I would have told you sooner, but I wasn’t sure it was real. But when I saw my name listed on the TEDxWoodbridge site (See Here), I kinda have a feeling it’s about to happen. This Saturday, I will have 18 mins to leave the audience, and hopefully, people who see it online after that, with a new way of thinking about a topic. So over this next week, I’ll be thinking about the following:

  • I get to combine comedy, storytelling, and the fire service into 18 mins of me saying words that are connected to one idea.
  • I’m hoping to live up to the quote, “The best thing an old firefighter can teach a new firefighter is how to be an old firefighter.”
  • And the reason this talk is important to me is this quote from the Carl Holmes Executive Development Institute “All that I am, I owe, I live eternally in the red.”

Once the video gets posted, I will share the link with you. Until then, I better get to practicing these words!

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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