Oriya Pollak

The Session

Tell a Better Story

Premiering at The Authors & Thought Leaders Summit, November 24 and 25, 2026

You're not addicted to the habit. You're addicted to the story. For thirty years I hid behind substances, other people's stories, and spiritual tools, and the more I battled the habit, the stronger it got. What set me free was not a better fight. It was picking up the pen. In this session I share the framework from my book, the Four Outsourcings: the places we rent out our body, our mind, our spirit, and our heart, and the fifth one nobody names, our addiction to reality's verdict. Attendees leave with the three sentences my whole teaching stands on: you're not the story, you're the storyteller; the story told you a lie to keep you safe, thank it, then write a better one; stop battling the story, pick up the pen. This is a value-first session for authors and thought leaders whose book is stuck because their story is: the habit is the prop, the battle is the plot, and the way out is creating, not fighting.