The H2 Leadership Podcast

Making Time for Your Next Chapter — mitchmatthews.com/time (free with code H2LEADERSHIP)

In this episode, Alan Briggs sits down with Mitch Matthews — coach, speaker, and host of the Dream Think Do podcast — for a conversation that feels less like an interview and more like two coaches getting honest with each other over coffee. Mitch is the CEO of a training organization focused on helping executives, entrepreneurs, and founders define what success actually means to them — and then build a plan to go after it.

What unfolds is a wide-ranging, practical, and genuinely fun dialogue about dreams, the questions that unlock them, the questions that shut people down, and what it looks like to lead well in a moment of historic change.

If you've ever locked up when someone asked you what your big dream is — or if you've watched someone else lock up when you asked them — this episode is going to reframe how you think about that conversation entirely.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Mitch's origin story — from a 12-year-old loitering at a bike shop in Iowa to discovering his life's calling at a Schwinn Selling School at 14
• Why Mitch calls his work "success coaching" instead of life or executive coaching — and why that distinction matters
• The Dream Think Do framework — why dreaming has to come before thinking, and why most people start strategizing too early
• Why the question "what's your big dream?" actually shuts people down — and the better questions to ask instead
• The power of the word "might" — and how one small word change opens up possibilities that pressure closes off
• What semantic interference is and why it matters for every leader, coach, mentor, and manager in the room
• The story of the first Big Dream Gathering — how a product nightmare in 2006 became a movement now happening on college campuses and corporate retreats across the country
• Why dreams have seasons — and how to tell the difference between a dream that isn't right and a dream that just isn't right yet
• How the best leaders are navigating AI — standing in the tension of what's scary and what's possible at the same time
• Why AI is actually making people hunger for real human connection — and what that means for coaches and leaders
• Alan and Mitch coach each other live on the question "what do you want?" — and what makes a great clarifying question great

Reflection Questions:

• What's something you want to experience more often — and what would it take to give yourself permission to pursue it?
• Are you dreaming before you think, or are you jumping straight to strategy before you've given yourself enough space to imagine?
• Where in your leadership are you standing in the tension between what's scary and what's possible?

Free Resource from Mitch: Mitch put together a training called Making Time for Your Next Chapter — built specifically for high achievers who want to figure out what's next but feel like they don't have the time to even think about it. It's normally $97, but he's making it free for H2 Leadership listeners. Head to mitchmatthews.com/time and use the code H2LEADERSHIP at checkout.

Connect with Mitch Matthews:

• Website: mitchmatthews.com
• Weekly "4 Things" email: mitchmatthews.com/4things
• Instagram: @mitch.matthews
• Facebook: @mitch.matthews.104
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mitchmatthews
• Dream Think Do Podcast: mitchmatthews.com/blog/

Resources Mentioned:

• Making Time for Your Next Chapter — mitchmatthews.com/time (free with code H2LEADERSHIP)
• Gradually Then Suddenly — Mark Batterson
• The Second Mountain — David Brooks (referenced by Alan)
• Working Genius Assessment — Patrick Lencioni (referenced by Alan)
• H2 Leadership Coaching — h2leadership.com