Stories Mean Business - Nick Warren

Just finished binge-watching Community, and discuss how Dan Harmon simplifies The Hero's Journey.

Something I missed yesterday, but I should've mentioned.

Keep learning the same old lesson ... brick by brick.

Even shorter than usual. You're welcome.

Fake news feels new ... but it's not. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/901:-War-Stories Dig deeper at: http://Story. Business

Let's make something explicit. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/900:-The-Mindset-Shift

Having created the ad this week – and obviously it's the simplest bloody ad that you could possibly imagine – Sprint 9 is all about deploying it. Over 900 episodes 🤯😱🙄 Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/899:-Sprint-9-Deploying-the-Ad

Our audiences are doing their best to simulate the worlds we create – let's make it easy for them. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/988:-Building-A-Scene

Overnight, Russia has invaded the Ukraine. Vladimir Putin had added to the long and ignoble history of false flags – stories which aggressors use to justify their actions – by falsely telling the Russian people that there was a genocide happening inside Ukraine's borders. This podcast is not about that ... it's about the false flag that the Nazi's used as a pretext to invade Poland in 1939. Episod...

This podcast was originally scheduled for publication on the 22nd February 2022.

In 2015, Johan Berger wrote a piece in the New York Times about phrases that were more likely to last and spread through time.  What do these have in common? She held the idea in the palm of her hand. The belief was strongly held. Sorry, I'm in the dark here. His words rang true. They worked in perfect harmony. The party ended on a sour note. He stayed to the bitter end. Has it suddenly dawne...

A client of mine has been advised to share more personal content online, but that's an issue because so much personal content seems fake or shallow. How do we do this right? Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/895:-Getting-Personal

Sometime in my childhood, I watched a movie that burned a particular image into my brain. The image is this – an old man taking out a gun and shooting his elderly wife in the head. It was a pure storytelling moment, because it required my young brain to put myself into the old man's head, fast forward into his future, and understand why he killed his wife. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness...

Having finally put my Relationship Build Series live (Sprint 7),  this week I'll be creating the link between the podcast and the website. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/892:-Sprint-8-is-Audio-Ad-Design

It's about 2.30pm on a Friday afternoon as I record this, and I'm done. Looking back at the calendar, it's been over a month since I last had a complete day off ... and the last three weeks in particular have been really really busy. I'm not complaining – I love my work – but occasionally you get a signal that it's time to rest. I've had that signal this afternoon, so I'm downing tools without gui...

Sometime in around 2004, my eyes got opened. By then, I’d had my own business for almost 8 years … or at least, that’s what other people thought. In reality though, I owned a job, and the jobs of a couple of other people. It wasn’t what I think of as a business., because if I didn’t go to work at 7am each day, the business would fail. Not immediately, but soon. Then I read the Cashflow Quadrant by...

When Toy Story hit the UK in 1996, I went to see it with a bunch of friends from work.  One of them was an animator. By the time we left the theatre, he was barely able to speak. In just 81 minutes, the skill he'd built his career around had been both validated and brutally challenged. The movie had shown him - and everyone else - just how far he had to go. I feel like that with when it comes...

Customer support isn't the bottom of the barrel it's the early warning system. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/888:-The-Sharp-End

A special thought recorded on Valentine's day. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/886:-Love-Matters

And that's a good thing!

This is the sprint I've been scared of since I started. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/885:-Sprint-7-is-Emails

This is what happens when you run out of time. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/884:-Ordinary-Magic

Wrapping up this short series, we focus on what Nir Eyal learned about his Internal Triggers of distraction, and how to address them. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/883:-Indistractable-Part-3

Today – inspired by Indistractable by Nir Eyal – we're talking about the four psychological factors that promote distraction:     Boredom     Negativity Bias     Rumination     Hedonic Adaptation As Eyal says in the book, each of these is rooted in our evolutionary biology, and present for good reason. Tomorrow, we'll...

We tend to blame technology for all of life's distractions, but as Nir Eyal lays out in his bestselling book – there's more to distraction than that. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/881:-Indistractable-Part-1