by Kevin Orris | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog, Business, Content Strategy, Marketing, Storytelling
I recently wrote about researcher Paul Zak’s extensive work behind the neuroscience of story. In short, the brain produces a chemical called oxytocin when we connect with the tension in a story. Once our oxytocin levels rise, we’re more likely to take action, whether...
by Kevin Orris | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog, Business, Content Strategy, Marketing, Storytelling
Story is the connective tissue between humans. Each of us has a story regardless of the level of trauma, joy, favor or any number of other emotions we have experienced. We have been created with a desire (and need) for authentic community, which is only enabled by...
by Kevin Orris | Aug 15, 2019 | Business, Social Media, Sports
Do better. Please.
by Kevin Orris | Jul 22, 2019 | Personal
It’s 9:28 p.m. and I’m alone in my office. It’s just me, my laptop, and a small oscillating fan. A copy of Eugene Peterson’s The Contemplative Pastor rests on the planked desk beside me. I have never been a pastor, but I do desire to be more pastoral. This...
by Kevin Orris | Jun 26, 2019 | Personal
Thanks to a one-armed, bearded geologist who died 117 years ago, my wife, Sam, and I are moving 1,700 miles across the country next week. Allow me to explain. I long despised the desert. A pudgy Midwestern son, I swell and sweat in 80-degree heat, much less 120. What...
