On this week's episode of GRIT, host Sean talks with Cat Dean. Cat lives in Carrboro, NC. She is an improv artist, martial artist, storyteller and badass mother of two.
EPISODE TIMELINE
2:30- Cat's 5-minute story
8:30-
11- Beware of the bad guy/gal trap!
12- Making a movie in our minds with scenes/verb tense
13- Cat's 'first three sentences' rule
14- Do not assume we want to hear your story!
15- The danger of over animating and over emoting and why Cat loathes silly accents
16- Know your skill set- then leverage it!
17- People are what’s interesting!
18- The hardest part of crafting this story (nothing happens!) and why Cat had to create pictures more carefully
20- How Cat doesn't 'give anything away'
22- When it's over, end it - without the TED Talk (trust your audience can figure it out!)
23:30- Characterizing ('the kind of'...)
25- Don't ask us to juggle a bunch of facts
26- Why Cat likes mostly sense memories (and not just what happened)
27- Show > tell is usually more satisfying
29- YOU have MANY stories!
30- PRO TIP
30:45- Favorite tellers
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