😮 [VIDEO] - Rebel Billionaire is Creating X-Men of Environmental Revolution | Dax DaSilva • #156

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

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- Julian Dorey Podcast MERCH: https://legacy.23point5.com/creator/Julian-Dorey-9826?tab=Featured - Support Our Show on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Dax DaSilva is a billionaire tech entrepreneur & global conservation leader. In 2005, Dax founded Lightspeed, a commerce platform that he later took public. After transitioning from CEO to Executive Chairman of Lightspeed in 2019, Dax founded “Age of Union” –– a non-profit environmental alliance that funds organizations around the world protecting endangered species and ecosystems. These organizations include Paul Rosolie’s JungleKeepers & Sea Shepherd. Dax’s Book, “Age of Union”: https://rb.gy/33wa9 Age of Union Organization: https://ageofunion.com/ Dax IG: https://www.instagram.com/daxdasilva/ Whales Video referenced in Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9J6_HkN9S8&t=1s ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Dax is the Dr. X of Conservation 6:01 - How Dax met Paul Rosolie; Putting $40 million up 10:20 - You can’t be a Savior 15:04 - Dax’s upcoming film on the Congo Rainforest; Gold Mining Mercury Poisoning 20:15 - Ryan Tate & VETPAW protecting endangered species in Africa 25:22 - How does Dax vet organizations? 28:58 - Sea Shepherd & Captain Paul Watson; Changing Dolphin Laws in France 34:11 - How the High Seas work; The difficulty of protecting Mediterranean Dolphins 40:57 - Russia and China don’t care 45:37 - Corporate America ruining it for everybody 51:54 - What needs to be conserved 56:26 - How Captain Paul Watson saved whales globally; Whale Hunting 1:02:24 - Parallels between whaling & Elephan Poaching 1:05:40 - The 6th Extinction 1:10:28 - Karma 1:17:16 - Organized Religion 1:20:09 - How Dax started Lightspeed; Dax’s health problems 1:28:05 - The Mind & The Body; Dax’s secret 1:32:05 - What makes a changemaker 1:35:24 - Dax’s first trip to the Amazon w/ Paul Rosolie 1:40:35 - Undiscovered Species in the Amazon; Trophy Hunting 1:45:24 - Governments and environmental protection 1:51:41 - Steve Donziger’s War w/ Chevron 1:58:44 - The scourge of Cattle Ranching 2:01:15 - Intentional Division around the world; Veganism religion 2:06:38 - Fish & Mercury; Plastics 2:12:19 - WW2 Lights along the coastline; Collectivism in the modern age 2:19:19 - Paul Rosolie & Dax’s trip to the UN 2:23:31 - Invitations in the Amazon Rainforest 2:25:21 - What indigenous communities think of our actions re: the planet 2:31:30 - Communicating the global conservation message; The power of listening 2:37:03 - Paul Watson’s banning from Canada; What sells a journalist’s story 2:41:21 - Why so many people don’t trust the media these days 2:47:30 - The power of documentary films for environmental change 2:52:59 - Dax explains a recent Doc he sold 2:56:41 - The Canadian Forest Fires; Dax working with Leonardo DiCaprio; Boreal Forests at risk 3:02:14 - Being positive about what we can do re: conservation ~ Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “JULIANDOREY”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Music via Artlist.io ~ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 156 - Dax DaSilva Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, guys? If you're on Spotify right now, please follow the show so that you don't miss
0:03.9	any future episodes and leave a five-star review. Thank you. The first time he looked into the eye
0:09.1	of a whale, it's a crazy story. He's felt that the whale could see exactly through him. It was a
0:13.9	moment where whales were being chased by an Icelandic or a Norwegian whaler, and they shot the mother
0:19.0	so that the bulls would come to her rescue.
0:21.6	And that bull, as it was going to be chased, looked into Paul and his crew on a small zodiac.
0:27.6	It knew the difference between the whalers and Paul, and it looked with its one eye into Paul with complete pity.
0:33.6	What are you, what are you doing? What is your species doing? Dax Paul Rosalie told me last year that you are the Dr. X of the X men of conservation around the world. And that is one hell of a title for somebody. How did you become the Dr. X of the X men of conservation around the world. And that is one hell of a title for somebody.
1:13.6	How did you become the Dr. X?
1:15.6	A conservation is something that's, I think it's super underfunded. It's super urgent.
1:21.6	This is the decade of action is me, Paul, others, and I think everyone in the world is realizing.
1:28.3	So you got to step up.
1:30.3	I mean, I think that everybody in their own capacity, whatever resources, whatever experience,
1:35.3	knowledge, and if it's Dr. X for me, I mean, I'll take the nomination and I'll try to fulfill it, you know?
1:42.3	Yeah, but you're also somebody who's like spending their life paying it forward.
1:48.0	I love guys like you because we'll get into your background and everything, but you built this unbelievable company, public company,
1:54.0	worked your ass off for basically like 20 years, and then stepped on to, is it executive chairman?
2:00.0	Yeah, yeah. Okay okay so you're no longer
2:02.1	CEO but in the past few years you started age of union to fund the things that you've been
2:08.4	passionate about with wildlife and conservation and nature related causes around the world but what was
2:14.8	your first like exposure as a kid, I'm guessing, that got you
2:19.3	into things like that? So I grew up in Richmond, BC. It's a beautiful, natural setting. My parents
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