

Business of Story
Park Howell, Brand Story Strategist
The Business of Story helps sales and marketing leaders excel through the stories they tell. Hosted by Park Howell, known as The World's Most Industrious Storyteller, this popular weekly show is ranked among the top 10% of downloaded podcasts internationally and is the #1 Business Storytelling Podcast according to Feedspot. #StoryOn!
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Nov 20, 2023 • 1h 5min
#438: How to Craft Your Origin Story Using the Hero’s Journey
Park Howell reads appendix two of his book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. Learn how to use the Hero’s Journey to craft and tell a compelling origin story that sells. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn!

Nov 13, 2023 • 1h 1min
#437: How to Create Super Sticky Brand Names That Soup Up Your Story
Alexandra Watkins, Chief Executive Boss Lady of Eat My Words and author of Eat My Words: How to Create Brand Names That Stick, shares how to brainstorm meaningfully colorful brand names to amplify the impact of your brand storytelling. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn! ≈Park

Nov 6, 2023 • 33min
#436: Brand Bewitchery: Using the Story Cycle System™ for Presentation Creation
Park Howell reads appendix one of his book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. Learn how to use the Story Cycle to create compelling presentations and long-form communications that transport your audience from their world into yours. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn!

Oct 30, 2023 • 45min
#435: Brand Bewitchery Ch. 11 & Ch. 12: How to Debut and Scale Your New Brand Story
Park Howell reads chapters 11 & 12 of his book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. Learn how to debut your new brand story, align it with your people to get buy-in for your narrative, and scale your story throughout your internal and external communication channels. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn!

Oct 23, 2023 • 1h 6min
#434: How Stories Drive Learning & Development to Dramatically Upskill Your People
Charles Good, President of the Institute for Management Studies (IMS), share how they use storytelling in all of their executive training and how they’re applying the Story Cycle System™ to crafting their own brand story for IMS. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn! ≈Park

Oct 16, 2023 • 44min
#433: Ch. 10, Ritual: How to Build Repeat Business to Simplify Your Life
Park Howell reads chapter 10 of his book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. Learn how to ritualize the use of your brand to build repeat business and the most powerful form of advertising there is FREE word-of-mouth marketing. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn!

Oct 9, 2023 • 43min
#432: Ch. 9, Moral: How to Declare Your Brand’s Purpose to Amplify Your Impact
Park Howell reads chapter nine of his book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. Learn how to craft your brand purpose because people will buy what you stand for before they purchase your product or service. . Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn! ≈Park

Oct 2, 2023 • 49min
#431: Everyone Is a Storyteller Including AI Bots. So Now What?
Ann Handley, the world's first Chief Content Officer and Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs, author of the Wall Street Journal best seller, Everybody Writes and co-author of Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business, explores the evolution of content marketing especially with the coming of age of ChatGPT, Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn! ≈Park

Sep 25, 2023 • 44min
#430: Ch. 8, Victory: How to Celebrate Wins on the Customer Journey From Brand Awareness to Appreciation
Park Howell reads chapter eight of his book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. Learn how to celebrate the little victories along the three customer journey steps of brand awareness, adoption and appreciation to build brand bonding. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn! ≈Park

Sep 18, 2023 • 43min
#429: Ch. 7, Journey: How to Increase Customer Engagement Through the Stories You Tell
Park Howell reads chapter seven of his book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. Learn how to use your nine one-word brand descriptors as themes for true stories you tell your audience on their three-phase journey from brand awareness to brand adoption through brand appreciation. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built. Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications. Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand. #StoryOn! ≈Park


