Introducing Tell Your Story
with David Rowley · Host, Tell Your Story
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About David Rowley
David Rowley is a technology leader with more than 25 years working with Microsoft technologies, including over a decade inside Microsoft and currently UKI Microsoft Practice CTO at IBM Consulting. Tell Your Story is his podcast exploring the defining moments in people's careers, told close to how they actually happened.
Episode Description
David Rowley introduces Tell Your Story, a podcast exploring the moments in people's careers where something shifted, told close to how those moments actually felt at the time, not how they tend to sound in hindsight.
Key Moments
There is a gap between how a significant career moment tends to be described in retrospect and how it actually felt from the inside. That gap is what Tell Your Story is built to explore.
Stories simplified into clean narratives lose the part that matters most to anyone still navigating their own journey: the context, the uncertainty, and the reasoning made with limited information.
David Rowley has spent more than 25 years working across enterprise technology, cloud and AI. But Tell Your Story is not about those 25 years. It is about the moments inside them.
This is the introductory episode, a short piece where David explains what the podcast is trying to do, why it exists, and what you can expect from it.
The gap the podcast is trying to close
Most career stories, when told well, sound clear in retrospect. The decision was made, the path was taken, and from the outside it is easy to trace the logic. But the people who lived those moments know that is not what it felt like at the time.
Things were unclear. They sat alongside everything else that was going on. Partial information, competing priorities and genuine uncertainty about what would come next: that is the texture of most significant career moments, and it is almost entirely absent from the polished versions that tend to get shared.
What each episode will do
Each episode will focus on a single point in somebody's journey. Not necessarily a dramatic turning point, though those will come up, but a point where something shifted. It might be a decision, an opportunity, or something that happened rather than something that was chosen.
The aim is to understand that point in context: what led up to it, what the situation actually looked like from the inside, what options were visible, and how the decision was made with the information that was available at the time. That is the part that tends to disappear when career moments get simplified into a neat progression.
Who should listen
This is not a retrospective storytelling exercise. Most people listening will not be looking back on a finished journey. They are somewhere in their own.
The value is practical. When you can hear how someone described the situation they were in, not just what they did, it gives you something more useful than an outcome. It gives you a way of thinking about your own position when something similar comes up.
That is the intention. That is what Tell Your Story is about.