Description: Today’s guest is Mick Ebeling, Founder and CEO of self-financed tech incubator NotImpossibleLabs. Mick’s mission and projects are proof that impossible is only a temporary state. We discuss technology’s role in identity, being a problem-solver, and having the conviction to create a better world.   Key Takeaways: [2:03] Mick shares the mission and the focus of Not Impossible Labs and how his incubator breaks the rules. [5:28] Why storytelling is so powerful. [7:41] How a prototype morphed into something so much bigger.[13:21] A personal family tragedy drives Richard to make a difference in the world and find ways to protect humankind. [16:21] We all have within us the ability to make change. You don’t have to know how to do it all, you just have to have passionate conviction to resolve. [20:25] Mick’s observations on identity and the huge disparity between who we actually are vs. who we digitally are. [25:17] We are beginning to see people resist losing their digital identity and privacy. [28:50] How to find Mick, Not Impossible Labs, and his other projects.   Quotes:

• “Our incubator is about what we call technology for the sake of humanity.”—Mick
• “Our metric is, ‘Does it do good for the world? How does it address absurdities?’”—Mick
• “We look at the technology we create through this lens called ‘help one help many.’”—Mick
• “Anybody can build a PowerPoint presentation. Not everybody can tell a good story.”—Richard
• “Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.”—Mick
• “Commit, then figure it out.”—Mick
• “Some information, many times, can be way more dangerous than all of the information.”—Richard

Mentioned in This Episode: Not Impossible Labs Not Impossible:The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn’t Be Done, by Mick Ebeling Hunger: Not Impossible