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Technology can help us tell better stories. But I didn't want to look back on my life and go, 'If I had only.'' - Bill Krupka and transitioning from one career to another The Foundation is Important When you first approached me, it was huge.

I was at a television station for 22 years. 'The transition is definitely doable, but it is a different pace. As Bill points out, we should move forward so we don't regret what we don't do. Bill says 'Just go for it.' Even if the pace of work changes, the people change and the work changes, we don't grow in our comfort. With that many years experience, he wasn't sure he could 'teach an old dog new tricks.' But he went for it, and it worked.Īny transition can be scary.

Fortunately he knew me and knew how I worked. The Transition from Journalism to Marketingīill joined the AmeriFisrt Home Mortgage team I was building. I liked that technology and being able to record video and sound.' Bill Krupka on where his storyteller path began I remember back in the 80s when my dad got his first video recorder that used VHS tapes. 'It started for me because I was a gadget guy. Today, Bill becomes the subject, a title he’s not always willing to put on, in order to share with The Storytellers Network his storytelling craft, his experiences and tips… in other words, HIS story. Then he came to work with me in marketing, helping hopeful home buyers navigate their experience. He’s covered – and told the stories – of tragedy, triumph and everything in between.

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Bill spent 22 years at a CBS affiliate in a top 40 TV market as a photojournalist. From the newsroom to the marketing department, Bill Krupka and I have collaborated a FEW times. In this episode, we hear from a storyteller I’ve had the opportunity to personally work with over the years. There’s something about James ’s voice that is powerful and moving and I think it’s a great tune.Storytelling with Former CBS Affiliate Photojournalist and Video Marketing Specialist, Bill Krupka “ got married to it, it was the tune that we walked back down the aisle to. And because I’m so tall and gangly I just ended up looking like a pissed-up giraffe or an out-of-control helicopter.” I used to think I was the sixth member of Take That when we used to go out clubbing. It’s got the most ridiculous bassline, it’s a driving techno tune and it’s one that you nod your head to. “It’s the perfect balance between my love of dance music and rock ’n’ roll. I used to play American football and I made a playlist of every Metallica tune that was rapid, and it got me so psyched up.” I like dance music but there’s some kind of synchronicity between Metallica and dance music because the beats of their anthemic tunes just drive you along. I got into Metallica in the early-to-mid-‘90s. If you wake up and play that in the background, you are ready for a good day. “I always walk around to the opening couple of chords of ‘Master Of Puppets’. That and ‘Twist And Shout’, but ‘Twist And Shout’ is an end-of-the-night song because you know you’re gonna lose your voice.” It’s a classic because it bounces along, it rolls along that tune.

If you look into it and the lyrics and the time it was released, it captures that moment.

“It was the tune of the time, a big political statement about the Vietnam War. That’s why we vowed to go back because we didn’t see anything. What can I remember about 1990? Not a lot, I was only young and we’d bought a bottle of whiskey and that’s how we got through the festival. I know it’s a big moment at Reading Festival but genuinely I was stood in front of her and I must’ve been five yards from where it landed. The year Nirvana headlined, I was right in front of the lady from L7 when she took her tampon out and threw it in the audience. “I went for the following three years, so we had Nirvana Friday and Nirvana Sunday.

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