Believing Your Story & Delivery
Storytelling For Business Training Course
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Tell the truth, it's the easier thing to remember, wrote American playwright David Mamet. This rings true when it comes to both: How we relate to what we say - and how we say it to others. When we tell a story that we've experienced, we're in a much deeper relationship to our content.
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