Dave Cornthwaite - Say Yes More

In this episode, we talk to Dave about:

• the importance of articulating a vision when you're working in a team
• the move from graphic designer to Adventurer
• the move from adventurer to community leader
• not wanting to wait for the bad thing to happen before making changes to his life
• being a fortunate kid
• having 18 different addresses by the time he was 18 (because his Dad was in the RAF)
• not needing to make long-term friends because he was going to move on
• being physically and mentally bullied at school
• when football isn't enough
• planning his suicide 
• feeling there was something important inside waiting to get out
• the deliberate act of escaping home so he could grow up
• beginning to understand the importance of long-term relationships
• understanding that nobody else cares what you do, you have to make it happen
• university life 
• becoming a football entrepreneur 
• becoming a writer, storyteller and maker of small films
• teaching himself graphic design so he didn't have to make the trip across town
• being lost/having no direction
• feeling there was something more to life
• his 'crossing the threshold' moment 
• the first step being late for work
• understanding he had a negative approach to live 
• starting to say yes instead of no
• starting to explore the town in which he lived
• the benefits of a cardboard programmer
• wanting to impress himself
• his habit of not spending very much
• the skateboard that became the turning point
• breaking Jack Smith's world record for the longest journey by skateboard
• understanding it's not what you earn, it's what you don't spend
• understanding that the feeling of being alive comes with higher highs and lower lows and that it's worth it
• the importance of taking small steps / one day at a time
• the importance of focusing on what you want to achieve NOT what you want to avoid
• post-trip book writing depression
• the joy of being in nature
• finding the things that bring him joy in life
• turning pub ideas into reality
• ten years living out of a rucksack
• combating post-expedition depression with expedition 1000 - having the next thing to look forward to
• paddleboarding the Mississippi with alligators
• wild camping  
• Yestival, a festival where people share their stories of adventure.
• how one step leads to another
• why an 'existing life' isn't enough

  https://sayyesmore.com/