David to Goliath - Dream Like a Giant. Fight Like an Underdog

The Story of a Brand

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 145 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

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Today, Ramon Vela interviews Nigel Thomas, Founder of David to Goliath. A newsletter that documents his comeback from near suicide to building a 100,000 community in public and interviewing the best underdogs of this generation.

Highlights:

* Gratitude Story: 100,000 in revenue

* Some people never accomplish their life's mission or goal

* Nigel's mission & purpose

* Life is About Constant Practice

* Nigel: Struggling with a Purpose is how we find happiness - Part 1

* Nigel: Struggling with a Purpose is how we find happiness - Part 2

* Learning from others Who Have Experience

* Why community is the solution to the problem

* Overcoming your fears starts with gratitude

* Running at 6 am to fight depression

* Dark Knight Rises, making the jump away from fear, and why David to Goliath Newsletter exist

* And so much more

Join Ramon Vela and Nigel Thomas as we break down the inside story of David to Goliath on The Story of a Brand.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It was only three to four months ago that I was thinking about committing suicide.
0:04.1	And I have to battle the voice of the victim every day,
0:06.6	the same voice that tells me not to get out of bed,
0:10.1	not to go after my dreams,
0:12.4	that building this 100,000 person newsletter in public,
0:16.1	to hit 100,000 subscribers of David to Goliath in 2024,
0:20.4	that that's just not possible. And I have to
0:23.0	conquer that victim every single day. And I get out of bed with my friend and we go on a run in the
0:28.9	dark, in the cold rain of the UK, and we stamp out that voice of the victim one stride at a time.
0:36.1	So I think for a lot of people, whether it's entrepreneurship or whatever venture they've
0:41.4	conquered in life, they do it, they go through the struggle and then they look back and
0:45.8	they talk about how they conquered those demons.
0:49.2	My story's different because I'm in the struggle right now and I'm documenting live and I'm sharing not only the
0:55.3	good but also the bad and the damn right ugly. Hey everyone, this is Ramon Bella, and this is another episode of the story of a brand.
1:13.3	Like always, we have an amazing guest and company that we're going to feature on today's show.
1:17.9	But before we do, I have a brief announcement, and this literally is brand new.
1:23.6	I have a strategic alliance with Compass Rose Ventures.
1:28.5	What that means is it's sort of a cross between a partnership and a sponsorship.
1:35.8	But bottom line is that they're going to help me produce this show throughout 2024.
1:42.2	They're going to come in.
1:43.3	Rose Hamilton, who is the founder and lead principal
1:46.7	there, is going to be my co-host on a number of shows. We're going to be sharing content. We're going to
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