

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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Sep 19, 2022 • 53min
#377: How Music Composers Use Story Structure to Captivate Listeners
Darius Holbert, an internationally acclaimed composer and creator of the soundtrack for Oh, The Places You'll Go at Burning Man viral film, shares how composers use story structure to captivate their listeners. Take Park's The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communications are built upon. 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 12, 2022 • 1h 12min
#376: The Three Business Storytelling Habits You'll Want to Break
Steve Rawling, former BBC TV journalist turned international storytelling consultant and author of Storyteller Tactics, shares the bad habits you need to break to make your business storytelling much more effective. Put Park's free and premium story-building tools to work for you now including his new book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand: http://bit.ly/StorytellingTools

Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 2min
#375: How to Make Your Own Luck With the Right Storytelling Formula
Mark Lachance, author of The Lucky Formula: How to Stack The Odds In Your Favor And Cash In On Success, shares how you can turn your hard work into great fortune by triggering a lot of luck along the way through the stories you tell. Put Park's free and premium story-building tools to work for you now including his new book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand: http://bit.ly/StorytellingTools

Aug 29, 2022 • 59min
#374: How to Reframe Your Business Story to Increase Your Brand Equity
Clate Mask, co-founder and CEO of Keap and co-author of New York Times best-seller Conquer Chaos, shares how they reframed the Infusionsoft brand story and all of its equity into Keap. Put Park's free and premium story-building tools to work for you now including his new book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand: http://bit.ly/StorytellingTools

Aug 22, 2022 • 59min
#373: 5 Agile Conversations to Make Your Business Storytelling More Agile
Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel, co-authors of Agile Conversations: Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture, share the five agile conversations all leaders can use with their business storytelling to grow their influence and company culture. Put Park's free and premium story-building tools to work for you now including his new book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand: http://bit.ly/StorytellingTools

Aug 15, 2022 • 60min
#372: Your MBA Class on Business Storytelling in Under 60 Minutes
Karen Padilla is a Guatemalan marketer pursuing a master's degree in Global Brand Management at Griffith College Dublin. For her thesis, Karen interviewed Park about storytelling for nonprofits. Her questions were so engaging, he decided to produce a show for all those interested in why storytelling is important for all organizations and how to do it. Put Park's free and premium story-building tools to work for you now including his new book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand: http://bit.ly/StorytellingTools Like what you hear? Park offers virtual and in-person masterclasses, story consulting and keynotes to help you excel through the stories you tell. Visit businessofstory.com to get in touch.

Aug 8, 2022 • 46min
#371: How to Grow Your Brand Like a Weed With Storytelling
Stu Heinecke, author of How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed, marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist, lays out a complete model for explosive business growth, based on the strategies, attributes and tools weeds use to grow, expand, dominate and defend their turf. Put Park's free and premium story-building tools to work for you now including his new book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand: http://bit.ly/StorytellingTools Like what you hear? Park offers virtual and in-person masterclasses, story consulting and keynotes to help you excel through the stories you tell. Visit businessofstory.com to get in touch.

Aug 1, 2022 • 53min
#370: How to Overcome Stigma With Your Story
Erik Osland, Managing Partner of evolvedMD, and Sentari Minor, Head of Strategy, share how to overcome stigma by reframing your personal and brand story, especially as it relates to mental health. Put Park's free and premium story-building tools to work for you now including his new book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand: http://bit.ly/StorytellingTools Like what you hear? Park offers virtual and in-person masterclasses, story consulting and keynotes to help you excel through the stories you tell. Visit businessofstory.com to get in touch.

Jul 25, 2022 • 55min
#369: The Easiest Way to Capture Testimonial Stories
Gavin & Martine Hammar, founders of StoryPrompt.com, share how they used brand storytelling to grow and sell their first venture, Sendible, and are now using stories to build momentum for their new online testimonial capture platform. Put Park's free and premium story-building tools to work for you now including his new book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand: http://bit.ly/StorytellingTools Like what you hear? Park offers virtual and in-person masterclasses, story consulting and keynotes to help you excel through the stories you tell. Visit businessofstory.com to get in touch.

Jul 18, 2022 • 56min
#368: How Agile Storytelling is Key to Building an Engaged Community
Dana Malstaff, Founder of Boss Mom and the creator of the Nurture to Convert Society, shares how to build an over-the-top engaged community through what stories you share and how you share them. Put Park's free and premium story-building tools to work for you now including his new book, Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand: http://bit.ly/StorytellingTools Like what you hear? Park offers virtual and in-person masterclasses, story consulting and keynotes to help you excel through the stories you tell. Visit businessofstory.com to get in touch.


