Ben Nemtin: Life Beyond The Buried Life.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Nemtin (http://www.bennemtin.com/) is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Do You Want To Do Before You Die? and the star of the MTV show, The Buried Life.
As the co-founder of The Buried Life movement, Ben’s message of radical possibility has been featured by major media outlets including The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, Inc., ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC News. Oprah called Ben’s life work “truly inspiring.”
In a pit of depression, Ben and his three best friends decided to create the world’s greatest bucket list to make them feel alive. They bought a rickety old bus and crisscrossed North America, achieving the unthinkable. And most importantly, every time they accomplished a dream, they helped a complete stranger cross something off their bucket list.
From playing basketball with President Obama to streaking a professional soccer field, from raising over $400,000 for charity to placing a record-breaking $250,000 bet on roulette—Ben’s bucket list quest has inspired millions to chase their dreams and realize that impossible is possible.
In today's conversation, we talk about this remarkable journey, then we bring the conversation current and reveal the equally revelatory adventure Ben has been on in the year's since his original sojourn into the world's greatest bucket list.
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| 0:00.0 | So today's guest Ben Nempton was a rising star in Canadian rugby, one of the top players |
| 0:07.8 | in the country, headed towards a national team and starting off in college. |
| 0:12.8 | When his brain started doing funny things, it started playing tricks and it started spinning |
| 0:18.1 | mad cycles of anxiety that eventually sent him into a very dark place and depression. |
| 0:24.1 | He ended up pulling out of school and returning home where he could start to wrangle. |
| 0:29.2 | While he was going on his mind and working his way through it, while he was there he took |
| 0:33.0 | a bit of time and he started doing some work with friends and asking some bigger questions |
| 0:38.0 | among them what do I want to do before I die? |
| 0:41.1 | Which is a bit of an odd question for somebody who is just starting out in college to be asking. |
| 0:45.6 | That led to a first trans Canadian road trip with four friends to take off lists on what |
| 0:53.7 | seemed to be an impossible bucket list and at the same time due deep acts of service. |
| 0:59.3 | That got them featured all over the place. |
| 1:01.5 | It led to something called the buried life which became eventually a show. |
| 1:05.4 | I believe actually one of the most popular shows on MTV led to a massive near time number |
| 1:11.3 | one bestselling book entitled What Do You Want to Do Before You Die? |
| 1:15.7 | What a lot of people don't know though is the detailed backstory, the behind the scenes |
| 1:19.8 | and what happened after all this? |
| 1:22.9 | When you have this major life awakening, when you go on the most incredible exciting journey |
| 1:29.5 | of checking off the biggest bucket list items that you could ever imagine, things like |
| 1:34.3 | sneaking into the VMA awards, playing basketball with the United States president and then helping |
| 1:40.3 | people in the most profound ways. |
| 1:43.0 | When that's over, where do you go from there? |
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