The HERO Show Podcast
Changing The Narritive
We Tell The Stories of CEOs & Founders As If They Were Comic Book Super Heros
Hi, I'm Richard Matthews, Host of the HERO Show. Join us as we work to shift the silly cultural narrative that entrepreneurs are villains, and are instead HEROpreneurs working to better our world.
“Learn. Get as much information as you can from people in your space but be authentic. Be yourself. As a leader, as somebody who is changing the world, all you can do is be authentic to yourself. That will give you the driving force to change the world.”
— Roland Siebelink
“At the heart of everything I’ve done, due to my own personal journey, is as a healer and an educator using my story and others’ stories in that pathway. It helped make people understand how they can take those next steps towards their goals.”
— Manisha Singal
“The definition of a hero is doing the right thing at the right time. You want to talk about heroism? If you’re an organ donor, you’re a hero because your legacy will live on. Entrepreneurs want to make the world a better place. Donors want to make the world better too and want to leave that legacy.”
— Jamie Alcroft
“The vast majority of humans struggle with self-love and self-worth to some degree. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. People need to stop beating themselves up and stop being critical of themselves. People should love themselves more and see themselves as I see them; as God sees them so they can achieve what they want to achieve. People have to feel good about themselves and attract what they want.”
— Jayne Sanders
“Creativity, curiosity, & generosity. Those are the three principles that I live and work by when it comes to Signify. Being just a curious person and always wanting to know how things work and how they’re put together and looking at things holistically, wanting to learn and grow has served me well.”
— Kristi Porter
“One of the things that we communicate is, we’re not always going to be happy. There times when you are really going to be sad. What you need to do is pull yourself to the middle ground–when your sad, you have to acknowledge the ups & when you’re really high, that will not last forever so we must appreciate the happy moments.”
— Dillon Hill
“I had this problem. I was podcasting and have done about 50 interviews with people I knew from the domain name industry. I realized that I have gone through my roladuct and I was looking for more. I looked out there and realized that there is a market for inexpensive solutions to finding guests for podcasts.”
— Andrew Allemann
“A commitment is a covenant, in a way. Before I make that commitment, I better understand the full cost because I can’t release myself from a commitment, only the other person or party can. Having those commitments with discipline and consistency is what will grow your business much faster than the slick logo, tagline, or pretty website. If you show up and do average every single day for 1000 days, you will beat out the guy who spends $1000 one Facebook ads trying to boost his popularity.”
— Eric G. Reid
“Whenever someone asks me what our vision statement is I always say, ‘Do great work to get happy clients and make good money.’ That’s my vision statement. That’s all that we need to be doing. It’s been a great journey to get to that point.”
— Mike Koehler
“I think that in today’s communication world when there is a lack of communication, everybody becomes suspect of what’s going on. We have no excuse not to communicate today. When everything hits the fan, companies tend to shut down which, to me, is the most damaging thing they can do.”
— Scott Harvey
“The whole ‘stay true to yourself’ sounds glib. It sounds so pithy. Don’t come up with marketing messages just because it’s what everyone says. Don’t try to look away just because you think you’re supposed to. Don’t act like your company cares about things because it does not. There is something about integrity and honesty…I’m always so much happier when in every area I’m saying and doing the things that feel better for me.”
— Amanda J. McIntosh
“I’ve always hated the term ‘closing percentage’ or ‘I closed the customer’. It sounds negative like you conquered the customer. It’s adversarial–almost. Every sales organization should change that to the ‘helping percentage’. How many people did you help today?–rather than how many people did you close today? It’s a mindset thing, really.”
— Allan Langer