Jessica Henkin is the co-founder of Stoop Storytelling, a Baltimore-based live show and podcast featuring "ordinary" people telling extraordinary, true tales of their lives. Stoop held its first live show back in 2006 and has since welcomed nearly 4,000 people to its stages across Baltimore. In our conversation, Jessica shares about what makes a powerful live story, how to connect with your audience, why being emotionally present is so important, and how listening to these personal stories has caused her to fall more in love with humanity.

This episode is sponsored in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

1. "Listening Is An Act of Love" by Dave Isay
2. The Moth
3. Stoop Storytelling event at Manor Mill on Aug 16, 2024
4. Stoop Storytelling on WYPR

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• Mike Drucker on Stand-Up Comedy, Sharing First Drafts, and Embracing Kindness in Comedy (Ep. 10)
• Andrew Auseon on "Spellbinders" and What Video Games Teach Us about Storytelling (Ep. 12)

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Celeste Stacey is a Mental Wellness Coach and entrepreneur who specializes in helping high-achieving individuals identify and recover from chronic overwhelm. In this episode, we discuss the progression from stress to anxiety to chronic overwhelm and ways to notice when you're headed towards burnout; the different ways coaches and consultants serve businesses and business leaders; how to determine whether you need to work with a therapist, a coach, and/or a psychiatrist in your personal journey toward mental wellness; and how Celeste's own burnout from a previous entrepreneurial venture led to her becoming a Mental Wellness Coach.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

1. Forbes article, "Navigating Entrepreneurship And Mental Health: Lessons I Learned That May Help You, Too"
2. Young Vo interview

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• Dr. Tracy Hall on Wellbeing in the Workplace and Skills for Preventing Burnout (Ep. 14)
• Rob Grabow on Writing and Directing a Film, What Drives Us As Creatives, and Tips for Noticing When You Need To Slow Down

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Cadie Bridges-Palmer and Stephanie Fabian are the founders and co-owners of Yoga Union Baltimore. As long-time yoga teachers in the city of Baltimore, they weren't initially planning to build a growing business - they just wanted to get their community back after the COVID pandemic. But as you'll hear in this interview, these "accidental entrepreneurs" have built a thriving, community-centered yoga studio that is now a staple of the neighborhood, and they've grown as entrepreneurs who are now considering growth and expansion opportunities.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

1. Mikael Dia Interview on Building a SaaS Startup and Finding the Right Customers
2. Leadership U: Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve by Gary Burnison

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Jennia D'Lima is a developmental and line editor and writing coach. She provides professional, personalized, and in-depth editing services for fiction and non-fiction, from middle grade to adult. She also hosts the Writing & Editing podcast. In this conversation, we talk about the different types of editing you need for your manuscript, developing your voice as a writer, killer dialogue, helping your reader feel the emotion of a scene, the importance of categorizing your book under the right sub-genre, and much more.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

1. "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron
2. K-lytics newsletter (literary sub-genre listings)
3. Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) Directory
4. Maryland Writers' Association - Writers' Resources - Proofreading & Editing
5. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison

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This show is hosted by Tiffany Aurora: https://tiffanyaurora.com

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Mikael Dia is the founder and CEO of Funnelytics, a software that allows you to visually map and analyze how people flow through your marketing funnels. On this episode, we talked about strategizing based on the activity trends of power users, whether you should start your company with a co-founder, focusing your time in your zone(s) of genius, and Mikael's go-to question for customers to help him gather insightful, useful data about what's working well and what isn't.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

1. SaaS Academy: The complete business growth system for SaaS founders
2. Founders Board: A mentorship and peer advisory mastermind for 7, 8, and 9-figure entrepreneurs & CEOs

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Angelo Otterbein is the proprietor of Manor Mill, a restored historic grist mill and miller’s house in Monkton, Maryland, a little north of Baltimore. Manor Mill is a creative hub, a chance to be “surrounded by all things creative,” as Angelo says. In this episode, we talk about the importance of being in a state of openness to the people and ideas around you; how everybody is passionate about something, and how there’s magic in creating space for that passion to shine; the importance of hustle when building a business; and much more. Bonus content for any birders in the audience: Manor Mill now hosts falconry classes! If you ever wanted to hold an owl or falcon in real life, now's your chance.

Manor Mill: https://manor-mill.com/

This episode is sponsored in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

1. Bird Day at Manor Mill
2. Gallery Show at Manor Mill: Birds, Avian Exploration
3. Stoop Storytelling

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Dr. Tracy Hall, co-founder of Healing Centered Restorative Engagement, talks about wellbeing in the workplace, working as a team from an abundance mindset instead of a scarcity mindset, skills and resources for entrepreneurs to make sure they don't burn out, and much more.

Healing Centered Restorative Engagement: https://www.hcre.info/

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Books mentioned in this episode:

1. Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
2. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
3. Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell
4. Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Dr. Arline T. Geronimus

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Michael Amato is an entrepreneur and the founder of Fresh Flow Aquatics. Fresh Flow Aquatics services all-natural freshwater ecosystem aquariums, helping you design and care for a beautiful planted aquarium. In our conversation, we talked about where Mike goes for inspiration for his aquascaping designs, the joys and stresses of owning a small business, how his personal habits and business services have had to shift as his business grows, and the importance of having people in your life who support you.

Fresh Flow Aquatics: https://www.freshflowaquatics.com/ Fresh Flow Aquatics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXUpw-vSH1flphqUCi3jeA Contact Mike for a digital consult: michael@freshflowaquatics.com

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Books mentioned in this episode:

1. Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell 2. The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us about Work and Life by Sally Jenkins

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