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Apr 13, 2021

We’re going after the BIG question of “How do you stick with a dream?” This is one of the most common questions we get at LIVE events and as people are using our “Dream Together” app.  It’s totally understandable.  They get excited about a new dream… but then the fear starts to creep in.  They start to wonder if they can stay with it and achieve their goals.  So the dream gets shut down before they even get started.  Well, in this episode, we dive into 3 powerful strategies in 15 minutes.  These concepts will help you START and STICK with it!  Let’s do this!  

 

RESOURCES: 

3 Things I’ve learned from 250 Episodes of DREAM THINK DO: https://mitchmatthews.com/250/

Forged By Adversity - with Navy Seal Chad Williams:  www.mitchmatthews.com/295

Post Traumatic GROWTH: www.MitchMatthews.com/172

Antonio Neves: “STOP LIVING ON AUTOPILOT.”  www.MitchMatthews.com/307 

 

THE “DREAM TOGETHER” APP IS HERE!

It’s designed to help you clarify your goals as well as connect with others so you can “dream together” to make those dreams (big or small) a reality!

So… HERE ARE THE STEPS:

  • STEP 1: Download the app.
    • Find “Dream Together” for your Apple Device: HERE
    • Find “Dream Together” for your Android Device: HERE
  • STEP 2: Sign up and enter the group code: dreamthinkdo
  • STEP 3: Be inspired by the dreams that are already there.  Then… follow and encourage a dream or two!
  • STEP 4: Post at least one of your own dreams… and then invite friends to join you so you can DREAM TOGETHER!

QUOTES:

 

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the   

  seed of an equal or greater benefit.” Napoleon Hill

 

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, 

  and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” – Lou Holtz



“Truth 1: Adversity is going to come… 

And Truth 2: You’re tougher than you think!” - Mitch Matthews



“Adversity causes some people to break; others to break records.” – William Arthur Ward

 

“The most successful people see adversity not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping-stone to greatness.” – Shawn Anchor

 

Post-Traumatic GROWTH: 

“A positive psychological change experienced as the result of adversity leading to 

  a higher level of functioning.”

 

PRE-Traumatic Growth - Definition 

“Positive psychological changes leading to more focus, energy, engagement and joy in the face of life’s challenges.  

MINUTE BY MINUTE:

  • 0:02 What to expect today
  • 1:06 Download the Dream Together App!
  • 2:10 Today’s Question: How do I commit to a dream?
  • 4:39 The magic of learning something new
  • 5:56 Decide to do it! But…adversity may arise.
  • 11:11 Learning from others' stories
  • 12:54 The power in finishing
  • 14:47 Do the math: Go after small wins

MORE ABOUT THE EPISODE (TRANSCRIPT):

All right. DREAM THINK DOer, like I said, this is a part of our Dream Together series. So we're going after big questions, questions that we've gotten at our live events over the years and questions that we get as people are using our Dream Together app to go after new dreams, new goals. The one we're going after today is something that so often happens. It's something that can kind of bubble up. I can remember at so many different live events, people would step to the mic at the end of the event to do this Q&A, and they would ask a version of this question: How can I stick with a dream? And you could feel all the emotions that were tied to a question like this. Sometimes it was fear, sometimes it was weariness, but you can also feel these elements of hope, sometimes excitement, sometimes life, because people had gotten clear on a new dream or maybe unearthed, kind of helped and remembered a very dream.

And now they're asking this question of how do I know I'm going to stick with it? You could tell they didn't want to waste time. They didn't want to look silly. At the same time, they were also maybe feeling a little childlike wonder, giving themselves that permission to ask, what if? That feeling of life that starts to happen when we start to recognize a new dream or an old goal that might be percolating to the top. Right? And if you've had that question, how do I know I'm going to stick with it? How can I stick with it? I want to give you three strategies to help some concepts that you'll be able to apply immediately.

All right. So let's get to this. Truth number one, strategy number one is be willing to be a novice. That's right. Give yourself permission to be new at something. Now, we talked a little bit about this in episode 250. It's something I've had to learn, and it's something that I know a lot of you have had to learn. Here's the thing. With DREAM THINK DO, we've got a lot of people that listen, obviously, a lot of successful people. And success is fantastic, it's awesome, right? But success can also be dangerous because if we're successful in one area, it can also make us start to be scared to be a novice in another area. Right? It's one of those things where a success is wonderful.

But when it starts to make us kind of limit ourselves, to start not allowing ourselves to try new things, to go and learn new things because we don't want to look new, we don't want to look like a beginner, but isn't it amazing? I mean, when you think about it, when you've given yourself the chance to learn something new, hasn't there been magic in that? Maybe that whole thing of not having to be great at something? Kind of feels like freedom to be able to explore something with relatively no expectations other than to learn. Right? That's what we're talking about, to be able to say, "Hey, I want to learn as I go." Because if we give ourselves that permission, there's really no failure. Because as long as we're learning, as long as we're moving forward, there's no failure.

And I know for me, with some of the different businesses that we have launched, sometimes some of our attempts, some of our experiments have gone down in flames. But when I look back, I also realize that's when we've learned the most, whether it's learning the most about what we need to be doing or learning the most about ourselves. And so it's one of those things to be able to say, hey, give yourself that permission to be a novice, to learn something new, try something different. It's what brings a lot of magic to life. It's also what allows us to pursue and stick with those new dreams and goals. Right? So give yourself that permission. Be a novice once in a while. All right.

Truth number two, strategy number two is decide to do it and know that adversity is part of the ride. Now you might be like, "All right, Mr. Good News." Right? To be able to talk right out of the gate about adversity. But I think it's something we have to talk about, and that's something we do with DREAM THINK DO. Right? We operate in truth. We speak to the hard truth of things. And I think if you're a DREAM THINK DOer, you appreciate that. And I know this sounds simple, but it's easy I think for people, when they start to experience adversity, to say, "Oh, I must be doing something wrong. Oh, I must not be supposed to do this." Right? But here's the thing is, when we start to realize adversity can also be a sign that we're onto something big, sometimes that helps us to flip the script.

I love what Chad Williams said in episode 295. You may remember, but Chad is a retired Navy SEAL, and the Navy SEALs are these elite fighting force for the United States, and in many ways they're the best of the best. But they had truly flipped the script on adversity. They've started to appreciate adversity. In fact, one of their main mottos, one of their creeds for a SEAL is forged by adversity. They celebrate it. They know it's coming. And instead of just trying to avoid it at all costs, they know that it makes them stronger, not in some kind of misogynistic way or masochistic way, all that, but they actually understand that adversity makes them strong. And if we're going to be honest, adversity also is sometimes what makes life rich. I love what Napoleon Hill said on this point. He said, "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache, carries with it a seed of equal or greater benefit." One of the greatest coaches of all time, Lou Holtz said, "Show me someone who has done something worthwhile and I will show you someone who has overcome adversity."

So going after our dreams and goals, we know that we're going to face some adversity, adversity is going to come, but also want to encourage you that you are tougher than you think. You are stronger than you think, and I think we need to be reminded of that as well. Right? The topic of grit, the topic of resiliency is a very popular topic right now, and that's good. Right? And I know that sometimes it's easy to look at someone and say, "Oh, that person's really resilient." Maybe it's a World War II survivor, or somebody that's done something huge, and maybe they're further along in their life, and you look at that person, you go, "Man, that person is resilient." They don't have to necessarily be a Navy SEAL, but you can look at that and go, "Gosh, am I that resilient?" And it's one of those things where all of a sudden comparison can start to come in, especially on this topic and say, "Gosh, am I as resilient as filling the blank?"

And that's why I personally like this term called micro-resiliency. Micro-resiliency, and those are small daily choices to stick, small but significant choices to stay with it. Micro-resiliency literally is being able to choose day to day, minute by minute, to be just a little bit more resilient. I love this quote from William Arthur Ward. It says, "Adversity causes some people to break, but others, it causes them to break records." Come on. And it's one of those things where resiliency, and more specifically, micro-resiliency... Not say or try to weigh whether you're resilient or not, but to say, "I'm going to try my best to be resilient in this moment." Well, that can make all the difference. It also helps to understand some of the fields of research when it comes to positive psychology on this front.

One of the things that's bubbled up is something called post-traumatic growth, which is a positive, psychological change experienced as the result of adversity leading, to a higher level of functioning. Post-traumatic growth. Now we know trauma can be brutal, right? And I'm definitely not trying to dismiss that at all, but it's one of those things where we can also say when we look back on a lot of the challenges. I know that that's also oftentimes some of the most rich times in our life, or at least it produces tremendous fruit. Now here's the thing though... And by the way, we go after post-traumatic growth, that concept, in-depth in episode 172, and I'll include all these show notes in this particular episode, so you can go back and check out those in more depth if you want to.

But as I dug into this concept of post-traumatic growth, later I realized there's also something called pre-traumatic growth, which sounds pretty good. And what that is, is that is actually learning from other people's adversity. Pre-traumatic growth, and what that is, if you want to flip that definition a little bit, pre-traumatic growth is positive psychological changes, leading to more focused energy engagement and joy by learning from other people's stories and strategies of facing adversity. Now, I like that, and that's probably one of the big reasons why you listen to DREAM THINK DO, is you're willing to actually lean into a little pre-traumatic growth, to be able to say, "Hey, I know adversity is going to come. That's life. That's also what happens when you pursue dreams. So I want to learn from other people's adversity. I want to learn from other people's stories."

Because I'm guessing that as you've learned from some of the episodes that you've heard, some of the interviews that you've heard, some of the stories that you've heard, that you can say, "Hey, gosh, I haven't faced that particular adversity, but I can learn from her story. I can learn from his story," and that's what we want to do. So I just want to encourage you to say, "Hey, I'm going to go after this. I'm going to decide to go after this. I know that adversity is going to come. That's a part of life. That's what in many ways makes life rich. And I am going to learn from others. I'm going to learn from my own adversity, but I'm also going to learn from others." And that's why I want to commend you for listening, listening to DREAM THINK DO, investing in yourself and growing. So that's tip number two.

Now tip number three, truth number three, strategy number three is going to bring us home, and that is simply to finish something. I know it sounds so simple, but it is so powerful. My friend and pastor and DREAM THINK DO guest, Antonio Neves, just wrote a book called Stop Living on Autopilot. I talked with him in-depth about it in episode 307. And I got to tell you, Antonio was just interviewed on The Today Show, and he killed it. He absolutely killed it. They were talking with him about this book. And one of the subjects that came up when it comes to not living on autopilot anymore, not living on cruise control anymore, is he spoke to the power of finishing something. Again, the field of positive psychology tells us over and over that regular ongoing achievement leads to higher levels of competence and higher levels of joy.

Now we're talking about small wins on a regular basis, right? But we also know as DREAM THINK DOers that a job left undone, gosh, there is nothing more draining than a job left undone. Right? Now, what I love about this concept, the concept of finishing something is... Antonio digs into this concept in-depth in his book, and again, the book is called Stop Living on Autopilot. You're going to want to check it out. But he makes the point that finishing something doesn't have to be big things all the time. You don't have to finish the Mona Lisa. You don't have to write the next greatest American novel to finish something, to have that feeling. It can really be small wins. And when we're going after a new goal, a new dream, that's what we're looking for is the small steps that you can take and take them over time. Celebrate those wins.

So if you're needing to learn something new, search for a TED Talk on that subject and celebrate watching a kick-butt 18-minute presentation on the subject as opposed to getting lost in your social media feed. Or if you want to expand your network, reach out and do a coffee, a virtual coffee or a real coffee with someone and celebrate taking 30 minutes to connect with someone that inspires you. Don't beat yourself up for not having the whole thing done. Celebrate, finish that small, but significant step. Maybe if your goal is to get in shape, don't beat yourself up for not being able to run a marathon yet, but get out there and spend 20 minutes walking around your neighborhood and enjoy the simplicity of soaking up some sun and actually feel that accomplishment. Or maybe if you're wanting to write a book. I know a lot of people using the Dream Together app, that's one of the big goals that's out there, right? They want to write a book. And maybe you're beating yourself up for not finishing the book yet.

Here's what I want to do is I want to encourage you, go after those small wins. Think about this, just do the math. If you just write three pages a day and celebrate that, finish three pages a day over the course of a hundred days, that's just a third or a little less than a third of the year, you'll have 300 pages. That's pretty amazing. And it's one of those things that you could be celebrating those wins, those mini goals, and finish those along the way. And like we said, when you finish something, it increases our sense of happiness, our sense of confidence and our ability to be resilient. And that's what I want for you. Those are three keys to sticking with it.

Number one, be willing to be a novice, give yourself permission to start something and be new at it. Enjoy that. Number two, decide to do it and know that adversity is going to be a part of the ride. It's a part of the journey. It's something that makes it rich. And number three, finish something. Give yourself permission to finish something. Small wins along the way will make the journey so much better, and it'll also help to bring joy, confidence, strength, and resiliency as you do. Those are the three strategies, three keys, three truths.

And I want to hear from you. What do you think? Plus, I want to hear from you, what's something that helps you stick? All right. Let me know. You can go to mitchmatthews.com\320. That's where we'll include links to all the show notes, as well as all the episodes I mentioned, some other resources to be able to dig into, all of that. Plus you can leave a comment and I do want to hear from you, what's something that helps you stick? Or what's a way that you're going to try one of these truths, one of these strategies today? I want to hear from you. Let me know, again, at mitchmatthews.com/320.

Now I'm going to give you one last bonus, one last tip, and that is don't do it alone. Okay? That's our fourth truth, and maybe even the most important. We're going to keep it short though, because what I can do is to say, "Hey, don't go after that dream by yourself, dream together." Now that's a little bit of a pitch to get you over to download our app called Dream Together. If you're not already there, it's going to be something that's going to allow you to write down some of your dreams, capture some of those dreams, get clear on some of those dreams, but also to not do it alone. You'll be able to dream together with other like-minded people.

So download the app, it's called Dream Together, and when it asks you to create the profile, it's going to ask you for a code. Go ahead and plug in DREAMTHINKDO, make it one word, and that's going to allow you to dream together with other DREAM THINK DO listeners, other like-minded people that are going after their dreams, people that want to dream bigger, think better and do more of what they were put on the planet to do, and they want to see you do that too. So go ahead and download the app and join us because hey, that fourth truth is so, so true. Don't do it alone. Remember to dream together.

All right. That's it for this episode. I think I did go a little over our 15-minute goal, but hey, hopefully, you got a little grace because that's important too as we walk out our dreams and goals together. Have a little grace for each other and it makes it so much sweeter. All right. Hey, we've got some amazing episodes coming your way, some incredible interviews, some additional deep dives and more in our Dream Together series. But until we connect again, please keep bringing your awesome because the world, it needs more of it. Talk soon.

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Jul 23, 2019
My guest is entrepreneur Jaime Cross. Two years after leaving her career in banking to be home with her newborn son, Jaime had this longing, I'd even call it a calling, to build a business that would be driven by purpose and that would have worldwide impact. Now, I'm betting that felt like a pretty audacious goal since she was at home, elbows deep in all the glorious messiness of raising kiddos and full-time parenting, but she was bold and she prayed. More specifically, Jaime asked God for a billion-dollar idea. Yeah, that's with a B, a billion-dollar idea, which is pretty big. I mean, right? Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: INSTAGRAM: @thehereffect @migsoap TWITTER: @migsoap WEBSITE: MIG Soap: https://migsoap.com/ TRANSCRIPT: Mitch Matthews: Well, a few days later, Jaime got hit with a business plan in her sleep. Literally, the idea hit her in a dream. I love this because I've done over 200 episodes of DREAM. THINK. DO., and I think this is our first person who got hit with a dream in a dream. I love that. Then Jaime embarked on her entrepreneurial journey the very next day and instantly became a millionaire. No, I'm just kidding. It wasn't that easy. It wasn't that simple. But she went after the dream right away. She went to work. Mitch Matthews: After eight long years of trial and error, a lot of mistakes and tears, her company now is one of the fastest-growing organic skincare companies in the world. They're selling millions of dollars of product. It's called MIG. Its tagline is seed to skin, skin to soul. That's what Jaime is all about. It's an amazing story. I heard it and I thought, oh my gosh, I got to have her on. So I'm so excited to do this. Jaime Cross, Welcome to DREAM. THINK. DO. Jaime Cross: Thank you. It's so great to be here. Mitch Matthews: Absolutely. Absolutely. I love, love, love your story. We got to meet at the conference. Pedro Adao, who was also a recent guest on DREAM. THINK. DO, introduced us and we got to meet at his conference in Texas a few months ago now, but I was like, oh my gosh, your story's awesome. Jaime Cross: Thanks, Mitch. Mitch Matthews: I love it. So you're in Colorado Springs. You and your husband have four boys. When this story started, you just had one. Now you've got four boys. Let's go back. We're going to time jump a little bit, and I want to hear about life now, but I think I want to hear about the genesis of this, and I mentioned it obviously in the intro a little bit. Let's talk about that. You had left a career in banking ... Jaime Cross: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Mitch Matthews: ... to be at home. Jaime Cross: Yes. Mitch Matthews: That's never an easy decision. Jaime Cross: No, I mean, I was making great money banking, doing the whole corporate thing. It took Nathan and I five years to get pregnant. When we finally found out that we were going to be parents, I just could not imagine not being home with them. Came home. It was about two years into full-time motherhood that I was starting to feel that pull and that stir. Actually, by then I had my second baby when I was starting to be like, okay, I know that I'm so satisfied as a mother, but something's stirring in me, and I know there's more. I think a lot of mothers feel guilty about wanting more, but I was just like, God, there's something inside of me and we were struggling to pay our bills. I'd given up this huge salary. Nathan was teaching, and teachers don't make very good money- Mitch Matthews: No.  Jaime Cross: ... and so it really helped- Mitch Matthews: They should. They should make tons of money, but they don't. Absolutely. Jaime Cross: Yeah, we were a one-income family, trying to live debt-free. It was a struggle. At that moment when I cried out to God, it wasn't just because we weren't meeting our bills. It was because there was this thing inside of me just raging to come out like, I know, I'm supposed to build something.
Jul 16, 2019
My guest is Annette Sharpe. Annette is a longtime entrepreneur. She is a business strategist, a culture builder, and a sacred gifts guide. We're going to be talking about what a sacred gift is here. But she helps people to identify what their sacred gifts are. Then she helps them apply that knowledge so they can feel more on purpose in their lives. She's been doing it for years. She's obviously having an impact on a whole lot of people including Rock Thomas. I wanted to dive in, find out more what these sacred gifts are, see how we could use them to apply them to dreaming bigger, thinking better and doing more of what we were put on the planet to do. So, let's get to this. Annette, welcome to DREAM THINK DO! Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: Your Sacred Gifts Twitter: @annettegfs TRANSCRIPT:  Annette Sharpe: Hey, Mitch, thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here today. Mitch Matthews: Absolutely. I'm so excited to get to finally hit record and do this conversation with you. But I know people were leaning in during just that introduction going, okay, “sacred gifts.” That sounds interesting. How do you describe the sacred gifts to someone? Annette Sharpe: Well, we have a definition, actually, of what sacred gifts are and what they're not. But sacred gifts are unexplained abilities that we have, from birth till death, that allow us to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. There's a lot in that definition. When we talk about unexplained abilities, they really are that. There's a lot of mystery to them. But what's important, I think, in the definition is that we have them from birth, and we have them till the day we die. They're not things we learn, they're things that are innate in us and they're part of a bigger part of us. These sacred gifts reside there. We have them as our way of giving back and being a contribution to the world. Mitch Matthews: Absolutely. If we had them from birth, and we have them all through life, I would imagine that as people start to get clarity on that, though, it probably still feels pretty revolutionary, or at least reinforcing to be able to say, oh, yeah, that is something that I do well. As you help people figure this thing out, what do you see happen in people? Annette Sharpe: Oh my gosh, yeah. What do we see happen? Well, first of all, thousands of people have been through the program. We have, I think, two things that people say the most. Number one, why didn't I know this information before? And number two, thank God, I didn't have that gift. There are a couple of things that people really come to understand. Number one, they get a better understanding of who they truly are at the core of their being. One of the characteristics of the sacred gifts that we teach is that we are made up of our humaneness and our beingness. Our humaneness is everything that makes us human. That's our thoughts. That's our beliefs, that's our feelings, that's our ego. It's everything that we see. If we were to meet each other face to face, we'd have some ideas about who we are. But our sacred gifts are inside of us. They're part of our beingness. They are something that basically we have, that we can't explain, that allow us to do seemingly ordinary things in revolutionary types of ways. There are some people who go through the program as you said, and they say, "Yeah, I was really good at that. It's very affirming." But for others, they realize that something that they've been very good at actually is a sacred gift, and it gives it more reverence. It's something maybe they took advantage of or took for granted maybe and also helps them to reduce judgment on other people who they may have thought should be able to do things the way that they do. So, there's just a whole bunch of different things that people get when they start to realize who they truly are and why they're here. Mitch Matthews: That's awesome. Give us some examples of some sacred gifts.
Jul 9, 2019
My guest is Amy E. Smith. Amy E. Smith is the owner and founder of Joy Junkie Enterprises.  She hangs out at her site, the Joyjunkie.com. She's also the creator of the Joy Junkie Show.  It’s a popular weekly podcast designed to go after issues of worthiness, self-confidence, and let go of that people-pleasing to assist her listeners in creating and living radically joyful lives. How awesome is that? Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: Grab Amy's FREE eWorkbook, “Stand up for Yourself without Being a Dick!” http://thejoyjunkie.com/free   Twitter: @thejoyjunkie TRANSCRIPT:  Mitch Matthews: Amy uses her roles as a coach, a writer, a podcaster, and a speaker to move individuals beyond those limiting beliefs and sabotaging mindsets to a place of, listen to this, I love this, radical personal empowerment and self-love. I'd say the world needs a lot more of that. Amy's been instrumental in aiding countless women especially, but I'm guessing she's helped a whole lot of men too, in stepping into their authentic power and craft lives they actually want. Amy E. Smith is making a big impact, and it's just about dang time to have her on the show. So let's do this.  Amy, welcome to DREAM THINK DO. Amy Smith: Well, I sound really fancy when you read it. Mitch Matthews: I always say a good intro is my gift to my guests. You deserve a good intro, plus you're- Amy Smith: Are you available for voiceover work because that's- Mitch Matthews: I do have a face for radio, I'll admit. I love it. All right, so for you guys who can't see her, we'll put some of the videos up online and all that stuff. But she's got these awesome, awesome glasses. She's wearing a cool hat, the whole thing. She is a bold statement in and of herself. You got to go check out the Joyjunkie.com, all of that. Amy, obviously you're living this, you are helping people move past these limiting beliefs, kind of the self-sabotaging mindsets. You're living who you are bold, which I just want to honor. I just think it's so cool. Amy Smith: Thank you. Mitch Matthews: I'm guessing for someone like yourself, I'm guessing you've had to fight for that. Has this always been easy for you to live it as well as help others or is this something you've had to fight for? Amy Smith: Well, I pretty much came out of the womb speaking like Tony Robbins and dressing like Sophia Lauren, so, no, I've always had it.  Mitch Matthews: I'm here. Amy Smith: No, oh, quite the sordid tale of that. No. I think that is... I'm sure you can relate that sometimes the hardest things that we go through are in service of the mission and what we need to actually get out in the world, and we needed to learn those lessons in order to really be a viable voice for people to go, "Oh, I think she might be onto something here."  So, yeah, I grew up in an extremely conservative born again Christian family... very, very dogmatic. It's interesting even now for you and me to discuss faith kind of behind the scenes. It wasn't even until the last decade I'd say where I started to meet people of faith that were identified as Christians that I'm like, "That's not how I was raised." Mitch Matthews: Right. Amy Smith: I'm like, "You're cool. You're allowed to have an alcoholic beverage?"  Mitch Matthews: You're actually it seems like enjoying life and happy. Amy Smith: Yeah, exactly. I had a really tough time even saying the word God for a long time because I was quite scathed by my upbringing.  My father was actually an incredible human, and he had both a master's in divinity and a doctorate in ministry, so he was not messing around. Mitch Matthews: Right. Exactly. He paid for that. Amy Smith: He did. He did. He has since passed on. He passed away in 2007, which really was perhaps the impetus for the direction that I ended up taking in my career. At the time I had been studying personal development and started to get my feet wet.
Jun 25, 2019
My guest is best-selling author William Paul Young. Paul is the author of books like, ‘Lies We Believe About God,’ ‘Eve,’ and ‘Crossroads.’ He’s best known for his book, ‘The Shack.’ There's a very good chance that you've heard of it because over 23 million copies of the book are in print. It's been translated into over 50 languages. Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: Paul’s Website: http://wmpaulyoung.com TRANSCRIPT:  Mitch Matthews: When Paul wrote the book though, he wasn't a successful author, he wasn't sitting on a big advance. In fact, he was working three jobs and barely making ends meet. Heck, he wasn't even thinking about writing a book, he was simply trying to create a gift for his kids, but out of all of that came this international bestseller. It's an incredible story, it's made a huge impact on me personally and based on the feedback from all of you, geesh, I've heard from so many of you, so many of you that it's made a huge impact on you too. So, we're going to talk about this journey of writing it, some of the things he's learned along the way and what he's up to next, so let's get to this. Paul, welcome to DREAM THINK DO, buddy. Paul Young: Hey, I'm glad to be here. It's about time. Mitch Matthews: It is about time. It's funny because before I hit record, we were talking about that the last time we officially did an interview was for before the DREAM THINK DO podcast even existed, which means it was over 4, 5 years ago which is nuts. Paul Young: Yeah, and you've grown up. Mitch Matthews: I know, right, all grow up. I got a lot more gray in the old goatee I'll tell you, my friend, since the last time, sheesh, so...And things are good? Paul Young: Things are good. We've got 12 grandbabies who are eleven years old and under and nine of them are within 15 minutes, so... Mitch Matthews: That's an aerobic program! You don't need a gym membership, my man. Paul Young: I know. Mitch Matthews: You've got the grandkids plan. Paul Young: No kidding and it's the best. It's the best. I love being a grandfather. Mitch Matthews: That's awesome. That is so awesome. So, what's going to be fun about this interview is I've put this out, a lot of time if I've got somebody that I think DREAM THINK DO listeners are really going to be interested in, I put it out to them to say, "Hey, what questions would you ask?" And we got more questions for you than I've probably have had for any other guest, which is so cool. Some of them are so fun, so profound, all of that, deep. So, we're going to go after those as I pepper in some of mine because it's my show. I get to make the call. Paul Young: There you go. Mitch Matthews: I can have some of my questions too. All right, so, let's go back to... I alluded to the creation of The Shack but I... and I want to get into some of your earlier history, as well, but let's go back to how this started because for DREAM THINK DOers so many people are working on a dream. Or maybe they're at a place where they are like, "I don't know that I even have a dream." And I don't think that you would have said a book was your dream as you're writing The Shack. Paul Young: No. Not at all. Mitch Matthews: So, yeah. So, Jodie and Alicia both ask big questions about, “What was the initial inspiration for writing the book?” “How did the idea begin?” So, let's start there. Paul Young: I was trying to do like the Bible says and submit to my wife. Mitch Matthews: Good word. You married up. You married up. So, if Kim says, you do. Right? Paul Young: Yeah, well. Mitch Matthews: Her question wasn't, "Paul write a book." What was her question? Paul Young: It wasn't. It was, "Someday," this is almost verbatim, and she said it over about four years, I just didn't feel ready until the year I turned 50 but she said, "Someday as a gift for our children, would you please write something that puts in one place how you think because you think outside the box...
Jun 18, 2019
My guest is Orville's J Lee.  Orville's J Lee is an actor, writer, director, and musician. He’s been a part of numerous shows like The Family Guy and American Dad. He also helped to write and produce and do voices for The Cleveland Show. Most recently though he has been rocking it as Lieutenant Commander John LaMarr on Fox's hit show The Orville. You probably know it but if you don't, check it out, you'll love it. Plus he just wrapped up production on his own film, one that he wrote, directed, and produced, it's called Wednesdays, we're going to be talking about that as well. Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: Instagram: @jleefilm Twitter: @jleefilm The Orville on Fox TRANSCRIPT:  J's got this awesome story you're going to love. He moved to LA with about 200 bucks in his pocket, worked his butt off to make it happen. He's also proud of his St. Louis roots and if you follow him on Instagram, as you should, you will know that his battle cries are #dobetter and #dothework, so it just seemed right to finally get him on DREAM THINK DO. J. Lee, welcome to the show man. J Lee: Hey. Yeah, what's happening? Thanks for having me, I appreciate it. Mitch Matthews: Absolutely. J Lee: Yeah. Mitch Matthews: I can tell you... DREAM THINK DO family, I got to meet J last year when two-time DREAM THINK DO guest Howard Berger and a good friend took my family and me around the set of The Orville and we got to meet J, which was so cool. I was a huge fan already, but man… when we got to meet you... you loved on my family.  I so appreciated that, man. J Lee: Yeah, for sure. Mitch Matthews: Then I got to dig into your story and wow.  You're one inspiring dude. J Lee: Yeah. You know, listen, I try to just ... You know we only get to go around this thing once as far as we know so I try to just be happy and try to keep a positive attitude whenever I can because life is already hard enough, you might as well try to be happy. Mitch Matthews: Yeah, absolutely. J Lee: But it was great meeting you and your family. You guys are so sweet, your family was nice and they were kind to me, so yeah that was nice. Mitch Matthews: I loved it, man. You hung out with us, you guys were in the midst of running around, the production's going on, but you stopped and hung out with us so it was just awesome. Mitch Matthews: Let's dive into your history because I know DREAM THINK DOers are just going to love your story, man. You grew up playing the piano. J Lee: Sure. Mitch Matthews: You played Carnegie Hall as a teenager, right? J Lee: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah. Mitch Matthews: You're an athlete, too. If I understand it correctly, your record still stands in your high school for the 300 hurdles. J Lee: I go back every year just to make sure nobody breaks it and if they do I told them, I'll lace my spikes back up and get back out there. I need to stand for a while. Mitch Matthews: That's right, let's do this. I love it. So then you go to Indiana University and the school of music there, Jacobs School of Music. You leave St. Louis after you graduate there, you move to LA with, if I'm understanding it, about two hundred bucks in your pocket. J Lee: Before I came to LA what happened was I had gone to school for classical piano and then I actually broke my thumb freshman year. I was on a scholarship and I break my thumb. Mitch Matthews: Holy cow. J Lee: That was the first time I had to look at my life and say, "Hey, what do I want to do?" Because I'd been playing piano my whole life. Mitch Matthews: Right. J Lee: I just didn't know if I wanted to continue down that path, being a concert pianist and everything. I had broken my thumb and that was the first time I had taken an acting class, so I kind of had that semester off. I remember my professor, Edmund Battersby. He has since passed away, he was a lovely, lovely man, an incredible teacher, and musician.
Jun 11, 2019
My guest is Rich Karlgaard. Rich is an entrepreneur turned publisher, in fact, he's the publisher for Forbes Magazine. He's an author and columnist, a board director, and Angel investor. He's experienced some true success, but he will also be the first to tell you that he was no child prodigy, and in many ways, he celebrates that. That's what led him to write his newest book called “Late Bloomer, The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement.” Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: https://www.latebloomer.com/ TRANSCRIPT:  Mitch Matthews: I think you're going to love this, I think you're going to love what Rich has to say. So, let's get to it.  Hey. Rich, welcome to DREAM THINK DO. Rich Karlgaard: A joy to be on your show, man. Mitch Matthews: I love it, man. I tell you ... well, before I hit record, I was kind of telling you, you surprised me this book. Rich Karlgaard: Well, thank you. In a good way? Mitch Matthews: In a good way, I should clarify it, a very good way. Rich Karlgaard: Well, yeah. A lot of people thought that a book on late bloomers coming from a Forbes publisher would simply be biography's on famous late bloomers like, Ray Crock or J.K. Rowling, people like that, but I wanted to write about why it is that we celebrate early bloomers today excessively. The damage that causes, and why late bloomers have so many gifts is validated by findings in neuroscience and by just looking around at some of the stories we ought of paid more attention to. Mitch Matthews: Yeah. Well, and that's the thing, I just kind of ... like some of the folks, I was kind of thinking, I expected some good stories, and you've got some great stories and there's no doubt. So it is full of inspiration as well. This really is not just written to people in their '40s, '50s, and '60s. That's kind of what I was thinking, but this really is for everyone. You've got stuff in there that my high-schooler could benefit from, parents should read and be thinking about as we're talking about raising our kids. Millennials and the young ones in the workplace can benefit from this because it helps them to understand how a better career works, and how our brain functions, all of that. So, there's a lot of meat ... there's a lot of gold in them there hills, is a better way to put it. So, I love it. Now, let's get into your story here first. Obviously, you had a lot of success over the years. Publisher of Forbes being one of those things top of the list, but you are also very open that you were no star student, not necessarily a star athlete, you wouldn't consider yourself a child prodigy, but you kind of celebrate that. Why is that? With a little bit of perspective, why is that something to be celebrated? Rich Karlgaard: Well, I'll just start, the brief background that you're referring to here, I was one of those kids in high school, I was a good but not great middle and long distance runner in high school. I got B's, I went to my local junior college, I improved to B pluses. I was actually, captain of my junior college cross-country team, but was kind of a low bar, and by a series of flukes, I got into Stanford as a transfer student. Stanford is a much easier institution to get into back then. I was from North Dakota, they were looking for people from obscurer states, and with a slide on their track and cross-country team, not a scholarship level, but at a level where the coach had probably had spoken to the admission's director. Anyway, I got in. Sure enough, way over my head, I took the easiest classes possible, classes with names like, "Sleep and Dreams," and "Human Sex," and "Film Aesthetics." Still, barely graduated. At age 25, when my college roommates were doing spectacular things in law, phycology, and one was working for the state shuttle program, I could hold no job greater than temporary typist, dishwasher, and security guard. One night when I was 25,
Jun 4, 2019
My guest is Paula Faris. As you probably know, Paula is a Senior National Correspondent for ABC News, and she's had one heck of a journey. She's won multiple Emmys reporting on politics, sports, entertainment, major stories of the day, she's interviewed political leaders, athletes, newsmakers, and even celebrities. Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES:  TWITTER: @paulafaris JOURNEYS OF FAITH WITH PAULA FARIS   TRANSCRIPT:  I've got to say, to my fellow geeks out there, Paula has interviewed the cast from the most recent Star Wars movies, as well as The Avengers... like as in ALL of the Avengers. I mean, come on, right? Last fall, she walked away from a couple of the most coveted positions within her industry, being the co-anchor of Good Morning America weekend edition, as well as being a co-host of ABC's The View, all to do something she felt called to do. One of those things was to launch a podcast called “Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris.” Now I can tell you, this podcast has become one of my own favorite podcasts because Paula's doing this incredible job of talking with some of the world's most influential people about how their faith and spirituality guide them through the best and worst of times. I've got to say, it's pretty revolutionary. I don't think that's too strong a word, because she's open about her own faith as a Christian, but she's talking with people from a wide array of faith backgrounds. Like when I say that, I mean she's really talking with people, she's connecting, she's not debating, she's talking. She goes in curious, she honors the people's stories, it's just so interesting, eye-opening, refreshing, you've got to check it out. Seriously, this was a bold move, to launch something like this and do it in the way that she's been doing it. The more I've been listening to her show, the more I've wanted to have her on DREAM THINK DO, so we could talk with her about her journey and dig into some of the things she's been learning along the way. Let's get to this, Paula Faris, welcome to DREAM THINK DO. Paula Faris: Thank you so much, Mitch, I'm so honored. Mitch Matthews: This is awesome. Okay, so I know people probably know your name, they've seen you doing your thing, but what is an average day, a "normal" ... I'm doing air quotes because I'm guessing there's not really a normal day. Paula Faris: Yeah, let's do some air quotes. Mitch Matthews: What does a normal day look like for you right now? Paula Faris: A normal day, well it's a lot different than my normal day, say, a year ago, which weekends I was getting up at like three, 3:30 in the morning and going to anchor at Good Morning America weekend edition, and just working crazy hours, Fridays I did “The View.” Now I work primarily Monday through Friday, a day for me is, like for instance, today I got up early to do GMA, I filed a story for Good Morning America weekday edition, and I'm doing this podcast now, I have a shoot later for Good Morning America at Disney down in Brooklyn. It's a little bit of everything right now because I am a Senior National Correspondent. I'll file for Good Morning America, I'll file for World News Tonight, for Nightline, the various ABC platforms that we have. Then I do podcasts, so I've recorded a couple of podcasts this week for my new podcast, Journeys of Faith. By the way, I appreciate you plugging it and listening and supporting it. It's a mixed bag, but I'm really enjoying this new lane and this new kind of venture. I walked away from those two dream jobs, as you mentioned because I just needed some more balance. Now it's primarily Monday through Friday, and I'll fly, I'll travel occasionally for those interviews like you mentioned, The Avengers, Star Wars, that took me to LA and Chicago for those interviews, which is great. Mitch Matthews: My wife freaked when she also heard you were at the royal wedding last year, like are you kidding me? Paula Faris: I know,
Apr 30, 2019
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?
Apr 23, 2019
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.
Apr 16, 2019
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,
Apr 9, 2019
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,
Apr 2, 2019
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,
Mar 26, 2019
My guest is Tom Ziglar. Among many things, Tom is the proud son of Zig Ziglar. He's also a bestselling author and international speaker. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Interview: Mitch Matthews: Tom is also now the CEO of the Ziglar Corporation. Tom joined the Ziglar Corporation in 1987, but he started at the bottom. In fact, he started in the warehouse and routed through sales that went on to management then moved into leadership. He also speaks around the world and hosts the wildly popular Ziglar Show podcast. So you should check that out. He carries on that Ziglar philosophy. "You can have everything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want." I love that. That was a life-changing quote for me. His new book coming out is called Choose to Win: Transform your Life, One Simple Choice at a Time. When I heard about it, I knew I wanted to have Tom on the show because he's the real deal and he's all about getting you strategies that actually work. So let's get to this. Tom Ziglar, welcome to Dream, Think, Do buddy. Tom Ziglar: Oh man. Mitch, thanks for having me. Mitch Matthews: Absolutely, this is an honor, my friend. I've been following you for a while in a good way, not in a restraining order kind of way. Tom Ziglar: Are you stalking me? Mitch Matthews: Yeah, in a positive stalker kind of way. So yeah, take that however you want. I love it. I'm sure you get questions like this a bajillion times over, so I apologize, but I just have to ask, what was it like to grow up in the Ziglar household? Tom Ziglar: I'll tell you, it was amazing. I tell people all the time as good as dad was on stage, he was even better off stage. He was just ... When you think of, gosh, what would be the ultimate earthly father. Mitch Matthews: Right. Tom Ziglar: I think Zig Ziglar would be that. And then my mom, the redhead- Mitch Matthews: The redhead. Yes. Tom Ziglar: Dad said he never would have heard of Zig Ziglar if I hadn't been for the redhead. And so just to grow up in that family and Dad was always ... He never put the pressure on. He never said you're going to be in sales or you're going to be a speaker. He always said, hey, whatever you want to do, whatever your passion is, whatever your why is just ... I want you to pursue it with 100% effort and 100% integrity. And so, when you're raising kids, I mean what better message could you have than two parents who set the example. They're always there to talk and then they're behind you 100% as long as you're doing it with integrity and effort. I mean that's ... You can't ask for more than that. Mitch Matthews: That's a beautiful thing. It is amazing and it's ... I've had some other folks that had famous parents and it's interesting how that's not always the case. Sometimes that outer appearance is wonderful, amazing, but when they get home, they're a different person. So that's not surprising, but it's beautiful to hear. Well, one of the things I wondered about too was, what was that conversation like when you're deciding, hey, I think I want to come and work for Zig ... the Ziglar Corporation. What does that ... what does that conversation look like? Tom Ziglar: Well, I'll tell you what, it was pretty simple. I played golf in college and my goal was to be a professional PGA golfer and I graduated from college and I needed money to support my golf habit and I needed flexibility. Mitch Matthews: Yeah. Tom Ziglar: And dad was behind that 100%. And so I started off in the warehouse working [inaudible 00:04:49] depending on the time of year, 25 to 35 hours just there packing boxes and doing production work. And then I was playing golf 40 to 50 hours of practice and playing. So I had the flexibility, which is great to have that flexibility. And then I realized that those guys out there are really good after about a year and some injuries and I thought, you know what? Golf's not my future.
Mar 19, 2019
My Guest is Rock Thomas.  He's a self-made millionaire, bestselling author three times over. He became one of the top 50 realtors in the world.  He studied with some of the greats like Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, and Wayne Dyer, one-on-one. But most importantly, he's taken up a personal mission to help those who have been beaten up by life and he's helped them to retrain their thinking, find their self worth and also often help them to grow wealth and abundance in the process. He's definitely living the Dream Think Do life. So it's about dang time we had him on this show. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Website: https://rockthomas.com/ Twitter: @rockthomas Instagram: @rockthomas FB: RockThomasOfficial Interview: Mitch Matthews: Rock Thomas, welcome to Dream Think Do, buddy. Rock Thomas: That's beautiful, man. Not only do you have a beautiful voice, but you articulate as well. So I'd like you to send me that recording and I'm going to put it on my phone first thing every morning when I wake up. Mitch Matthews: You got it. You got it. Tell you what I always say a good intro is my gift to my guests. You know, you deserve it for crying out loud. And yours, yours is so easy. I just, I really was blown away and I don't want to shortchange your story. I want to start with the story that really you covered in that goal cast video. Just so Dream Think Doers can know a little bit more of kind of where you came from. Take us back to your, to your childhood because this was, this was not an easy story. Rock Thomas: You know, I think we all grew up with a dream and then somewhere along the line often it gets crushed. And if you don't have the wherewithal or the resources of the guidance or the encouragement to revive it than most people live this life of quiet desperation and just trying to avoid pain, quite frankly. And I, fortunately, somehow, I think maybe through reading, I didn't grow up with the TV. I was, my parents got divorced at five and funnily enough, my sister and I grew up when I was around one and three, my mom adopted two other kids. So I was actually the youngest of four kids in the house, you know, back in the days when moms were raising kids single and dad worked, you know, till 7:00 at night. Then we got divorced and I lived with my mom for a while and I wanted more attention. She was a gypsy. So I didn't get that. I set things on fire and I fought with principals and I was that kid who was skinny but went into the new school and looked for the biggest kid and kicked him in the shins and said, what are you looking at? And- Mitch Matthews: It was a survival strategy, right? Like something you learn. But- Rock Thomas: Yeah, it's like if I can take on the biggest kid, who else is going to take me on? But after a while that got old as we changed, my mom had to relocate me from school to school and she finally shipped me off to my dad, my dad, my dad had remarried and now I was the youngest of seven. So my entire life was this battle of can somebody sees me, I got the hand me downs that are torn. Is there any food left? Can I say something? And my father's wife had married a guy who ended up in an insane asylum. So they treated her children in a special way because they were afraid that they had some mental issues. So they got away with things while I was always told to toe the line. So there was this separation. And I think that happiness in my experience comes a lot from connection, from feeling you're one with other people, you're around the fireplace at Christmas time and you're having a good time when you feel safe. And I never really had that. I always felt like I was about to be attacked or bullied or there'd be no food left. Mitch Matthews: Wow. Rock Thomas: So somewhere along the line I just started reading the books that were in my dad's library and I read this one book called, by Vernon Howard, Do What You Fear and It'll Disappear.
Mar 12, 2019
My guest is Laura Gassner Otting and her new book is called “Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life.” In the book, Laura interviews highly successful globe changers and has uncovered strategies to help you get unstuck. Laura's background spans this world's of successful startups and non-profits as well as political and philanthropic landscapes. She's coming to us after being interviewed on the Today Show… so we're excited to have her on!   Listen To The Podcast: Resources: The Book:  Limitless The Assessment: limitlessassessment.com/DTD Instagram: @heyLGO Twitter: @heyLGO Interview:  LauraL Hey, hey out there to everyone in your Dream, Think, Doer Universe. I love that. I love people who are dreamers, thinkers, and doers. Mitch: Right? It's a great crew. And as we talked about before we hit record it's an awesome, awesome crew. We tend to totally offend grumpy people so there's just a lot of love here 'cause that's what we do, I love it. Laura: Fantastic. Mitch: I could go through the list of successes that you've had in your life, I mean you were appointed by President Bill Clinton to help shape AmeriCorps, you've helped grow startups and non-profits, you've been interviewing globe changers for this book, it's a bestseller, all of those things, but somebody might look at you and go, "Wait you've never felt stuck." How about you? What's a time in your life where you Laura personally felt stuck? Laura: Boy where do I start? You know it's really interesting this idea when people look at you and they go, "Oh she's got it all together. He's got it all together." Cause I really do think that people see us as the fully formed person we are today, and number one, I hope that I'm not fully formed, I hope there's still evolution and change and growth that's going to happen, because boy it would pretty boring to stop here, right? Mitch: Exactly. I'm done. Laura: Been so fun so far. Mitch: I'm done. Laura: I'm all done. So number one, A, I'm not fully formed and B, it's not that I came into the world as this I'm just maybe five or 10 or 25 years ahead of the person who's looking at me. I'm just the future them, and they look at me as this unachievable thing when in fact it's completely achievable if they dream, think, and do. So a time when I felt fully stuck was probably when I was at the big traditional gold standard search firm that I was at, and I was supposed to be happy. I had done all the right things, I had checked all the right boxes, I went to the right schools, I got the right jobs, I got the right promotions, and there I was as the youngest Vice President at this very well known search firm, and I wasn't happy. And I couldn't understand why I wasn't happy, and I thought about the thousands of people that I'd interviewed for jobs who were all at the top of their game, who all were successful, and not all of whom were happy. And I couldn't figure out why that was until I realized that I wasn't happy either. And then I looked around and I thought, "Well why am I here? Why did I join this firm?" And I joined this firm because it was the very top firm in the country, in the world that was doing specifically mission-driven non-profit executive search, and I thought I was there to change the world. Mitch: Yeah. Laura: But then I realized that I was actually there to create profit for the owners of the firm. So my job was to sit on one side of the table with the firm and on the other side of the table as my client who wanted to cure cancer, or save the whales, or feed the poor, or create educational access, or anything else that it might be. And in between us silent unspoken was the elephant, the profit, and loss statement of the firm. And it turned out that I had two masters. I was serving the firm, and I was also serving my clients, and the truth is I wanted to be on that side of the table with them and not on...
Mar 5, 2019
My guest is Eduardo Garcia. Eduardo is chef, entrepreneur, filmmaker, outdoorsman and philanthropist. I came across this story when I was checking out this amazing video series by Yeti called "The Hungry Life." I started to dig in and it took me down this amazing rabbit hole of inspiration and incredible stories. And great food too. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: www.montanamex.com www.chefeduardo.com www.chargedfilm.com Instagram: @chefeduardogarcia, @montanamex Mitch: The short version is that he grew up in Montana hunting, hiking, exploring and at about the age of 15 started to work at local restaurants.  He uncovered this love for creating amazing food. He went on to culinary school, wound up becoming a chef for the uber wealthy on yachts and in private homes, pretty cool. But after about 11 years he decided to come back home and launch a natural foods company called “Montana Mex” with his friends. But around that same time tragedy struck and I want him to tell you the story himself. But needless to say he battled back from some incredible odds. And when you hear the story you will know exactly what I'm talking about. Incredible odds sells it short. But Ed not only survived but he's thrived. He's created this incredible life. He is truly living the epitome of the dream think do life. So I had to have him on. I can't wait for this episode. So let's get to this. Mitch: Eduardo, welcome to DTD. Eduardo: Hey Mitch, I'm excited to be here. I'm super ready. Mitch: Exactly I love it. And you are sitting outside beautiful Bozeman, Montana where I used to live. So once I found that out I'm like oh my gosh... He's got to be on dream think do. I just wanted to come to your house though and do the interview. So we'll do that next week. Eduardo: Next time. Mitch: Yeah, exactly right. I love it. So you grew up in Montana. Did you grow up with a love for the outdoors or was that something that came on later in life? Eduardo: Yeah. I think when we moved to Montana I was six years old and it's kind of one of those things I think there's nature and nurture and where I was living was mountains and four distinct seasons. Yellowstone River a stones throw away and it was my sandbox. So I had no other options nor did I know any better and then of course through programs like Boy Scouts of America and then your community and your friends and your peers, you grow up in the outdoors. You grow up skiing. You grow up hiking. You grow up fishing. You grow up. This is your hood. This is the peaks, the valleys, the streams, the meadows of the Rocky Mountain west. Mitch: Yeah. And then you just dive in and have at it, right? Eduardo: Yeah you have to. They always say to live in a place like Montana especially you know if you do not take advantage or engage with the outdoors in some way not only are you missing out on one of the greatest boons of being in a place like this geographically, but you're probably going bonkers. Because there's nothing to do here. Mitch: Exactly right. Eduardo: And I mean from an outdoors man's perspective, I have a calendar that I call my recreational calendar and it's every month of the year this is where my focus is from an outdoor perspective. Mitch: And doing activities outside different types of activities and that kind of thing. Eduardo: Yeah. You know snowboarding and snow sports, snow shoeing, cross country skiing, picking up antlers, mushroom foraging, fly fishing, floating the rivers to then hunting in the fall, putting the garden away, and then all of a sudden you're back into winter and snow sports. So it's like. Mitch: Yeah I'll never forget we lived out there for a number of years.  We had a friend visit and he showed up on a Friday morning and that night my wife got home from work and I said, “What do you want to do?” and he's like, “Well what do you guys want to do?” I said,, “You want to go to the mountains. He's like yes.
Feb 26, 2019
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.
Feb 19, 2019
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...
Feb 12, 2019
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.
Feb 5, 2019
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.
Jan 29, 2019
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...
Jan 22, 2019
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,
Jan 15, 2019
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.
Jan 8, 2019
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,
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