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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#86: How to Use Story Marketing to Sell a Ton of Socks
#86: How To Use Story Marketing To Sell A Ton of Socks
Today we are investigating how you can use story marketing to turn a commodity into commotion. We’re talking about elevating a fairly banal item, like socks, into a meaningful and sought after experience—all through the brand stories you share!
I know it sounds crazy, but socks are a $6 billion global industry. Imagine the market share you might carve out simply by disrupting the norm with story?
Today we’re going to meet two people who have done exactly that through their plucky five-year-old company, Sock Club. That’s right! I am a proud Sock Club member.
#85: How to Use Business Storytelling to Fill Your Sales Funnel
#85: How To Use Business Storytelling To Fill Your Sales Funnel
Content marketing is about filling the sales funnel with qualified prospects. We can all agree on that, right?
We can also probably agree that there’s more competition for those prospects now than ever. (more…)
#84: Finding Common Ground With Your Audiences
#84: Finding Common Ground With Your Audiences
We’ve all found ourselves in situations where we are at odds with an audience. For example, trying to launch an internal initiative in a corporate environment to a reluctant CEO. Persuading someone to change an unhealthy behavior. Or getting someone with an opposite view to open up and see things your way. On today’s Business of Story, we review the importance of finding common ground to help your stories connect with audiences and move people to action.
#83: How To Give Your Audiences A Story They Can’t Resist
#83: How To Give Your Audiences A Story They Can’t Resist
With the always-on interwebs, I believe that ADHD is now a communicable disease. And, guess what? We are all the viruses. So, how do you get your brand story to rise above the noise and allow it the opportunity to be heard? Well, we’ll look at one way to do that. On today’s show, we’re going to explore the concepts of irony and juxtaposition in your business stories to help them stand out—to help you stand out—especially with your visual storytelling.
#82: How to Focus Your Story to Grow Your Business
#82: How To Focus Your Story To Grow Your Business
It’s often thought that keeping a business’s focus more general is a positive way to stay open to more business. But in reality, generalizing actually weakens your brand story. Learning how to be super focused and specific in your brand story’s unique offering will help strengthen your messaging, grow your business, and bring success to your brand.
#81: Get Vulnerable in Your Stories to Set Your Presentations on Fire
#81: Get Vulnerable In Your Stories To Set Your Presentations On Fire
When creating presentations to communicate data within your organization, it can be tempting to focus on just the data and perhaps try and fit too much into one talk. But learning how to trim down to one central theme and use genuine stories is critical to a successful presentation of data, as this narrative will help you connect with your audience and get your message heard. (more…)
#80: How to Call Your Audience to Action Through Storytelling
#80: How To Call Your Audience To Action Through Storytelling
Sometimes our stories have a call to action attached to them, and we hope to inspire our audience into shifting their lives. But creating such a compelling argument can be intimidating. Using story techniques like robust characters, high stakes, and uncertain outcomes can help entice audiences, improve your brand story, and drive change. (more…)
#79: How to Plan Your Presentations for Effective Results
#79: How To Plan Your Presentations For Effective Results
We all want to be compelling storytellers and create memorable presentations, but sometimes it’s difficult to make business data compelling. Investing in a few planning steps and letting yourself practice storytelling techniques can help you craft more authentic, compelling, and effective business presentations based on your available data. (more…)
78: How to Bring Adventure To Your Brand Through Storytelling
78: How To Bring Adventure To Your Brand Through Storytelling
Reaching out to younger generations can be perilous, and it’s easy to get stuck relying on your same old techniques. But disruption of the status quo can help revamp your storytelling in a compelling way that brings adventure to your brand. That’s why it’s worthwhile to try breaking some rules and shaking up your brand story with some new techniques that focus on the full experience of your customers. (more…)
#77: How to Create Stories to Engage Millennials With Your Brand
#77: How To Create Stories To Engage Millennials With Your Brand
Understanding the younger generations can be challenging. We all want to attract the younger crowd to our brands, but how do we create content that allows millennials and beyond to come to us?
We have a really fascinating show for you today. It’s all about millennial marketing and how to use storytelling to connect with the millennial world. (more…)
