Fire in The BellyInterview with Joey Dumont
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Author, Podcaster and Coach, Joey Dumont joins the show today to discuss his new book “The Life & Times of a Recovering Douchebag” and how his trauma was the catalyst to hiding behind a pretentious mask, and how healing from this changed his outlook on life. Together they discuss how business can become a beacon on how we behave as a culture, the importance of understanding each other and why it is important to have inspiring role models.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Verbalising something is great. Writing it down is another way of reinforcing. Teaching it and/or calling it out, is another way to further that. You start to become far more complex in the understanding of your story. Writing may make you realise that you don’t know that much, and that will humble you and bring you to a place where you are accepting of that.
- If your heroes are assholes then who do you become? In society, we are conditioned to look up to people that have money and who work 130 hours a week, but are they the people that you want your kids to look up to? Or do you want them to look up to their teacher, who dedicates their life to teaching others?
- In religious passages, there are metaphorical truths and the stories themselves have a purpose. Whether it's the Garden Of Eden or the teachings of Buddha, the metaphorical truths embedded in all of them are very applicable when trying to be the best person we can be. They are helpful when aiming to live a life of morals, love and the serving of others.
- The world of business can start to become a beacon of how we behave as a culture. We have to stop hating each other because of political values and we have to begin to understand one another.
- You don’t always have to agree with one another, you just have to understand each other. This is a big piece of what leadership looks like. Politicians today are proving that their behaviour as a collective is untenable and disastrous.
BEST MOMENTS
“I am trying to learn. I don’t know anything as much as I want to know it.”
“My heroes were assholes.”
“I never paid attention to guys like that before, they were invisible to me.”
“You don’t always have to agree with one another, you just need to understand each other.”
ABOUT THE GUEST
After multiple traumatic experiences, including his brother’s suicide and having his narcissistic father embezzle a large sum of money from him, his trauma manifested a parade of pretentiousness to mask the pain and insecurities he was hiding from. He was living what he thought was an amazing life until he realized he was just a d-bag and knew if he was ever going to experience the true fullness of life, he needed to change. Through the healing abilities of laughter, he was finally able to deal with the chronic anxiety, episodic depression, and other neuroses he had been too ashamed to admit. Now uses his natural ability to find humour in even the most painful circumstances to help others discover ways to rewrite the narrative in their heads, learn how to crack through insecurities, and enjoy a more authentic and fulfilling life. Those who interact with him feel less alone and more encouraged to heal from their trauma by addressing critical blockages they might be avoiding.
Book Biography:
Joey Somebody, The Life & Times of a Recovering Douchebag helps readers laugh their cry out after reading stories such as Joey discovering his brother’s suicide and his father embezzling his money. Joey used tragedies in his life as a catalyst for a massive shift in how he was showing up in life. He was using a parade of pretentiousness to mask the pain, anger, and insecurities he was hiding from. He was deploying fashion, athletics, and other personas to manage a public appearance of physicality, status, and expertise. He believed when a man looked good and spoke well, little else mattered. He thought he was living an amazing life until he realized if he was going to experience the true fullness of life, he needed to change. Joey dared to deal with the anxiety, episodic depression, and other neuroses he had been too ashamed to admit. Now he uses stories from his days as a douchebag to help others discover ways to rewrite the narrative in their heads, learn how to crack through insecurities, and enjoy a fulfilling life.
Website: https://www.joeydumont.com
ABOUT THE HOST
The ‘Mighty Pete Lonton’ from the ‘Mighty 247’ company is your main host of ‘Fire In The Belly’.
Pete is an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Coach, Property Investor, and father of 3 beautiful girls. Pete’s background is in Project Management and Property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’ project itself. His mission is to help others find their potential and become the mightiest version of themselves. Pete openly talks about losing both of his parents, suffering periods of depression, business downturn and burn-out, and ultimately his years spent not stoking ‘Fire In the Belly’. In 2017, at 37 years of age that changed, and he is now on a journey of learning, growing, accepting, and inspiring others.
Pete can connect with people and intuitively asks questions to reveal a person’s passion and discover how to live their mightiest life. The true power of ‘Fire In The Belly’ is the Q&A’s - Questions and Actions!
The ‘Fire In The Belly’ brand and the programme is rapidly expanding into podcasts, seminars, talks, business workshops, development courses, and rapid results mentoring.
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