Connect with your readers: Marisa Goudy, Writing Coach

By Danielle Rose

Storyteller and writing coach, Marisa Goudy’s work is about connecting the reader to you as a business person, to your work, and most importantly to themselves and the world at large.

“I'm a writing and storytelling coach who specializes in supporting therapists, healers, and other professionals in the transformation business,” Marisa said. “My main focus is on using storytelling techniques, particularly my signature Story Triangle approach, to help writers create online content. The goal is to use stories to connect and build relationships with clients before you meet them in your office for the first time.”

Through The Story Triangle Marisa teaches that there are three essential elements of storytelling: you (the storyteller), your audience, and your story. The goal is to balance the relationship between the three. When you tell an authentic story that matters to you, while keeping the interests and needs of your reader in mind, you tell a story that connects. Such a story appeals the emotions, inspires, and changes hearts and minds.

 

“My work isn't just about helping people produce quality copy and content. I help you develop a writing practice. I believe that your writing practice wants to give you more than just another blog post... Your writing practice helps you understand yourself, your work, the people you serve, and the stories that matter to our changing world.”

Writing and storytelling coaching is not only practical, but essential for any practitioner looking to share their service with their clients, and express their message and their strengths into the world

Marisa Goudy

Offer the gift of your story to yourself or a loved one trying to forge their place in the world at a 10% discount this holiday with Marisa’s initial consultation package (normally $447, now only $409).

Looking for a way to wet your feet and see how valuable the connective power of storytelling can be for you and/or your business?  Sign up for Marisa’s e-course, “Your Stories and Your Audience,” today.

Marisa is also teaming up with the new Mind Key to offer her services as part of a business start-up package in the Mind Key Store. There’s no better way to share your story to your clients in a way that resonates than with Marisa’s guidance.

Discover Marisa

www.marisagoudy.com

marisagoudy@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/MarisaGoudyWriter/

https://twitter.com/MarisaGoudy

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Global Event - The Story Triangle with Marisa Goudy Wednesday May 11th

Storytelling is a form of creative release.  Join Marisa at her Story Triangle webinar tomorrow. You have good work to share with your community. You want to build and audience and build a business. You're on a mission to make this world more beautiful, bearable, and bold. It's time to become a stronger, more confident storyteller. … That’s how I open my invitation to the Story Triangle webinar. Does this describe you too? Yes? In that case, I hope you can join me for the free online class coming up at 1 PM ET on Wednesday, May 11. To watch live, please visit: http://marisagoudy.com/story-triangle-webinar-2             This is a live encore presentation of the webinar I offered last month. If you joined me then or watched the replay and enjoyed it, please share the event with friends and colleagues. I look forward to having you with me live. I always leave some time for Q & A - and I need you with me to make that happen! The storyteller in me sees the storyteller in you, Marisa              join me live at 1 PM ET on May 11. (Hint: there’s some free one-on-one storytelling coaching up for grabs!) As a storyteller and a writing coach, Marisa Goudy supports             emerging thought leaders like you create content that your readers care about. When you start telling the right stories - the strong stories - the whole world opens up. Copyright © Marisa Goudy Inc., 2016. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Marisa Goudy 901 Old Post Road New Paltz, NY 12561

Profiles for Success - Marisa Goudy

Marisa Goudy is a writer who helps emerging thought leaders tell stories that matter. Through coaching and online courses, she empowers therapists, healers, and other creative entrepreneurs to write content that connects. In 2016, Marisa is showing her audience that it's possible to easily and confidently create online content with her #365StrongStories project (discover the stories by searching the hashtag or following Marisa).

Marisa says that she was born a writer who lost track of that for many years thanks to a graduate degree in Irish lit and a career in academic library administration. As it is for many folks, a shocking and unexpected life event propelled her to make a change.

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"Though I’d always suspected there was something to 'follow your bliss,' this brutal, beautiful truth came to roost in my soul one morning in July, 2010.

"Before that, I felt at home with my infant daughter, my super-supportive husband, and a job I disliked but withstood for the sake of the mortgage. This was the life I’d signed up for… even if it left me yearning for greater freedom and creative expression.

"When my mother died in July of 2010, all the furniture in my comfortable little house was rearranged," she said.

Realizing that everything she held dear could be swept out from under her in an instant, she made immediate changes. She quit her job in academic administration and began an entrepreneurial experiment. It took a couple of partnerships and companies devoted to web design and marketing to help her realize that she was always meant to be a writer. 

"I loved my baby. I loved my man. But even for their sake I couldn’t force myself into a windowless office every day, devoting myself to someone else’s agenda until I could escape into a world that mattered.

I needed to tell stories and help people shape theirs."

Marisa now has two girls, age 2 and 6. They're constant inspiration for stories. 

"As a family, hiking and talking with the fairies is really important and that's all great for setting and character and plot."

Marisa is also an energy healer and student of the Sacred Center mystery school. Her spare time is often spent with a Chumpi in her hand as she uses tarot cards to guide her meditation and journaling sessions.

When asked where she sees herself in the near future, Marisa's response is, "Teaching online classes and building a greater audience for my writing, Even if the novels (a trilogy called Sovereign Reality) don't get birthed for another 5 years, I am still nurturing the ideas," she said. "Truth: I want to be Diana Gabaldon when I grow up."

Marisa's list of goals includes: putting one foot in front of the other; living in the moment and savoring her girls; deepening her spiritual practice; honing her writing voice and building her business so that she has enough breathing room to do all of the above. 

"Remembering my spiritual practice grounds all of that in what is really important."

When we asked Marisa what advice she'd give to others looking to follow their passion to their personal life path/career, she took her time thinking about it. 

"If it seems too hard, it probably is."

 "My former business partnerships were often painful and unprofitable. We were reinventing the wheel and being perfectionists. We did not look around to see what the market really needed because we were trapped in what we 'should' do."

Sounds like sound advice to us!

Find Marisa at www.marisagoudy.com and follow her on twitter @MarisaGoudy.

She's got something valuable to share.

NaNoWriMo 2015: What You Need to Know

For writers, this is the highly anticipated month of the year.  We bite our fingernails to stubs, elusively try to rearrange our schedules, and promise—no, threaten—ourselves to be as productive as possible.

It’s NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, and it’s the most wonderful time of the year.  Okay, maybe Christmas is, but November holds a very special value for those who yearn to write a novel or simply tackle a writing project.

Sounds crazy?  It is… a bit.  The truth is if we silence our inner critic, if we truly sit down and ignore the grammatical mistakes, editing faux-pas, and everything telling us that our writing isn’t turning out right, then the 50,000 word mark is actually achievable.  Read author Marissa Meyer’s guest blog to find out how NaNoWriMo inspired her to write, complete, and publish the first book of her Lunar Chronicles series.

NaNoWriMo is a personal challenge that expects you to complete 50,000 words throughout the month of November.

My personal journey with NaNoWriMo began when Danielle Rose first introduced me years ago.  She had participated in the challenge and found it inspirational and productive.  Hesitantly, I checked it out for myself.  Right after saying, NaNo-What-O?  I found myself shouting, sign me up!  And so began a journey that I would repeat yearly.  Although I’ve yet to achieve the full 50,000 word count, I’ve completed a lot more than I would have without NaNoWriMo’s challenge and inspiration. 

The cool thing about NaNoWriMo is that it’s not a solitary venture.  It literally connects every writer from everywhere in the world.  Built to be an interactive and communal effort, participants find an entire platform to network with fellow writers.  This is such an important aspect of NaNoWriMo because connecting with others leads to inspiration, writing critiquing, tips, and best of all—encouragement and accountability.

Entire groups, blogs and social media trends have emerged to facilitate the connection between NaNo participants.  

Mind Key's daily NaNoWriMo Challenge for example, encourages writers to share their daily novel excerpt for others to read and vote on as a motivational tool to help them continue creating.  

 

Tamara Rokicki runs a cozy Facebook Writers Group, which focuses on providing daily writing prompts, inspiration, tips and networking.  She’s also dedicating the month of November to posting regular NaNoWriMo blogs and updates.  Other Mind Key members participating in this year’s NaNoWrimo are Danielle Rose, Sarah Loukos, Kevin Hall, Tara Ann Lesko and Rebecca Godina.

So what are you waiting for?  It’s not too late to sign up and join millions of writers in this amazing challenge.  Happy Writing!