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Close Your Narrative gap
Let Your Story Spark Your Growth
Stop hiding behind your resume, and lead with your experience and perspective.
In this two-week self-paced program, find the words for what you do, test them with real people, and say them out loud with confidence.
take back the stage
Your experience is more powerful than you think. It's time to speak on it.
This program is for creators and leaders who know, deep down, what they want to say, and are ready to own how they say it.
I help you shape your story to reveal, amplify and connect.
Maybe you're building a show, a newsletter, or a business. Maybe you're leading a team and need people to finally hear the idea you've been circling for months. Either way, the work is the same: connect your mission to your voice.
Everyone is welcome in this space, and we prioritize supporting creators and leaders from communities historically underrepresented in media.
Forged from decades of award-winning experience developing content and running major radio shows, podcasts, and publications, this space is centered on delivering executive-level strategic insights, a focus on cultural intelligence, and a framework for finding the story inside what you do.
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What's included
📧 5 Memos, straight to your inbox
📧 5 Memos, straight to your inbox
📧 5 Memos, straight to your inbox
A new Memo arrives every two to three days, each with a focused exercise that builds on the last. Built to replicate the feeling of the live cohort with stories, tips, and nudges.
🎯 Your Narrative Blueprint
📧 5 Memos, straight to your inbox
📧 5 Memos, straight to your inbox
Your touchstone document, with four parts: your Core Passion Statement, your Audience Question, your Stake, and your Hook. Use it long after the program ends, whenever you're deciding what to write, pitch, or build next.
🚀 Your Launchpad Script
📧 5 Memos, straight to your inbox
🚀 Your Launchpad Script
The sentence that says what you do the way only you can say it. It isn't an elevator pitch in new clothes. It comes straight out of your Blueprint, and you'll leave with a plan to take it public.
🔑 Two months of access
📧 5 Memos, straight to your inbox
🚀 Your Launchpad Script
Every Memo also lives in your course portal, so you can revisit, catch up, or redo an exercise within your two-month access period.
A look into your two-week journey
Act I: Own it
→ One question to sit with before you begin.
→ Name the fear that's kept you quiet, so it stops taking up so much space.
→ Write your Core Passion Statement: the thread underneath everything you want to say.
Act II: Test it
→ Talk to someone in your ideal audience about your idea.
→ Listen for the words they keep using, and turn them into your Audience Question.
→ Plant your stake in the ground: who you help, what you help them do, and how.
→ Say it out loud until it stops feeling strange.
→ Research where your audience is already talking, and find the gap your voice fills.
→ Write your Hook, and list the real places you'll show up next.
Act III: Build it and speak on it
→ Complete your Narrative Blueprint.
→ Draft your Launchpad Script and set a date to take it public.
→ Celebrate what you built
By the end, you'll be able to
→ Name your authority in your lived experience, not just your resume.
→ Answer "so what do you do?" clearly, without freezing or over-explaining.
→ Connect what you know to what your audience is actually asking, in their words.
→ Spot timely openings to share your perspective, and know where to show up.
→ Walk into a pitch, meeting, or post with a script you've already tested.
Guided by someone who gets it
Hey, I'm Christabel Nsiah-Buadi
Let Me Tell You How I Fell Into My Own Narrative Gap
I know what it's like to feel trapped in a prison of good ideas you can't, or are too scared to express. Sounds Ironic, I know. Despite being the expert executive and "storytelling ninja" who helped countless people launch careers, when it came to my own work, my words refused to come out, or I'd edit them into oblivion. Eventually, my insights got lost in the sauce, and my voice shrank. As a result, I missed opportunities, mainly because I didn't see what I brought to the table.
Worse still, as the podcasting industry and creator economy evolved, the industries in which I had a leading voice only deepened that feeling. I didn't know where to plant my flag as an executive -- or as a creator. That confusion—between trying to figure out what to say and understanding what my audience liked about it—was the true definition of what I call the Narrative Gap.
Going Back to My Roots - A (Re)Discovery
Then one day, tired of running in mental circles, I decided to return to my core storytelling and leadership principles; the ones I used to help others shape their radio and written content. Things started to fall into place again. I asked myself: Who do I want to serve, and how can my insights serve them?
And I remembered that these questions, the very ones that creators have been encouraged to overlook to find that big break are more relevant today than when I started out as a reporter. And then I came to embrace something else: I'm a creator at heart, with strong executive instincts and insights. I care about what people create, and can help them build strategies to meet their audience where they are.
By asking the right questions of myself and my creative voice, my professional confidence returned, along with my storytelling voice, which, in turn, attracted my ecosystem of partners and collaborators.
That's the foundation of the work I do now: helping people tell the story of what they do, and why they do it, to the people they want to speak to.
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Not ready to join the program?
I get it, this might not be the right time for us to connect on your vision. Maybe you don't have the time, or you don't think you're ready (trust me, you are), or something else in your life is more important right now.
I've been there, and I want you to join this self-paced program because you're ready. To stay up to date with future live cohorts, I recommend subscribing to the 'In Context' newsletter, where I also share thoughtful, impactful content to help you along your journey.
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