Bring It to Life
A story doesn’t end with the words. How you tell it shapes what people experience.
You might be telling a story in a wedding toast, around a dinner table, in an interview, on a podcast, in a classroom, at a fundraiser, or on a stage. Wherever someone is listening, your voice, presence, timing, and connection help bring the story off the page and into the room.
These rehearsals use six performance lenses to help you explore the choices that shape a telling: intention, beats, voice, body, experience, and audience. No microphone, no recording, no scores. Just practical ways to rehearse, experiment, and discover how you want your story to land.
The six lenses
Intention
What you want this telling to do for the people listening.
Every story can be told for a different reason. The same events can reassure, warn, thank, or invite someone to think again.
Naming the reason before you speak gives every other choice something to answer to.
In a rehearsal you choose the strongest intention for the story and see why it holds up.
Rehearsals
The Feedback I Didn’t Want
Defensiveness & Self-Awareness
The First Time I Said No
Boundaries & Self-Respect
The Team That Didn’t Need Me
Being Needed
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Practice out loud
A quiet place to tell a whole story from start to finish. Pick any story here or add your own, read it with the beats marked, then run it out loud one beat at a time with a timer. Afterward, try the same story again for a different imagined audience. No microphone, no recording, no scoring.
Start practicing out loud