Public Speaking for Business: Pitch and Persuade like a Pro
Storytelling: How to Write Your Story
A course by Dasha Dollar-Smirnova , Public Speaking Coach
Joined June 2021
About the video: Storytelling: How to Write Your Story
Overview
“What is a good story? We are surrounded by stories. Let's start exploring some fundamentals of storytelling by breaking a story down to its key elements.”
In this video lesson Dasha Dollar-Smirnova addresses the topic: Storytelling: How to Write Your Story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Public Speaking for Business: Pitch and Persuade like a Pro. Discover the how, what, and why of effective communication and use it to speak with confidence in any business situation, from interviews to meetings.
Partial transcription of the video
“this lesson is all about storytelling. Storytelling is incredibly important. Studies have shown that we retain information much easier when it comes in story format. And stories are all around us. A great place to learn about stories are the movies. Movies have to tell stories in a very succinct way efficient and effective way in a short period of time. So most movies are scripts. will have the following basic elements. First of all, There's a protagonist. The protagonist is the main hero or heroine of your story. This is the person or the character who the story happens to. For example, Le...”
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Course summary for: Public Speaking for Business: Pitch and Persuade like a Pro
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Marketing & Business -
Areas
Communication, Creative Consulting, Storytelling

Dasha Dollar-Smirnova
A course by Dasha Dollar-Smirnova
Dasha Dollar-Smirnova is a public speaking coach, and founder of Frog Talk, a company that provides public speaking training workshops. Dasha originally trained and worked in the field of drama and theatre which is where she built her confidence and found her voice.
Her first job was working for advertising agency Hogarth Worldwide, where she applied her acting background to the pitching team and helped the company become one of the UK’s fastest growing advertising agencies. Since then, she has obtained a master’s in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health and devoted herself, and Frog Talk, to helping individuals and companies master public speaking and become better communicators.
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