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Leah Lamb
@LeahLamb · 2:25

How Knowing Your Story Can Change A Life

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And just this morning, Jay and I were talking about his just really beautiful approach of working with Story and helping people come to the gems of their life. And so, Jay, I figured this could be a fun place for you and I to talk Story for a bit. And it's funny. I feel like we are both our compass is pointed, I think, in the same direction in terms of what our true North Star is, and yet we both take different paths

Conversation with storyteller and coach Jay Golden

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JAY P GOLDEN
@JPGolden · 4:57

Happening upon the story path - a momemt of power frozen in time

We should really put on the vent. We should do something. And when he said that, it was like time stopped. And I knew exactly the event that I wanted to do. I wanted to bring out people's travel experiences, to tell travel stories, embodied travel stories, and to bring people that had traveled from all over the world to come to San Francisco for this kind of glimmering time, of this.com innovation moment
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JAY P GOLDEN
@JPGolden · 0:29

@LeahLamb

Okay, so here's my question for you, Leah. You are so dedicated to sacred storytelling. You're so in deep. You live it, you breathe it, you dream it. How did this begin? Where was the spark that led you to acknowledge that you are a storyteller in this time? What did it look like? What did it feel like? When did it happen? And what happened next?
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Leah Lamb
@LeahLamb · 4:59
And I committed to telling that story. And as you know, it's 900 pages now. And that really began to create the shape of my life, because I couldn't tell the story from where I was. I really had to shift and transform and go into a deep, deep state of listening. And that's where I really learned that storytelling, it's all a myth. It's all about the listening. It's all about the listening
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Leah Lamb
@LeahLamb · 0:53
And so I was curious if you could talk to us a little bit about your journey, of the choice that you made in terms of who are you as a storyteller and why you felt compelled to guide people to tell their own stories. And if you want to share a little bit around the journey structure, like, how does someone get to their gyms? What's your take on how to do that?
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JAY P GOLDEN
@JPGolden · 4:52

How to get to gems of your life

Is it for your work? Is it for sharing with your kids? Is it for speaking or social? Is it just for you to understand your own journey so you can speak it more clearly with those you happened upon? So, lots of pieces. But that's the kind of the basic way that I explore stories. And I, of course, have to do it myself. I have to look myself and share my stories. And that's a big part of the work. So thank you
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JAY P GOLDEN
@JPGolden · 1:43

The exploration into the mythic

All that said, Leah, I do believe that there are some times where our own individual of moments, our own individual stories become somewhat mythic in nature. They seem to be larger than ourselves. And I think those are the stories that really resonate with people, the ones that hit people when we've gone into a broken moment, when we've gone into the difficult place, when we've seen something and witnessed something that inspired us to go after it and change our lives
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@LeahLamb
Leah Lamb
@LeahLamb · 4:57
But I feel like there's so many other ways of inspiration, like when we get a major illness, or when we get fired, or when our hearts are broken. And these key moments in our lives. Like if we don't have story. If we don't remember that we're storied people. And that those moments are key. Profound moments that will bring us to the medicine of what we are. That those places where we're pushed to our limits
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Leah Lamb
@LeahLamb · 5:00
When we can see all the aspects coming together, it's really hard to explain, but I feel like it's one of the places where I understand how to go to really help people bring healing to extremely unresolved stories. Sometimes we'll take that thing, that initiation that happened that was really painful. Maybe it was a broken heart, maybe it was a traumatic event, and we'll almost play baseball with it. We'll place it
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Story telling

And then he thought to himself when he got discharged, honorably discharged, and went back to where he lived at in Brooklyn, that he was thinking to himself one day, well, I don't know how to be great or how people are going to remember me, but I do know what the alphabet is. I learned that as a child. So how about I just used the alphabet and I write a story
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JAY P GOLDEN
@JPGolden · 5:00

@LeahLamb done thoughts on barriers and mythic time

It's not all the way super high up looking at your story where you're just not even covering the details at all, but the thousand foot view where you get into a couple of details but it still doesn't feel alive. It feels like you're just covering the kind of high level pieces that doesn't actually give us a chance to feel your journey and that doesn't bring the audience actually into your journey and you're just describing it
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JAY P GOLDEN
@JPGolden · 5:00
Personally, this is a little bit kind of in the more advanced category. But I really believe in working in talking points, getting those key stepping stones of the journey and then allowing for some slight modification, some slight deep, deeper reflection of detail audience response that keeps it fresh and not feeling rote. There are territories of that. I also think on a bigger scale, your story is made of stories
@LeahLamb
Leah Lamb
@LeahLamb · 4:59
Like, when I stand at the threshold of a sacred storyteller, the story and if I'm doing a giveaway, if I'm going to give you a story, that story stops being about me, and it starts being about us. And I love that John Steinbeck quote, story is not about the listener. It will not last. I'm going to hop onto the next one and finish this thought
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Leah Lamb
@LeahLamb · 4:56
So this idea of, like, dealing with blocks and barriers and our stories and things like that, and it's like, I don't have to tell a story or not to be creative. It's like, well, okay, how can you get your ego mind and to take a break and allow that universal story, that universal life force, to come through you?
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JAY P GOLDEN
@JPGolden · 3:34

On suffering, teachers and healing in time and space in your story

Okay, so since you kinda brought up the story, it's funny of the story of of the of the wound of deceit, of the of the cheating. It's funny. I was just thinking about a similar version. I'm not going to actually get fully into the story. I'm not going to respond to that prompt in this moment because I just actually have a question. The way that it happened for me at a high level is this is something that happened
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