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.

Begin Your Storytelling Mastery Journey

Subscribe now and join thousands of professionals who’ve transformed their business communication through primal storytelling principles amplified with today’s technology. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and all major platforms.

Exclusive Subscriber Benefits:

• Access to primal storytelling resource library
• StoryCycle Genie™ early access updates
• Monthly storytelling mastery workshops focused on Return on Intelligence
• Direct connection with the storytelling excellence community

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John Martinson, Co-Founder of China Mist Tea

#156: How a Purpose-Driven Brand Story Will Propel You and Your Business

Nowadays, businesses are starting to realize how truly vital it is to have a purpose-driven brand. That’s because when your brand has a true purpose behind it, your potential for success increases dramatically.

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Jeffrey Shaw, author of LINGO

#155: How to Use the Secret Language of Your Customer in Your Brand Storytelling

Have you ever overheard a conversation between two teen girls gushing over the latest and greatest Kylie Jenner Lip Kit and you think to yourself “Wow, those girls are not even speaking my language.”? (more…)

Paul Skah, Public Speaker & Best-Selling Author

#154: How to Leverage the Natural Forces in Your Business Storytelling

There is a raw energy in narrative and evolved leaders use story to empower people a catapult them to action. But we often look just upon the surface of a tale or anecdote without appreciate the story elements, like protons, electrons and neutrons, that power it. Until today’s show.

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Jason Ensler, Producer, Director, Actor

#153: How to Evolve as a Brand Storyteller

What is it about TV shows, movies, or those viral Facebook videos that keep you glued to the screen? The answer is quite simple: story. And if you are able to create a story that the audience can truly connect to, you’ve struck gold.

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Jen Dille, Licensee and Co-Organizer of TEDxGilbert

#152: How to Make Your First TEDx Talk a Hit

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Luis Miguel and Sabra Rubenstein, CEO and Director of Marketing for Avantpage

#151: How to Use the Story Cycle System™ to Become an Activist Brand

In 2016, Avantpage, an international language translation company, set out to give their already successful company a revamp. They wanted to start standing for more in the world.

They did this by redefining not only their brand strategy, but their brand story. And, it has already increased sales by 30 percent! (more…)

Parker Howell, Virtual Reality Filmmaker

#150: What You Can Learn From Red Bull’s Virtual Reality Storytelling

Nowadays, it seems like our world is bursting at the seams with new technologies. Virtual reality is one of the newest cutting-edge technologies to come onto the scene. But virtual reality spans far beyond putting on a pair of goggles and watching a video. Because, when used correctly, it can completely transform the way you tell your brand’s story.

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Kylie Slavik, Digital Content Marketer

#149: How to Make Long-Form Story-Based Ads Work for You

When Kylie Slavik took her first job creating an ad campaign, she had no experience in the realm of advertising. So she took her skills acquired from years of being a slam poet and created an ad the only way she knew how—she told a story.

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Lynn Ferguson, Comedy Writer, Stand-up Comedian, Playwright, Director & Producer

#148: How to Find the Energy and Entertainment in Your Business Stories

You grow up in school writing stories, paying attention to the structure of the stories you’re telling. But when it comes to business, you may need to be doing just the opposite.

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Nick Westergaard, Author & Brand Strategist

#147: How to Use Your Brand Story to Stand Out in a Crowded, Distracted World

We may not even notice it, but we are being bombarded by brands. Whether it’s a TV commercial, an ad on Instagram, or even just a truck driving by – messaging is everywhere.

But the brands that resonate are the ones that tell a compelling story.

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