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Telling Great Stories

Telling Great Stories

著者： Nate S. Campbell
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I'm Nate Campbell, and I teach storytelling. This podcast will be your go-to place to learn how to tell great stories because that's the journey I'm on right now. I'm learning to tell great stories. I'm writing my first book with a pen and paper legal notepad, to be specific.

I'll be here every day, sharing with you insights that I've learned, sharing with you the framework that I teach in my book, Telling Great Stories, and sharing with you things that can help you to become a great storyteller and hopefully one day write your own book as well.

So imagine for a second we're going to go up to the top of a mountain on a ski lift together, side by side. When we get up there, we're just going to go up and enjoy the view.


I started on this journey in 2018 through a conversation with my friend Kevin Groves about what I would do if money wasn't a thing. I said I would tell stories of ranchers and farmers because my grandpa Tom now has dementia, and his story'll never be told unless I do it.

It was 8 years ago, and I didn't take action. I started taking action towards this in October, and over the last 3 weeks, I've accomplished more than I have in the prior 8 years.

We need to get off of our ass and do things. We need to get off our ass and take action. We need to get off our ass and tell great stories, because at the end of the day, stories are what matter. Stories are what live beyond our years. Stories are what need to be written down and kept in books.

If you want to work with me, go to www.tellinggreatstories.com and join my waitlist. If you want to read my book, it'll be launching December 13, 2026. You can get it at www.tellinggreatstories.com.

© 2026 Telling Great Stories
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  • Wait! Wait! Wait! You guys want a _______ for Halloween?

    Wait! Wait! Wait! You guys want a _______ for Halloween?
    2026/11/01

    Happy Halloween.

    I have a bonus episode for you today, and it's a story about my grandpa Tom.

    Today is Halloween, and I have to tell you a Halloween story because he did the craziest thing. Imagine the setting.

    Should I tell you what the craziest thing is?

    Yeah, he gave away kittens. Seriously, my grandpa Tom gave away kittens on Halloween. Like, what?

    My kids love this story. My grandpa Tom he was quite the character, and when you live on a ranch, kittens are a common thing, right?

    There's a barn cat. Every ranch has a barn cat or two or three, and every once in a while, a tomcat shows up and there are kittens.

    One Halloween, Grandpa had a problem. There were kittens, and they didn't get a lot of trick-or-treaters. The Mills family came by, and all of their kids ran inside and did the trick-or-treat with their pillowcases. Grandma gave all the kids popcorn balls, Rice Krispy treats, and all the good stuff.

    Grandpa had a different plan. As they were heading out the door, Grandma goes, "Wait, wait, wait, you guys want kittens?"

    They freaked out!! What little 5- or 6-year-old kid doesn't want a kitten, and so he went and he got kittens, and he put a kitten in every single one of the kids' pillowcases.

    They went out to the car with Mom.

    Well, Mom was pissed, but what do you do, right? She's going to break their hearts? She was a single mom and she wasn't going to break her kids hearts on Halloween. So, they kept the kittens, and she took them home. I don't think she ever brought the kids back to trick-or-treat at Grandpa Tom's house.

    I had to share that story with you because I've never heard of anything else like that. I've heard of fishing lures and just different stuff that people have around their house, kind of like Grumpy Old Man when he gets a stapler and different things from his house. But to give away kittens, it was like, "Oh, come on, Grandpa."

    I wish I'd asked him why he did it. I think the thing that he was doing was problem-solving.

    I think he thought, you know what? We don't need more kittens. We don't need more cats. It's an hour to a vet, and there's not a lot of neighbors. Everybody else already has cats, and so he just problem-solved.

    Sometimes that's what we have to do: get a little creative and have a little fun. I think that's one of the reasons he was such a great storyteller: he liked to have fun.

    He liked to push the boundaries a little bit on things like that. When you do that, life gets interesting, and the stories get better and better.

    I'd love to hear from you if you have a funny story about Halloween or any of the holidays. Reach out to me.

    You can contact me through my website. It is tellinggreatstories.com, and I'm Nate.

    Happy Halloween. Peace!
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  • One of My Favorite Words

    One of My Favorite Words
    2026/10/31
    One of my favorite words is the word epiphany.My audience is shrinking, yesterday my YouTube followers dropped from 7 to 6. Old Nate would have taken this personally and likely stopped or taken a break to try and figure out how to get better.My top video has 20 views, I imagine hosting 20 people and talking to them for 10 minutes. I am just getting started and I would be so nervous talking to a room of 20 people for 10 minutes, so being able to do it through video makes things so much easier.I'm glad that this person left my orbit now because my message is not meant for them and won't help them.Russell Brunson my mentor of the last 10 years tells a story about how when he started his podcast his brother uploaded it for him and never told him the stats. Russell just committed to the process and it took two years before his podcast really got traction.That's what I'm doing through YouTube is telling stories every day to get better.It's not about the stats. It's because I know I'll be telling stories from a stage one day.I'll also be teaching from a stage so this podcast is my training ground for how I teach as well.Olivia my daughter is doing edits for shorts and she helped me have an epiphany. She says dad... You talk a lot.I was thinking about it this morning and I said to myself you know what you are being a rambler. My big ahah was that I could have three different types of story tellers. The Rambler, The Charger and The Impala.My first car was an impala. These three types of cars can help people understand what type of story tellers they are. The Impala is a beautiful amazing animal in Africa. We know the Rambler and the Charger, the charger just takes a story and charges through it.I haven't yet written this into my book yet, which is the great part of this podcast being where I document my journey.You get to see in real time when I have the epiphany and I can always look back on these podcast episodes to see what I was going through. This was the day at 6:27 in the morning on my drive to the office I have a great idea to write in my book.Then this podcast episode marks that time in history for me to years from now as I am explaining this idea I can come back to this episode and remember the feeling.This is a perfect example of how someone can be stuck in their own head. Had Olivia not told me I was talking so much, I easily could have continued on a negative cycle of I can never get more than 20 views on my YouTube and quit.I wasn't headed down that path, yet that is a path I've taken in the past.Try and have more epiphanies and try to take time to think. Now when I wake up first I meditate, then I start to think about how my day is going to go. What is it that I want to say in my podcast, write in my book and what I can do to help others.This morning I came to this epiphany and sometimes we are just out there and we are stuck.I have. a few minuets before I get to my office so I'm going to tell you a quick story.A month ago I was at Funnel Hacking Live and I met someone named Mary Elizabeth. She was telling me about her business I gave her input on how I thought she could get unstuck and offered a suggestion on how I could help. When I talked to her the next day, and she's still stuck, right, but I haven't gone and helped her with the thing yet.I go, "Mary Elizabeth, let me set the scene for you. We're up in the mountains, and you're driving a jeep, okay? You get that jeep stuck in the mud, way up in the mountains. There's no cell service. There are no people. I have to hike out and get help. I'm on the trail, hiking out to get help, and this jeep is stuck deep in the mud. There's not much you can do."She had been busy working on trying to fix these things in her business, and I said, "Mary Elizabeth, you are outside of the jeep right now, trying to change your tire. Do you understand? What you're doing is not going to help right now. You need to take a breath and just step away and wait for help to arrive."We do this a lot in life, where we think we can solve the problem, and we might actually be making the problem worse. Can you imagine that? You're stuck out in the mountains, and the thing that you try to do while someone is off getting help is change a tire while the vehicle is stuck in the mud. That is exactly what I was going to do if I would continue doing my YouTube videos by rambling. It's funny how answers come to us like that. These aha epiphanies, as my old pastor Brent said, are God winks and God moments. They come to us at different times, but our job is to pay attention and listen when those things happen. Of course, we have to take action.That's my message for today: take action on telling great stories, everybody. Have a great day. I'm Nate and I teach storytelling. Apply to join my waitlist at www.tellinggreatstories.comPeace
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    12 分
  • Take Imperfect Action

    Take Imperfect Action
    2026/10/30
    I'm Nate Campbell and I teach Story Telling. My grandpa Tom was the best storyteller I've ever met and I discovered the framework he used to tell great stories. I'm writing a book called Telling Great Stories teaching this framework.This podcast is your daily lesson on story telling.One of my favorite stories is Fred Smith. He was the founder of FedEx. Fred Smith to pay his bills, and he tried to get a contract. He was up in maybe Chicago, trying to get a defense contract for FedEx. It was going to be a big deal, and they shot him down.He's at the airport, and he had $15,000, but he needed to pay something like $35,000 in payroll the following week. Instead of going back to Tennessee, he decided to hop on a flight to Vegas, hit the blackjack tables, and was able to make payroll because he gambled. He took the remainder of the money, gambled, and won. FedEx is still a thing because of that action that he took.Even before that when Fred Smith was in college he wrote a paper describing FedEx and he got a C or D. His professor said, "Good but it must be a realistic idea."He went into the military and went off to Vietnam. He started to notice how poorly the transportation of goods was. He noticed the systems and he never gave up on that thought or that idea. He kept reevaluating it in his mind. He started thinking, "This is not possible," and he kept going. He kept going and turned that into FedEx.One of the neat things about him at FedEx was that the workforce loved him. He ran it in a way that was pretty military-based but employees appreciated that and they would show up. They would work extra hours and sometimes without pay. It was their baby too. I think that a piece of that is the storytelling aspect, because you have to be able to tell a great story to really motivate people.Another great example is Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs started Apple Computer with his friend Steve Wozniak, Woz was really the brains behind Apple and built the Apple One against all odds. It sold really well.Steve Jobs has this daughter that he didn't really claim and he built this computer called the Lisa, which was her name. He was trying to sell it. When he was trying to sell it he just had all this techno babble. He had taken out a 5- or 6-page ad in the New York Times with all of the jargon about the computer, talking about how cool the Lisa was. Lisa didn't sell. They canned him. Yes, they fired him as CEO.The founder of the company gets fired, goes off, and he starts NEXT Computers but then also helps re-launch Pixar. When he was at Pixar that's really where his life changed, and he learned storytelling. Pixar is still today one of the greatest storytelling companies that there is. He then comes back to Apple, and that's when Apple changed. That's when the Think Different campaign started. His next New York Times ad was just Think Different, and he really identified with his customer. He is the ideal avatar of an Apple computer user: the artist. It's the reason why I have the "Crazy Ones" quote up on my wall. It's my identity as an entrepreneur. It's my identity as an Apple user. I'm a round peg in a square hole.As a kid we had an Apple computer as well, even though we weren't wealthy, just a middle-class family. For some reason, I'm not sure, my parents bought an Apple.I've always liked their computers, but more than anything, I've liked their marketing and their advertisements when Steve Jobs was behind the wheel.Where am I going with this? Don't give up, okay? There are times when it's going to get hard. There are times when you might tell a story, and it's going to bomb. If you're trying to write a book, it's going to get hard. There are going to be challenges that you face, and those challenges are good. You want challenges. You want more life that challenges you, because if it was easy, everybody would do it, and if it was easy, it would be boring.When you have a hard time, when you have a hard day, when you're stuck, just remember that there is tomorrow, that there is now, and that you can take action. You can do more than you really think that you can. Sometimes that means stepping away and taking a break, going on a walk, taking a nap, going to that birthday party, going and eating the cake, calling a friend. Sometimes spending time with friends and family is 1,000% the best thing that you can do. Other times, spending time alone, working on your thing.That's it. I encourage you this Thanksgiving, or I guess Halloween is coming up. This, Halloween. Say hi to somebody you don't know. Make someone's day. Make somebody smile. It's one of the easiest things that we can do: bring a smile to somebody's face. It's one of the least popular, most uncommon things that we do as well. This is how easy it is, guys.Yesterday, I went to the grocery store. On my walk into the grocery store, something that I've done for quite some time is, if I see trash, I just grab it and I throw it away. For whatever reason, grocery store ...
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    11 分
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