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S1 E2 - Knowing When to Quit your Own Community - with Danny Bent (Project Awesome)
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''SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA BE A LITTLE BIT AWESOME''
‘Every single day something good happens in my life because of Project Awesome, not because I’m involved in it now, but because I was involved in it then.’
This week I talk to the unstoppable force that is Danny Bent (@danny_bent). He's an adventurer, happiness guru, storyteller and all-round good human.
In 2014 he set up a high-energy running club - Project Awesome- promising badass workouts, high 5s and free hugs at 6:30am. Very quickly hundreds of people (including me!) were gathering to run over Tower Bridge with the sunrise and then scheme great adventures during the post-workout coffee. So many lives were changed, yet behind the scenes Danny was burning out.
A difficult predicament arose - as a founder of a community impacting so many people's lives, did he even have the right to quit?
In this episode Danny bravely shares:
- How and why he made the decision to step away from such a thriving community
- How he was experiencing life day to day during the worst time and what was enabled in his life once he quit
- The loss of identity when you stand down from leading a community and how to cope with the sudden free time
- Quitting in sport - how you know when to push on and when to call it a day
- Danny’s advice for how to quit a passion project/community when it feels unthinkable to step down
‘Be pure to yourself and look after yourself. You don’t have to be a reproduction of anybody else. Even if that other self is YOURSELF. I don’t have to be the Danny I was 5 years ago when I set up Project Awesome.’
Links:
Danny Bent: www.dannybent.com / @danny_bent
Join the Great Norse Run: https://www.lykkeadventures.com/products/great-norse-run-2022
Project Awesome: https://projectawesomehq.com/
Join a free workout: https://www.facebook.com/projectawesomelondon/
Knowing When to Quit - Instagram - @knowingwhentoquit
Podcast homepage - www.sarahweiler.com/podcast/
Editor - Johnny Hall / Music - Sarah Weiler / Artwork - Tom Pauling
This was recorded in May 2021
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