Confidence Classic: Captivate Any Audience with These Expert Secrets of Storytelling with Ashley Stahl Top 100 TEDx Speaker
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Why is storytelling crucial for captivating an audience?
Why would we do one conversation after the other when we can just stand in front of an audience of 500 people and just move them so powerfully that they come to find us to work with us? It's just unlike any other method I've found so far.
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Hi and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with us this week. Okay. You know, it's so rare that I have a guest on multiple times, but today I just had to do it. One, she's my friend, but two, this girl drops gems and teaches just at a whole other level that I had to expose you to it yet again. Okay. Ashley Stahl, she's the founder of Wise Whisper Agency. She's literally crafted hundreds of TEDx talks and speeches, stages all over from South by Southwest, MGM, so many venues and events, other level. I mean, her speaker agency is crushing it and she's turning dreams into reality for hundreds of people and she can do it for you too. Ashley, thank you so much for being here with us today. Thank you for having me. Okay.
So there's so much we want to talk about today, how to craft an ideal talk, how to be a captivating storyteller and blow people away and how to go viral. But before we get into your wheelhouse and you've done all of those things, and I can't wait to hear from you on it. I was just asking you offline about when you worked at the Pentagon and you took me into this whole story about how, when you were at the Pentagon, you were asked to speak and give your first keynote ever and talk me through how that went. Cause I know, I know a lot of people that are listening now have never gotten on stage, have always thought about like, how do you do it? So break it down how it all happened and how you were able to pull it off.
It's so funny. I always used to think that when we would see somebody on TV, somebody like went running after them to grab them and put them there. And what I didn't realize is that that person is a publicist, not like somebody else that just wants them to be there. I don't know why, like... Everybody who's quote unquote sought after, I just really growing up thought, wow, people must be like, TV networks must be racing down to get this expert. They must be good. I didn't understand the world of PR and publicity and how there is just entire workforces full of people that people are paying to get them on tv to get them on stages i had no idea how much personal brand can be a game of pay to play or if you don't want to pay you need to work and get it done because it's a lot of tedious work so for me in my 20s i worked in national security it was during the obama administration i know we live in a very politically heated era so i hope nobody gets spicy about that for better or for worse what we can agree regardless of our politics is that he was seen as a pretty good speaker
And so I would watch him speak. And one of the things I noticed that he would do is he would always pause. And in his pauses, I could see people processing his information in such a different way. Meanwhile, I ended up getting a job working in national security at the Pentagon. And so I wasn't really tied to him. My team reported to the Secretary of Defense. And I spent my whole life trying to get there. I learned languages. I got the degrees. I spoke French, Arabic. I started learning Dari, which is spoken in Afghanistan. And so there I was at the Pentagon in DC. I was like 23 and I wanted to join the CIA. I wanted to become a spy. And the reason I wanted to do that was because people always shared things with me.
And I thought, wow, after seeing 9-11 happen, you know, when I was in high school, standing there watching the TV screen, I thought, wow, if this is happening in the world and I can use my language skills and my people skills to fix this in some way, because I always knew it was a gift from a young age, I'm going to use it.
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