{"id":19898,"date":"2017-04-01T02:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T02:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=19898"},"modified":"2017-04-01T02:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T02:54:16","slug":"art-storytelling-unleashing-hero-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/art-storytelling-unleashing-hero-within\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Storytelling: Unleashing the Hero within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"_Hlk478763427\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">A Challenge Detroit fellow, Erin Cardwell, shared a quote that she felt resonated in her spirit, it says, \u201cto be interesting, you must be interested\u201d.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I remember shying away from sharing my story, feeling that it lacked an impact or fear that no one would be interested in hearing it.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">But over the years, I have found the more I am interested in the revitalization and redeveloping the community, the more profound my story became.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I arrived at the understanding that by reaching the listeners, holding the interest, and crossing all age barriers is the impact of an effective <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">storyteller<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">. Knowing and applying the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">art of storytelling<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> will not only strengthen the stories, but also develop the desired interest in the audience.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">We all are equipped to be little heroes for others who find encouragement in our stories, by refusing to share, unfortunately paralyzes the hero within.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I still get nervous every time I am asked to speak, but when I begin to speak it is quite liberating.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">One time while speaking to my old high school, I was sharing my grief story about my brother, and when I saw the young people beginning to cry, I knew that I had to shift the focus off me to now empowering them, I just simply said we cannot embrace pain but instead find the passion in our new reality.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">There is a transparency in storytelling, that allows the listener to sit in a trusting environment.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I\u2019m empowered to now allow the hero within to speak, because there\u2019s an audience for every story, and that\u2019s make it very interesting<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Challenge Detroit fellow, Erin Cardwell, shared a quote that she felt resonated in her spirit, it says, \u201cto be interesting, you must be interested\u201d.\u00a0 I remember shying away from sharing my story, feeling that it lacked an impact or fear that no one would be interested in hearing it.\u00a0 But over the years, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":19899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,370,93,31],"tags":[196,570],"class_list":["post-19898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-givedetroit","category-leaddetroit","category-be-better","category-heard","category-volunteer","tag-challengedetroit","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}