The Growth Mixtape: Chasing Curiosity and Sharing Boundless Insights from Ideas that Matter
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.
Episodes
Today I talk to Josh Woll, a documentary filmmaker with more than twenty years behind the camera who, six years into sobriety, built a second practice helping other people stop drinking and reconnect with their creativity.
What drew me to this conversation were two things that have consumed my life over the last couple of years that I ha...
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...
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 t...
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 ...
Michelle Grocholsky is back for her second time on the show, and this one's a different format than her first. Instead of a traditional interview, we each brought two topics we were excited to explore, didn't share them ahead of time, and just pressed record to see what happened.
Michel...
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...
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 sha...
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 be...
Welcome to another solo episode, this time on the collective midlife crisis we’re all going through and how to navigate it with the help of Jim Collins’ new book, What to Make of a Life.
Lately, I’ve been having the same conversation over and over again with leaders, founders, and people in every stage of their careers....
Today we talk to Beatriz Zanatelli — entrepreneur, founder, immigrant, and one of the most intentional people I know.
Bea and I have known each other for years, but this conversation felt different. It’s a perfect example of what can happen when people show up with genuine curiosity and no expectations about where it mi...
Today we talk to Linda Jackson, a self-described OG digital nomad who’s been living and working from a sailboat for over a decade… and not just weekend sailing either — we’re talking about crossing oceans, navigating cyclones, and building a life completely untethered from land.
Linda is calling in from Fiji &mda...
Today I talk to Whitney Boyd as part of a special series where I talk to friends about things I’ve always been curious about. And they get to do the same. I bring two topics, they bring two topics and we surprise each other - no notice and no preparing answers in advance. It takes courage and I give Whitney a lot of credit for going through with it. Truth be told,...
Today we talk to Alan Cross, a legend in the music world and the voice behind The Ongoing History of New Music—a show that’s been shaping how we understand music for over 30 years.
If you grew up loving music, there’s a good c...
Welcome to another solo episode, and I’m really proud of this one. It’s quite personal. If you’ve ever struggled to get something off the ground, or have started something you loved only to have it turn into a chore, this is for you.
The truth is I’ve been wrestling with what this podcast is actua...
Today we talk to Anne Bonney, speaker, author and self-described discomfort zone guide.
I loved this conversation because it pushed on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. We hear all the time that growth happens outside our comfort zone, but Anne gives that idea a fresh twist. Instead of just leaving comfort, she talks...
Today we talk to three incredible women on a mission to completely reimagine healthcare, with community and the whole person at the centre.
This was our first recording in front of a live studio audience, and the energy in the room was incredible. Maddi Kolberg Read more
Today we invite back Alyx Parks, a great friend, conviction coach, writer, fly fishing guide, and one of my favourite people to have unhinged conversations with.
This episode is a bit of an experiment. We both brought 2 topics to discuss, but didn’t tell each other ahead of time. No research, no prepared answers, no performan...
Today, we talk to Sensi Graves and Brandon Scheid - extreme athletes, parents, partners, and now the subjects of a powerful new documentary - Windfall.
Two years ago, Brandon was in a speed flying accident that nearly took his life. In th...
Today, we talk to John U. Bacon, bestselling author of The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
This story gripped me in a way I didn’t expect. Like a lot of people, I knew the Gordon Lightfoot song — I&rsqu...
In this mini-solo episode, we tackle a problem I’ve always had - setting goals. I talk about why it doesn’t work, and how we can conduct mini-experiments to overcome our fear of failure. Just saying, “it’s an experiment”, makes everything feel less risky, less scary. If we do that enough, before you know it we’ve intentionally stumble...
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