The Storytelling Lab

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Why the Stories We Dismiss Are Often the Ones We Need Most with Leslie Zemeckis and Sara Divello

August 14, 2026

"You do the story that you want to do because you believe in it and it will find an audience. You have to be passionate about something and not try and hop off what's already out there. You have to absolutely 1000% have a vision." — Leslie ZemeckisNot all stories are treated equally — and Leslie Zemeckis and Sara DiVello are on a mission to change that. In this episode, the co-hosts of the Plot Point podcast, founders of the Santa Barbara Literary Festival and Nantucket Book Festival respecti...

The Complete Creator Framework Every Storyteller Needs with Anubhav Srivastava

July 08, 2026

"The best of the writers know structures are important. And then they forget that they've been intuitively following a structure and tell the world you don't need structure. The rest of the people think they don't need structure and realize by the hundredth page they don't know what the story is going to be." —Anubhav SrivastavaWhat if there was one place where you could brainstorm your story, build your characters, map your world, storyboard your structure, and connect with expert storytelle...

How to Build Narrative Architecture Before AI Builds It for You with Michael Margolis

June 18, 2026

"A narrative lives or dies on the conviction of the most senior authorized leaders of the organizational system. The story is the strategy. A company without a story is usually a company without a strategy." — Michael Margolis | Storied, Inc.What if your organization's stories were the new code base? In this episode, Rain sits down with Michael Margolis, founder of Storied, Inc., and one of the most respected voices in organizational storytelling and narrative strategy, for a conversation tha...