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Bernadette Jiwa

Bernadette Jiwa is an Irish Australian author focused on storytelling, marketing, brand strategy, and contemporary fiction. Her notable books include Meaningful, Story Driven, Hunch, and The Making of Her. A bestselling writer, she has taught thousands through her Story Skills Workshop, extending her influence beyond publishing.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

Bernadette Jiwa is an Irish Australian writer and story skills teacher whose work sits at the intersection of storytelling, marketing, and human behavior. She grew up in Dublin, in what she has described as a home full of stories rather than books, an early environment that helped shape her sensitivity to voice, memory, and emotional truth. Rather than entering writing through a conventional early-career path, she began in her forties as a blogger and nonfiction writer, later describing that period as a genuine apprenticeship after decades away from writing for an audience. That late start became one of the defining facts of her career: she built authority not through institutional profile first, but through consistent practice, close observation, and a clear ethical interest in how stories move people. ((https://bernadettejiwa.com/))

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Citas

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Our ideas fly when we show others their wings
-Meaningful
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You don’t need to compete when you know who you are
-Story Driven
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There is only the wrong story or the right story
-The Right Story
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A good story gets our attention. A great story changes us
-Don’t Manipulate Me, Move Me
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Every decision you’ve ever made was influenced by a story—every single one
-Storytelling For The Rest Of Us
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We learn by doing
-We Learn By Doing
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Storytelling is our most persuasive technology
-The Case For Storytelling
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We earn the right to speak to more people by delighting the first one
-When Things Catch On
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The stories we choose to believe and believe in are the making of us
-Stories For Good
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You’ll always get a better result when you open your pitch with the words, ‘Dear Someone Specific’ in your mind
-To Whom It May Concern

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"Bernadette Jiwa’s powerful debut serves as a tribute to motherhood and the strength of women"

Veranda

"Bernadette Jiwa has written a beautiful tribute to what our lives can become when shame is forgotten, and love is reclaimed"

Nina de Gramont

"Bernadette Jiwa expertly shows you how to connect the dots in your world to transform everyday hunches into impactful work"

Todd Henry

"Bernadette Jiwa writes with compassion and grace about what it means to be a mother, a daughter, and a sister"

Pip Williams

"When you have something to say, you don’t need to shout. Bernadette Jiwa helps us learn how to create the change we seek to make in the world"

Seth Godin

"Bernadette Jiwa reminds us that if we want to leap, we must use our higher human capabilities and not delegate our intelligence to data and tech"

Chris Bruzzo

"Bernadette Jiwa’s moving fiction debut, The Making of Her, explores the impact of secrets, the magnitude of our choices, and the tenuous binds of family"

Karma Brown

"Bernadette Jiwa reminds us that gut and instinct still reign supreme"

Steve Clayton

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