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Story Master Class with Jeff McBride

One of the things I’m trying to be better about in 2025 is being better. Just improving at anything/everything that I do. It’s to not plateau, which is easy to do, you just get lazy.

One of the things that I did was take a class at Mystery School with Jeff McBride. This was the Story Master Class, and was all about telling your story. This was an online class, so it happened over Zoom.

Mystery school with Jeff McBride

This was my first time taking a class from Mystery School, and I was impressed. It was really well thought out, was homework each week for the three weeks and even David Copperfield popped in to give his thoughts on storytelling!!

I feel like I learned a lot from the class and really covered a lot of different styles of telling stories, with an emphasis on telling your personal story. I really liked the class and while I try to have some sort of personal hook for every routine that I do, I think it makes me want to dig a little deeper and put more of my story into the full routine.

If you’ve been on the fence about a workshop with Mystery School, I really liked the class that I took, jump in an take one!

– Louie

Hanging Out With Performers!

My daughter sells her art at events (like craft shows) around the Pacific Northwest. When I’m not working I go and hang out with her while she’s working. I also usually post on social media where we’ll be. It’s fun how many performers come out to hang out as well!

magic hang out
magic hang out

Recently I had a giant puppet act and stand up comic come by to hang out. I also had Clive Hayward come by!

magic hang out
magic hang out

Clive and I snuck away and had a beer while my daughter was adding some art to the walls of this venue. Of course we jammed some card tricks.

We also chatted about Jeff McBride. Clive had recently done a one on one problem solving session with Jeff. Clive mentioned how quickly McBride solved problems he was having. I’ve seen Jeff do this with people’s acts at WonderGround in the past. He has an amazing amount of knowledge of magic, theater, and pretty much everything about performing.

I had been thinking about a class that Jeff is putting on at his Mystery School called The Story Master Series that starts on Jan 11th. I’m trying to grow my show more, and it’s hard to do that in a vacuum. Taking a class to learn more is never a bad idea. I signed up for the class and excited for it to start!

Hopefully I’ll become better at sharing stories!

-Louie