Filmed over the course of 3 days, this 8-part video series explores the 3 essential pillars of Storytelling that great stage actors and directors share. Check them out.

I’m fascinated with what captures an audience. Why do they ride it out with the storyteller no matter how horrifying the wounds of the story’s main character?

Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This is the epitome of the Warrior/Healer struggle at its pinnacle.

A strong storyteller must shine a light on the truth even if that truth is raw and ugly and shocking. The audience/jurors must feel the pain and suffering of the story without succumbing to it.

Passion is a fundamental for breakthrough communication because if you’re not passionate about storytelling or becoming a great storyteller, then you’re stuck in Bland Land.

When you enroll yourself as a juror in your case, you will see the roadmap to guide your fellow jurors to the same place as the Most Important Juror.

In this video, I had so much fun playing with filmmaker Pat Smith in the studio putting together a new series of promotional videos for the mask work.

Working with the masks, you learn to shed the mask of constriction that has kept you from bringing forth your own true human spirit in court.

One of the most powerful instances of breakthrough with a mask didn’t happen in a lawyers’ workshop. I have led workshops for inmates in prisons and jails. And in one of them, a man showed up whom I will never forget.

There's a hidden role within us all, and it is up to all of us to be able to find the real reason for why we would decide to pursue this hidden role, to make this hidden role front and center on this giant stage called life, and not just discover it and see it but live in this place. This reality of who we really are.

Last night I had a dream that I was working in a recovery program with inmates. I dreamt that I was with a group of about 10 dudes, and Eminem was in that group. He was actually one of the inmates and he was in recovery. It was very realistic.

The Director's Cut What You Can Learn from the Stage and Screen to Help Find the Right Story for Your Client In our Tell the Winning Story workshops, when you create your client’s monologue (finding your clients emotional truth) you play the part of the actor/storyteller, with your partner directing you. Then you trade places to become your partner’s director.

Through the articles in this blog, as well as the interviews with influential thought leaders and “change agents” in the field of breakthrough communication, you’ll discover the same skills that can help you become a powerful communicator are the also the same skills that can help you become the best version of yourself… in all your relationships.

What are they trying to overcome? What are they trying to get through? What’s getting in the way of what they want? What is their deepest struggle? All of these questions lie beyond the surface of the story. What I mean by that, for example, is that beyond “getting the girl” in the scene an actor is portraying, what does “getting the girl” really get them? What is the character’s primal, universal hunger and need? Power? Freedom? Connection? Peace? Forgiveness? These are the same questions professional theater directors will ask of the actor and

As a jury trial consultant, when I’m asked to jump into a case and help discover the story that needs to be told to the jury, a big part of the job is about finding the moment with my client’s client… the Plaintiff. What is “the moment?” The moment is the place of possibility, where many emotions, words, ideas, thoughts—can turn on a dime. Finding the moment is necessary before it’s possible to stay in the moment. Of course, finding the moment applies to any area of the

Digging into the Hidden Landscape of Words Sam Shepard made me pay attention not just to the power of language, but to my entire life. I discovered Sam Shepard when I was in junior high-- an age when I was not really into “serious writing.” This might have even been pre-Hemingway.

“We were somewhere on the edge of Barstow…” I’m consulting on a 3 week trial and I can feel the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson’s book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” everywhere here in Sin City. But, thank God, now that I’m in my forties, I can do The Hunter Thing without trying to live up to scenes from the movie “The Hangover,” while still enjoying a healthy sense of adventure.

I remember going to see U2 perform in Philadelphia for the first time almost 20 years ago. It was back in the day when I was waiting tables at Morton’s of Chicago. I still remember that concert as if it were yesterday - Bono, backed up by The Edge, rising up to the stage as they jammed “Where The Streets Have No Name.”