A live communication, story + strategy lab

Your message needs to work outside your head.

BetterStory Studio™ is the live room where you test it.

Bring the pitch, offer, recommendation, presentation, ask, or story.

Say it. Hear it. Sharpen it. Use it.

Kristi Straw working on the microphone in a live BetterStory Studio room
Actual room.Actual message.Actual feedback.
The room is the proof.Live language. Human signal. Immediate use.

How the Studio works

Stop polishing alone.
Put the message in motion.

Kristi coaching a BetterStory Studio participant live
BetterStory Studio audience members leaning in and reacting together
01

Bring it

The real pitch, story, recommendation, offer, ask, or presentation.

02

Say it

Out loud. In front of humans.

03

Hear it

See where attention rises, drops, questions appear, and meaning gets lost.

04

Sharpen it

Fix the language, structure, proof, or ask.

05

Use it

Take it into the consequential room.

The public Studio

Two ways to work the room.

Come ready to participate. The mic is one path—not the price of admission.

Two BetterStory Studio participants testing their message together on the microphone
01

Take the Mic

Work something real live. Get direct feedback. Leave with sharper language.

A BetterStory Studio participant applying the work to her own message
02

Work From the Room

No stage required. Watch the work happen, apply the feedback to your own message, meet interesting humans, and leave sharper.

Get into the next Studio Raleigh · September 23 · Terrace Raleigh
A BetterStory Studio participant speaking as Kristi and the room listen

Say the real thing.

Before the consequential room.

For organizations

The Studio travels.

Bring the live practice layer into the room where better communication changes revenue, trust, leadership, learning, or execution.

For the moments when you need to be unmistakably, irreplaceably human.

UNC Charlotte
BetterStory Studio™ at UNC CharlotteRevenue-Ready Founder Communication LabM.S. in Entrepreneurship · October 19

Companies · Universities · Leadership Programs · Sales Teams · Conferences · Founder Ecosystems

Bring the Studio inside your organization
A participant testing a message with live coaching inside BetterStory Studio

Guest experts in the room

Sharon Delaney McCloud, CSP® · Emmy Award-winning journalist + leadership storytellerCrissy Fishbane · Speaker, writer + community builder · Raleigh guest expert, September 23Cara Truitt · Founder, executive producer + lead curator, TEDxSugarCreekWomen
BetterStory Studio participants connecting in conversation after the formal program

What stays after the mic

The words get sharper.
The people get closer.

The formal work ends. The useful conversation keeps going. That is what happens when people hear each other think in public.

“The room is the proof.”