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]]>We usually publish Remarkable People on Wednesday mornings, but we wanted to get this interview out before the elections. This episode’s remarkable guest is Dr. Vivek Murthy, the Surgeon General during the Obama administration.
Vivek has an undergraduate degree from Harvard, an MD from Yale, and an MBA from Yale. His residency was at Harvard Medical School. He started Doctors for America, a group of 15,000 doctors and medical students supporting high-quality, affordable care. He also started a company called TrialNetworks to increase the efficiency of clinical trials.
President Barak Obama appointed him Surgeon General in 2013. While in this position, he issued the first Surgeon General’s report on alcohol, drugs, and health and the first Surgeon General’s report on the use of e-cigarettes by young people. He also launched the “Turn the Tide” campaign to address opioid addiction.
In April 2017, Donald Trump fired Dr. Murthy. At that point, Vivek started addressing the medical impact of loneliness and published a book called Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World.
The most important part of this episode is when Vivek discusses what Americans need from their leadership to get this pandemic under control. I don’t expect to change your mind if you’re a loyalist, but if you’re undecided or considering not voting, you should listen to this as if your life depends on it.
Because it does…
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]]>This is the first wife-husband interview on Remarkable People. While they are individually remarkable, together, they are unstoppable.
Their business includes a home design firm as well as a line of carefully curated products. They’ve also designed a line of merchandise sold at Target, co-authored a new book called Make Life Beautiful. And if that’s not enough, they’re starring in a new Netflix series called Dream Home Makeover.
All born from the idea of making life beautiful and blooming into a thriving business in just five years with a foundation on Instagram.
In this episode, you’ll learn about rocking Instagram, working together as a married couple, the grit and determination that’s necessary to make a business successful, and how I should redo the background in my home studio.
There’s even a marriage tip for Instagram couples.
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]]>This episode’s guest is Kara Goldin. She is the founder, CEO, and chief taster of Hint, the lifestyle company that sells bottled water and hand sanitizers
Prior to Hint, she has worked for are AOL, CNN, and Time. And, well, technically, the TeePee restaurant in Arizona. She is a graduate of Arizona State University.
The episode starts with a story about an executive from a large beverage company in Atlanta addressing her as “sweetie” and how that was a pivotal moment in her undaunted quest to start a company that sold bottled water.
Today Hint is over fifteen years old and sales exceed $150 million. It gone from employing Kara and her husband to over employs 200 people.
In this episode we discussed:
🍊 what it takes to make a cold call
🍎 get your products into Whole Foods
🍋 and, in general, how to be undaunted
This episode is brought to you by reMarkable, the paper tablet. It’s my favorite way to take notes, sign contracts, and save all the instruction manuals to all the gadgets I buy. Learn more at remarkable.com
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]]>Julie holds a BA from Stanford, a law degree from Harvard, and an MFA in writing from the California College of the Arts. She ended her legal career to go to work at Stanford and was the Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising. In other words, she advised first-year students.
She is the author of four books: New York Times Best-selling How to Raise an Adult, Real American: A Memoir, Writing Memoir, and soon to be released Your Turn: How to be an Adult. This is the most passionate and eloquent interview I’ve ever conducted. You’ll hear what I mean shortly.
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This was a deep dive interview covering questions like:
Question of the week: Do you call out racism when you see it? It takes bravery. Learn more on this week's #remarkablepeople w/ @jlythcotthaims.
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Make sure to watch Julie’s TED talk How to raise successful kids — without over-parenting It’s already over 5 million views!
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]]>Have you ever wondered if you know how to make a good apology? This episode’s remarkable guest is professor Lisa Leopold, and she will answer your questions about apologies and credibility.
Lisa is an associate professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. She’s also the program coordinator for the Institute’s English for Academic and Professional Purposes Program.
She has an MA in teaching English to speakers of other languages from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA from St. Olaf College. I first learned about Lisa’s work because of an article she wrote for the website called The Conversation.
This is a site that publishes articles only written by academics and researchers. It is the best source that I have found for credible factual and interesting articles.
I chatted with Lisa about:
Given how close we are to the election, this episode could not be more timely. We need to know who is credibly speaking. Please share with at least one person who would enjoy this.
This week’s question is:
Question of the week: What do you think makes a good apology? #remarkablepeople
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]]>This episode’s guest is probably the most outspoken person I’ve had on the show so far. His name is Scott Galloway. Scott is a professor of marketing at NYU Stern and the founder of section4. He was also the founder of the eCommerce company Red Envelope and the marketing firm Profit, a previous guest David Aaker is vice chairman of Profit.
I highly recommend his presentation on YouTube called The Algebra of Happiness it, he tells it like it is and tells it like he sees it and explains what makes people happy. Spoiler alert: it is not pursuing your passion. Scott served on the board of directors of Eddie Bauer, the New York Times Company, Gateway Computers, Urban Outfitters, and the Berkeley Haas School of Business.
In this episode, he shreds Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, the thought that colleges should open back up in the middle of a pandemic, and cluelessness in general.
Tell me? Have you ever heard anyone rip into Facebook and stupid decisions of politicians like Scott Galloway? Clearly he’s not trying to win any popularity contests. And that’s just one factor that makes him such a remarkable person.
He is a data point for all of us to tell it like it is.
This week’s question is:
Question: What do you think makes people happy?
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]]>In this episode of Remarkable People, my guest is the remarkable Kathryn Finney. She is an entrepreneur investor, speaker, mentor, author, and pioneer. Kathryn has achieved many firsts. She started one of the first fashion blogs called the Budget Fashionista; MSN called it one of the hundred most useful sites on the web.
She was the first credentialed blogger at New York Fashion Week. She was the first blogger to receive a major book deal. She was the first blogger to appear on the Today Show. She started the first venture capital fund focused on Black and Latin X women founders. The Obama administration appointed her to the National Advisory council on innovation and entrepreneurship, and she was a White House Champion of Change.
Kathryn has received numerous honors and awards, such as the Grace Hopper Social Impact ABIE Award, which recognizes those who have made a positive impact on women, technology, and society. Working Mother’s 50 Most Powerful Mothers, Marie Claire’s 10 Women to Watch, Entrepreneur Magazine‘s Women to Watch, and the Ebony 100 Black Entrepreneurs 40 under 40 lists.
I loved this interview and Kathryn’s message so much that I am sharing my mic with her for the day. Today, Kathryn will be taking over my Linkedin and Twitter accounts to post whatever she wants.
This week’s question is:
Question: If you could take over anyone's social media for the day, who would it be? What would you share?
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]]>Have you ever wondered how you could pull off a remarkable production introduction?
Usually, the Remarkable People podcast features interviews with remarkable people, such as Jane Goodall, Steve Wozniak, Arianna Huffington, Margaret Atwood, Martha Stewart, Sir Ken Robinson, Chef Roy Yamaguchi, Kristi Yamaguchi, Stephen Wolfram, Gary Vaynerchuk, or iJustine. But every once in a while, I like to change things up and provide a mini keynote about it. The goal for these mini keynotes is to help you become more remarkable as easily and quickly. This episode’s topic is how to launch like a boss.
For some people, life is a bitch. For me, it’s a launch. This episode provides a roadmap to how to launch a product in a way that helps it escape gravity, “cross the chasm,” and “dent the universe.”
I’ve been involved with many, maybe too many product introductions. Of course, the mother of all product introductions was Macintosh January 24th, 1984.
Since then I’ve introduced software, hardware, books, and this podcast. I’d like to pass on some tactical and practical tips for you right now.
This week’s question is:
Question: Have you been inspired to purchase from a product launch? What did you buy?
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]]>I’m Guy Kawasaki, and this is the Remarkable People podcast. My remarkable guest, Melanie Perkins, has built an enormously successful global company from Sydney, Australia.
To be completely transparent, the company is Canva, and I am Canva’s chief evangelist. In other words, Melanie is my boss.
Be that as it may, she is a remarkable person, and Canva is a remarkable company. People have created over 3 billion designs in Canva since 2013. Approximately 6-7 million designs are created each day in 190 countries. 90,000 schools and universities use it.
Melanie came up with the idea for Canva when she was studying at the University of Western Australia. She was tutoring other students on how to use design programs and realized they were far too complex and expensive. It was then that she realized the future of design was going to be simpler, online and collaborative.
To test out the idea, Melanie and Cliff Obrecht launched FusionBooks, an online design platform for students to create their school yearbooks.
FusionBooks took off in schools across Australia, New Zealand, and France, and soon Melanie was able to prove that her new approach to design was possible and needed.
She then set out to apply the ease of use principles of FusionBooks to a broader audience, and thus Canva was born.
Melanie spent the next several years trying to raise venture capital. She was rejected hundreds of times before she found her first investors. I started working at Canva about six years ago. She found me because my tweets utilized Canva graphics, and the rest is history.
I’m Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. And now here is my remarkable boss, Melanie Perkins.
This week’s question is:
Question: If you could add one new feature to @Canva, what would it be?
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Guy Kawasaki with Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht [Canva co-founder and Chief Operating Officer] at their first meeting in 2014 in Silicon Valley at Guy’s house.
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]]>On the Remarkable People podcast, I interview people such as Jane Goodall, Woz, and Stephen Wolfram who have changed the world. Their stories are inspiring, and I hope they encourage you, too.
This post has a different twist – let’s look at why and how you can foster change and the art of innovation in your company by driving your company with data.
Background: data is a good thing
We’ve been talking about being evidence-based, fact-based, and data-based for decades, but if you’re not up to speed with this, you aren’t alone. According to NewVantage Partners’ study, 69% of companies have failed to create a data-driven organization.
There is an avalanche of studies that support the business benefits, including this Forrester report indicates that data-driven companies grow at an average of more than 30 percent annually and are on track to earn $1.8 trillion by 2021.
Forrester did another study that concluded that businesses that rely on data management tools to make decisions are 58% more likely to beat their revenue goals than non-data driven companies.
Being data-driven isn’t only about revenue results. There’s also transparency and fairness. If everyone has access to the data driving decisions, we can establish reasonable data ethics policies that create even playing fields.
In my upcoming keynote at SAP’s Data and Analytics Virtual Forum: Data To Outcome, I’ll give you real inspiration and tips so you can get started. That’s the hard part, right? A few sneak peeks:
For tips on speaking the language of business, securing on-going funding, and getting buy-in from your executives, check out this free Data strategy master class.
In the end, this is a culture change. You need executives to model the right behavior, which requires you to get them analytics without days of manual assembly. You need executives to ask ad hoc questions of their analytics and brainstorm with other board members on innovative solutions. Are you there yet?
Your supply chain is challenged. Your revenue model is under pressure. Your employees are dealing with unprecedented challenges. Do you know what you need to solve all of those problems? Real-time data and data literacy to interpret that data.
All the supply chain optimization, new business models, collaboration models, and new markets require timely and intuitive access to data to drive innovative ideas. It’s a mistake to entrust these ideas to only data geeks.
The goal is to be able to answer a simple question and foster innovation to jump to the next curve. The question is, “Therefore, what?”
Data management is the “therefore” part. It enables you to see what’s happening to your organization, to see what trends are shaping the reality of your customers, and to read the tea leaves to understand what your opportunities.
Then you can take these insights and create the “what.” In other words, what new products, services, and practices will enable you to meet and exceed the needs of your customers and “dent the universe.”
I invite you to tune in to my keynote and the entire event for inspiration, encouragement, practical tips, and advice from other customers. Ask me questions. Ask the other presenters questions. Come away in two days with a plan that will motivate and drive your business.
This post is sponsored by my friends at SAP.
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