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The Growth Mixtape: Chasing Curiosity and Sharing Boundless Insights from Ideas that Matter

The Growth Mixtape: Chasing Curiosity and Sharing Boundless Insights from Ideas that Matter

著者： Chasing Curiosity and Sharing Boundless Insights from Ideas that Matter by Bob Mathers
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Listen to my conversations with the most interesting people you may not have come across yet. These conversations might not seem to have a lot in common at first. But just like songs on a mixtape, they create something memorable and emotional. So, let's press play and see what we learn about ourselves. I'm Bob Mathers, host of the Growth Mixtape podcast. I love chasing my curiosity; the further from my comfort zone, the better. Please join me for stories from leaders in business, the sciences, academia and the arts. I find the most powerful ideas, the ones that compel us to do bold things, happen by accident. It is these unexpected collisions that I’m excited to explore in this new podcast. These conversations always give me new insights I never would have gotten from other experts in my field. Every other week, join your host Bob Mathers, keynote speaker for conversations designed to push you out of your comfort zone. Each episode delivers boundless insights and ideas that matter by inspiring you to get off autopilot and keep chasing curiosity.© 2025 Growth Mixtape Podcast with Bob Mathers マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 個人的成功 出世 就職活動 経済学 自己啓発
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  • From Eyes-Closed to Camden Yards, and the Song She Was Afraid to Write with Rachel Druckenmiller

    From Eyes-Closed to Camden Yards, and the Song She Was Afraid to Write with Rachel Druckenmiller
    2026/09/24
    Today I talk to Rachel Druckenmiller, keynote speaker, songwriter and recording artist I met at a recent songwriting retreat. You know those people you meet that seem kind and approachable, and then as you learn more you realize, oh I think she’s a really big deal. Well, that’s Rachel. In the 3 short months since we first met, she lived out a childhood dream of singing the national anthem for her hometown Baltimore Orioles. We hear about all the seemingly small things she said yes to, things that didn’t seem to have any point to them, but together landed her on that field in front of 31 thousand people. And when she got that opportunity, she didn’t waste it. She went all in. She also talks for the first time about the song she wrote at the retreat, something so deeply personal she had never said it out loud before. But when she put her phone on airplane mode and reconnected with herself and nature, it just poured out of her.This is a conversation about the power of saying your dreams out loud, borrowing other people's belief in you when your own runs short, and why, now more than ever, authenticity beats perfection every time.Key TakeawaysSay your dreams out loud — you never know who's listening. Rachel once told a stranger at a conference that her dream was to "speak and sing in stadiums." That offhand admission set off the chain of events that eventually put her on the field at Camden Yards. Kept-inside dreams can't be caught by the right person.Be strategic with your yeses — but don't let strategy veto what makes you feel alive. Her first anthem gig failed every strategic test. Rachel's gauge: if it's going to make you feel alive, do it.You already have the evidence — use it. Rachel had practised the anthem 200+ times and already sung it once in that exact stadium. Scale spooks us into forgetting we've done a version of the thing before.Borrow other people's belief in you. When her own confidence wavered, Rachel deliberately reached out to people who understood high-stakes performance. An anthem is a celebration, not a funeral march. Rachel's whole preparation was built on one intention — "renew joy" before every line — and on singing with her whole body, face, and hands. Alienating people is a sign of good art. (Peter Katz's line, which lands twice in this episode.) Rachel worried her retreat song was too specific to relate to. The specificity is exactly why it connects, with mothers and non-mothers alike. In the age of AI, imperfection is the signal. A little grit, a note caught slightly under — the human imperfections are what make people trust the art now. "Allow the unfolding." Rachel takes intentional action toward what she wants, then stays receptive to how it shows up rather than forcing it. Every action is a vote for the person you want to become (a nod to James Clear) — she spent years saying she wanted to be a singer while casting no votes; the last eighteen months have been nothing but votes.Get out of the audience of your own life. The through-line of Rachel's year: building a foundation strong enough to support a bigger life, and choosing to participate rather than observe. Legacy doesn't require the path everyone assumes — she points to the late Dolly Parton, who mothered millions without children of her own.Resources & ReferencesPeter Katz's Heartstrings Songwriting Retreat — https://heartstringsretreats.com/Rachel's retreat song: "The Life I Didn't Choose" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5JvSkBhrN7XxZORK8OYngFRachel singing the national anthem at Camden Yards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTvSn44UR4sConnect with Rachel DruckenmillerWebsite: racheldruckenmiller.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.druckenmiller/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelbdruckenmillerConnect with Bob MathersWebsiteLinkedInInstagram The Restless Leader Newsletter on Substack: https://bobmathers.substack.com/
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    58 分
  • Be Unforgettable in a World of Sameness

    Be Unforgettable in a World of Sameness
    2026/09/10
    Welcome to another solo episode, where I gather up conversations with friends, clients and guests that won’t go away and keep organizing themselves around specific themes. This one is about something almost everyone I talk to is wrestling with: how to stand out and become memorable. Whether you're chasing a new job, a promotion, an investor, a creative breakthrough, or just trying to figure out what's next — at some point you're going to have to stand out among everyone else doing something similar to you. And in a world engineered for us all to blend into a thousand shades of grey, that's harder than it should be.I walk through why we lose the ability to stand out, why your own life is the only thing nobody on Earth can copy, and the difference between telling your story and excavating it. Then I get practical: the exact three-step exercise I ran fifty people through at Cansbridge, the one you can do today with a pen, some paper, and — I'm not joking — a box of crayons.Key TakeawaysThe game is rigged for sameness — so change the game. When everyone's playing the blend-in game, the only winning move is to stop playing it and make a bold choice that gives people something to react to.Give them something to react to. Olivia Wilde's casting-director story is the template: the actors who stopped trying to guess what the director wanted and instead showed what they could bring got remembered — and got the call a month later, even when they didn't land that part. Contrast is what gets remembered.A real client example. A customer success leader with a military background had always hidden that part of her story, afraid it read as rigid. In her final interview she led with it—the idea that the mission never changes even when the plan blows up. AI is a catalyst, not the cause. Everyone using the same three tools to sound unique is why we all sound identical — but this problem predates AI. Blending in was always the default.Your life is the only thing nobody can copy — but telling isn't enough. You have to excavate. Telling your story recounts what happened. Excavating it digs into what it reveals about how you're wired and what you can offer that no one else can.Two symptoms, one disease. Symptom one: we don't believe there's anything special about our story. Symptom two: most of us don't actually want to stand out — we live in quiet fear of it. The disease underneath both: we've lost the childlike curiosity we were born with. A five-year-old paints an orange sky and doesn't care what you think — until a thousand tiny corrections teach us there's a right answer and we'd better find it.Encodings and your constellation. We each carry a unique combination of the things that feel more natural to us than they do to other people — like stars forming a constellation only you have. The most fulfilling lives aren't built by grinding at something until you're good at it; they're built by aligning your work with what you were born to do.The three-step exercise (about 30 minutes, pen and paper — or crayons):Clear the decks. Five minutes of stream-of-consciousness writing. No stopping, no editing. Get the noise out.Build your storybank. Three moments that changed something in you — not accomplishments, not the highlight reel. (And don't make them all sad — joy excavates just as well as loss.)Excavate. For each, ask what it reveals about you, not what happened. Look for the thread running underneath.Uncover your Category of One. Draft one statement — "I believe…" is a useful scaffold, not a rule.Say it out loud within the hour. A statement you've never spoken is just journaling. Test it on a real human and watch their face.Connect with Bob MathersWebsiteLinkedInInstagram The Restless Leader Newsletter on Substack: https://bobmathers.substack.com/Links & ResourcesJim Collins’ What to Make of a Life: https://www.jimcollins.com/books.htmlCansbridge Fellowship Conference Workshop: https://cansbridgefellowshipconference.com/
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  • You Were Born Creative, Here's How to Get It Back with Juno Winner Rob Szabo

    You Were Born Creative, Here's How to Get It Back with Juno Winner Rob Szabo
    2026/08/27
    Today I talk to Rob Szabo — a four-time Juno-nominated (and one-time Juno-winning) musician, producer, and composer who has spent over thirty years making a living doing the thing most of us are told to give up on. He's played in bands since before he was legally allowed to be there, sold thousands of tapes out of the back of a car in the '90s independent music boom, produced some fifty albums, and — in a plot twist nobody could have planned — writes music for the Paw Patrol movies, including a hair metal song he sings as the villain.Rob and I grew up in the same town, a year apart, and somehow never crossed paths until a couple of months ago at Peter Katz's songwriting retreat. He was the first person I met when I walked in the door, and I've been wanting to have this conversation ever since.I came into this thinking I'd ask Rob about the Junos and Paw Patrol and the fairy-tale career. Instead we went straight down the rabbit hole I've been obsessed with lately — creativity as a practice, not a talent you're either born with or not. We talked about the childlike well of creativity we all get told to bury, learning to be comfortable with waste, doing the work as an end in itself, and the constant negotiation of showing up to the practice even when you don't feel like it. If you've ever told yourself "I'm just not a creative person," this one's for you.Please enjoy, Rob Zabo.Key TakeawaysCreativity is a practice, not a gift. We're all born with a deep well of it — it just gets dulled over the years as we're told to be serious and grow up. The good news: it's still there, and you can rebuild access to it like any other habit.The things worth doing are the ones you don't run a cost-benefit analysis on. Rob's most meaningful work came from committing to things as an end in themselves — not justifying the means to an end. If you're trying to justify it, it's probably not the thing.Beware getting really good at something you never wanted to do. Chasing security by doing "adjacent" work is how you wake up an expert at the wrong thing, with no time left for what you actually care about.Get comfortable with waste. Most creative work never gets seen — the sketches, the fifty songs recorded so twenty make the album, the dozens of revisions. In a productivity-obsessed culture that demands immediate results, learning to tolerate waste is one of the hardest and most essential shifts.Faith is part of the deal. Sitting down for two hours with no idea whether anything useful will come out — and doing it anyway — is an act of faith that the reps eventually produce fruit.Lower the stakes to beat resistance. "Let's write a shitty song today." Some of the best work comes when you're just fooling around and the pressure's off.Novel settings short-circuit the inner critic. Nature, water, a boat on a lake, a walk, a shower, driving — occupying your conscious brain just enough gets you out of your own way. Recognition matters less than you think — to everyone but you. The Junos, the followers, the accolades: nobody's paying as much attention as you are. Rob flags his Juno on LinkedIn knowing it eases a client's mind, while holding lightly to the fact that it doesn't mean what people think it means.Once you release something into the world, what happens next isn't about you (a Rick Rubin idea we both wrestle with). We're hardwired to crave the validation anyway — which is exactly what makes social media so insidious.Connect with Bob MathersWebsiteLinkedInInstagram The Restless Leader Newsletter on Substack: https://bobmathers.substack.com/Links & ResourcesRob Szabo’s website: https://www.robszabo.com/The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin: https://sites.prh.com/thecreativeactBird by Bird by Anne Lamott: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/97395/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/Peter Katz's Heartstrings Songwriting Retreat: https://heartstringsretreats.com/
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