…this book was lifechanging.

“I want to reiterate how powerful and effective I found The Storyteller’s Secret to be. I started reading Carmine’s book the day before our leadership meeting and literally could not put it down. In reading Carmine’s book, I realized I was using many of the concepts and ideas he was describing, but I didn’t have the clear process outlined in my mind. It was like an ‘ah ha’ moment that was right there in front of me the entire time, but I just didn’t realize it. It sounds cliche to say, but the book was life changing.”

MICHAEL

financial advisor, UBS Wealth Management

The content is absorbing, enlightening and hopeful.

This is one of the few books that a) I couldn’t put down, b) I finished cover to cover, and c) recommended it, purchased it for or loaned it to others. Each chapter makes a different point and that’s accomplished in 4-5 pages so it’s very easy to pick up and put down. The content is absorbing, enlightening and hopeful. The point is made that people respond far better to compelling stories (especially about people overcoming obstacles) than “data dumps” as in Power Point presentations. Less is more and the story is everything. That’s not to say that people don’t need to know the numbers but they’re moved to action by stories more than numbers. If you’re a speaker or planning to make presentations I highly recommend it; I plan to make presentations in the future and this book made an indelible impression on me.

RACHEL G
via Amazon Five Star Review

My new FAVORITE business book!

This is a powerful book that every working professional should read. It is compelling, evidence-based, filled with stories that not only educate but demonstrate the communication power of storytelling. I first bought and listened to the audio book (the author has a fantastic voice as well as writing style!) There was so much rich content that I wanted to capture, that I bought the paperback book as well. Taking that on a long plane ride with me. A resource that I will refer to and share with MANY times!

KATHY McAFEE
via Amazon Five Star Review

Excellent book

Excellent book on the use of storytelling! I will be using this information to improve my presentations!

DAVID BIBE
via Amazon Five Star Review

For those serious about communicating with impact – this one’s a keeper to refer to again and again

Carmine Gallo is the consummate raconteur and this most recent work clearly demonstrates his passion for and ability to communicate stories that not only educate, simplify and motivate, they also ignite our inner fire and launch movements worth rallying around. The book is both inspiring and pragmatic as each chapter weaves a memorable, relevant parable and the toolkit at it’s conclusion provides a handy checklist and “secrets at a glance.” This book is a keeper and one that I will personally refer to again and again. Thank you Carmine for compiling this credible gift.

MARY M.
via Amazon Five Star Review

Educational and entertaining

Interesting and entertaining reading as you learn the art and importance of storytelling in various facets of life. I’m taking my time reading this story of storytelling and thoroughly enjoying it. Picking up lots of tips along the way too!

LARRY B. MORRISON
via Amazon Five Star Review

Awesome! A must-read business book!

This is one of the best books I have ever read for business. Every story teaches a lesson about how to utilize story to bolster your culture and business. I highly recommend this!

JT JOHNSON
via Amazon Five Star Review

Wish this book was around 20 years ago

Wish this book was around 20 years ago. It would have cut my leaning curve by at least half. Wow.

DONALD LAUDERDALE, JR.
via Amazon Five Star Review

The wisdom and inspiration you have given us has been LIFE-CHANGING.

“Carmine, I needed to write you and thank you for writing The Storyteller’s Secret. The wisdom and inspiration you have given us has been LIFE-CHANGING. My fiancee and I are entrepreneurs and we have been going back and forth on the direction we should take to scale our company. YOUR book—literally in a few sentences—changed our mindset. I read your book in 4 hours and you changed our life.Your book has been a shot in the arm and has changed the way we see the whole thing. You really have no idea what your book, your message, your stories, and your inspiration have meant to us. You made us grab something bigger with your words.”

– Eva Shure,
CEO/Co-Founder, Red Carpet Kids (featured on The View, ABC News, and People Magazine)

Perfect Timing

This book was recommended to me about 2 weeks prior to launching a new startup and has inspired me to completely rewrite our companies story.

AMAZON CUSTOMER
via Amazon Five Star Review

Understand the How and Why of the Power of Storytelling

Carmine Gallo is the best communication and storytelling writer in the world today. ‘The Storyteller’s Secret’ is the latest proof. Mr. Gallo takes you on an entertaining and enlightening journey into the ‘why’ of storytelling – the biochemical and emotional responses that evolution has hard-wired into you in response to stories.

After reading this book, you’ll understand how and why a well-crafted story leaves a long lasting impact on audiences. Put this book at the top of your reading list if you want to be a stand out communicator.

MICHAEL DAVIS
via Amazon Five Star Review

Mr. Gallo:
You are a Rock Star!

I mean that with all sincerity and from the bottom of my heart. I have just finished reading your Storyteller’s Secret book. What an absolutely awesome book. My wife is in Real Estate and having a tough time of it at the moment because we are in such a competitive market. I want to help her and after reading your book, I now know how I am going to help her. By crafting peoples’ stories about the Real Estate. Peoples experiences if you will. Now after your book and some of your YouTube videos, every time I hear the word “story” my ears perk up. I am from the Toronto Canada area. Do you ever do talks in Canada because I would love to hear you speak. For me it would be the cat’s meow!
Regards,

Mike Hiatt
PS: I have just ordered to more of your books

A must-read for all that tell stories to persuade, educate or motivate others!

“In the next 10 years, the ability to tell your story persuasively will be decisive, the single greatest skill in helping you accomplish your dreams.” Carmine Gallo reminded me how important passion is in telling my story and that each of us has to figure out what makes our heart sing! He shared this wisdom and much more in The Story Tellers Secret. A must-read for all of us that tells stories to persuade, educate or motivate others.

ROBERT STONE
via Amazon Five Star Review

Storytelling at its best

This book spoke to me. As an author, I am always looking to improve my craft, and could relate to Gallo’s intuitive preface statement: “Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In the information age, the knowledge economy, you are only as valuable as your ideas. Story is the means by which we transfer those ideas to one another.” Powerful words.

In this book, Gallo describes the lives of fifty people who changed, motivated, or educated the world through the art of storytelling. He also shares the tools of storytelling, like using analogy and personal stories. In so doing, I couldn’t help noticing that Gallo is the storyteller here, eloquently telling us each person’s story, and in the process giving us a glimpse of how this vastly important topic has touched lives over the centuries. Writing about ancient Greece, 2,500 years ago, with Georgias teaching rhetoric, to Bill Gates drinking sanitized poop, Gallo covered several different time periods and cultures, catching my interest.

This book motivated me because it provided tools that could be relevant to my writing as well as to speaking, like using emotion and humor in storytelling. Gallo also backs up his statements with studies by psychologists, which I appreciate. For example, Paul Zak, professor at Claremont Graduate University, along with his team, found that character-driven stories raised the oxytocin level in the brain. Oxytocin is known to enhance one’s sense of empathy to another person.

I particularly liked the check list in the back that is a useful guide. I will try and share it with my writers’ group. I also appreciated the references listed in the back, which I could turn to for further reading.

I will be reading this book over and over again. Well written, it captured my imagination, my emotion, and my interest! I will look for more books written by this author.

PATTY APOSTOLIDES (Author)
via Amazon Five Star Review

Valuable Toolkit for Speakers and all Leaders

I had previously listened to the Audible version of one of Carmine’s previous books, Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds. That book was super helpful, and it provided a great framework for developing an engaging presentation. One of the main points of that book was to tell a story.

Carmine’s newest book focuses on that one aspect of communication: storytelling, defined as the act of framing an idea as a narrative to inform, illuminate, and inspire. For business leaders around the world, there’s a growing realization of the importance of storytelling – not just in public speaking, but in all opportunities to communicate with people.

This book is packed with compelling stories and examples from successful leaders, such as Steve Jobs and Sheryl Sandberg and Richard Branson, who have studied and practiced the art of storytelling in order to attract top talent, increase workforce engagement, and launch movements.

When I was about 1/4 of the way through the book, I felt inspired but was also feeling overwhelmed. “How will I remember all these ideas?” I worried. Due to the subject matter, the principles flow more organically than the clear framework of Talk Like TED. Then I noticed the At a Glance outline and the Checklist at the back of the book. I read that, and then resumed reading the book (because the stories are what breathe meaning into the outline and checklist), and now I was able to be both inspired and confident that I’d be able to put the ideas into action. The stories plus outline/checklist provide a valuable toolkit for speakers and all leaders.

JESSE LAHEY
via Amazon Five Star Review

Taking storytelling to the next level

If I were to encapsulate The Storyteller’s Secret in one sentence it would be this: “Touch people’s hearts, open their minds, and step back so they can do the same.” Gallo has immersed himself in 50 powerful storytellers’ lives and extracted the quintessential essence of their techniques, approaches, intentions, emotions and thoughts that have brought them to the forefront of their profession.

I’m a beginner storyteller: this book has inspired and improved my storytelling tenfold.

What else is there to say? If you want to be a better storyteller, if you want to impact peoples’ lives, then I suggest you buy The Storyteller’s Secret.

FRODI INGSSON
via Amazon Five Star Review

Must read for anyone who has a message to share!

I am SO glad I stumbled across this book, it is filled with countless nuggets of wisdom that I couldn’t wait to start applying to my work every time I closed the book! This is a must read for anyone who has an important message to share. I’m so glad I read it.

I’m a beginner storyteller: this book has inspired and improved my storytelling tenfold.

What else is there to say? If you want to be a better storyteller, if you want to impact peoples’ lives, then I suggest you buy The Storyteller’s Secret.

MICHELLE CEHN
via Amazon Five Star Review

Easy to learn lessons

“It’s all in the story and Carmine Gallo both tells stories, and understands them. In ‘The Storyteller’s Secrets’ Gallo dives more deeply than ever before into how to harness the power of story, whether to sell a product, inspire a movement, or re-shape a life. The structure of the book keeps the reader engaged, and makes it easy to learn the lessons he has to offer.”

-Brian Gorman (Amazon testimonial)

Great new inspiring book

“Check out this great new inspiring book from our friend, Carmine Gallo. In The Storyteller’s Secret, he features 35 men and women who move people with their words. Carmine makes the point that a leader cannot inspire others unless they listen to the calling that God placed in their hearts.”

-Joel Osteen
Pastor, Joel Osteen Ministries

A 243 Page Journey

“Thanks @carminegallospeaker for The Storyteller’s Secret… the 243 page journey you took me on really helped me get clear on how I’m going to create my next @ted talk titled Couchkills and of course ‘Talk Like TED’ will be right there with me as it all unfolds… #nofoolin”

-Jay Jacobs
Biggest Loser Finalist

Great new inspiring book

“Thank you Carmine Gallo for such a thoughtful gift. Only on Chapter 7 of The Storyteller’s Secret and it’s already changed my life.”

-Tariq Trotter
via Twitter @blackthought (Tariq Trotter), frontman for The Roots (The Tonight’s Show band)

It’s great!

“SPEAKERS: you need to get this new book by @carminegallo. It’s great! – ow.ly/ueeTD

-Chris Brogan
@chrisbrogan

Carmine Gallo show you how to frame ideas to make them irresistible

“Having facts on your side isn’t enough. You have to do storytelling. In The Storyteller’s Secret, Carmine Gallo shows you how to frame ideas to make an irresistible, memorable, and emotional connection with your audience. We have very big problems to solve and we have entrepreneurs with great ideas, but knowing the science isn’t enough. Stories educate, inform, and ultimately inspire us to change the world.”

-Vindo Kholsa
founder of Khosla Ventures

Understand the how and why of the power of storytelling

“Carmine Gallo is the best communication and storytelling writer in the world today. The Storyteller’s Secret is the latest proof. Mr. Gallo takes you on an entertaining and enlightening journey into the ‘why’ of storytelling – the biochemical and emotional and emotional responses that evolution has hard-wired into you in response to stories.

After reading this book, you’ll understand how and why a well-crafted story leaves a long lasting impact on audiences. Put this book at the top of our reading list if you want to be a stand out communicator.”

-Michael Davis
author, THE Book on Storytelling

Carmine Gallo unlocks the techniques that have made some of the greatest leaders as great as they are.

“I believe there are seeds of greatness in each and every one of us. In The Storyteller’s Secret, Carmine Gallo unlocks the techniques that have made some of the greatest entrepreneurs, speakers, and leaders of our time as great as they are. The chapters are filled with inspiring stories and specific tips that will help you elevate your personal brand, move your business forward, and, quite possibly, change the world.”

-Lewis Howes
author and podcast host of The School of Greatness

Carmine Gallo explains why the stories we tell ourselves are the most important and empowering ones of all.

“After I lost my legs I got a second chance at life. I learned that the only limits we have are the ones we place on ourselves. I started to ask myself the question ‘If life were a book and I were the author, how would the story go?’ In The Storyteller’s Secret, Carmine Gallo not only gives you the tactical steps to sharing your ideas, he also digs into the psychology of storytelling to explain why the stories we tell ourselves are the most important and empowering ones of all.”

-Amy Purdy
world-class snowboarder, motivational speaker, and television personality

The best business book I’ve ever read

“It’s the best business book I’ve ever read. Loved the workbook. I immediately wrote a presentation that got comments like ‘that was in the top three presentations we’ve ever had.’ Thank you! I can’t wait to read more of your stuff! I think you should have your own podcast!”

-Amy Wolf

Carmine Gallo shows us how to overcome challenges.

“I believe your adversities are your advantage. Carmine Gallo shares this philosophy. In The Storyteller’s Secret, he shows us how overcoming challenges – tension over triumph – is the stuff by which great stories and great successes are made.”

-Darren Hardy
publisher of Success magazine and New York Times bestselling author of The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster

I went wow after the first story

“When I started reading The Storyteller’s Secret, I went wow after the first story and the wowwww factor only became longer after each story. I am motivated now to write my own story and other people’s story as well.”

-Seema Karwa

For year’s I’ve trusted Carmine Gallo’s sage wisdom.

“For years I’ve trusted Carmine Gallo’s sage wisdom on learning to be a better communicator and I’ve made his book Talk Like TED required reading for my staff. I’m excited about The Storyteller’s Secret because in my business, communication and leading teams to victory are most certainly related!”

-Brigadier Gen. Kenneth E. Todorov
USAF (Ret.)

Your telling the story of other storytellers was beautifully done

“I am a Lutheran poster who developed a congregation made of folks living on the streets in Philadelphia. As a 2013 Purpose Prize winner, I know the importance of being able to tell a good story. Your book, The Storyteller’s Secret has inspired me to offer a storytelling group to the men and women of my congregation whose stories so badly need to be told. Your telling the story of other storytellers was beautifully done. Thank you so much…”

-Reverend Violet C. Little

I never realized…

“I never realized the significance neuroscience can play in proving which stories work and why, until I read this book.”

-Kate Cadet

Marvelous

“A necessary addition to any aspiring leader & communicator’s arsenal. The Storyteller’s Secret is absolutely marvelous. It’s clear that the subject of inspiring and motivating people is Carmine Gallo’s passion. For me the book is proof that he has found his life’s calling. After reading Talk Like TED I was able to give a very successful keynote speech. And now after The Storyteller’s Secret I am certain I can take it to the next level (provided I give it enough time and proper application of course).

For me… the book is clear, solid, inspiring & scientific (where it needs to be). And the best part about the Audiobook is Carmine narrating it himself because no one else could have emphasized the nuances as well as Mr. Gallo himself.

One of the books you should get a hard cover of and keep on your bookshelf to read and re-read because you will just keep getting more and more out of it every time.”

-Muhammad (Amazon testimonial)