Once Upon a Business

A young girl’s courageous journey to save the lives of loved ones and strangers alike teaches powerful lessons about the evolution of modern business. The story points to honoring our own quest for success while maintaining integrity and compassion.

Show Notes

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Story Coach Lisa Bloom is the go-to expert on business storytelling. For decades she’s helped entrepreneurs master this important but overlooked skill. In Once Upon a Business, she’s turning her attention from the craft of storytelling to the stories themselves — the densely evocative folk and fairy tales that we’re all exposed to.

In this episode of Once Upon a Business, Lisa reads “The Magic Lake” and extracts rich business lessons that are applicable for entrepreneurs of all stripes.


“We face all these challenges, but once we find clarity and the path forward, then it almost seems like things fall into place magically.”

“Perhaps this is a time for a new world in business…where compassion and kindness are the way to achieve success.” – Lisa Bloom



Following a successful corporate career, Lisa Bloom became an entrepreneur, author, speaker and coach. She built a global business, Story Coach, supporting corporates, entrepreneurs, and coaches with speaking mastery, leadership capability, and marketing impact. Lisa is the author of The Story Advantage and Cinderella and the Coach.

Lisa is also the Director of Mirasee’s ACES Business Acceleration Program, helping entrepreneurs to achieve outstanding results in the growth of their business. There’s nothing Lisa loves more than to spend time with her partner and their four sons, walk her dog, travel, read, and share stories.


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Credits:
  • Host – Lisa Bloom
  • Producer – Cynthia Lamb
  • Executive producer – Danny Iny
  • Assembled by – Geoff Govertsen
  • Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
  • Audio Post Production by Post Office Sound
  • Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely


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Music credits:

• Track Title: Emeralds
Artist Name(s): Hale
Writer Name: Cory Hale Williams
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION
 
• Track Title: Places in Dreams
Artist Name(s): Alsever Lake
Writer Name: Adrian Dominic Walther
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION
 
• Track Title: Weightless
Artist Name(s): Michael Briguglio
Writer Name: Michael Briguglio
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION
 
 
Episode transcript: A Brave New (Business) World Coming soon.

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Creators and Guests

Host
Lisa Bloom
Producer
Cynthia Lamb

What is Once Upon a Business?

Story Coach Lisa Bloom is the go-to expert on business story-telling. For decades she’s helped entrepreneurs master this important but overlooked skill. In Once Upon a Business, she’s turning her attention from the craft of storytelling to the stories themselves — the densely evocative folk and fairy tales that we all are exposed to regardless of our culture.
In each episode of Once Upon a Business, Lisa reads a fairy or folk tale and then extracts rich business lessons that are applicable for entrepreneurs of all stripes. As she puts it, a tiny tale of nine sentences can encompass worlds.