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I know YOu!

I know you


I know! You  are all curious for me to tell you what happened at our last “Tell it like it is!” event Tuesday night and the good thing here is a little peak preview.

More than I bargained for

” I know You!!!!!”

is what one of the storytellers said to me yesterday at Tell it like it is! Storytelling. I almost fainted.

My response was

” What really !”

I couldn’t remember this dude’s face or where I met him. He looked familiar but I was hoping it wasn’t one of my ex-boyfriends. So I doubted him. I thought maybe he meant that he saw me before. A lot of people say they know me.

“No, I know you!!” he insisted and said with such conviction.

“you use to come to the job centre and back in 2000 and you sat me down and told me an analogy about red cars and what happens when you really seek something. It was London Bridge Job centre. I saw my whole world tumbling down

Then he says to his wife who is next to him.

“babes you remember when I left uni and I was without unemployed and signing-on at London Bridge”

And I knew he was right that was me ten years ago in a jobcentre where I use to go in and make regular one-to-one appointments for clients who were interested in receiving Mentoring/coaching session on how to find work.

I was amazed I made a different in this man’s life and he had remembered me  after a decade but I couldn’t remember him. What a difference ten years make. I now recalled his face and a glimpse of speaking to him.

I actually thought it was going to be much worse. I had a combination of strong butterflies as extreme terror. Is this candid camera? Because if it is I am definitely caught?

I was still in shock and couldn’t stop laughing it was a moment unheard of.

The theme for the night was “What You Think is not What you think?”

Fantastic speakers

Africafashionguide book

Jacqui Shaw – A designer on the road to discovery – wondering if fashion was the right choice for her coming to terms with what she wanted to do. She now has a superb Launch for her book called Africafashionguide.

http://africafashionguide.wordpress.com/

Rachel Johnson- How cancer and not wanting to go back to her job made her start her own Business. A very brave young woman and mother of two. If you’d met her you’d never thought she’d be here smiling, and telling us something so personal. A real diamond!

http://www.brightandbeautifulhome.com/

Mathy aka Me – I quit, I traveled, I conquered

How my trip to Japan made me quit my job, work at Starbucks, lose my mother, sleep on the floor,injure my leg but travel anyway.

And finally but not least

Malachi Talabi – interruption may be your reconstruction

http://www.malachitalabi.com/

Malachi in action
Malachi in action

Watch this space cause the video will be out soon.

Stories are powerful to the point where one young man remembered me 10 years ago at the London Bridge Jobcentre. So despite the rain, it was a successful event and I am still laughing listening to the sound of Malachi sharpening pencils and encouraging children.

What’s your career-transition story?

Wow!! The storytelling night, you should have been at.

Delicious

Delicious

 

 

Delicious, Inspiring, Engaging, Lively. These are only some of the few words that can best describe our very first night of Storytelling. The quality of storytellers was simply amazing and divine you almost would have thought it was a networking event. The atmosphere was very chilled and relax, with a very engaging audience.

What happened earlier?

So the night before I couldn’t really sleep because I was way too excited. I kept waking up in the middle of the night to check if it was morning yet and it wasn’t. Just couldn’t wait for my next most exciting moment.  Two hours before the event started I manged to leave the house on time forgetting the camcorder the first time and remembering just before I boarded the bus. I had to run back home, picked up the camcorder and this time left the folder I was holding in my hand.  Once again when I left the house and got to the bus stop, I realised that something else was missing!! So I went home again. I felt like in my own personal sitcom.

The night was colored with a variety of storytellers from a business psychologist, Workshop facilitator, Teaching assistant, Editor and Support planner. As I read the feedback forms now I see the impact that took me three months of planning and contemplating. As they say nothing ventured nothing gained. One storyteller talked about; how she had realised she needed to leave her job the day she stopped smiling. This showed, she was no longer growing and learning and it was time to go.

The response was different for everyone some people didn’t know what to expect and yet it was a very positive feedback. It’s just what happens when you are exposed to something new and fresh.

 

Comments

“Having people tell their actual stories really brought the career transition cases to life”

“No, this was not what I expected, but that is a good thing”

“I look forward to the next event”

I could tell you more but I recommend you attend the next one or stay tuned for the audio and visual which was recorded on the day.

 

Tell it like it is!! is an extension of Whathejobisthis, a storytelling event which sees real career transitioners  telling their stories to other transitioners or curious people in order to provide inspiration. This is done live in front of a recorded audience. This first event was  hosted Wed 26th of July’s at the Blacksheep bar Crystal Palace. Watch out for part two!!!

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