Walking & Climbing Towards Dreams | Mike Posner
SuperLife with Darin Olien
Darin Olien
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Grief can really put your life into perspective. Faced with your own mortality, the things you really want clearly come into view. But then life happens. Sometimes the reasons we give for avoiding our goals are actually just excuses. Multi-platinum recording artist and singer/songwriter explains what inspired his goal to walk across America, the challenges he faced doing so, and why accomplishing his dream inspired an even bigger one. What's stopping you from walking towards your dreams?
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? This is Darren O'Lean. This is the Darren O'Lean show. How's it going? |
| 0:11.0 | What's happening? How is life? How is the new year going? Are you creating? Just because you got |
| 0:17.5 | off your original intentions, get back on that now. We had incredible one to one tribe, a super |
| 0:25.6 | life camp. We change people's lives. That's not me saying it. That's other people saying it. So |
| 0:33.4 | if you need inspiration and possibilities to create a better life, you need to change the way |
| 0:41.4 | you're doing things. I am on your side. We need all-creator super life. And someone that's really |
| 0:48.3 | good at that. And that's Mike Posner. He became a fast new friend after he came out here under |
| 0:55.5 | the infamous 300-year-old oak tree that I have by the yurt. We get to sit down, man. I could have |
| 1:02.1 | kept talking to him. But if you don't know, Mike Posner is a multi-platinum singer-songwriter. |
| 1:10.4 | Yes, he's written amazing songs, credible voice. I took a pill in Ibiza. It was a massive one. |
| 1:18.6 | A Spotify's top 10 most stream songs of all time earning Mike 2017 Grammy nomination for |
| 1:28.8 | Song of the Year. All of this stuff as well as writing songs for Bieber's triple platinum boyfriend. |
| 1:37.3 | That was Posner. Maroon Fives. Six-time platinum sugar. That was Posner. He's a multi-talented person. |
| 1:46.8 | But here's the thing. He went through a lot of stuff. We dig into that. And he did one of those |
| 1:52.4 | things that we all have the opportunity of doing when you go through some hard challenges. |
| 1:57.6 | Losing people in our lives is intense. Losing anything in our lives is intense. And what are you |
| 2:03.7 | going to do with that information? Are you going to bring that in to your life? Are you going to |
| 2:08.1 | allow that to transform you and allow you to dig at what your reasons for doing everything |
| 2:15.4 | are? That's the most important thing. Understanding your why. Understanding why you're doing things. |
| 2:21.7 | And Mike contemplated, he dug into all these things. And for some reason, only known to truly him, |
| 2:28.5 | he decided to walk, stroll, skip jump his way across the United States from Asbury Park, |
| 2:38.5 | New Jersey to Venice, California, completing 3,000 miles across America. We talked all about that. |
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