Living as your ideal self

Pushing through fear and self-doubt to see all the possibilities

It started out as a mission to check things off their bucket list, but then turned into something much bigger. So big, in fact, that it changed Ben’s core belief system on how he views life. On this episode, Deloitte chief well-being officer Jen Fisher discusses living as your ideal self with Ben Nemtin, a best-selling author and creator, producer, and cast member of MTV’s highest-rated show on iTunes, “The Buried Life.”

This two-week road trip, ultimately, ended up lasting over 10 years. And the list items that we put on the list, initially that we were convinced were impossible, that we kind of wrote just as a joke . . . play basketball with President Obama, write a No.1 New York Times bestseller, make a TV show, have a beer with Prince Harry, sit with Oprah . . . things that we really had no business doing. Over time, they happened. We sort of hit this point where we are like, ‘I guess you can do anything.’

–Ben Nemtin

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