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Interviews & Podcast Appearances

Daily Ad Brief Interview with Melissa Reaves

 On “Marketing for Your Future,” our host speaks with experts within the marketing community about the future of the marketing industry. This week our host speaks with Melissa Reaves from Story Fruition to talk about how storytelling moves the needle in more ways than imagined for your brand.

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Lessons From a Leader, by 425 Business Magazine

 Ask Melissa Reaves, founder and CEO of Sammamish-based Story Fruition, for her business’ origin story, and she can relay it back in just under 100 seconds. In her role as an executive storytelling coach, Reaves endeavors to assist C-suite executives, founders, and entrepreneurs in crafting pitches, presentations, or origin stories to further their businesses.   

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Closing the Gap Podcast: The One Skill That Turns Good Leaders into Great Ones

Honored to be a guest on CLOSING THE GAP with one of my favorite people, Denise Cooper. We talk about the power of storytelling as an essential business skill.  Learn about the power of storytelling, and how it can take you from analysis to action in a matter of moments. 

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The Founders Live Podcast: The Most Essential Business Skill Is Storytelling

Nick Hughes, CEO of Founders Live, and Melissa Reaves dive into an incredibly entertaining but also touching conversation that covers many topics, including pitch coaching in Seattle, her tips for a proper 99-second pitch, as well as her projects Story Fruition and Melanin Stories Matter. 

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Grit: True Stories That Matter, with Sean Wellington

Melissa sits in on Sean Wellington's Podcast to discuss the challenges of incorporating conflict into a story, as well as Advance & Expand, and the challenge of where to start a story. As storytellers and coaching colleagues, Sean and Melissa are a part of Swap Shop and meet 2x per week to share and critique and sculpt stories with some of the country's top rising stars in storytelling. Go Swappers!

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Don't Ask Me to Talk! with Stacy Heller podcast

Don't Ask Me to Talk! with Stacy Heller: Fruitcake & Fruition

Melissa talks fruitcake and what fruition means as a guest on the Don't Ask Me to Talk! with Stacy Heller podcast.

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KBFG Radio: Interview about Ignite Seattle

OCD is a Family Affair

OCD effects 1% of the population, or 3.2M Americans. People, however, think it's a funny disorder to poke fun of due to lack of understanding. This talk is designed to build awareness and empathy to those who struggle with such intrusive thoughts.

Why Storytelling Skills Matter for Business

Melissa joins Brian and Dan of REAL TALK radio to dive deeper in the importance of honing your storytelling skills for positive business outcomes.

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Founders Live Seattle, Coached by Story Fruition

Founders Live offers five presenters to show us in  just 99-seconds how they are going to change the world. Story Fruition's Melissa Reaves is their pitch coach as they learn to weave memorable story narrative into their presentations. Watch them shine! Next up Founders Prime Time Global Edition, also coached by Story Fruition. 

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