300: Telling Your Best Story with Katie Quesada

Katie Quesada has been speaking at a wide variety of conferences and events for over 10 years. She is deeply passionate about storytelling and walking with people to craft their stories in a concise and compelling way. Katie and her husband Danny live with their two daughters Gracie and Lane in Orange, CA. She and her family spent the last few years living in a 180sqft tiny house. She believes the best stories are told around the dinner table. >>> Connect with Katie on IG @katiequesada >>> Visit her website: www.katiequesada.com >>> Connect with Betsy on IG @betsypake TRANSCRIPT Welcome to the Art of Living big podcast. My name is Betsy pake. I’m an author, a speaker and a trainer of NLP and hypnotherapy. And I’m focused on helping you understand and design your life with the power of the subconscious. This podcast is designed to help you think differently about what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. All right. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the show today. I’m super excited because I have a really good friend of mine on the show today. And her name is Katie, Katie casada. And Katie is Katie is fascinating. You guys are gonna love this show. What she does is help people craft their story. She has been a speaker and has spoken at a million different conferences and events over the past decade. She’s super passionate about storytelling, and walking with people to craft their stories in a really concise and compelling way. I’ve hired Katie, I’ve worked with Katie, she’s amazing. And she lives in Orange, California, just outside LA, right. You’re outside LA. Yeah. And she’s got an awesome husband, Danny and two daughters who are so cute, Gracie and Elaine. So I also want to talk to you about the fact that you lived in 180 square foot tiny house at some point. So we’re going to talk about all the things today. So welcome, Katie to the show. Thanks, Betsy. I’m so glad to be here. You have an amazing audience and community that you’ve built. And it’s a joy to be welcomed in. Yeah, I’m so excited. So. So here’s what I love about you, Katie. Well, first of all, the first time I met you was in a speaking class that we took, right? And we both were looking to expand and change our speaking businesses. And to me, I was like she’s already has it all figured out. He already knows what’s going on. Right? But I found it so fascinating. Because one of the things that you said was, I decided that this was going to be my job, even though this didn’t really exist. Yeah. Can you tell everybody a little bit about what you do? And what didn’t really exist? Yeah, totally. So I’m a storytelling coach. I help people in companies tell better stories, which is absolutely a job I made up. Yeah, so I was a part of a large organization five years ago now. And I knew it was time to go. It was getting toxic and things were going south. But a really small part of my job there was that I put on these large events for women. And so there was super fun hundreds and hundreds people came it was every other month. It was like full of energy and life. We’d fly and speakers I’d speak at then it was like, had great momentum. And then we brought in this woman named Dr. tema, Bryant Davis at Pepperdine University. She’s amazing. You should follow her on everything. And she spoke. And on a Friday night, I was sitting backstage and like that little chair behind the curtain. And she said on the stage,