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✨ Everyone Has a Story
Last week, I walked into a room full of strangers.
It was a Toastmasters meeting I'd been curious about, mostly because I wanted to connect with Toronto's speaker community. We did an exercise called tabletop speaking. You pick a number, you get a quote, and you have 90 seconds to run with it. No prep. Just you and whatever you have to say.
My quote was simple: everyone has a story.
So I did something that felt natural in the moment. I asked the room: do you have a role model?
Every single person said yes.
Then I asked: what do you look up to in them?
And this is where it got interesting.
Most people said: their success, their sales numbers, their milestones, the things they built. The outcomes.
But when I look at a role model, I look somewhere else entirely. I look at where they came from. What conditions shaped them. What the catalyst moment was. What thread of belief or identity or hunger kept pulling them forward even when nothing was working yet.
I look at their story.
And what I've noticed, after years of coaching professionals, founders, and people navigating big transitions, is that it never fails:
The uniqueness of someone's story is always the most interesting part. It's always the part that explains everything else.
💡 Here's why this matters right now
We're at a strange moment. Automation is cheaper, faster, and more accessible than ever. Work that took years to master can now be executed in a fraction of the time. And a lot of people are quietly asking: if AI can do what I do, then what's left?
That question is uncomfortable. I understand why people want to avoid it.
But I think it's pointing us in exactly the right direction.
Because the answer is: