Jun 24, 2016
Marsha
Shandur (aka Yes Yes Marsha) has the gift of making people laugh
while sharing really insightful lessons. Throughout our discussion,
she offers amazing ideas for communicating effectively, practices
for staying positive, and lessons from the near-death experience of
her great aunt...all through stories.
Marsha is a professional
storytelling coach and she attributes her storytelling talents to
growing up in a large, close-knit Russian family that communicates
through highly-detailed stories. She runs an event called True
Stories Told Live Toronto, and works with corporations to help
humanize leaders. And, she is the official storytelling coach for
World Domination Summit (do-gooders descending on
Portland).
Learn
more about Marsha by checking out the web page she set up for Ever
Better listeners at YesYesMarsha.com/EverBetter.
Listen to the podcast to hear Marsha
discuss:
- Why
you should email 25 people and ask them to name your top
qualities
- How she became known
as Yes Yes Marsha
- Marie
Folio's B-School
- Tips to improve social
skills
- Teaching people to share their
"why" through their personal stories
- Transitioning from DJ to
storytelling coach
- Memory scavengering
- True Stories Told Live
Toronto
- How our brains respond to stories
when we're in the room with the storyteller
- Volunteering at a day center for
seniors with dementia
- The benefits of spending time with
seniors and children
- Growing up in a multi-generational
family
- Denise B. Scott's work finding
volunteer jobs for nursing home residents
- Favorite quotes from her
granny
"If they're that
close, they're looking in your eyes"
"You should only get
married if you absolutely
cannot."
"We own our things; they don't own
us."
- Staying positive
through: A gratitude
practice; Prayer; Sending thank you cards
- Storytelling
tips: Include detail
that helps someone to experience what you
experienced. Don’t have
too many extraneous characters.
- The near-death experience of
Marsha's great-aunt. All the times she wasn't nice to people
flashed in front of her eyes.
Share your thoughts about the podcast! Contact Lisa directly at Lisa@EverBetterU.com