Ben Nemtin: Building a Badass Bucket List for Your Life and Business | Mental Health | YAPClassic
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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
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What inspired Ben Nemtin's bucket list journey?
Whatever it is, my guest today is here to show you that your wildest dreams are more achievable than you think. In this Yap Classic episode from 2022, I spoke with Ben Nemtin, the motivational speaker, bestselling author, and star of MTV's hit reality documentary, The Buried Life. Ben didn't just dream big. He made it happen. He crossed off incredible bucket list items like playing basketball with President Obama, throwing the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game, and even sharing a beer with Prince Harry. But what truly sets him apart is his mission to help thousands of others turn their dreams into a reality too. In this conversation, Ben shared with me how one small decision can completely change the course of your life. He also broke down the key steps to crafting your own bucket list, including what to add, what to leave out, and most importantly, how to actually make your dream goals happen. If you're ready to stop waiting and start doing, this episode is for you, so let's get right into it.
Hey, Ben, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast.
Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
How did mental health challenges shape Ben's path?
I can't wait for my listeners to hear all of your bucket list advice and all of your life changing stories. But before we get into it, I did want to touch on your upbringing and talk about mental health for a moment because you are an expert on this topic. You grew up in Canada and I read that when you were younger, you were always traveling with your parents. So let's talk about your upbringing and how that influenced your adventurous spirit that you have today.
So my dad was actually a clown and he was like a theatrical clown. So he played music and he wasn't necessarily the clown that like does balloons and parties and stuff. He would do theater shows. So we would travel around to different kids festivals or different cities and he would do a show and it would either be in some sort of exotic location like in Africa or somewhere like Sweden or it would be on a ski mountain. So we had this really interesting relationship upbringing where we would kind of travel with him to these cool locations. He played music. So what he would also do is like when my mom and my dad met, they would travel Greece and they would play music in the tavernas for a free room upstairs. So in Greece, you have the bar and then you have a couple of rooms above it. So they would play music, pass around the hat and their payment would be free room and board. And so my parents have been to Greece 15, 16 times.
It's their favorite place to go. So when I was two years old, they brought me to Greece for the first time and they still would do that thing where they would play music in the taverna and travel around like that. And so they would just bring me with them and they would sit me on the bar as a two-year-old and then they would leave and play music in the corner and they would just leave me on the bar and I would hang out. And then at the end of the night, they kind of picked me up and off we'd go. And they put me in between them on their Vespa with a little hockey helmet and kind of travel around Greece. So I think from them, I learned that there really wasn't any rules around how you had to live your life.
I think subconsciously, we either absorb that There's this expected route that we have to go on and we feel like that's what we should do. It doesn't need to be pressure from our parents. It's sort of pressure from society. I think at an early age, subconsciously, I learned from then there really were no rules and you could create your own life based on what made you happy and they never really made very much money we didn't have a lot of money growing up it's not like we were scraping by but we he was a performer and my mom was kind of an independent business coach for women and then did this and that so but what they their life was so rich and they still to this day live like that and they have we had a west valia van where we travel around and camp and to this day they drive down to mexico every year in the van and play music
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What inspired Ben Nemtin's bucket list journey?
0:32–1:34
2
How did mental health challenges shape Ben's path?
1:34–6:26
3
What is the origin of The Buried Life and its mission?
6:26–13:27
4
Why are personal goals important for mental health?
13:27–15:14
5
How do small actions create a ripple effect?
15:14–30:32
6
What are the benefits of sharing your goals with others?
30:32–42:18
7
How can you create your own bucket list?
42:18–52:56
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
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