Stories Mean Business - Nick Warren
1,464 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -One idea a day from a geek business builder.
After 1,000 episodes, the jury is in – this is the world's slackest podcast. 5-minutes a day on story, strategy or whatever's yanked my chain. No guests. No ads. No apologies.
This is me thinking out loud, putting things together, going down dead ends and making mistakes.
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www.StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast
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Episodes
306: Crossing The Threshold
July 13, 2020 04:00 - 4 minutes - 4.3 MBPushing through the pain. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/storyhackertv/message
306: Crossing The Threshold (Hero’s Journey 4)
July 13, 2020 04:00 - 4 minutes - 4.4 MBPushing through the pain.
305: Supernatural Aid (Hero’s Journey 3)
July 12, 2020 04:00 - 4 minutes - 4.23 MBThings are getting serious on the hero’s journey.
305: Supernatural Aid
July 12, 2020 04:00 - 4 minutes - 2.13 MBThings are getting serious on the hero’s journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/storyhackertv/message
304: Refusal Of The Call (Hero’s Journey 2)
July 11, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MBWhat do Ned Stark and Neo have in common?
304: Refusal Of The Call
July 11, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes - 4.95 MBWhat do Ned Stark and Neo have in common? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/storyhackertv/message
303: The Call To Adventure (Hero’s Journey 1)
July 10, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.89 MBTaking the first step in Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s journey, with something that’s very relevant to business.
303: The Call To Adventure
July 10, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.79 MBTaking the first step in Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s journey, with something that’s very relevant to business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/storyhackertv/message
302: Mapping Out The Monomyth (Hero’s Journey 0)
July 09, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes - 4.93 MBBefore we start down the path of The Hero’s Journey, it’s useful to map out the path before us, and it’s relevance for business.
302: Mapping Out The Monomyth
July 09, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes - 2.48 MBBefore we start down the path of The Hero’s Journey, it’s useful to map out the path before us, and it’s relevance for business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/storyhackertv/message
301: The Hero With A Thousand Faces
July 08, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.75 MBFirst in a series celebrating the defining book by Joseph Campbell.
300: What’s Coming?
July 07, 2020 04:00 - 9 minutes - 8.7 MBSome notes about the future of the podcast.
299: StoryHackers Meet Deadlines
July 06, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.99 MB#deadlines #storyhacker #299 Of all the rules about writing, this is the one I had taped to my wall as a teenager. “Writers meet deadlines.” I’m head down on a big project today. Have fun.
296: Contrary To Popular Belief
July 03, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 6.14 MBIt’s easier to stand out from the crowd if you’re headed in a different direction.
295: How Are You Different?
July 02, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MBIf you aren’t different, you don’t exist.
293: From The Ground Up
June 30, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.99 MBMore on thinking from First Principles.
292: Second Order Thinking
June 29, 2020 04:00 - 9 minutes - 9.2 MBPlus some thoughts on The Last Of Us, Part 2.
290: Lighting A Fire (Under Myself)
June 27, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 6.2 MBThis website development needs to be fast.
288: The Two Ways To Build Your Business
June 25, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 6.34 MB#business #building #strategy To massively oversimplify ... there are two ways to start a business. 1. Create a fantastic product that your customers love and share. 2. Create a fantastic sales engine that successfully sells average stuff. Of course, you want both. Fantastic product and fantastic sales. Me too. But there’s a problem - limited time, money and bandwidth. Business, like life, is all about trade-offs. Of course, no startup is purely one or the other. It’s a spectrum. But ...
287: Fooled By Success?
June 24, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.82 MBWhy we should beware getting caught up in our own success.
285: Who Are You Shooting?
June 22, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 6.14 MBThoughts on the other kind of story hook...
284: It’s Grandad’s Fault
June 21, 2020 04:00 - 3 minutes - 3.13 MBDedicated to my Dad, on Fathers Day 2020.
283: Eating My Own Dog Food
June 20, 2020 04:00 - 7 minutes - 6.96 MB#dothework #commit #strategy In yesterday’s post I talked about the value of going deeper, but WHO AM I to talk about that? What am I doing to eat my own dog food? It’s a good question, and the answers in today’s podcast. It’s linked in the comments … I you listen you’ll be a witness 😉. A big goal in 12 months. This type of thing is easy to understand once you realise that the StoryHacker podcast is as much for me as anyone else. When I challenge you – like yesterday – I’m mostly chall...
281: Patterns Have Power
June 18, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 6.41 MBSomething weird has happened over the last two days...
280: Do You Need To Stop Starting?
June 17, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.58 MB#creativity #resistance #strategy Yesterday, I came across the story I started in 2001, after my son was born. It’s good - a rhyming picture book about a kid called Max Loaf, with a runaway imagination. But, I didn’t finish it. In 2004, I worked on it some more, and even got some illustrators interested. But, Nothing really happened. In 2018, I literally had an illustrator living next door- and he created fantastic designs for the whole book. BUT still - when I came across it yeste...
279: Three Hundred Days
June 16, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.97 MBThis is about getting rich slowly.
277: Casting Your Shadow
June 14, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.97 MBLet’s forget vulnerability and talk about anger.
275: Your First Principles (Beta Thinking)
June 12, 2020 04:00 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB#beta #thinking Over the past year, I’ve had the luxury of designing a new business. It’s still early, but one of the wonders has been the chance to start from first principles. I spent twenty years running a web agency with clients around the world, but I never had the clarity that I have now. The podcast below is (beta thinking) about this, but I might also summarise in 9 words. Building business from first principles tells a better story.
274: How I Think About Experience
June 11, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.72 MBSometimes we can look at a complex problem and the solution falls right into place. That comes from experience. Other times, we encounter something new and it doesn’t fit with our preconceptions. That comes from experience too. This the challenge we face everyday. To retain the insight and let go of the dogma. Go do that 😉
273: A Better Way Forward
June 10, 2020 04:00 - 14 minutes - 13 MBFour weeks ago I stopped watching the news. No bulletins, no bloggers, no citizen journalists. It was a hard choice to make, but necessary. I needed to take back some mental real estate. But now, I’m coming back. Here's how...
272: Giving Your Story Depth
June 09, 2020 04:00 - 7 minutes - 7.31 MBHow to be ‘authentic’ in two steps. 1. Stop using the word. 2. Start being open, honest and vulnerable. Authenticity is like happiness — it’s a side-effect, not a destination.
270: How I’m Learning To Focus (Part 2)
June 07, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes - 5.41 MBLet’s get curious about this. It matters.
269: How I’m Learning To Focus (Part1)
June 06, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes - 4.93 MBWhy powerful focus has a softness to it, and how I’m learning to do it.
268: The Power Of Playfulness
June 04, 2020 23:58 - 9 minutes - 8.91 MBThis is one of the ways I pull myself out of the spiral.
267: What’s The Magic Word?
June 04, 2020 04:00 - 4 minutes - 4.6 MBThere’s one word that matters more than almost any other - in copywriting and business. This is it.
266: Learn This Lesson
June 03, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes - 5.28 MBWhat’s more important than being right?
265: Visualise Your Work
June 02, 2020 04:00 - 7 minutes - 6.89 MBYour Bad Transcript Hey there friends. It's Nick. It's episode 265 of the story hacker podcast now yesterday I suggested that you create like a sketch map of your digital content and it's okay. I know listen. I know you didn't do it don't worry, but I know you didn't do it, but I want to talk about the principle why it matters, you know, and this if you remember is in service to the ran I had a couple of days ago about how how easy it is for us to mistake. The the technical solution ...
264: Sketching A Content Map
June 01, 2020 04:00 - 3 minutes - 3.23 MBYesterday, I was annoyed, but not that helpful. Doing better today. Here’s your Bad Transcript... Hey there friends, it's Nick. It's episode two, six four of the story hacker podcast. And so yesterday going into a bit of a rant, didn't I particularly a rant about content and how, because technology seems hard when we come across a platform that allows us to do kind of link a to B to C to D to E or whatever. I think there's a tendency to mistake that solution for the whole thing. Whereas of...
263: A Rant About Content
May 31, 2020 04:00 - 9 minutes - 8.75 MBIt’s easy to get seduced by technical solutions, but the process is not the person... or the product.
262: DON’T Start At a The Start
May 30, 2020 04:00 - 4 minutes - 3.77 MBA simple lesson to make your stories more powerful.