My guest is NASCAR's Jon Housholder. Jon is a two time Emmy awarding winning producer at NASCAR Productions. He produces, he directs, he edits, he features race open trailers, commercials, the whole thing. He's also worked on several nationally televised sports documentaries during his time at NASCAR. One of the most recent is Unrivaled: Earnhardt versus Gordon. That was pretty good. I think I hurt my throat. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Interview: Mitch: Hey there and welcome to Dream, Think, Do. I'm Mitch Matthews. I've got an awesome interview for you today so strap in and get ready. Today we are talking to NASCAR's own Jon Housholder. Jon is a two time Emmy awarding winning producer at NASCAR Productions. He produces, he directs, he edits, he features race open trailers, commercials, the whole thing. He's also worked on several nationally televised sports documentaries during his time at NASCAR. One of the most recent is Unrivaled: Earnhardt versus Gordon. That was pretty good. I think I hurt my throat. Jon: That was incredible. That's incredible. I'm very impressed. Mitch: All right. So I have to admit that I am a total newb when it comes to NASCAR. But even when I saw that trailer my heart rate increased, my adrenaline went up, all of that just watching the trailer one time. I was like dang it. So it's obvious Jon and the team that he gets to work with, they do an incredible job so whether you like NASCAR or not you're want to go check out some of his work. It's incredible. In addition to producing documentaries, Jon also wrote and directed an award winning short film called "Withdrawn in Trepidation." Which appeared at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival awards. Prior to working at NASCAR Jon worked at Menards in their corporate broadcast advertising department where he developed weekly advertising plans and created television and web advertising. Jon is the proud graduate of Wartburg College. What's up Wartburg? In Waverley, Iowa with a degree of public relations and electronics media and a leadership minor. While he was there he was also student body vice president and a two sport athlete. Football and track if you're interested. Jon is originally from West Des Moines, Iowa. But currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife Liz. He is truly living the dream, think, do life. So it's time to have him on the show. Jon, welcome to Dream, think, do, buddy. Jon: Mitch Matthews. Thank you so much for having me man. Mitch: This is crazy cool. Jon: This is very cool. Mitch: I mean I love all of my guests but some I love a little bit more than others, man. And we've known each other for a long time. Jon: Yes we have. Yes we have. Mitch: Yes so your dad is Mike Housholder, the pastor of the church that we've been going to since 2000, I think. 2000, 2001. So we've been a big fan of you and your family for a very long time. I kind of got to see you grow up in production arts. I remember you doing films when you were in high school. Jon: Oh yeah. I used to have the... I would help the production team every now and then at my dad's church. And that was always a great learning experience. Mitch: Oh yeah. No joke. And it's always kind of, I would imagine with NASCAR it's like you got to get a big project done and it's got to be done in three hours or less, all that. I'm sure that some of the lower budget church stuff that had to be done, turned around all that stuff probably was great great ground to get to work that. So I love it. So with Dream, Think, Doers now that you're listening in I want to give you a little road map of where we're headed because I'm going to talk with Jon a little bit about day to day because he does some really cool stuff. Long hours, but amazing stuff. So I want to get a little taste of that. But then we're also going to go back because he's got this great story of getting this position.

My guest is venture capitalist Greg Sands. Greg is the founder and managing partner for Costanoa Ventures, an early stage VC firm based in Palo Alto, California. I can tell you I've met Greg and he's got passion. Passion for life and passion for entrepreneurship. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Twitter: @gsands, @costanoavc Website: costanoavc.com Interview: Mitch Matthews: He worked, even as he was growing up, worked in a community bank, so he started to get to know the ins and outs of entrepreneurship early and up close. In college, he even co-founded a micro enterprise incubator in East Palo Alto. Before founding Costanoa, Greg was a managing director at Sutter Hill where he had a number of huge successes. Plus he was the first product manager at Netscape Communications where he helped to write the business plans. He even coined the name Netscape and built SuiteSpot a business unit. That unit went from zero to $140 million annually. Amazing. No schlep either. He went to Harvard for his undergrad, Stanford for his MBA. But most importantly, he's the proud father of four, and apparently around Palo Alto, he simply known as Sara Sands' husband. I know what that's like. I love it. Hey Greg, welcome to Dream, Think, Do, buddy. Greg Sands: Thanks. It's great to be here with you. Mitch Matthews: I love it. So, okay. Many, many facets to venture capital. How do you describe specifically what you do? Greg Sands: Well, our job is fundamentally to find extraordinary entrepreneurs working on important problems and then make an investment and support them through the entrepreneurial life cycle and journey. It's extraordinary work. I honestly feel grateful to do it everyday. Mitch Matthews: I bet. And I'm sure peaks and valleys, adventures and horror stories all go along in that. Again, as we got to interact even in Jefferson, it was just obvious you are in a sweet spot where you're really truly getting to do something you love. Now we've got a lot of different people, as you and I have talked about, we got a lot of different listeners to Dream, Think, Do, but a lot of younger listeners also just anybody that's kind of also trying to find that sweet spot in life. So I love to ask some questions about that a little bit as well. When did it start to sink in that maybe this was your gig? This was your jam? Was that at an early age as well? Or was that something you uncovered over time? Greg Sands: No, uncovered over time. I mean it's interesting. I would say my career has not been one that's been planned very top down. I tend to be bottoms up and kind of sense of direction and push towards it. So I was working at a consulting firm out of college. I was working with pharmaceutical R&D and environmental technology and I basically decided to go to business school at Stanford because I wanted to put myself in the middle of Silicon Valley. And I didn't know that much about it, but it felt like the right direction for me to focus on smaller organizations and entrepreneurial organizations and technology driven organizations. Greg Sands: And so I just throw myself into the middle of it. And then within that ecosystem just started exploring. And so I happened to be introduced to Jim Clark as he and Mark Andreessen were founding Netscape. So some of that is right place, right time, as you mentioned. Got to write the first business plan and shipped the first products and build the suite of Internet server software. And in the end, by virtue of being in and around that ecosystem, playing a hands on role first as a product manager and software business and in and around the emergence of the Internet, actually got a call about the venture capital business. And I hadn't really been thinking about it. But as I spent six months talking to people, exploring, getting to know the team at Sutter Hill, I came to to think that it was a place that would use a lot of my skills that would move some of my passions and the...

My guest is Melissa Johnson-Matthews.  That's right!  My bride is back and we're talking about the 5 Love Languages! Listen To The Podcast: Resources: https://www.5lovelanguages.com/profile/ Interview: Melissa: Hello Dream. Think. Do. family. Mitch Matthews: Absolutely. We had such great feedback from our episode right around Christmas time, where we were talking about prayer, I hope you guys enjoyed that. We heard back from so many of you. In fact, a number of you reach out to ask if we would dive into some different subjects, one of which being how do you dream together as a couple, how do you go after goals together as a couple, all of those things. And that's gonna be something we're gonna dive into in a future episode, so stand by for that. Mitch Matthews: But what we realized was, before we start talking about going after dreams and goals together and all of that, we need to talk about laying that foundation of love. Since it's Valentine's Day week we thought what a perfect week to dive into that conversation. And specifically we're gonna dive into one of our favorite tools to use to help us love each other better, and that is a book that was written by Dr. Gary Chapman called The Five Love Languages. Now we read the original book, now there's like 50 different iterations of this concept, but we're gonna be talking about those love languages that Gary Chapman talks about in his book. We're gonna talk with you about what they are, but more so we're gonna focus on application, because a lot of you, you're readers, you're smart people, you're all over this stuff. So there's a very good change you're already well versed with The Five Love Languages. And if that's the case, awesome. Mitch Matthews: We're gonna do a quick overview of what those five love languages are, and what they are individually, and kind of what they are globally. But more importantly we're gonna focus more on application. Now we do all of this with a caveat, in that, we first read this book how long ago do you think? Melissa: I bet probably 10 or 12 years ago. Mitch Matthews: Yeah 10 or 12 years ago, that seems like a long time ago. But I was grateful for it at the time, and I've been grateful for it ever since. We've actually had the chance to teach on these concepts many, many times. And every time I'm grateful for it because it's a great refresher course, because we all need to be reminded of these concepts. And so I'm grateful for this opportunity today, and again, we're doing this not from the standpoint of we are experts and we have this all figured out. Melissa: Absolutely not. Mitch Matthews: That's right. More so we do this from the standpoint of, we are scientists, and we are continually experimenting with these concepts. So today we're gonna be learning together, and we're gonna be talking about these together. Now just before we get started or dive into just a quick overview of the love languages, how would you explain them just broadly Mel, like not necessarily individually, but broadly? Like the love languages themselves. Melissa: Well the love languages are a way of speaking, they're almost like, you know how in the South there's a Southern accent, in the northern United States you sound like a Norwegian, yeah, sure. And that's where I'm from so that's why I sound like that. You know, if you're from Boston you sound like you're from Boston. If you are from Southern California you sound like you're from Southern California. So there's some accents. And the love languages are kind of like that too, it's your way of speaking, and it's your way of interpreting life. It's also kind of a lens that you see things through. Melissa: And so it's important to know that when you love someone, whether it's your spouse, your child, any significant other, any person that's in your life, they are going to feel love in different ways. And it may be a completely different way than you feel love.

Intentional Identity Statements with Mitch Matthews I’m Mitch Matthews and we're doing a deep dive into something we call Intentional Identity Statements. Listen To The Podcast: Today… it’s just you and me… that’s right. It’s a deep dive… and we’re talking about… Identity Statements. Okay… let’s do this. Identity Statements. We all have them. Most are just not intentional. Identity statements are those statements you say about yourself… the things you believe about yourself. Most of us say them all the time… but we don’t realize it. I’m a worrier. I’m always late. I’m so unorganized. I never win those things. My money always seems to run out before my month does. Ever said… or thought something like that? Well… that’s an identity statement. What’s crazy… is that our beliefs tend to shape how we see the world… right? So… if you believe… and say… “I’m a worrier.” How do you think your subconscious it going to react to that? More importantly… if you’ve said that about yourself for years… which… by the way… I did… so this is why I know it’s true… “I’m a worrier.” “I always worry.” “That’s just who I am. I worry.” Well… if that’s what you believe. If that’s what you say. Your brain… and your heart… are going to stick with it. So… even if you read a book… or go to a workshop… or… commit to making a change about worrying less… unless you deal with your underlying identity statements… you’re never going to have success. That’s why we’re going after this concept… in our year of no fear! I know a LOT of you have responded to challenge I issued in episode 209… declaring this… the year of no fear. We’re going to beat back fear and worry… and make this our best year ever. So we’re digging into this concept! And hey… the upside… is that if you deal with worry… this will help! BUT you can also apply this concept of Identity Statements to other areas of your life… like losing weight and getting in shape… or developing a new skill… or launching a business… or growing wealth… or growing in your faith. Yup… this strategy will help. And by the way… it’s not magic either. I do not believe… and I’m not saying… that as you create your identity statement… that then “poof” a perfect world will all appear in 30 days or less. Nope. Not saying that. BUT… I am saying that it’s incredible to see how this does play out… in regards to what you see… and how you perceive the world… AND your place in it. It can infuse your thoughts with hope… it will help to keep you inspired and motivated… and keep you moving forward. And… if you’re someone where faith plays a role in your life… INTENTIONAL IDENTITY STATEMENTS can have a HUGE impact on your prayer life and your faith walk… but more on that in a bit. So… here’s our road map for this episode. WHAT. HOW. and WHEN. We’re going to dig just a bit deeper on WHAT an Identity Statement is… but more importantly… we’re going to clarify what it might mean to YOU. Then we’re going to talk about HOW to do it… and how to NOT do it. We’ll talk about WHEN to apply it too. Lastly… as a bonus… I’ll add some thoughts on how to do it from a faith-based approach. If that’s your cup of tea… awesome… stick around for it. If not… that’s cool too. You can bail before I get rolling with that part. Don’t forget to head over to mitchmatthews.com/213… and grab the free download to help you apply all that we’re talking about. Mitchmatthews.com/213. So… let’s do this. Okay… a personal identity statement. What is it? It’s interesting. It’s a term I’ve heard more over the past few years… but in some ways it’s still relatively new. How do I know? Well… because there’s not even a wikipedia page for it yet. HA! So… we’re going to define it as a set of beliefs you INTENTIONALLY recognize and repeat in order to shape the way you see yourself and your world.