This week on the Penny Drop Penny reflects on something that happened to her at the supermarket which she reckons has happened to you to... hopefully, maybe, we'll you'll just have to listen to see. She reckons there's a big learning that we can all take back to our jobs.

Penny recorded the Penny Drop this week just after she re-read an email she was about to send... but then didn't. It reminded her of something she learned in her 20's when she went to a dress-up party. There is a big penny-dropping moment here about communication and how others see us.

This week on The Penny Drop Penny talks about a Penny-dropping-moment she had while fiddling with some tech settings during a client session. What started as an unfortunate echo, sent Penny down the rabbit hole that is the third voice she can hear in every conversation. It started off annoying but now it's become very useful indeed.

Penny had no idea that she'd end up recording this episode of The Penny Drop quite like this. There she was, looking up into the sky and just had to grab her microphone because the view took her somewhere that you need to know about!

Penny takes you out on the farm and to a gateway on this week's episode of The Penny Drop as she discusses why all leaders need to get good at opening gates. The simple ones and the hard ones. And also be aware of what paddock you're letting people into.

Penny has a guest producer for this episode of the Penny Drop and while he provides little help with the production he has provided plenty of inspiration... This week, Penny shares a story about her producer to explain a habit she's formed when it comes to asking questions. She's wondering if you have any questions habits. Well, do you?

This week on The Penny Drop, Penny Terry recounts an early morning announcement and what it taught her about the importance of good starts.

This week on the Penny Drop, Penny Terry had some thoughts (out loud) while trying to create a mock-up book cover for a book she's working on. She's wondering if we're trading 'easy' for 'interesting' and if so, what's the cost of that?

This week on The Penny Drop Penny recalls one of her top five talkback segments from her days as a radio presenter with the ABC. She unpacks one of the reasons why people couldn't help but call in and contribute to the conversations and reckons this can be a useful way to get inside peoples heads no matter where you are.

This week on the Penny Drop, Penny takes you on a tour of her home but she can't stop looking out the windows as she wanders around. Turns out, we can learn a lot about how to ask good questions by looking out windows. Yep, really.

Penny's back after a Summer break that's left her with more questions than answers... but she reckons this is best thing that can happen to any of us! In this episode of the Penny Drop, Penny asks YOU a big question that will lead to better answers.

This week on The Penny Drop, Penny Terry re-lives an awkward conversation with her manager and chats about what she learned about authenticity from a little green weatherboard house.

In this episode, things get a bit gory as Penny explains a recent (quite ridiculous) injury and what she learned from the conversations at the Doctor's surgery.

Penny's drive to work this morning was a little bit different, which got her thinking about a key point in our conversations where things become much clearer.

This week Penny moves onto the second step of her six-step storytelling conversation framework. Somehow she links it to a recent conversation with her husband, farm equipment and a Christmas list...

This week Penny goes off-script and even starts commentating her own podcast! She's got something exciting to tell (sell) you and uses it to demonstrate how metaphor stories work.

In this week's episode of The Penny Drop, Penny recalls an 'on air' fail she had as a radio presenter and what it taught her about getting and maintaining attention.

On this week's episode of The Penny Drop Penny recalls a problematic yet interesting incident from many years ago that comes with a lesson on how to get our audience to 'tune in'.

This week Penny's been reminded of something that she recorded at this time last year and dragged it out of the archives - and the message still holds both personally for Penny and professionally for storytellers - start with the end in mind.

In this week's episode of The Penny Drop, Penny puts one of her clients to the test! You get to meet Alice who very succinctly describes a useful technique to make sure your stories always have a point (so you can feel confident that you won't end up waffling).

In this week's episode, Penny takes us on a walk around her garden, via an escavator! She unpacks a simple way to craft stories to make sure they seem manageable, are less messy and more memorable.

This week Penny hit record while listening to another podcast! She was listening to an episode of The Imperfects she heard a great example of something we often struggle with when we are trying to make an important point.

Penny thinks she may have manifested this week's story! After recording the last Penny Drop episode she dropped in to see a friend who put empathy into action. It was the perfect display of how we can be empathetic storytellers and have more powerful conversations.

Penny's back - and of all things - is banging on about Pictionary! After playing a game of Pictionary at the beach Penny realised that while like to think that we DO think about our audience when we communicate,  she's found that most of her clients find it harder than they realised thanks to very annoying cognitive bias.

In this week's episode of The Penny Drop, Penny is recording from the airport as she notices something that most of us do, every day in our own jobs, without realising.