The Six Foot World

Danny Brassell has stood in front of more rooms than almost anyone, more than 3,500 of them. He went to eighteen schools before he was twelve, was called stupid because he stuttered, and now gets paid to travel the world and speak. He spends most of his life convincing other people they are capable of more than they believe.

Dylan asked him how he's doing. Danny talks about the story of Joseph Heller and a hedge fund manager that taught him what enough means, losing everything in 2005, why being called a natural feels like an insult, the question he should not have answered, the day 5,000 kids in India were waiting for a speech nobody told him about, a boy who asked him how to succeed, and why the experiences are what he keeps.

In this conversation
0:00 Intro
0:39 Sitting with the next chapter
2:00 Knowing when you have enough
6:30 Losing everything in 2005
15:50 Why "natural" feels like an insult
21:29 The question he shouldn't have answered
23:49 Five thousand kids and no speech
27:02 Eighteen schools, a stutter, and a boy in India
31:47 Experiences over things

Danny Brassell: dannybrassell.com

Dylan's book, The 7 Mirrors: A Guide to Remembering Yourself, comes out November 10.

More from The Six Foot World: dylanbost.com/show

Daryl Dittmer is six foot six, and people have been leaning on him for as long as he can remember, whether he was sturdy enough for it or not. He trains people in sales and in life, hosts his own show, and has been in recovery since he was nineteen. Almost everyone in his life comes to him.

Dylan asked him how he's doing. Daryl talks about the kid who couldn't look anyone in the eye and was made team captain anyway, getting sober at nineteen, the promise he made to his mother before she died, what it really cost to step away from a family member, and the four in the morning conversations with his parents, who are both gone, that changed the relationship more than anything while they were alive.

In this conversation
0:00 Intro
0:35 Six foot six, and everyone leaned on him
3:56 What it was like as a kid
7:56 Getting sober at nineteen
10:21 Why he wouldn't change a thing
13:26 What letting go of a family member cost
22:47 Where Daryl goes when he needs holding
27:09 How his parents changed after they were gone

Daryl Dittmer: daryldittmer.com

Dylan's book, The 7 Mirrors: A Guide to Remembering Yourself, comes out November 10.

More from The Six Foot World: dylanbost.com/show

For years, my life happened in about six feet of space: a corner desk, a guitar, and a camera pointed at a window I never looked out of. The first episode is the story behind the name, the question that surfaced in the stillness, and what this show is going to do about it.