Welcome to My Live Streaming Podcast Journey

Join Denise Reed, the president of Concierge Office Suites, in her very first live stream using StreamYard. Broadcasted over diverse social media platforms—Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube—Denise is excited about stepping into 2024 with renewed vigor. She wants you to be a part of this new chapter. The Concierge Office Suites, a venture that has thrived since 1995, offers insights into private office rental, virtual office positioning, event rental spaces, and business concierge support. This livestream opens the door for more individual connections as she promises exciting announcements for 2024.

In a bid to help others become more effective marketers, Denise is determined to stress the importance of sharing your unique story. Through her own personal journey, she discovered that one’s story is a compelling reason for others to care. Denise reflects on transformative "a-ha" moments that helped her identify the significance of storytelling, leading her to work with a storytelling coach, Melissa Reeves, CEO and founder of Story Fruition.

Denise's commitment to her storytelling brought her to a competitive level, where she not only participated in a speech competition but traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to do so. This live stream emphasizes the power of starting where you are, and sharing your authentic story since it offers a glimpse into your passions and motivations. Her personal anecdotes, from working in her grandmother's gift shop in the Pocono Mountains to supporting her single mother's professional monogramming enterprise, encapsulate the entrepreneurial spirit that led her to establish The Concierge Office Suites.

The live stream wraps up with Denise emphasizing the transcendent importance of personal stories to form the bedrock of personal and corporate branding. She urges her audience to anticipate more engaging and riveting content in the future. Watch, get inspired, and prepare to release the power of your story into the world.

 

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Episode Transcript

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Woo-hoo! It's Wednesday!
It's hump day! We're making it through the middle of the week after a holiday.
I am thrilled to say that I am stepping into owning the possibility that things

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are really going to be great for 2024.
24 and I can't wait to drag you along with me.
I am just thrilled to be here. This is a test for tonight.
I'm using StreamYard to live stream me tonight.
I've never done this before and I hope you enjoy the content that I'm going to throw out here.

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This is the first chance that I've done it and I want to be able to make a positive
difference for you and all the people that are watching tonight.
I am Denise Reed and I am president of the Concierge Office Suites and we've
been in business since 1995 and it's been an amazing ride.

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I hope that you enjoy the the commentary after I get off this brief introduction
to welcome to my first live stream on all these channels.
Tonight, I'm on Facebook, I'm on LinkedIn, I'm on YouTube, and I thought it was on Instagram.

(01:36):
Apparently that didn't make it, but that's okay.
This is a test run to see how StreamYard does with a live stream.
I have made a commitment to myself for 2024 that I will hop on my social media platform channels,
and introduce myself in person, or at least on video, and share a little bit

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about me and why you might want to get to know me. me.
I have been here at the Concierge Office Suite since 1999.
I have been serving people, executives, evolved entrepreneurs that specialize

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in their area of expertise with private office rental, virtual office positioning,
event rental spaces, and business concierge support.
We as a brand understand how important it is for you to be productive with your workday.
And kind of like plumbers, they have leaky pipes, kind of like mechanics.

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They have cars in their yard that may not run.
The concierge office suites has been serving all of our clients.
So you haven't really gotten to know us because we've been busy doing that.
So I'm hoping to change all that in 2024 and just get down into the meat of things.

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With that being said, we have some exciting things to announce in 2024 about
what kind of mischief we've been up to and why you might want to be a part of it.
And one of the things that
has come to light over this
past weekend and the new year is we've been marketing our business for all these

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years and have wanted to help other people be more effective marketers themselves,
especially solopreneurs.
Or if you're an executive, you might want to get out here into the big WWW and

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share your story because people need to know who you are and what you bring to the table.
And with that being said, it's all about your story.
What's your story? Why do people care? Why should they care?
Do they care? Probably not.
And you want to be able to offer a compelling reason why people should care.

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So with that being said, I want to share some aha moments that came to me over the last 12 months.
And one of them was your story is important.
And that epiphany helped me realize, hey, maybe you shouldn't just be a member of Toastmasters.

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Maybe you shouldn't have just gone to Suzanne Evans' Speak workshop and learned from her.
And, oh, maybe more than Larry Winget needs to help you pull your story out for keynote speaking.

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And just jump out here and start sharing your story. It's important.
So I decided that this year I was going to work, get the right thing.
I was going to work with a storytelling coach, and her name is Melissa Reeves.

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She is CEO and founder of Story Fruition.
I worked with her for almost 12 months, and at the end of my coaching program
with her, I actually launched in and did my first real speech competition.

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It was amazing.
All the things that I learned about myself, the fact that some of my stories are important.
And I not only competed in a speech competition, but I went all the way to Atlanta
to compete in a speech competition.
And I committed to myself I wanted to

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be the first person up so I was
the first person up in the competition and
it didn't matter what anybody else did
in the speech competition I wanted to
do a great job so I practiced for hours on end I crafted my story I worked with

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a professional professional coach and all that other good stuff and I felt wonderful about what I did.
So there, I crafted a story, I entered in a competition, I let other people
know who I was through that competition, and it was amazing.

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I want to encourage you to start wherever you are and start sharing your story
because people need to know who you are, why you're here,
what you're doing, your why. Why do you do this?
And I learned my personal revelation was the fact that not everybody grew up like I did.

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Not everybody got to be with their grandmother in her gift shop in the Pocono Mountains.
Not everybody got to be with their single mom and help her while I was in high
school developed a marketing plan.
We didn't know what we were doing. We just wanted people to know what we did.

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So we got out there. I helped her with a logo.
I helped her with business cards, with flyers,
with all kinds of stuff in the non-digital age before the WWW got big with her
marketing for her company, The Letterbug.

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She did monogramming professionally here in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and did it freehand.
And so my sister and I had the joy and drudgery of learning what it was to own
and manage and serve customers.
Well, we weren't really owning the business. Our mom was, but we were helping her with it.

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So the joke in our family was, there's lots of strings attached when your mother is a monogrammer.
And because of all of those interactions with my mom and my grandmother,
and hearing our story about our maternal grandmother having her own business and a boarding house,

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and the fact that my grandmother helped her grandmother with those kinds of things.
Of entrepreneurship. And so that's why I didn't think it was a big deal to step
into owning the concierge office suites here in downtown Chattanooga and serving our clients.

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And I helped my sister launch her own business this past summer, Brookstone Nutrition.
And that's been a, oh, wave your hands in the air, just like you don't care experience.
So we come by entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship, honestly, it's kind of ingrained,
not to brag, but that's a little bit of my history.

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It's about the little things that you do every day to make a difference.
It's about your story.
Like Melissa tells you, she's an award-winning storytelling coach, by the way.
I can't rave on her enough.

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I kind of feel like she was my psychotherapist for
a year as I mind all the stories in my
life and hopefully I'll get to launch them and I've
realized in owning my business helping my sister mom
and all this that's happened in my life that your story is really important
and your story should go everywhere think about that it needs to go in your

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brochure it needs to go on your website side.
It needs to be highlighted on your business cards.
It definitely should be the bedrock of how people understand you.
And I just thought I would get on here and hopefully I'll get better and hopefully

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I'll be more engaging and you'll
want to know more because we have some exciting stuff to share in 2024.
Hope you have a great evening and you've enjoyed my little brief highlight of
stories and why they're important to you and your brand.
Have a great evening and I'll talk to you later.