Episode 142: Finding Freedom Through Our Personal Stories with Hillary Rea

<span style='font-weight: 400;'>In the self-help/personal development world, the idea of stories—and the stories we tell ourselves—is seen as a negative thing. </span> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>The message is: if we were better people, then we would know all of our “stories”—and if we are honest about them, they wouldn’t get in our way and hold us back from living our full potential. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Instead, we could change our limiting beliefs by simply “changing the story.” </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>That phrase drives me crazy. As if it’s that easy to change your story! </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>And while the self-help world might portray stories as a challenge to overcome or as an opportunity to rewrite, I have always seen it differently:</span> <em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>stories are what make us the amazing, unique humans that we are. </span></em></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Today, I’m so excited to introduce Hillary Rea to you. She is a storyteller by trade and has a refreshingly different take on the stories that we tell ourselves, the stories we tell about ourselves to others, and the stories that others tell about us. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Hillary is the founder of</span> <a href='https://www.tellmeastory.info'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Tell Me A Story</span></a><span style='font-weight: 400;'>,</span> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>a full-service communication consulting business that trains entrepreneurs, leaders, and change-makers to use the art of storytelling as a powerful communication tool.</span> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>She is also the producer and host of</span> <a href='http://rashomonpodcast.com/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Rashomon</span></a><span style='font-weight: 400;'>, a narrative storytelling podcast in which one family shares every side of the same story. </span></p> <p><strong>Listen to the full episode to hear:</strong></p> <ul> <li style=