My guest is Angela Maiers. Angela founded Choose2Matter, which is a non-profit that helps individuals to embrace their value and their potential contribution. Choose2Matter has evolved into a movement that now supports students, parents, educators, and employees, literally around the world. Her work at over 60 thousand classrooms across 100 countries has rallied more than a million children to be together to launch over 170 social enterprises. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: www.AngelaMaiers.com www.Choose2Matter.org Transcription: Mitch Matthews: Angela, welcome to the podcast! Angela Maiers: Well, I'm so honored to be here my friends. It's wonderful to watch you in action and be a part of this, you were just a huge supporter of my mission and my work and I feel like we've connected at a soul level, so it's great to reconnect. Mitch Matthews: It's crazy because we go way back to when the Big Dream Gathering was just getting started. Angela Maiers: I know, yeah. Mitch Matthews: Your things were just starting to explode. So it feels like a class reunion. Angela Maiers: It does. Mitch Matthews: I love it. Well, DREAM THINK DOers are going to love you and love your story. Let's tell them a little bit more about Choose to Matter. Let's give them a snapshot of what it is that you do. As well as you can in a condensed way, tell us a little bit more about Choose to Matter. Angela Maiers: I think I have created a framework for people to make a commitment to contribute their best self to the world. And by best self or best selves, that could be individual, that could be organizational, it could be our entire community and humanity. And when you look at the reasons why human beings don't contribute their best self to the world, with not just confidence but with also a sense of calmness, is because there is a terror in the world, and I use that world not lightly, of insignificance. Angela Maiers: It is the single most common ailment of the modern world. And it doesn't discriminate. Even though Choose to Matter started with my mission in education, the feeling that we don't matter doesn't discriminate by age, by title, by position, by role. We're all fighting for our enough-ness in the world. Mitch Matthews: And you've been studying this, you've been teaching this. And I know it's a generational thing, you've been going back deep into the science of it and all that, but would you say, and this is probably just a softball question, but would you say, how has social media and all of that contributed to kind of that "see me" feel? That longing to be seen. Angela Maiers: I think that you see both the best of humanity, social media or media in general or technology is neutral. It is an amplifier of human behavior and emotion. Mitch Matthews: Yeah. Angela Maiers: So part of the addiction in social media is our DNA level need, not just desire, but DNA level needs to be seen, to be heard and to understand that we have value. And so just the simple act of saying another human being's name is such a rarity, believe it or not. It's a rarity even in schools. Kids can go period after period, week after week, semester after semester and never hear their name. It's the most important word in the human language. It defines our existence. Angela Maiers: And so when you hear your name over, or where we have not given people real pathways and real practices to acting and behaving as if they mattered, so they pick shortcuts, like the naughty kid. We just want to be noticed and so we'll do it in any way that we can. And we have a whole world of naughty kids. Mitch Matthews: I was just going to say, that's not limited to the classroom, right? Angela Maiers: No it's not. Mitch Matthews: It's so true. And I know that so much of what you do could be defined, the simple arts, but the simple arts are so important of literally looking someone in the eye and saying, "You matter" right?

5 Keys to Writing Your First Book We’re talking about getting YOUR book written and published! We're doing a deep dive on the subject of writing and publishing a book. Have you ever thought about writing a book? I'm betting you have. I'm hoping you have because I think every person has at least one book in them but, hey, if you're a DREAM THINK DOer, that probably means you've got five, maybe 15, maybe 25 books in you. And what I've learned about people is that they need to just learn a system for writing a book. Once they have that system down, it is entirely possible to not just write one, but many books. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Lise Cartwright’s FREE resource for DREAM THINK DO-ers: Specific Steps for Writing Your First Book! Click to get the FREE workbook!   Amazon's Self-Publishing: kdp.amazon.com 5 Keys to Writing Your First Book Transcript: I'm going to be telling stories about people who have written books and turned them in Bestsellers. So, we're going to dive into strategies that they have used, strategies that I have used to be able to achieve best sellers, but more importantly, get that book done and get that book out there. We're going to dive into specific steps that you can start taking immediately. How does that sound? We're going to get into the nitty gritty and have some fun as we do. How about that? Are you in? I hope so. And I'll tell you what. I'm going to tell you more about this at the end but just to tell you right now, go to mitchmatthews.com/224, there's going to be a lot of different resources I'm going to reference some different tools that you can use. But one of these tools you're going to want to grab right away and that is a workbook specifically designed for the DREAM THINK DO family by Lise Cartwright. Now, you may remember Lise Cartwright. I have interviewed her I think three times now and she is a multi-time best-selling author. I mean, she's had best sellers, at least 28 now, best sellers that she has written and then self-published. She's a rock star and she's a huge fan of DREAM THINK DO. So, she has offered up ... she has created a special workbook just for DREAM THINK DOers. I want you to go get it. It is absolutely free and she actually will also help you out in different ways, that kind of stuff. You can find out all sorts of free resources from Lise. So, just go to mitchmatthews.com/224 and you'll see it right there, super easy to click through and grab that workbook just for us DREAM THINK DOers. Go do it. Go grab it. Okay, now, let's dive into some stuff here. Okay, so writing books ... I once saw a quote from Tony Morrison that I absolutely love. It just grabbed me. She said, "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Whoosh! How about that, right? Like, that is the truth from somebody who's written a ton of incredibly impactful books. I don't know about you, but I'm guessing that maybe you've just had that feeling inside, that knowing that ... Maybe it's a memoir. Maybe it's some stories from your life. Maybe it's some things that you've learned through some of the challenges that you've faced over time. Or, maybe you've just learned a set of strategies for something you're like freakishly good at and you just want the world to know those strategies. You want to share them with the world. Or maybe it's something you've learned about your faith and it's just made a huge impact on you and you just want to reach other people and help them to experience the same kinds of things. I'm not sure what it is for you, but I'm guessing there's that knowing, that knowing that you're supposed to write at least one book. Maybe you feel called to it and it's just that there's that longing. You're not quite, you can't even explain it but you just know it's there. Or maybe it's that satisfaction, oh, man, just that thought of having a book done.

My guest is Pedro Adao. He’s had a number of successes on a number of fronts. He’s a long-time entrepreneur, a Two-Comma Click Funnel winner and he’s also the founder of the 100X Academy. In short, he’s living what I’d call a “Faith-Infused Business” and we’re going to talk about what it means and why it matters! Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Pedro's 100 X Academy   Pedro's 8:18 Kingdom Finance Challenge   Interview:  Pedro Adao: Man, I can't wait. This is gonna be so much fun. Thanks for the invitation, Mitch. Mitch Matthews: Absolutely! Did I get all the big pieces at least to start with? Pedro Adao: Yeah I think we're good. I think whatever you didn't say is about to come up now. Mitch Matthews: That's exactly right. We're covered, right? I love it. I love it. So let's go back and get a little history. I always love to introduce DREAM THINK DOers, let them get into your head a little bit.  You're an entrepreneur. You're loving it. You've been a successful entrepreneur for a while. Was that always a thing for you? As a kid did you know entrepreneurism was gonna be the thing? Pedro Adao: No, not really. I grew up, my parents are immigrants. So my parents came here from Portugal. So I was born here and what you see with immigrant families is there's two types of real kind of paths that these immigrant families will usually pick. One is they'll go hardcore entrepreneurship. They come in and start businesses. We see a lot of that or there's also a path. They go really hardcore after education. Education, college. So my parents were on the college path. They were like college, college, college, college, college. Both my parents were W2 employees. My Mom is entrepreneurial. My Mom always had side businesses. My Mom is an amazing tax preparer. She had a travel business. She always had a side hustle, but my Dad was a W2 worker. So I had some entrepreneurial tendencies. By high school, I began to kind of see a little bit of it come up. A funny story is I got in trouble in high school because I was selling pool passes on campus. The problem is we didn't have a pool. So got in a little bit of trouble for that. That's when your entrepreneurial spirit goes a little bit too far. Mitch Matthews: Just a little sideways. Needs a little bringing back, that's right. That visionary in you, you dreamed of a pool. Pedro Adao: I was like, "But it's coming in 2048 when you're no longer here." No, I was a senior. It was a little prank we did on the freshmen. There was a little entrepreneurial spirit there and then in college, I was drawn to network marketing. I found myself kind of liking that and those conversations. So really kind of came on late, but I spent 10 years as a W2 employee after college. Went to college, I got a degree in Economics. Got a job. Was climbing the corporate ladder pretty fast and then I just kind of found myself kind of stuck in my income range and I was commuting three hours a day in Silicon Valley and then at some point I just kind of lost meaning for my work in the corporate structure and by that time I was a full raging, entrepreneurial spirit was raging. I was doing a lot of real estate on the side and so no, I was more of a later, I guess later bloomer to the entrepreneurship path. Now it's at the core of my identity. Mitch Matthews: That's awesome. It's become who you are, I have a similar path. I got introduced to the entrepreneurial bug at 13 working at a bike shop in my small town in Iowa and I loved it. I loved the idea of it, but then after college went into the corporate world and did that for a number of years and I always knew that's probably where I would wind up, but I didn't know it was gonna look like all those things, but it's just that bug that kept growing and pulled me in. So I love it. I love it. So now I want to speak to where you're at now and then I want to go back to bridge because I think a lot of DREAM THINK DOers,

Helping Your Kids to Dream I'm Mitch Matthews and welcome to DTD. Today we’re going to digging into a wildly important subject: How to inspire our kids to dream! Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Mitch’s Book: IGNITE Video Mitch did with his sons early on: A recent short film written, directed and produced by Ben and Alex: Transcription: I had a conversation with a DREAM THINK DO listener who had reached out and wanted to chat, wanted to connect. This morning we had an awesome conversation and, almost instantly, we just dropped into it because, hey, in the DREAM THINK DO family, we're in it together, and I could tell something was heavy on his heart, something that he wanted to dive into and, almost instantly, we went there, and that was ... He just let me know that he just ... He had three daughters, and it was just heavy on his heart to help them dream. There were so many layers to this conversation because I think, in some part, if we're being honest, he was a little concerned if he was modeling dreaming, getting cleared, going after your dreams. He'd actually attended a Big Dream gathering, one of our events that we do around the country, and it was a few years ago, and he was like, "Gosh, I don't know that I've been moving all that much forward on those dreams," and he was feeling bad about that, but then he was also struggling to find the language. He was like, "You know, sometimes, when I talk with my daughters about dreaming, it just doesn't seem to make sense. I'm not ... We're not talking the same language. They don't quite understand me." You could just tell he was just really torn up about it, and I get it, man. Being a dad is one of my absolute favorite things, but it's not easy. Being a parent is not easy, and if you've got kids, you know what I'm talking about. It's one of the best jobs on the planet, but it's not easy especially on this subject and, in some ways, it's just easier to avoid. It's easier to just stay busy, not talk about these things, just keep things status quo. Dreams can shake things up. It can move things around a little bit. It can upset the apple cart, as the kids are known to say. Actually, the kids never say that. My aunts and uncles say that. My grandma said, "Apples. Apple cart." Anyway, you're with me. It's not easy, but it's important, and so that's what we're going to talk about. The conversation was fantastic. I mean, we wound up having just this great conversation on the subject. I took some notes as we talked, and then I came back and I was going to do other things actually. I had a different episode lined up for this week, but I thought, "This is just too important." In fact, I opened this conversation up a little bit, too, and so I'm going to do some things here at the front end that I usually do at the back end. One is I want to invite into this conversation because I guarantee, we're going to do more conversations on this subject because it's so important, so I want to invite you. As you think through these things, I want to hear your tips, your strategies, maybe even your ... what you wrestle with, so hit me up, mitchmatthews.com/222, and leave a comment. What are some of those strategies you're doing or what are some of the things you wrestle with, or what's something that's worked for you and your kids? I want to hear from you about that because we're going to be doing more on this subject, and so, yeah, you guys are awesome and you guys are wise, and we're in this together, so I want to hear from you, so mitchmatthews.com/222. Leave your comments there. I also want to say maybe you don't have kids, maybe you're listening to this episode and you're like, "Check. Maybe not me," or maybe that you're just not feeling that right now. I just want to say that what's interesting is is that, as we start to talk about encouraging our kids to dream, and it could be your kids, it could be your own children,

My guest is Brian Scudamore. Brian is the founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK. Brian and his team have grown 1-800-GOT-JUNK into the world's largest junk removal service. Not only that, they scaled that bad boy and started three more home service brands. He's got his eye on $ 1 billion. He’s living the DREAM THINK DO life… so let’s get to this! Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Brian's Book: WTF?! (Willing to Fail): How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success Find out more about Brian: Click here Interview: Brian Scudamore: Thanks for having me, Mitch. Mitch Matthews: Let’s talk about how this got started. Brian Scudamore: There I was looking for a way to pay for college. But my college education took a back seat when I realized I was making more money and having more fun and learning way more about a business by building a business versus studying in school. So, I had a conversation with my dad, who's a liver transplant surgeon. Three years into my degree in college. I said, “Dad, I got some awesome news for ya. I said I'm quitting school and…” Mitch Matthews: Get ready, dad. Brian Scudamore: He says, “how is that good news?” I gonna learn so much more about business running one, instead of studying from textbooks, from professors that have never started a business in their life. While my dad did not get the good news train, 10 years later he sat down. He said, yeah, Brian you did the right thing. Mitch Matthews: Good, good call. But obviously this willing to fail was something you were willing to do early on. Would you say that ... At what point would you say this started to set in that being willing to fail was key. Brian Scudamore: I think I've always been a bit of a risk-taker as an entrepreneur. I grew up with grandparents who had a small business. Now they ... It was an army surplus store in San Francisco. I used to work there every summer and Christmas vacation. I don't think they took a lot of risks. But I enjoyed the game of business and was fired to take that entrepreneurial leap. Maybe it was just a part of my DNA. I don't know. But I found myself whenever I was starting a business, I didn't mind putting myself out there and making some mistakes. It just felt like the fastest and easiest way to learn. Brian Scudamore: Five years into my business, to the half a million in revenue, I felt good about what I was building. But not good about the people on board. That old phrase of one bad apple spoils the whole bunch. I probably had ... Nine of my 11 employees were bad apples. It was a leadership moment for me to get rid of the entire crew. I brought all 11 in and I said, sorry guys I've let you down as your leader. I have not given you the love and support or found the right people and fired everyone to only start again. But to take that leadership lesson of, okay I failed here. This hurts. I've gotten rid of my entire company. Yet starting again there was that valuable lesson and it got better. Mitch Matthews: Not bad. Well, That's ... I love that story in the book. That took some guts. As I'm sitting there, here you had to be thinking, oh gosh this is rough. This is embarrassing. Also, you had to look down the barrel of running the business solo for a while, too until bringing on the right people. But, that's the kind of thing where that took guts at the time where you needed it, right? 'Cause you could have just kind of tried to maintain it with status quo. I'm guessing you would have been a completely different place today. Brian Scudamore: Yeah. We learned or I learned that day 'cause it was just me, that building a company is all about finding the right people and treating them right. The company would not be what it is today. Today will ... This year we'll do $440 million in revenue. There's no way we would have come anywhere close to that hadn't we found this important mantra of finding the right people. For someone like ourselves heavily branded in everything we do,