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Business Made Simple Podcast

#127: Blake Mycoskie—Should Your Company Take a Stand on a Social Issue?

Business Made Simple Podcast

StoryBrand.ai

Marketing, Story, Bmsu, Businessmadesimple, Brand, Business, Bms, Storybrand, Entrepreneurship, 474622, Storytelling

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Should your company take a stand on a social issue? There’s no better person to ask than TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie. He and his team have built a thriving footwear brand on the One for One model of giving a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair they sell. And recently, they launched a bold campaign on the controversial issue of gun violence.

In this episode, we examine the finer points of what happens when your company takes a stand on a social issue. How does it affect your employees’ lives? Your bottom line? Your brand? The cause itself? Listen now and see for yourself.

http://buildingastorybrand.com/127

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0:03.5

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Fill out the survey. It's going to help us make an even better podcast next year. Welcome to the Building a Story Brand Podcast where we believe if you confuse

0:28.7

you'll lose. Noise is the enemy and creating a clear message is the

0:32.3

best way to grow your business.

0:34.0

I'm your host Donald Miller.

0:35.0

I'm joined by my co-host J.J. Peterson chair dancing.

0:38.0

I am chair dancing today.

0:39.0

What a lot of people don't know is you actually, while I do the introduction, this is not a joke you start dancing in order to get your energy up

0:46.1

because Tim our producer is always saying energy up energy up

0:50.3

can just give us some cereal that be... I'll give you a shimmy to start your morning off.

0:54.0

Well if you want a meme of that.

0:58.0

No, no.

1:00.0

Go to Storybrand.com slash shimmy. People will ask for it. I don't even know how com slash shimmy people will ask for it no no it's not

1:06.1

no we can ask for it we're gonna deliver it you think you think I'm joking. Really, okay. So Storybrand.com slash shimmy, guess on how to spell it because I can't tell you.

1:21.0

How do you spell shimmy?

1:22.0

I don't know, shut that camera down.

1:24.0

So we're in a cop slash shimmie and there's a meme of uh J.J.

1:27.1

Anyway, J.J. We're actually talking this morning about something way more serious than chiming

1:35.3

We're talking about millennials in some ways in a roundabout way. We're talking about millennials and we're talking about the fact that they care more about changing the world than they do about money.

1:45.0

Yeah.

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