Run Storytelling Workshops for Entrepreneurs and Founders

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   Build one signature workshop, not a catalog

   Package a single 90-minute to half-day session with a name, a promise, and a repeatable framework: the founder origin story, the pitch narrative (problem, stakes, turn, proof, ask), and the customer story you tell in sales. Attendees should leave with THEIR story drafted, not notes about stories in general. A workshop where every founder stands up and tells a two-minute story at the end sells itself to the next organizer in the room.

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   Teach a framework, demonstrate with their material

   The difference between a talk and a workshop is that participants work. Teach the structure in twenty minutes, then spend the rest workshopping real founders' stories live, showing how the same facts land differently when the stakes come first or the customer is the hero. Live transformation of one attendee's flat pitch is the moment the room believes you.

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   Sell to the organizations that already gather founders

   Accelerators and incubators need pitch-prep programming every cohort. Add small business development programs, economic development offices, chambers of commerce, banks and coworking spaces that run founder events, and franchise and industry conferences. These buyers book speakers on a calendar and pay program rates; one accelerator that likes you becomes a twice-a-year standing booking.

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   Price by format and audience

   Common shapes: a keynote-length version for conferences, the half-day workshop for cohorts and corporate teams, and a workshop-plus-coaching bundle where the group session is followed by private story sessions with a handful of founders. Charge program rates to institutions and premium rates for one-on-one pitch-critical work like demo day or a funding round.

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   Make private story coaching the premium tier

   After every workshop, two or three founders have a high-stakes moment coming (an investor pitch, a keynote, a launch) and want individual help. A short intensive (story development, drafting, and rehearsal across a few sessions) is the natural upsell, and demo-day season makes it recurring.

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   Know your neighbors on the platform

   This card is teaching OTHERS to tell their story in a workshop room. The platform's public speaking cards cover delivery coaching and being the paid speaker yourself, and the brand strategist card covers positioning as a consulting deliverable. This business sits in the middle: narrative craft, taught live, to entrepreneurs. Many people run it alongside speaking or strategy work, but the workshop is its own sellable product.

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   Turn the framework into assets that travel

   The workbook, the story template, and a recorded version of the core teaching let programs license your material for cohorts you do not attend, and give you a follow-up product for attendees. The live room stays your premium; the framework becomes the thing that scales.

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Best for: Natural storytellers who can teach a structure, not just perform one

Not for: Storytellers who can perform but cannot teach a structure. Founders need a framework they can use themselves, not just a great performance.