Audiobooks narrated by Donald Miller

The Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life

Read by the author. New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller shares the plan that led him to turn his life around. There are four characters in every story: The victim, the villain, the hero, and the guide. These four characters live inside us. If we play the victim, we're doomed to fail. If we play the villain, we will not create genuine bonds. But if we play the hero or guide, our lives will flourish. The hard part is being self-aware enough to know which character we are playing. In this book, Donald will use his own experiences to help you recognize if the character you are currently surfacing is helping you experience a life of meaning. He breaks down the transformational, yet practical, plan that took him from slowly giving up to rapidly gaining a new perspective of his own life's beauty and meaning, igniting his motivation, passion, and productivity, so you can do the same. The lessons in this book will teach you how to: - Help you discover when you are playing the victim and villain. - Create a simple life plan that will bring clarity and meaning to your goals ahead. - Take control of your life by choosing to be the hero in your story. - Cultivate a sense of creativity about what your life can be. - Move beyond just being productive to experiencing a deep sense of meaning. Donald Miller will help you identify the many chances you have of being the hero in your life, and the times when you are falling into the trap of becoming the victim. He will guide you in developing a unique plan that will speak to the challenges you currently face so you, too, can find the fulfillment you have been searching for in your life and work. Accompanying worksheets and QR code are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Donald Miller (Author), Donald Miller (Narrator)

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Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses. Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides readers with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching readers the seven universal story points all humans respond to; the real reason customers make purchases; how to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and how to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.

Donald Miller (Author), Donald Miller (Narrator)

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The Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business

Includes an audiobook-exclusive conversation between Don Miller and his coauthor, Dr. J.J. Peterson! Based on Building a StoryBrand by New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller, this checklist is a strategic and actionable guide to applying the StoryBrand framework to any brand and an essential part of any marketing professional's tool kit. Every day, brands lose millions of dollars simply because they do not have a clear message that tells consumers who they are and what value they will add to their customers' lives. To solve this dilemma, Donald Miller wrote Building a StoryBrand, which has become the quintessential guide for anyone looking to craft or strengthen their brand's message. Now, Don is taking it a step further with this five-part checklist that helps marketing professionals and business owners apply the StoryBrand messaging framework across key customer touchpoints to effectively develop, strengthen, and communicate their brand's story to the marketplace. Exercises and charts are available in the audiobook companion PDF download. Praise for Marketing Made Simple 'I created collateral for a client and they recently told me not to release the next round we created because they can't handle the influx of customers from the first round. They had more listings this year than in 30 years of business.' - Amy Burgess, Marketing Consultant 'My last email campaign I delivered raised $20k. Thank you Donald Miller for giving me a system that I know works.' - Ian Stewart, Owner/Creative Director of Root Source Digital 'A client went from $15MM last year to $27MM so far this year. All from updating their messaging and implementing new lead generators and email campaigns.- Wes Gay, CEO Wayfinder 'Just heard from one of my clients that she's getting 18 ideal client leads a day from her website. Before we redid her wireframe, she averaged around 1-3 leads a week. And that's just with updating her website.' - Amy Schutte, Owner of Hudson and Co LLC

Donald Miller, Dr. J.J. Peterson (Author), Donald Miller, Jj Peterson (Narrator)

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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie. Years after writing a best-selling memoir, Donald Miller went into a funk and spent months sleeping in and avoiding his publisher. One story had ended, and Don was unsure how to start another. But he gets rescued by two movie producers who want to make a movie based on his memoir. When they start fictionalizing Don's life for film--changing a meandering memoir into a structured narrative--the real-life Don starts a journey to edit his actual life into a better story. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges readers to reconsider what they strive for in life. It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around.

Donald Miller (Author), Donald Miller (Narrator)

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How to Grow Your Small Business: A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off

Read by the author. For so many entrepreneurs, running a small business ended up looking different than they imagined. They're stressed, discouraged, and not confident in their plan for growth. In How to Grow Your Small Business, Donald Miller gives entrepreneurs a 6-step plan to grow their businesses so they produce dependable, predictable results. Using the exact steps you'll learn in this book, Donald Miller grew his small business from four employees working out of a basement to a 15 million dollar operation, increasing revenue sixfold in just six years. As Miller grew his own business from the ground up, he realized nobody had put together a simple, step-by-step playbook for growing a business. That book didn't exist. Until now. In this book, you'll learn the 6 steps to grow a successful small business and create a playbook to implement them- your Flight Plan. When you have a completed Flight Plan in hand, you can stop drowning in the details and spend more time doing the things you truly love- in your business and your life. In How to Grow Your Small Business, you'll learn how to: - Cast a vision for your company that includes three economic priorities - Clarify your marketing message - Install a sales framework that makes your customers the hero - Optimize your product offering - Run a management and productivity playbook that aligns your entire team. - Use 5 checking accounts to manage your cash flow If you're ready to experience freedom, flexibility, and growth for your business, How to Grow Your Small Business is the book you've been waiting for. Graphics and worksheets are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Donald Miller (Author), Donald Miller (Narrator)

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Social Media Success for Every Brand: The Five StoryBrand Pillars That Turn Posts Into Profits

Most business owners are blindly guessing at their social media strategy, and it's costing them time and money. Based on Donald Miller's bestselling book Building a StoryBrand, Claire Diaz-Ortiz applies the seven principles of the StoryBrand Framework to help you build an effective, long-lasting social media plan for your brand. Social Media Success for Every Brand teaches listeners how to incorporate the StoryBrand 7-Part Framework into their social media channels to increase engagement and see better results. Listeners will understand exactly what they need to do with their social media to drive growth to their organization through the practical guidance of the five-point SHARE model: STORYHOWAUDIENCEREACHEXCELLENCESocial Media Success for Every Brand does not require the listener to be familiar with Building a StoryBrand but provides enough foundation to prepare the listener for practical success with their social media content. Together with the StoryBrand Framework, Claire's SHARE model will help boost customer engagement and grow the organization's brand awareness and revenues. Accompanying graphics, assessment, and resources are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz (Author), Donald Miller, Jacque Dorman (Narrator)

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Business Made Simple: 60 Days to Master Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Execution and More

Is this blue book more valuable than a business degree? Most people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they're doing. It's hard to be successful without a clear understanding of how business works. These 60 daily readings are crucial for any professional or business owner who wants to take their career to the next level. New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Donald Miller knows that business is more than just a good idea made profitable - it's a system of unspoken rules, rarely taught by MBA schools. If you are attempting to profitably grow your business or career, you need elite business knowledge-knowledge that creates tangible value. Even if you had the time, access, or money to attend a Top 20 business school, you would still be missing the practical knowledge that propels the best and brightest forward. However, there is another way to achieve this insider skill development, which can both drastically improve your career earnings and the satisfaction of achieving your goals. Donald Miller learned how to rise to the top using the principles he shares in this book. He wrote Business Made Simple to teach others what it takes to grow your career and create a company that is healthy and profitable. These short, daily entries and accompanying videos will add enormous value to your business and the organization you work for. In this sixty-day guide, listeners will be introduced to the nine areas where truly successful leaders and their businesses excel: - Character: What kind of person succeeds in business? - Leadership: How do you unite a team around a mission? - Personal Productivity: How can you get more done in less time? - Messaging: Why aren't customers paying more attention? - Marketing: How do I build a sales funnel? - Business Strategy: How does a business really work? - Execution: How can we get things done? - Sales: How do I close more sales? - Management: What does a good manager do? Business Made Simple is the must-have guide for anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed by the modern business climate, even if they attended business school. Learn what the most successful business leaders have known for years through the simple but effective secrets shared in these pages. Take things further: If you want to be worth more as a business professional, listen to each daily entry and follow along with the free videos that will be sent to you after you buy the book. Accompanying figures are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Donald Miller (Author), Donald Miller (Narrator)

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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.” In Donald Miller’s early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God.

Donald Miller (Author), Donald Miller (Narrator)

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Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

“A record of a classic road trip. Miller’s tale is full of serendipitous adventures and thoughtful Christian reflection . . . offering the sort of deep-thought wanderings into meaning and significance that are the meat of college-age existence . . . a reminder that life was meant to be lived, not just gotten through.” (Publishers Weekly) In this completely revised edition, Don Miller records his trip with wide-eyed honesty in achingly beautiful prose, discussing everything from the nature of friendship, the reason for pain, and the origins of beauty. As Don and Paul travel from Texas to Oregon in Paul’s cantankerous Volkswagen van, the two friends encounter a variety of fascinating people, witness the fullness of nature’s splendor, and learn unexpected lessons about themselves, each other, and even God.

Donald Miller (Author), Donald Miller (Narrator)

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The Secret Society of Success: Stop Chasing the Spotlight and Learn to Enjoy Your Work (and Life) Ag

Includes audiobook-exclusive interviews with David Novak, former CEO of Yum! Brands, Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton, and Becca Stevens, founder of Thistle Farms! Read by the author. It's time to redefine success. "The book you're about to read is an absolute game changer, life changer, and outlook changer. . . . You will never view success the same way again. And that's a very good thing." - ERNIE JOHNSON JR., Emmy Award winner and host of TNT's Inside the NBA There's a message getting a lot of airtime these days. It says to be successful, you have to step into the spotlight, climb the ladder, become the boss, or chase whatever version of success that's been dangled in front of you. But what if there's another way? What if fame, money, and power aren't all that we should be chasing? In The Secret Society of Success, Tim Schurrer invites you to reevaluate your definition of success and learn a new, freer way to go about achieving it. How do you learn this approach? With the Secret Society as your guide-a community of people who know how to make an impact, whether they have the spotlight or not. The Secret Society will teach you to - define success for yourself; - contribute to your team without minding who gets the credit; - make an impact that spans far beyond yourself, regardless of the size of your platform; - navigate living in the tension between contentment and striving; - go from feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and restless in your job to being confident in the value you bring to the team; and - discover meaning and fulfillment in the work that you do. Through powerful stories of people like the CEO of Apple Tim Cook, NBA all-star LeBron James, Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and people whose names you've never heard of, you will discover that the success you're looking for is within your reach, wherever you are and whatever your role. The appendix is included in the audiobook companion PDF download. "The Secret Society of Success is an important book that everyone should read. It is not only insightful; it's inspirational. This book captures what it really means to be successful. I am for one ready to up my game! Thank you, Tim, for giving me this gift!" - DAVID NOVAK, cofounder and former chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut)

Tim Schurrer (Author), Donald Miller, Tim Schurrer (Narrator)

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Negotiation Made Simple: A Practical Guide for Solving Problems, Building Relationships, and Deliver

Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive conversation between the author and Donald Miller, creator of StoryBrand! Negotiators might be born, but great negotiators are made. This book offers a useful and comprehensive approach to negotiation that can springboard a career or a company, one deal at a time. Business and organizational leaders spend well over half of their professional time engaged in this process. It is the way they do deals, lead employees, and manage relationships. Most leaders learn to negotiate on the job through a long process of trial and error. In today's competitive marketplace, there is no time for experimentation, nor room to make mistakes. The good news is by mastering negotiation, the next level of success is actually closer than it appears. The actionable advice and practical guidance offered in this book give a roadmap for every type of negotiation. Through case studies, illustrations, exercises, and personal stories, Lowry shows how to: - Make strategic decisions - move from doing what is comfortable to doing what is most strategic. - Manage the process - carefully balance the urge to compete with the need to collaborate. - Deliver the deal - fine-tune the negotiation process to achieve the desired outcome. This book makes it easy to join the ranks of leaders who have experienced unprecedented success by making negotiation simple. Figures, diagrams, forms, and an assessment are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

John Lowry (Author), Donald Miller, John Lowry (Narrator)

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Coach Builder: How to Turn Your Expertise Into a Profitable Coaching Career

Whether you're thinking about starting a consulting business or have been coaching for a while, Coach Builder will give you the 8-step plan every self-employed coach needs to be successful. Have you experienced a moment when you realized your career wasn't as secure or fulfilling as you thought it was going to be? Maybe you've thought about using your skills to start your own consulting business - but you haven't had the confidence to go for it. Donald Miller has been consulting and coaching for over two decades. He's consulted some of the world's top brands including TOMS Shoes, TREK Bicycles and Tempur Sealy. In 2020, he founded his own coaching program, where he's helped hundreds of coaches start and grow their business. As a coach of coaches, he knows exactly what it takes to build a successful consulting career - and now he's sharing eight secrets of success with you. In Coach Builder you'll learn how to… - Create a menu of services to sell to clients - Generate and manage a list of potential clients - Create a compelling website that attracts your ideal clients - Write and automate sales emails that land clients while you sleep - Create a marketing funnel and product ladder - Set realistic business goals and accomplish them - Build or join a community to help you grow - Navigate the nuances of the client/coach relationship If you're ready to make a lot of money doing something you love every single day, Coach Builder is the book you've been waiting for.

Donald Miller (Author), Donald Miller (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Donald Miller