The Art of Telling Great Stories with Megan Eckman

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: The Art of Telling Great Stories with Megan Eckman
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 00:53:03
• Published: 2012-08-29 10:00

As you guys know, I'm always very interested in hearing the stories of our listeners when they are doing things worth talking about. So when Megan contacted me, I decided to dig a bit deeper and realized she'd make for a really interesting guest. Here are some highlights from our chat:

• The Keys to Maintaing Your Motivation for Blogging 
• Discarding What Doesn't Work to Figure Out What Does
• The Importance of Vulnerability in Your Content
• Why Megan Posts Her Meltdowns on Her Blog
• How Megan Landed Positions as a VA for Several Top Bloggers
• A Simple Email Tactic that Can Help You Land Work
• Tapping into Our Childhoods for Content Ideas
• Why Invoking Emotion is Essential to Your Best Work
• Tactical Marketing Tips that Can Be Applied to Your Book
• Why Rulebreakers are Making the Big Bucks in Today's Economy
• Translating Your Observations of the World into Content
• Finding the Common Thread Between All Your Activities to Determine Your Purpose
• Exploring Your Deep Beliefs and Values to Grow Your Presence
• The Danger of Choosing Work that Conflicts with Your Values
• How to Get Media Coverage for Your Books/Projects

 Megan Eckman is a pen and ink illustrator with a quirky sense of humor. She's like fairy tales meet Edward Gorey. You can follow her on twitter @studiomme. If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter. One of our goals for 2012 is to become a top 100 show in iTunes. We can get there with your help and it will enable us to improve the how and bring on even bigger guests. So if you can, we’d be really grateful if you write us a review in iTunes.