Donald Miller

Donald Miller is an American author and business owner based in Nashville, Tennessee. According to Wikipedia, he was born on August 12, 1971, in Pearland, Texas, later moved to Portland, Oregon, and has lived in Nashville since 2013. He first became known for the memoir Blue Like Jazz (2003); his later business books include Building a StoryBrand (2017), Business Made Simple (2021), Marketing Made Simple and How to Grow Your Small Business. His best-known method is the StoryBrand 7-part framework, which applies story structure to marketing messages, with the customer cast as the hero and the business as the guide. He should not be confused with the historian Donald L. Miller or other people named Don Miller.

His businesses are StoryBrand, Business Made Simple and Coach Builder. The StoryBrand and Business Made Simple websites are published under the copyright of Donald Miller Words, LLC. His speaking site, donaldmiller.com, describes him as the CEO of all three brands and the author of 10 books, and says his books have spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list in total; the StoryBrand site says the original Building a StoryBrand has sold more than one million copies and now sells an updated edition, Building a StoryBrand 2.0. These figures come from his own websites and no independent source for them was checked.

He publishes on the YouTube channel StoryBrand With Donald Miller (@StoryBrand), which links to storybrand.com and showed 91.1K subscribers and 516 videos on September 14, 2026. He hosts The StoryBrand Podcast with co-host J.J. Peterson, a weekly show on Apple Podcasts that was earlier titled Business Made Simple with Donald Miller. He has been interviewed on business podcasts such as Smart Passive Income and Amy Porterfield's show.

What he sells, according to the official websites read on September 14, 2026: StoryBrand Your Business LIVE, a two-day workshop in Nashville (December 1-2, 2026) with Standard tickets at $1,999, team tickets at $1,749 each for groups of four or more, and a Platinum ticket at $4,900; the StoryBrand Guide Certification, an in-person training in Nashville followed by 12 months of coaching and community access, at $9,999; the StoryBrand Soundbite Strategy On-Demand Course, whose price is not shown on its sales page; the StoryBrand Messaging Intervention, a four-week project with a strategist, starting at $25,000; and a Fractional CMO engagement of eight weeks working with him directly, starting at $100,000. Business Made Simple is a membership of on-demand business courses at $275 per year with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Coach Builder is a 12-month application-only membership for working coaches priced at $10,000 for the first year and $5,000 per year to renew. He also takes paid keynote bookings through donaldmiller.com, with no fee published.

On reputation: Wikipedia records that he served on a presidential advisory council on fatherhood and healthy families in 2009 and founded The Mentoring Project, a nonprofit for young people without fathers. In the searches made for this profile on September 14, 2026 (his name with lawsuit, FTC and controversy), no court case, regulatory action or press-reported dispute involving him or StoryBrand was found; the FTC database and state business registries could not be queried directly, so that absence is not confirmed. Results about the StoryBrand framework and a critical opinion post on Medium were not counted as independent reporting.