The StoryBrand Podcast

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#12

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Latest episodes

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#87: Building a World-Class Accelerated Learning Brand with Jim Kwik

#6 trending · Marketing

How would you build a world-class brand around a niche, somewhat intangible service like accelerated learning? Jim Kwik has done just that. Jim is a speaker, podcas

Aug 31
1 h 06 min

#86: The Reason Most Businesses Fail (SUMMER REPLAY)

Most businesses are losing sales in the first few seconds, not because the offer is weak or the product is bad, but because the message feels like work. When people have

Aug 24
18 min

#85: The Way You're Talking about Your Business Isn't Working (SUMMER REPLAY)

In this episode bestselling author Donald Miller gives you a full masterclass on the StoryBrand framework so you can stop confusing customers and start winning more sales

Aug 17
1 h 10 min

#84: How to Talk so People Like You (SUMMER REPLAY)

Every conversation is shaping your future. The way you show up affects whether people trust you, remember you, recommend you, or just move on. Connection isn't a soft ski

Aug 10
21 min

#83: Hook Customers with Primary Messaging, Not Secondary (SUMMER REPLAY)

A lot of brands are saying the wrong thing first. They lead with their mission, their story, and their personality, thinking that will make people care. But customers are

Aug 3
15 min

#82: The Secret to Building a Cult-Like Following for Your Brand (SUMMER REPLAY)

Every business wants raving fans. But most end up with something weaker: people who buy once or twice and then move on. In a competitive market, brands that try to please

Jul 27
19 min

#81: Using Story and AI to Grow Your Business (SUMMER REPLAY)

Today's replay is about how to use AI and story to grow your business. We all know AI can help you create content faster. But speed alone won't make your message work.

Jul 20
21 min

#80: The Five Soundbites Every Business Needs (SUMMER REPLAY)

Welcome back to the StoryBrand Replay series as we dive into another episode very much worth revisiting. Today's replay is about the five soundbites every business needs.

Jul 13
39 min

#79: The One Sentence Every Business Owner Needs (SUMMER REPLAY)

This summer, we're revisiting a handful of our most valuable StoryBrand Podcast episodes to help you clarify your message so you can grow your business. Today's episode i

Jul 6
25 min

#78: The Simple Tagline Formula That Sells More Every Time (SUMMER REPLAY)

This summer, we're replaying some of the most useful episodes from the StoryBrand Podcast — episodes that can help you clarify your message so your marketing can actually

Jun 29
36 min

#77: Want More Sales? Lower the Cognitive Load in Your Marketing (SUMMER REPLAY)

This summer, we're replaying some of the most useful episodes from the StoryBrand Podcast — episodes that can help you clarify your message so your marketing can actually

Jun 22
23 min

#76: Why Telling Your Story Will Not Grow Your Business (SUMMER REPLAY)

This summer, we're bringing back a few of our most valuable StoryBrand Podcast episodes, the ones we believe are worth hearing more than once. Today's replay is all

Jun 15
24 min

#75: How to Negotiate When Nice Stops Working

Most people walk into a negotiation hoping reason will win. Then the other side throws a punch, and suddenly your "win-win" mindset starts costing you money, leverage, an

Jun 8
37 min

#74: How to Ask for the Sale Without Sounding Pushy

Believing in what you sell is one thing. Asking someone to pay for it is another. When it's time to talk price, follow up, or close the deal, everything starts to feel aw

Jun 1
42 min

#73: How One CEO Used Clear Messaging to Scale Past $100M

Business owners often think growth comes from doing more, offering more, and saying more. But the more you add, the easier it is to confuse customers, muddy your message,

May 25
43 min

#72: How to Lead When the Future Feels Unpredictable

Most leaders are making decisions in a world that keeps changing faster than their plans can keep up. Tactics expire. Trends fizzle. Teams get confused. And when pressure

May 18
1 h 03 min

#71: Brian Hooks—How to Build a Team Around People's Strengths

It's easy to give up on people when they disappoint us, miss expectations, or don't seem to fit the role they're in. But great leaders know people are rarely just "good"

May 11
28 min

#70: Dr. Henry Cloud—The 5 Essential Components of Success

Anything that works has the same 5 elements behind it. Anything that fails is missing one of those. That is true for businesses, relationships, and personal goals. Most p

May 4
42 min

#69: Will Guidara—Why Great Service Is Never an Accident

Remarkable customer experiences don't happen because someone on your team happened to be in a good mood. They happen when a business decides, in advance, how people shoul

Apr 27
34 min

#68: Stop Telling Your Story (It's Costing You Customers)

A lot of brands are saying the wrong thing first. They lead with their mission, their story, and their personality, thinking that will make people care. But customers are

Apr 20
14 min

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#22 — Marketing US

What listeners say

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Great podcast. I love how Donald Miller brought their content back to the central idea of StoryBrand. Simple, clear marketing planning and guidance. This podcast should be the top show in marketing!

Edesius · Mar 2026

Holy cow, Donald Miller. You were on a comedic role with this “Valentime’s” episode. ♥️ Cold plunge ftw! 😆 This pod is like the post-conference banter you overhear at the hotel bar - business-adjacent and entertaining. I’ve consumed every episode of the Storybrand pod, applied all of Miller’s frameworks, and watched my nonprofit clients benefit immensely. Thanks, Don, for making us all smarter, more engaging, and more effective storytellers. PS/Confession: I consumed Storybrand content for at least a year before I realized that this was the same Donald Miller that I shook hands with in 2005 at UTexas campus on his Blue Like Jazz book tour (a formative book in my Christian journey).

Tiny Mom | Tiny Wins · Feb 2025

I absolutely loved the business made simple podcast. I listened to every episode and they were extremely helpful for my business. I am absolutely loving the shift in topics and ideas with this new podcast direction and it has been so refreshing and up lifting. Thank you for producing great content that makes us think and inspires us to achieve greater things.

Jason Raitz · Feb 2025

This is pure marketing, with all the fat trimmed off. Don Miller walks us through compelling stories and examples that I have walked away, used, and immediately seen the benefits of. Only tune it if you want to change (spoiler alert, you want that)

AnnaGraceis · Dec 2024

….made me ill. More than once it was strongly suggested that you treat your employees “as if” they’re family in order to trigger loyalty and dedication in them to strengthen their dedication to the “mission” of making money. This episode sounded like a tent revival of a cult where the leader’s biggest brownnosers regurgitate the lessons (and and the leader’s name repeatedly to his face) to garner praise and…mashed potatoes. I have purchased courses from major online businesspeople who are Donald Miller customers and proponents who have had to apologize publicly to their students and followers for using this cringingly fake “family” language in business. When it comes down to it, your employees and coworkers are not your family (unless they happen to also be your family). You’re not emotionally, financially, psychologically, and in every other way connected to AND INVESTED IN them in the same way and to pretend that you are selflessly interested in their dreams and goals and that as someone’s manager you are a source of no-strings-attached unconditional support is to be dishonest and frankly emotionally and psychologically abusive.

Don’t Gaslight Us · Apr 2024

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