Story Rollercoaster guides you through the same framework we refined through years of real speaker training — one question at a time — and hands you back a stage-ready story in your own words, your own voice, and your own perspective.
Your first story is free. No card required.
Start Your First Story — FreeFor years, SpeakUp worked with speakers, coaches, consultants, and entrepreneurs — people who had powerful experiences and knew those experiences mattered, but struggled to shape them into something an audience could actually feel.
The framework we used was always the Story Rollercoaster.
It worked in the room. It worked on the stage. And now it works in your pocket.
Most speakers aren't short on experience. They're short on a system that helps them see what's already there.
You've been through things that changed you. Taught you. Shaped the way you see the world. Those experiences contain lessons your audience needs — but when it's time to tell the story, something gets lost between what you lived and what lands on stage.
The story was always there. It just needed the right questions.
This isn't a worksheet. It isn't a template. And it definitely isn't an AI that replaces your voice with a generic script.
Story Rollercoaster interviews you. It reads what you share, asks one question at a time, and uses your answers to go deeper — the way a story coach would. You don't need to understand storytelling terminology. You don't need to know how the finished story should be structured. You just answer questions about what you remember.
Then the app organizes your words, your details, your meaning, and your perspective into the Story Rollercoaster framework — and hands you back a complete, stage-ready story that sounds like you.
Type it, paste it, or speak it out loud. Rough is perfect. The app takes it from there.
The app reads your experience and interviews you — one question at a time — helping you uncover the details, emotions, and lessons hiding inside the story.
See your experience mapped to the framework — Setup, Challenge, Lesson Cycle, Breakthrough, Lessons Learned. Edit the details before the app shapes your final story.
A complete written story in your own voice. Edit it, refine it, make it yours. When you're satisfied, mark it Stage Ready.
Your finished story is saved, tagged, and searchable — ready when you need the right story for a keynote, workshop, podcast, coaching session, or conversation.
No card required. Upgrade to Pro when you're ready for story two.
"I just tried putting one of my classic stories into the Story Rollercoaster App because I always wondered if I could apply the story rollercoaster to it. The results were amazing! It gave me a new way to look at my story and pulled out all the parts of it that pertained to the steps of the story rollercoaster. I love the new version of my story that takes people on a more intentional journey than it did before!"
"I wanted to test this app to see if it could even make my stories better. I put in one of my core stories that I share all the time and posted the result to Facebook. From that share alone, I had 8.7k views and 39 shares within days of posting it which was significantly more than any other post I'd ever shared. This stuff works."
When you're ready to keep building, Pro gives you the full Story Rollercoaster experience — unlimited stories, your complete Story Vault, and everything else it takes to keep turning what you've lived into stories you can use.
Create your free account. Build your first story. Upgrade to Pro when ready.
SpeakUp went quiet for a year.
Not because the work stopped mattering. Because life demanded everything I had — and for a while, I didn't have enough left to give to both.
During that year away, Bobby Glen James completed and published The Story Rollercoaster — the book that puts into writing what we spent close to ten years teaching at SpeakUp. And as I read it, I kept thinking about everyone we had worked with. The speakers who walked in unsure whether they even had a story worth telling. The ahah moments that happened in the room but were hard to recreate at home.
I started asking a different question. Not "how do we bring back what we had?" but "how do we take what worked and make it available in a completely new way?"
That question became this app.
Because your story shouldn't have to wait until the next time we're all in the same room.
You have more than you think. Most speakers have been living story-worthy experiences for years — they just haven't had a system for uncovering them. That's exactly what the guided interview is designed to do.
The most powerful speaker stories aren't the most dramatic ones. They're the most honest ones. If you've learned something the hard way, someone in your audience needs to hear it.
If you can send an email or record a voice message, you can use this app. It asks you questions. You answer them. That's it.
Good. That's exactly what the free story build is for. No card required. Build your first story completely free — then decide.
You've been carrying experiences that matter. Lessons you learned the hard way. Moments that changed the way you see things.
It's time to turn them into something you can use.
Start with one story. Free. No card required.
And when you're ready to keep building — Pro is right there waiting for you.
Start Your First Story — Free