E81: Ben Fogle - Overcoming My Lifelong Battle With Self-doubt

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Ben Fogle, a TV presenter broadcaster and author who has reached the peak of Everest, trekked over Antarctica and rowed across the vast Atlantic ocean. A man that has faced adventure and put himself in the most high risk situations doesn’t usually pair with low confidence issues and fighting his own insecurity.

Born in Westminster everyone perceives him with a life of privilege, comfort and a quintessential posh lifestyle. Failing at school and only just got through his university studies. Ben had determination for travel and exploring, he lived on a island self-sufficiently for year, presented and made numerous of well-known documentaries, written 9 Times Best selling books and is the United Nations Patron of the Wilderness.

There is more to this man than I believed the conversation we had was so diverse we covered so much, going through Ben’s journey getting down the core of the man everyone see’s smiling in behind the lens. A chance for him to express in his words who he really is and the voyage of taking back control of his own narrative.

This podcast is going to open your eyes to reality and surprise you in ways you did not expect. The demand we have for materialistic things, to be happy all the time and push ourselves and take those leaps make us question what is happy and how can we be more fulfilled.

Topics:

Where does your thirst for challenge come from?
Overthinking & building confidence
conforming
I don't know if I'll ever find who I really am
Money value
Social media and Trolling
Wokness
Failure, self doubt and self belief
Your wife, preventative marriage concealing
Anxiety and looking for happiness
What is your goal?
Are you scared of dying?
Have you got any regrets?
Advice for unconfident people

Ben:

https://www.instagram.com/benfogle/

https://twitter.com/benfogle

Sponsors:

https://uk.huel.com/

Fiverr.com/ceo

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ben Fogel, Ben relentlessly pursues adventure, risk and challenge,
0:04.6	but this doesn't come from a place of strength and courage.
0:07.3	It comes from the opposite.
0:08.8	What?
0:10.1	This, if you think you're gonna fail, you're gonna fail.
0:12.2	You just have to have this positive attitude,
0:14.3	and it was only actually working with Olympians that I've done now
0:17.6	when I climbed Everest that I realized you need this confidence
0:20.5	virgin on arrogance that I will get to the top of this mountain.
0:25.5	Three weeks before he was due to be born naturally,
0:28.0	and we lost our third child.
0:29.2	And it was an awful, awful,
0:31.6	experience that affected us profoundly.
0:34.1	I became really introverted.
0:35.9	I'd go to events and I'd find myself going to the Lou
0:38.1	and are sitting in the little cubicle for the duration of the whole event.
0:43.0	Big mistake.
0:43.9	We got death threats and worse.
0:45.9	I shouldn't have shared this idea in a social media platform,
0:52.6	but I was amazed at the vile, vitriolic abuse.
1:07.5	Ben Fogel.
1:08.9	He's a TV presenter, broadcaster and author.
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