My guest Cameron Herold. Alright. I've got a little word association for you. I'm going to say a word and I want you to note, be aware of what words come to mind immediately. Are you ready? The word is meetings. Okay. How are you doing? What words come to mind? Is it dread? Is it nasty? Is it barf? Seriously, what comes to mind when you hear the word meetings? I mean, it's so sad but it's a necessary tool of modern business, the meeting, but why does it cause us so much angst, why does it cause us to run and hide? It doesn't have to be that way. Meetings do not have to suck. In fact, my guest is here to help. We're talking with Cameron Herold and he's written a book called Meetings Suck: Turning One of the Most Loathed Elements in Business Into One of the Most Valuable. Cameron is a guy who can speak to this. He's the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth. He was entrepreneur basically from day one at 21. At 21, he already had 14 employees. At 35, he had built 200 million dollar companies, his first 2. He's gone on to do more. At age 42 Cameron helped engineer 1-800-GOT-JUNK's spectacular growth from 2 million to 106 million in revenue and he did that in just 6 years. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Cameron's Podcast: "Second in Command"  Cameron Herold on Amazon Interview:  Mitch: Lots of tools, lots of leadership tools, effectiveness tools in his bag, but one subject that I really want to tap into, especially when I saw this book was how do we make our meetings not suck. Let's get to this. Cameron, welcome to Dream Think Do. Cameron: Hey, Mitch. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Mitch: Absolutely. I got to ask, I mean, I love this and we could spend so much time on so many of your other successes and I mean, I know you've had them and I know you got a number of other books out there, but why decide to write a book on meetings? Cameron: It's interesting. One of my clients, who is a YPO member, Young Presidents Organization, he's from Tampa, Florida, his company's called BlueGrace Logistics. I started coaching him when he had about 60 employees of the last 4 years and now, it's about 700 employees. I was talking to him about a year ago and he was complaining about his meetings. He was saying, "You know, our meetings really suck. Can we start getting some coaching on our meetings?" I went, "Well, wait a second. Meetings don't suck." He goes, "No. Ours really suck." I'm like, "Okay." Mitch: No, you got to understand, ours really suck, yeah. Cameron: I said, "Have you had any training or has your management team had any training about how to run meetings?" He said, "No. I don't think anybody's ever been trained on how to run them." I said, "Okay. Have any of your employees actually had any training on how to show up and attend or participate in meetings?" He goes, "No. Nobody's ever been trained on how to show up in them." I said, "Well, the problem isn't that meetings suck. The problem is that your team sucks at running them and your team sucks at attending them." I said, "It's not any different than little league baseball." Mitch: Yeah. Cameron: You would present our kid of as an eight-year-old to little league baseball without showing him how to hold the bat and how to hold the glove and how to catch a ball. We'd at least give him the basics- Mitch: Yeah. Cameron: If you don't give him the basics, they'd come back from the first day at little league and go, "Baseball sucks." Well, baseball doesn't suck at all but my kid sucks at baseball. Mitch: Right. Cameron: I decided to codify, in a very simple format, so that every employee at every company, for $15 would know how to show up at meetings, participate in them and how to run them. That was the Genesis of the book, Meetings Suck, was my client, Bobby Harris at BlueGrace Logistics. Amazingly, they just raised $255 million last year from Warburg Pincus to continually scale their gr...

My guest is Congressman Ro Khanna, who represents California's 17th Congressional District, which is located in the heart of Silicon Valley. The congressman is serving in his first term and currently sits on the House budget and the Armed Services committees. Listen To The Podcast:   Now I know what you might be thinking dream think doers, you might be thinking wait, we don't talk politics on Dream, Think, Do. That is true, but I didn't invite the congressman on the podcast to talk about politics. Recently I met Ro at an event we were both at, and we realized we have a heart, we both have a heart for rural America. Ro is actually working hard on some really innovative strategies to bring high tech jobs to small towns instead of sending them kind of over places in the world. As you guys know, I come from a small town and I believe that some of the biggest and best ideas come from small towns. So we had a connection. Plus, I'm just fascinated with the guy. He's got an incredible story. I'll let you know here a bit more. Mitch: Now Representative Khanna was born in Philadelphia to a middle class family. His parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 70s from India in search of an opportunity and a better life for their family, for their kids. His father was a chemical engineer. His mother was a substitute teacher. Now this guy is no schlepp okay. He got his BA in economics from the University of Chicago, and received his law degree from Yale University. Not bad. From there Ro went on to such things as teaching economics at Stanford, as well as teaching law at Santa Clara University and American Jurisprudence at San Francisco State University. I could go on and on, but I'm just going to bullet point some things because we'll come back to them. Mitch: But one, this is some of the cool stuff that he's done that stands out to me. He provided pro bono legal counsel to Hurricane Katrina victims. He wrote a book called Entrepreneurial Nation, Why Manufacturing Is Still Key to America's Future. He served in President Barrack Obama's administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Get this, this is staggering, this is horrifying, since he's been in office he's attended over 1,900 events. That number's probably even gone up since I got this data, and he's responded to over 70,000 personal correspondence. Sheesh! So, he's getting stuff done. No matter where you land politically, that's an impressive list, and he's a good guy. I'm leaving a lot out, I could go longer, but after meeting Ro I wanted you guys to hear from him because I wanted to get in his head a little bit and hear about his journey and hear how he's getting all this stuff done too. Mitch: Let's get to this. Congressman Khanna, welcome to Dream, Think, Do. Ro Khanna: Thank you. I'm so excited about this. I love your podcast. It's all about inspiration at a time I think we could use more of that, so thanks for having me on. It's a real honor. Mitch: Absolutely. I love it. Okay so I just read off some of your accomplishments. I hope it made you blush a little bit. You can share it [crosstalk 00:03:06] and all that. Ro Khanna: They leave out all the failures. I've always wondered about the introduction. If someone could just do an introduction of all your failures at some point. Mitch: Exactly. You're right. And then you're just like ugh. Ro Khanna: They didn't mention that I lost my first election 19% to 72%, or I lost my second time, or something. They conveniently omit all your failures. Mitch: Yeah, that's a different Wikipedia page right. I love it. Well I appreciate you listing some of those off too. We'll go after some of that just later too because I do think, I mean you've battled back from different things too and I love that. But okay so I see this list, I see you're in the House of Representatives, you're doing it, what were you like as a kid? I mean were you,

My guest is McKenna Hasse.  Mckenna is a 21 year old race car driver from my town, Des Moines, Iowa. She primarily races at the Knoxville raceway, which is known as the Sprint Car Capital of the World. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: http://www.mckennahaase.com/ Interview:  Now, get this, Mckenna is Knoxville's first and only female feature winner in over 100 years. She's got this incredible record and she's got her sights on NASCAR!. And her driving career is impressive in and of itself. But her record off the track is really what grabbed my attention. Again, did I mention she's 21? And she owns and operates her own sprint car team, which is a business, it's got to be in order to make this thing happen. So she's doing that. She also operates her own youth driver development program called Compass Racing Development LLC. So cool. She's a business student at Drake University where she's involved with a number of organizations ranging from the Drake Investment Club, to the Drake American Marketing Association, to the fellowship of Christian athletes. And as you hear from her, she is awesome and energetic and fun, but you should know she's also tougher than crap. In addition to driving a sprint car, she also has a second degree black belt in TaeKwonDo, and she does some Ninja Warrior training and gymnastics to boot. So she's gotten so much done in a short period of time, and I think once you hear from her, you'll hear why. But I think she's just getting started. And I wanted to have her on, especially since we're celebrating the beginning of the year, we're busting into 2019, we're all committed to making this our best year ever, I just wanted you to hear from more people like Mckenna. So let's get to this. Mitch Matthews: Mckenna Haase welcome to Dream.Think.Do. Mckenna Haase: Thank you for having me. Mitch Matthews: So I've been inspired by your story from afar for a while, and I've got so many questions for you. But just to kind of help Dream.Think.Doers from all over the world who maybe aren't familiar with sprint cars, give us a little explanation of sprint cars versus like a NASCAR car. Mckenna Haase: So sprint car racing is open wheel, open cockpit, and so it kind of looks like an Indy car, but the cage's a little bit taller and there's wings on top. And one on the top, that's really big, and then one smaller one on the front to help weigh it down for us. Mitch Matthews: We should just explain that. The wings aren't to make you fly, it's because you're going so fast, you could fly, the wings are actually meant to keep you on the track, right? Mckenna Haase: Yes, exactly. Mitch Matthews: Exactly. Mckenna Haase: And then they weigh about 1500 pounds or so, which is about like half the way of a normal vehicle. And then they have anywhere from 500 to 900 horsepower depending on what class you're in, which can range in speeds of 100 to 150 miles an hour. Mitch Matthews: So you're basically strapped into a rocket that is open. You've got a cage around you and stuff, but it's open. It's just got to be the adrenaline rush. Plus, you're on a track that's basically a mud track, but if I understand sprint cars, the longer the evening goes, the more races, the more the track basically becomes like ice, like driving on patches of ice? Mckenna Haase: Exactly. And the tracks are a lot shorter than NASCAR tracks. Mitch Matthews: Yeah. How short are they? What's the distance around in Knoxville? Mckenna Haase: Knox is the largest, or one of the largest sprint car tracks in the world. It's a half mile on the inside of the track and then the smaller tracks can go down to a quarter mile. Mitch Matthews: And is that tougher? Like is the smaller track tougher because you're just constantly turning, or? Mckenna Haase: Well, we turned right to go left because our cars drift, and so we're actually on certain tracks like early in the night, we're full throttle.

Year of No Fear with Mitch Matthews I'm Mitch Matthews and we're declaring 2019 as the "Year of No Fear."  I know that's a bold statement but I believe this is the year to break free from worry and fear!  So let's do this. Listen To The Podcast: I think we need to draw a line in the sand and say, if fear is holding you back in any way, I want to say this is the year we bust through that together. I hope you're with me on this. Here's the thing, if you don't deal with worry, God bless you. That's fantastic. Maybe you don't need this episode, maybe you should just listen to this episode for those other people in the world, because there's plenty of them. I can tell you that the stats show that we get nailed by worry a lot. A lot of people get worried, a lot. They get hit by it. In fact, 72% of the American population, the workforce in America, says they're impacted by worry. 70%, the last was 72 ... 70% say that they lost sleep due to worry. 82%, get this, 82% of primary care visits are stress and worry related in the United States. How crazy is that? I just gave you something new to worry about. How about that? Here's the thing is that I know for a fact that fear, in the past at least, has held me back. I know, with talking to so many different people about going after their dreams. Dreams that people are passionate about, people are excited about, all of that. I've seen fear kill more dreams before they get started, but also as they're launching, as they start to actually have success. I've seen fear sneak in, and steal it. Either shut down the dream or steal away the joy. I've experienced it myself. I've seen it in others. And I've just decided, you know what, as Dream, Think, Doers, I want to make 2019 the year of no fear. We're not going to do this perfectly, but just think about it. Just think of a year where we are beating back fear with a stick. Specifically worry, right. We are going to be able to go past, blast past worry. I hope you join me in on this. In this particular episode, what we're going to do is we're going to go after renewing your mind. Renewing your thinking. Specifically, we're going to go after three things in your brain. Three key components in your brain that deal with worry. We're gonna give you some tools, some specific things to be able to redirect that thinking. What we're going to do is periodically, it's not going to be the whole season, or the whole year, we're going to come back to his. We're going to revisit different strategies for overcoming worry. To live in joy. To live in creativity. To be innovative. To be in the moment. To have our best thinking, our best lives, all of that. Are you in? I hope so. Today, we're going to get specific. We're going after the brain. We're going after thinking. Just know that this is the beginning of something big. I'm excited you're still here. I assume since we're still talking that you're in, so join me here. One other thing that I want to speak to as we're going after worry, quick, just again, beat it over the head a little bit. Is that some crazy data came out recently on the subject of worry. This just ticked me off, all the more. It's just one more reason why we're going after this. A recent study looked at, basically people who said they worried. What they did is they had them journal, document the things they were actually worried about, over the course of time. A shocking thing, actually not so shocking, wasn't surprising at all, but offensive. All right? Came out of that subject, and the study was by Robert Leahy, PhD. It was spoken to actually out of the book The Worry Cure. Recently looking at it, actually the author of that book, The Worry Cure, Robert Leahy, PhD. Here's the thing, the data was interesting in that. Had all these people journaling the things that they were worried about. What they did, then they also looked back retrospectively and said, “Okay, of those things that you worried about,