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  • A Conversation With Future You

    A Conversation With Future You
    2026/11/01

    I want to talk to Future You.

    We aren't that far away from January 1st. Future you will look back at this time and what will they think. What will they do or say?

    I heard this from Alex Hormozi, where he wakes up every morning and has a conversation with 85 year old himself.

    Tony Robbins says we overestimate what we can accomplish in one year and over estimate what we can accomplish in 10.

    I don't have conversations with future me, it's conversations with God for me.

    The decade away mindset has helped me so much.

    For example my YouTube is shrinking guys, it's dropped from 7 subscribers to 6.

    Old Nate would have taken this personally and gotten worried, not now. I'm looking at this in the frame of mind if I do this every day for 10 years, in a decade I'll be one of the best in the world at telling stories and I'll have no problem doing it from a stage because I understand and know if I'm going to help people the rest of my life.

    The number 1 place I'll be able to help people from is a stage. So me losing a subscriber right now doesn't bother me because I know long term I've shed someone who is not my dream viewer. I'm glad they aren't there and they will miss out on this journey because they left.

    Good, they are going to miss my journey. So hi from a stage in 10 years.

    In our social media culture it's tough to not go check all the time. I'm on Facebook again and I get it, it's hard to not go in there and check in all the time.

    I'm posting again and it's hard to not go in there and check.

    I'm doing my best to make my Facebook fun again and about others.

    I don't want Social Media to be a Look At Me Thing.

    I'm locked out of Instagram and I can't get back in because I changed my phone number. I miss the old days of Instagram being about photos and stories, now it's more of a video first platform kinda like YouTube.

    What's the meaning of this podcast episode?

    It's that, it's meaning it's purpose and looking long term.

    I love the book 12 week year, and combine it with this long term thinking.

    I have a quarter mindset to take me to my 10 year purpose.

    In answering to God or 85 year old me. Am I becoming the version of myself that you want for me.

    Am I following the right path you chose for me.

    Quick story... In high school we had to memorize a poem and say it infront of the class.

    I'll never forget this moment, I was so intimidated and I had to go infront of the class because I was so introverted. I just remember standing up there saying the poem from memory and shaking. I still remember the beginning.

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I chose the one less traveled.

    The more I lean into the good thing, what's right and what God wants me to do. The more good, I don't stop and quit because I lost a subscriber. I lean in and get excited.

    I need to keep moving forward with imperfect action.

    As things get hard, keep moving forward and do good for others and things will take care of themselves.

    Imagine who you will be 10 years from today and are you smiling at you and how you are living right now.

    Have a great day,

    You can find more about telling great stories at www.tellinggreatstories.com

    Peace!
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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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  • 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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  • The Power of Writing With A Pen and Paper

    The Power of Writing With A Pen and Paper
    2026/10/29

    This Podcast teaches you the power of writing with a pen and paper.

    If Richard Branson can do it, considering how much he's accomplished in his life so can you.

    My mentor Scott Scheper teaches that writing is thinking and we shouldn't outsource our thinking to AI.

    This is the main reason I am hand writing my book through physically writing my book in notepads with a pen and paper.

    Now everywhere I go my bag and book goes with me. This hasn't yet been transcribed into a computer, so this is my heart on paper and you don't get that when you write a book with outsourcing your thinking to AI.

    I did that by doing a podcast or writing a book with AI. I did that and made it six episodes.

    I want to encourage you to do things different, just because there's a new tool don't let it change you. This is me, I don't need to overcomplicate.

    Say hi to my blinker and get out of your own way and document the journey.

    Richard Branson believes so much in the value of the written word that he once risked his life running into a burning building to save his journals.

    I believe storytelling is an art and writing is as well. You are not just documenting your life, you are capturing your thoughts on your journey through life and it's beautiful.

    Lean into writing because the more you do it the more satisfaction you get from it. Personally I write until my hand starts to hurt and that's when I know the work is getting good because nothing worth doing came easy. We should want to work hard for great results.

    I'm a writer and I wrote yesterday on my whiteboard "I don't eat until I write because I am a writer and if I don't write I can't eat."

    This book is my opus and I am a writer, I want future generations to see what I went through I want to keep this pen and paper.

    As you do your writing, write don't edit let the words flow.

    You'll notice once your hand starts to cramp, that's when the writing gets good. The pain in your hand is how you know the writing is about to get good so keep going.

    My daily goal is to every day write down on the top of my paper each day I write the date and time.

    Stephen King writes six pages a day in his 70s, six pages take me an hour and I'm a novice.

    So shift things in your mind, Scott teaches a 3 day book system. Everyone thought a 4 minute mile was impossible until Roger Banister did it. This is what Scott teaches is possible through writing a book he shares the story of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde being a book written in 3 days.

    I stopped writing because I was overwhelmed by the consistency of writing once I missed a few days it stopped.

    Do something that seems really really hard and figure out if there's an easy way to do it. Because more than likely someone else has already figured it out.

    Get out of your own way and keep on writing.

    I'm Nate and I teach storytelling at www.tellinggreatstories.com
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  • Consistency

    Consistency
    2026/10/28
    Welcome to Telling Great Stories. I'm Nate Campbell, and my grandfather Tom was the best storyteller I'd ever met in my life. He passed away in 2021, and nobody ever told his stories in a book or really in a magazine article or anywhere other than just around circles that knew Tom. Currently, I'm writing a book teaching the framework of my grandpa Tom and his storytelling abilities, and this podcast is about telling great stories.Today, I wanted to talk to you about consistency and how we can keep staying consistent. This is something that has really held me back a lot in life. I have always felt that I wasn't consistent, or I didn't follow through, or I just started things and I didn't finish things, or I didn't have discipline, or fill in the blank.The thing that shifted that for me was that Leila Hormozi, on her podcast, said she when she was a fitness trainer, people would come to her and say, "I'm not consistent, or I don't have discipline." She would say, "Well, okay, tell me if you're able to not go to the gym. Do you skip going to the gym a lot?" They're like, "Yeah, yeah, I almost skip the gym every single day."She goes, "Okay, let's just stop there. You are consistent. You do have discipline. Your discipline is just focused in the wrong direction. Your discipline and consistency is focused on not going to the gym instead of going to the gym." It was kind of funny, but it just put me into this mindset of, "What is my excuse? What am I doing instead of the thing that I should be doing?" And for Telling Great Stories, it is getting my voice out there, getting my message out there, getting connected with you so that I can help you to tell great stories. I'm not on this podcast telling great stories. I'm on this podcast so that I can teach telling great stories.I want to be your coach. I want to be your mentor. I want to help you, and that's really my calling. I'm also a student of life, and so if I'm going to be a student of life, what should I be a student of life of? It's storytelling. I didn't realize, through all the books I've read over the last decade, that I've leaned into the story part so much.I just reread the book The Alchemist, and man, I can't tell you how many times that book gave me goosebumps. Right now, I'm reading a new book called A Sand County Almanac, which is from the 1940s by Aldo Leopold.I just really encourage you to lean in and be consistent. For me, with this podcast, I have about a 12-minute drive from the house to the office. I make it every day, and today's Sunday. I'm still making that drive because I need to. I've burned the boat, right? I've gone all in on coaching aspiring authors, coaching entrepreneurs, coaching people who have a legacy that they want to pass on, whether that's a farmer, a rancher, or someone who's retired.I was just at a conference this weekend with 300 individuals who are trying to create a movement to have more local food eaten within the state of Montana, more Montana-grown food eaten by consumers here in Montana. That word "consumer" is one that was talked about a lot: Are we creating consumers? Are we creating customers? We want to create customers, and it was one of those mind shifts that we can have as business owners.I don't want you to just consume this. I want you to tune in every day and get better, and that's my ask of you. Most of these podcast episodes will be about 10 minutes, and if you want to become great at storytelling, tune in because this is my journey as well as your journey. I'm at the beginning. I just started this in October. Today is, I think, October 23rd or 24th, and I might even be on the 25th. I don't even know the day of the week right now.I'm just so fired up to get out there and help you and be a part of this movement because stories are what's passed on. Stories are what matters. Stories are the things that make life interesting. They're the spice of life, and the best way to document them is by telling them. It's by taking action.In my book, I have a framework that is the TOM framework: Tom, just like my grandpa, just like his first name. I was thinking about that this morning: the T, right? The T really can stand for a lot. I think that one of the most important things it should stand for, which I'm actually going to the office to add to the book today, is talking, because it's action. Telling is the word. Telling is an action, and you have to take action. No matter how you want to tell the great story, you have to take action on it.That's the unfortunate thing that didn't happen with my grandpa Tom's life: no one took action on the words that he said and the stories that he said. He took the action to tell the stories. He never took the action to write them down or put them into a book or save what he was saying or, I guess, document what he was doing, and that piece of it, I think, is very important: we get better, and even at the beginning, just to show the progress, right? To say, "Here's where I was ...
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  • Your Identity As A Story Teller

    Your Identity As A Story Teller
    2026/10/27

    Welcome to Telling Great Stories. I'm Nate Campbell and I have a passion for storytelling. My grandpa Tom was the best storyteller I've ever met. There are no stories written about him. There are no books, no movies, and no articles. His stories died with him in 2021, and I don't want that for you or anyone else. This podcast will help you to become a great storyteller as I go along this journey with you in becoming a great writer and in becoming a great storyteller myself.

    Today's episode talks about your identity as a storyteller. When you think about that, what's your answer? Are you bad at storytelling? Are you good at storytelling? Are you great at storytelling? Is it natural for you?

    More likely, your answer was not that you're getting better at storytelling, but that you're not great yet. Improving is a mindset. Once we add the word "yet," our mindset begins to shift. Our brain begins to be rewired we need to take action. We can think all we want, but without action, change doesn't happen. The reason you came here, the reason that you decided, "I need to start becoming a better storyteller," is enough reason for you to take action. What's the action that you're going to take today?

    I teach storytelling here on this podcast and at www.tellinggreatstories.com
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  • My Why

    My Why
    2026/10/26

    Welcome to Telling Great Stories. I'm Nate Campbell, and my grandfather Tom was the best storyteller I'd ever met in my life. He passed away in 2021, and nobody ever told his stories in a book, or really in a magazine article, or anywhere other than just around circles that knew Tom.

    Currently, I'm writing a book teaching the framework of my grandpa Tom and his storytelling abilities. This podcast is about telling great stories. It's not tomorrow. This podcast will be posted the following day.

    I want to give you a piece of advice today that really helped me in being able to do more with less time. I think we all understand that time is our most valuable resource. We have one life. We have a limited amount of time, and some days are just too damn busy to post a podcast episode. Some days are too damn busy to post a YouTube video. I'm also doing a YouTube video every day as well as a podcast episode every day.

    This podcast episode is recorded right after I recorded my intro because a mentor of mine named Russell Brunson taught me that. The real guy Frank Abignail behind the movie Catch Me If You Can, was interviewed about how he was able to teach some very complicated college courses, and he said it was easy. I just needed to be one week ahead of the students.

    If you're out there trying to build a personal brand, you're trying to do more with who you are. All you need to do is stay one day ahead or one week ahead of whoever you're teaching. Me recording day 2 on the same day I record day 1 is me getting ahead of that, because there are going to be days where it's just like, "You know what? I cannot do this today." You need to have a backlog to be prepared for those days.

    As you start to do the thing and you start to reframe it that way, it's like, "Oh, whoa, okay." Once you fall short, you still have that advantage.

    How's your New Year's Resolution going from January 2026? When damnit I missed a day, how do we keep going? If we miss a day and don't hit the goal that day, we can stop the old patterns by get ahead of things.

    Take the time to get ahead of time when you have it. I record podcast episodes as I drive.

    Podcasts can reach so many more people than you can in person, I just was at a 300 person conference and met 30 people.

    It's just you and a phone and a great way to connect and help so many people.

    This is why I'm leaving my corporate world and going all in on this podcast, going all in on coaching, going all in on writing a book, going all in on Helping People Tell Stories.

    In my heart my calling from God is to help people tell stories.

    So I take a few minutes to tell the story behind that story.

    It started with a remodel of a house that meant a lot to me. It was home as a kid for me, this house was home. It was my grandfather's home from 25 - 85. The home I was remodeling was my grandpa Tom's home and we needed help.

    I'd never done tile, my friend Kevin Groves volunteered over a weekend to come help tile the bathroom.

    We stayed up until 3 am every night getting it done and the last night, I'd promised to take him bass fishing and I said let's get up at 5.

    He said okay, I'm in. Well I slept in and I found him reading a book on Grass fed Beef when I woke up at 6.

    We chatted a bit then went fishing. At the time I was selling grass-fed beef direct to consumer and we'd been getting quite a few customers, including him and his wife Tasha.

    He asked me the most profound question. He asked... What would you do with your time if money wasn't a thing.

    I didn't hesitate, I would tell the stories of farmers and ranchers because right now my grandpa Tom has dimensia and there's no books about him, hardly any newspaper clippings and no articles about him. I would tell the stories of farmers and ranchers because his never got told. This was in 2018.

    I told myself I'd start a podcast, I told myself I'd write a book and none of them happened.

    It's 2026 and they are happening. I've burned the boats!!

    Welcome to day 2 of the podcast.

    To learn more go to www.tellinggreatstories.com
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    11 分