Episode 2 with Lee Furness

Find Tell Share is a podcast co-hosted in Sheffield by Chris Sissons, Market Together and Jemma Rosenthal, Find Your Voice.  It’s the storyteller’s podcast, featuring everything storytelling, especially if you use stories to promote your business or charity (and you should!).  We plan to produce an edition once a month with a guest.

July’s guest is Lee Furness, Wood Spirit Bird House.  His story is about how he coped with the lockdown’s inevitable loss of business.  In addition we discuss walking on Mam Tor; what links Greek theatre, Venetian Carnival and Comedia dell’Arte; life lines, what happens at the bottom of Lee’s garden, helpful audiences, real work versus paid work, watching videos on Tik Tok and a song from a musical.

More details and links to stuff mentioned in the Podcast:

This time we’re delighted to introduce our guest, Lee Furness who found that during the lockdown of 2020 he had time to learn some new skills and developed a cottage industry at the bottom of his garden!

WEBSITE: https://woodspiritbirdhouse.co.uk

FACEBOOK:  https://www.facebook.com/Wood-Spirit-Birdhouse-102202851496038/?modal=admin_todo_tour

Chris mentioned Solvitur Ambulando, he couldn’t find the video about the elephants he mentioned but the video in this blog post shows similar behaviour by a mouse!  https://communitywebconsultant.com/2013/11/can-mice-solve-problems/

Tik Tok:  https://www.tiktok.com/en/

You can find Frank Baum’s Tik Tok here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_(Oz)

Jemma Rosenthal is a Singer-Songwriter, Choreographer/Dancer, Poet, Speaker, Actor, Life Coach and Teacher. She specialises in Confidence and Creative Expression, as well as improving Self-Worth and Healing through Creativity. She gives private and group coaching in Performance Skills as well as Life coaching and Mindfullness. In 2019 she created her own brand called Find Your Voice and has given workshops and performances in various venues in Sheffield including collaborations with Blend Kitchen, Connection Cafe and Sisters with One Voice (SWOV). She’s also done extensive voice and dance workshops with children and Youth theatres around Sheffield, including Hype Dance Academy and her original song featured in Fusion Youth Theatre’s original production. Jemma's aim is to improve awareness of how we can find our voices, be it through song, dance, writing, speaking or otherwise and release our authentic and unique expression to the world as well as sharing our own creative gifts in collaboration with others. 

 

jemmarosenthal@hotmail.com

Find Jemma on Instagram Jemma Rosenthal https://www.instagram.com/jemmarosenthal/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jemma.rosenthal 

 

Alex’s Song by Isa Wood   https://soundcloud.com/trackmakers/alexs-song-isa

Books

Stephen Sondheim:  Finishing the Hat

Elizabeth Gilbert:  Eat Pray Love / Big Magic

Chris mentioned The Thirty Year Man, sung by Pete Atkin, lyrics by Clive James.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjx8LNjG3N0

Chris Sissons has always loved stories and these days strides the streets of Sheffield always on the lookout for a new story.  He was a Community Development Worker for 30 years and consequently is sceptical about almost everything. 

Chris has been self-employed for the last 7 years and enjoyed every minute of it.  He started his own business because he fancied the lifestyle and he’s still working out what he’s supposed to be doing!  “I’m a marketing coach but using stories, I find opens up business development in surprising ways.  I underline the distinction between real work and paid work.  Many people are unhappy because they cannot find the time for their real work – as we unravel the lockdown, we’re all challenged to step up and offer the world are own unique insights.  They won’t always work but how else do we find the ones that do?”

Find out more about Market Together here:  https://storiesinbusiness.org.uk/  My contact details are on the site.

I run Telling Stories: Making Business, storytelling for business owners, on second and fourth Thursdays (usually).  It’s an opportunity to hear a business owner’s story and to offer feedback.  We improve our own storytelling when we help others.  Find the programme here: https://markettogether.co.uk/telling-stories-making-business/ .  This page is regularly updated.  Click on link in right hand column to register for your Zoom link.

Find me on Facebook: Market Together: Storytelling in Marketing - https://www.facebook.com/groups/342739372935507/

I’ve finally written a blog post about masks, read it here:  https://storiesinbusiness.org.uk/masks-make-the-person/

If you would like to know more about the Enneagram, the Wikipedia entry will give you an overview.  There are loads of books, workshops, videos, etc if you want to explore it at a deeper level.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality

Megan Macedo’s video can be found on this website:  https://meganmacedo.com/