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.

December 9 in Raleigh · 30 audience seats · 5 VIP seats. VIP includes a guaranteed live coaching moment.

A participant speaks from the room while others listen at BetterStory Studio Raleigh
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 Straw inviting participation during BetterStory Studio Raleigh
BetterStory Studio Raleigh participants lean in and respond to the live work
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.

Raleigh · December 9 · 6–9 p.m. · Terrace Raleigh

The Eve Edition.

Every Studio brings a new guest expert and a new point of view. This time, Kristi Straw is joined by Eve Keil.

Eve’s work lives at the intersection of self-worth and self-leadership. She helps accomplished women see where they’ve stopped choosing themselves, reclaim their voice, and lead, love, and build without disappearing inside someone else’s expectations.

“Where in my life have I stopped choosing myself?”

5 VIP Take the Mic seats · 30 audience seats · 35 total

Professional event photography by Tatiana is included with your seat.

Eve Keil in a red blazer, guest expert for The Eve Edition of BetterStory Studio
A BetterStory Studio participant shares her message on the microphone
01

Take the Mic

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

Audience members respond to a live BetterStory Studio coaching moment
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.

Audience seat · $80 VIP Take the Mic · $175 Raleigh · December 9 · 6–9 p.m. · Terrace Raleigh · The Eve Edition
A participant and Kristi Straw exchange ideas as the Raleigh BetterStory Studio audience listens

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 shares a message for live feedback 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 23Eve Keil · Self-worth + self-leadership · Raleigh guest expert, December 9Cara Truitt · Founder, executive producer + lead curator, TEDxSugarCreekWomen
BetterStory Studio Raleigh guests continue a face-to-face conversation

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.”