Hey podcast listeners, it's Samir.

And today on the Colin and Samir show, I'm really excited to bring you a conversation with my good friend, Ben Nempton.

A little background on Ben.

Ben created and starred in a MTV show called The Buried Life.

The show got its name from Ben's realization that the things that he truly wanted to do in life

were getting buried by work, school, and just other day-to-day tasks. So Ben and his friends

asked themselves a question, what did they want to do before they died? That led them to creating

a bucket list, a list that they checked off while filming a documentary TV show. Some of the items on

that list were writing a New York Times bestseller, which they did, playing basketball

with President Obama, which they did, having a conversation with Oprah and delivering a baby.

All those things, they did. And you'll hear more of those stories and how those stories actually came to life on this episode.

What's funny is that some of these ideas feel so similar

to what's getting produced on YouTube today,

but at the time that Ben and his friends made this show,

it was before YouTube even existed.

Today, Ben is a world-renowned public speaker,

and he shares his story with groups all over

the world. We had him on the show to talk about his journey with mental health, especially as a

creator. We also talked about how to prioritize the goals that are most important to you and how you

can write your own list. Actually, Ben just released a new book called The Bucket List Journal. If you want to check

that out, we'd put the link in our description of this podcast. It's at write your list.com.

It's a book that helps you write your own bucket list, which I imagine after listening to this

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