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Good Life Project

Choosing People Over Profit: Dale Partridge

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dale Partridge was riding high, or so it seemed.

A serial entrepreneur and founder of the cause-driven venture, Sevenly, the media loved him and thrust him into the spotlight. Sevenly venture was not only making money, it had also raised more than $4 million for hundreds of causes and more than a million people.

From the outside looking in, everything was fantastic. But, inside, he was dying. Living a life at a pace that was destroying him, pulling him away from his family, ruining his health and making him question everything.

Eventually, he hit the wall. And he decided to make some major shifts. Stepping away from the company he started, he picked up his family and moved to Bend, Oregon, a small town 3 hours from Portland to start the painstaking process of rebuilding his life, his health and his living. Reconnecting with the people and things that mattered, starting with his family.

His recent book, People Over Profit, shares this story, taking you inside the lifestyle implosion that led to a good life evolution.

I had a chance to sit down with Dale in his recording studio in Bend this summer to talk about everything from entrepreneurship to family, design and community, why people share things ("people don't share ugly!"), why being different matters and even the potential impact city-living has on life.


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0:00.0

Freedom is...

0:02.0

A spontaneous day at the beach.

0:05.0

A weekend away with friends.

0:07.0

Freedom is...

0:09.0

Zip car.

0:10.0

With Zip car, you can get a car or van exactly when and where you need one.

0:14.0

Just search, book, and unlock over 3,000 vehicles near you, or via our app.

0:20.0

Whether it's getting away for the day or getting around town,

0:24.0

enjoy freedom at your fingertips with Zip car.

0:27.0

Download the app or search Zip car to find out more.

0:58.0

Hmm, now that hits the spot.

1:11.0

What idea do you have that has a massive impact on people that it's not you?

1:17.0

And imagine if you didn't start that.

1:21.0

In 2011, Dale Portridge had this kind of interesting idea.

1:25.0

We wanted to create a business that would inspire generosity, that would inspire social good.

1:31.0

So he joined with a couple of other people to start a company called Sevenly.

1:35.0

What they call the Cause Art Movement.

1:38.0

Sevenly would create these Seven Day Cause campaigns online,

1:43.0

and they would invite customers to buy things, very often T-shirts,

1:47.0

that then turned around and gave $7 out of the purchase price to a charity that was designated that week.

1:54.0

It was a bold idea. It was very complex to actually make happen.

1:58.0

And they were giving away a huge percentage of the purchase price to actually try and pull this thing off.

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