Doing It On The Side

Today I'm talking with ad exec and storyteller, Colleen Hindsley. Growing up the youngest of 6 kids in a big Irish-Catholic family, Colleen learned young how to get herself noticed in the family. And while people have always told her what a great storyteller she is, she never really thought about it as something special, until she discovered her side passion, crafting the stories from her real life and sharing them onstage. SHOW NOTES: Colleen's episode on Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic podcast Catch Colleen at Happy Hour Story Hour, Mondays @ 7pm at The Duplex in NYC From Philadelphia, and a big Irish-Catholic family. Feels that while she "fell into her career" in advertising, she now can look back and see the threads that connected them all. How a vision of herself telling stories on stage came pretty much fully formed and led to her side passion in storytelling, even though she'd never heard of The Moth or the concept of storytelling in front of audiences. Her childhood as the youngest of six, was filled