Jeff Stein is an award winning storyteller and toastmaster. Here he shares a 99 second story with Story Luck for our 99 Second Storytelling Contest.
Tag: Storytelling
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Mar 17 2021
5L1K and the Importance of Listening Well
A big part of our Workshop! Workshop! lessons is that everything’s a skill, and if you practice you’ll get better. Listening is a skill. It’s an almost meditative skill. Often, we don’t think about listening as being a skill because so much of our listening has become passive listening. Passive listening is hearing the person …
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Mar 16 2021
99 Second Story by Walt Belcher
On March 31st we will be sharing all of the stories people shared with us over the past two months during our 99 Second Story Contest. There you’ll be able to vote on this one!
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Mar 16 2021
99 Second Story – Featuring Nadia Felecan
Nadia Felecan told this 99 second story for the first time at Sean Wellington’s 99 second story slam. And it’s going to take her to the Grand Slam in a few weeks. Meanwhile, if you want to see more of these 99 second stories, check them out on our website here. It’s a little on …
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Mar 15 2021
Doug Lipman, Listening, and 5L1K
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. All links are affiliate links. Here at Story Luck we really liked Doug Lipman’s Book on Storytelling. It’s a huge influence on us. I want to relay an anecdote Doug recounts in …
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Mar 11 2021
Workshop Workshop Featuring – Vanessa Tardiff from I love Bad Star Trek
Join us Monday6pm CentralFreeTwitch.tv/storyluckFacebook Invite Vanessa Loves Bad Star Trek Vanessa Tardiff has been calling Chicago home for the last decade since leaving home in Washington, D.C. But we get the sense she’d be just as happy on the bridge of the Enterprise. As soon as she was capable of spelling she tells us, she …
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Mar 10 2021
The Power of Listening
Deep listening is an active process. Fundamentally what you are aiming for is to understand what the other person is trying to convey. Often that means you will need to ask questions to help clarify and fill in any details that are missing.
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Mar 08 2021
Narrative and the Sense of Self
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. Narrative in the manner talked about the other day, allows us to have a cohesive sense of self over a vast level of time. We order events, imbue them with meaning, and …
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Mar 04 2021
Danette Mark – Featuring @ Story Luck’s Workshop! Workshop!
Danette Mark is an artist who chooses to express herself through the medium of stand-up comedy. She has been writing and performing comedy for the past 8 years in the Chicago-land area. She received formal training at Second City in Chicago in 2012. Danette’s style of comedy is anecdotal where she loves to joke and tell stories about her out-of-box way of thinking which affects all aspects of her life especially how she relates to others.
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