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Would You Quit Your Job To Pursue Your Dreams?

The Bert Show

The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Would You Quit Your Job To Pursue Your Dreams? 

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0:00.0

The Bird Show.

0:01.2

I do love stories about you just taking a look at your life and going,

0:05.5

I'm not fulfilled.

0:06.4

I'm just not fulfilled.

0:07.7

And then you do something about it like almost instantly.

0:11.6

Is that you, 1-855 bird show?

0:14.3

Like you made such a lifestyle change and followed your dream.

0:18.7

Are you happy you did it?

0:20.0

What did you do, 1-855 bird show. And I'm asking this

0:23.4

because I was telling these guys earlier this morning, I am obsessed with this dude right now that is on a

0:29.8

boat. He just learned how to sail and decided that, look, I'm not even feeling great. I'm a,

0:36.4

I'm working at a job that I don't even like.

0:38.9

I need to do something different. And the dude did it. And he records and videos from his boat

0:45.2

every day from Oregon to Hawaii. My name is Oliver. And in 10 days, I'm going to cross

0:51.6

the Pacific Ocean alone. Three years ago, I was diagnosed with a condition called Clippel Field Syndrome.

0:58.6

What it is is a spinal disorder, so I've got a loose spine, and I do run the risk of going

1:03.7

paralyzed from the neck down, and that reality kind of shook up my world.

1:07.8

I became incredibly aware of my mortality, and I grew to absolutely despise my job

1:14.7

and the corporate machine. I quit my job rather abruptly with the goal of sailing around the world

1:21.3

with no plan. A week after quitting my job, I liquidated my 401k. Two weeks after that,

1:26.7

I purchased a sailboat. About a month

1:29.6

after that, I started sailing without knowing how to sail. Fast forward a year, I've learned to sail,

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