Episode 297- Uncovering Your Buried Life: Accomplishing Your Dreams & Being The Architect Of Your Own Inspiration With Ben Nemtin
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ben Nemtin, number one New York Times bestselling author and the star and co-creator of MTV's, The Buried Life, joins the podcast to discuss his new book which includes his philosophy of radical possibility and waking people up from sleepwalking their lives away.
We chat about using accountability to fuel your goals, surrounding yourself with people that energize you instead of drain you, facing the fear and doing it anyway and being true to yourself no matter what.
Ben has been featured on The Today Show, The Oprah Show, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, you name it– and President Obama even called Ben and The Buried Life inspiration for a new generation.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What Ben did when he realized he was struggling with depression and anxiety
- Why surrounding yourself with inspiring people is important + necessary to living your best life and achieving your goals
- How to get back to what you truly want when day-to-day responsibilities and distractions take over
- The 10 categories of life to consider when writing your dream and/or bucket list
- The power of physically writing down your dream and/or bucket list + more
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This fear, whether you think this fear of failure, that's a tax you have to pay to achieve |
| 0:07.5 | your goal. |
| 0:08.5 | You're not going to be ready, you're not going to conquer that fear. |
| 0:12.0 | You have to push through that discomfort because ultimately that discomfort means that |
| 0:16.6 | you're growing. |
| 0:18.0 | And even if you don't achieve your goal, what you learn through that process far away is |
| 0:22.0 | any potential hit to your reputation. |
| 0:25.0 | Team Minus 10 seconds. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast, with your host, Jamila Sufrat, as a money expert |
| 0:32.9 | who rocks her top. |
| 0:34.5 | She helps braid juniors like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:41.6 | Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in 5-4-3-2-1. |
| 0:55.0 | Exciting news. |
| 0:56.0 | We are giving away a copy of today's guest book. |
| 0:59.6 | So if you want your chance to win a copy, go to journeytalanche.com slash win for more |
| 1:06.5 | details. |
| 1:07.5 | Also make sure you're following me at Journey to Launch on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook |
| 1:13.0 | to get the details. |
| 1:14.9 | If you want the episode show notes for this episode, go to journeytalanche.com or click the |
| 1:20.4 | description of wherever you're listening to this episode. |
| 1:23.5 | In the show notes, you'll get the transcribed version of the conversation, the links that |
| 1:28.5 | we mentioned, and so much more. |
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