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Crafting Impactful Narratives for Leadership and Growth: Insights from Guillaume Wiatr
25th March 2024 • Seek Go Create • Tim Winders - Coach for Leaders in Business & Ministry
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Have you ever considered the power of narrative in shaping your life and work? In this riveting episode of "Seek Go Create," Tim Winders engages with narrative strategist, Guillaume Wiatr, who reveals how strategic narratives can transform our personal and business journeys. Guillaume shares invaluable insights on the essential stories that mold our reality and influence our values, decisions, and cultural perceptions. Dive into a discussion that promises to shift your perspective on success, resilience, and the art of storytelling. If you're ready to uncover the narrative that drives your journey, this episode is for you.

"Framing your narrative is not just about what you've done, but who you've become through the highs and lows of your journey." - Guillaume Wiatr

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About Our Guest:

Guillaume Wiatr is the founder of Metahelm, where he utilizes his expertise in strategic narrative methodology to empower professional services firms. With a passion for blending business with the exploration of life's meaning, Guillaume has carved a niche in guiding organizations to align their professional endeavors with their personal values. His innovative approach involves specializing in storytelling, enabling leaders to craft narratives that resonate with their audience, fostering resilience, creativity, and impactful communication. Through his work, Guillaume has become a driving force for companies seeking to define and express their unique stories in a compelling way.

Reasons to Listen:

1. Uncover the Power of Strategic Narratives: Tune in to hear Guillaume Wiatr articulate the transformative influence of narratives on leadership and decision-making, unveiling four immediately actionable stories that could redefine your personal or professional journey.

2. Embrace Growth and Change: Get inspired by Guillaume's own riveting origin tale and learn how re-framing your life story can lead to resilience, creativity, and unexpected success amidst life's inevitable ebbs and flows.

3. Expand Your Influence: Delve into the principles of strategic narrative methodology with the founder of Metahelm, and discover how you can wield narrative power to create a compelling and cohesive identity that gathers people and shapes your impact on the world.

Episode Resources & Action Steps:

### Resources Mentioned:

1. **Guillaume Wiatr's Website**: Visit metahelm.com for a free assessment and to access tools related to strategic narratives.

2. **YouTube Video**: Watch Guillaume Wiatr's video "Systems of Stories" on YouTube for a deeper understanding of narrative frameworks.

3. **Guillaume Wiatr's LinkedIn**: Connect with Guillaume Wiatr on LinkedIn to follow his professional insights and engage with his content.

4. **Strategic Narrative eBook**: Guillaume Wiatr has authored a book on strategic narratives. Get a free PDF online for a comprehensive guide on the subject.

### Action Steps:

1. **Assess Your Narrative**: Take the free strategic narrative assessment on metahelm.com to evaluate the current state of your personal or business narrative.

2. **Define Your Core Stories**: Reflect on and write down your own origin story, opportunity story, perspective story, and the vision for creating the opportunity of a lifetime.

3. **Engage with Strategic Narrative Practices**: Utilize the 12 narrative-shaping practices discussed by Guillaume Wiatr to develop your personal or business narrative strategically.

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Key Lessons:

1. **The Four Essential Stories for Shaping Your Narrative**: Guillaume Wiatr emphasizes the importance of understanding and conveying the innovation story, perspective story, product story, and the story of the resources available for engagement. This approach helps to establish a clear narrative that can guide individuals and organizations in their journey and communication strategy.

2. **Strategic Narrative is Key to Leadership and Group Cohesion**: Narratives are powerful tools that leaders can use to bring people together and align them with common values and objectives. Guillaume introduces the idea of working on an origin story, an opportunity story, and a perspective story—each of which is crucial for creating a narrative that resonates with and unifies a group.

3. **Narrative Versus Story**: Understanding the difference between a story and a narrative is essential, with narratives being more encompassing and broader in scope. Narratives are not only open-ended but also shape and are shaped by our language, mindset, and actions, thus continuing to evolve even after an individual's death.

4. **The Role of Values in Shaping Decision-making**: Values greatly influence our decision-making processes. Guillaume asserts that values are, in fact, choices and form part of our narrative, stressing the need to be conscious and strategic about the values we adopt and the narrative we craft around them.

5. **Engaging with Change and Overcoming Boredom**: Personal growth often requires change and the willingness to step out of our comfort zones. Guillaume shares his experiences with boredom and how significant changes, like moving to a new country, were means to combat stagnation and trigger a narrative shift focusing on resilience and creativity.

Episode Highlights:

00:00 Exploring multiple talents may provoke criticism.

07:27 Diversity in life, specialize in specific moments.

15:57 Podcast episode prompts reflection on triggering events.

18:47 Derail project, prompt drawing, reveal project's status.

23:52 Reflecting on life's challenges and finding gratitude.

28:52 Propaganda can trigger wars, but it's subjective.

34:34 Stories have cycles, French movies lack happy endings.

39:59 Embrace authenticity, navigate culture clash, avoid manipulation.

48:34 Business owners, leaders, and individuals share narratives.

51:48 Exploring perspectives on right and wrong.

55:34 Explore origin story, opportunity story, and more.

01:01:47 Choosing seek over create for its potential.

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Transcripts

Guillaume Waitr:

So a narrative is a choice.

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A narrative is a point of view.

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It's the way you look at reality, it's the way you, understand

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what is happening around you.

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A narrative is a system of stories.

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And when you start connecting those stories together, like connecting your

Guillaume Waitr:

origin story with what you do now, then incredible things can happen.

Guillaume Waitr:

Um, uh,

Tim Winders:

In the ever evolving world of professional services.

Tim Winders:

How do leaders cut through the noise, align their teams

Tim Winders:

and drive genuine innovation.

Tim Winders:

Welcome to today's episode of seek, go create, where we delve into

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the art and science of creating compelling business narratives.

Tim Winders:

With Guillaume Viat, the mastermind behind the strategic narrative methodology.

Tim Winders:

Guillaume, the founder of MetaHelm has revolutionized how CEOs, founders,

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and leadership teams of professional services firms clarify their vision,

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differentiate their business, and inspire both their teams and the market.

Tim Winders:

Through his unique approach, he has guided prominent organizations and leaders,

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including those from Alaska airlines, the Gates foundation, and Google towards

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greater focus, traction, and innovation.

Tim Winders:

Guillaume, welcome to SeatGoCreate.

Guillaume Waitr:

Hello team.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's so good to be here with you.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's

Tim Winders:

It is.

Guillaume Waitr:

having,

Tim Winders:

I'm glad you're here too.

Tim Winders:

We had a great little conversation before we clicked record.

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And I even said, stop, I've got to get the recorder going.

Tim Winders:

This is, this is some good information.

Tim Winders:

And I'm, I'm going to start with like my little, I call it a little

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wimpy icebreaker thing, but I think it's an important question.

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And that is if someone asks you with the breadth that you've got, the background,

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you've got all that you do, if you just bump into someone, let's say outside of a.

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Business environment, and they ask you what you do, what do you tell them?

Guillaume Waitr:

I'll tell them and I'm an explorer and I explore the

Guillaume Waitr:

meaning of life through business.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's really, this really, it's been, it's been my narrative since I was a kid.

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I wanted to be an expert in the literal sense of things, you know, like

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packing everything in your backpack and going to places you don't know.

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Exotic.

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unknown territories, uncharted territories, which I did

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for, for a while in my life.

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I was lucky enough to travel to many countries.

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but I think now, and I, interestingly, I'm very sedentary now.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm, I'm French, but I'm established in Seattle since 2008.

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And, I, I don't travel very much, but I do explore a lot more.

Guillaume Waitr:

I like, you know, I explore the meaning of life for me, for my clients, for

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my family through business because that's kind of how I, I, I spend most

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of my time doing business things.

Guillaume Waitr:

But for me, business is a very multifaceted.

Guillaume Waitr:

Concept, and I am an artist as well.

Guillaume Waitr:

I am, obviously, a French native speaker, but an exo, what's called an

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exophonic writer, somebody who writes in their, second or third language.

Guillaume Waitr:

So I write in English, you know, and I explore, what I do through all

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sorts of practices, like creative practices, spiritual practices.

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practices, all sorts of things.

Guillaume Waitr:

So, people say, Oh, I mean, you're, you're such a Renaissance man.

Guillaume Waitr:

You Jack, you're a Jack of all trade.

Guillaume Waitr:

You, you can, you're, you're talented at so many things.

Guillaume Waitr:

And it's because from the get go, I've always had this idea that life

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is so rich, so abundant that it would be, it would be a shame not

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to try a bunch of things, but my.

Guillaume Waitr:

My red thread, you know, my direction is, is really that idea of alignment

Guillaume Waitr:

between what you do as a professional and, and the impact you want to have.

Guillaume Waitr:

did I answer the question?

Tim Winders:

I, you did, you, you gave me a lot of information that could move us in

Tim Winders:

different directions than the, you know, three questions that I wrote down that

Tim Winders:

I might want to ask, but the word that.

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The word that jumped out at me is curiosity and I have, I've found that

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the age that I'm at, I think as I prep for this question, that's going

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to be around curiosity, I have kind of been similar from a young age.

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There were a lot of things.

Tim Winders:

I never have called myself an artist, but yet I've recently written a novel.

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And I, I think what we're doing here is a certain degree of art.

Guillaume Waitr:

It is.

Guillaume Waitr:

Yeah,

Tim Winders:

you know, having conversations and trying to get

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a story or, or a narrative, we're going to weave this word narrative

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into what we're doing shortly.

Tim Winders:

But it, it's, it's fascinating to me that the negative.

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of the incredibly positive way that you said what you did, which is a

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Renaissance man, someone who's talented and skilled, skilled in many areas.

Tim Winders:

I had someone who called himself a polymath that I interviewed, that they're

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expert in so many different areas.

Tim Winders:

The negative of it for some people could be, That they are,

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and this is not a bad thing.

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There's some people that they do one thing well, their entire life at times.

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I'm not envious of them, but I look at them and then go, huh, wonder

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what that would be like, because they will often criticize me and you

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and say, are you struggling to find something you're really good at?

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Or that you really want to do.

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That's the negative.

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And so I'll sort of ask that.

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Have you ever had someone say, Guillaume, can't you just find something

Tim Winders:

that you can do and stick with it?

Guillaume Waitr:

Oh yeah.

Guillaume Waitr:

My parents,

Tim Winders:

respond when people say that to you?

Guillaume Waitr:

my parents saying so many times yours too.

Tim Winders:

I mean, my early on in my corporate, early on in my corporate

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career, I worked corporate for a few years when I came out of university

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at Georgia Tech as an engineer.

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And I was one of these at about every nine months.

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In a very structured stayed environment of corporate, it was in

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the telecommunications industry that was a hundred years old at the time.

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Most people went in, stayed there, worked forever.

Tim Winders:

Well, in the nine years I was there, I had 10 different jobs, roles, et cetera.

Tim Winders:

and and my mother literally said at one point, is there nothing you

Tim Winders:

could find that you can do there?

Guillaume Waitr:

Yeah, it's because maybe, maybe it's something that,

Guillaume Waitr:

and as a, as a dad of two boys, you know, it's probably something that

Guillaume Waitr:

would, that would scare me a bit.

Guillaume Waitr:

You know, so, so we'll, we'll see their, their teenagers still.

Guillaume Waitr:

So we'll see in a few years, if they, if they keep looking for

Guillaume Waitr:

different things, I might experience the same, the same anxiety.

Guillaume Waitr:

My parents told me, yeah, isn't there something you want to settle on and

Guillaume Waitr:

just do for the rest of your life?

Guillaume Waitr:

And I said, no, I'm going to be like that for a long time.

Guillaume Waitr:

But now outside of that.

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I didn't get too much.

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I didn't receive too much criticism from my friends or colleagues.

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and, and, and yet, because the, you know, I heard this from the

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parental voice, it still made me quite uncomfortable until I think I,

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I was able to figure something out.

Guillaume Waitr:

And the, and that's, that's the following is that you don't have

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to, Specialize and niche down your whole life into something, but what

Guillaume Waitr:

so you, you can stay very diverse.

Guillaume Waitr:

You can, you can explore very different and maybe throughout your life.

Guillaume Waitr:

You know, there are seasons in life.

Guillaume Waitr:

There are things you can do and can do, at different times.

Guillaume Waitr:

And so, but, but you may want to think about specializing specific

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moments or areas of your life or your, of your, or your business journey.

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and in fact, you know, the, the, the, the, some of the most successful

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entrepreneurs, if you look at their portfolio of businesses, and it's

Guillaume Waitr:

a very wide range of things, but each businesses is each business.

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is highly specialized in something.

Guillaume Waitr:

So you introduced me as the, as the principal and founder of Metahelm and that

Guillaume Waitr:

business is highly specialized in business strategy for professional services firms.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's all I do.

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Nothing else.

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and then, you know, even within that buckets, I, I'm not going to go into

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details now, but there are very, very specific things that I, I think I'm

Guillaume Waitr:

really good at and others that I won't do, but metahelm is not my whole life.

Guillaume Waitr:

Fortunately, I have, I have many other things.

Guillaume Waitr:

So, so that's how I see it.

Guillaume Waitr:

I hope this helps, you know, people who listen to us also.

Guillaume Waitr:

Maybe, settle with that question, which you're right.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's a difficult question and there's a lot of criticism.

Guillaume Waitr:

There's a lot of debate.

Guillaume Waitr:

Oh yeah.

Guillaume Waitr:

You should need to, no, you should stay a generalist.

Guillaume Waitr:

I advise my clients for the business that I hope that I

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help them with to specialize.

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And there are many different ways to specialize, not just an

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industry or, or, or one process.

Guillaume Waitr:

There's different ways to do that.

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and that's, that's always keeping in mind that they're more than that.

Guillaume Waitr:

They're way more than that.

Guillaume Waitr:

And that's okay to explore other things.

Tim Winders:

Hmm.

Tim Winders:

So that.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's how I reconciled it for me.

Tim Winders:

Yeah.

Tim Winders:

And, and, and, so this is, I guess something, I think this

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is very valuable for a number of people, for the person that.

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Might be feeling as if they're in one place and they hear two guys

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talk about all these different things, explore, adventure, being

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curious and all that kind of stuff.

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And so I want, I want that person to stick around because I believe

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there's value for, for what they do, because in many ways I admire that.

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As much, sometimes if not more than the way, the way we have discussed we are.

Tim Winders:

But one of the things I noticed about me, and this is, I'll pose

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this in the form of a question.

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I noticed early on in my life, it was probably the seasons, you mentioned

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this word seasons, I love that word, that I was finding who I was.

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I was identifying, I was identifying the things that I

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definitely wasn't going to do.

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And, and I would find myself getting bored.

Tim Winders:

And, and, you know, you use the word explorer and explorer basically is

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someone who goes out, but, but like you said, they could be someone close.

Tim Winders:

So the question I've got is, do you ever find yourself getting bored?

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And if you don't currently, did you in the past and how have you reconciled that?

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If that was the case, just, you know, boards, like, you know what?

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This is not exciting me.

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This is not a good narrative for me, whatever I need to do something else.

Tim Winders:

How did you address that?

Guillaume Waitr:

You mean bored in general?

Guillaume Waitr:

Because I, I, or, or bored because I get bored every day with a bunch of

Guillaume Waitr:

stuff that I have to, I have to, to do.

Tim Winders:

I'll give it, I'll let you take it.

Tim Winders:

I'll, I'll let you take it.

Tim Winders:

However you want to take it for what go big picture or go granular day to day.

Tim Winders:

Either way

Guillaume Waitr:

Yeah.

Guillaume Waitr:

well, I did, I did, I was definitely, generally bored in my life.

Guillaume Waitr:

I can think of a few times, you know, and then I triggered change.

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I said, Oh, let's change, let's change, country.

Guillaume Waitr:

For instance, my wife is from Seattle.

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So she's.

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She's the one who kind of dragged me over, but we used to live in

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France and, I was bored with France.

Guillaume Waitr:

I wanted to change and she was homesick.

Guillaume Waitr:

So good timing.

Guillaume Waitr:

They, you know, let's shift this.

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let me tell you, it was not boring after that.

Guillaume Waitr:

It was very, very intense and exciting for me.

Guillaume Waitr:

And so, so yes, so, so, so I, I, in general, am I bored right now?

Guillaume Waitr:

No.

Guillaume Waitr:

this is a very, very exciting, time of my life.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm really, really, you know, thrilled with the

Guillaume Waitr:

amount of conversations that I have, the type of work that I do.

Guillaume Waitr:

I was, Making a list the other day of all the topics and the experts I work with

Guillaume Waitr:

and it ranges from somebody who's like a leading expert in the resilience, you

Guillaume Waitr:

know, human resilience all the way to people who create better ways to cool.

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high performance computers.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's that, that's a really, really critical thing right now is to

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increase power, computing power.

Guillaume Waitr:

You have to call them in a way more effective and, and, and a sustainable way.

Guillaume Waitr:

I work with people who help, highly sensitive people.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm, I was just on a call, two days ago with somebody in Saudi Arabia who wants

Guillaume Waitr:

to create a community for entrepreneurs.

Guillaume Waitr:

I mean.

Guillaume Waitr:

I don't have time to get bored with all those topics.

Guillaume Waitr:

It really, really fits my curiosity now on a date on a day to day basis.

Guillaume Waitr:

I do.

Guillaume Waitr:

Yeah, there's stuff that I'm not excited, you know, of doing in, in doing.

Guillaume Waitr:

And, and, my, my son, last, this weekend we were driving and he's like,

Guillaume Waitr:

dad, I'm really bored with school.

Guillaume Waitr:

I feel like, you know, I just.

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Push through the week, and I, I try to do my best, but it's really, really boring.

Guillaume Waitr:

And I say, well, maybe there is a, there's a learning there, there's a lesson.

Guillaume Waitr:

Maybe the, maybe it's here to teach you that not everything in life is always

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exciting and you have to learn to do the things that you must do, you know,

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to a certain extent and deal with that.

Guillaume Waitr:

So, you know, I, I publish a lot of things.

Guillaume Waitr:

I, you know, I do a lot of videos.

Guillaume Waitr:

I do a lot of writing.

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I, I, I, I interact with the outside world and sometimes.

Guillaume Waitr:

Am I excited?

Guillaume Waitr:

No, not at all.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm bored.

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I mean, I'm like, nah, yeah, gotta do this thing, but I do it anyways.

Guillaume Waitr:

I know that 10 seconds later I get really, really thrilled, really excited.

Guillaume Waitr:

Oh my gosh, yes.

Guillaume Waitr:

I could talk about this.

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I could say this.

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I could do that.

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I could create, I could draw, I could, you know, you name it.

Guillaume Waitr:

So that's my relationship with boredom.

Guillaume Waitr:

And may, maybe I did.

Guillaume Waitr:

I didn't define boredom as the same as way, the same way as you do.

Guillaume Waitr:

But that's kind of my relationship.

Guillaume Waitr:

Yeah, that's my

Tim Winders:

that's good.

Tim Winders:

Before I hit record, you mentioned to me that you had gone back and

Tim Winders:

listened to the origin story.

Tim Winders:

And, and I gave you a little video tour of our RV here, which gave

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you a little glimpse into our life.

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And I'm always fascinated because it is interesting.

Tim Winders:

There are a number of people that I think they can't learn.

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Much about me, my narrative, who I am, unless they listen to that.

Tim Winders:

And your comment was similar or relatable or something like that.

Tim Winders:

I don't know the exact words.

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And so I think what I'd love to do now is maybe what is, what is that?

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origin story that you feel is pertinent to share as we move into this discussion

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about strategic narrative here.

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What is, and one of the things we do not do here, we love the tactical, we

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love strategic, but we also love that identity and core of who people are,

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which comes from situations like that.

Tim Winders:

So that's me giving you permission to share whatever as light or

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as deep as you would like to.

Tim Winders:

We don't.

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We don't use words like failure.

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We call them experiences.

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It's part of who we are.

Tim Winders:

So what's in, what's part of your, or your origin story that is

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pertinent to the conversation here?

Guillaume Waitr:

So, when I saw that, you know, in, I listened to

Guillaume Waitr:

your podcast and I, I picked up, there is an origin story episode.

Guillaume Waitr:

Then you mentioned it like, Oh, where is that episode?

Guillaume Waitr:

So I had to scroll down on my, I think I was on Spotify.

Guillaume Waitr:

Listen, scroll that all the way, all the way, all the way.

Guillaume Waitr:

Like, Oh, there is that episode to me.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's the most, one of the most interesting facets of a narrative

Guillaume Waitr:

is where people come from now.

Guillaume Waitr:

and, and, or, you know, there's potentially In my, in my journey,

Guillaume Waitr:

several moments that I would call triggering events or, you know, that

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could qualify for an origin story.

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And it all depends on how you frame it.

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And you just, you just did something, which is you, you

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framed, a story with options.

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You gave people a possibility just a minute ago by saying

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there's no, there is no failure.

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There's just learning is that, I think that's what you said.

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Right.

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so.

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Current.

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So I'll tell you my origin story as it relates to what I'm doing now.

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But as, as it relates to other things in my life, maybe there are other moments in

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my life that could be the origin story.

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So I just, I just want to say that because it's an exercise in, relativity.

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it's one of the key exercises I help my clients actually, work on and develop

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because through that they unearth so much.

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It's really, you know, there's a famous quote by, I don't know, I can't remember

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who, but you can't predict the future.

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The only way to predict the future is to look through the past because

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there is nothing to look at in the future unless you have a crystal ball.

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I don't have one.

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So my origin story is about when I came to the, there's two moments,

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first of all, working in corporations.

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Working corporations, I thought that if I was really bored, Tim, I was really,

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really bored and, and, and, and, I remember this, this day when, I was

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a young consultant, it was probably around the late nineties, early 2000,

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I was brought on to a large, energy company in France called Total.

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and that brought me on because for somehow randomly, I happen to be very,

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knowledgeable about the purchasing, tool that they had, and they were

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stuck on a project and I'll make this part of this part of my origin story.

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That's the first part short, but I kicked off the meeting.

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I'm a young consultant, probably 27, 28.

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I'm sitting in this room with everyone, probably double my age.

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running, you know, this large, very, very large company and they all expect

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from me this technical expertise.

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And in the first 15 to 30 minutes, I noticed that the problem

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is not the lack of expertise.

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The problem is these guys don't listen to each other.

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They're misaligned.

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They, you know, they use different terms and acronyms and.

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It's, it's an ego festival, like I know more than you and I can do, and

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I can say this jargon better than you.

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And so it's like, I'm like, huh, no wonder this project is stuck.

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And I, I derail my own agenda and say, Hey guys, you know, I, you know, I had

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a whole agenda today, but do you mind if we do this quick exercise, which

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consists of grabbing a piece of paper and drawing what the project looks like.

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Everyone here around the room grabs a piece of letter size, you know, piece

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of paper and a pen and draws a project.

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Which after a few seconds of looking at me with googly eyes, they go, okay,

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I guess if the cons if the consultant say, so we'll do it, but not convinced

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they did it, we posted the drawings and the drawings did the rest.

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Like they could see by themselves without me saying anything, why

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the project was completely stuck.

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So there was a first moment in my life where I'm like, okay, I probably should

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my intuition more and my creativity more.

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And really pay attention to human dynamics, which I just did now.

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I was terrified him.

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I thought they were going to fire me right away, which at the, at

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this, at this time and age in my life would have been completely

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dramatic and, and the project went on.

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It was actually very successful.

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Two years later, they told me, Oh, we didn't, we never told you, but

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you know, before you, we had fired to be consulting for us because they

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couldn't, make us work together.

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So it was the first element then 15 years later about, sorry.

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yeah.

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What was that?

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Would that, that would be about 15 years?

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No, sorry.

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eight years later, my wife is American and I moved to the United States and

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I move in this, end of July of 2008.

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my plan is, hey, I know no one, so picture this, I can't, I can barely,

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you know, I can speak English with this very French accent a little bit.

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I don't know anyone.

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And my wonderful plan is to get hired as a management consultant in the Seattle area.

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And two weeks after I come here, there's no job for me.

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So I had to reinvent myself.

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We can't pay the bills.

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My wife's a teacher.

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We have our first baby.

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And I am here with this, you know, pretty fancy background, you know, big firms, big

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names in France that no one knows here.

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And I'm faced with this challenge of what do you do now?

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Do you go back to France?

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Do you stay here?

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Do you, what's going on?

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You know, you're not making any money.

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I can't last more maybe than a month with what I have in savings.

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And because it's an expensive move that I paid, you know, entirely out of my pocket.

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So it was a humbling moment.

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and I know you applied to McDonald's.

Guillaume Waitr:

team, back, you had to apply to McDonald's right in the early

Tim Winders:

I tried, they didn't want me.

Tim Winders:

I don't know why I couldn't even get the application in.

Tim Winders:

And I, anyway, yes,

Guillaume Waitr:

and I.

Guillaume Waitr:

yeah, so, so, so humbling moments similar to yours.

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And I just applied to local pharmacy, to get a job as a,

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you know, handyman, janitor.

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I was, then I was doing yard work.

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I was doing a little tutoring and it was the best thing that happened

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in my life because really after that, what I noticed is that people

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could not care less about my resume.

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What they really want to hear is how did I survive and went through this

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financial crisis we all went through here.

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That was the narrative thereafter.

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And they noticed that my narrative wasn't, was it by resilience, creativity,

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letting go of the ego and just do what's right for, you know, for the time being.

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And they, they.

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And then they really, they really appreciated that.

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And then as soon as, so I did all sorts of things.

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And, I worked in retail.

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I learned so much in retail.

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I learned the English language, a bunch of slang terms too,

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that was interesting for me.

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So I explored a bunch.

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And then after that, I go back to consulting and that's the

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only thing people cared about.

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Like, how did you make it through this, through these times?

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Why are you coming from France?

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What are you doing here?

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Tell us about that.

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And.

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I had the chance to, to, to, to frame my narrative from the

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perspective of my values versus telling them, Oh yeah, I failed.

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I plan to come here and be successful right away.

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And that didn't work out.

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So a narrative is a choice.

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A narrative is a point of view.

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It's the way you look at reality, you know, it's, it's the way you, you

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understand what is happening around you.

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A narrative is a system of stories.

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And when you start connecting those stories together, like connecting your

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origin story with what you do now, then incredible things can happen.

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Your narrative becomes a set of possibilities becomes more.

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Open, it becomes a platform for you to communicate with people more effectively.

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So it's a common language with, you know, with people, around you and so on.

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So I'll pause here.

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I

Tim Winders:

here thinking someone listening in might go, okay, both

Tim Winders:

these, both these guys went through something that would have had some pain.

Tim Winders:

I'm sure that, you know, there's some humbling effect.

Tim Winders:

There's some things that this is the way my wife and I worded.

Tim Winders:

I wouldn't wish our journey on anyone else, but I'm so

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thankful that we went through it.

Tim Winders:

Does it have to have a valley?

Tim Winders:

Does it have to have a, it can't all be good.

Tim Winders:

Can it, or, I mean, are there any rules to this big narrative?

Tim Winders:

We're, and I want to, we're going to go a little bit deeper, but

Tim Winders:

let's talk big picture right now.

Tim Winders:

Are there any rules like, you know, there's gotta be a downfall.

Tim Winders:

There's gotta be something ugly.

Guillaume Waitr:

don't have the answer to this question, Tim.

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I'm still exploring.

Guillaume Waitr:

I would say as of today, March, 2024, I would lean towards, I'm going to try

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to say, I don't think there is a role.

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I have heard origin story that are actually very positive.

Guillaume Waitr:

Um, I, I, I think the principle is, maybe, some sort of epiphany or aha

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moment and, maybe it's human nature that we have these through difficult times.

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but that's a good question.

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That's actually, maybe a research topic that I should call

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somebody out there should do.

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Maybe somebody has done that work already.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's a very good question.

Tim Winders:

Well, let me, I want to give you a little bit of data for it, and I

Tim Winders:

don't think we'll come up with the answer,

Tim Winders:

but I did a, when I, when I, when I wrote a novel a few years back, I did a pseudo.

Tim Winders:

PR type tour that ended up being virtual, not because of COVID and things like that.

Tim Winders:

But I, I got on often, I would get on big zoom calls that had a lot of media people.

Tim Winders:

And we made our pitch three minutes to be on their show, their publication.

Tim Winders:

I mean, some of these were national television shows, things like that.

Tim Winders:

And, and that was a little bit out of reach of a lot of us that were there,

Tim Winders:

but they were, there were people there.

Tim Winders:

And, and Guillaume, I, I noticed that when I told the story that I like to

Tim Winders:

tell, which is, at that time I'm a strategic coach, I work with leaders

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and businesses, et cetera, and all.

Tim Winders:

I wouldn't see people falling asleep, but I sensed it was just extremely boring.

Tim Winders:

To most of them, but when I told him the story that we had three seven

Tim Winders:

figure companies in 2008, and by 2013, we were homeless and bankrupt.

Tim Winders:

It was like, they perked up immediately and wanted to know more

Tim Winders:

and said, Oh, you'd be perfect.

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And so when I found myself, and this is what I had to caution myself, I found

Tim Winders:

myself repeating that over and over.

Tim Winders:

I had like 80 pitches that I did within a course of a few days.

Guillaume Waitr:

Mm

Tim Winders:

And when I told my other story, crickets, nothing, but when I told

Tim Winders:

that story and what I was concerned was, is that I was falling into a click bait.

Tim Winders:

It was really my story.

Tim Winders:

I am not, that's not the story.

Tim Winders:

There's a lot more to it.

Tim Winders:

You know, there's a lot more to that story and that, that hook,

Tim Winders:

I call it click bait sometimes.

Tim Winders:

And, and at times I wonder if we start molding those narratives, maybe even

Tim Winders:

exaggerate, embellish to make them fit what social media, what all is,

Tim Winders:

that might be a different question.

Tim Winders:

I'll see if I just mentioned that.

Tim Winders:

Do you, what's your response?

Tim Winders:

I don't even know if that's a question or anything.

Tim Winders:

I would just commenting.

Guillaume Waitr:

Everything you said is true.

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We shape narratives, for, to, to our advantage.

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The reason why, the human species is still around for now.

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is because we have an ability to do what animals can do, which is imagine things.

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And we, you know, and we, we imagine terrible things or great things.

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And we, we stretch the truth and we spin off things to our advantage.

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We, you know, we, we do that all the time.

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It's human nature.

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so, so the reasons why Religions exist and are able to gather people in such

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powerful movements is because we believe in, in stories that are what they are.

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They're, some of them, I believe are true, some of them are not.

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They're completely fictitious, but we still need them.

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We, this, it's, it's, it is an existential thing.

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So the fact that you go on those, on those calls and pitches and people say,

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Hey, we want that piece, that narrative.

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Because it works in your favor and works in their favor.

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And yes, they're going to get more, more clicks and baits, sorry, clicks.

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And, and, and, and it's going to be more compelling.

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so it's a little bit like, a Trojan horse to the mind and hearts.

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And then, and then you do what you want to do and need to do with it,

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hopefully for positive intentions, right?

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But some people do, do it also for negative stuff and, and it's

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called, it's called propaganda.

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And, and, and they do it to trigger wars and, and dominate and,

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and create more arms than good.

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So, But that's, that's all a question of values of it's all subjective after that.

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So by definition, what you did here is you came across, Hey, yeah, we could

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tell, we, I could tell so many stories.

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That's what I hear all the time.

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Like, you know, my clients go, Oh, I want to be able to tell my story.

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And I go, okay, which one?

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Well, my story, I go, well, you, you, you could tell like a thousand stories.

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Which one are we going to work on?

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What's going to be the most important to you?

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Right?

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So you are in a situation where.

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You could tell a set of stories and the PR people say, no, we want this one.

Guillaume Waitr:

There's nothing wrong with that.

Tim Winders:

So one of the things I just had a visual that is so interesting with

Tim Winders:

you being from the country of France.

Tim Winders:

I, I, I think the way I look at that story.

Tim Winders:

Is the equivalent of June 6th, 1944, when the allied forces were made the

Tim Winders:

decision with, you know, Eisenhower and the others to come across the channel and

Tim Winders:

re establish a presence in the North of France, Normandy region and all of that.

Tim Winders:

And I'm a big fan of history and things like that.

Tim Winders:

So this is, I almost can tear up when I discuss this day in history.

Tim Winders:

And I, and I love it that I'm speaking with someone who has an origin from, from

Tim Winders:

that region, or at least that country

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And I, I am, I am from that region team, by the way.

Tim Winders:

it's, it's much more of a heart message to me.

Tim Winders:

So the way I perceive that portion of my narrative is the equivalent of what

Tim Winders:

Eisenhower said that they were going to do before they put the troops on.

Tim Winders:

They were going to shell, shell, shell to soften the

Tim Winders:

beachhead so that it would allow.

Tim Winders:

The troops to come in with limited loss, et cetera.

Tim Winders:

There was a lot of loss.

Tim Winders:

There was a lot that went on.

Tim Winders:

I consider that portion, that really short condensed portion of my narrative

Tim Winders:

as softening the beachhead so that there's more of an opening for me to.

Tim Winders:

Go in and do what I believe I need to do, which is discuss strategy,

Tim Winders:

discuss, you know, what can we do with the leadership circles?

Tim Winders:

And, and it did open up doors.

Tim Winders:

I mean, people love that story.

Tim Winders:

And then they sell, by the way, now, what do you, tell me more

Tim Winders:

about what you do and how you help companies and how you help leaders.

Tim Winders:

So, anyway, that thoughts.

Guillaume Waitr:

Well, I, I think, you know, we, we want to work with people

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who we can, relate to or connect with.

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I mean, that's what we do in a podcast like that, by the way.

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And, And the way we do this is by, is by sharing the truth from our perspective

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and seeing what resonates with them.

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So when people hear your story of success and struggle and success

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again, ups and downs, you know, it portrays something, it portrays life.

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in fact, you know, the, if we want to measure your heartbeat and you look at

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this instrument, I don't know in English what the name for the instruments, you

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know, it's a black screen with a little green dot it's ups and downs all the time.

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Fortunately, you're alive because you know, there's moments of activity and

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moments of rest and the same goes for your, for your life story is the same.

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So we want to, we want to relate to somebody who's alive.

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that's the, that's the nature of our society.

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That's, that's the nature of who we are.

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so I guess that's probably why that's my, that would be my read on

Tim Winders:

so it's.

Tim Winders:

Yeah, I want to let, let's kind of go a layer or two down and discuss what

Tim Winders:

you've titled as strategic narrative.

Tim Winders:

And there, there are a couple of words that are really fascinating to me.

Tim Winders:

The word strategic, if one looks at the strength finders, my

Tim Winders:

number one strength is strategic.

Tim Winders:

And, you know, there was a period of time where I called myself a strategic coach.

Tim Winders:

and, and till there was an organization called strategic coach that said,

Tim Winders:

we'd rather you not use that name.

Tim Winders:

We had some discussions about that and which I was fine with, you know,

Tim Winders:

but tell me about the two words.

Tim Winders:

Strategic and narrative.

Tim Winders:

And that's going to be kind of our gateway to begin moving in.

Tim Winders:

And as in, in, in, in the time that we have, there's a few layers down that

Tim Winders:

I want to keep going as far as we can.

Tim Winders:

And then people can get more information in other ways, but strategic narrative.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'll start with the second word narrative,

Guillaume Waitr:

which I, I make a difference between a story and a narrative.

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First of all, most people, use them interchangeably rightfully.

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So if you look in a basic dictionary, you'll see it's pretty much the same

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definition, but there is one element that a narrative, brings in addition to

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a story, which is what I said earlier, a narrative is, It's a way to look at

Guillaume Waitr:

things, you know, and it's, you, you probably caught this on, in conversations

Guillaume Waitr:

or on TV, we, you know, especially the, the, the journalists say very often,

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Oh, the narrative about our country, the narrative about society, the narrative

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about this and this, you know, problem or the near, and we say, you know,

Guillaume Waitr:

the world has a narrative countries have narratives, your company has a

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narrative and yourself has a narrative.

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So.

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So we're looking at something that is bigger than just the stories who are,

Guillaume Waitr:

in my opinion, more granular concepts.

Guillaume Waitr:

A story has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Guillaume Waitr:

You know, we, we like to think of the story as a, as, as, as a, as a cycle, as

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a loop, a happy ending, typically, not in French movies, by the way, we have

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no happy ending in French movies, but we still have a closure to the story.

Guillaume Waitr:

Whereas narratives, because there are these systems of stories are open ended.

Guillaume Waitr:

You know, your narrative unfolds all the time, as long as you, as long as

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you're, you're alive and sometimes after your death, your narrative carries on.

Guillaume Waitr:

you know, I was talking to a client, he was mentioning you, so Steve Job

Guillaume Waitr:

with, with Apple, his narrative is still very, very much around us.

Guillaume Waitr:

Right.

Guillaume Waitr:

And you, and we continue to, to, to interpret it and re interpret it.

Guillaume Waitr:

I think he was the 30 year 30th anniversary or 40th anniversary of

Guillaume Waitr:

that famous commercial that jobs, you know, team, came to about, you

Guillaume Waitr:

know, big brother and this lady coming into the, the, the movie theater,

Guillaume Waitr:

throwing the hammer on the screen,

Tim Winders:

1984.

Tim Winders:

That was

Guillaume Waitr:

right.

Tim Winders:

of the commercial.

Tim Winders:

And that was the year in the Orwell book that

Tim Winders:

they brought together.

Guillaume Waitr:

there you go.

Guillaume Waitr:

1984.

Guillaume Waitr:

So that narrative, we continue to try to do something with that.

Guillaume Waitr:

So I want, I want to make sure that we talk about this.

Guillaume Waitr:

So a narrative is a system and, three, there are three

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things that shape a narrative.

Guillaume Waitr:

again, I'll start with the most obvious and simple.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's the language.

Guillaume Waitr:

when people Asked me, Oh, you can, can you, you know, can you work with me?

Guillaume Waitr:

They immediately think, Oh, we're going to work on our marketing, our communications

Guillaume Waitr:

and sales, whatever in involves language.

Guillaume Waitr:

And in, in an organization is very much thought as what is happening outside.

Guillaume Waitr:

I mean, there's obviously also internal communication, but the first layer of a

Guillaume Waitr:

narrative is what we say, words forge.

Guillaume Waitr:

So many things around us, you know, and the first thing they, they

Guillaume Waitr:

forge is our mindset, which is the second layer of a narrative.

Guillaume Waitr:

Your narrative happens.

Guillaume Waitr:

First of all, in your mind, without you saying anything, you look at something,

Guillaume Waitr:

you think about a situation, Tim, and immediately your narrative kicks in.

Guillaume Waitr:

Narratives are these, cognitive bias.

Guillaume Waitr:

They are there to help us function without thinking too much.

Guillaume Waitr:

Our brain doesn't, doesn't like to overthink.

Guillaume Waitr:

So, the way you look at working with a client, the way you look

Guillaume Waitr:

at your day, you have a narrative.

Guillaume Waitr:

That narrative can be positive or negative.

Guillaume Waitr:

You wake up and you go, Gosh, I'm so excited today.

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Oh, yeah, it's gonna be, I'm gonna learn something.

Guillaume Waitr:

Or, oh my gosh, another day.

Guillaume Waitr:

you know, I hear people say, how are you doing today?

Guillaume Waitr:

Ah, just like a Monday.

Guillaume Waitr:

What kind of mindset, you know, does this bring to, to a day to, you know, and even

Guillaume Waitr:

my tone of voice indicated a negative narrative about, about a narrative.

Guillaume Waitr:

The third element of a narrative is just simply, your actions.

Guillaume Waitr:

What, what do you do, you know, and in a company, it's

Guillaume Waitr:

going to be mostly materialized through your workflow processes.

Guillaume Waitr:

So that's what a narrative is.

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You can look and look around.

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It's not just true for businesses.

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It's true for, religious organizations, societies, government, any,

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groups of human beings trying to achieve a goal together.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's a fundamental mechanism that you will see just everywhere.

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Look around.

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It's everywhere.

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So that's what a narrative is.

Guillaume Waitr:

Now, why did I put strategic in front of it is because I wanted to,

Tim Winders:

Can I pause you, can I pause you one second?

Tim Winders:

Because I want to, I, you know, I'm not going to let the strategic die.

Tim Winders:

We'll come back to that, but I've got a few.

Tim Winders:

questions about narrative.

Tim Winders:

And if it, if it's going to tie in later, you could say, Tim, we'll

Tim Winders:

get to that, or they could do more.

Tim Winders:

The first thing that came up for me when I was doing some studying research

Tim Winders:

and I read through your book was one of the things we're told in our modern

Tim Winders:

business world is something around this.

Tim Winders:

You need to know who your audience is.

Tim Winders:

And, and so one of the things that I kept thinking about, it wasn't nagging

Tim Winders:

at me, but usually if I'm thinking about it, it's something that's

Tim Winders:

rolling around in my mind is how does.

Tim Winders:

Narrative relate to the person that's creating it versus a

Tim Winders:

person that's attempting to create something for a specific audience.

Tim Winders:

Okay.

Tim Winders:

Is that something you want to address?

Tim Winders:

Is it

Tim Winders:

quickly or is it not?

Guillaume Waitr:

it.

Guillaume Waitr:

No, no, I can

Tim Winders:

Let me kind of quick, cause there's a few other

Tim Winders:

things that are a little deeper.

Tim Winders:

So just kind of say a few things about that quickly.

Guillaume Waitr:

quickly is a narrative is very much something that comes,

Guillaume Waitr:

comes from the inside, inside out.

Guillaume Waitr:

So it has to be really, really tied to, you know, where we

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talked about the origin stories.

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what are your values?

Guillaume Waitr:

What do you, it's almost like spiritual, emotional.

Guillaume Waitr:

You have to feel it inside before you preoccupy yourself with the audience.

Guillaume Waitr:

And, and that that's, it goes in tandem.

Guillaume Waitr:

but I would, I would encourage you guys, whoever's listening and team, you know,

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think about the narrative as something that, because it's, it's such, like I said

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earlier, it's such a, it's subjective.

Guillaume Waitr:

So it's something you get to shape.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's a perspective.

Guillaume Waitr:

So I'll, I'll pose here.

Tim Winders:

All right.

Tim Winders:

So I like that because that's good because what that does is it allows people to

Tim Winders:

be true to themselves and not get into the manipulation embellishment or, you

Tim Winders:

know, a lot of things that could happen in the world today where it's like, you

Tim Winders:

know, and I need to come up with a story.

Tim Winders:

It's not me, it's not my narrative, but I just need to come up with

Tim Winders:

one so I could sell some stuff.

Tim Winders:

That's the cynical comment that I'll make.

Tim Winders:

Second thing, how does.

Tim Winders:

Cultures fit into narrative.

Tim Winders:

I think you said it earlier, but I just want to make sure I'm clear because we do

Tim Winders:

have cultures here in the United States.

Tim Winders:

My concern is we have two different cultures that are clashing currently,

Tim Winders:

but then you have a good perspective of obviously another country's culture.

Tim Winders:

I just got back from a trip, uh, where I went to the central Ohio

Tim Winders:

where it's a very heavy Amish.

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Culture.

Tim Winders:

I had some business to do and also some ministry work.

Tim Winders:

It was fascinating to me to learn.

Tim Winders:

I learned some things about narratives there, but so just talk

Tim Winders:

a little bit more about culture and then I've got one more item that

Tim Winders:

will lead us into that strategic.

Tim Winders:

Discussion.

Guillaume Waitr:

Well, okay.

Guillaume Waitr:

So the, one of the basic definition of cultures is the

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way we do things around here.

Guillaume Waitr:

So we'll let, let's start there.

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So, and you talk about the Amish, the Amish are known, you

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know, move those barns and build those barns very, very quickly.

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How do they do this?

Guillaume Waitr:

Well, they, you know, they, they, they rally a bunch of people.

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It's a number thing like it's, and, and it's, it's very, okay.

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well orchestrated.

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I've never seen one live, but I've watched many, many videos because that

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was actually one of the culture I was interested in learning more about.

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And when you do things around here, you do certain things based,

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you, you base your decisions.

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on a certain type of values.

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Values are how we decide, right?

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And values, then there's another connection, which is values are

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inherently, their, their choices, their, their, their, their ways

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you look at things, which is by definition, what a narrative is.

Guillaume Waitr:

So, this is getting a little technical here in my, in my domain,

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but clearly culture, cultures have narratives because the way we interpret

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reality, we do it through our values.

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And that's what a culture is.

Guillaume Waitr:

Does this make

Tim Winders:

All right.

Tim Winders:

Yeah, that's very good.

Tim Winders:

And, and I also want to be clear.

Tim Winders:

I, I am actually not Amish, but one of the things I had to do real

Tim Winders:

quickly was, adjust a few things.

Tim Winders:

I didn't, I didn't change.

Tim Winders:

I don't believe I did not change my narrative, but I changed a few things.

Tim Winders:

About what I discussed and how I said some things.

Tim Winders:

That's another topic it's based on how you've said narrative up up to this

Tim Winders:

point, it, it's becoming apparent to me that there, everyone has a narrative.

Tim Winders:

It's just many people have not taken the time to work on it.

Tim Winders:

And my guess is that's where the strategic comes in.

Tim Winders:

Is that a good gateway into talking about strategic?

Tim Winders:

Okay.

Tim Winders:

Take off and go.

Guillaume Waitr:

So, yeah.

Guillaume Waitr:

So the whole, the whole point is to realize, okay, so we, we've just,

Guillaume Waitr:

you know, in the, in the past 10, 15 minutes, we've just laid the foundation

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to define what a narrative is.

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So if you agree with that, that definition, then you go, wow.

Guillaume Waitr:

Okay.

Guillaume Waitr:

Well, I know that I understand it better.

Guillaume Waitr:

I see that's a system.

Guillaume Waitr:

There, there are things I get, there are choices I can make.

Guillaume Waitr:

Strategy is now a practice that makes a lot of sense.

Guillaume Waitr:

You can, you can, you can shape that narrative.

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You can decide on it.

Guillaume Waitr:

You can set some intentions.

Guillaume Waitr:

There are things that, why strategic is because we're taking a narrative

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from unconscious to consciousness.

Guillaume Waitr:

Right.

Guillaume Waitr:

And there is always layers of neuronarrative data that are, you're

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not going to be fully aware of, but if you start really digging into this and

Guillaume Waitr:

looking at it as a system, you can be strategic about it, which means you can

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align what you're trying to do, And, and, and really shape your narrative

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to, to your advantage, as we said earlier, and to get your goals better.

Guillaume Waitr:

So if you're, if, if you are, you know, we said ministry, you said

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they were running ministry, you know, you're, you're in ministry, maybe,

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maybe the narrative about you and your group and your organization needs to.

Guillaume Waitr:

Be revisited to have higher impact or an impact that is more aligned with the

Guillaume Waitr:

kind of ministry you want to engage in.

Guillaume Waitr:

In fact, I like to say that, one of the ways you can, change your

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narrative is through, marketing.

Guillaume Waitr:

I, you know, and I'm, I'm going to talk about, private for profit organizations

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for, for a moment, marketing.

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And I define your marketing as your ministry.

Guillaume Waitr:

I even say this to my clients who are not particularly religious or

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spiritual, say, this is your ministry.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's, it's about how you care for others, give value first, see, see your community,

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your market as the people you serve.

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And that's what you do through.

Guillaume Waitr:

Your marketing.

Guillaume Waitr:

So how do we get strategic about your narrative?

Guillaume Waitr:

I broke it down because it was very, it was very complex for me for a while.

Guillaume Waitr:

And, specializing in professional services firms.

Guillaume Waitr:

I thought, okay, I mapped it out for many, many years, Tim.

Guillaume Waitr:

And I broke it down into 12 practices.

Guillaume Waitr:

I looked around and like, okay, there are really 12 things, 12

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patterns that I see all the time.

Guillaume Waitr:

I've been in consulting for 32 years and that's the research I did being in

Guillaume Waitr:

large firms, small firms, engineers, consultants, coaches, designers,

Guillaume Waitr:

marketers, all sorts of, and they all engage in those 12 practices.

Guillaume Waitr:

So that's my framework.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's my model.

Guillaume Waitr:

Is it perfect?

Guillaume Waitr:

Is it true?

Guillaume Waitr:

No, but it's useful.

Guillaume Waitr:

When people see this, they go, Oh yeah, that's me.

Guillaume Waitr:

I see these 12 all the time.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm so glad it's on the map because now we can be strategic about them.

Guillaume Waitr:

We can decide where we want to spend our time.

Guillaume Waitr:

We can decide how we want to approach some of those practices,

Guillaume Waitr:

maybe ignore them totally or.

Guillaume Waitr:

Or completely dabble down on some of them.

Guillaume Waitr:

And that's how your narrative becomes strategic.

Tim Winders:

fits together.

Tim Winders:

Yeah, that, that, that all, that fits together well.

Tim Winders:

And I'm, I'm sitting here now going, let's see here.

Tim Winders:

We, we definitely don't have time to hit all 12.

Tim Winders:

And as we wrap up here, we'll tell people where they can go to get that.

Tim Winders:

I think I, just before we got on, I looked, I think you've got those 12 laid

Tim Winders:

out in a chart type form in your book.

Tim Winders:

Is that correct?

Tim Winders:

And I was.

Guillaume Waitr:

yeah, the, my, my, so you're, you're mentioning my book.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's the, it's a, it's an online digital book that only that I, I did in 2021.

Guillaume Waitr:

And I have a new updated version on my website and it turns out I, I'm,

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm preparing, you can't see it.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's on the side of my office here, but I have big charts and that's good.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm going to make it more visual for people, more metaphorical, for people

Guillaume Waitr:

to look at that, at that visual.

Guillaume Waitr:

Yeah.

Tim Winders:

Right.

Tim Winders:

And maybe that fits into the meta helm that you were bringing up there.

Tim Winders:

Then, and I want to get some feedback here.

Tim Winders:

I loved the visual aspect.

Tim Winders:

I actually downloaded that portion of the book and I don't know if it was the 2021.

Tim Winders:

I thought I had 2022 on the,

Guillaume Waitr:

Oh yeah.

Guillaume Waitr:

Sorry.

Guillaume Waitr:

Yes.

Guillaume Waitr:

Yeah.

Guillaume Waitr:

Yeah.

Guillaume Waitr:

It was early

Tim Winders:

Anyway, maybe it was, but, but I, I downloaded it to read

Tim Winders:

on my Kindle and just the visuals I missed because when I opened it up on

Tim Winders:

my computer a little while ago, like, you know, 30 minutes ago, I went, wow,

Tim Winders:

the visual is excellent on my computer.

Tim Winders:

The Kindle, Kindle took away from it a little bit.

Tim Winders:

The information was still there.

Tim Winders:

So, great, great resource.

Tim Winders:

I look forward to the next

Tim Winders:

iteration of it.

Tim Winders:

There's something, there's something, I think I want to hang out.

Tim Winders:

on narrative in the time we have left, because I, I think

Tim Winders:

it's so foundational, okay?

Tim Winders:

Because I see it everywhere.

Tim Winders:

And when you were speaking about a business sharing what they did,

Tim Winders:

you mentioned ministry leaders.

Tim Winders:

I, I literally kind of had this sentence of You know, gospel, the word gospel

Tim Winders:

is, is really the root of that is good news and sharing the gospel of

Tim Winders:

even a business, a business owner, someone who's an electrician is sharing

Tim Winders:

the good news about your business.

Tim Winders:

And I, there's nothing blasphemous about that.

Tim Winders:

So if anybody's out here and wants to throw rocks at me,

Tim Winders:

you know, You can't find me.

Tim Winders:

I live in an RV and travel.

Tim Winders:

So anyway, but I do think that business owners, I think leaders, I think people,

Tim Winders:

even in families in all areas need to be able to share that good news about

Tim Winders:

whatever it is they're doing, whether.

Tim Winders:

Whether they think they do or not, I believe they do.

Tim Winders:

And there's a term that I saw called narrative power, and I've got the

Tim Winders:

definition, this written here, but I think what I'd love for you to, let's

Tim Winders:

talk in the time we have about narrative power, you can maybe go through the

Tim Winders:

definition that you've got or whatever.

Tim Winders:

And, and let's just, let's just really hit home with people why

Tim Winders:

it's important to establish.

Tim Winders:

Their narrative, not someone else's, one they think will work, but their narrative.

Tim Winders:

So however you want to go with that, take, take off Guillaume.

Guillaume Waitr:

Like I said before, narratives have this ability to bring

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people together because we start to share a common set of stories and

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therefore, and from these stories, we pull, learnings, insights.

Guillaume Waitr:

principles and, you know, narratives help us share our values.

Guillaume Waitr:

So narratives have really this effect of gathering people, assembling

Guillaume Waitr:

groups that can accomplish more than the sum of themselves.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's one, of the powers of narrative.

Guillaume Waitr:

But more recently, and I think you're, you're probably referring to

Guillaume Waitr:

a definition that I put online and I talked a lot about in the last two years.

Guillaume Waitr:

One, and I would say one of the main power of the narrative is to defy

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the normal when the normal is wrong.

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and I thought, okay, yeah, that's the, that's the definition.

Guillaume Waitr:

And I'm like, Hmm, it's probably one of the main definitions, but it's not

Guillaume Waitr:

the only power that the narrative has.

Guillaume Waitr:

So I just want to, I just want to, I mean, constant evolution team.

Guillaume Waitr:

So,

Tim Winders:

Well, that, that's actually what I, that's

Tim Winders:

actually what I picked up on.

Tim Winders:

And there were two thoughts that went through my head when I read that.

Tim Winders:

My first thought.

Tim Winders:

Which I'm, I'm at a stage in life where I think I'm getting more mature.

Tim Winders:

Finally, that I said, Oh, I like that.

Tim Winders:

It's like, if we get really good at communicating our message, our

Tim Winders:

narrative, then we can let other people know where they're wrong, but then my.

Tim Winders:

more mature answer was later and you've kind of brought it up.

Tim Winders:

It brings people together.

Tim Winders:

There is a way that I think it communicates kind of who we

Tim Winders:

are and the people that might need to be in, in our group.

Tim Winders:

I hate to say tribe because that's one of the challenges that

Tim Winders:

we're seeing in a bigger, you know, political and other arenas.

Tim Winders:

But I do think it lets people know.

Tim Winders:

And again, I just went to a part of the country that they are

Tim Winders:

very close knit and I would.

Tim Winders:

Typically be critical of that.

Tim Winders:

But after spending some time there, I, I think I'm not.

Tim Winders:

So, so anyway, those, that was the bouncing around in my head

Tim Winders:

about using the word wrong.

Guillaume Waitr:

Yeah, I, I was experimenting with the definition

Guillaume Waitr:

because I wanted to, to, to be a little bit thought provoking here and also

Guillaume Waitr:

exploring with, I really felt this and I really meant that definition.

Guillaume Waitr:

I will still use that definition, but I think it's, like I said, you know, it's

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not the only one, but, look at values, you know, there's, there's, depending on how,

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on how you look at a situation with your.

Guillaume Waitr:

Personal set of values.

Guillaume Waitr:

You may look at things as, as right or wrong.

Guillaume Waitr:

Go to a different country and I go to France and your table manners

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are going to be probably very wrong.

Guillaume Waitr:

Table manners that are very right in the U S are going to be very wrong.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm using the examples because I have the conversation with my kids

Guillaume Waitr:

or half French and half Americans.

Guillaume Waitr:

So, so that, that, that's one of the powers of, of narrative is, and

Guillaume Waitr:

that's, that's a little bit tying to this idea of, it's divisive, right?

Guillaume Waitr:

We agree, we disagree, what's wrong, what's right, and all that.

Guillaume Waitr:

So we have tribes and clans and, and maybe tensions and conflicts and wars

Guillaume Waitr:

then, you know, how does this escalate?

Guillaume Waitr:

So it's not, so looking at narrative just from that perspective, just for that

Guillaume Waitr:

purpose, I don't think it's very healthy.

Guillaume Waitr:

Narratives, can really help bring people along together.

Guillaume Waitr:

And actually also bring a lot of peace narratives are also very stabilizing.

Guillaume Waitr:

you know, there are two powers to, to, to, to, to major kinds

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of powers for a narrative.

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One is to transform and disrupt to change things.

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And one is to stabilize things.

Guillaume Waitr:

You know, if you think about the, the narrative around recycling.

Guillaume Waitr:

You know, why do we recycle here in this, in this country?

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We forgot why.

Guillaume Waitr:

It was a, it was a made up narrative made by the, the packaging and plastic

Guillaume Waitr:

manufacturers because they needed to sell more, more of their products

Guillaume Waitr:

and make people feel good about it.

Guillaume Waitr:

So they say, Oh, no problem.

Guillaume Waitr:

We'll recycle it.

Guillaume Waitr:

Right.

Guillaume Waitr:

And that has stabilized a whole entire industry.

Guillaume Waitr:

We keep recycling just this morning.

Guillaume Waitr:

I got my blue bin out here in the street and I keep doing it.

Guillaume Waitr:

But then I also know because I tried to be informed that only six

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to 9 percent of my recyclable stuff actually is only recycled the rest.

Guillaume Waitr:

So, 91 to 94 percent goes to landfill.

Guillaume Waitr:

So that's, that, that, that stabilize, that, that narrative, that stabilize

Guillaume Waitr:

and the whole entire industry and society probably needs to change.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm not an expert.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm not in this conversation, but just to illustrate here that there

Guillaume Waitr:

are many facets to narrative power.

Guillaume Waitr:

Now, now that I have researched and thought about it,

Tim Winders:

agree.

Tim Winders:

And, and I, and I think, and this is what I don't want to do with this conversation.

Tim Winders:

I want to give someone, who's sitting here going, Hmm, I'm not sure about my

Tim Winders:

narrative, my organizations, my teams, my business, my, I even think families.

Tim Winders:

You know, have narratives also.

Tim Winders:

So let's, let's assume in our last minute or two here, let's just

Tim Winders:

say someone's going, Oh, I need, I need some work in this area.

Tim Winders:

Because I think you and I are in agreement.

Tim Winders:

This spills over into everything that begins happening after here.

Tim Winders:

So.

Tim Winders:

tangible, tactical, maybe some first steps.

Tim Winders:

And I know, and we'll talk about it in just a moment.

Tim Winders:

There's a book you've got, there's things you do to work with people,

Tim Winders:

but let's just say it's someone that says, okay, what would be a first step?

Tim Winders:

What is something that I can do to just kind of get it started or move to a

Tim Winders:

next stage in, in helping to define my narrative or, or, or move that forward?

Guillaume Waitr:

I said earlier that a narrative is a system of stories

Guillaume Waitr:

and there are four, four stories that you can start working on immediately.

Guillaume Waitr:

We covered one in detail today, which is the origin story.

Guillaume Waitr:

Like what, what defines who you are as a leader or as a dad or mom or a

Guillaume Waitr:

partner or, or, or a kid or family?

Guillaume Waitr:

Like what is one, one event that really had the type of impact

Guillaume Waitr:

that it shaped the way you behave?

Guillaume Waitr:

So I'll leave it at that.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's one story you can explore as a family, as a group.

Guillaume Waitr:

The second story I invite everyone to explore is what

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I call the opportunity story.

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Opportunity comes from the Latin root of portum venens,

Guillaume Waitr:

which is, you know, indicates, a safe harbor we want to get to.

Guillaume Waitr:

you know, and if you read in the Bible, you know, the, the, the,

Guillaume Waitr:

there's many allusions to us, to an opportunity, you know, a safe harbor.

Guillaume Waitr:

people cross, you know, that when the seas, the sea open and people crossing,

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they want to go to the promised land.

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That's the promised land.

Guillaume Waitr:

So as a person, as a family, as a group, as whoever, what is the

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opportunity you're thriving for?

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How do you describe it?

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What will you see when you get there?

Guillaume Waitr:

What will happen if you don't get there?

Guillaume Waitr:

These are very basic.

Guillaume Waitr:

I didn't say simple questions because they are deep questions, right?

Guillaume Waitr:

But these are the questions that you need to explore, maybe journal

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about, talk about with your friends, and then, you know, have a certain

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degree of formality and really try to answer those questions of today.

Guillaume Waitr:

If it's for a business or a ministry, religious organization,

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write them down, publish them, and have the conversation about them.

Guillaume Waitr:

The third story is the perspective story.

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Okay, if we agree on Where we come from and where we're headed,

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what's our perspective about how we're going to get there?

Guillaume Waitr:

I know your perspective currently, Tim, is to have a smaller footprint.

Guillaume Waitr:

In your life, you live in an RV.

Guillaume Waitr:

That's your perspective.

Guillaume Waitr:

In fact, this morning I asked my wife, Hey, I'm going to

Guillaume Waitr:

talk to Tim this morning.

Guillaume Waitr:

I really, I would really love to live in an RV like he does.

Guillaume Waitr:

And she said, Oh, I would hate it.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm like, why?

Guillaume Waitr:

Oh my gosh, I need space.

Guillaume Waitr:

I need to be settled.

Guillaume Waitr:

I need to be somewhere.

Guillaume Waitr:

And I'm like, okay, all right.

Guillaume Waitr:

I guess that's a difference.

Guillaume Waitr:

We have a difference in perspective about how we want to create the

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opportunity of our lifetime.

Guillaume Waitr:

So that's an example.

Guillaume Waitr:

Cause I know it's yours.

Guillaume Waitr:

So I, taking and our listeners know that.

Guillaume Waitr:

So, but for, for an organization, is it, you know, do we want to bring,

Guillaume Waitr:

innovation through engineering or teaching or what's our perspective

Guillaume Waitr:

on the problem we're trying to solve?

Guillaume Waitr:

And then the fourth thing is what I call for business is the product story.

Guillaume Waitr:

think about here in our context, think about product as something

Guillaume Waitr:

tangible material you can have in your head, not necessarily just as

Guillaume Waitr:

a business product that you sell and package and market, but what is

Guillaume Waitr:

the tangible thing that you will do?

Guillaume Waitr:

So maybe the product story in a ministry is going to be a set of

Guillaume Waitr:

events, for instance, or actions or campaigns or conversations or things

Guillaume Waitr:

we give to people or do with people.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's a very tangible.

Guillaume Waitr:

Aspect of that material.

Guillaume Waitr:

So you can see it.

Guillaume Waitr:

You think you can take pictures of it.

Guillaume Waitr:

You can describe it in very, very practical, you know, tangible things.

Guillaume Waitr:

You can most of the time put a price on it.

Guillaume Waitr:

You can put monetary value on it.

Guillaume Waitr:

These are the four key essential stories that you can start immediately,

Guillaume Waitr:

work on to shape your narrative.

Tim Winders:

That is perfect because I think that gives people something

Tim Winders:

tangible, but it is a beginning.

Tim Winders:

Guillaume at this.

Tim Winders:

Yeah, it's per, I mean, I think, I think some people will need some outside help

Tim Winders:

definitely, but there are people that can take that and, and like you said, journal,

Tim Winders:

think about it, talk to their spouse, talk to their leadership team, talk to other

Tim Winders:

people in their organization, you know, bring somebody in that type thing, tell me

Tim Winders:

now, this is a great time to transition.

Tim Winders:

Tell me about the resources that you have.

Tim Winders:

And if someone wanted to engage with you or do some interaction

Tim Winders:

with you, this is a time to promote.

Tim Winders:

Tell me where they need to go.

Tim Winders:

We're going to include it in the notes, books, resources, coaching.

Tim Winders:

I know, you know, consulting, I know you've got all that.

Tim Winders:

Tell us about all of that now.

Guillaume Waitr:

the good news is I have a lot of free resources for people

Guillaume Waitr:

and, I'm just going to, pull one out of the multitude here, which is, it's

Guillaume Waitr:

a video on YouTube that I, that I have, and it's called systems of stories.

Guillaume Waitr:

So if you look up on YouTube system of stories to GD narrative, and if you can,

Guillaume Waitr:

add my name, Guillaume Viat, you will immediately go there and it walks you.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's a case study from, from, from, from a company I have there.

Guillaume Waitr:

So that's the first resource if we, cause we just talked about it.

Guillaume Waitr:

But now if you want a broader picture and, and really learn more, go to metahelm.

Guillaume Waitr:

com.

Guillaume Waitr:

M E T A H E L M.

Guillaume Waitr:

that's the name for my business, now eight years old.

Guillaume Waitr:

And I thought about MetaHelm because it means guiding the guides.

Guillaume Waitr:

It's what guides the guides and that's your narrative.

Guillaume Waitr:

And on my website, you will have a free assessment, 12 questions to

Guillaume Waitr:

see, help you gauge where you are in, in building narrative power.

Guillaume Waitr:

More articles, more resources, and there is a tab called services.

Guillaume Waitr:

And if you want to my, my professional, help and bring me on, that's where

Guillaume Waitr:

you will find the information.

Tim Winders:

Yeah, I do agree.

Tim Winders:

I believe you've definitely generous with information on my On my laptop

Tim Winders:

here, I've got the windows that are open where I was looking at your information.

Tim Winders:

And I've got strategic narratives, the YouTube channel.

Tim Winders:

I've got your LinkedIn profile, which is has information and, and information.

Tim Winders:

So, and your book, I've got your book that's opened up here too.

Tim Winders:

So we'll definitely include all that.

Tim Winders:

So Guillaume, thank you so much.

Tim Winders:

We are Go create those three words.

Tim Winders:

If there was one of those words that resonated more with you or means more at

Tim Winders:

this time, don't overthink it, but seek, go or create, which one do you choose?

Tim Winders:

And why?

Guillaume Waitr:

I'll go with sick.

Guillaume Waitr:

but I have to confess that, I, can I get create too?

Guillaume Waitr:

I like both, but I'll start if I really have to make a choice, I'll just,

Guillaume Waitr:

I'll go with sick because it ties to curiosity and constantly going,

Guillaume Waitr:

looking for something you will, you know, you don't, you don't know yet.

Guillaume Waitr:

And I think that's such a refreshing term and.

Guillaume Waitr:

indicates motion, openness, possibilities.

Guillaume Waitr:

I'm, I'm part of a group called, the school of possibilities.

Guillaume Waitr:

I am a, a possibility Tarjan.

Guillaume Waitr:

And so that's why I will pick sick.

Tim Winders:

Very good.

Tim Winders:

Well, there's a reason that we put them in that order and seeking.

Tim Winders:

almost always leads to creating.

Tim Winders:

So, beautiful thing.

Tim Winders:

Guillaume Viot, thank you so much for joining us here.

Tim Winders:

I appreciate all, all of this conversation and I believe it's been a blessing

Tim Winders:

and nourished the people listening in and I encourage people to go.

Tim Winders:

Get more, get more from Guillaume.

Tim Winders:

He gives a lot of information and I could tell from his heart.

Tim Winders:

He genuinely wants, people to get this.

Tim Winders:

And so, and so go check out his information.

Tim Winders:

We are SeekGoCreate.

Tim Winders:

We release new episodes here every Monday.

Tim Winders:

keep supporting us.

Tim Winders:

You can go support us at SeekGoCreate.

Tim Winders:

com forward slash.

Tim Winders:

Support, leave some comments, or you could also support us.

Tim Winders:

If you like what we're doing here, you can support us financially.

Tim Winders:

They're give as little as a dollar or as much as you would like to.

Tim Winders:

We welcome and receive that.

Tim Winders:

And so thanks again for joining us until next time, continue being

Tim Winders:

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