Amanda NorthcuttFounder & CEO | Keynote Speaker, LevelUp · B2B sales as a solo is HARD. I’ve got you. I help consultants & coaches sell high-ticket services comfortably & confidently, while enjoying consistent, predictable revenue | Founder & CEO | Speaker |

Your Life Is Content—If You Know How to Use It

14 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that viewing life through stories, metaphors, and vivid examples can transform everyday observations into compelling business content. She illustrates this with a popular email that turned a simple encounter at a farmer’s market into a business lesson, noting the surge in responses and engagement it generated. She contrasts this narrative‑driven approach with her earlier, more tactical list‑style emails (e.g., “3 things you need to know”), explaining that the storytelling format creates stronger connections with readers. Over time, she has adopted this method, consistently using small, relatable anecdotes to convey business insights, and observes that audiences respond more enthusiastically to these personal, metaphor‑rich messages.

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I think first and foremost is that if you are somebody who also likes to tell stories or kind of sees life through the eyes of metaphor and illustration of examples, then you can write about other things and always bring it back to what you do. So I write about— my most popular email from last year was about this guy I saw at the farmer's market, and it was like I just turned it into this business lesson. And I've just, I, I mean, I get a lot of responses to my emails in general, but that, that was crazy. And it was just like, it just is proof to me. It's like, oh, you can take these little like tidbits from your life and you can turn them into other things. And I think that that creates a lot of connection. I, for many years I used to just do the emails that were much more tactical of like, here are 3 things you need to know about this, or here's 2 things you need in your contract. I, I just am finding that people are responding, engaging, connecting with these emails much better. So this is what I've now done for years. Lots of little, you know, business lessons and things like that.