Episode 156 – Dave Bricker

Welcome to another episode of The HERO Show. I am your host Richard Matthews, (@AKATheAlchemist) and you are listening to Episode 156 with Dave Bricker – How Does Storytelling Catalyze Business Transformation?

As a young man, Dave Bricker was inspired by the remarkable people he met in Miami’s “secret floating village.” The sailboat anchorage — a quarter-mile off-shore from Miami City Hall — attracted world travelers, squatters, dreamers, and bums. All had remarkable stories to tell.

By the time Dave graduated college, he was living aboard in his own tiny sailboat. Soon after graduation, he set sail for the Bahamas with a locker full of food and dreams … and $40 in his pocket.

His voyages took him up and down the Bahamas, up the east coast of the U.S., to the Chesapeake Bay, and across the Atlantic to Gibraltar. He ran aground, dealt with mechanical breakdowns, got seasick more than once, slept in a volcano, survived powerful storms, and returned to the land of clocks and calendars with what he’d gone in search of—stories of his own.

Today, he is a professional speaker, a business communications expert, an award-winning designer, author, and a “tough love” editor. His simple and elegant thought model teaches Business Transformation through storytelling. Whether you’re an executive trying to write a better success story, an organization trying to create content that connects, or a visionary with ideas to express, StorySailing will catalyze your transformation.

Here’s just a taste of what we talked about today:

  • It’s a pleasure to have Dave Bricker on the show. He is calling in all the way from Miami, Florida. I’m imagining, at least, that It’s nice and warm down there.
  • Right off the bat, we talked about how full-time traveling magnifies the highest and the lowest points of our lives.
  • Dave shared what his business is like today. He primarily helps entrepreneurs, executives, business leaders, and organizations of all sizes with their messaging to get influence, connection, and persuasion.
  • Then, find out how Dave hacked the process of teaching people how to become good storytellers.
  • Dave’s superpower is the ability to look at a message and figure out why it works, why it doesn’t, and articulate why. He mentioned that this type of skill is certainly not something he was born with, but was something he has cultivated over the years.
  • Next, we discussed the importance of taking people on a journey when it comes to selling.
  • Dave shared his experience in human consistencies. A realization as a traveler where people are consistent in what we’d like to do, how we talk, and how we communicate which all boils down to learning how to tell stories.
  • Then, we talked about the flip side of Dave’s superpower which is his fatal flaw. Two things that he struggled with are being aware of how mediocrity hurts and the consequences of serving people too much. He was able to rectify this by setting boundaries and learning how to say, “No”.
  • The arch-nemesis that Dave often deals with in his business are the people who hire coaches and make it their badge of honor. They are not willing to listen and work hard with the professionals they are working with.
  • And then, we talked about Dave’s driving force at Story Sailing. He fights for people to discover the larger version of themselves.

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Dave mentioned the following books on the show.

The HERO Challenge

Today on the show, Dave Bricker challenged Dr. Margarita Gurri to be a guest on The HERO Show. Dave thinks that Margarita is a fantastic person to interview because she is a psychologist who speaks on a number of topics including ethics. She has a wonderful story of coming to the US as a Cuban exile. She is funny, upbeat, full of humor, and gives good messages.

How To Stay Connected with Dave Bricker

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With that… let’s go and listen to the full episode…

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