4 ways stories make your speech connect
Writing a speech? Good stories are more than your speaker’s favorite penguin-walks-into-a-bar joke. Integrate them into the speech.
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In the early 1900s, the Endicott-Johnson shoe company—located in speechwriter Eric Schnure’s hometown in upstate New York—was one of the nation’s largest employers.
Immigrants, he says, often arrived in Ellis Island knowing only enough English to ask, “Which way E.J.?”
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