Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

Mike Todasco is the Director of Innovation at PayPal responsible for increasing the creative output of employees across the company. Prior to that Mike spent time at PayPal in Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Launch and Product Analytics roles.

Before joining PayPal he was the Founder and CEO of the eCommerce marketplace, Sketch Maven. Additionally, Mike spent over four years as the Director of Strategy, heading up mergers & acquisitions and strategic planning at NewPage, a portfolio company of the private equity firm, Cerberus Capital.

He has an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business and a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois. Mike has filed over 100 US patents since 2013 covering payments, online and offline commerce, beacon/BLE technologies, biometrics, and many other areas.

We discussed a number of topics in this episode including:

• PayPal’s objectives and challenges
• PayPal’s global innovation labs
• What’s behind PayPal’s stock price doubling in the past 12 months
• How PayPal goes from ideation to experimentation and commercialisation
• How PayPal momentarily lost touch with its entrepreneurial roots and what it has done to recover
• Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
• The value of innovation champions in large organisations
• Mike’s previous business, SketchMaven

Show notes:

Twitter: @todasco

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/todasco

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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I explore the value of traveling solo all the way from sunny Lincoln, Nebraska. 

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It seems that everybody wants to build the next UBER, the next unicorn, but do you need to?

Would you not be happy generating a six-figure income doing what you love and having freedom over your decisions, not having to report to a boss who is simply in that role due to political maneuvering or length of tenure?

You’ve got to be clear on defining what kind of business you want to build.

For the purposes of this book, you either want to build:

1. A multi-hundred million dollar global company in search of unicorn status
2. A company with several million dollars in revenues with global or local reach
3. A lifestyle business that earns you a six-figure income

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Dr. Sherry Walling is the life force behind ZenFounder. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience treating stress-related problems in high achieving people. She is an academic and professional powerhouse with master’s degrees in psychology and theology, formal training as a yoga teacher, and a PhD in clinical psychology.

She has extensive experience treating PTSD in combat veterans, working with families trapped in family violence, and supporting the mental health needs of physicians and police officers. She’s also one of the early professionals to creatively combine yoga and psychotherapy.

Already an accomplished professional, Sherry began working with entrepreneurs when her husband, Rob Walling, launched his first start-up more than 10 years ago. Being a life partner in an entrepreneurial family, she has lived the frenetic pace of a tech startup. Pairing her professional training and personal experience, she’s helped countless founders and their families work through burnout, conflict, transition stress, and crisis.

Sherry is the author of the newly released book The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together: How to Run your Business Without Letting it Run You. Seth Godin says this book is "a personal, generous and incredibly useful guide to staying sane and changing the world at the same time, an demands that you should read it before you think you need it". Sherry also hosts the Zen Founder podcast which is now 164 episodes young.

We explored so many topics in this conversation.

Expect to learn more about:

• the stresses of entrepreneurship and whether the crush it mentality really serves us
• what the optimum amount of hours to work is
• how much sleep you should be getting
• how to manage relationships with a significant other while building your business
• tools and techniques you can use to bring you more clarity and control; and
• the power of self awareness and understanding your strengths and a hell of a lot more.

So with that, let’s get stuck into today’s conversation with Sherry Walling.

Topics discussed:

• Sherry’s book
• What stress related problems look like for entrepreneurs
• Are 16 hour days really the path to success?
• Coping strategies
• How entrepreneurs self sabotage
• How to deal with the loneliness of entrepreneurship
• How to manage overwhelm
• Why becoming more self aware is the key to clarity, control and results
• Separating work from the rest of your life
• Tools and techniques to help you navigate emotional overwhelm and anxiety
• How to build and sustain a relationship if your partner isn’t an entrepreneur
• Do certain types of personalities lend themselves to entrepreneurship more than others?
• Why you should identify your strengths

Show Notes:

1. Web: Zenfounder.com
2. Podcast: Zen Founder, on Apple Podcasts and all places good podcasts are found
3. Get the book "The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together": https://amzn.to/2BMWTaJ
4. Twitter: @zenfounder
5. StrengthsFinder Test: /www.gallupstrengthscenter.com

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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I get vulnerable and reveal a personal story on how I got fired from my first real job...and more importantly, how I responded.

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Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, an organization headquartered in New York that builds and supports social movements around the world. He is the co-founder of GetUp!, an Australian political organization with more members than all of Australia's political parties combined. He has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and received the Ford Foundation's 75th anniversary Visionary Award. With Henry Timms, Jeremy is co-author of the book NEW POWER: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World -

and How to Make It Work for You, forthcoming April 2018 from Doubleday. Their thinking on “new power” was featured as the Big Idea in Harvard Business Review, as one of 2014’s top TED talks with over 1.25 million views, and by CNN as one of the Top Ten Ideas to Change the World in 2015.

We explored a number of topics during our conversation, including:

1. What new power is, how it differs to old power and what it means for today’s organisations

2. How new power can be used for good and evil

3. Lessons from the likes of LEGO, TED and Boaty McBoatface

You’ll learn that and much more in my conversation with the one and only, Jeremy Heimans.

Topics discussed:

• Jeremy’s book

• Jeremy’s upbringing and involvement in politics from the age of 8

• What new power values and models are and how they differ from old power

• How large, traditional organisations are stuck in old power models and what the consequences of this might be

• Why radically transparent organisations have an edge over secretive ones

• The characteristics of a new power organisation

• Parallels between movements and methodologies like Agile and new power values

• The power of feedback loops and how to use them in a new power economy

• How the blockchain might support organisations looking to become more collaborative and decentralised

• How dark movements such as ISIS are co-opting new power

• How Facebook operates a new power model with old power values, perhaps to the detriment of society

• Why you should...occupy yourself?

• Why organisations need to commit if exploring new power and not just pay lip service to it as was the case with Boaty McBoatface

• How LEGO and TED use new power

Show Notes:

1. Purpose: Purpose.org

2. HBR article: https://hbr.org/2014/12/understanding-new-power

3. Get Jeremy's books: 

   • New Power: https://amzn.to/2NhTzpA
   • New Power: How It's Changing The 21st Century: https://amzn.to/2PEVNRq
   • New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World: https://amzn.to/2Ls20g4

4. Twitter: @jeremyheimans

5. GetUp!: https://www.getup.org.au

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In this week's instalment of Fast Fix Friday, I talk about the number one thing holding back your organization from innovating.

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Grant Cardone is a New York Times bestselling author and an internationally renowned speaker on leadership, real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and finance. His 5 privately held companies have annual revenues exceeding $100 million. Cardone is a savvy private multifamily investor and holds a portfolio of over 3,800 apartment units throughout the U.S. with transactions valued at over $500 million. As CEO of the #1 Sales Training Platform in the World, Cardone consults with Fortune 500 companies and customers such as Google, Northwestern Mutual, Morgan Stanley, and more. He’s a Top 5 Social Media Expert and one of the Top 10 Most Influential CEOs today. He is also the Executive Producer and star of two reality TV shows, and creator of the first online entrepreneur and business TV network, Grant Cardone TV.

Expect to learn a number of things in this episode, including:

• Grant’s early days and the struggles he had to overcome
• Why 10% better or 10% cheaper isn’t enough
• What the principles of massive action are that will help you to 10X your business and life
• Why being adaptable is overrated and what you should strive for instead
• Why Grant thinks that building wealth is simple and why so many people miss the point

So with that, I bring you, the one and only, Grant Cardone.

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Show notes:

1. Grantcardone.com
2. GrantCardoneTV.com
3. CardoneUniversity.com
4. Twitter: @GrantCardone
5. Get Grant's books:
   • The 10X Rule: https://amzn.to/2BZb3pF
   • Sell or Be Sold: https://amzn.to/2BOYqNK
   • Be Obsessed or Be Average: https://amzn.to/2wpjZyu
   • If You're Not First, You're Last: https://amzn.to/2P6asnv
   • Sell To Survive: https://amzn.to/2PEFh3H
   • The Closer's Survival Guide: https://amzn.to/2P309kf

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For many years China was considered a basketcase with its population, resigned to a life of poverty in the rice fields .

Yet today, 120 million Chinese tourists go abroad each year, often snapping up all of the latest trinkets of luxury brands like YSL, Prada and Chanel.

In the last ten years alone, China’s GNP has increased from US$4.6T to over US$12T dollars, in fact, in 1985, that number was less than $500B. Less than 25 times what it is today.

To put this into perspective, in the same timeframe, the United States’ GNP has little more than doubled, from US$8T in 1989 to about $17.5T today.

So how did this happen and what can corporate innovators learn from this?

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Fears that once helped keep our ancestors alive, today, more of often than not, serve to limit our experience of life.

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