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EPISODE · Sep 30, 2025 · 1H 5M

Storytelling as a Change Agent, with Meg Bowles

from The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast · host Just-in-Time Cafe

It's October at the Cafe, and Elisabeth and Tracy got to sit down with Meg Bowles—co-author of the New York Times bestseller How to Tell a Story—to explore why stories power so much of our work and lives. In Book Buzz, they spill what got underlined and dog-eared (stakes, structure, callbacks, and more) in today's book. And for Q&A, they tackle the evergreen trap: jumping to solutions before we’ve even named the problem. 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - What's on the Menu? 02:11 - Book Buzz How To Tell A Story 15:15 - Q&A "How do you handle the impulse to jump to solution?" 27:37 - Featured Guest Meg Bowles 01:01:40 - Upcoming Events Lean Construction Congress New England Lean Summit Virtual Lean Coffee Discussion of Picture Yourself a Leader Hosted by the Michigan Lean Consortium: 📅 October 10 | ⏰ 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM ET 💻 Virtual | ✅ Members: Free | Non-Members: $20 Register Now: https://lnkd.in/g72jzbig Resources: New! Picture Yourself a Leader as an audiobook! Multiple-award-winning book, Picture Yourself A Leader 5S Baby!, Ms. Fix-a-Lot's latest Lean Rap Video Thanks for Listening! Listen to more podcasts at JITCafe.com. Link to the video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/Wgxuzsyf6B4 Apple Podcasts Podbean Spotify RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/JITCafe/feed.xml

It's October at the Cafe, and Elisabeth and Tracy got to sit down with Meg Bowles—co-author of the New York Times bestseller How to Tell a Story—to explore why stories power so much of our work and lives. In Book Buzz, they spill what got underlined and dog-eared (stakes, structure, callbacks, and more) in today's book. And for Q&A, they tackle the evergreen trap: jumping to solutions before we’ve even named the problem. 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - What's on the Menu? 02:11 - Book Buzz How To Tell A Story 15:15 - Q&A "How do you handle the impulse to jump to solution?" 27:37 - Featured Guest Meg Bowles 01:01:40 - Upcoming Events Lean Construction Congress New England Lean Summit Virtual Lean Coffee Discussion of Picture Yourself a Leader Hosted by the Michigan Lean Consortium: 📅 October 10 | ⏰ 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM ET 💻 Virtual | ✅ Members: Free | Non-Members: $20 Register Now: https://lnkd.in/g72jzbig Resources: New! Picture Yourself a Leader as an audiobook! Multiple-award-winning book, Picture Yourself A Leader 5S Baby!, Ms. Fix-a-Lot's latest Lean Rap Video Thanks for Listening! Listen to more podcasts at JITCafe.com. Link to the video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/Wgxuzsyf6B4 Apple Podcasts Podbean Spotify RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/JITCafe/feed.xml

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It's October at the Cafe, and Elisabeth and Tracy got to sit down with Meg Bowles—co-author of the New York Times bestseller How to Tell a Story—to explore why stories power so much of our work and lives. In Book Buzz, they spill what got underlined...

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