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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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  • The Real Why Behind the Exploding Retreat Industry

    The Real Why Behind the Exploding Retreat Industry
    2026/07/23
    Welcome to another a solo episode — where I pull together threads from conversations with guests, clients, and friends that keep organizing themselves around a theme, and try to make sense of them out loud so you have space to insert your own stories.Today's thread is the rise of the retreats. They seem to have come out of nowhere — nobody talked about them before COVID, and now everyone I know is either going on one, saving up for one, or running their own. I've done two in the last ten months, and both were transformational. So I want to sit with a paradox: these retreats are helpful, they're necessary, and it's completely messed up that we need them at all. We've engineered our lives to be so full of distraction, comparison, and anxiety that we'll pay thousands of dollars to sit on a rock in the woods for three days and remember how we're actually meant to live.I also share the story behind the song I wrote at Peter Katz's Heartstrings retreat — a song about my mom, dementia, and a playlist that brought her back to sixteen for a five-hour car ride — and then get practical about how to bring the best of these reset experiences home instead of leaving them in the woods.If you stick around to the end, you get the world premiere of "Play Me Some Elvis." Mom, this one's for you.Key TakeawaysThe retreat paradox: these experiences are genuinely necessary in the world we've built, and the fact that we need them at all is evidence of how badly we've engineered our lives. Both things are true — they help, and we should never have needed them.The magic isn't the programming — it's the white space. The best retreats resist the urge to pack every hour, striking a deliberate balance between a bit of group inspiration and long stretches of solitude to digest it. The content you could get anywhere (even from ChatGPT); the conversation plus the room to reflect is what you're actually paying for.Arthur Brooks' distinction between complicated and complex problems reframes all of it. Complicated problems (how does a jet engine work, how do I hit a million in revenue) have answers, and tech is great at them. Complex problems — love, happiness, meaning — have no answer; the point is to keep searching. We've overdeveloped the brain that solves the first kind and let the other atrophy.Being bored and quiet isn't wasting time — it's where the neglected side of your brain finally gets to work. We smother it in "digital slop," listening to podcasts while folding laundry, terrified of an unoccupied minute. That compulsion is exactly what blocks the answers we're looking for.It's not up to you what you create — your job is to be open and notice. Bob showed up with rock-and-roll song ideas he'd planned in advance; the actual song only arrived once he disconnected and gave his mind space. The best material was sitting just under the surface of a busy life, waiting for room to surface.Peter Katz's mic-drop line: "That's not the real world. This is the real world." We pay to live intentionally for 3 days out of 365 and call the other 362 normal. Maybe the version of us that shows up in the woods — honest, brave, unapologetic — is the real one, and the job is to smuggle as much of it back as we can.Connect with Bob MathersWebsiteLinkedInInstagram The Restless Leader Newsletter on Substack: https://bobmathers.substack.com/Links & ResourcesWaypoint Retreat: https://vienna-waits.com/retreatHeartstrings Retreat: https://heartstringsretreats.com/The Meaning of Your Life, Arthur Brooks: https://www.arthurbrooks.com/the-meaning-of-your-lifePlay Me Some Elvis on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aNwCbPw9df0?si=81Z4ZAtkOT-yXFDr
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    32 分
  • Toxic Masculinity SOLVED with Greg Boyd

    Toxic Masculinity SOLVED with Greg Boyd
    2026/07/09
    Today Greg Boyd is back on the show, and this time we tried something different.Greg is a friend and cofounder of Vienna Waits with his wife Whitney, and if you've listened before you know our first conversation went to some deep, tearful places. This one uses a format I've been experimenting with: we each bring two topics, we don't share them ahead of time, we turn off the notifications, press record, and see what happens. It's vulnerable and a little terrifying, because I have no idea what someone's going to spring on me. That's exactly why I love it.We ended up covering songs that snap us back to another time and place, why men so often suck (and what we owe our kids as their fathers), the ugly, rarely-admitted feeling of not being happy when good things happen to people close to us, and Jim Collins' What to Make of a Life — the idea that you can only discover what you're built for through doing, never by being told.What struck me most is how these unscripted conversations keep circling back to the same core themes without either of us planning it. Please enjoy, Greg Boyd.Key TakeawaysA song can be permanently rewired by a single powerful experience, not just repeated listening. Greg's decades-long association with the Tragically Hip's "Bobcaygeon" was rewritten in one night by a musical that reframed it as an immigrant falling in love with Canada.On why men suck: separate nature from nurture. The nature side you can't control, but the nurture side often comes down to a lack of role models — men modelling the less-shitty behaviours we actually want our sons to carry forward.The bar for being a "good dad" is embarrassingly low ("80% is just showing up"), while the bar for moms is far higher — the invisible load moms carry that dads simply aren't expected to. Worth naming, because pretending otherwise perpetuates it.Greg's sharpest theory: men are as insecure as everyone else, but grow up in an environment where insecurity isn't allowed. Masking that insecurity with achievement is what produces a lot of "successful" men who still aren't good ones.Own the good in your kids. When Bob credited his wife for his sons' kindness, Greg pushed back — deflecting all the credit to your partner perpetuates the exact "no good role models" problem. Claim that kindness came from you too.The hard, honest one: sometimes we can't be happy for the people closest to us, and quietly feel better when things don't go their way. It's more common than anyone admits — and it's a signal, not a character flaw.That jealousy fades when you're "in frame." Once you get clarity on what you're actually built for, other people's success stops threatening you, because you're finally in your own lane instead of eyeing theirs.You can't think or plan your way to knowing what you're good at — you discover it through action. Which means being 55 and "stuck" doesn't mean you're limited; it means there are countless things you're gifted at that life just hasn't asked you to do yet.An app that tells you what to do with your life misses the entire point. The messiness of the search is the value — being handed the answer at 20 would rob you of ever truly believing it.Bob's answer to "what do you wish people said about you behind your back": he helps me see things in myself I didn't know were there, and he's a good dad. Greg's: he's kind. Both trace back to the same root — being someone whose work leaves good people in the world.Connect with Bob MathersWebsiteLinkedInInstagram The Restless Leader Newsletter on Substack: https://bobmathers.substack.com/Links & ResourcesVienna Waits - https://vienna-waits.com/Vienna Waits on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/vienna_waits_studio/Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregboyd-vienna-waits/Waypoint Retreat 2026: https://vienna-waits.com/retreat
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    1 時間 4 分
  • The Sub-Gen Problem: Why 2 People Born 5 Years Apart Aren't the Same GenZ with Will Giangrande

    The Sub-Gen Problem: Why 2 People Born 5 Years Apart Aren't the Same GenZ with Will Giangrande
    2026/06/23
    Today we talk to Will Giangrande, founder of The NextGen Playbook and someone who has made it his mission to help bridge the gap between generations in the workplace.I met Will a little over a year ago, and despite being nearly the youngest person in the room, he struck me as an old soul. He's spent the last few years helping leaders better understand Gen Z, but what I loved most about this conversation is that he flips the usual script. Instead of a fifty-year-old HR professional explaining how to relate to younger workers, here's someone from inside that generation translating both directions — and refusing to point fingers about which generation has it figured out.We covered everything from dating apps and long-distance relationships to remote work, feedback, work-life boundaries, purpose, AI, and why a 25-year-old might already be wrestling with questions previous generations didn't start asking until midlife.More than anything, this conversation reminded me that most of the friction between generations comes from misunderstanding. We're all just products of the world we grew up in — and if we can stay curious and ask one more question, we usually find we have more in common than we think.Please enjoy, Will Giangrande.Key TakeawaysEvery generation has accused the one behind it of being lazy, entitled, and bound to ruin everything. Will literally collects these quotes and has audiences guess which era they're from — the complaints are ancient."Gen Z" isn't one group. Smartphones and COVID created sub-generations inside the label: someone who got a phone at 15 forms relationships differently than someone five years older, and where you were during the pandemic (17 or 22) changed everything.Most workplace tension is a projection problem. We assume the only upbringing we ever had — the way we learned to communicate and build relationships — is the "normal" way, and judge everyone else against it.Wanting feedback isn't neediness. In a remote setting, the hallway moments and quick door-knocks vanish, so mentorship has to be scheduled and asked for. That makes it look constant and formal when it's really just become visible.The work-life boundary fight isn't about laziness either — it's about control over time, not fewer hours. The 9-to-5 is an industrial-era leftover, and younger workers are the first to feel empowered to push back on it. Most of us never felt we could.Your first job becomes the baseline. Whatever you experience first — remote or in-person, one set of norms or another — quietly becomes the standard you judge every job after it against.Purpose is arriving early. The questions about meaning and balance that used to trigger a midlife crisis at 45 are now showing up in people's twenties — and with longer lives and AI reshaping work, careers are becoming less linear. Reinvention and curiosity may matter more than sticking to one path.We make sweeping claims about millions of people from a sample size of five. Social media magnifies the differences between us; honest conversation tends to shrink them.The simplest way to bridge the divide: stay curious and ask one more question. You never know where it leads.Connect with Bob MathersWebsiteLinkedInInstagram The Restless Leader Newsletter on Substack: https://bobmathers.substack.com/Links & ResourcesNextGen Playbook Website: https://thenextgenplaybook.com/Will Giangrande on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-gian/The Next Gen Playbook on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenextgenplaybook/Will Giangrande on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WillNavigates20s
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    1 時間 8 分
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