Episode 194 – Melissa Moody

Welcome to another episode of The HERO Show. I am your host Richard Matthews, (@AKATheAlchemist) and you are listening to Episode 194 with Melissa Moody – Empowering People to Focus on What Matters Most.

Melissa Moody is a marketing leader who loves creating clarity from chaos. She is the Head of  Marketing and Cofounder at Gated—a brand that gives you control over your own attention in an increasingly noisy world.

​Melissa has always been a passionate advocate for fast, frictionless user experiences on the web. With over 13 years at Google, she worked with Fortune 500 Travel companies to build effective cross-channel marketing strategies and create amazing user experiences. She’s also an active advocate of remote work and entrepreneurial ecosystem building.

Here’s just a taste of what we talked about today:

Focused on Gated

Melissa’s business is primarily focused on Gated which is a simple and elegant email solution that essentially challenges any unknown senders to donate to a charity of their choice in order to reach you.

There are a lot of email tools out there. But Gated is unique in the sense that other tools make people deal with the mess once the email is already in their inbox. The platform is focused on telling people that they shouldn’t have to deal with those distractions unless they’re worth their time.

As a co-founder and head of marketing. Melissa’s job is to take Gated from an idea into a vision and to start telling people about what it means to really own our attention and to focus on what really matters in life instead of all the digital distractions these days.

Entrepreneurial at Heart

Melissa has always been fairly entrepreneurial at heart, she was raised in a family that loves talking about business and financing. Coming out of college, she started as an educator and taught students with language-based learning disabilities at the high school level. She spent a while doing that, but along the way she had the desire to move locations across the country and also looking for a little bit of challenge in the corporate.

So she pivoted from education into marketing and started working at Google in 2007. With over 14 years of experience at Google, Melissa has accumulated an incredible amount of marketing knowledge. From there she started mentoring startups and then found her place at Gated.

Other Topics We Covered on the Show:

  • We also talked a little bit about Melissa’s family life outside of working with Gated.
  • Then, we talked about Melissa’s superpower. Through an activity, Melissa discovered that her zone of genius is to look at a complex mess, and come out of it with clarity.
  • Melissa’s fatal flaw in her business is being extremely pragmatic. She was able to overcome this type of flaw by thinking in a divergent way and also being surrounded by good people.
  • People being digitally overwhelmed is the arch-nemesis at Gated. Studies show that there are 390 billion emails being sent per day and that 90% of all the emails sent are not from people. To cut through the digital noise, it is Gated’s mission for people to take back control of their attention and focus on what really matters.
  • Gated’s driving force is to unleash the potential of all of the amazing people so they can do more for the world.
  • We also talked about the importance of knowing your people and helping them get where they want to go.
  • Lastly, Melissa’s guiding principle is a custom skull artwork on her wall that reminds her about memento mori which is a phrase that means,”remember you must die”. This phrase has helped her to cherish moments that matter.

Melissa mentioned the following item/s on the show.

The HERO Challenge

Today on the show,  Melissa Moody challenged Kelly to be a guest on The HERO Show. Melissa thinks that Kelly is a fantastic person to interview because she made a leap to an entrepreneurial journey from a large company. Kelly founded her own agency that does media and digital strategy. Her hero story was probably part of the kick in the pants that got Melissa to jump from a big company to a small one.

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