338 Potential Prospect

Your Stories Don’t Define You, How You Tell Them Will

338 Potential Prospect

Throughout our lives as we work towards our goals, whether that be in a company or in our own personal pursuits, we often need to reflect on whether or not what we are doing is in alignment with our values and what we want to do in the future. Then we take the steps to ensure that our actions are in alignment and working in tandem without desire for a better future.

In this episode Sarah Elkins and Bryce Arii discuss the importance of self reflection, legacy, and staying in alignment with your values as you work towards your future.

Highlights

• What legacy are you leaving behind?

• Finding what matters to you, your team, and keeping that in alignment.

• Use your words, people cannot read your mind.

• Self reflect on the reasons you are doing things, is it in alignment.

Quotes

“You know what matters to you, you know what matters to the business, and you know what matters to your team, and you’re in perfect alignment.”

“Well why do I want it? And that kicked off this whole series of self reflection, self transformation where it was really about ‘well I want to do that because of the unlimited potential of the people that I’d be leading’, to go and do really transformative things.”

“It really came down to Why am I doing this.”

Dear Listeners it is now your turn,

I’m really curious where you will take the messages that you got from this conversation with Bryce Arii and me, and if you’re a leader who are you missing their potential and why? Is it because you are only seeing them as one component of who they are and what they do, or are you seeing them from the past, an experience that you’ve had in the past that they’ve transformed since then and you might be missing something important for their impact in your organization. Are you that person? You can’t expect someone like Bryce to swoop in and save the day and propel you to stardom, it doesn’t work like that most of the time. So I’d really encourage you to share your competency and the why behind it through your stories, that will help people see you beyond what their direct experience has been so far

And, as always, thank you for listening.

About Bryce

Founder and Managing Consultant for Humagined, LLC, Bryce has been leading complex transformation programs focused on business process improvement. Bryce has a human forward approach that gets results. Be sure to check out his LinkedIn and Humagined!

About Sarah

"Uncovering the right stories for the right audiences so executives, leaders, public speakers, and job seekers can clearly and actively demonstrate their character, values, and vision."

In my work with coaching clients, I guide people to improve their communication using storytelling as the foundation of our work together. What I’ve realized over years of coaching and podcasting is that the majority of people don’t realize the impact of the stories they share - on their internal messages, and on the people they’re sharing them with.

My work with leaders and people who aspire to be leaders follows a similar path to the interviews on my podcast, uncovering pivotal moments in their lives and learning how to share them to connect more authentically with others, to make their presentations and speaking more engaging, to reveal patterns that have kept them stuck or moved them forward, and to improve their relationships at work and at home.

The audiobook, Your Stories Don’t Define You, How You Tell Them Will is now available!

Included with your purchase are two bonus tracks, songs recorded by Sarah's band, Spare Change, in her living room in Montana.

Be sure to check out the Storytelling For Professionals Course as well to make sure you nail that next interview!