Going meta: Professional storyteller Terence Mickey on the shocking tale that connected all the dots
While at the Moth, Terence Mickey split his time between teaching storytelling to Fortune 500 executives through the corporate program and helping at risk-youth and recovering addicts through the outreach program.
At first glance, the two programs were worlds apart. But one day, they would collide in spectacular fashion through a Vietnam vet&aposs shockingly graphic recollection of a jungle encounter with the Viet kong.
Terence had no idea just how much this collision would light up both programs, but, as he came to learn, the stories most difficult to tell are often the ones that truly connect us, and in doing so, reveal our collective humanity.
