Kindra Hall
- Chief Storytelling Officer, Steller Collective
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The 3-Minute Rule
About the Author Brant Pinvidic has more than twenty years of experience producing, creating, and directing more than 300 television projects and a dozen films, including The Biggest Loser, Extreme Makeover, MasterChef and Why I'm Not on Facebook. These media projects have grossed nearly a billion dollars in revenue. He is the founder of INvelop Entertainment, his own business consulting company.
The Story That Changes Everything
Meet Amber. Amber is a mother of two, living with her husband in the middle of the country. Amber worked as a receptionist in an accounting office full time, but was, in her own words, “SO over it.” She was underappreciated, underpaid and was always stuck training new receptionists who were half her age with double her attitude and who quit as soon as they started. Amber felt stuck and hopeless, and then one day, a friend of hers introduced Amber to an amazing opportunity.
¡Deja de sonar tan negativo! Cómo reconocer su sesgo de negatividad y contar una historia más positiva
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Stop Sounding So Negative! How to Recognize Your Negativity Bias and Tell A More Positive Story Original
One frigid November evening in 2020, I was standing on the city sidewalk with a network camera crew waiting to film my part of a national news clip that would include my thoughts on the closing of New York City public schools during the coronavirus pandemic. We picked the spot, they got the lighting set, mic’d me up, and then the crew and I made small talk until it was showtime.
The signs your self story is manifesting as self-doubt
By Kindra Hall 4 minute Read “I’m not good enough.” “No one respects my ideas.” “My boss hates me.” “They never acknowledge my hard work.” “I’ve just been lucky so far.” “That’s just not possible for me.” When it comes to the self-stories (or internal narratives that we often don’t realize we’ve created) we tell at work, they come in many shapes and sizes. If you don’t speak up in a meeting and regret it afterward, there is likely a self-story there.
Choose Your Story, Change Your Life With Bestselling Author Kindra Hall
Every Monday on The Verywell Mind Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Amy Morin, LCSW, interviews authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and other inspirational people about the strategies that help them think, feel, and do their best in life. Follow Now: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts / RSS Meet Kindra Hall Kindra Hall is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author and an award-winning storyteller. She’s also the chief storytelling officer at Success Magazine.
Install Your Chosen Stories
When it comes to installing your chosen stories in business, the options are endless. One woman in the group had a story ready anytime her condescending boss approached her cubicle (by the end of our sessions, she had left her job and was starting her own company with her husband). One man in the group told himself his stories just before stepping into meetings, virtual or in person, with key donors.
The Way You Talk About Money Matters-Here's How to Change the Narrative
Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly telling stories in your own head. Self-stories: Stories you tell about yourself. Some are good, some are bad. All of them have a powerful effect on you, even if you’re unaware of them. As a storytelling expert, I believe that you can change the story of your life by changing the voice in your head, that changing the way you are on the inside can change your results on the outside.
Revealed: My Top 7 Marketing Books of 2021
Which work will win? Another year in which I’ve worked my way through a whole heap of books. Yes, books. Those diligently crafted summations of life works, principles and knowledge made available to anyone for less than the cost of a round of drinks. I ask you: what could possibly be more value for money than a book? My reading this last year has focussed mainly on branding, marketing and business management. I’ve gained some wonderful new learnings along the way.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves Are the Most Important-What Do Yours Say?
Last summer we rented a pontoon boat. We were visiting my home state and decided that spending the day on one of the 10,000 lakes, taking in the fresh air and sun, was the most Minnesota way to spend our time. Two of my best friends from college and their families met us at the dock with coolers filled with sandwiches, chips, sliced watermelon and Twizzlers. We buckled the kids into their life jackets and pontooned away searching for the best coves to drop anchor and swim around.
Finding Gratitude in Our Not-So-New-Normal
It was a Tuesday morning this past spring. Michael and I had dropped the kids off at school and were heading out to The Hamptons for 36 hours alone. We were feeling pretty grateful, especially after a long year together with the kids, to leave them with their babysitter and have a little time to ourselves. We were about 45 minutes outside of New York City when Michael’s phone rang. It was an unknown number with an NYC area code. We looked at each other. This wasn’t good.
How to Write a Book: Advice for New Writers
I’d love to give you a secret formula for how to write a book. The bad news is that there isn’t one. The good news is that this means you get to find one that works for you. Having written two books now, I can tell you it is as hard as people say it is. I can also tell you I had to find my own way through my writing process. For example, some people are great at setting aside small amounts of time to write every day. I tried that approach and ended up in a total mess.
4 Must-Read Books for a Successful Summer
In the pre-ebook days, I was the person whose biggest vacation dilemma was which books to bring with me. (Which meant I was also the person with the heaviest suitcase.) I’m a big reader all year round, and I like to use summer to dig into books that I really love and can’t put down. That includes fiction, but I also enjoy personal development books that connect with my own experiences and teach me more about myself, my attitude to life and the world around me.
Designing Your Life Begins with a Choice
I’m not going to tell you his name, but he was sitting right next to us. I really want to tell you his name because I just think he’s so amazing and I loved being in such close proximity to greatness. But I’m not going to tell you his name because I know he would rather it be that way—rather not have his name in a national magazine, rather not have more attention drawn to him for something other than his work. But he is a very famous, excessively talented actor. He is also a very private one.
Everyone Has a Story-Here’s How to Make Yours Resonate
Storytelling is the oldest art form we have. Before humans were painting on cave walls and sharpening sticks into spears, we were sharing our experiences of the world. It’s how we kept each other safe and connected emotionally. Everyone has been through life events, big and small, that other people would benefit from hearing about. And everyone can learn to transform these seemingly disparate moments into carefully crafted stories. I’ve been committed to helping people with this challenge.
I’m Speaking: Communication Tools to Help Women Reclaim Their Power in Conversations
Being talked over, ignored or misunderstood is frustrating, isolating and downright infuriating. Especially when you suspect it’s because you’re a woman. Yet there are so many ways in which women subconsciously minimize themselves in conversations. Eliza VanCort only learned to fully appreciate the techniques that go into strong communication when she had to relearn them after experiencing a traumatic brain injury.
Success Should Feel Fun: 4 Ways to Stop Racing Ahead and Enjoy the Ride
No one ever said being an entrepreneur was easy. And if they did, they were lying and/or selling something. It comes with long hours, unexpected obstacles, and skeptical friends and relatives. However, it shouldn’t be completely joyless either. Network marketer and keynote speaker Emily Vavra spent so much time comparing herself to other people in the early days of building her business that she almost missed the exciting parts.
The Unforgettable Storytelling Technique Of Kindra Hall on Apple Podcasts
58 min Why tell stories? How do you make them unforgettable? Kindra Hall replies using her story journey from ‘unofficial elementary school storyteller’ to National Champion Storyteller to author of ‘Stories That Stick’, which debuted at #2 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list. She chats with Mark and Darren about the lessons she learned at the mile markers, and her potent technique for unforgettable storytelling. 58 min
Ahead in the Clouds: How Travel Memories Mark Our Progress
I don’t know about you, but the strangest things can trigger my wanderlust spirit. Most recently it was Post-Its. With two kids learning at home and two parents running two different companies at home, we’ve been going through Post-Its faster than toilet paper, and I needed a new stash. A big stash. I found one—a pack with 15 separate colors all fluorescent and beautiful. Then I looked closer at the packaging. They called it the Miami Collection + Rio De Janeiro Collection.
SUCCESS Stories Episode 35: Q&A with Josh Ellis and Kindra Hall
Get ready for a special edition episode featuring a Q&A with our editor-in-chief Josh Ellis. Today, you’ll learn what it means to Kindra to be a lifestyle editor, finding balance with work and life, and how COVID has affected both her personal and professional life. Ready? Take a listen! Click here to listen to the Q&A now! RATE & SUBSCRIBE If you love the SUCCESS Stories podcast, let us know! Please rate and review our show, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss new episodes!
SUCCESS Stories Episode 33: Laugh a Little with Michael Jr.
To Michael Jr., “Success is knowing what you are called to do and doing it every day.” For him, it’s sharing laughs and helping people find laughter in their own lives. Our guest is Michael Jr., comedian and keynote speaker, who has made appearances on The Today Show, Oprah and Jimmy Kimmel Live, among others. In this episode, you’ll hear Michael Jr. discuss how life imitates comedy. Your circumstances are like the setup of the joke, and it’s up to you to turn those into positive outcomes.
SUCCESS Stories Episode 32: Finding Mental Strength with Amy Morin
In the wake of tragedy, everyone responds differently. After the death of her husband and her mother, Amy learned that mental strength is learned, not inherent. Through this experience, she developed the philosophy out of which was born the international best-seller, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success.
The Best Stories Can Happen When Things Don't Go As Planned
One of my favorite stories my mother ever told me was of when she informed my dad he was going to be a father. It was a warm night in June, 1980. She had been to the doctor earlier that day and when my father returned home from playing softball with his local league, she was waiting for him in a special pale-green nightgown.
SUCCESS Stories Episode 30: Rewriting the Rules with Glenn Sanford
This episode hits a little different, much like Glenn Sanford. A serial entrepreneur, Sanford is the founder of eXp Realty, CEO of eXp World Holdings, chief strategy officer of Virbela, and now the CEO of SUCCESS Enterprises. Glenn was in the real estate business during the 2008 recession, and his business was on the brink. But the born risk-taker saw opportunity, not hopelessness. He moved his entire company to the virtual world of Virbela, which SUCCESS uses today.
SUCCESS Stories Episode 29: Having Faith in Yourself with Jamie Kern Lima
In the aftermath of 2020, having faith in anything—much less ourselves—might feel optimistic at best. Well, if anyone can help you restore faith, it’s Jamie Kern Lima. The entrepreneur founded IT Cosmetics in her living room only to wait a grueling three years of rejection after rejection before breaking through. Finally, she sold her company to L’Oréal for upwards of $1 billion and became its first female CEO. On Feb.
How to Become an Influencer: Start with Your Story
When I was growing up in rural Minnesota, I always took the bus to school. In good weather (which isn’t exactly a hallmark of rural Minnesota) that trip lasted an hour there and an hour back. One day, I arrived back home and trudged up the driveway to our front door. I knew I’d be the only one home at that hour, and I was excited for that little bit of independence that middle-schoolers crave. Having the house to yourself even for just a little bit is a big deal when you’re that age.
SUCCESS Stories Episode 28: Finding Shortcuts with James Altucher
The old rules of work have changed. No longer must we stick to one lane for 35 or 40 years before earning a gold watch and a pension, and really diving into our passion in retirement. James Altucher is proof that reinventions are more possible now than ever. James has lived through four professional rebirths, along the way constructing a multifaceted persona of entrepreneur, investor, best-selling author and podcaster.
SUCCESS Stories Episode 27: Growing Your Value with Ryan Serhant
Our guest today is Ryan Serhant. You may have seen him on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York. He’s a billion-dollar broker who helps move some of the most luxurious properties in the world. But his success wasn’t always guaranteed. Living paycheck to paycheck just a decade ago, he took life-changing steps that resulted in his getting cast on television, graduating to seven-figure sales, and doubling his income every year.
SUCCESS Stories Episode 33: Studying Success with Don Hobbs
On the journey to success, setbacks are not only inescapable but necessary. Today, you’ll hear from the president of SUCCESS and his own experience with setbacks, how that shaped his definition of success, and what he envisions for the future. You’ll also hear how Don met Jim Rohn, and how that relationship changed the course of his future. Ready?
The Dark Side of a Non-Stop Achievement Mindset
It was a Monday in early December 2020. I was mindlessly scrolling through Instagram when I came across a video. A woman was running down a country road, methodically. You could tell she was a runner, she’d done this before. She then turned her head to the camera and, mid-stride, said matter-of-factly, “I’ve always been a motivated person.” That statement alone wasn’t revolutionary. Lots of people would consider themselves a motivated person, myself included. If you’re reading this, probably you.
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What It Takes to Reinvent: 3 Lessons You Can Learn From Restaurants in the Pandemic
Did you ever see the Friends episode where Ross buys a new couch and tries to squeeze it up his apartment staircase with the help of Chandler and Rachel? Maneuvering the couch around the switchbacks of a New York City apartment staircase is no easy task, and Ross ends up famously yelling at his friends with increasing intensity and agitation: “PIVOT! PIVOT! PIVOT!” That scene pretty much sums up the year we’ve just experienced.
Why You Shouldn’t Invest All Your Energy in Small Things
Yes, I know that long, loving walks along the beach is verbal kindling for a dating profile disaster, but I’ve been married for over 11 years, so I believe I can say it without sounding cliché. I love long walks along the beach. And while any walk along a beach is a great one, there is one that I’ll never forget and think about often. It was 10 years or so ago. I was in Coronado, California visiting my husband’s family for Thanksgiving. We awoke early and walked to the coffee shop.
How Payal Kadakia Disrupted the Fitness Industry
I’ll be honest. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I sat down for my interview with Payal Kadakia. I knew she had recently had a baby and that the interview shifted a few times to accommodate the baby’s nap schedule. (This didn’t bother me. I have two kids of my own and know how sacred those naps are.) I also knew that she was the creator and founder of ClassPass, a company that takes all the disparate fitness studio classes in any given area and organizes them to be booked through one central place.
SHE’S STICKING TO IT
THIS STORYTELLING EXPERT SHARES HOW TO TRULY CONNECT WITH PROSPECTS. I FELL IN LOVE with stories and storytelling when I was 12 years old on a road trip with my family. We were in the minivan. Traveling north down rural Minnesota roads on the way to our small lake cabin for the weekend, my younger brother started playing a cassette tape of incredible tales told live by different storytellers at the National Storytelling Festival.
Woman of Influence: Gretchen Rubin
As told to Kindra Hall Best-selling author, podcaster, speaker and creator of the Four Tendencies framework, exploring happiness and good habits One thing that has been true about me my whole life is that I can become very preoccupied with certain subjects. So preoccupied in fact, that I’ll throw everything else down and start doing a huge amount of research. It happens to me all the time. One time in particular, was during my law career.
Woman of Influence: Seema Bansal
As told to Kindra Hall Co-founder of Venus ET Fleur, a multimillion-dollar flower business During the entire journey there were so many naysayers; friends in my ear saying this was a bad decision or that no one was going to buy flowers that are packaged. Even my parents. They were trying to be supportive, sure, but they were scared. I was using my life savings to start a business. To move to a different country (Vancouver to New York City).
Woman of Influence: India.Arie
As told to Kindra Hall Four-time Grammy Award-winning R&B legend Music has always been a part of my life, an ancestral thing for me. Most of my mother’s side of the family sang and wrote songs or were preachers or evangelists. In the South, evangelists are synonymous with singing. My mother was a singer, Motown wanted to sign her. In fact, the first original song that I knew was one my mother wrote for me to learn the days of the week when I was a child.
Woman of Influence: Jen Sincero
As told to Kindra Hall Best-selling author of You Are a Badass whose new book is Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick I started getting into the whole self-development thing because I was a train wreck! Which is often how most people do it. I was in my 40s, I was living in a converted garage, I honestly don’t even know how I was getting by and I just got really, really, sick of it.
Woman of Influence: Susan Cain
As told by Kindra Hall Best-selling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking and founder of Quiet Revolution The first book I ever wrote was called Peggy Meets Eggy. It was three pieces of loose-leaf paper stapled together and I was about 4 years old. Then when I was a little older, I started a magazine and I sold subscriptions to my family members.
Woman of Influence: Sunny Hostin
As told to Kindra Hall Emmy award-winning co-host of ABC’s The View, renowned journalist and author of I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds Growing up in the Bronx, there were days when we didn’t have heat and hot water, and I remember those struggles. Did I ever think that I would be a federal prosecutor or writing a memoir or be a national talk show host? No, I didn’t.
Woman of Influence: Samantha Ponder
As told to Kindra Hall Host of ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown It was probably in third grade when I first processed that becoming a sports broadcaster was my dream. I’d always loved sports but was self-aware enough to realize that I probably wasn’t going to make a living off playing sports. However, I used to watch a show called NBA Inside Stuff. Every Saturday morning, before big NBA games I would watch how the broadcaster, Ahmad Rashad, interacted with the players.
Women of Influence: Untold Stories by 10 Dynamic Women
I have always loved when journalists start their articles detailing the location where they met a notable person for an interview. I like to picture the white tablecloth on the outdoor patio of the fine-dining establishment or the bright, modern living room if the interview was done in the luminary’s home.
Woman of Influence: Jen Hatmaker
As told by Kindra Hall Speaker, podcast host of For the Love With Jen Hatmaker and author of Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You Before I was an author, I was a teacher. And then I took a break from teaching and I had a whole bunch of babies in a row. One, two, three—I have five children now—and for a while I was having them every other year.
Woman of Influence: Misty Copeland
As told by Kindra Hall First African-American principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre The first ballet class I ever took was on a basketball court. I was one of six kids. My mother was a single parent and we faced a lot of challenges—moving a lot, changing schools. And while this was the only life I knew, I became an extremely introverted child. I learned to keep my mouth closed to avoid criticism from other kids. I never in my whole life felt like I ever fit in.
The Stories of Which Success Is Truly Made
Hello. Please allow me a moment to (re)introduce myself. I’m Kindra Hall, now the Chief Storytelling Officer at SUCCESS. While that title is brand new, the announcement is actually a decade in the making…. Let me explain. In 2010 I was driving home from work and needed to run a quick errand on the way. As I was driving, I listened to an interview on the old SUCCESS CD (you longtime subscribers will remember those, back before the days of podcasts) with Donny Deutsch.
This Is SUCCESS:W
In the spring of 2019, SUCCESS debuted its first ever women-focused issue, featuring author and entrepreneur Rachel Hollis on the cover. The rest of the magazine, in its entirety, was written by, for or about women, and it proved to be one of the best-received issues we’ve ever done. Naturally, we started to work on creating a follow-up edition, the first of many, hopefully.
Sunday Stories With Kindra Hall
Welcome to Sunday Stories! I’m here to help you write your success story. Like many of you, I have been a long time reader and learner of SUCCESS, and I am so honored to play a major role in spreading the SUCCESS message and sharing more stories with you. I know the best lessons of success are taught through the stories of those that came before us. Together we will dig into the strategies that helped these people achieve their highest level of success.
3 Things the Pandemic Taught Me About Planning
On Jan. 16, my editor informed me that my next column deadline was March 16. The suggested subject was planning. It seemed simple enough. After all, I’ve always been a planner I’ve used planners, complete with color-coded markers, since I was in the fourth grade. The past several years on New Year’s Eve, my husband and I have opted out of the parties and stayed home to set goals and plan for the year to come.
Greater Phoenix In Business Magazine
Winston Churchill said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” An Internet search for “Charlotte police shooting” will pull up more than 20,000 news articles and videos littered with speculations and quotes from witnesses, family members and police. Did Keith Lamont Scott have a gun, or was it just a book? The viral nature of the story quickly escalated and soon there were riots in the streets.
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