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Trailer: Welcome to The Starfish Storytellers! · The Starfish Storytellers

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  Welcome to the Starfish Storytellers, the podcast that makes a difference one story at a time by bringing storytelling to life.
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  There was a man and he was walking across a beach.
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  The night before, the tides had come in bringing with them thousands of starfish.
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  When the tides went out in the morning, many of the starfish were stranded on the shore, left to bake on the sun-drenched sand.
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  The man walked closer and in the distance he saw someone walking alongside the starfish.
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  As he approached, he noticed it was a teenage boy.
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  The boy would walk up to a starfish, pick it up, survey it, and then toss it into the surf.
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  He would then take a few more steps, bend down, pick up a starfish, look at it, and throw it into the water.
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  And this process went on over and over again.
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  The man, frustrated by what he saw, approached the boy and said,
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  What are you doing? Can't you see there are thousands of starfish on the shore? How could you possibly make a difference?
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  With that, the teen smiled, picked up a starfish, tossed it into the surf, and turned to him saying,
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  Well, it made a difference to that one.
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  Hello, my name is Liana Henry.
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  And like I said earlier, welcome to the Starfish Storytellers,
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  the podcast where we make a difference by bringing storytelling to life, one story at a time.
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  I'm your host and the CEO of the Black Dog Group,
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  a professional services company headquartered on the east coast of the US in quaint, colonial Bedford, Massachusetts.
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  We focus on MarCom storytelling and project management,
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  but I'm passionate about storytelling and on a mission to raise up the next generation of storytellers.
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  We're super excited to kick off our podcast,
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  where we'll be bringing you excerpts of compelling stories, either written or spoken, from our town and beyond.
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  These are told by some of the best storytellers around, whom you may not have met yet.
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  Or maybe you have, we don't know.
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  You may be hearing us locally from the BTV studios in Bedford, Massachusetts,
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  or across the globe on podcast channels such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Prime, or any other place you get your podcasts.
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  Either way, no matter where you're from, we're glad you're here.
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  As a storyteller by trade, I've had the great fortune of enjoying a career where I've been able to tell the stories of so many.
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  Great companies, talented students, musicians, artists, awesome products and technology.
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  I did it as a journalist for a national media company, the publisher of a town publication,
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  a comms manager conveying an executive's voice in a top-tier magazine, and a marketer crafting promo copy for hardworking small business owners.
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  All of this said, I qualify to be here and I can't wait to share it with you.
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  In our podcast, we'll be chatting with our guests, hearing about their backgrounds,
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  geeking out on story formats, and digging into tips and tricks for telling your most engaging story.
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  Maybe you're a corporate storyteller who needs to learn more about brand storytelling or a budding book author or a poet who's unsure on how to get started.
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  Maybe you just love telling stories or hearing them. If so, then this is the podcast for you.
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  We'll be talking to local storytellers, town historians, educators, news hounds.
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  Beyond Bedford, we'll hear from female professionals telling women's success stories, members of the LGBTQ plus community telling pride stories,
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  book authors sharing writing tips, and visual storytellers walking us through their process to make the stories jump off the page.
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  You heard my favorite story when we opened this episode, the starfish story.
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  This is actually the story we penned our podcast after.
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  But remember, the moral of the starfish story is about the power of one.
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  No matter how big the challenge, we can still make a difference one step, one starfish, or one story at a time.
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  Thanks so much for listening. We hope you enjoy the podcast. Happy storytelling.