Matt Dawson - From Wall Street to the World's Wildest Frontiers

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Matt Dawson is a former investment banker turned multi-record-holding endurance athlete and founder of Dawson's Peak Foundation. Known simply as "Dawson," Matt’s journey is extraordinary—from dominating corporate finance to conquering some of the world’s most extreme challenges. Dawson dives into his epic year of Project Seven for Soldiers, where he completed a groundbreaking lineup of global expeditions, including summiting the Seven Summits, skiing to the South Pole, and rowing across the Atlantic Ocean.

Dawson’s story is one of resilience, overcoming a severe leg condition that halted his pursuit of professional football, only to rise stronger as an elite adventurer and coach. He shares insights on mastering mental and physical endurance, the drive behind his passion for serving veterans, and what fuels his relentless pursuit of the impossible. This episode is a deep dive into the mindset of an elite performer who defies limits in boardrooms and on the world’s toughest terrains.

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody, and welcome back. Today's episode is brought to you by Black Rifle Coffee.
0:06.7	Let's head over there, check it out. On their website, blackwiflecoffee.com, it looks like the
0:13.0	celebrating 10 years of America's coffee. So a celebratory roast, Medusa's Madness. So it's
0:19.7	Medusa wearing a set of panos on her head.
0:22.3	That's pretty cool. I bet you that comes as part of the ECS. Let's hit what that says. Yep, the ECS, exclusive coffee subscription. So you could do that if you want to. And if you do that, you're going to get what I will call a bespoke bag of coffee every month delivered right to your door. It's always going to be different.
0:39.3	And it's kind of awesome, especially if you're a coffee head.
0:42.5	Below that, I mean, I've talked about all of this.
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0:48.1	The apparel, the gear, the coffee bundles, the coffee samplers.
0:51.2	Think about the holidays at the coffee shop here in Calispell. We're already
0:54.3	thinking about getting stuff out there so people can gift coffee things. Coffee itself,
0:59.7	what to drink coffee out of, you know, all of that stuff, depending on whatever it is you're
1:03.9	into. So head on over to black rifle coffee.com. You can support the podcast by supporting
1:08.7	the brands that make the podcast possible.
1:24.0	My guest today is Matt Dawson. He and I met years ago at the shot show in Vegas, which is, I don't even know how to describe that show, but I digress.
1:29.3	You want to talk about a man that has pushed the boundaries of what is possible from a physical limitation perspective. Matt, I'd say got his chops in the finance world. My words,
1:41.9	my word's not necessarily his, and he explains anyway. And then I think realized
1:46.5	like a lot of people do that money isn't the direct pathway to happiness that a lot of people think
1:51.4	it would be. And he, man, went deep. And he went dark as far as how far he was willing to push
1:58.9	himself. The cool thing is he did all of that to fundraise and to make a difference.
2:04.5	He's the founder of Dawson's Peak, which I'm going to put the links down in the show notes,
2:08.1	and we talk about it during the episode, so I'm not going to break it down too much.
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