published.   https://www.lisatener.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

NATE DERN is a writer / actor / director who lives in Los Angeles. He is a senior writer at Funny Or Die and the former artistic director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. He appeared in the Paolo Sorrentino film Youth and in the TV shows Boardwalk Empire and Gossip Girl. His writing has been published by The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Outside, Vice, New York Magazine, and others. "Not Quite a Genius" is his first book. http://www.natedern.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

Adam Booth's original stories blend traditional mountain folklore, music, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachia. He has been featured at the International Storytelling Center, the National Storytelling Festival, the Appalachian Studies Association Conference, the National Storytelling Conference, the National Academy of Medicine, and has been a Spoken Word Resident at the Banff Centre (Alberta). He is a member of the Recording Academy and recordings have received two Parents’ Choice Silver Honors and four Storytelling World Awards and Honors. He is a four-time champion of the West Virginia Liars' Contest.   http://www.adam-booth.com/   https://www.speakstoryseries.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

After nearly losing her husband in 2012 to medical negligence while we were living in Dallas, Jean and Blair decided to return to Canada and pursue their dream businesses for one year. Jean attended business development classes, launched her coaching and speaking business full time and developed JOY Bootcamp. Blair founded One More Story Games. In 2014, Jean joined him to manage operations and to raise money for our innovative startup. At the outset, Jean was the hustler to Blair being the hacker, evangelizing his vision for a platform designed for writers to create interactive storytelling games. Blair was the first CEO, Jean its first COO. As the company has evolved so have their roles. Blair is now its Chief Technology Officer, and Jean is its Chief Executive Officer.  They celebrated 20 years together in June 2016 and are thankful for the opportunity to work together, every day.   Bookmeetsgame.com Lilybard.com   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We ampli

Joshua Shea is a father of two and husband living in Maine. On the outside, people saw a successful magazine publisher, film festival founder and city councilor. For a long time, he hid my mental health issues, pornography and alcohol addictions from the world. In 2014, he was charged with possession of under age pornography after taking a screen capture of a teen girl in an online chatroom. Joshua served six months in jail for it in 2016.Today, he work as a ghostwriter and has several years of sobriety under his belt. His book is “The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About: How I Let My Pornography Addiction Hurt People and Destroy Relationships.”  He believes if we can begin to talk more about porn addiction and mental health, others may be able to address their addictions before they devolve to the unhealthy and criminal places where his hit rock bottom. https://recoveringpornaddict.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential a

Maurice Cherry is a content marketer at Fog Creek Software, a company dedicated to creating products that enable every person and every team to make thoughtful, useful software. Maurice was formerly the principal and creative director at Lunch, a multidisciplinary studio in Atlanta, GA that helped creative brands craft messages and tell stories for their targeted audiences, including fostering relationships with underrepresented communities.  Maurice is a pioneering digital creator who is most well-known for the Black Weblog Awards and Revision Path Podcast.   http://mauricecherry.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

Caleb is the Founder and CEO of Speakittobook.com, the premier ghostwriting agency for thought leaders.  He has collaborate on books and writing project with up to 8 figure earners with aims to double their revenue in less than 24 hours of their time.  Caleb is a craftsman of the written word and believes in capturing the unique voice of the person on the page.  Caleb has been traditionally publishing of both fiction and non-fiction.  He has been an award winning author from a number of organizations as well as an award winning journalist of star athletes and musicians.     http://www.speakittobook.com/ http://www.sermontobook.com/ https://startyourbooktoday.com/videoandblueprint   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

Andy helps successful professionals who know they aren't living up to their potential and are feeling lost in their current career.  I help them merge what they love, what they're great at, and what they care about, so they can finally tap into the meaningful and fulfilling work they crave.  His life path has  been one of many turns and experiences which he now brings to empower others.   http://www.eagerlygrowing.com/ https://www.facebook.com/EagerlyGrowing/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

Margot Leitman is the author of the best-selling book “Long Story Short, the Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need” and “Gawky, Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase.” Her next book, "Tell Your Story" releases August 2019. She has written for Dreamworks TV, the Hallmark Channel, the Pixl Network and NBC. In 2016 she worked for "This American Life" as the west coast story scout. She is the founder of the storytelling program at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre and is a five time winner of the Moth Storyslam and a winner of the Moth Grandslam receiving the first ever score of a perfect 10. She travels all over the world teaching people to tell their stories.   http://www.margotleitman.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Long-Story-Short https://www.facebook.com/margotleitman1/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

Nicole Stewart is a sixth generation Dallasite who has also lived in Chicago, the Bay Area, London, New York City and Los Angeles. She is an accomplished actress and teacher and director of theatre. After graduating from the Hockaday School in Dallas then with honors from Northwestern University’s theatre department, Stewart went on to act professionally in New York and Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Upworthy, Modern Loss, and D Magazine. She spoke about the power of sharing your story at TEDxSMU and TEDxKIDS. Nicole aims to continue the work by modernizing the ancient art of storytelling. Dallas Observer featured her in their inaugural “People Issue,” as one of “100 Dallas Creatives” and awarded her “Best Future Arts Leader.”  Nicole is celebrating five years of marriage to husband and Oral Fixation co-producer Anton Schlesinger. http://oralfixationshow.com/ https://www.facebook.com/oralfixationshow https://www.youtube.com/oralfixationshow https://twitter.com/orallyfixated   S

Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts in business storytelling. He’s one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers of 2018, a storytelling coach, and bestselling author of the books Sell with a Story (#1 bestseller in Amazon’s Sales and Selling category), Parenting with a Story, and Lead with a Story (#1 bestseller in Amazon’s Business Communication category) already in its 11th printing and available in 7 languages around the world. Paul is also a former consultant at Accenture and former executive and 20-year veteran of The Procter & Gamble Company.  And a return guest to storyhinge.  First, appearing in episode #5.   www.LeadWithAStory.com   My books: Lead with a Story  (Amazon #1 Bestseller in Business Communication) Sell with a Story  (Amazon #1 Bestseller in Sales and Selling) Parenting with a Story   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.