Nov 28 2019 112 mins
In this episode, we talk to Dave about:
- the importance of articulating a vision when you're working in a team
- the move from graphic designer to Adventurer
- the move from adventurer to community leader
- not wanting to wait for the bad thing to happen before making changes to his life
- being a fortunate kid
- having 18 different addresses by the time he was 18 (because his Dad was in the RAF)
- not needing to make long-term friends because he was going to move on
- being physically and mentally bullied at school
- when football isn't enough
- planning his suicide
- feeling there was something important inside waiting to get out
- the deliberate act of escaping home so he could grow up
- beginning to understand the importance of long-term relationships
- understanding that nobody else cares what you do, you have to make it happen
- university life
- becoming a football entrepreneur
- becoming a writer, storyteller and maker of small films
- teaching himself graphic design so he didn't have to make the trip across town
- being lost/having no direction
- feeling there was something more to life
- his 'crossing the threshold' moment
- the first step being late for work
- understanding he had a negative approach to live
- starting to say yes instead of no
- starting to explore the town in which he lived
- the benefits of a cardboard programmer
- wanting to impress himself
- his habit of not spending very much
- the skateboard that became the turning point
- breaking Jack Smith's world record for the longest journey by skateboard
- understanding it's not what you earn, it's what you don't spend
- understanding that the feeling of being alive comes with higher highs and lower lows and that it's worth it
- the importance of taking small steps / one day at a time
- the importance of focusing on what you want to achieve NOT what you want to avoid
- post-trip book writing depression
- the joy of being in nature
- finding the things that bring him joy in life
- turning pub ideas into reality
- ten years living out of a rucksack
- combating post-expedition depression with expedition 1000 - having the next thing to look forward to
- paddleboarding the Mississippi with alligators
- wild camping
- Yestival, a festival where people share their stories of adventure.
- how one step leads to another
- why an 'existing life' isn't enough