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What brought Suzanne and me together was actually her then boss who wanted help with something,
and the minute I walked into the office and saw Suzanne I knew she was the one who needed
help.
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We were both in the foundation and not-for-profit space and sick and tired of people acting
as if that was some wasteland for ideas when in fact that's where the big ideas were, but
they weren't big enough or sexy enough, or interesting enough.
--or powerful enough. And we asked ourselves why is all the money, the power, the muscle,
the speed over here and all the meaning and ideas and deliberation over here. That makes
no sense, and we wanted to mix the two.
Ten of ten. It's go time.
Rachel and I have been doing The Dirty Truth radio show for about three years now. It's
our way of talking to the audience of entrepreneurs who are by nature a group of people with big
ideas and telling them, "How do you get your ideas off the ground?"
Right, we decided to form this company because we began to see that it was really the content
having to do with social purpose, things that make the world more beautiful, more enlightened,
more equitable, or more sustainable.
Rachel uses really big words, I mean did you notice that today?
Deliberation
Retentive
Her vocabulary is like enormous. I think that she just does it every now and then to remind
us that she went to Harvard. I mean I went to Tufts, I get it that a lot of people there
wanted to go to Harvard and they didn't. I get that. It doesn't bother me. I mean most
of the time it doesn't bother me.
So, um, I went to school in Cambridge. Um, and I think that Suzanne went to school in
Summerville, Mass, which is the next town over.
Mind and Matter Studio is our fourth business together, and this one is a little different.
We have two parts of the business. We have our projects where we're consulting with big
idea leaders, big influential thinkers, and helping them take their ideas into the market.
And the second part of our business is a new web platform for social purpose content that's
entertaining and that will reach a broad audience.
Suzanne doesn't have any ideas. She's really good at taking whatever it is I give her [CLAP]
to market.
I'm the ideas person. I'm always the one who's coming up with the idea. I feed it to her
in a way that she then owns and drills down and by the time she's drilled down she's like,
"Oh that was my idea."