That's a clean assumption, but it's the wrong edit

because what happened is not automatically a story.

It's a pile of events, a resume in a costume,

or a documentary nobody asked to watch uncut.

The real story is the meaning you pull from the mess.

It's the moment someone hears you and thinks, "Oh, that's me,"

or "That's the thing I haven't been able to name."

And of course, in a world drowning in content,

AI summaries, sales webinars, pitch decks,

and personal brands wearing matching linen sets on LinkedIn,

story may actually be the last trust engine

and ship what actually works under pressure.

author of "Make Your Own Glass Half Full",

where I help leaders rebuild their operating system

when the tools that got them here stop working.

And this one is a podswap in the truest sense.

where he's going to take my very nonlinear story:

Then Kyle is here today so we can ask the deeper question:

There was such a unique essence of like a almost like an iHeartRadio

or like a non-live recorded podcast to your introduction.

I feel like I'm on a professional like NPR radio show,

when you described your process as basically

helping experts experience their own story

Why do smart smart experts struggle so badly

Well, I think you actually, in your brilliant introduction,

illustrated one of the biggest problems is,

And those emotions we assigned to those things many years ago,

and it's like they all feel so important.

And so, I either have to, like, talk for so long

and just like share what I feel is important,

over the amount of time that I was trying to talk,

Storytelling for Experts: Your Story Isn’t What Happened | Kyle Gray

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