BONUS: “Elevator Pitches” with Terry O’Reilly of Under the Influence

Do you have an ELEVATOR PITCH? Not a rehearsed script, but a sentence that articulates your unique brand? In this bonus episode, Andrea shares a popular episode of the Under the Influence podcast hosted by epic storyteller Terry O’Reilly, focused on “Elevator Pitches.”

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TRANSCRIPT
Welcome to this bonus episode of the talk about talk podcast. Are you curious what this is all about? This episode was inspired by my conversation about storytelling with Terry O’Reilly a few months ago. Terry is the host of the under the influence podcast, and he’s an epic storyteller. If you haven’t listened to our conversation yet, I encourage you to go back and listen to Talk About Talk episode 173.

During that interview, Terry and I started talking about Elevator Pitches. That’s when this happened. Take a listen:

Andrea Wojnicki - TalkAboutTalk: My favorite elevator pitch of all time is, you know, the Sigourney Weaver aliens movie. Do you know what the elevator pitch was for?
O’Reilly: Jaws in space.
Andrea Wojnicki - TalkAboutTalk: Yes, I probably learned that from you, Terry.
O’Reilly: Yeah, you may have.

In case it wasn’t clear - I shared with Terry my favorite elevator pitch of all time – It’s the pitch for the movie Aliens. I can just imagine the writer pitching this Aliens movie to the Hollywood producer. Saying, “what’s this movie all about? Well, think Jaws in Space.” Three words. “Jaws in Space.” Beautiful.

As I was sharing that with Terry, it occurred to me – WAIT! I think I originally learned that story, that elevator pitch, from Terry! I think I learned that from one of his Under the Influence episodes. That was pretty funny. Kind of embarrassing, But Terry was very gracious.

I subsequently re-listened to Terry’s Under the Influence episode on Elevator Pitches - and it’s fantastic. So - here we are with our bonus episode. Now YOU’re going to hear that episode! You’ll hear Terry describe that elevator pitch for the Aliens movie, and a whole lot more.

Here’s your task: I encourage you to listen to this episode through the lens of improving your personal brand narrative. Based on your unique expertise and passions, based on your superpowers, and based on Terry’s guidance in developing a compelling elevator pitch, is there a phrase you can use when youre introducing yourself?

For those of you who’ve been in my workshops or private coaching, you know that I am not a fan of the rehearsed elevator script. You know, that overly-rehearsed, too long, too generic ramble that you hear people recite when theyre trying to impress you? That’s not what Im talking about. Im talking about a few words, a phrase, maybe one sentence, that you can own. Your “Jaws in Space,” if you will.

OK – here we go. Here’s Terry.