#123 How to Tell a Good Story w/ Jakob Lewis

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Jakob Lewis knows how to tell a good story. As the host and producer of the podcast Neighbors, Jakob built a nation-wide audience by talking to those around him and turning them into compelling stories that captured the essence of daily life. In his newest venture, Vox Familia, he is taking his skills to help families tell their own stories. In this episode of The Road to Now, Ben sits down with Jakob to talk about what he's learned about the ways that the personal narrative intersects with the bigger picture and what elements make for a great story.

If you're looking for a great story, visit libro.fm and start enjoying audiobooks while you support your favorite independent bookstore. Use promo code RTN for 3 months of membership for the price of one!

The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. For more on this episode and others, visit our website: www.TheRoadToNow.com.

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0:00.0	Osiris.
0:03.0	Hi, this is Matt Butler with Everyone Orchestra, and the podcast you are listening to is In the Loop,
0:09.7	the Legion of Osiris Podcasts.
0:12.9	Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with podcasts and live experiences
0:18.7	about artists and topics you love.
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0:33.5	Hello, Road to Now listener.
0:35.2	Seems that by being here, it means that you like to get information by listening to it. You might be listening right now in your car while you're driving, maybe you're mowing your grass, maybe you're just sitting in a room by yourself, staring at a wall. In any case, you're learning by listening. I like to do the same thing, which is why a couple weeks ago, I went looking for a new audiobook company, and I came across Libro.fm. Libro.fm is an audiobook company, which allows you to purchase your audiobooks directly
0:57.6	from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 100,000 audiobooks, including
1:01.5	New York Times bestsellers, recommendations for bookstores around the country, and also a playlist
1:05.8	curated by The Road to Now featuring our past guests. With Libro.fm, you'll get the same
1:10.2	audiobook at the same price as the other audiobook companies, whatever they are, but you'll be part of a much different story, one that supports community.
1:18.9	If you're new to audiobooks, they're the perfect way to get more books into your busy life.
1:22.2	All you need is a smartphone and the free Libro FM app.
1:25.2	If you already love audiobooks and don't know what to listen to. Check out recommendations from our podcast featuring guests, including Jefferson Cowley, Douglas Brinkley. There's so many of them. You can go check it out. I made the playlist myself, and I'm really proud to do this. The best part about Libro.fm is that you literally are sponsoring your local bookstore. And if you're anything like me, you really like your local bookstore, but sometimes you want audiobooks. Well, here is the solution to the problem. Road to Now listeners can get a three-month audiobook membership for the price of one month. That means for just $15, you can sign up and you'll get three months with one free book. And if you're anything like me, you're going to download a giant biography of like grant or something and listen to it over the course of a month. It's all the same price, $15 a month. How do you get that? All you have to do is go to Libro.fm. That's L-I-B-R-O. Dot, letter F, letter M, and enter the promo code, RTN at the top of the page.
2:18.8	And they also have gifts.
2:20.0	Give them the gift of knowledge.
2:22.0	Just go to Libro.fm, enter the promo code RTN, and we thank you for listening.
2:29.1	I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now.
2:32.2	Bob, what's happening?
2:33.5	Oh, not much. Well, that is a, that is an
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