Take the Long View

Zibby Owens has been called New York's most powerful book-fluencer. Zibby is building a community and a strong base of fans through her award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. Listen to Matt's conversation with Zibby covering stories that make Matt cry, the value of a Harvard MBA, having Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman as your dad, and much more.

In her own podcast, Zibby talks with authors to give her busy listeners the inside scoop. Not Surprisingly, in September 2019, Oprah Magazine listed her podcast as one of the "21 of the Best Book Podcasts to Listen to When You're Not Reading." Beyond her podcast, Zibby is a writer and published her first article, a personal essay for Seventeen magazine when she was in high school and has been writing ever since. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Parents, Real Simple, Redbook, Marie Claire, Shape, SELF, Modern Bride, TODAY Parents, Huff Post, Scary Mommy, What's Up Moms, Kveller, Mommy Nearest and many others.

She has appeared on Good Morning America, Good Day LA, Good Day DC, ABC-7 Eyewitness News, and NY1.

A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby has a marketing and branding background. She currently lives in the New York area with her four children ages 5-12 and her husband, Kyle Owens.

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Carl Richards is one of the best in the world at connecting money and emotion in ways real people can understand. He is a Certified Financial Planner™, and the creator of the Sketch Guy column, appearing weekly in The New York Times since 2010. And Carl has over 800 simple sketches that will get you thinking and talking about what really matters in your life. Carl's also been featured on Marketplace Money, oprah.com and forbes.com. He has become a frequent keynote speaker at financial planning conferences and visual learning events around the world. Through his writing, speaking and sketches, Carl makes complex financial concepts, easy to understand. His work also serves as the foundation for his two books, The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money, and The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money.

His sketches have appeared in shows at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah, at Parsons School of Design in New York City, the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, and an exhibit at the Mansion House in London. His commission work is on display in businesses and educational institutions around the globe. Carl currently resides in London with his family and is available for speaking engagements and conferences both nationally and internationally. What's more though, Matt Hall counts Carl as a long-time friend.

Returning guest Marilyn Wechter has 40 years of experience as a wealth counselor and therapist. She is the kind of person you want in your world when it is full of uncertainty and isolation. Sound familiar? Wechter and Matt Hall discuss how to face the current challenges and come out the other side of this experience changed for the better.

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Matt Hall shares a hugely important concept for dealing with hard times. It's called the Stockdale Paradox. It's an extreme example and is shared because it helped Admiral Jim Stockdale survive as a prisoner of war. Our bet is that the Stockdale Paradox will serve you well during this period of uncertainty and when facing future challenges. Hill Investment Group has used the principle idea from the Stockdale Paradox since the founding of the firm in 2005, and Matt has leaned on it both personally and professionally in many examples, including his own experience dealing with cancer, and even when writing Odds On.

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John Jennings is someone you want to know. He is fascinating and not in a weird way, in a lovely, Dr. Seuss kind of way. He deserves to be famous, though he doesn't care about fame, even though he is worthy of it and your attention.

He writes something called the IFOD. The interesting fact of the day! His daily thoughts often tickle the brain into an active state. They are meaningful, relevant, poignant, and thoughtful.

Does IFOD pay the bills? I think not. So what does Jennings do for work? Uh, he's a big deal. John is President and Chief Strategist of The St. Louis Trust Company, a leading multi-family office. This means he helps the ultra-affluent. Unlike most in the wealth management, he deserves a lot of respect.

And if that's not enough, John is an adjunct faculty member at Washington University's Olin School of Business where he teaches in the Wealth and Asset Management masters program. John is also a Forbes contributor, a lawyer by training, a hardcore vegan and a loving husband and dad.

Enjoy this wide-ranging conversation covering: Lawyers who aren't lawyers, John's IFOD, Committing to a plant-based/Vegan diet and how it connects to solving John's fight with OCD, Investment thinking and what the ultra-rich struggle with, Coronavirus and what napping has to do with success.

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David Stine is a woodworker (understatement) and makes products that last forever, using material that was likely born before he was. Who do you know who can make the same claim? David also done the thing most people don't have the guts to do. He quit. He quit the thing that most stick with their whole lives. He left office life and made the outdoors his new workplace. He's thriving - so much so that media gurus are working to make a TV show about his life. David has clients around the world, awards from industry experts, and more than two decades in business, but the thing Matt loves most about him is he's not just an artist, not just a craftsman, he's deeply philosophical.

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Host Matt Hall curates his favorite clips from the first 10 episodes of Take the Long View. From billionaires to a burger king, this episode has it all! Take the Long View with Matt Hall still has the original mission - to reframe the way you think about money, emotions, behavior and time. These themes are plentiful in episode 12 and include talk of kids and money, leadership and investment takeaways. Consider this a mixtape of our greatest hits!

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With the 2019 World Series in full swing, join Matt for his conversation with the brilliant and all-round nice guy, author of the New York Times Bestseller Astroball. Ben shares the inside story of how GM Jeff Luhnow and his team went beyond the stats to find a new way to win—and not just in baseball.

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Husband/Wife dynamic duo Sid and Ann Mashburn are doing big things with their signature styles. In this episode, you'll learn about their journey working with legends like Ralph Lauren and the leaders of Vogue magazine, how they chose Atlanta as their home base, the powerful pillow talk that comes when working with your spouse, and how they define success in the future!

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Why would a man pursuing a career in law and politics suddenly give it all up and gamble his future on a restaurant? Just ask St. Louis native Danny Meyer, who turned that one restaurant into a hospitality empire and eventually founded Shake Shack, the beloved burger spot with over 250 locations around the world.

Aside from the countless awards Danny Meyer has earned as a restaurateur, he also penned Setting the Table, which distills his philosophy on hospitality and leadership. But in his earlier years, he wouldn't have predicted this future for himself.

After the success of his first restaurant, he wanted to prove to himself that it wasn't a fluke. That challenge brought him face to face with a harsh reality: he was a horrible manager. If he was going to make both restaurants work, he had to sharpen his leadership skills and instill the values of enlightened hospitality into his team so they could carry on in his absence. This self-improvement mission would be the spark for Danny's restaurant empire: Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke and Jazz Standard, Shake Shack, The Modern, and many more.

Today, with his philosophy of enlightened hospitality and belief in the importance of building community wealth, Danny Meyer continually prods the restaurant industry to level up and create better career opportunities for its workers, while challenging himself to share his insights with new industries through his investment fund.

Key Topics:

• Introducing Danny. [00:42]
• Why Danny wrote Setting The Table in secret. [01:51]
• Missing out on genuine interactions in a highly transactional society [03:08]
• Danny's philosophy on hospitality as an organizational principle. [04:12]
• The turning point of Danny's professional life. [06:53]
• Developing a unique leadership style by managing volunteers. [10:04]
• Having a growth mentality towards employees. [11:42]
• Early lessons from Rich Melman. [12:42]
• Finding and hiring for the 51%. [14:16]
• Why Danny was so hesitant about opening a second restaurant. [16:45]
• Being forced to become a better manager. [18:14]
• Managing difficult family dynamics. [19:41]
• Why you shouldn't spend too much money on your first venture. [20:31]
• Learning what it means to be responsible to your investors. [22:28]
• Early inspiration for Shake Shack. [25:25]
• Restoring Madison Square Park. [25:51]
• Testing Danny's theory of enlightened hospitality with a hot dog cart. [27:17]
• Building community wealth. [30:06]
• The role Shake Shack plays in the Madison Square Park community. [30:51]
• The downside of the tipping system. [32:45]
• Taking the restaurant industry to the next level. [37:25]
• Managing with constant gentle pressure. [41:32]
• Investing in enlightened hospitality. [43:11]

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Danny Meyer's Book | Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Businesshttps://www.amazon.com/Setting-Table-Transforming-Hospitality-Business/dp/0060742755

• Rich Melman, Founder and Chairman of Lettuce Entertain You Enterpriseshttps://www.leye.com/about/partners/?richard-melman
• Bill Shore's Book | The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Backhttps://amazon.com/Cathedral-Within-Transforming-Giving-Something/dp/0375758291
• Share Our Strength https://www.shareourstrength.org/
• Enlightened Hospitality Investments https://ehi.fund/
• • Resy https://resy.com/
  • Goldbelly https://www.goldbelly.com/
  • Salt & Straw https://saltandstraw.com/
  • Dig https://www.diginn.com/
  • Madison Reed https://www.madison-reed.com/

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