Tell a Better Story, Live a Better Life | Carolyn Flynn | TEDxABQWomen

Telling the victorious story is the secret to uncommon success. Carolyn Flynn inspires creatives to answer the call to an extraordinary life, like the hero on the mythic journey. Women must take a cue from Joseph Campbell and see themselves as the heroes of their own lives. Featuring a retelling of "Star Wars" from Princess Leia's point of view and touching on Flynn's poignant award-winning story about a daughter of a man with broken dreams, the talk inspires women to see themselves not as the object of someone else's life, but as the subject of their own. In creating a new narrative, you can create a new path.

Carolyn Flynn is co-founder of The Writing Space with Terry Price. Her seven nonfiction titles, published by Penguin Putnam/Alpha Books, include topics such as mindfulness and creative visualization. Carolyn is a practitioner of mindfulness and creative visualization, leading writing and creativity workshops through The Writing Space, leading virtual and real-world retreats, webinars and creativity coaching sessions that give people the time, space and love to write. For 16 years, she was known as every woman's friend as the editor of Sage magazine, the Albuquerque Journal’s magazine for today’s woman. She holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx