I love science. Understanding how things work has always been super cool to me. I now love storytelling. Explaining how things work in an engaging, interesting way is just one of the reasons that I use story the way that I do. So when I learned that The Story Collider puts those two things together, I was interested right away. Then I heard that there were live shows in DC, I was hooked even more. Then I found out that here is podcast; I’m addicted. In a good way, of course.

Maryam Zaringhalam and Shane M. Hanlon produce the DC show. And they, along with other producers of The Story Collider shows across the world, seem to have a really cool theory: learning about science should be cool, fun, and engaging. I couldn’t agree with them more.

What I love about the show and the podcast is that it reminds us that really smart people, are still people. They have life happen to them. They just have a better understanding of the science that goes on behind it. Many people hold the stereotype that to have a PhD is to be super smart, but unable to connect with people. The Story Collider helps to remind us regular folks that most people who became scientists, did so to help humanity.

If you have ever heard the podcast, click the link below to start your addiction, I mean, storytelling learning below:

https://www.storycollider.org/podcasts

An if you are in the DC area on 21 Aug, catch the live show. See the link below:

Story Collider (DC)  Theme: Lost and Found

Published by Nick Baskerville

After years of being an instructor in the military and the and the fire service, I realized I needed to improve my delivery. My students needed me to improve delivery. But how do I improve my delivery? Simple. I finally took a member of Toastmasters up on the invitation to come to a meeting. It wasn't long until I joined. Along the way of improving my skills at delivering a message, I came to understand that of all the ways to get a point across, telling stories is the best way to get it done. Around this time, another friend from Toastmasters told me about The Moth monthly story telling shows. What better way to test out my theories on storytelling. It's in my travels there to the shows that I found more and more shows, and classes, and events centered around storytelling. Despite how many people know about the storytelling world, not many people know about the storytelling world. So now, I'm out to tell the world about storytelling.

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