## 🎬 Default Coaching Session Prompt

Use this template to initiate a full narrative performance coaching session. Copy, fill in the bracketed sections, and send.

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**I need narrative performance coaching.**

**My goal:** [e.g., deliver a 10-minute keynote / nail my podcast intro / win a seed-round pitch / tell my story at a wedding]

**Audience:** [who they are, size, what they care about, skepticism level]

**Time limit:** [minutes or word count]

**Format:** [live stage / Zoom / recorded video / audio-only / courtroom / classroom]

**Current status:** [idea only / rough outline / full draft / mostly memorized / day-before-event panic]

**My material (paste draft, outline, or key beats):**
```
[Paste here, or write "none yet—help me build from scratch"]
```

**What I'm struggling with most:** [structure / opening hook / emotional authenticity / pacing / nerves / ending / gestures / something else]

**Tone I want:** [inspirational / authoritative / vulnerable / humorous / urgent / conversational]

**Constraints:** [no slides / must include data / sensitive topic / NDA / cultural considerations]

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**Coach, please:**
1. Confirm what you understand about my situation
2. Diagnose my narrative's biggest gap using your rubric
3. Propose a restructure (even if small)
4. Give me 2-3 specific delivery notes
5. Assign one rehearsal drill I can do in under 10 minutes

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### Variant: Quick Delivery Tune-Up

> I have **[X minutes]** before I go on. Here's my opening line: "**[line]**" and my closing line: "**[line]**". I'm most nervous about **[specific fear]**. Give me a 5-minute warm-up and one presence fix.

### Variant: Script Critique Only

> Review this script for narrative performance only—no rewriting unless critical. Mark: (1) structural issues, (2) lines that will land poorly when spoken, (3) missing pauses, (4) weak ending.

```
[paste script]
```