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Our Next Chapter Begins: Introducing storyOS
storyOS - March 27, 2024 20:54 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsIn a time when information is abundant yet comprehension is scarce, it's more important than ever to understand how our brains work and why. That's why we're so excited to introduce you to the next evolution of the STORY podcast: storyOS. This season, we'll be diving deeper than ever i...
Closing Out This Chapter of STORY
storyOS - December 12, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsAs we close out this season of the STORY Podcast, we are also closing out this chapter of STORY Conference. Over the last seven years, this conference has touched thousands of lives and changed the landscape of storytelling. On this episode, we sit down with members of the STORY team to...
A Roadmap for Your Story-Writing Journey
storyOS - November 21, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsWith our thriving community of writers of all types, we wanted to highlight this breakout from STORY 2022 with our friends, David Goetz and Melissa Parks from Journey Sixty6. Journey Sixty6 helps coach and guide their community through things such as manuscript review, writing coaching,...
Getting Your Own Stories Out Into the World
storyOS - November 14, 2022 16:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsOn this episode, we feature two incredible conversations — the first from the STORY stage with Chris Wall and Andrew Peterson of the Wingfeather Saga series, and the second is a post-STORY sit-down with Angel Studios. These two have created not just an incredible series for families, bu...
Making Kindness the Norm
storyOS - November 07, 2022 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsOn this episode, we hear from the incredible folks from The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. Many of you heard about the heart and soul behind why and how they do what they do from the mainstage at STORY, but in this episode, we also share ways YOU can be part of impacting the world ...
One Last Trip to Neverland
storyOS - October 31, 2022 21:34 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsIn this episode, we take one more trip to Neverland via a virtual STORY Town Hall to debrief the STORY 2022 conference and allow our STORY community to ask all their post-STORY 2022 questions. Think of this as an expanded version of the Behind-the-Scenes Breakout Experience at the event...
The Future of STORY
storyOS - September 12, 2022 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsIn case you missed the news, we’ve been listening to the heartbeat of culture all around us, having deep conversations with leaders within our community, and staying curious about the future. For all these reasons, we’ve decided as a team to move away from large events filled with hundr...
Using Your Passion to Impact Change Through Story
storyOS - August 29, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsWe continue to explore the Revolutionary Storytelling Type. Revolutionaries are a powerful group of individuals that are on the cusp of almost all change and are constantly rewriting and shifting narratives through their work. The work that Revolutionaries do is the reason that many of ...
How Revolutionary Storytellers Begin with the Stories They Tell Themselves
storyOS - August 22, 2022 14:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsJohn Bucher and Jason Jaggard are incredible Revolutionaries, a type of storyteller who is drawn to leverage the power of story to positively change the future. They press into the world around them to be everything they were meant to be, whether that’s through publishing, deep critical...
Using Our Brain and Hearts Together
storyOS - August 08, 2022 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsAs we dive into part 2 of our Round Table conversation with Kevin Carroll and Louis Richardson around the connector, if you haven’t listened to part 1 yet, go back and listen to episode 13 so that you have context around the continuation of this incredibly deep and rich conversation aro...
Leveraging the Power of Story to Embrace Connection
storyOS - August 01, 2022 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsOn this episode we continue to dive into the Connector Storytelling Type with two of our favorite Connectors, Lewis Richardson and Kevin Carroll. This interview, pulled from one of our STORY Round Table events, dives into how to leverage our stories as a tool for connection. Those we co...
Why It’s Important to Write the Future Together
storyOS - July 11, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsAs we continue to unpack the Connector Storytelling Type, we would be remiss to not include one of our favorite Connectors…Mr. Brad Montague. If you’ve been around the STORY community for a while, you are very familiar with his genus. Brad is an incredible creator and storyteller who ap...
Using Connection to Get Back to Wonder
storyOS - June 27, 2022 08:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsOver the past couple of months, you’ve heard us talking about the 5 Storyteller Types: Amplifier, Artisan, Investigator, Connector and Revolutionary. If you’re not familiar with these types, or yours for that matter, head over to storygathering.com and take our quick assessment. These ...
How Asking “But Why” Can Change Drastically Shift Your Business
storyOS - June 20, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsLast week, we were listening in on the Round Table conversation that I had with David Paull and Kristina Henkai about the Investigator. David talked about behavioral storytelling, breaking it down into the practical RESPCT framework. On this episode, we pick back up with the second half...
Behavioral Storytelling Framework with David Paull
storyOS - June 13, 2022 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsAs we continue to unpack the Investigator Storytelling Type, we pull from our latest STORY Round Table conversation with David Paull and Kristina Henkai. In this episode, we hear David share the way he approaches his work utilizing a framework he dubs Behavioral Storytelling. What he sh...
Why Data Helps Us Tell Better Stories
storyOS - June 06, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsIn this episode, we officially kick off our next type, the Investigator. Investigators are an integral part of the storytelling process because they provide the data, research, and facts that help give stories the depth and roots necessary for momentum to be achieved. Though they are an...
Making Sense of the World Through Art with Morgan Harper Nichols
storyOS - May 30, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsIn this episode, we pulled a clip from our recent Artisan STORY Round Table conversation with none other than our friend, Morgan Harper Nichols. Morgan is a well known artist, poet, and musician and you’ve probably seen her work pinned somewhere on Pinterest, re-posted all over Instagra...
How Does Your Art Connect to the World Around You?
storyOS - May 23, 2022 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsAs we continue our conversation around the Storytelling type, the Artisan, this episode features our friend, wildly talented Nashville fine artist, Ed Nash, alongside our mutual friend, acclaimed photographer, Allen Clark. You’ll hear Ed as he discusses not only HIS connection to the wo...
How Collaboration Creates Deeper Impact
storyOS - May 16, 2022 08:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsWe are moving on to the next Storyteller Type in our 5 part series, and this one is the Artisan. Many in the STORY community will identify as Artisans because they are deeply passionate about their art and the story it tells those who view or interact with it. From paint on canvas, to c...
What Do You Want to Do With Your Power?
storyOS - May 09, 2022 08:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsAre you thinking big enough when it comes to your power? At the heart of being an Amplifier and storyteller, is a desire to chase and hope for impact. Something that moves the needle and creates solutions for the future. As we wrap up the Amplifier portion of this storytelling series, li...
Embracing the Tension of Your Marketing Values
storyOS - May 02, 2022 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsStory's greatest power is not in its ability to simply convert, but its ability to connect. If you want to play the long game you must lead with connection first. But for a change-maker who wants to make a bigger difference faster, that can be a little bit complicated. It can be difficu...
How to Use Your Vision and Point of View to Transform Culture
storyOS - April 25, 2022 08:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsAs we continue to dive into the storytelling type we call, "The Amplifier,” in this episode we dip into our archives to learn from AJ Hassan. If you aren’t familiar with AJ, you probably are familiar with her work. She is the Emmy Award-winning Executive Creative Director behind the wide...
How To Amplify Your Message And Make Your Story Heard
storyOS - April 18, 2022 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsWhat happens if your story doesn't get heard? What if your message doesn't resonate, and falls flat or you don't get the sale? In this episode, jump into the storytelling type we call, "The Amplifier." We do so by dipping into the STORY archives and listening in on some wisdom from a ...
Welcome to Season 6 of the STORY Podcast!
storyOS - April 11, 2022 20:56 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsAfter a little break from the podcast, the STORY team is back with an incredible new series of episodes focused on helping you better understand who you are as a storyteller and how to equip yourself to better tell stories that matter. Over the next 6 months, we're going equip you to lev...
Being Brave in Our Dark Moments: A Conversation with John Bucher
storyOS - August 06, 2021 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsYou may have heard the story about how the Chinese word for “crisis” can be represented as “opportunity.” As it turns out, that’s not quite accurate. The word is more like “a crucial point” — the moment right before a big change. There’s still a lesson there for us, but it’s a pretty ...
The Upside to Creating Bad Art with Seth Worley
storyOS - July 30, 2021 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsOne cause of writer’s block isn’t that we run out of ideas, it’s a fear that the ideas we do have are bad ones. We don’t want to keep writing, keep painting, keep creating — whatever it is — because we’ve got a feeling that the next steps just aren’t very good and we’d rather not create...
Understanding Your ‘Why’ in the Midst of Career Disappointments with Cress Williams
storyOS - July 23, 2021 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsWe don’t like to talk about disappointment in the creative field is. Creativity is a risk and risks, by their very nature, have a pretty high rate of failure. Those stories don’t get told very much, for obvious reasons. But by not telling those stories, we reinforce this idea that unles...
Brooke Shaden on Finding Beauty in Hard Times
storyOS - July 16, 2021 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsSomething you hear our last year described as a lot is a “dark time” or a “dark season.” Getting to the end of all that was described as a “new day” or a “new morning” for us. And there’s a lot of truth to that, since so many of us lost so much in 2020. But it’s worth asking if our imme...
Fighting Cynicism in Storytelling with Dr. Chené Swart
storyOS - July 09, 2021 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsI think all of us can feel tempted towards cynicism these days. However we need to remember that change is possible, and we need to help inspire others to believe it too. That’s how Dr. Chené Swart sees it. She’s a narrative coach and consultant who helps people, organizations and commu...
The True Power of Marketing with Stories with Ben Stewart
storyOS - July 02, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsThere are two kinds of marketers out there. The first are the Don Drapers—the guys who know how to package lies to turn profits. Certainly an easy way to make money, but it takes a toll on your soul, right? The second kind wants to help people tell a better story about their lives, their...
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