by Dave Ursillo | Jun 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
The following is an unedited transcript for Season 1, Episode 3 of my podcast, Written, Spoken, provided to help all of my readers and listeners — especially those with hearing disabilities or for whom English is not a primary language — access and enjoy...
by Dave Ursillo | Jun 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
The following is an unedited transcript for Season 1, Episode 2 of my podcast, Written, Spoken, provided to help all of my readers and listeners — especially those with hearing disabilities or for whom English is not a primary language — access and enjoy...
by Dave Ursillo | Jun 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
The following is an unedited transcript for Season 1, Episode 1 of my podcast, Written, Spoken, provided to help all of my readers and listeners — especially those with hearing disabilities or for whom English is not a primary language — access and enjoy...
by Dave Ursillo | Jun 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
The following is an unedited transcript for the trailer of Season 1 of my podcast, Written, Spoken, provided to help all of my readers and listeners — especially those with hearing disabilities or for whom English is not a primary language — access and...
by Dave Ursillo | Jun 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
About once every year, I like to take a break from my usual personal narrative essays and human interest stories to provide you with some fun updates on projects that I’m excited to soon share with you (including the podcast I teased out in the subject line!). I also...
by Dave Ursillo | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Ten years ago on May 19, I quit my job. But quitting my job was not about spiting the world of work, or giving a middle finger to the recession, or proving to the people around me that I was “bigger than” the work I was being given a chance to do. Quitting my...
by Dave Ursillo | May 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
I remember the first time that I learned that language is not static or fixed, but “moves.” That’s to say that many of the words and phrases that we use to describe ideas or tell stories have this natural, organic way of evolving and changing over time. When I was a...
by Dave Ursillo | Apr 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Avoidance is defined as “the action of keeping away from or not doing something.” On the surface, the definition of “avoidance” means any act of resisting or not-doing something. But that doesn’t mean that all acts of avoidance are equal....
by Dave Ursillo | Mar 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Stories shape and influence our perceptions of life, who we are, and what we’re capable of. Even a single word choice can contain, within itself, an entire story. “Fine” is a story. “Busy” is a story. And so is…...
by Dave Ursillo | Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
There’s an unspoken language shared by some Parisians that I became aware of during my recent travels there. In fact, I became fluent in this secret language. Although that isn’t really saying much about me or my ability to learn languages. Even though I studied...
by Dave Ursillo | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
The last time that I found myself on the train from Providence to Boston, the sight of the Boston skyline made me break down in tears. It was early November and I was making my way to London for a work trip. Less than two weeks before, I had made the difficult...
by Dave Ursillo | Feb 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
This is the true story of a letter: a letter that was written many years ago. The letter has no date, but it’s instructions are clear: You may have inherited a serious heart condition based on the fact that members of your family are being treated for the same heart...
by Dave Ursillo | Jan 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I wrote you last, I told you the story of my not-so-great Great British Bake-Off inspired foray into home baking. It ended disastrously, with me abandoning my intention to bake something “scrummy” altogether and instead eating three already-made cupcakes in the...
by Dave Ursillo | Dec 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago I heard myself say, “I think I’m going to take up baking this winter.” Mind you, I don’t bake. I’ve never really baked anything in my life, and baking had never interested me. I don’t even like having chocolate or cookies in my house — let alone...
by Dave Ursillo | Dec 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Since I wrote you last, travels both planned and of-the-moment have taken me to Italy, London and Los Angeles. In that time, I’ve shared coffee with a man who I’d discover steals and sells ancient antiquities from sites of Roman ruins; scoured 140-year-old paper...
by Dave Ursillo | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Faren Peterson is a visual artist and art therapist based in Colorado who is responsible for creating all of the illustrations and visual representations that you see as a student of my writing course, Unavoidable Writing. In this interview, I ask Faren about her...
by Dave Ursillo | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
This past summer, I welcomed a new class of one-on-one writing clients into an individualized program that I call Writer’s Group of Two: Gabi in Virginia was about to go back to full-time employment work after giving entrepreneurship a go, and she was concerned...
by Dave Ursillo | Oct 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Whether or not you consider yourself to be a writer, you can gain a lot of insight from this workshop about writer’s block. Why? Because no matter who we are or what we do, as humans, our words and stories comprise the experience of our lives. The words we...
by Dave Ursillo | Jul 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Over the last year, I’ve been super privileged and grateful to work with some really amazing creatives, professionals, storytellers and entrepreneurs who have supported my business, improved my words, and done most of the heavy lifting behind all that you see....
by Dave Ursillo | May 14, 2018 | Chronicles of a Self-Storied Life
“I am called. I intend to listen.” That’s what I told myself when I quit my job 9 years ago. The Creative, calling. Me, answering. I had an idea for a book, and I wanted to write it. I was basically sure that this book — coming to me as if from the cosmos...
by Dave Ursillo | May 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
She started to stumble over her words. Her gaze tilted up and away from me, searching. She began to delicately turn her hand at the wrist as if to sieve through all the wrong responses, hoping she might happen upon the right one. Being that there were lights and...
by Dave Ursillo | Apr 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
If I asked you to put a price on your attention span, how much would you charge me so I could talk to you for one full minute? Would you charge me $1? $50? Maybe $1,000? (Hey, why not?) This is essentially the question that Google, Facebook, Twitter and other online...
by Dave Ursillo | Apr 6, 2018 | Journaling and Writing Prompts
Here’s a simple way to brainstorm a list of writing topics based upon ideas, stories, and concepts that you feel that you’ve been avoiding writing about, exploring, or giving yourself to lately. “Avoidance” is the lens through which my course...
by Dave Ursillo | Apr 3, 2018 | Client Stories + Conversations
Storytelling is all abuzz in the business world nowadays. A few years ago, it was “personal branding.” In another few years? It will probably be something different. When you hear “story” or “storytelling” in regard to business,...
by Dave Ursillo | Mar 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
As I write you, the third nor’easter in as many weeks is bearing down on us here in Southern New England. With the first, we were doused by rain, flooding and heavy winds. With the second, we narrowly avoided two feet of snow. For the third? No such luck....
by Dave Ursillo | Mar 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Coss Marte is an entrepreneur at heart. He has been since he was a kid. That’s the real reason he started dealing. Growing up poor to immigrant parents, Coss admits that, as a kid, his only dream was to be rich. He also had the vision and hustle to pull it off....
by Dave Ursillo | Mar 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Almost nine years ago when I quit my job and started my blog, the World Wide Web held more in the way of promise than of foreign agents exploiting social media to antagonize people’s political differences. Nowadays, it’s pretty tough to not inherently distrust...
by Dave Ursillo | Feb 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Writer’s block, it’s time the story of you comes to an end. That is the message of my workshop, Overcoming Writer’s Block, available exclusively on CreativeLive.com now for just $39. In January 2018, I made the cross-country trip from Rhode Island to...
by Dave Ursillo | Feb 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Did you know that a centerpiece of my “self-knowledge meets self-expression” teachings is 1:1 storytelling work? Don’t call it personal branding: we breathe transformative, leadership-driven narratives to life to support the service-minded work you...
by Dave Ursillo | Feb 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Welcome! You’ve found the first full free lesson from Unavoidable Writing as a sample introduction to the full course. Ready to turn resistance into refuge? This program uses a holistic approach to overcome writer’s block, stuckness, and the most common...
