Gutsy Tales Off the Rails: Living Out Loud : Kwe Publishing LLC : 9781732103481 : 1732103488 : 05 Oct 2018 : It takes guts to stand up in public and tell a personal story. Rumor has it that more people are afraid of speaking in public than of dying. Starting in October 2016, nine speakers met from 7:00 to 10:00 one night a week and worked on their stories. Captain Jim Gordon prepared to share the stage with fellow speakers Joan Bowling, Shirley T. Burke, Angela Edwards, Dorothy Erlanger, Yolanda Gomez Gray, Elizabeth Louis, Shanna Kabatznick, and Pam Rambo by meeting with Storyteller Channel's Gayle Turner. And even though many of the group were already experienced speakers, they weren't interested in public humiliation. And that included the rehearsal process; so, the only feedback permitted was the following: What you specifically liked. What you'd like to hear more about. If you got lost in the story, where did you get lost and what didn't you understand. That was it. Nobody wa