Storytelling on the Inside Transforms Your Leadership with Lauren Ready

A horrible knot forms in your stomach. Your ears fill with that whooshing sound. You start to wonder, “Is that true?!” From overhearing something to unhelpful feedback or even just mean words…those stories stick with us. And it will impact the way you show up in the world and will overflow into your team, your career, and your business. So what do you do next? Lauren, Principal Storyteller of Forever Ready Productions and recovering journalist, joined us to share how our stories and beliefs are impacting our leadership. We both shared stories of times we’ve allowed someone else’s story to shape and influence our lives far beyond that one incident. Lauren jumped in with the ways she took an old unhelpful story and transformed it to change her her results. She identified her values. Are you leading and living from a place that honors your values? (If you have never done this work or need to revisit, we’re diving into it at my retreat in February!) She really looked at her stories. Is there something you’re letting live rent-free in your head that’s not true? Do you know how to identify the story? And more importantly, change the story to change your results? Here’s what we talked about: 06:30 Using story to talk about yourself 10:05 When Lauren overheard a story that changed her 12:46 What a bad story in our head costs us 14:38 Digging into leadership stories