Pastor Bob Thibodeau emphasizes the power of visual storytelling as a crucial tool for amplifying your message and engaging your audience. He discusses how combining images, videos, and graphics can elevate your presentations, transforming complex information into memorable narratives. By leveraging visuals, you can create a deeper emotional connection with your listeners, making your stories more impactful and relatable. Throughout the episode, Pastor Bob provides practical examples and insights on how to effectively incorporate visual elements into your storytelling strategy. He also invites listeners to join a live training session focused on the art of faithful storytelling, offering an opportunity to learn more about this essential aspect of communication for faith-based entrepreneurs.

Takeaways:

• Storytelling is a science that taps into human biology and our innate nature.
• Visual storytelling enhances messages by combining images and videos, creating immersive experiences.
• Using symbols and imagery can reinforce your narrative and evoke emotions effectively.
• Planning your visual narrative is vital for maximum impact in your presentations.
• Visual metaphors help create a narrative that your audience can remember long after.
• The upcoming live training on faithful storytelling will provide valuable insights and examples.

Links referenced in this episode:

• faithcasteracademy.com/faithful-storytelling
• FaithBasedBiz.substack.com

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Hello, everyone, everywhere.

Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

Welcome to the Faith Based Business podcast for today.

We're so blessed that you're joining us.

We've been going over last week and this week about storytelling.

This week we're talking about the science behind storytelling.

You know, storytelling is not just an art.

We've shown you over the past week or so that it's a science that's deeply rooted in human biology.

It's just in our innate nature to be able to tell stories that motivate people to do certain things.

And we learned that last time that you can create stories that inspire and engage your audience in a deep, meaningful way, observing the details in ordinary life.

Amen.

Today I'm going to share the screen here.

Today I want to go over how to use visual storytelling to help you amplify your message.

Amen.

And, and this is part four in this week's series that we'll be going into.

And visual storytelling just, I gotta say this, elevate your messages by combining images and videos and graphics and just creating that immersive experience.

And visuals enhance and and emotionally engage your listeners and those that you're telling the story to.

You should use symbols and imagery to help reinforce your narrative.

In fact, one single picture, one visual, can often evoke emotions and reinforce themes that just using words alone.

Miss.

You know, just like the image that we used before about this parable, Jesus sows the word, you know, that I used in the prior episode.

Go back and watch it.

Everyone immediately connects with the idea of using common everyday things to tell a story.

In this case, we referenced Jesus sitting on the hillside and using a farmer that everyone could see out there sewing to make the emphasis on the points he was trying to make.

Amen.

How can I say this?

Into compelling visuals.

Amen.

You can take what might be confusing to just talk about and turn it into something that will bring your point across that's remembered by your audience months later.

Amen.

Like right now, here's a test for you.

Which number out of this chart is missing?

I'm going to give you five seconds to find it.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

What if I did it this way?

Here's a more visual example.

Can you find the missing number now?

Huh?

You have five seconds.

So you probably already found it, right?

Which number is it?

Yeah, right there.

32.

And the point being, when I put it in a graph rather than a chart and told you, go look for it, you're trying to go through the list of numbers really quick in your mind, and a lot of times you just miss it.

But when it's in a graph, which was this visual, right?

It's.

There it is right there.

That's the one that was missing.

With visual metaphors and well designed multimedia events, you can create a narrative that your audience will remember.

And they'll remember the information you share because they will remember the visual in chat.

If you're watching anyway, just tell me what video.

Just what was the number?

Just tell me right now what was the number that was missing?

You believe that down in chat, you know, that's fine.

People watching this on YouTube or they'll wonder what all these number 32s are for.

Right?

But that's, that's why you probably already answered 32, because you remember this.

It was easy to see on the, on that bar chart that I just showed you a few minutes ago.

Right?

But if you're just trying to look at that one graphic that had all the numbers listed there, you may have missed it.

Planning your visual narrative step by step for maximum impact in your presentation is vital.

Right.

If I just showed you this chart gave no reference to anything, you would know why I even showed it to you.

Right?

If 15 minutes later I showed the list of numbers and asked which one was missing, most of you would have to go back to Manly trying to work your way through the list to try and figure it out because there was no context about either one of the charts being given to you.

So be sure to plan how you present this information visually.

You have to do it in a relatable way.

Okay.

Like, like I said, if I just showed you this chart and you see, okay, well, that's number that's in red.

Okay?

And then 10 minutes later showed you that list of numbers and said, tell me which number was missing or is missing.

It wouldn't connect the two, but because since I showed you the first one and then said, now here is a way to figure it out, it makes complete sense.

Amen.

So you should try to combine photos and videos and graphics in order to create that cohesive, immersive storytelling experience.

Amen.

By leveraging the power of visuals, you help to ensure that your story is engaging and memorable and amplifying his reach and creating that more profound connection with your audience.

Amen.

Now, next time we're going to be talking about creating a signature story that defines your mission.

Amen.

And that's going to be a good one.

Amen.

So right now you have an opportunity.

I'm going to be holding a live training on November 26th at 12 noon.

And it's about faithful storytelling, the power of faithful stories.

And we'll have several examples just like this as well, but you don't want to miss it.

And it is 27.

You know, the good thing is, if you register and you can't make the live training, it's only about 45 minutes long, 45 to an hour, max.

I don't want to waste your lunch hour.

Okay.

But if you register, you'll also receive a copy of the video so that you can replay it and take your time, work your way through it.

Amen.

So just go to faithcasteracademy.com forward/, faithful- storytelling.

That address again is faithcaster academy.com forward slash, faithful- storytelling.

Amen.

So that's where we'll leave it at.

Till next time.

Man, it's.

It's been good.

We had a lot of information we went over, but I hope you got a lot out of it and understand the.

The relationship between visuals and telling your story.

Till next time.

This is Pastor Bob reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.