The Entrepreneur’s Storytelling Journey:

Bets on the Future

David Boje | CSIstory.com | Restorying Masterclass

Point of Today’s Session:

ENTREPRENEURS DROP THOSE 🥸-PITCHES and DO ❤️-STORIES.

Teaching for today: Did you ever walk away from what works in your life or business?

Something you can implement today: One story changed everything for me: 

I Feel Healthy! I Feel Happy! I Feel Terrific! I choose not to Feel M.A.D. (Manipulated, Alienated, Damaged). I choose to resonate good vibrations.

What else you will take away today.

🚀 What’s the messy ❤️-story of your Entrepreneur’s Storytelling Journey?

🚀 How to get out of your 🥸-pitches about your journey?
🚀 What’s beneath your “perfect” elevator pitch?
🚀 Are you brave enough to tell it?

🚀How to use Zingers, Metaphors, and Seed the offer, make the sale.

For example: 🎤 "Restory your life, and the world Restories with you."- David Boje


🎤 "Your best business tool isn’t a pitch—it’s your Heart-Story."

YOUR NEXT ❤️-STORY MOMENT I have restoried and rediscovered my ❤️-story, to get out of my 🥸-pitches, and reclaimed my quantum vibrant power: I feel Healthy, Happy Terrific energy radiating as a coach and entrepreneur.

SETTING THE STAGE: MY "BET ON THE FUTURE"—AND HOW I GOT STUCK

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·      I use the term ’untold stories’ and ‘stuck in the past’ stories. Genius Unlocked® coaches use ‘stuck story’ and ‘story filters’ that come from applications of NLP.

For years, I was trapped in my head-story, writing for scholars instead of real people.

Let’s start with an exercise.  Put one hand in front of your head, and let it go down like an elevator to your heart.

Answer this question: How do you Feel? 

“I feel Healthy, I feel Happy, I feel Terrific?”

I feel Healthy! I feel Happy! I feel Terrific!

 

Stuck in M.A.D.  I broke free from reactive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors—was even more transformative. I discovered that changing my life meant changing the story I told myself get back to I feel Healthy, I feel Happy, I feel Terrific.]

ACTIVITY: CHANGE YOUR BET FROM THE ELEVATOR TO YOUR HEART-STORY

Step 1: Your “Elevator Pitch” (The Surface-Level Story)

Think about the way you introduce yourself and your business.
👉 Write it down in 2-3 sentences. (Example: “I’m a business coach helping entrepreneurs grow their revenue.”)
👉 Now ask yourself: Does this feel exciting? Does it move you? Or does it feel like an autopilot answer?

Step 2: The Messy Truth (What’s Beneath Your Elevator Pitch)

Now, let’s go deeper:

This is where the Heart-Story lives.
And here’s the truth: Entrepreneurs don’t scale past 6 or 7 figures without mastering Heart-Stories.

It takes more that the Heart-story, your Entrepreneur’s Storytelling Journey means sharing testimonials, metaphors, the failures and the successes. Some Zingers:

🎤 "If your story doesn't move YOU, it won’t move your audience." – Carson Cooper
🎤 "You don’t need to be perfect—just present." Anonymous.

Use Testimonials, telling story of what you did and how it went over:

🔹 “David Boje’s work merges us into the core of storytelling methods and narratives. His approach is unlike any other in business and personal development.”

—Henri Savall, Professor, Socio-Economic Institute of Firms and Organizations, France

🔹 “Boje goes further than anyone else: he brings storytelling to the quantum era—the era of uncertainty, indeterminacy, and complexity. An insightful scholarly story about organizational stories—a masterful achievement.”

—Haridimos Tsoukas, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Cyprus

🔹 “David Boje’s storytelling imagination burns with the fierce energy of a volcano—generating more insights in a few pages than others display in whole volumes.”

—Yiannis Gabriel, School of Management, University of Bath, UK

🔹 “David Boje is one of the most innovative thought leaders on organizational change and narrative methods.”

—Nikhilesh Dholakia, University of Rhode Island, USA

🔹 “Boje challenges us to question what we know about storytelling, providing us with a compelling and wide-ranging account of theory and method for a sea change in narrative research.”

—Anna Linda Musacchio Adorisio, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

🔹 “David Boje is arguably the leading scholar in organizational storytelling. [His] books [are] a must-read for anyone interested in how narratives shape our lives and organizations.”

—Usha C. V. Haley, Professor of Management, West Virginia University

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How to find your Heart-Story?

HEART-STORY: MY CONVERSATION WITH DAVEY (MY INNER CHILD)

(This is where you tell a raw, real, unfiltered story about getting stuck and how you begin your Restorying journey after a coach at Genius Unlocked® asked me questions to help me get unstuck).

David (77-year-old Adult): Hey, kid. It’s me—you. Older, wiser, still figuring things out.

Inner Child (Young David): Oh. You can talk to me now? You usually just ignore me.

David: Yeah, I know. I’ve been stuck in my head for too long, trying to prove myself. But I see you now. I remember you.

Inner Child: Do you? ’Because I remember feeling small. Invisible. Not enough. My parents called me by a nickname, ‘Worry Wart.’ And that I was dumb, not smart like them.

David: Yeah… I carried that Worry Wart with me for a long time. The I’m dumb belief moved me to over prepare, over deliver: I had to be the smartest person in the room, or I wasn’t worth anything.

Inner Child: That’s why you work so hard, isn’t it? Writing all those unreadable books.

David: Yeah. But you know what I forgot? I forgot what it felt like to tell a story just because I loved it. I forgot why I loved teaching.

Inner Child: Like back at Loyola Marymount? When students ‘actually’ liked learning? And yelled out Boje, Boje, Boje, when faculty filed in for the graduation ceremony.

David: Exactly. When in every class, I had them stand on their chairs and shout,
👉 “I feel Healthy, I feel Happy, I feel Terrific!”

Inner Child: That was before you started taking everything so seriously. You turned to “M.A.D.”

David: I changed my bet on the future. I let one scholar’s critique shake me so badly. He called me McPostmodern, can you believe it.

Inner Child: So, what happens now?

David: Now? Now, I Restory. I go back to the beginning. I make a new bet on the future. I bring back the H.H.T. parts of me I buried. I tell heart-stories that people get energized by, and use.

A New Voice Joins: Higher Self

Higher Self (Jainism David): You both have done well to find each other again, but there is another part of us that needs acknowledgment—the part that transcends fear, transcends ego, and embraces Ahimsa—non-violence in thought, emotion, and behavior.

Inner Child: Whoa. Who’s that?

David: That’s our Higher Self. The part of us that found Jainism after meeting Grace Ann. The part that understands compassion not just as an idea, but as a way of being.

Higher Self: Yes, David. You embraced the path of non-violence, but in many ways, you still judge yourself. You still carry violence in your thoughts—towards yourself, towards your past, even towards your own work. Do you not see? Ahimsa applies to the stories we tell ourselves, too.

Inner Child (Davey): Whoa… So even when David was being mean to himself, that was a kind of violence?

Higher Self: Yes. The first True Storytelling Principle states: Truth: You must be true and prepare the energy and effort for a sustainable future (Larsen, Boje, & Bruun, 2021). But truth cannot be built on self-punishment. You must live in truth, not just for others but for yourself.

David (Adult): So how do I restory my thoughts and emotions in a way that aligns with Ahimsa?

Higher Self: By seeing your past not as a burden, but as a lesson. By applying the first antenarrative process—#1. Beneath: The foundation of our pre-story, where we establish our values and passions and uncover unconscious story driving our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. You must go beneath the story of self-doubt and embrace the story of self-compassion. Just as you teach others to shift their narratives, you must do the same for yourself.

Inner Child: So does that mean I don’t have to be afraid of the past anymore?

Higher Self: Fear is natural, but it need not define you. Instead, embrace the story of love, creativity, and joy. Bring back the parts of you that loved teaching, loved storytelling, loved connecting with others—not to prove anything, but because it is who you are.

David: So the next step is to write with love? Teach with love? Tell stories that heal instead of stories that critique?

Higher Self: Exactly. True storytelling is not just about exposing what is broken. It is about healing. It is about moving forward in alignment with Ahimsa, with truth, with purpose. And in doing so, you will truly embody, I feel healthy. I feel happy. I feel terrific.

Inner Child: That sounds like a story worth living.

David (Adult: It does, doesn’t it? Alright then—let’s get to work.

 

WHY HEART-STORIES SCALE YOUR BUSINESS

  1. ❤️-story that energizes your audience, as you become human.
  2. ‘Story-filters[i]  like M.A.D. are unconscious part of your ‘story filtering,’ and they block you’re you from telling your ❤️-story, and audience from trusting you.
  3. You must align your conscious, unconscious, and higher self.

OVERCOMING OBJECTIONS: WHY ENTREPRENEURS DON’T SCALE

OBJECTION 1: “I don’t have time for this.”

👉 The Truth: You don’t have time NOT to master storytelling.
👉 Solution: Heart-stories shorten the sales process by 50%.
👉 Example: Before Restorying, I was spending months nurturing leads. Now? One masterclass enrolls 7-figure clients.

OBJECTION 2: “I tried this before, and it didn’t work.”

👉 The Truth: You didn’t go deep enough.
👉 Solution: Surface-level storytelling doesn’t convert. But when you go beneath your old filters, everything shifts.

OBJECTION 3: “I don’t want to get too personal.”

👉 The Truth: You don’t need to trauma-dump. But people buy when they feel connected to YOU.
👉 Example: I built a thriving business on one sentence:
👉 "I feel Healthy, I feel Happy, I feel Terrific!"
Authenticity scales. Perfect pitches don’t.

SEEDING: HOW TO ENROLL

👉 You’ve felt the shift, right?
👉 You know your business is ready for deeper storytelling.
👉 Now, here’s how you take the next step.

Seeding means getting to invite, making the offer.

Enroll Now $977 each person for Master Limited to 7 seats, for 7 sessions

When: as soon as 7 enroll.

Where: On Zoom

How to enroll Email davidboje@gmail.com

 

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Final Thought:

"I started this journey trying to prove I was smart enough. But the truth? My biggest impact has come from being real, from Restorying, from daring to say what I was most afraid to say."

Now it’s your turn.

Drop the pitch. Tell the truth. Watch your business transform.