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Lisa tells the tale of two travelers who see something mysterious on the ocean, revealing the risks of mistaking hope for reality. Through this fable, she explores how entrepreneurs can balance ambition with clear-eyed action, and why seeing opportunities honestly makes for lasting business success.

Story Coach Lisa Bloom is the go-to expert on business story-telling. For decades she’s helped entrepreneurs master this important but overlooked skill. In Once Upon a Business, she’s turning her attention from the craft of storytelling to the stories themselves — the densely evocative folk and fairy tales that we’re all exposed to.

In each episode of Once Upon a Business, Lisa tells a fairy or folk tale and then extracts rich business lessons that are applicable for entrepreneurs of all stripes. As she puts it, a tiny tale of nine sentences can encompass worlds.

“We get swept up in what could be and miss the warning signs of what actually is.” — Lisa Bloom

Host Bio:

Following a successful corporate career, Lisa Bloom became an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and coach. She built a global business called Story Coach through helping corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and coaches develop speaking mastery, leadership capability, and marketing impact. Lisa is the author of two books — Seven Stories That Sell and The Story Advantage.

Lisa was also the Director of Mirasee’s ACES Business Acceleration Program, in which she helped entrepreneurs achieve outstanding results in the growth of their business. There’s nothing Lisa loves more than to spend time with her partner and their four sons, walk her dog, travel, read, and share stories.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

Mirasee
The Story Coach
Lisa Bloom’s books: The Story Advantage and Seven Stories That Sell

Credits:

Host: Lisa Bloom
Producer and Editor: Michi Lantz
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Audio Editor: Marvin del Rosario
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely

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Music credits:

Track Title: Places in Dreams
Artist Name: Alsever Lake
Writer Name: Adrian Dominic Walther
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Track Title: Emeralds
Artist Name: Hale
Writer Name: Cory Hale Williams
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Track Title: Broken
Artist Name: David Bullard
License code: IOGD2G0XZT8VTQK0
Publisher Name: Uppbeat

Special effects credits:
24990513_birds-chirping_by_promission used with permission of the author and under license by AudioJungle/Envato Market.

All other sound effects are licensed under Soundstripe.

Episode transcript: The Travelers and The Sea.