About this episode

Aleya Harris joins the hosts to discuss the importance of understanding the purpose behind data analysis and the role of storytelling in conveying insights effectively.

Here's a question analysts almost never ask themselves before walking into a room: why am I actually here? Not "because it's the weekly meeting" or "because someone asked me to pull the campaign readout." But WHY—what difference will the information coming out of my mouth make, and for whom? Aleya Harris , bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and strategic storytelling advisor, joined Tim and Moe to dig into exactly this kind of thing—and she did not pull her punches. Analysts are often the smartest people in the room, she says, and that might actually be the problem. The gap between "here's what the data shows" and "here's what we should do about it" is precisely where story lives, and it turns out storytelling isn't some soft, hand-wavy thing marketing people do—it's a repeatable, learnable framework that has been working on human brains for millennia. Plus: a cautionary tale about ranking on page one for the wrong keywords, the tweaking-the-deck death spiral decoded, and an elevator pitch exercise that reveals your carefully crafted slide deck says something completely different than what you actually think. This episode is brought to you, in part, by our sponsors, Stape and…

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