After getting off stage telling my very first story at The Moth, a person in the crowd said to me, “You should take a class with Story District”. Story District has been running shows and workshops in DC for over 20 years. This year, they added a podcast. Considering that my hectic schedule has afforded me few chances to catch a live show, the podcast is a nice way to get a fix of storytelling until then.

What I love about this podcast is that first, it showcases a story told at one of the shows. Then there is an interview of the storyteller about their life and what storytelling is for them. The storytellers are as open in the interview as they are in the stories they tell. The podcast covers the storyteller’s thoughts about the moment that is talked about in the story. As an added bonus, the podcast talks about how the story was crafted. It’s a great way of showing how human the people on stage are. After listening to a few, you can’t help but walk away understanding that ordinary people have extraordinary stories.

See the link below to learn more about the podcast and where to listen to it. You won’t be disappointed.

https://storydistrict.org/about-the-podcast

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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