
REACH · 2023-01-03 · 34 min
Key moments - from our scoring
Substance score
23 / 100
Five dimensions, 20 points each
The REACH podcast's year-end special distills lessons from 24 episodes into a cohesive narrative about the account-based mindset as a way of thinking, not just a technique. Guests included Bob Cormack (57th person to summit Everest), Dudley Tal Stokes (Jamaican bobsled team), Gregory Burns (Paralympian and explorer despite losing use of his legs), Stu Hynek (author of Grow Your Business Like a Weed), Kishi Bashi (musician and documentary filmmaker), and Chris Do (creative strategist). Key themes emerged: visualization and mental preparation (drawing on neuroscientist Kevin Bailey's research on subconscious thought), grit over talent (citing Carol Dweck's growth mindset and Angela Duckworth's research on perseverance), unfair advantages rooted in individuality, and authenticity in connecting with audiences. The hosts emphasize that this mindset requires humility, adaptability, and listening - principles directly applicable to account-based marketing. For B2B operators, the episode positions ABM not as mechanical tactics but as a philosophy of deeply understanding specific accounts' needs and bringing relevant value.
The account-based mindset is a particular way of thinking and approaching problems that goes beyond specific techniques - it's about adopting values like adaptability, humility, perseverance, and listening that inform how you do everything, not just marketing mechanics.
Visualization is a trainable skill where you mentally rehearse scenarios (like client objections or presentations) from a relaxed state; neuroscience shows this activates the subconscious mind, which dominates 95% of our thinking, helping you prepare more effectively and make better decisions.
Research by Carol Dweck and Angela Duckworth shows that telling people they're smart actually makes them afraid of challenges; talent and grit are often uncorrelated or inversely related, meaning people with greater natural ability may be less willing to persevere through obstacles.
An unfair advantage is what allows you to thrive in difficult situations; unlike plants like apple trees or roses, weeds have unique traits that let them survive cracks in sidewalks - in business, your unfair advantage is your individuality and unique perspective, which no competitor can replicate.
By starting with listening to understand what specific accounts actually need and the problems they're solving, then delivering genuine value relevant to them, rather than trying to force pre-made formulas; authenticity and emotional truth connect with audiences better than polished tactics.
Our reviewer’s read on each dimension, with quotes from the episode.
The episode is a year-end recap packed with motivational anecdotes - humility, perseverance, visualization - with only the thinnest attempted bridge to B2B marketing. A smart operator will find almost no non-obvious, actionable claims; the closest the hosts get to B2B insight is restating that marketers should listen more than they talk.
if we start with listening, if we start with understanding what that person actually needs, what problems are they actually trying to solve, talking to specific accounts and what are their goals and what are they after, and then coming with real value, that's relevant to them
are we willing to stretch for the sake of who we seek to reach and connect and communicate with?
Every framework cited - Carol Dweck's growth mindset, Angela Duckworth's grit, visualization, 'teach don't sell,' and the 80/20 listening ratio - is recycled and widely circulated. There are zero contrarian or first-principles arguments; the account-based mindset framing is cosmetic.
Our research showed telling people they're smart actually backfires. It makes them afraid of challenges
Semi conscious and subconscious thoughts dominate the majority of our thinking. About 95% of our thoughts, semi conscious, subconscious, about 5% of our thoughts conscious
The episode excerpts guests who are an Everest summiter, a Jamaican bobsled driver, a musician, a Paralympian-explorer, and a design educator - inspirational figures almost entirely unrelated to B2B operations. Lauren Madrid from AWS is the sole practicing B2B marketer featured, and she receives only a brief clip with no substantive follow-up.
Lauren Madrid from aws, I think as she was speaking, it was like ptsd. Of all the challenges marketers face internally, externally about just getting alignment
you'll send an email out and get crickets. What does everyone think about abc? You might get zero opinions
Concrete data is almost entirely absent from a B2B perspective; the few numbers cited (95% subconscious thoughts, 80/20 listening ratio, 57th Everest summiter) are borrowed statistics from psychology or adventure contexts, not marketing metrics, case studies, or dollar figures.
About 95% of our thoughts, semi conscious, subconscious, about 5% of our thoughts conscious. About 70% of our subconscious or semi conscious thoughts are disempowering or limiting in nature
Emily Foley, our guest on um, 19 had this ratio and it is 80, 20. It's 80% listening and 20% of us talking
This is a celebratory recap between three hosts who agree with each other throughout; there is no meaningful host-to-guest dynamic, no probing follow-up, and no challenge to any claim made. Questions are soft and leading, and the B2B connections are asserted rather than interrogated.
Do you want to just maybe express what your goals were in starting this podcast?
If you were to consider what all these guests have in common, do you see some standout threads?
Computed from the transcript - who did the talking, and the words that came up most.
It has been a remarkable year for the Reach podcast - with incredible guests sharing stories of achievement, research, and marketing insights.
Transcribed and scored by The B2B Podcast Index.
Speaker A: Reach has had a remarkable year with guests contributing an engaging mix of intimate stories, groundbreaking research and practical marketing insights. In this year end recap, we revisit key takeaways and reflect on how they inform the account based mindset. Jason Garrett, how does it feel to be wrapping up our 24th episode of the year?
Speaker B: I've got to say, I can't even speak. It's amazing.
Speaker C: This endeavor was really something because we, Jason and I had never done this before, you know, so I feel stretched, but not in a bad way. Not in like a cheap pair of pants kind of way, like in a, uh, in a gross. In that I've been pushed to the point where it's like I've grown and I feel very grateful for that. It's a skill, and maybe I hadn't realized I hadn't valued that skill that other people have of telling stories, having conversations, making comments that aren't absolutely vapid, and generalities. It's really, it's really tough, you know, like it's.
Speaker A: It is, it's a challenge. And Jason, this has kind of been your brainchild, this podcast. Do you want to just. Do you. Do you want to just maybe express what your goals were in starting this podcast?
Speaker B: I think, uh, the goal was to go deeper and explore the why we do what we do and how does that influence what we do, especially as it pertains to this discipline or this strategic way of thinking about addressing accounts. And I think what this taught me as we were going through it is that we have ideas as to how to do it, but by discovering how others do it in different disciplines, how research comes in or how people apply it in different ways, it's just helped us go further. And there's so many learnings that came out of it. That one, we're either now quoting it or we're putting it as part of our thinking. So, yeah, it was just such a cool journey.
Speaker C: When you talk about the people we've talked to, what I got from these people is that it's a particular way of thinking. Right. Like a mindset isn't just technique, it's how you approach something. And while there are specific, practical things you can do to foster that way of thinking, if it changes the way you think or the way you do things, it's core to your existence. This is more about how we approach and how we think about everything, really.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, let's talk about some of these guests. The first one was Bob Cormack. And Jason, you're probably the best suited to remind US of who Bob Cormack was.
Speaker C: How did you come up with that?
Speaker B: It was so long ago.
Speaker A: Bob.
Speaker B: Yeah, Our first guest. But what an amazing experience.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker B: We started off thinking about the challenges in B2B marketing and maybe converting someone. It looks like this mountain, like, obstacle. And Bob's story came to the surface and he is willing to contribute. Being an early summiter of Everest, the 57th person, I thought that's such an amazing thing to explore. Like the challenge to doing it.
Speaker E: You hear all the time that the south ridge of Everest is a walk up, Right. You couldn't see anything downwind because the wind hits the mountain and then immediately turns into a cloud. So you only can see halfway. It didn't look anything like the lower part of the mountain. Chris and I got up there and all of a sudden, here's this gnarly looking ridge and huge cornices and the wind is howling and sturdy below. I'm thinking to myself, what happened to the walk up? Who would like, no stink in the walk up?
Speaker A: Yeah. Why was that noteworthy that he was 57th?
Speaker B: I don't know. It just seems like now it's like
Speaker C: a, uh, tourist thing.
Speaker E: Right.
Speaker B: But like what Bob said, it's no stinking walk up. When he was doing it, he was a pioneer, really. So I think, like, that perspective, that's what made it fascinating. Sometimes we're doing things that we've never done before, right? So, like, maybe there's that parallel where we know where you want to go and we're doing things that maybe very few have done before, but we're willing to take that risk.
Speaker C: What stood out to me, too, about Bob's experience, we often think of it as the ultimate metaphor for human achievement is getting to the top of a mountain. And we often just think of the top. But as he's speaking and you're learning about everything that leads up to just getting to the bottom. That, to me, was so interesting and so applicable to business. All that leads up to it and the support and the teamwork just to get there was truly inspiring to me.
Speaker E: Arlene Bloom and I came up behind. We made sure the ladders over the crevasses were anchored and we strung, uh, hand ropes on them and sometimes braced them because the longer lad oscillate back and forth. I knew what it takes to get a good anchor in soft snow. It takes a lot of work. That was what I wanted to do, make sure people have safe routes. I knew that there had to be some people who were making things work, who made Things, uh, mesh smoothly. And so I tried to be one of those people.
Speaker A: Yeah, he was a very endearing personality. Because we can become accustomed to seeing people push others down to rise to the top. So an underdog story like this is so satisfying to see someone that really just wanted to climb. He didn't care about being at the top. He just wanted to contribute to the effort in general. And when he found himself at the top, he said the summit came as a surprise.
Speaker E: I was so focused on this, doing this thing over and over. Walk up on the summit and went, wow, this is the summit of Everest. Who would have thought I'd ever be here? I never thought I'd ever be here. No one else ever did either. And they go, jesus, I gotta take some pictures and get the hell out of here.
Speaker C: Totally. He was in love with the work. His focus was just to support the team, whatever needed to happen. And to me, that spoke about the principle that we were exploring there about adaptability. There's a little bit of humility needed there to be willing to do whatever is needed. Be willing to stretch a little bit. Just be willing to grow and adapt to the situation as it happens.
Speaker E: I couldn't operate the camera with my mittens on. I sewed cord into my mittens. And so I had a cord around my wrist so I couldn't lose, right? So I could just take them off and let them dangle. And I turn my back to the wind, take them off, get the camera set up, and I could shoot for about 20, uh, seconds. Then I had to drop the camera, put my mittens on, get feeling back in my hands. I did that about two, three times. Got some panorama shots and stuff like that. To prove we'd made the summit, you know.
Speaker A: The next person we talked to was really an awesome privilege. We had to talk to Dudley Tal Stokes, who was the original bobsled driver from the Jamaican bobsled team. That eventually inspired Cool Runnings, the movie.
Speaker C: We're looking for a sponsor for the
Speaker A: first Jamaican bobsled team.
Speaker B: Their dream was to compete in the Olympics.
Speaker A: And I have to say, this was probably my favorite story that we did. So to get this as our second story was a big deal for me.
Speaker F: By becoming very good at visualization, at getting into a state of deep mental relaxation. And visualizing bobstay tracks and bobstay runs. Basic tenet is that the brain cannot differentiate. Between actually doing something. And something that's vividly imagined from a condition of relaxation. And then drawing on it to rehearse again and again.
Speaker C: I remember sitting in an airport somewhere when I listened to the first cut of this episode. And it was just so exciting to talk about something that was like folklore, basically through the late 80s and into the 90s. And this story, what I took away from it was that visualization process was a skill that, uh, he started using when he was just little. And it helped him at every point of his life.
Speaker F: In my childhood, I did a lot of daydreaming and seeing different things. Things Allowing what was quite a vivid imagination to run wild. But I needed discipline in that imagination and training it to simulate reality in as much color as possible. That could enable visualization towards specific goals. Sitting in a simulator in Calgary, learning to fly and just closing my eyes and imagining myself through all the maneuvers and changing that from a static simulator into a real moving machine. That prepared me for the kind of visualization that I would have to do in bobsle.
Speaker C: It's something that he had to work at and had to develop, like a muscle that you have to train. And so for me personally, in the presenting the communicating of ideas at the beginning of this episode, I'm like, how do I actually visualize, you know, putting yourself in the viewer, in the audience, in the client's shoes, and visualizing how they react to it. Uh, visualizing the objection and then adapting the messaging to get it closer to where that audience needs it to be.
Speaker A: Yeah. Tao was such a good sport. Our first interview was ruined because of some technical difficulties, and he allowed us to do a second take. He did such a great job. I love his voice so much. But I could tell in the first interview that he was really interested in this concept of visualization. I wasn't really sure what to make of it myself. I have a little bit of a prejudice for certain types of. I don't know if you call them spiritual mindsets.
Speaker F: The two guidance of visualizations. Firstly, there's, uh, a, uh, view of the bigger picture. What you want to accomplish, where you want to go. And if we look at an Olympic cycle, a quad, it starts the moment you decide to go to the next Olympic Games. You need to know where it is and, uh, what time it is now. You need to start seeing yourself there, seeing yourself on the start block, waiting to go see yourself being successful at being at the Olympics. And then there is specific visualization, which is about execution. Whether you're going into a business meeting or you're going on a bobsky track. It's having firmly in your head what you want to accomplish. From a state of deep Mental relaxation, going over that plan time and time again.
Speaker A: But it really clicked for me in doing some research when we found Patty Dobrowalski and she was talking about the need for visualization when thinking about your future.
Speaker G: We live in a three dimensional world, but the light falls on the retina in a two dimensional fashion. And the brain, it has to cope with it. So how does it deal with this extra dimension? It guesses, it guesses. And just as it can guess where your cup of coffee is when it goes to pick it up, it can correctly guess what the three bold steps are that you should.
Speaker A: And I thought, well, that's very practical. Are our minds capable of doing much more acting on what's not in our line of sight? And the truth is, in many cases, those are some of the most important decisions we make. And what maybe separates learners from masters in a discipline.
Speaker B: Yeah, this is something that we didn't consider before either. We're leading with achievers that had a story. Dudley had that story and he starts bringing up this idea and this concept of visualization.
Speaker F: Things became really quiet, at least in my mind. I sat there and watched the ice go by. Flash of white. And then I started thinking to myself, well, this is not right. This is not where we should be. This was just a disaster. How did I get here? How are we going to make this different? And I remembered my mom making her a list. Started figuring it out in my mind. Yeah, we needed the resources, the money, equipment. I just started visualizing and working through it. So for the first 10 seconds of the crash was trying to figure out how to survive and realizing that it wasn't going to happen. And the final 18 seconds was really spent mapping out what would turn out to be next nine years of my life.
Speaker B: This isn't something that we really considered as an account based mindset, but can this be something that we tap into more of? We had people that spoke to the neuroscience behind it, like Kevin Bailey.
Speaker H: Semi conscious and subconscious thoughts dominate the majority of our thinking. About 95% of our thoughts, semi conscious, subconscious, about 5% of our thoughts conscious. About 70% of our subconscious or semi conscious thoughts are disempowering or limiting in nature.
Speaker B: And uh, it definitely alerted me to say this is important and this is something that we could employ more in our practice.
Speaker F: I am going to find out what is necessary to become good at this and I'm going to become good.
Speaker H: I had my head down and all I could hear was my spikes crunching through the ice. I mean every step was like Amplified in my brain.
Speaker F: And then I started to hear this
Speaker H: cheering and I lift up my head a little bit.
Speaker F: We walked sort of right through the finish and so on. But then, but the crowd started, uh, cheering and waving. So, you know, the guy started cheering and waving back.
Speaker A: Our next guest was Gregory Burns. You remember how you got introduced to Gregory, Jason?
Speaker B: Yes. Just meeting someone at an event, telling people about the pod and someone says, you know, I have someone in mind that I think would be a great story.
Speaker I: Hi, I'm, uh, Gregory Burns. I'm an athlete.
Speaker B: And what an amazing story. Unreal.
Speaker A: Yeah. Gregory was such a great participant, late nights from Singapore, just helping us to explore his past. And part of the reason why it took so much time for him and I to work together was that his story is so vast and sprawling.
Speaker I: Here I was on a boat with an International crew of 10 people sailing from Tahiti basically to New Zealand, which took nine months. We were very slow making a 30 minute television documentary, meeting locals, asking them, you know, how do you dive for pearls? How do you, how do you grow taro? What are your courtship rituals?
Speaker J: Hello everybody and welcome to Micronesia. Today, the Marco Polo is in the Republic of Bilau. Now, we have spent a lot of time in Polynesia and Melanesia.
Speaker A: He has accomplished so much in his life from being a visual artist, um, a Paralympian, an explorer, a filmmaker. He's competed in Ironman competitions with able bodied people, all despite having lost the use of his legs.
Speaker C: It's incredible. You know, in this season we were exploring perseverance and as we started to break down what he's achieved and who he is, it's like the piece about him as, as a kid and just getting up the stairs and in the grocery store, that part was just so gut wrenching. To hear that part of his story
Speaker I: one time, I will never forget it. We were in the supermarket and somewhere between the Cheerios and the Pop Tarts, I fell down. And there I was on the floor, kind of squirming, trying to get up. And the other shoppers, I'm sure, were just horrified that my mother would allow this poor little crippled kid to squirm on the floor and not immediately lift him up and stand him up and help him up. I don't remember looking to my mother to help me up, but I also recall the message from my mother was, you got this, you can do this. You're going to have to do this when I'm gone, so you better get used to it now.
Speaker C: But those little bits of perseverance and him showing grit to get through it informs what he did as an adult. All of those things are all intertwined as one, and you can't really separate it.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's true. There is this theory that talent is the driver of success. I think that's been ingrained in us for so long that sometimes we don't challenge that assumption. But here, Gregory, not having many of the advantages that we all have, being able to accomplish so much really backs up what the research shows, which is that natural ability alone can actually work against us.
Speaker K: Our research showed telling people they're smart actually backfires. It makes them afraid of challenges. It makes them, uh, fold in the face of obstacles because they're worried, oh, does this not look smart? Am I not smart? The whole currency is built around smart.
Speaker A: Professor Carol Dweck and Angela Duckworth, speaking on grit and the growth mindset really made me rethink my own potential. Am I fixed or am I flexible in what I think I'm capable of?
Speaker D: If we only think about talent, then we maybe forget about effort and energy, about passion and perseverance. In my research, I find that grit and talent are hardly correlated at all, and sometimes they go in opposite directions so that somebody who's a little more able, maybe a little less gritty in certain samples.
Speaker C: To me, that whole idea speaks to the genesis for this podcast as a whole. The ability to continue to grow and evolve. And are you willing to do that? And Gregory's superpower, maybe his advantage was that his situation necessitated that he has to grow and evolve maybe more than another person.
Speaker I: And that's really where I realized, listen, I'm not going to win this. I'm here to complete, not completely compete. And to complete it is a win.
Speaker C: If you chose that, though, if you chose that mindset, being willing to grow and adapt and persevere and not limit yourself to what someone says you are or says you're capable of, what then? What could happen for all of us? I appreciated our guest, Stu Hynek. He was the author of grow your business like a weed. He helped us to appreciate that weeds have unfair advantages, something that allows them to thrive in difficult situations. Growing in the middle of a sidewalk, they can persevere in situations where other plants cannot.
Speaker L: It's a. There's a dandelion growing out of a crack, and it's. We're used to seeing that. But there were no apple trees growing out of the crack. There were no petunias or rose bushes, because those plants, they don't have what it takes to be a weed. Every weed doesn't do anything without unfair advantages. And so you see that in action in a lot of ways.
Speaker C: And sometimes it's difficult to think about what is your unfair advantage. Like what do you have that no one else has? And the reality is what we have that no one else has is us. Our individuality is our unfair advantage. Our unique selling proposition is us.
Speaker I: Uh, I kind of found my voice and that started a 27 year long swimming career in the Paralympics. So in the beginning I think I tried to put, prove myself to others and later in life it was like, okay, I have to prove myself to myself.
Speaker A: Because the next guest we had was in a slightly different vein. I've been a fan of Kishibashi for quite some time.
Speaker M: I'm Kishi Bashi.
Speaker A: And I, uh, was excited that he responded and said he would be willing to have an interview with us and tell us a little bit about his story.
Speaker N: I think a lot of the focus of what I do is to make, blend art with history, to blend art and songwriting and storytelling, to kind of connect people with difficult histories, you know, to like basically soften people's hearts with music and then unload that difficult message so that it kind of stays.
Speaker A: Since the last time I'd spoken to him, he had been working on a full length movie documentary about Japanese internment during World War II. And he really brought out this concept of empathy and how it changed his music.
Speaker N: I started to um, look into my own artistic expression as a voice for these feelings. I was having to be able to communicate these things to my listeners, my fans. So I started writing an album and I also started making a movie, a documentary movie.
Speaker C: First of all, our family, we all became fans of his music as a result on Spotify as four more listeners, which is absolutely wonderful. You know, I heard this interesting quote from Prince about how he considers creation as success. But as you listen to Kishi Bashi's story, what he realizes that he was trying so hard and had this preconceived idea of what he wanted to be. But through listening to his audience he uh, truly found relevance.
Speaker N: My big break was like playing with Regina Spector. I think she's a pop artist, really brilliant songwriter and she could just like halfway through the show the band would leave, we would leave and she'd just be solo, you know, and completely command the audience. People are like crying and you know what I mean? And the next day like, oh, I wonder what they said about the show, you know, And I'd read in the newspaper and one of the reviewers were like, oh, I couldn't. Couldn't wait for the band to leave. And it's just me and Regina, you
Speaker C: know, I was like, oh, that takes some humility. Right? Especially in music.
Speaker A: Yeah. I really appreciated his honesty and recounting that early part of his career and how he observed other musicians that he was working with, like of Montreal, Kevin Barnes and Regina Spector, touring with her and observing how they interacted with their audiences or why they created music. He allowed that to inform his own motive.
Speaker N: If you go about your life trying to write pop hits, it's such a struggle. You should just go about writing songs you feel great about, because what is popular. Popular means you're connecting with a lot of people. And the truer you are to emotion, the better chance you have at connecting with a lot of people and becoming popular.
Speaker A: I feel like motive is a reoccurring theme in these accounts. Uh, that clearly people are drawn to sincerity and compassion. Obviously, that can have an application to our marketing efforts as well.
Speaker C: A hundred percent. I. I think maybe even more so in the B2B space. If we start with listening, if we start with understanding what that person actually needs, what problems are they actually trying to solve, talking to specific accounts and what are their goals and what are they after, and then coming with real value, that's relevant to them.
Speaker M: I think the sustainable artists, the ones that, um, can continue to make ideas that engage their audience and grow their audience as the ones that can survive. But even after, like, 10 years, it's really hard to. I have to keep reinventing myself. You could come up with a great formula of music that people appreciate and can connect with, but after a while,
Speaker N: it just kind of gets old. So, like, the general population is used
Speaker M: to getting new things, so you have to keep changing. You have to keep pushing yourself to. To do something new.
Speaker A: So next guest was Chris Do. And, you know, I had not heard of Christo before, but when he agreed to do an interview with me, I was just really honored because apparently, I
Speaker O: mean, it's kind of a big deal to help them.
Speaker A: Um, but he was a great participant, just very earnest and honest in his retelling of his origin story and where he came from and the struggles that he had as an introvert. You could tell in speaking with him that he was just a very intelligent person and perceptive. He told me that about this one time that he was watching a, um, Monk on YouTube.
Speaker O: He was speaking to this audience. I catch a piece of it, and Just coincidence. Just at the moment he asked the audience a rhetorical question. Do you want to know how I'm m not nervous standing up here talking to you? And then he said, it's because in my mind as I'm talking, let me sing a prayer for you. It's like, what a beautiful sentiment. So this was like inverting the lens away from ourselves, our ego being self centered and turning towards the audience, which is, I'm here to serve as a servant. How can I do wrong?
Speaker A: And it changed his life and his approach because all he had to do was stop focusing on wanting to be the best speaker and start focusing on what his audience needed and what his audience was thinking about. And that nervousness kind of went away. And he said that that really transformed the way he teaches and approaches things.
Speaker O: If you begin centered, calm, energetic and joyful, with a spirit of generosity, the audience feels that they're at ease. The smallest things that you do, when you mess up, they'll go, aww, uh, how cute, so funny, interesting. I like this person. And then you feel that and they're generous and then you're generous and it goes the other direction.
Speaker C: We often think about what we do as marketers as communicating, messaging. That's how we speak about it. But hearing Chris talk about his dad and his experiences as an actual teacher at art schools, you know, teaching means you're invested in your listener's growth, you know, and taking that stance of teaching, providing value, being invested in someone's growth is greater than in my mind, uh, selling a product.
Speaker J: Mhm.
Speaker B: I think too, like it was cool that through the process of teaching he discovered he has something of value because he had a little bit of displacement. Seeing the kids coming out of school, he's like, I'm going to be replaced,
Speaker L: you know,
Speaker B: uh, but then seeing what value he really had, all of a
Speaker O: sudden I feel myself coming alive and they're helping to rebuild me. Unbeknownst to them, pebble by pebble, piece by piece, I'm going to be a new person. So that semester I came back full of energy. Not because I needed three months off, but because the gift the students gave me. And so that's why I love teaching so much. One, I've been the beneficiary of it. Two, in orders of magnitude more, I found my self confidence, my voice, my self worth through teaching.
Speaker B: And I was just thinking from our perspective, what is the value that we can offer to others and how do we involve others in the process?
Speaker C: Emily Foley, our guest on um, 19
Speaker J: had this ratio and it is 80, 20. It's 80% listening and 20% of us talking. I think that we need to apply that so much more.
Speaker C: And that speaks to that idea that teaching is about involvement. And to the degree we can get them involved and engaged and doing something that will show up in the growth of the audience, of the student, of the target market.
Speaker O: I'm 50 years old and I'm still as motivated, as energized today, even more so than I was when I was 22 years old. Thank you very much. Pfui I get to touch the lives of people that I most likely will never meet in real life before my time is up here on earth. And I think there's something wonderful and beautiful about that. I get to live my purpose every single day. Okay, some of you guys.
Speaker A: After Chris do's story, we started introducing more bite sized stories from marketers.
Speaker C: Lauren Madrid from aws, I think as she was speaking, it was like ptsd. Of all the challenges marketers face internally, externally about just getting alignment.
Speaker P: Uh, you'll send an email out and get crickets. What does everyone think about abc? You might get zero opinions. Radio silence. And then you send an email. M like, okay, great, we're gonna go with a. And then all of a sudden you get these opinions coming out of the woodwork. So sometimes you just gotta put the straw man out there so people can start raising their hand and saying, I don't like it. This is a terrible idea. I don't wanna do it.
Speaker L: Great.
Speaker P: Awesome. So be. Maybe it is then. Neat. I knew you had opinions. I'm glad I could poke you enough to make you tell me.
Speaker C: And I think this is a recurring theme too in all these episodes. Having the humility to understand where something else is coming from. M and maybe take that into account. Shift a little bit, be a little bit adaptable, persevere together, just so we can get that alignment and move forward together.
Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. The humility to offer up ideas, knowing that they might be criticized or broken down. All we can do to make progress sometimes, especially in an enterprise environment.
Speaker B: And that sultry music was just delightful. I like the perspective too that you could be called under the table, so to speak, but being willing to try, being willing to fail, and knowing it's not the end of the world. Yeah, right. I mean, these aren't life and death situations. So having that humility about us.
Speaker A: For Bob it is.
Speaker N: Yeah.
Speaker B: For Bob, he was like the only
Speaker L: one
Speaker P: I try to think of, like future Lauren. She's not going to remember this at all, so present. Lauren should just let it go.
Speaker C: I just have to say, personally, Scott Aaron in 22. I had no idea about Scott previous, but we had the interview, we heard his story, and just to see the
Speaker Q: parallels, personally, I found this letter that my dad wrote me from prison. And he wrote a lot of things in this letter. But the one thing that he did almost highlight is he said, son, you asked me, uh, how am I supposed to be you? How am I supposed to do things as you? And he said, you're not. You need to be yourself. You need to let people fall in love with who you are, not with who you're trying to be. And that really stuck with me because I was resisting being myself, wanting to be liked and appreciated. It kind of gave me this sense of clarity, but also comfort knowing that I could just be myself. I didn't have to be my dad.
Speaker C: And my takeaway from that was, um, how often do I actually share an experience with someone? Hearing other people's stories and then understanding how your story fits in with their story. Maybe that's the whole idea behind this whole thing. The stories are, uh, what endears us to people. The stories are what helps us understand. And telling stories is maybe a lost art.
Speaker B: That's a good point though, Gary, because looking back again, part of what we set out to do was discover the mindset, but the format was important.
Speaker C: Yeah, right.
Speaker B: Like how we consider this of, uh, being able to unpack the stories. And through the process, too, Hiromi, what you and Robbie have developed in how to pull the story out, like just the stories, that's so powerful because you personally apply so many different things. It's not only what binds us, it moves us, it teaches us, and then we don't forget these stories.
Speaker A: If you were to consider what all these guests have in common, do you see some standout threads?
Speaker C: The show is about achievement and reaching and things that people have done and what moves them to be able to do that. And it seems like for me, the thread is the humility to grow. And the reason why I say that is because you gotta be a little bit willing to risk embarrassment. You gotta be, uh, willing to stretch like a pair of pants. But the goal, the motive is the growth.
Speaker A: Yeah, I totally agree. What stood out to me was humility throughout all this. And I think what's interesting about that is that in our culture, humility is often, often seen as a weakness. And yet it's really been the deciding factor in many of these participants success.
Speaker B: Yeah, I agree I wrote down learner, which to me, that's what that means. You're willing to learn. And to be willing to learn, you have to be humble. You have to be willing to accept that you don't know everything. You've got to be willing to accept failure. You got to put yourself out there to be vulnerable and try. So, thinking about this from a marketing standpoint, are we willing to stretch for the sake of who we seek to reach and connect and communicate with?
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