Your story can help someone else, but are you unsure or scared to share it? Today’s guest on The Martha + Mary Show will help you tell your story with wisdom and confidence.
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Show Notes for Episode 107: Telling Your Story with Kate Motaung
Author, Kate Motaung, encourages you to tell your story of God’s faithfulness to those around you.
Today’s Guest: Kate Motaung is the author of A Place to Land: A Story of Longing and Belonging and Letters to Grief, and co-author of Influence: Building a Platform that Elevates Jesus (Not Me). She is the host of Five Minute Friday, an online community that encourages and equips Christian writers, and owner of Refine Services, a company that offers writing and editing services. Kate blogs at Heading Home and can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Today’s Sponsor: Bring life to your unique purpose and creative projects with the Inspiration Doula’s help and encouragement.
Theme Music: “Busy Bee” by Cade Popkin
Things We Talk About:
- A Place to Land book
- Influence book
- Letters to Grief book
- Five Minute Friday
- Refine Editing Services
- A Very Bavarian Christmas book
- Made Like Martha book
- Psalm 107:2
- Time to Testify Episode 78
- Inspiration Doula
- Revelation 12:11
- Freebie writing prompts
- 31-Day Writing Prompt journal
Questions to ask yourself before you share your story:
- Do I have bitter jealousy in my heart?
- Do I have selfish ambition in my heart?
- Am I boasting when I tell this story?
- Am I exaggerating the truth?
Basic framework for sharing your story:
1) Trial: Share a trial or experience you faced or a sinful behavior you struggled with.
2) Provision: Share how God helped you or provided for you in the midst of that trial or experience.
3) Impact: Share how God’s help and intervention impacted your daily life.
4) Hope: Share a message of hope or encouragement for someone going through a similar experience.
Freebie: 5 Writing Prompts to Help You Tell Your Story: www.fiveminutefriday.com/story
Books (in Kate’s Five Minute Friday shop): www.fiveminutefriday.com/shop
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Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story—those he redeemed from the hand of the foe. -Psalm 107:2 @k8motaung #marthamaryshow #goodnews Click To TweetCatch Up on recent episodes of the podcast:
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