Ben Nemtin
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121 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Ben Nemtin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thousands, tens of thousands of people through the show, millions of people. And to this day, they come up and say, oh, I saw the show. I was going to school and I decided that I wanted to travel. I met my husband when I was traveling. Now we have... four kids and we live in Italy. Or I started a restaurant.
And instead of being a doctor, because when you do what you love, you inspire other people to do what they love. Just like you starting this podcast, you probably can't even count the number of people that you have inspired. So it's not selfish, it's service because you are giving other people permission to do the same and you also fuel yourself.
So I think it's the same idea around taking vacation. We sometimes feel guilty when we take vacation because we're taking time off work. Well, you're not taking time off work, you're taking time off for work so that you can come back recharged and you also come back maybe with a bigger idea because you've taken space, you have perspective.
So there are so many reasons why it's important to pursue these personal passions. And so the first thing is give yourself permission by understanding that it's not selfish. Because one, you're going to inspire other people by doing those things, but you're also going to fuel yourself. Then you look at what are these goals that are important to you? And sometimes it's hard to think about.
You know, you look at a blank piece of paper and like, what's your list? And it's overwhelming. And that's why I think it's important to separate your list into categories. And so I talked about the 10 categories of life. That's basically what my new book is based on, The Bucket List Journal. It just came out last week.
And effectively, you write your list in those 10 categories, mental health goals, physical health goals. relationship? How do you want to give back intellectual, financial, material goals? And then you start to move through the barriers that stop you from achieving your goals. So I mentioned there was fear. That's number one.
The other big barrier is when these personal goals, you think about them, there's no deadlines and that's a huge problem. That's why we push them. So you need to create accountability around the personal goals. That's why writing your list is important. That creates a small bit of accountability because you take an idea that doesn't exist, you make it real. That's why we share our goals.
You share your goals so you can give other people the opportunity to help, but you also share them because then you feel accountable to the people you share them with. If I say on this podcast, this year, I'm writing a book. That's my number one goal. I'm writing a book this year. And you say, great. And then I run into you six months later and you say, hey, how's the book coming?
And I think, oh, I better start writing that book, right? Yeah. When you share your goals, you feel accountable. When you share them with your community, and then they can help you. And then the third barrier, and I think we've all felt this, is that usually with these personal goals, you're waiting to feel inspired to go after them. Or you're kind of waiting for the perfect time.
And that inspiration just rarely hits. So you have to create your own inspiration through action. Like there was never a perfect time for you to start this podcast. You were never going to have all your ducks in a row. You know, you were never going to feel completely inspired to do it because the fear dampens that inspiration. So you have to just do it and create your own inspiration.
And as soon as you started the podcast, you saw the reaction and then you started to feel more and more energy and more and more inspiration. So you're the architect of your own inspiration through action. And sometimes we just plan too much and we forget that action is a plan. You don't need to know the plan. You'll figure out the plan after you start. You do the first step.
You don't need to know the second step. You'll figure out the second step after the first. It's a momentum. And so the journal is designed to create inspiration through action, to create accountability, and then to identify real fear and imagine fear.
Absolutely. That's what most people don't because the fear stops you from that first step.
No, it's great because I met you at a speaking engagement. So you were able to see the talk. And so some of the, you should know my story, which is cool. So Brent was the very first person that we ever helped back in 2006. So take you back. We're leaving Vancouver Island in Canada. We're heading to the mainland and we start to get in this RV and travel.
Now there's some news starting to talk about, we would just camp out at radio stations and we wouldn't leave until they put us on the air. So emails started coming in. And we got this email from this guy named Brent. And Brent says, hey guys, I'm 24. Before I die, I want to bring pizzas down to the homeless shelter. And so we're thinking, finally, someone we can help.
Like we don't have much money, but we can buy pizzas. So let's go interview Brent. And so we talk with him and we find out the reason why he wants to bring pizzas down to the homeless shelters because he had lived in that homeless shelter for a couple of years.
But he said when people came in with food to the homeless shelter, it felt like the best day because it felt like someone actually cared about him in a world where nobody really cared about him. And we found that he'd actually pulled himself out of this homeless shelter by starting his own landscaping business.
And his landscaping business relied on his truck and his truck had recently broken down. And so the four of us thought we got to figure out a way to get this guy a truck because when we asked him, is there anything we can do to help? He wouldn't ask for help around the truck. He would just ask for help to get the pizzas.
So we thought that's pretty cool that this guy's in a tough spot and he's not even asking for anything for himself. And we didn't have much money at the time. We had $480 between the four of us. Canadian, so it's less. So that's like not much cash. So we went to an RV, no, sorry, a used car salesman. And we said, this is the story of this guy in your community.
And the cheapest truck on the lot was $2,100. And he sold the truck to us for 480. And then he paid for the insurance and out of his own pocket. Like we're at the age, we didn't even know that you needed insurance. This is all our money. And so anyways, he was, so this idea of, you know, we gave him a chance to be a hero and he took it. Like they saw that so many times.
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