Growing Business One Story at a Time
I’m a Story Collector and a Story Listener
I was born a story and when I’m gone all that will remain are the stories I leave behind.
I don’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t completely enthralled by stories. Stories are how we make sense of the world. They have this exquisite, wild power to bring people together. But they can and have been weaponized for nefarious purposes as well because they’re the ultimate instrument of seduction and influence.
I’ve been privileged to help people in every industry imaginable use storytelling as a tool of influence, compassion, and credibility. I’ve sat in circles of billionaires, incarcerated men, scientists, lawyers, and accountants. Titles are utterly irrelevant. Because we’re all just blood, bones, and stories wanting to be seen, heard, understood, and remembered.
by Ann marie Houghtailing (Author)
Little by Little by Ann marie Houghtailing explores the universality of human suffering and how we find our way to meaning and purpose. Houghtailing is a visual artist and cofounder of the firm Story Imprinting. She delivered a TEDx Talk entitled Raising Humans and performed her critically acclaimed one woman show, Renegade Princess,in New York, Chicago, Santa Fe, San Francisco, and San Diego. “Little by little” is the phrase that Houghtailing’s mother used to say when things were hard. Things were almost always hard. Houghtailing grew up in a culture of poverty and witnessed violence, struggle, and wild resilience every day. What she did not realize was that her mother’s phrase would become a life affirming strategy. It was a map that took her back to herself when life took so much from her.
