In this episode, branding and storytelling expert Marc Gutman shares how he uses images and words together to tell the stories of brands for entrepreneurs and businesses.

Learn about Marc’s unique visual task list and how sketchnotes have integrated themselves into his life, in this interesting interview.

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Running Order

• Intro: Who is Marc
• Marc’s origin story
• Work that Marc is doing now
• Creating Instagram Carousels
• What does Marc do to keep sane in a pandemic?
  • Spent time learning new things
  • Playing Pickleball
• Tools
• 3 tips
• Outro

Links

• Marc on Instagram
• Marc on LinkedIn
• Marc on YouTube
• Wildstory
• Baby got Backstory Podcast
• Michael Janda on the business of sketchnoting - SE09 / EP13
• Pickelball
• Michael Johnson

Tools

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• Apple Keynote
• Time Timer
• Post-It Notes
• Neuland Outliners
• Marc’s Buckslips
• Sony a73
• Miro
• Notion
• Superhuman
• iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil
• Procreate
• Notability

Tips

1. Focus on something you want to learn and focus on it.
2. Reference books to learn.
3. Get a new pen!

Credits

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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