Mission Daily

We tend to think of consciousness and the waking world in black and white terms. One minute you’re awake, and the next you’re asleep. But what if there was something in-between? A zone between consciousness and unconsciousness. A place where you can get a pure, unfiltered look at your subconscious, where you can think freely and unencumbered by the issues of the waking world.    Jennifer Dumpert, author and dream researcher, is here to help you understand this in-between space, a space she writes about in her book titled, “Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep.” Liminal dreaming provides a great opportunity to bring back important lessons from your subconscious mind. It also offers a chance for us to tap into our pure, unfiltered creative potential. Not to be confused with lucid dreaming, liminal dreaming is a much simpler skill to learn and master. As Jennifer points out, not everyone can control a lucid dream, but everyone is a natural at liminal dreaming. In today’s episode, Jennifer breaks down the basics of Liminal Dreaming. She discusses how to begin experimenting with liminal dreaming to enhance your life and wellbeing and how the art of liminal dreaming has impacted her own life. Don’t forget, we just announced our newest partnership with b8ta! B8ta.com gives you access to some of the most innovative and cutting edge consumer tech products. This week, we will be giving away the Chilipad, a water cooled & heated mattress pad that allows you to control temperature for optimal sleep. Enter the giveaway for a chance to win! Quotes: 2:47-  “There is a continuity of consciousness between awake and asleep. You can really stretch it out. You can be 80% awake and 20% dreaming or the opposite.” 3:07- “Waking and sleeping is not binary. We often think of it as on or off, one or zero.” 8:58- “My hope is that people will go into this state [hynagogia] and actually do things with it.” 13:23- “The creative process is the point, not the end point. Creativity is the way you that you  take what you learn from the subconscious into the waking world.” 29:47- “I really want to democratize the visionary experience.” 49:31- “Liminal dreaming is kind of like surfing the edge of conscious and unconscious. It’s learning to surf the space where your both dreaming and awake at the same time and kind of surf down the middle of them.” Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/

“There’s an offense, a defense, there's a special team and there’s an attention to detail. I really applied that when I decided to go into sales right after school. I was going to be a pro. If I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right.” Mark Cranney expects whatever business he’s a part of to run with the efficiency of a football team running a play they’ve done a hundred times before. He learned a lot of lessons from his time on the field when he was in high school and college, and he’s found a way to take those experiences from the field to the boardroom. Mark currently serves as the COO of SignalFX, a SaaS-based monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-native companies to monitor their online and digital infrastructure. Prior to that, he had a seven-year stint at the renowned venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. In today’s episode, Mark and Ian sit down to discuss Mark’s background in the venture capital space, why he got out of that to join the team at SignalFX and his approach to recruiting and developing the most talented people in any given field. We just announced our newest partnership with b8ta! b8ta.com gives you access to some of the most innovative and cutting edge consumer tech products. This week, we're giving away a ChiliPad, a sleep system that helps you regulate the temperature of your bed while you rest. Enter the give away for a chance to win! Quotes: 17:48- “I like the granularity of operating on a day to day basis, particularly when you can do it across the sales side, marketing, customer success and back into to the product piece and make sure you are building great products and great experiences for your customers.” 18:40- [On leaving venture capital to start SignalFX]- It’s funner at the point of the spear. Ya know, getting shot at and shooting back is a lot funner.” 29:51- [Advice for young entrepreneurs] “Understand what your hiring criteria is, what it’s going to take to be successful, be able to articulate that- write it down.” Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/

Do you ever have days where you’re just not feeling it? Where every single line you write feels like a slog and you don’t have an ounce of creative inspiration left? Days when you think, “If I have to write or edit one more episode description I’m going to start screaming”? Well, author Austin Kleon is here to show you how to put an end to your creative slumps, once and for all. Austin is a New York Times-bestselling author. His most recent book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, goes into Austin’s top 10 lessons for how creatives can avoid slumps and keep their creative juices flowing (even when it feels like they’ve run out). In this episode, Chad and Austin go in-depth on each of Austin’s 10 methods for maintaining creativity. They cover everything from why you need to program downtime into your workday to how to (effectively) procrastinate. If you like their discussion, check out Austin’s other books Show Your Work! and the New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. We just announced our newest partnership with b8ta! b8ta.com gives you access to some of the most innovative and cutting edge consumer tech products. This week, we're giving away a ChiliPad, a sleep system that helps you regulate the temperature of your bed while you rest. Enter the give away for a chance to win! Quotes: 6:16- “What looks like downtime to others is sort of like incubation time. It’s time where you’re sort of letting things stew in the background and your sort of open and receptive to what’s around you.” 6:51- “There are periods of idleness in my life but I’m sort of always working. It’s kind of a 24/7 thing. The ideas come when they come.” 9:09- “I really believe in taking a daily walk.” 10:31- I happen to be an extroverted writer. So being on the road for me is really valuable because I get to interact with people face to face and hear what their problems are and what they are interested in and how my work is resonating with them.” 14:06-  “It’s best for a creative person to approach things on a day to day basis, to have some sort of daily practice, to not worry too much about what happened yesterday or what’s going to happen tomorrow but to really focus on the day, time, energy and space you have right now.”  19:52- “If you focus on the process and not the product, then that will take you somewhere further and far more interesting.” 27:33-  “Attention is the engine that art really runs on and it’s the very thing the world wants to steal from you.” Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/

In the words of Eugene McCarthy, “The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.” Having served in the military and worked for the federal government, Ben Renda is very familiar with how bureaucracies can create inefficiencies and inaction. Ben is the Chief Operating Officer of Google Fi, a new kind of cell phone service that automatically switches between multiple networks to give you the best service in over 200 countries worldwide. Prior to working for Google, Ben spent over a decade serving in the military, where he identified a number of pain points for integrating new technology into the armed forces. Now, Ben serves as a bridge between Washington, the Pentagon, and Silicon Valley - taking what he’s learned from both worlds to help the other function better. In this interview, Ben, Chad, and Ian discuss how to overcome issues of bureaucracy, the lessons Ben learned from his time in the military, and how to build a team you can rely on. Connect with Ben on LinkedIn, and find out more about his work at Google Fi by going here. Heads up! Google Fi is hiring a Director of Marketing right now. Apply here. We just announced our newest partnership with b8ta! b8ta.com gives you access to some of the most innovative and cutting edge consumer tech products. This week, we're giving away a ChiliPad, a sleep system that helps you regulate the temperature of your bed while you rest. Enter the give away for a chance to win! Quotes: 10:38- “I always liked the duality of different things.” 20:46- [At Google FI]- “We do consider ourselves, truly, a scrappy startup inside of a bigger ecosystem.” 24:09- “One of the things I think is cool about Google is that everybody knows the mission. I just find that unique and that reminds me of the same ethos of the military where everybody is working for the unit.” 26:53- [On Google culture]- “In general, we look for basically a smart, general intellectual athlete that’s a good team player and can exhibit leadership when you need to.” 31:30 - “We do have the most amazing military in the world but the way we procure technology makes a lot of sense for certain things and for other things it just doesn’t make as much sense. So that’s where DUIx really tried to fill the gap.” 33:10- [On culture in the military]- “People aren’t incentivized to take risks outside of the operation context. I think that is one of the greatest challenges, how do you reward intelligent risk taking in the military?” Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/

In today’s episode, Chad and Steph sit down to talk about what you can expect from our episodes this week. We’ve got everything from an expert in lucid and liminal dreaming to a Google COO. You’re going to hear some of the best insights on how to bridge bureaucratic divides in your business, how to keep your creative juices flowing (even when you’re stressed and exhausted), and how you can use your dreams to become a better problem solver. Our guest this week include: Ben Renda- COO of Google Fi Mark Cranney- COO of SignalFX Austin Kleon- NYT-Bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative Jennifer Dumpert- Author of Liminal Dreaming So stay tuned, you’re not going to want to miss these episodes. We just announced our newest partnership with b8ta! b8ta.com gives you access to some of the most innovative and cutting edge consumer tech products. This week, we're giving away a ChiliPad, a sleep system that helps you regulate the temperature of your bed while you rest. Enter the give away for a chance to win! Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/

40% of consumable food is wasted in the U.S. each year. 25% of fresh water is also sent down the proverbial (and literal) drain. America accounts for 23% of the globe’s methane production. It does not take a mathematical genius to understand that these numbers, which are growing every year, are not sustainable in the long term. Enter Christine Moseley and the team at Full Harvest. Christine, the Founder and CEO of Full Harvest, has made it her life’s goal to create better and more sustainable uses for our discarded food. Full Harvest has a straightforward mission, connecting farmers directly with food and beverage companies who are looking to buy surplus produce. In this episode, Christine and Chad sit down to discuss America’s food waste problem and how Full Harvest is working to fix it. They also talk about how Christine showed up in San Francisco with barely more than the clothes on her back and managed to turn her dream- to make the world a better place- into a reality. We just announced our newest partnership with b8ta! b8ta.com gives you access to some of the most innovative and cutting edge consumer tech products. This week, we will be giving away a pair of Dolby Dimension Headphones, the first wireless headphones perfected for entertainment at home. Enter the give away for a chance to win! Quotes: 7:48- “65% of growers in this country are on the verge of bankruptcy yet there leaving possibly up to 40% [of product] on the ground.” 13:05- “The number 1 way that consumers can make an impact is simply by composting and keep food out of the landfills.” 13:14- “Food has such an impact on the environment because it gives off methane which is 30x stronger than carbon emissions.” 21:30 “The number 1 thing is just put one foot in front of the other as fast as possible and go for it. You’re going to hit walls, you’re going to pivot, you’re going to change but you just have to get going." 21:42- [On Entrepreneurship] Manage your expectations that it’s never going to be a linear path.” Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/

“I frequently ask myself the question, ‘What do I need to do to be a better leader for the people in this company? Who do they need me to be?’” -Nadia Masri Nadia Masri has been an entrepreneur from a young age. At 19, she took a $20,000 loan from her parents and turned it into a painting business that managed to turn $75,000 in revenue in a single summer. By 20 years old, she had successfully funded and started a fashion magazine in New York City. Nadia now serves as the CEO of Perksy, a mobile customer insight platform she founded that helps businesses understand their target demographics, specifically millennial and gen-z audiences. Nadia’s work with Perksy, and her natural inclination towards business has earned her a lot of attention. She was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for Marketing and Advertising for 2019. In this episode, Chad and Nadia discuss what she’s learned from her prior business ventures, how she relies on those around her to support her, and why she finds empowerment in not knowing the answers to everything. We just announced our newest partnership with b8ta! b8ta.com gives you access to some of the most innovative and cutting edge consumer tech products. This week, we will be giving away a pair of Dolby Dimension Headphones, the first wireless headphones perfected for entertainment at home. Enter the give away for a chance to win! Quotes: 10:03 - “At the time I was a very different type of entrepreneur, I was a baby entrepreneur. I was just getting started. One of the biggest mistakes I think I made or one of the things I would do differently today, I didn’t ask for help.” 10:49 - “The power of ‘I don’t know’ is extraordinary. I use it all the time today.” 30:17- “I think if you spend a lot of time doing the early research and having conversations with the folks you eventually want to use your products, you can learn a lot about how to build the product from them. It’s getting in the right mindset.” 32:17- “I do think that passion is a currency when you are an entrepreneur and being able to apply it to the work your doing, fuels quite a bit.” 54:20- “You’ll know your path when you come across it.” Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/

“What I learned going into the board room, is your biggest asset is how good of a listener you are. ” -Elisa Steele In her nearly thirty-year career, Elisa Steele has learned a lot about what it means to be a leader. She’s had stints at Microsoft, Skype, Yahoo! And AT&T. Currently, she’s serving as the CEO of Namely, an HR software that provides payroll and HR management services to thousands of businesses. Through all of that, Elisa has zeroed in on one particularly useful superpower; the ability to actively listen to what her employees need. In this episode, Chad and Elisa sit down to discuss how to be a better leader through active listening, how that can lead to authentic storytelling that will empower your business and brand, and why you need to embrace the idea of “reverse mentors.” We just announced our newest partnership with b8ta! b8ta.com gives you access to some of the most innovative and cutting edge consumer tech products. This week, we will be giving away a pair of Dolby Dimension Headphones, the first wireless headphones perfected for entertainment at home. Enter the give away for a chance to win! Quotes: 4:20- “To me it’s all about prioritization everyday. I don’t really believe in this concept of work life balance.” - Elisa Steele 5:15- To me it’s all about ruthless prioritization and in the end that means that your getting right “work life balance” because your just doing the things that are most important in that moment.” -Elisa Steele 20:16- “I learned, with the power of authentic storytelling, that marketing is actually all about product.” -Elisa Steele 22:41-  “What I learned going into the board room, is your biggest asset is how good of a listener you are. ” -Elisa Steele 23:13- “I think active listening is the most important thing.”  -Elisa Steele Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/

This episode officially marks the start of our Female Founders Week! Over the next week, we’re going to highlight some of the most successful women across a number of different industries and businesses. They’ll be sharing their life experiences, actionable insights and fascinating takeaways they’ve picked up from their years of experience. Today, Chad and Stephanie are sitting down to discuss our upcoming guests and a little bit about what you can expect from each. Our guests this week include: -Elisa Steele, CEO of Namely -Nadia Masri, Founder and CEO of Perksy -Christine Moseley, Founder and CEO of Full Harvest -Amanda Bradford, Founder and CEO of The League Also, in this episode, we’re announcing our newest partnership with b8ta! b8ta.com gives you access to some of the most innovative and cutting edge consumer tech products. Sign up here to enter to win one new product from b8ta each week! This week, we will be giving away a pair of Dolby Dimension Headphones, the first wireless headphones perfected for entertainment at home. Enter the give away for a chance to win! Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right!   Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/

How do you take an $8 website domain and bookstrap it into a multi-million dollar business? For Adam Blitzer, Co-Founder of Pardot, all it took was determination, grit and a long-term vision. Using that vision, Adam and his co-founders managed to turn Pardot into a force to be reckoned with in the B2B Marketing space. Eventually, their success garnered the attention of Salesforce, who acquired Pardot in 2013. In this episode, Adam (who now serves as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Salesforce’s Sales Cloud) shares what he’s learned along his journey; including how to use your opponent’s strength against them and how to capitalize on asymmetric forces in business. Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right! Email us -> info@mission.orgWork with us -> https://www.missionsponsors.com/Follow Stephanie -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniepostles/