My guest today is Britton Murdock Nunn, and she is the entrepreneur behind The Biggest Little Fashion Truck in Reno, Nevada. My team and I got to meet Britton recently when we hosted a Big Dream Gathering at the University of Nevada. I will let her tell her story, but the very short version is she was on a career track that wasn't a good fit. But she decided to make some changes, and that led her to launch an innovative, crazy-cool business involving fashion, fun and a big pink truck! Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: Website: biggestlittlefashiontruck.com INTERVIEW: Britton, welcome to DREAM THINK DO. Oh, my gosh. Thank you for having me. This is just fun. We're just gonna get to continue a conversation we started in Reno. I'm so in. I'm so excited. I love it. Okay, so DREAM THINK DO-ers, just know this. We're going to talk about this Biggest Little Fashion Truck, and you guys are gonna love it. If you want to see footage of this, just go to mitchmatthews.com/208, and we'll include the video where we got to spend the day with Britton. So you'll actually get to see it, and I do want you to see it, because it's so, so cool. Britton, when you describe The Biggest Little Fashion Truck to someone, how do you describe what it is that you do? First, I always start with just a fashion truck in general, and what it is. A fashion truck operates and looks similar to a food truck, so we do popups around town, in front of local businesses or inside local businesses. You might find us in or near wine bars, lash extension studios, doctors' offices. You name it, we've probably done it. And then we set up festivals downtown, so we pop up on the street and you can shop inside the truck. And then we do just a lot of home parties, so we go to people's homes and we set up inside for a little private shopping event for your friends, or birthday parties, or whatever it may be. So, it looks and operates very similarly to a food truck, except we sell women's clothing. It doesn't smell the same as a food truck. But it looks awesome, right? And, guys, you've gotta know this is a big, pink, four-wheel-drive, dreamy vehicle that is not necessarily easy to drive. It certainly doesn't look easy to drive. But it is awesome when it comes pulling up to a location, which is just so much fun. It really is. I gotta say, when our researcher brought up your story and said, "She's got a fashion truck." I'm like, "Cool. What is a fashion truck?" Is this a common thing? Are fashion trucks happening all over the place? I mean, you are literally the first time I've ever heard of it. Well, I think that they're getting big in bigger cities, which I think everything kind of starts in New York, LA. So there are fashion trucks, and there's a lot of fashion trailers where people pull a retro-cool Airstream behind them, and then you can shop inside it or something like that. I have seen a few that look similar to mine, as far as truck model. But I'm the first and only one in Reno, so I'm pretty new in this area. Yeah. So, you're kinda teaching people what it is as you're doing it. Yes. It's definitely a new idea, a new concept, especially for the businesses that I work with. I mean, there's no one that's out there doing this, so I'm kind of having to initiate the negotiations with other businesses. Yeah, absolutely. You make it a win-win. For some businesses, they're doing it for their employees. For some businesses, they're doing it for their clients. Or some people are just having parties as you said, and you're showing up and doing it at their houses. Yeah. I think a lot of businesses who want to get more foot traffic on, let's say like one of their dead nights, maybe like a Wednesday or Thursday. I'll pop in, and then people come to their business, so it drives foot traffic for them. And then also, if it's like a wine bar or something, then it drives drink sales. Hello, drinking and shopping? Come on.

My guest is Melissa Johnson Matthews.  My bride is joining me on this episode of Dream Think Do. How cool is that? Plus not only am I joined by my favorite person on the planet but I get to discuss one of my favorite subjects on the planet.  Prayer. That's right, we're going after prayer. The subject of prayer and the reason for that is I think fourfold. Listen To The Podcast: I came up with four different reasons so get ready. Reason one, we've had a number of awesome guests on this year talking about meditation and how that plays into their lives and how that's helped them. I've mentioned on several occasions that I enjoy and absolutely appreciate meditation and at the same time, I pray. I think meditation is complementary to prayer but at the same time different than prayer. Many of you have picked up on that and started to ask questions. You’ve asked how prayer plays into my life. When do I pray? How do I do it? What does it look like for me? You want to talk about it and I love that. So I’m going to answer some of your questions, and we’ll be talking with Melissa too. She's incredibly wise. Prayer is near and dear to her heart too and she teaches on this subject a lot. She teaches classes on prayer as well as she heads up a program called Alpha at our church. It’s an international program. It’s kind of a Faith:101 class and prayer is a big part of it. When I think about prayer, I think about Melissa so I wanted to have her on to join me in this conversation. INTERVIEW: Melissa, welcome, finally to DREAM THINK DO. Well, thank you. It's really good to be here. Hey, DREAM THINK DO family, it's good to meet you finally. No joke, holy cow, like you've been a part of the family forever, you've helped to make all of this happened but now you finally get to be on the microphone. Yes, dangerous spot people, dangerous. Right and… everybody.. put a seatbelt on and get ready for Mrs. Matthews, this is going to be fun. We've been married 26 years. Yes, I believe so, if our math is correct, we've been married for 26 years. Which is just amazing. Yeah, it's pretty crazy and you haven't aged at all. Right. Thanks, honey. Ok. So prayer is a big part of our lives. You teach on it, so before we start to dive into this, what should we speak to before we dive into this subject of prayer? Well, I love talking about prayer. I could talk about prayer all day long and so, we may end up doing this a little longer than your normal podcast, but one of the things that we have to acknowledge before we start talking about this is that you and I will be coming from a Christian perspective. There are all kinds of prayer in the world. All religions of course and most cultures have a form of prayer in some way. It's important to honor the fact that every religion is going to pray differently. That's the first step that we need to acknowledge. So you and I will be coming from a Christian perspective. That's important because the things that we talk about are unique to a Christian perspective and to honor those other religions, I can't speak to exactly what prayer means for them but prayer is such an interesting topic because like I said most people around the world pray and prayer looks different for every person. There are some folks that are more comfortable with a formula or more of a written or a ritual kind of prayer. Some people like to go as I like to say, kind of free-wheeling and four-wheeling, right? They experience it and they say it or they think it. Prayer can take many forms and I am happy to just answer any of the questions that your listeners had or dig into whatever you'd like. Great. The thing about DREAM THINK DO that's been one of my favorite aspects is we've had so many different people on. We celebrate so many different vantage points, so many different perspectives on life. A lot of different faith backgrounds and all of that.

My guest is Jack Nasher and he is the founder of the Nasher Negotiation Institute. He's a leading negotiation expert and one of the world’s best-known experts on deception detection. He went to Oxford and was the youngest appointee to get a full professorship at the esteemed Munich Business School at the age of 31. He's also now a visiting faculty member at Stanford University. Listen To The Podcast:   He applies his passions for reading people in a number of ways, and now also performs as a mentalist at the world-renowned Magic Castle in Hollywood. He's got a new book out. It's called Convinced: How to Prove Your Competence and Win People Over. We're going to talk about the book, some of his adventures, and most importantly dig into some strategies to help reinforce that you are confident, you're ready, you're worth listening to. So, let's get to this. RESOURCES: Convinced!: How to Prove Your Competence & Win People Over Book  INTERVIEW: Jack. Welcome to DREAM THINK DO, buddy. Thank you very much. Thanks a lot. With that intro, I don't even have to say anything. It's done. We're already done. Thanks so much for being on the show, Jack. Yeah, that was good. Alright. I so want to get into the content of the book because it's awesome, but you're a negotiation expert, you are a reader of people, a mentalist. Is this something you've always been drawn to? Were you doing this kind of stuff when you were a kid? Well, yeah. I mean, it's a skillset. It's not that I was born with some ability. I wish I were you know? Some aliens kidnapped me and gave me this, but it didn't happen. You know, when I was a kid I loved magic. I had a magic set, and I would perform at children's birthday parties, weddings, and all of that. Then when I studied psychology I found that there is a different sort of magic and yes, it's called mentalism, and that's kind of mixing magic with psychology. So, basically it's using your five known senses to create the illusion of a sixth sense to be able to read minds, to know what people are thinking, and it's very interesting to see, you know, what you can actually do. How can you influence people? And I do that on stage, I do that in Hollywood, I do that for various functions and events. It's fun. It's just the other side of psychology. Right. I mean, it is a fun application for a lot of serious science and psychology here. Well, to be honest, it's actually more honest negotiations because at least you tell them at the beginning that you're going to deceive them. Negotiations are not like that. That's a great way to look at it. Yeah. In a negotiation, of course, you want to get the max and you don't want people to find out that you used psychological tactics and techniques, which you sometimes do, but it's always up to my clients what they want to use. I'm like a doctor. I'm just telling you what's possible and it's up to you to decide what treatment you want. Yeah. Absolutely. And, I mean, to have the moniker of deception detection. Tell me more about that. How does that work for you? Well, yeah, it's interesting because actually, the reason why I got into that many years ago was that I was quite naïve you know? I believed stuff. Yeah. And so I thought, "I've got to do something against that." You know? Because I always felt that people could easily take advantage of me. Even though I studied psychology I never heard of any studies concerning deception detection, but then as I looked into that, actually there were hundreds of studies. Paul Ekman is the only one you kind of know, Microexpression, you've probably heard of it. And there was a great TV show “Lie to Me” on Fox with Tim Roth. Great show and there is a lot of scientific stuff going on that people don't know about. I read everything about it for a year you know? I kind of made notes for myself, and then I had so many notes and I kind of wrote a handbook for myself and I n...

Today my guest is Thane Marcus Ringler. Thane was a professional golfer but when a back injury forced him to make a change… he decided to come alongside leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals to help them apply the elite athlete mindset to everyday life. Listen To The Podcast:   Thane's new book is: From Here To There: A Quarter-Life Perspective on the Path to Mastery. I know we're wrapping up 2018 as you're listening to this, and I know many of you are thinking about different ways to set yourself up for new levels of success in 2019. We talk about going after big dreams, especially if you're feeling like your dream's taken some hits or maybe even hit a dead end. RESOURCES: From Here To There: A Quarter-Life Perspective on the Path to Mastery Book: https://www.thanemarcus.com/book/from-here-to-there Website: thanemarcus.com INTERVIEW: Thane, welcome to DREAM THINK DO, brother. Thanks for having me, Mitch. It's going to be a fun time today, excited to see what comes of it. No kidding. Me too. You were a professional golfer for four years or so. When did that hit you as a dream? Were you three years old and hitting golf balls? Yeah. Well, I was three years old swinging a golf club. I don't know how many balls I was hitting at that age. I didn't know what I was doing exactly, but it was fun because dad was out there. Yeah, so it started at three or four, and really, the dream of it, of playing professionally, I would say, didn't really take root for me until college. It was always a bigger dream for my dad. He obviously wanted me to play professionally, and that was a goal or at least an idea or thought and vision he had, but I was always a little too realistic or practical to let myself entertain that idea until it became much closer to reality. I withheld that as a dream because I didn't want to be let down by not reaching it, right? In college, once I started getting closer and closer, I started getting a little more excited about it and seeing it as an actual possibility. Can you remember a moment where you thought, "This could happen." Maybe it was a game or a particular shot where you're like, "Okay, maybe I can do this." I wouldn't say there's a specific moment, but I would say that my sophomore and junior year in college were really the times that it started sinking in more. I got a couple of wins under my belt and could see my scoring average in my game progress consistently and could see how I stacked up against others at a broader range, a broader pool of players. That was when I really started entertaining it and saying, "Okay. This could be a possibility.", and then starting to figure out what that would look like. And then it wasn't until between my junior and senior year was really when I wanted to make the decision. I wanted to decide if I would commit to doing it or not and that was because I really wanted to not waste time. A lot of guys will graduate from college and then play the summer after as an amateur and then try to raise money that Fall for Q School. I wanted to jumpstart into it a little bit faster and just turn professional right after graduating. So, I. I really reached out to coaches, to friends, to family, to other people that knew me, knew my game and knew the field, other players who had played to get some background research and just try to get an objective view of is this really a good opportunity, is this something I'm capable of pursuing. The feedback was, yes, it's worth a shot, you have the skills, the toolset, go for it. So, my senior year I worked the whole school year on developing a business plan so that I would have the funds needed to launch right in, right after I graduated, which was a great learning process as well. My grandpa was a great influence in that. I came up with this plan and then pitched it to individuals in my life and to people, I knew who might be interested or able to invest,