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Story & Media Training

You're sitting on a story you can't see. Megan can.

You know your work is worth paying attention to. You just can't get the words to land — the pitch falls flat, the posts disappear, the mission that keeps you up at night sounds ordinary the second you try to explain it.

That's not a you problem. You're standing inside your story. You're too close to see the one thread that makes a stranger stop, care, and act. Megan Rivers pulls it out of you — and shows you how to send it everywhere it needs to go.

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The Problem

You don't have a content problem. You have a story problem.

You wrote the "about" page. You posted on LinkedIn. You paid for the branding. Maybe you even landed a little coverage — and still nothing moved.

Because most advice tells you to say more. More content, more channels, more noise. But attention doesn't come from saying more. It comes from saying the one true thing in a way people can't ignore — and then putting that one thing everywhere it belongs.

You can't solve it alone, because the story you can't see is the one everyone else is waiting to hear.

Why Megan

She learned it on the other side of the desk.

Most "storytelling" training comes straight out of a marketing course — templates built to sell a product. That's rarely the room you're in.

If you're a journalist or podcaster working to land the next role, or a founder trying to turn your work into business, you don't need a formula. You need the story only you can tell — and the skill to tell it so it moves people to act.

That's what Megan does. As an Emmy-winning journalist and anchor, she's spent years finding the story in the room and putting it on air. She'll help you find yours.

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The Method · The Prompt

Make sense of your story — then make it travel.

The right prompt surfaces what a hundred hours of staring at a blank page never will. It's how the best interviews in the world get the truth out of people — and it's exactly how she gets yours out of you.

01

Make Sense of It

Megan's prompts cut through the noise to find the throughline — the single thread connecting your passion, your work, and why it matters. The story you've been too close to name.

02

Craft It

Together you shape that raw material into a story that actually moves people — the human face, the real stakes, the turn, and the ask woven into the narrative so attention converts to action.

03

Send It Everywhere

The part everyone skips. Megan maps your one story to the right mediums — social, blog, email, podcast, video, the stage, and press as one channel among many — so it travels instead of disappearing.

What You Walk Away With

Not a nice paragraph. A story and the plan to move it.

The Assets

  • Your core story — articulated, clear, and yours for good
  • A message and key-points map you can speak from anywhere
  • A channel-by-channel distribution plan
  • Ready-to-adapt versions of your story across formats
  • A press-ready one-pager, as one tool in the kit

Who It's For

  • Founders & entrepreneurs — the story that drives sales and gets you remembered
  • Nonprofit leaders — the story a donor funds and a reporter runs
  • Business owners — the story that fills your calendar and grows your name

Whether you're selling a product, a mission, or a movement — the work is the same. The story that makes people act.

How It Works

A guided intensive over roughly three weeks — or condensed into a single VIP Day.

  • Story Audit — pre-work where Megan gathers your raw material
  • Session 1 · The Excavation — her prompts surface the real story
  • Session 2 · The Craft — you shape it into something that moves
  • Session 3 · The Distribution Map — where it goes and how it travels

Every session is 1:1. Just you and Megan.

This Is For You If…

You'd rather be asked the right questions than handed a template.

  • You know your work matters and can't get others to see it.
  • You're tired of posting into silence.
  • You have one thing you're meant to be known for — and can't quite name it.
  • You'd rather be asked the right questions than handed a template.

This isn't for you if you want someone to write a post and walk away. Lead Story makes you the owner of your story — for every room you'll ever walk into.

Start With a Conversation

No cart. No rushed decision. One call.

You'll talk through where you are, what you're trying to say, and what you want your story to do. If Megan's media training is the right fit for you, you'll both know it on that call. And if it isn't, she'll point you toward what is.

No pressure. Just a conversation about your story.

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Your story is already there. You've just been too close to see it.

Megan's whole career was seeing the story other people missed. Let her find yours — and show you where to send it.

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