S1E36 Mike Ganino - From Trailer Park to Baby Daddy, the Storyteller's Story

How do you go from growing up in a trailer park to training major corporations and successful CEOs on telling their stories, and how do you learn to tell your own story along the way?
Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Mike Ganino - Storyteller, Queen Daddy, Hype Man.

Timestamps
1:55 - The shirt that Mike made for LGO.
5:35 - "When someone wants to have Rachel Ray on their show, they don't also look at Martha Stewart. They just call at Rachel Ray."
7:40 - You made me do improv and I thought I was going to die.
10:40 - "As a gay man, I got to decide what a gay person on stage looked like, not a writer..."
14:50 - "From an early age, I realized that there was two sides to everything."
19:00 - "It's the best communicated that wins."
24:25 - "They told me, and I believed them, 'You can be whatever you want to be.'"
28:24 - "I don't know what I'm going to do after this election cycle because I'm 100% funnier...I'm always best during the election cycle."
34:00 - "We play the role of researcher and reporter. I think that people want more revelation. What do you feel?"
37:10 - "If the emotional response is because of what happened to you, then maybe you're not quite ready to share it broadly."
38:43 - How do we find our stories?
46:00 - It's the small stories.
48:40 - "It's why every super hero has an underdog story."
49:08 - "If you're gonna be impressive, we also need you to be relatable."

Links
https://www.instagram.com/mikeganino
https://www.facebook.com/mikeganino
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeganino