201: Karen Dietz—Your Story Is Your Secret to Amazing Success

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 24px;"><strong>Hear why stories are the secret to your success</strong></span></p> <p>As humans, we are all storytellers. That’s what people do. Our brains take the information they receive and create stories to make sense of it. By the time you are in your late 20s, you pretty much have created your own story, and changing that “reality” is very difficult. You only "see" what your brain tells you fits with your own story. And usually, you are the hero in that story. When a friend introduced me to Karen Dietz, a pioneer in business storytelling, I was thrilled at the opportunity to share her with you. Karen shares with us her wisdom, and also her own story. Listen in, then think about your own story and ask yourself if it needs changing for today's times? <img class="mce-hs-more" style= "height: 20px !important;" src= "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-mce-placeholder="" /></p> <p><img style= "width: 149px; float: left; margin: 7px 18px 0px 0px;" src= "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/398462/karen-dietz-square.png" alt= "karen-dietz-square" width="149" /></p> <p><strong>Karen and myself: remarkably similar journeys </strong></p> <p>Karen and I both had academic backgrounds and migrated into business: myself, to apply the <a href= "https://www.simonassociates.net/open-new-market-space/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">methods and tools of anthropology</a> to help <a href= "https://www.simonassociates.net/culture-change-and-change-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">companies change</a>. Karen, to apply her knowledge of storytelling and folklore in business settings, helping organizations understand their origin myths, capture the power of their internal folklore, and better match internal stories with those communicated by their customers about them.</p> <p>As Karen tells us, transformational storytelling can help you change your world, or at least better understand how your world is changing. There is no bett