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Storytelling Mastery: Engaging the Senses With Melinda Lee · Speak In Flow

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  Melinda Lee: Dear listeners, I'm so glad you're here. Welcome to
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  another speak and flow Podcast. Today we're going to talk about
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  storytelling. And not just any type of storytelling,
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  descriptive storytelling, specifically around sight and
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  sound, sight and sound. Cool, right? I know that many of you
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  are leaders out there and always getting better improving in your
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  speeches, presentations and narrative storytelling is, is
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  one of the most powerful, effective tools that you can use
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  to engage all the senses, right of your audience's multi sensory
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  information, and they just cannot help but be at the edge
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  of their seats, listening to what you have to say. Barack
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  Obama does so beautifully. Like he includes powerful examples
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  and narratives of people that he sees people that he visits and
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  gets in touch with and is tells these heartfelt stories. Taylor
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  Swift, which I've been listening to and reading about, she's a
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  person of the year her music if you listen to it, she includes
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  even if you don't like the sound, but if you listen to the
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  lyrics, she includes powerful descriptive storytelling,
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  similes, metaphors to describe what is happening, describe how
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  she's feeling. And so it behoves us as great masterful
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  communicators, to master this skill of descriptive
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  storytelling. And today, sight and sound will be the focus, I'm
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  going to give you some techniques on how to do this
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  effectively in your next story. So you can really capture the
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  hearts of your listeners. So sight, painting a mental
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  picture, in the audience's mind, I think it's fascinating how we
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  can actually do that just by saying a word or a couple of
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  words, people can automatically it just pops up like they cannot
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  help it. Purple Elephant, purple giant purple elephant in the
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  room. And now suddenly, you cannot help but see this giant
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  purple elephant with a long trunk and a big purple glow in
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  there. How cool is that? Right? The zesty bright yellow lemon
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  zest the bright yellow lemon are so bright and yellow. Now you
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  have a picture of a yellow lemon. And I'm just saying
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  words. So that is how you use words to create and paint a
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  picture. And to practice getting good at this. We want to be more
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  intentional about seeing every little detail in our life. And
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  who doesn't want to do that, right. Because we have limited
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  time on Earth, we might as well just pay attention to all the
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  beautiful details of life, including colour, texture, you
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  could describe the location of where you're at. So if you're
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  about to describe the location, or where you're at, you can use
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  this technique broad to detail. Here's an example. I was sitting
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  in a beautiful green picturesque forests with lots of trees. So
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  the green trees everywhere around me. And then suddenly, I
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  see a little red Ladybug, crawling on the floor, and then
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  crawling up to my shoe. So there you go. I went from large broad
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  stroke to very small detail. So that is how you can describe
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  what you're seeing in the location of where you're at. And
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  just by using words, people are getting the visual in their
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  head, and they're right there with you. How cool is that?
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  Right You're taking them along the journey to where you're at.
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  And then include some sound into the story. You can describe your
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  sound is auditory, right and so you can play around with the
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  different volume. Is that loud or soft? The nuances of the
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  sound? Is there a buzzing is there sizzling? You can use
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  words that sound like what you're actually hearing buzzing,
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  sizzling and don't forget sound can also create a motion right
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  so The loud thunderstorm sometimes will create some fear
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  in others, or the whimper of the cute dog. All right, there's an
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  emotion the whimpering of a cute dog. So even sound can create a
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  motion. The rustling of the leaves. As I was sitting in the
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  forest, I heard the rustling of the leaves and noticed the
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  little red ladybug on my shoe. And so now you're bringing in
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  sound into your visual. And now we're including more senses. And
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  you're drawing people in to your story. Play around with that,
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  use your creativity. This is your time there, we don't often
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  get a chance to play around with creativity and describing what
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  we're seeing or hearing. I highly encourage you to practice
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  telling these stories to your children to to other people, to
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  your friends, and just play have fun with it. And if you need
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  some additional support you can always come into I have speaking
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  sprints, where we go through deliberate practice on
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  storytelling focusing on sight sound. And in our next episode,
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  we're going to talk about touch and scent and smell, bringing
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  even more senses into your story. So today, I hope you
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  enjoyed how to use descriptive storytelling in your narratives
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  specifically around painting a visual picture in your
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  audience's mind. And including what are you hearing the sound
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  in your story to include multisensory effect, and that
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  will help engage your audience bring them in, build a
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  connection, build a meaningful connection between you and your
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  audience, and and create a compelling message. I hope you
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  enjoyed this episode. Until that's next time I am your
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  sister in flow. Speaking in flow may more opportunities and
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  prosperity flow to you from within you. Take care