Podcast 235: Will Hodson: An Entrepreneur Content To Build A Lifestyle Of Freedom And Cycling

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David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Business, Education

5.0 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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It is super to have todays guest on the inspirational Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots podcast show, as he is quite simply the nearest to a real life superman that I have ever spoken to. He is a man on a mission, and it is a mission that will take him around the world and inspire the world at the same time. Starting in April 2015 and finishing in January 2020, he is going to try to complete a record-breaking 7 Continents Round the World Cycle ride, whilst wearing a superman costume? You can only imagine how sore parts of his body are going to be on this epic adventure! Starting his career as a teacher, he always had the motivation to jump onto his bike and see the world. Never content to just relax and go with the flow. His cycling adventures actually started way back in 2011, when he cycled 4,000km from his home in Tooting to Turkey, raising over £5,000 for charity but this was literally just a "Hey honey I'm just going for a ride on the bike for awhile!" kind of trip in comparison. Now he is working his way up to the kind of fitness, to tackle head on this amazing trip and on the way aim to raise £100,000 towards the World Cancer Research Fund and Parkinson’s UK. But like so many inspiring tales of achievement and extreme effort that we hear on Join Up Dots, more often than not its the smaller ripples that make for lasting change in the world. Our guest teaches year one children at Brandlehow Primary School in Putney, and is also the Healthy Schools Coordinator for his school. He said: “I’ve got my own super cycling club that I run after school. And its great to see the kids get excited about cycling; one girl said that she wants to cycle to Egypt when she’s older so I’m hoping to inspire them to go on their own adventure.” I'm sure he is going to do just that too. So what is it about cycling freedom that so appeals, as it is renown as being one of the hardest form of long distance endurance? And how has he managed to get so much time away from school, he can't go with the "Oh its a teacher training day" after all? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, the Super cycling man himself, Mr Will Hodson.

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.1	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots
0:09.9	features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:18.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:25.0	Yes, hello there everybody and welcome to another edition of a join up Dot. This is episode 235 and it's one of those stories
0:37.1	that when I started to show many, many moons ago was the kind of folk that I wanted to have on.
0:43.1	They're kind of normal folk.
0:44.4	Well, this guy isn't that normal actually.
0:46.3	I've been talking to him beforehand,
0:48.0	and he's got a certain strangeness
0:50.6	about him which you will discover all the way through. It's good, it's engaging,
0:54.0	but he will take the conversation into areas that possibly I wouldn't dream to go.
0:59.0	Let me introduce you to him. He, it's super, really, to have today's guest on the show and I use that
1:04.4	word for a reason as he is quite simply the nearest to a real life Superman that I've
1:09.1	ever spoken to. He is a man on a mission and it is a mission that will take him around the world and inspire the world at the same time. Now starting in April 2015 and finishing in January 2020, he is going to try to complete a record-breaking seven continents
1:26.0	round-the-world cycle ride whilst wearing a Superman costume.
1:31.1	Yeah, I shouldn't laugh, really. You can only imagine how sore parts of his body
1:34.8	are going to be on this epic adventure. His cycling adventures actually started back in
1:39.1	around about 2011 when he cycled 4,000 kilometers from his home in Tooting to Turkey, raising over 5,000 for a charity.
1:47.0	But this was literally just a, hey honey, I'm just going to go for a ride on the bike for a while kind of trip in comparison. Now he's working
1:54.9	his way up to the kind of fitness to tackle head on this amazing trip and on the way aim to raise
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