It’s 1998
…and I’m headed to Italy, my first time out of the country alone. In the spirit of my trip, I change my floating-phrase screen saver to Italian: Tutto ciò che cerco è già dentro di me. “All that I seek is already within me.”
I don’t know how it can be true. I’m greener than green behind the ears. Someone said it to me once and I became mesmerized by it. All I can do is repeat it in the sing-song of my newly acquired language, and wait for it to be true.
It’s 2011
If I know anything in the world, I know this:
“All that you seek is already within you.” Every answer, every mystery, every big adventure to prepare for, every story to tell. The elements are all inside. I know this from the uncountable numbers of people I have met on untold numbers of travels. I know it from the hundreds of interviews in which people have told me their issues and together we have sliced through them with one mighty sword: their stories.
It’s the stories. THAT’s what’s inside of us. And inside our stories is the code of our lives. Why? Because we can’t help but to do one thing the way we do everything. And when I listen to you tell me about THE THING you’re working on—creative opus, business copy, marketing plan, acting role, writing project—and then I listen to your stories, I hear what makes you thrill, what makes you special, what makes you afraid, and what makes you grow.
Break through writers block.
Understand your offer.
Find the deeper appeal in your pitch.
Express what you mean.
Organize the fragments of what feels like chaos into your electrified, true-to-heart, true-to-you voice.
You are one whole entity, made up of a million experiences, one big continuous story made up of a million smaller ones, and counting. In an interview, I help you see how the stories align. I help you apply your stories’ relevance to what you’re working on, to magnify, magnetize and fill with heart and life your content.
THE INTERVIEW
…is the forum for our conversation. People get into a Story Charming interview and forget they are sorting information or solving a problem. Their imaginations take flight, emotions bloom and dim corners of dreams light up.
It usually costs $150.
Through Dec 24 only, it’s $100.
Buy now, calendar through April 2012.
You press the button, I email you to confirm and calendar. You or yours gets the gift of creativity, flow…and the answers only she or he has inside. For $50 off.
It’s a lovely gift for the thinker, creator, renegade in your life, who wants clarity where there are cobwebs, or even collaboration where there is a really great idea that needs help executing. For the gifters, I’ll include a personalized gift certificate you can give.
From the Happily Charmed:
You’re a brilliant interviewer! I just ADORE YOU. Thank you for your words. Thank you for SEEING me. Your work is helping me discover myself personally as well as professionally. Thank you for being so open!
Padma Maxwell
www.artofthriving.comYou’re able to abstract meaning from a pile of confusion. You take that pile, remove the nonsense, and bring a sense of clarity to what is so desperately trying to be said. You create simplicity out of conundrum. More importantly though, you find the real meaning and help me pursue those thoughts in a much more substantial and clear way. It’s a pretty incredible gift. I’ve never met someone who can do that quite like you.
Matt Harding
VP Marketing, MasterPlans.comPema has an amazing way to translate what’s in your heart into killer marketing words.
Michelle Rodriguez
The Paid Stylist Program
All that you seek is already within you. Get Story Charmed for $100, till Dec 24 only, and let it out.
Buy now, calendar through April 2012.
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