Monthly Archives: February 2021

Consistency + Surprise

By Beth Nyland|2021-02-26T12:49:02+00:00February 26, 2021|Categories: Creative Confidence, Creativity, Everyday Communication|

“Three and one!” That’s my fitness instructor, calling out a change in tempo as we lift weights to music. We’ve been doing bicep curls “two and two” … down two counts, up two counts. Now it’s time to adjust the rhythm. Why? Because our bodies adapt. Do the same move long enough, and your muscles become [...]

Ask me another one

By Jill Pollack|2021-02-12T17:04:21+00:00February 10, 2021|Categories: Creativity, Everyday Communication, Learning, Storytelling, Uncategorized|

I’ve been thinking about questions, mostly about asking them. We were in Nashville two years ago for a long weekend and took Lyfts everywhere we needed to go. Every trip was $6.15, no matter how far we went. Sitting in the backseat I was relaxed and chatty, interested in what was attracting so many different people to [...]

Spencer Grace

Spencer Grace is Beth Nyland's consulting agency, devoted to creative business communication. Nope, that's not an oxymoron. Beth makes sure it's for real.

StoryStudio Chicago

StoryStudio is a school for creative writers. Jill Pollack founded and has grown the studio to teach more than 1,200 individual students a year while also working with organizations to find and tell their best business stories.

Story Mode

Story Mode is where the best of Spencer Grace and StoryStudio come together. It's a program that generates practical results every time (even though it feels a lot like play).