Good morning! Thank you for letting me into your inbox and for your time.
A week ago, someone told me, "You're not telling the story right (when you pitch yourself or Podium)." Stark truth.
I’ve been thinking about getting a storytelling/speaking coach recently. But hearing this after asking for help with pitching, it hit me that I'd been falling into the founder trap - making it about me instead of the transformation I'm inviting people to join. Ope!
This year, mentoring brilliant PhD researchers at Montana State, I watched them struggle with the same thing. They knew their breakthrough technologies inside and out, but couldn't extract the human narrative that makes others care.
It reminded me of building The Mother Love - I thought I was telling birth stories, but I was creating a community around shared transformation. The power wasn't in my founder story. It was in amplifying theirs.
The founders who will own the next decade aren't the ones with the best personal origin stories. They're the ones who see connections across industries that others keep separate—and know how to tell stories that invite others to join that vision.
I'm exploring “when stories become your flywheel” over at Podium this week.
See you over there!
Becca