Master the Primal Art of Business Storytelling
The Business of Story Podcast With Park Howell
Transform Your Business Through Proven Narrative Mastery
Every marketing director, business owner, and sales professional understands that the right story can transform how customers respond to their message.
What matters most is mastering the vital storytelling structures that have driven human engagement for millennia, especially when your business success depends on authentic connection with your audience.
But here’s the frustrating reality most professionals face: conventional brand storytelling advice offers generic tips and surface-level techniques instead of the primal storytelling principles that actually create lasting impact.
This happens because most business storytelling approaches focus on modern tactics without understanding the sacred narrative structures that have influenced human behavior for thousands of years.
That’s exactly where The Business of Story podcast transforms your approach to business communication.
Through Park Howell’s proprietary guidance, you gain access to primal storytelling amplified with cutting-edge technology, enabling you to excel through the stories you tell while accelerating your Return on Intelligence through remarkable storytelling mastery.
Your Guide to Storytelling Excellence
Park Howell brings over two decades of proven expertise in marketing storytelling, combining primal narrative wisdom with modern precision.
As the creator of the revolutionary Story Cycle System™, which has grown brands by 600 percent, propogator of the ABT (And, But, Therefore) narrative framework, and co-creator of the StoryCycle Genie™, Park has pioneered “Vibe Branding”.
Vibe Branding combines emotional intelligence with artificial intelligence, guided by proven storytelling structures, to accelerate ROI: Your Return on Intelligence.
His sacred mission: help you excel through the stories you tell, delivering measurable results through systematic application of primal storytelling principles.
Latest Episodes: Primal Storytelling in Action
Recent Releases:
- 10 Essential Story Elements of Vibe Branding That Make Your Brand Narrative Enthralling
- The Five Essential Elements (the H.E.A.R.T.) of the Perfect Pitch With Ben Wiener
- How to Unlock Brand Alignment to Accelerate Your Business Growth With Brandon Coleman Jr.
- How to Tell Your Startup Lifecycle Story to Sell Investors & Customers on Your Brand With Gregory Shepard
- How to Effectively Position Your B2B Brand With April Dunford
Each episode delivers actionable insights you can implement immediately, combining proven primal storytelling frameworks with contemporary business applications for remarkable results.
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#206: How Storytelling Turns Argument Into a Positive Discussion
Throughout history, conflict has ensued as a result of differing viewpoints and opinions. The reason why is because most people don’t know how to effectively engage in healthy argumentation and in turn, violence and hate often become the end result. That’s why it’s critical to learn how to disarm your discourse by using these proven debate frameworks. (more…)
#205: How to Compound the Growth of Your B2B Brand with Storytelling
Most B2B organizations aspire for continued growth and to be the best in their industry. But many simply do not know how to differentiate themselves from competitors, resulting in mediocre status and growth. That’s why it’s vital to share your organization’s stories to reveal its truths and values, so you can rise above the rest. (more…)
#204: How to Apply the Art of Visual Storytelling
A picture is worth a thousand words. But using visuals without intentional delivery means your audience is left interpret to them. Therefore, it’s essential that narrative framework is utilized in your visual storytelling for your envisioned story to be understood.
#203: How to Use Storytelling to Change Entrenched Views
America has a gun violence problem, and many citizens have these weapons for self-protection. But new technologies are allowing for alternatives that are safer and more effective. So, sharing the capabilities of these advancements through carefully crafted stories may not only shift the public’s perception, but ultimately make the bullet obsolete. (more…)
#202: How to Tell Short Stories When the Stakes are High
As a business professional, you want your ideas to be heard. Rise above the noise as you communicate your message quickly and effectively when you apply the five primal elements of story in shorter forms. (more…)
#201: Why Your Brand Story is Essential for Survival
Every brand has a story and it is often the only differentiating factor from any other similar product or service. But many companies try to be all things to all people thinking if they focus on a niche they’ll lose out on potential business. Ironically, the exact opposite is true. When you are the best at something you attract more business than you can handle. That’s why it’s critical to clarify your brand story and highlight what you do different and therefore better than your competition.
Our guest, Drew McLellan is president of the Agency Management Institute, an association serving more than 250 small to mid-sized agencies. Here he helps agency owners increase their adjusted gross income and attract better clients and employees through the brand stories they tell about themselves. Using his experience, he shares best practices for running your advertising, public relations, web, digital or design agency starting with understanding your origin story and why you do what you do.
Your brand story is your most powerful tool to attract the right clients and dictate the direction of your future. This is because it paints the picture of who you are, why you exist, and what your values are. And by utilizing that knowledge you can ensure your brand is not only successful but sustainable. Because a great brand story will attract clients that align with what you stand for and repel those that don’t.
The easiest money we can make is when the client and agency are in great alignment and how you get to great alignment is you both have shared values and you connect to one anothers’ stories. ~Drew McLellan
Now you are able to expend energy only on clients that appreciate the work you do, and often they become your greatest advocates.
Topics Discussed in this Episode
- Why turning away business is not always a bad thing but is sometimes rather essential for survival
- Why so many ad agencies taut being full-service when they should really be experts in a niche
- Why ironically many agencies are afraid to go big and bold with their own brand story, even while they are preaching the same for their customers
- Why an agency owner must evolve from being a firefighter into the fire chief for the survival of their firm
- Why rapid growth can be dangerous for an agency if you don’t truly know your brand story
- Tips to strategically and sustainably grow your organization
Resources & Links
- McLellan Marketing Group
- Agency Management Institute
- Build A Better Agency Podcast
- Agency Edge Research Series
- Drew McLellan’s Twitter
- Drew McLellan’s Instagram
- Drew McLellan’s Linkedin
- The Avocado Show
- Michael Gass’ Linkedin
#200: How to Use Storytelling in Your Direct Response Advertising
To sell any product or service you have to grab the attention of the consumer and show how it provides them value. But we live in a world where attention spans are fragmented and developing a meaningful connection can be difficult. That’s why it’s critical to truly listen to the stories your consumers tell you so you’ll understand how to connect with them. (more…)
#199: How to Use the ABT to Focus Your Brand Stories
Most executives communicate and care but bore. Therefore, this episode is all about using the ABT narrative framework to make your audiences and customers sit up, listen and care. (more…)
#198: How to Inspire People With Your Purpose-Driven Brand Story
We live in a time of mass consumerism and that has resulted in a plethora of brands all vying to get more sales. But with a vast sea of competition in just about every industry, it is easy for an organization to miss the mark. Therefore, finding a way to differentiate yourself by focusing on what your brand makes happen in peoples’ lives has become a proven success formula for purpose-driven brands.
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Our guest on this week’s show has become an expert on how to differentiate your brand to not only survive, but to thrive. Adam Goodman is the third-generation President & CEO of Goodmans Interior Structures, a leading Phoenix-based office furniture company that values community service. Adam realized that through a shared higher purpose, his employees and customers found deeper meaning in Goodmans than just selling furniture.
What became evident to Adam was that a purpose-driven brand story empowers employees because it gives them a common goal to rally around. It encourages them to contribute their best and most meaningful work.
Adam also wants to inspire his competition and compel them to have a higher purpose, so Goodmans generates and gives their purpose-driven “ideas playbook” to other businesses so they, too, can do good for their communities. Why share their secrets to success?
The idea is to elevate the entire furniture industry, so that we can all rise together. ~ Adam Goodman
The Goodmans Vision:
At Goodmans, we will change our community.
We will create a city of world class employers who attract top talent from across the country. We will encourage energetic entrepreneurs to take risks in search of the newest new thing. We will teach executives to harness the power of design to transform their companies into vibrant enterprises of engaged workers. We will leverage design to inspire better learning outcomes for students. We will build healthcare environments that promote healing. We will create value for stockholders, taxpayers, students and patients by decreasing expenses in our corporations, government agencies, schools and hospitals.
We will build a community that takes care of its sick, supports its weak, inspires its artists, protects its resources and promotes faith for its citizenry.
At Goodmans, we will change our community.
And we will do it by establishing ourselves as an example with style, humor, compassion, integrity and respect.
Topics Discussed in this Episode
- How Goodmans has created its own version of Herman Miller’s “Living Office”
- How Adelante Healthcare has increased its ROI using purpose-driven storytelling
- How Goodwill of Central Arizona has increased its ROI using purpose-driven storytelling
- The importance of repetition to keeping your purpose-brand story alive
- How Goodmans is celebrating its 65th anniversary in an unusual way
Resources & Links
- More about Certified B Corporations
- The ROI of storytelling for Adelante Healthcare
- The ROI of storytelling for Goodwill of Central Arizona
- Conscious Capitalism Arizona
- Living Office Discovery Session
- Rooted in Good
- AIM to Make a Difference
- Goodmans Eye for the Good Guys
- GoodART
- Goodmans Chair Hockey
- GoodTHREADS
- Goodmans Interior Structures
- Adam Goodman at DATOS 2018
- Adam’s Twitter
- Adam’s Linkedin
- Adam’s Instagram
#197: How to Turn the Mundane Into Novelty with Your Storytelling
Most of us have a job or boss to report to throughout each week, and more often than not this feels like more of a chore than an opportunity. But what if we all had the power within us to create opportunity in place of mundane? Fortunately, the power of creative storytelling can take any situation out of a state of menial to meaningful. (more…)
