The Pedal Love Podcast
by Melissa Balmer
We're storytelling, communications, and leadership coaches. We help you create safer, friendlier streets, and a healthier, more sustainable world by teaching effective storytelling strategies that connect, inspire and motivate as part of a smart communications and leadership strategy.
Episodes
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Excerpt from Chapter 2 - Who to Draw as Howl
This is a very short excerpt from my WIP Kitsap Summer, a cozy contemporary romance set in the Pacific Northwest. Novel written and excerpt read by Melissa Balmer.
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How I Gave Up My Car Sample Story
This is a 5-minute sample short story by Melissa Balmer of PedalLove.org. This story uses Melissa's 8-step "Simplified Hero's Journey" story for advocates. You can learn more about PedalLove's communication and storytelling coaching at PedalLove.org.
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Stories Need Conflict
In this short 6-minute story Melissa Balmer shares why stories need conflict to be compelling. To demonstrate she share's the story of Audrey, a young storyteller she coached to be authentic and share her "struggling & overcoming" as part of the storytelling project for the San Luis Obispo…
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It's Just Like Riding A Bike
In this 5-minute story Melissa Balmer of Pedal Love tells the story of the 2009 Belmont Shore Christmas Parade in Long Beach California where she remembers the bicycle is a strength maximizer. Find more storytelling tools, tips and online classes at www.PedalLove.org.
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Pedal Love Podcast with Melissa Balmer & Jim Brown
In our Pedal Love Podcast reboot Melissa & Jim take a look at 3 key questions to ask yourself in order to choose the right story to include in your next communications piece. They also interview Renee Moore the Program Manager for Bike Arlington on what it was like to learn to ride a bike as an...
About this show
We're storytelling, communications, and leadership coaches. We help you create safer, friendlier streets, and a healthier, more sustainable world by teaching effective storytelling strategies that connect, inspire and motivate as part of a smart communications and leadership strategy.
Hosted by
Melissa Balmer