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“If you are looking for an entertaining, funny and thoroughly enjoyable podcast which helps you feel more connected to other human beings, with the added benefit of helping you to find stories in your life and tell them well, you are in the right place.
I stumbled upon the Speak Up Storytelling podcast when someone recommended the practice of Matthew’s Homework for Life(TM), and I googled it. I started at the beginning of the podcast, and was hooked with episode one.
Nearly every day since, Matthew and Elysha Dicks have kept me company as I do my dishes, clean my house and wrestle with the stories of several decades of life, which often resist my efforts to corral and share them in a coherent way.
I love the banter and deep affection obvious between the husband-wife team; I enjoy the professional quality and predictable format of most episodes—I’ve found some new favorite things through the weekly “recommendations” segment—and I also value the variety added by occasional special episodes.
The featured stories from various storytellers are funny, heartwarming, well-crafted and well-told, and Matt freely shares valuable advice on finding, structuring and sharing stories for maximum clarity, impact and emotional power.
I recently applied what I’m learning from the Speak Up podcast at a local storytelling meetup, and the host complimented me on diving right into the action of my story before sharing background information, a skill I learned from Matt. The host also told me that, with a little work, my story could fit right in on a Moth storytelling stage. And I used to be the one who bored with too much background info! This podcast works.
Recently, I have watched the archive of past episodes dwindle as I burn through them—I have a lot of dishes to wash! Two days ago, I recorded my chagrin at being almost caught up in my Homework for Life entry. Today, I finished the most recent episode. I am more than a little bereft at the loss of as much Speak Up Storytelling as I want, whenever I want.
Which brings me to the only problem I have with this podcast...it makes me wish I lived next door to Matthew and Elysha, instead of across the country because, after seventy-something episodes, they feel like friends.”
mliesel via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/17/19
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