15: Leah Stanistreet on feeling confident about telling your story

In this episode, Helen chats with Leah Stanistreet.

Leah is the founder of Snappystreet Creative and is the creative force behind this very podcast. 

Leah is a photographer, podcast creator and audio producer. An experienced audio engineer who spent a large portion of her career producing content for some of Australia’s largest radio networks including TripleM, Nova Entertainment, and 2DayFM. 

Now she supports female business owners and entrepreneurs to feel confident about sharing their stories through visual and audio content.

It’s fair to say that Leah has been instrumental in getting me “unstuck” from starting a podcast, something that languished on my “to-do” list for many years.

In this conversation, Leah emphasises the importance of storytelling and shares practical tips for gaining confidence, leveraging one’s unique story, and the benefits of creating pros and cons lists for decision-making.

Highlights:

• The importance of taking a first step: Understanding that getting unstuck requires taking a step, even if it’s not the “right” step.
• Expectations created by big decisions: Leah explains how she became paralysed making big decisions about what path to take at the very beginning of her career.
• Pros and cons lists: Leah shares her love of a pros and cons list to help her think through working out how to make progress when she’s feeling stuck.
• Fear of “showing up”: Why people feel vulnerable showing up in images, video or audio to share their stories.
• Providing support and accountability: Leah’s process for supporting and holding people accountable to overcome the obstacles in the way of getting started with sharing their stories.

 

More about Leah

If you’d like more information about Leah and her work, you can find it here:

Snappystreet Creative: snappystreetcreative.com.au

Connect with Leah on -

Instagram - @snappystreetcreative

LinkedIn - @leah-stanistreet-8896b728

 

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How To Get Unstuck With Helen Thomas is hosted by Helen Thomas and edited and produced by Snappystreet Creative.