Hosted by Rain Bennett · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 233 episodes
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The Storytelling Lab covers everything you need to know about personal and professional stories to leverage their power to deepen your connections, increase your sales + donations, and serve your audiences better with real-life examples and experts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rain Bennett hosts The Storytelling Lab, a arts show with 233 episodes published.
"A narrative lives or dies on the conviction of the most senior authorized leaders of the organizational system. The story is the strategy. A company without a story is usually a company without a strategy." — Michael Ma
Pre-Order The Chief Storytelling Officer HERE: https://amzn.to/4eihvql "Commercials interrupt people. Shows invite them into the story world. That is the difference between traditional marketing and storytelling." — Rain
"A good day is when the flow starts to happen and you kind of lose yourself in it. But you cannot count on those days. So I'm a real believer in grinding — just get in there and take what the defense will give you." — St
"Sometimes you write a character that asserts himself—something you didn't plan. It's like he wanted to come back, and he brought his own story with him. It was kind of my job as a writer to ask myself what that story wa
"AI was going to get better at technical skills like coding and data analysis much faster than storytelling, because it's much easier to objectively define what is correct code. With storytelling, it's much more ephemera
"A living story is immersive, embodied, agentic, responsive, and social. It's stories that we get to be in and experience and live — as opposed to dead stories." —Charlie Melcher Charlie Melcher has been on the cutting e
"Your product is not the features, the specs, it's not what you ship. The product is the experience, the transformation that your customer goes through. It's the change in their lives. That's what you're selling." — Rain
"CQ — the character quotient — is who you are at the core of your values, and how consistently people can trust you to be that person. That to me is the exponential topper." — Bill Blankschaen Every person has a story no
"I wasn't processing and dealing with my own stuff. Somehow I made my way back to storytelling. And that was really, if I could point to two things—my wife and story—those pulled me out." — Ret. Lt. Col. Scott Mann Scott
"When you live in alignment with your values, you cause yourself as little suffering as possible in the long term. And that one just always sticks with me because it's really challenging in the short term. But if you hav
"If you think the world could be better and you want to change it, you're going to have to come up with a better story and know how to tell it better." —Joseph Romm What happens when a physicist with a PhD realizes that
"Marketing might be how you get the first date. But to get the second and third date and hopefully form into a relationship, you have to have a brand." — Rain Bennett Brand isn't your logo, your color palette, your fonts
“When you start to look at things through the lens of story, it helps you appreciate and process what’s going on.” — Corey Rosen What makes someone lean in when you tell a story instead of tune out? In this episode, Rain
“You can’t even begin to talk about results or impact until you actually put something out into the world.” — Kristen Sweeney What if the real problem with your content isn’t execution, but alignment? In this episode, Kr
“There is no version of storytelling that does not become therapy.” — Spade Robinson What if the difference between an average story and a great one has less to do with talent or skill and more to do with self-awareness?
“The real story is always in the subtext.” — Tal Lazar Most people lose their audience the moment they start explaining. In this episode, cinematographer, educator, and author Tal Lazar breaks down why the real story is
“Vision is what inspires your people. Mission is what activates and organizes them.” —Rain Bennett What good is a bold vision if you don’t have a mission to back it up? In this solo episode, Rain Bennett breaks down why
“Your stories are building bricks of belief in your brand." — Shane Lukas How do you sell something your customer can’t see, touch, or fully understand? Shane Lukas has spent decades helping professional service provider
“Everybody in your organization has to be aligned… or it all starts to break down.” — Jensen Savage If you’ve been muscling your way through growth and wondering why it still feels so hard, this episode is for you. Jense
“Every time you press upload, you’re telling the universe this is your part in the grand scheme.” — Elton Anderson, Jr. What if your content wasn’t just a creative outlet, but a mirror for your transformation? In this ep
Steven Pressfield
2 appearances on this show
Bill Blankschaen
bestselling author and founder of StoryBuilders · Story Builders
1 appearance on this show
Scott Mann
New York Times best-selling author, 3X TedX speaker, playwright · 3rd Rail Sunset Models
1 appearance on this show
Corey Rosen
Your Story, Well Told: Creative Strategies to Develop and Perform Stories that Wow an Audience · National Center for Employee Ownership
1 appearance on this show
Kristen Sweeney
Every Little Word
1 appearance on this show
Jensen Savage
Savage Growth Partners
1 appearance on this show
Elton Anderson, Jr.
esoteric entrepreneur, philosopher, digital creator
1 appearance on this show
Rain Bennett
Award-Winning Filmmaker, Author and Fractional Chief Storytelling Officer
1 appearance on this show
David Meltzer
Executive Producer of the Bloomberg and Apple TV series 2 Minute Drill and Office Hours · Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment
1 appearance on this show
Salvatore Manzi
leadership communication coach and facilitator · Leadership Communications
1 appearance on this show
Jimi Gibson
marketing strategist and former professional magician · Thrive Internet Marketing Agency
1 appearance on this show
Rob Meyers
Managing Director and Partner · Versus
1 appearance on this show
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