How the Best Comedians in the World Tell Stories with Stuart Goldsmith

Episode 105. What is the difference between “normal” storytelling and the stories stand-up comics tell? When you’re in front of an audience, is it more important to entertain or be authentic? And what is all this talk of torturing frogs??

Welcome to The Storypowers Podcast, the show about the power of stories, the people who tell them and why you should be doing it too. I’m your host, keynote speaker and storytelling coach, Francisco Mahfuz.

If you want to learn how to find, craft and tell stories that work, check out the Storypowers Bootcamp at https://storypowers.thinkific.com/courses/storypowers-online-bootcamp

My guest today is Stuart Goldsmith.

Stuart is an award-winning comic, podcaster, and business speaker specialising in resilience and authenticity. In his podcast, the Comedian’s Comedian, he has interviewed more than 400 of the world’s greatest stand-ups and has reached over 20 MILLION downloads - which is just a little bit more than what I’ve got.

As a speaker, he has super-charged the resilience of clients including Deloitte, LEGO, eBay, the BBC and many more.

He has performed as a stand-up on the Conan O’Brien show, in Russell Howard's Comedy Central and has been the studio warm-up for The Graham Norton Show for the last 7 years!

You can find him on https://www.stuartgoldsmith.com, and you can see the hilarious frog-torturing bit we talked about here: https://youtu.be/eiLNKvDRAUg

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