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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

327: He’s Kicking His Blue Genes in the Butt

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5618 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Rivedal dealt with personal and family turmoil in the wake of his father’s suicide. He found some release in writing and performing a one-man play exploring the family dynamics of depression. It raised the question, if heredity really was a factor, was he destined to follow in his father’s footsteps? Today he is the founder of The i'Mpossible Project. He is an author, actor, playwright, and international public speaker who has spoken about suicide prevention, mental health awareness and diversity in more than 100 locations throughout the world.

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0:00.0

Hello, world.

0:12.2

Welcome to Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love, Number 327.

0:16.9

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

0:19.2

Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work

0:24.4

he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

0:29.8

Despite his personal and family turmoil in the wake of his father's suicide, Josh found

0:34.8

some release in writing and performing a one-man play that explored the family dynamics of depression.

0:41.5

On the other hand, if Heredity really was a factor, was he destined to follow in his father's footsteps?

0:47.9

Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Josh Rivdall.

0:52.1

Welcome, Josh.

0:53.1

Thanks for having me, Don.

0:55.7

A pleasure. Josh,

1:01.5

are you using your talents doing work that you love? Absolutely. All right. 100%. All righty.

1:07.1

I love that. We want to hear everything. Josh Rivdall, founder and CEO of the Impossible Project, is an author, actor, playwright, and international public speaker.

1:12.8

He's spoken about suicide prevention, mental health awareness, and diversity in more than

1:17.8

100 locations throughout the world. He wrote and developed the one-man play,

1:23.1

Kicking My Blue Jeans in the But, which has toured extensively throughout the world. He has three books

1:29.0

in print and a new release on the way in 2017. So Josh, that's a pithy summary of your fine career.

1:36.2

Tell our listeners around the world what you're engaged in now that has you excited and

1:40.0

motivated. Sure. So right now, I mean, the public speaking is kind of chugging along as it has been

1:47.0

for a few years. So this is probably my busiest year looking at about 50 dates this year,

1:52.6

which should be interesting. That's a lot. That's a lot. It's a lot. I'm traveling about 26 to 28

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