From Despair to Purpose: Jeremy George's 52-Week Bucket List Journey

What happens when you hit all the milestones society tells you to chase, yet still feel empty inside? For Jeremy George, that existential crisis led to a year-long battle with suicidal thoughts despite having a beautiful New York apartment, career success, and financial stability.

Everything changed when three consecutive wake-up calls shattered Jeremy's perception of what makes a meaningful life. His mother's near-death experience during a routine surgery, the global pandemic's stark reminder of life's fragility, and unexpectedly losing his job created the perfect storm that forced Jeremy to confront a powerful question: If so much in life is beyond our control, why not intentionally pursue what truly matters?

His answer was bold – attempt 52 bucket list items in 52 weeks. But Jeremy's adventure wasn't about adrenaline stunts or Instagram-worthy moments (though he did bike 650 miles down the California coast and go cliff jumping in Hawaii). The true transformation came through his one fundamental rule: recruit at least one person to help with each goal. This simple principle revealed something profound – our most meaningful experiences come through connection, not achievement.

Jeremy completed 32 of his 52 goals – what he calls a "D-minus" by academic standards. Yet this "failure" became one of his most valuable lessons. Whether getting rejected from reality TV shows or losing miserably while trying to multiply money in Las Vegas, he discovered life's richness comes from attempting what matters, not necessarily succeeding.

This revelation inspired Jeremy to create Bucket Match, a platform connecting people based on shared bucket list goals, making dreams more achievable through community. After all, sharing your goals with others makes you nearly 78% more likely to achieve them than keeping them to yourself.

Ready to rediscover what truly matters to you? Listen now, then visit bucketmatch.ai to find your own bucket list community. You can also follow Jeremy on Instagram @bucketmatch.ai.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
According to Merriam-Webster, a bucket list
is a list of things someonewants to do before they die.
My guest today, jeremy George,took that concept to a whole new
level.
Attempting 52 bucket list itemsin just one year.
That's right.
One life changing experienceevery single week.
The impact was so powerful.
It led Jeremy to create his owncompany, called Bucket Match,

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dedicated to helping others dothe same.
Get ready to be inspired tostart truly living.
This is Jeremy George.
Welcome to Journey with Jake.
This is a podcast aboutadventure and how, through our
adventures, we can overcome thechallenges of life that come our
way.
While I expect you will learnsome things about different
adventures, this show willentertain you.
Each episode will featuredifferent guests or guests as

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they share experiences andstories from the different
adventures they have been on.
Not only will you beentertained, but you also hear
the failures and trials eachguest faces and what they have
done or are doing to overcomethe hardships that come their
way.
My goal is to take each of uson a journey through the
experiences of my guests, withthe hope that you'll be
entertained and inspired toovercome your day-to-day

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challenges.
After all, it's not all aboutthe destination, as it is about
the journey.
Hello everyone, and welcome backto another episode of Journey

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with Jake.
I'm your host, jake Bushman.
I had the amazing opportunityto sit down with Jeremy George
and talk about his incrediblejourney of chasing his bucket
list.
While the adventures themselveswere exciting, what really
stuck with me were the lessonshe learned along the way,
especially about the power ofcommunity and the importance of
having support as we chase ourdreams.

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Talking with Jeremy was such aninspiration and I know you're
going to be moved by his storytoo.
If you enjoyed this episode, besure to check out episode 116

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with David Allen Tracy, anotherguest who's all about living
life to the fullest.
All right, let's jump into myconversation with Jeremy George.
Well, I'm excited today becauseI have someone on the podcast
that I'm really excited to talkto.
I've got Jeremy George with me,jeremy, welcome to Journey with
Jake.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Thanks, jake, super happy to be here.
Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, absolutely.
You've got a pretty cool story.
You're doing something that Ithink is really cool.
You're the owner of BucketMatch and we're going to talk
all about Bucket Match and whatthat's all about.
I think people kind of startputting their heads together
Bucket match, bucket list, thatsort of thing.
So we're going to kind of diveinto all that.
Before we do that, like Ialways do on the show, I like to
know a little bit about who youare, just some background,

(03:14):
where you're from, where yougrew up, that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, moved around
a little bit, but I have endedup in San Diego, which is
actually also where I went tocollege, so I came back here and
live here now with my partnerand my dog.
As you mentioned, I'm thefounder of Bucket Match, which
we can get into, but onlineplatform that helps connect
people based on their bucketlist goals.

(03:37):
I know we'll get into it, butthere's a whole story behind why
I decided to do that in thefirst place.
But yeah, I describe myself asan entrepreneur and bucket list
enthusiast.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
There you go.
I love it.
Entrepreneur bucket listenthusiast.
Do you have any siblings or didyou just solo growing up?
What was growing up like foryou?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I have an older sister.
She lives in Santa Barbara,california, with her family,
with her husband and daughter.
She and I grew up very close,so really grateful for that.
I have a really goodrelationship with my parents as
well.
They're both still back in theBay Area, so small but very
tight knit family.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
So yeah, we definitely were going to dive
into your story because I thinkyour story is pretty fascinating
and I think it's a story that alot of us could relate to.
It seems very relatable, justkind of the stuff you went
through.
So, if you don't mind, kind ofgive us the background on.
So as far as I understand it, Imean, you were kind of on that
path of like, hey, this is lifeand I'm living the path, and
then some things happened andthings changed.
So, if you don't mind, diveinto wherever you feel like you

(04:31):
want to start with this.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, sure, you know, typically like I guess the
headline is I gave a TEDx talkabout an experience, a project
that I embarked on, which was Itried to do 52 things from my
bucket list in 52 weeks, whichis one year.
But I'll explain why.
Why did I even do that in thefirst place?
So if we go back to 2019,pre-covid, I was living in New

(04:54):
York City at the time beautifulapartment, I was at the top of
my career, I just got apromotion at work, I was making
more money than I'd ever madebefore and on so many levels I
had thought I had reached themilestones that were supposed to
make me happy.
The truth is, once I reachedthese milestones and I realized
I was no happier, that actuallyset me into a year-long struggle

(05:16):
where I battled suicidalideation.
The way I like to describe topeople is I wasn't like sad
necessarily.
I just kind of felt like lifewas meaningless.
Because by hitting these vanitymetrics, if you will, and
realizing I was no happier, Istarted to question like, is it
possible to even be happy at all, or will I always just be

(05:37):
chasing after the next rung onthe ladder without actually
fulfilling myself?
And so that's what reallyspawned this year-long battle
where I just kind of felt likewhat's the point of living and I
didn't want to be here anymore.
But I held on for a fewdifferent reasons, which we can
get into, one of them being thetightness with my family.
As I mentioned, and then fastforward to December 2019, my mom

(06:01):
went in to get back surgery andthe surgery did not go as
planned.
I wake up to a phone call frommy dad saying hey, jeremy, mom
ended up going into cardiacarrest.
She is currently undergoingsomething called hypothermic
protocol, which is basicallywhere they freeze the body to
just try to stop everything fromhappening.
They kind of want to freezeyour body in time, and so they

(06:23):
had saved her life.
But what we didn't know waswhen she sort of melted out of
hypothermic protocol, would shebe brain dead or would she be?
You know?
What shape would her brain bein?
Would she recognize us, thingslike that?
And so he said I really thinkyou should fly home and I think
we should all be here.
My sister flew up from SantaBarbara to be there for that
moment.
To be there for that moment.

(06:48):
Excuse me, this is always thehardest part, and so I just
remember, you know, on thatflight over, obviously a lot of
emotions going through my mind,but one that really stands out
is I felt guilty.
You know, here my mom isfighting for her life and here I
was healthy, you know,generally wealthy.
I had no reasons to be unhappy,I had no reasons to be
concerned for my life, and yet Iwas contemplating whether I

(07:10):
even wanted to be around anymore.
And on that flight over I tookthe conviction to say I'm going
to take control of my life.
I have no reasons not to wantto be here.
So let me figure out why, letme actually do the things that I
want to do, and thankfully, ifwe fast forward, my mom, she
made it.
She made a full recovery, she'scognitively able, she's mobile

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and, as my dad likes to say, welearned the lesson without the
consequence.
And so that was sort of thefirst of three things that
happened.
The second was COVID and, ofcourse, as we all know, once the
pandemic hit, we were allforced to reconcile with how
fragile life can really be andthat it can really be turned
upside down any moment.
And then, a few months later, Iwas laid off from that job that

(07:52):
I'd just gotten promoted at.
And so the series of eventsreally just culminated in me
questioning well, since so muchis out of my control in my life,
why don't I actually just goafter the things that I do want
and make the most of my timehere?
And so that's when I decided torediscover my bucket list and
happy to jump into that project.
But that was sort of the whybehind why I decided to spend a

(08:15):
full year just dedicated to abunch of things on my bucket
list.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
I think it's incredible.
I want to go back to that 2019year, because you said that was
the year you know you're hittingall these milestones.
Boom, I'm getting promoted, Igot more money than I've ever
had living the life.
You know you're I think you'rea bachelor at the time you're
living the bachelor life.
You know, just hey,everything's rolling, but you
weren't happy and you, there wassome guilt with that.

(08:39):
There was some thing you knowlike why should?
Why am I not feeling this way?
You know like why should?
Why am I not feeling this way?
What do you think it was?
Because you set goals and youaccomplish the goals, which most
people.
That makes people happy.
What do you think it was foryou?
Why do you think that wasn'tyou know achieving these things.
Why wasn't it good enough foryou?
I?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
think that's a great call out and I think you know
the first thing I should say is,in the moment uh, it was fun,
right, like I I don't want tosort of breeze past that I was
proud of myself in many ways forhaving achieved these goals and
I was making good money and Iwas performing well at work and,
as you said, yeah, in many waysI was living the bachelor life
that I thought I was supposed tobe doing.

(09:15):
What I realized was there was alot of emptiness to that, and I
think the reality is that theseweren't actually goals that I
had set for myself.
These were goals that I justsort of thought were the things
I was supposed to go after Moremoney, more status, more wealth,
more romantic connections, allthose things but they weren't
things that actually mattered tome.

(09:35):
When it really came down tolike, if I'm sitting on my
deathbed looking back on my life, what are the things I'm going
to regret?
And part of the catalyst for mewas I came across the study
that found that 76% of peoplelaying on their deathbeds.
When they're asked to look backon their lives, what are they
most likely to regret?
76% of people regret the thingsthey did not do more than the

(09:55):
things that they did.
And what I realized for me isthe reason I was so deeply
unhappy was because in pursuitof these again I'll call them
sort of vanity metrics thingsthat I just thought society
expected of me, because that'swhat I saw on my Instagram feed
Pursuing those vanity metricsmade me neglect all these other
things that I actually wanted toexperience in my lifetime, and
those are all the things on mybucket list, and I think a lot

(10:17):
of folks.
When they hear the term bucketlist, you just think of, like
epic travel and adventure,skydiving, northern Lights, and
while those are certainly thingsthat were on my bucket list too
, a true bucket list is justanything that you want to do or
try before you die, and it canbe as simple.
As you know, I wanted to payfor a stranger's meal.
I wanted to dye my hair justbecause I was curious what that
would look like.

(10:38):
I realized that it's becausethe goals that I had or the
milestones I had achieved werenot actually my own.
They were just what I thoughtwas expected of me.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Good way to look at it.
I feel like the reason I thinkI was so excited to talk to you
too is I feel like we're kind ofon the same same path.
I think 2019, I was kind of inthe same mode.
Of course, I was married, hadkids and everything, but I'm I'm
plugging away and I just wasn'thappy with work.
And then COVID sent me, youknow, I got laid off and next,
you know, had to change thewhole thing and I'm starting
this podcast, which I absolutelylove.

(11:07):
It's been been a huge benefit.
There's just, yeah, things thatI haven't done, that I was able
to do because of what, whathappened?
You talked about somethingthat's very kind of important
and I think a lot of people feelthis way, but maybe don't think
it because you talked aboutsuicidal ideation and I think
you called it when I was readingyour thing.

(11:28):
Pass it.
What's the correct term?
passive passive, passivesuicidal ideation passive,
suicidal ideation which I thinkin a lot.
I think a lot of more peoplehave this than what people think
, because I think you don't haveany plans to do anything about
it.
But in your mind you're likeit'd be okay if I didn't wake up
tomorrow, it'd be all right ifI wasn't here.
I've kind of dealt a little bitwith that myself and I'm

(11:49):
thinking, man, this is likewhich is pretty, pretty serious
thinking and you're kind ofdealing with that.
And it kind of took thecatalyst of your mom um, almost
dying to kind of kind of snapout of it.
It sounds like.
And then of course, covidhappened and so many different,
different things.
But I love the fact that yousaid all right, bucket list,
what are some things I want todo?
And I agree with you aboutbucket list because I had a

(12:11):
guest on who he's not a huge fanof bucket list because he feels
like it's always just abouttrying to show how cool you are
and do something big and epic,but it doesn't have to be.
So how did you come up withthis idea to do these 52 weeks,
these bucket list items in ayear?
52 weeks, one thing per week.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
For me.
I had actually started mybucket list when I was a
freshman in college.
That was the first bucket listthat I'd actually written down.
I was inspired by this TV showcalled the Buried Life, where
four guys.
They went and they tried to doa hundred things from their
bucket list and for everythingthey did they tried to help
someone else.
It was an MTV show.
At the time this would havebeen 2009.

(12:52):
When I created that initialbucket list, it was a hundred
things I want to do before Igraduate college.
So I've got this four-year timeperiod.
Let me make the most of it.
When I had gotten laid off and Isort of had this time to just
think back and reflect moredeeply, I came across that
statistic as we discussed and Ifound that old bucket list and
so I like to say, you know, Isort of brushed off the digital
dust and I reread that wholething.
And it's not like my bucketlist was super cool or epic or

(13:15):
anything.
But rereading thatreinvigorated for me a sense of
enthusiasm for life that I justhadn't felt in a long time.
And it's just because thesegoals were authentic to me and
they reminded me of, like, whoam I really, I think a true
bucket list is the mostauthentic reflection of who you
are and who you want to become,although not everything on that
list mattered to me anymore.
What I decided was let me take alook at this list.

(13:37):
It had over 200 things on it,so I scratched some things off,
I added some new ideas and thenI said, okay, if I'm going to
try to dedicate one year to thisthat's 52 weeks let me just
pull 52 things from this bucketlist, the 52 that speak most to
me, and let me just go after it.
And there wasn't a ton ofthought behind that.
It was sort of like I just needto put some structure around it

(13:58):
.
One of the things that I thinkis really important when you're
setting goals is just to createthose parameters that make it
really objective.
It has to be somewhat realistic, but it should push you a
little bit right.
It should challenge you outsideyour comfort zone.
So I said, all right, 52 goals,52 weeks.
Let's see what happens.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Wow, okay, I got to hear some of these things that
you did.
Now, were you operating fromNew York still, or were you
still living in New York whenyou started this?

Speaker 2 (14:21):
York still, or were you still living in New York
when you started this?
So yes, at that time I wasstill living in New York, and
then I ended up moving back tothe Bay Area once I really dove
all in on this project.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
I love it too.
I love how you kind of createdit as a project for yourself.
What was number one on yourlist?
Let's start there.
I'm not going to go through all52, but what was number one?
Because I know there's always astarting point.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
It would take us a long time.
Yeah, you know, I started smallright.
Actually, literally the firstnumber one on my list was just
to write the list so that was aneasy one, I was able to cross
that.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Perfect, yeah, perfect, there's something.
There's something to be saidfor marking something off too.
You know, when you checksomething off, there's something
to be for, at least for me I'mkind of a that way.
So, hey, hey, start off easy, Ilike it.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
It just gives you that initial momentum, that
feeling.
Studies have actually shownthat just by writing your goal
down you're 42% more likely toachieve it than if you just keep
it in your head.
So step number one is trulyjust get it from your mind onto
paper, right?
Just get it written down.
And then there's a series ofthings after that.
You've got to create an actionplan.
You should share it with afriend, you know, bring yourself

(15:23):
some accountability, but justwrite it down.
That's goal number one.
And then after that, I startedby doing things that were
relatively easy.
You know, I paid for astranger's meal, as I mentioned.
I tried to dye my or I did dyemy hair, because that was
something that I was always justcurious to do.
I did a daily good deed forsomebody, for a different person
, every day, for 30 days.

(15:44):
And so when you start small andyou start to sort of accumulate
these experiences, it becomeseasier to then start planning
for and really dreaming aboutand thinking about the bigger
things.
The biggest one on my bucketlist probably was I biked 650
miles down Highway 1 inCalifornia, the Pacific Coast
Highway, from San Francisco toSan Diego.
I went cliff jumping in Hawaii.

(16:06):
I walked through glaciers inAlaska, but I also pushed the
edge of my emotional comfortzone.
I learned how to play guitarand I performed in front of an
audience, which I had never donebefore.
I learned how to do a magictrick that I could do anywhere.
So a huge, wide variety, butthese were all things that spoke
to me in some way and thingsthat I felt would be fulfilling,
regardless of what societythinks right.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
That was kind of the key yeah, I think that's the big
key too is what regardless ofwhat they think because someone
may say, well, that's not a.
You know, paying a meal forsomebody is not a bucket list
thing, but for you it was.
It was a thing, and I want toI'm going to ask about a few of
these things that you justmentioned and I kind of want you
to take me there a little bit,tell me the story behind it, and
I want to hear about thatpaying for a stranger's meal,
kind of what was the situation?

(16:48):
How did you go about it?
Just kind of give me, even ifit was just a simple little
thing, how did you do this?

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Well, yeah, mcdonald's.
And I just I said, hey, I justwant to pay for the person
behind me.
You know, it was that simpleand it's funny because it's such
a simple thing and when youtalk about it in retrospect it's
like, wow, that couldn't havebeen hard at all.
But I kid you not, like mynerves just going into that
moment, right, I was like sonervous to do this like nice

(17:16):
thing for someone else.
It's kind of funny.
But what was so great about itwas person was so thankful and
they ended up paying for theperson behind them and so I
started this chain.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Started the chain.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Exactly the reason I did that, by the way, is because
someone paid for my meal once.
This was back in college.
I had no money.
I was sort of stranded in thisplace.
It's not that I literally hadno money in my bank account, I
just didn't have my wallet on me.
And I remember I got to thefront of the line and I said, oh
my gosh, I'm so sorry I don'thave my wallet, and the woman

(17:46):
behind me very generously paidfor me, and to her it was
probably a no big deal hey,here's some college kid who you
know, he just forgot his wallet.
But for me it meant so muchbecause I didn't have a lot back
then, and for someone to go outof the way, to be so kind to a
complete stranger who they'llnever see again was really
touching.
And so that was the moment thatI added that to my bucket list.
Was I want to pay for someoneelse's meal?

Speaker 1 (18:07):
I love it.
That's a great example A coupleof the other things you did,
and you can pick one of theseeither the guitar or the magic
trick.
Learning how to do a magictrick but also guitar and then
playing in front of people,that's pretty.
I mean, that's intimidating.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
That's got to be scary as well.
Tell me a little bit about thatexperience.
Yeah, I mean, when you thinkabout a true bucket list, right,
it's a list of all these thingsyou want to do before you die.
By definition, you probablyhaven't done any of them before,
so you're a complete novice.
You are starting from scratchin many ways.
That's part of what makes it soexhilarating and, frankly, so
rewarding is that you areconstantly challenging yourself
to push yourself just slightlyoutside of your comfort zone and

(18:48):
you're expanding the radius ofyour comfort zone.
I think as children it'sactually really easy for us
because everything is so new,but as adults it's so
uncomfortable to be like acompletely beginner at something
, especially.
The higher up you go, the morepower, the more wealth, the more
status, the more expertise thatyou accumulate through your

(19:09):
life.
It's so challenging to then putyourself in this completely
vulnerable position because youdon't think of yourself as a
beginner anymore.
But as I started to strip awayall those notions of who I
should be and what my identityis and just allow myself to be
brand new, you get some of thatchildlike optimism and wonder
for the world again, one of thethings, as you described, that I
always wanted to do was performin front of an audience, and

(19:30):
when I wrote that on my bucketlist I actually didn't know what
it would be.
I didn't know if it would be,you know, do stand-up comedy or
do a poetry slam, or, you know,play guitar.
But separately on my bucketlist I also had learned how to
play guitar Very specifically.
The parameter was like I wantto learn how to play three songs
.
The way that it happened was Ijust was sharing my bucket list

(19:51):
with anybody who would listen,really Just kind of sharing this
project, knowing that the moreI got it out there, the more the
world would respond and help mein some way.
And one of my good friends fromhigh school, who I hadn't talked
to in years, happened to be aguitar teacher and he heard
about this bucket list and hesaid hey, man, I'm happy to give
you some free lessons to helpyou just cross this thing off
your list.
And so we started connectingover Zoom and he helped me learn

(20:14):
how to play guitar.
He helped me learn a few songs.
And then fast forward threemonths, I was hanging out at his
house and he learned thatsomething else on my bucket list
was to perform in front of anaudience and he said well, hey,
I've got a show that's coming upthis Friday.
Do you want to open for me?
And of course every bone in mybody was like no, no, no, I'm
not ready for that.

(20:34):
Appreciate the invite, but Ican't do it.
But he countered my objection.
He said look, you of all people, know the value of stepping out
of your comfort zone and doingthis thing.
You told me it's on your bucketlist.
You want to cross it off thisyear?
This is the best chance to doit.
Next thing, you know, I'mopening for my buddy, mitchell,
and I shared the story behind it.
So the audience knew why I wasnot going to be very good.

(20:57):
I've completely blacked outduring the performance, but when
I finished I just rememberedthe applause and the uproar was
incredibly encouraging.
But I like to share that storybecause the reason I did it
wasn't because of me, it wasbecause of Mitchell.
Mitchell was the reason I wasable to cross that off my bucket
list, and that's the power ofsharing your bucket list with
other people.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
That brings up a great point and I know that's a
huge thing for you with thebucket list and I want to ask
about some other highlights herein a minute, but talk about
that.
The importance of tellingpeople and have a community
behind this because I think Igot the sense from you and I
think with your company nowthat's so important is to let
people know what you're doingand to seek the help.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, you know if we go, if we go way back for a
second.
You mentioned this before, buteven when I think about big,
overwhelming theme of passive,suicidal ideation, I think there
is this very silent butpervasive problem.
When my TEDx talk came out, Iwas blown away by the number of
messages I received from peoplesharing similar sentiments of

(21:56):
how they sort of felt like theywere floating through life but
they weren't really deliberatelygoing after the life they
wanted and as a result of that,they were terrified they would
wake up someday and realize thatthey lost their chance.
We all have a tendency to notwant to be vulnerable, and when
you share your goals with theworld and you ask for help, you
have to accept a measurableamount of vulnerability.

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In doing that For me, Irealized that that was my
biggest superpower.
I created a rule for myself thatfor every single thing on my
bucket list, I had to at leastrecruit one other person to help
me out in some way, whetherthey joined me and actually did
the thing with me, or maybe theywere a mentor or coach, like
Mitchell was, that could show mehow to do the thing, or even
just simply an accountabilitybuddy, someone that would help

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me hold accountable to it.
Maybe they could help me do someresearch and planning, et
cetera, save time.
And so the reason I startedBucket Match is anecdotally I
experienced that.
But the data shows right whenyou create a goal, you write it
down, you put a plan togetherand you share it with a friend
that you trust, you are 77.6%more likely to achieve that goal
than if you just keep it inyour head.

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And the majority of us, we havethese goals, we have these
things we want to do, but wejust keep it up here.
And so the socialaccountability element allows
you to save time, it makes iteasier and, most importantly, it
makes the experience a lot morefun.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
So I do want to hear about some of the other
highlights, because I know youmentioned glaciers in Alaska.
I think one of the things I sawthat you did was you drew out
of a hat somewhere that you weresupposed to go.
Can you?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
tell me about that one, how that came about.
One of the goals on my bucketlist was to pick a country
blindfolded and to take a tripthere, wherever it was.
The asterisk for this wasbecause I was doing this sort of
coming out of COVID era.
There were a lot of travelrestrictions right, so I was
doing this in late 2020, early2021.
Restrictions right, so I wasdoing this in late 2020, early
2021.
And so, as a result of that, Icouldn't truly pick anywhere on

(23:46):
a globe and go there.
I had to choose out of asmaller list.
But again, I shared that idea.
One of my friends, nick, saidhey, that sounds awesome.
That's something I've alwayswanted to do too.
Let's do it.
Nick and I ended up recruitinganother one of my friends,
sebastian.
We got together one day on Zoom.
This was again COVID era, sowe're all on Zoom.

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I had a hat with a bunch ofdifferent countries cut out on
pieces of paper on it andblindfolded.
We ended up picking out CostaRica, which was a pretty awesome
place to pick out of.
A hat, blindfolded, and therest is history.
We had an incredible trip toCosta Rica.
It was the most exhilaratingthing sort of sitting there and

(24:29):
wondering what were we going toland on.
So yeah, that was a great oneto cross off.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
What was the timeframe from picking out of
the hat to when you actuallywent?
Was it pretty quick or was ittaking a while?
That's actually a greatquestion.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
A quick side story there is the first country that
we picked was actually Barbados.
It was very different, but sothe first country landed on was
Barbados.
Two days before we weresupposed to go to Barbados, we
get an email from the hotel thatwe're supposed to stay at,
saying that the country hasactually shut down its borders
due to COVID restrictions.
We suddenly had no destinationto go to.

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So I get on a call with theguys and I say look, you know, I
totally understand if you guysdon't want to do this anymore.
Uh, because we're going to haveto, like, refigure out this
whole thing.
They had to request the timeoff work and they were like no,
we're doing this right, like wealready.
We already have the time set.
I'm ready to go somewhere, I'mready to go on this adventure.
We repicked the countryThankfully we got Costa Rica and
not some war-torn nation and weleft.

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So we had 48 hours between themoment that we picked the
country and when we landed inCosta.
Rica Only adds to the story.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Oh for sure.
I think that just adds to theenjoyment of it, the excitement
of it, the adventure of it.
Absolutely I love that.
Any other highlights of thingsthat you said?
You biked from San Francisco toSan Diego.
That's pretty intense.
What other one or two other youknow highlights or stories you
want to share?

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, I love the biking.
The biking trip I love becauseit sort of it serves as like a
really good metaphor for kind ofthe entire experience.
For a bit of context, thereason I wanted to do this is I
grew up in the Bay area, as Imentioned, went to school in San
Diego.
I had driven up and down tonsof times but I had never stopped
to just enjoy the Californiacoastline and I had always
thought what if I actually justtook my time to go down and see

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this entire path?
It was a very sentimental valueto me because it was a path I
had gone so many times but I'dnever really biked before.
I knew I wasn't going to walkthat full duration.
So I figured, let me just seewhat this would look like.
And I got help from all kinds ofpeople A few friends of mine
who picked up cycling and theyknew it really well.
They helped me pick out whichbike I would use.

(26:31):
I actually found a guy onYouTube who had done that same
route.
I reached out to him and heshared his entire training plan,
his itinerary, his diet plan.
He shared everything that hedid to make this trip happen and
that expedited the process forme tremendously, which again
really goes back to when youconnect with people around your
goals.
It makes everything morefeasible.
And then, when I was on the tripitself, I had friends that

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joined me all throughout thetrip.
It was a 10-day trip, so Iwould have friends join me for
certain legs, other friends thatwould let me crash at their
apartment just for a night orgive me a meal halfway through
the day, although it wassomething that I felt that I had
achieved doing that 10-day600-huge-mile bike ride.
It was all about the people.
And the last person that Ishould mention, who's most
important, is my friend, andrew,who actually joined me for the

(27:16):
entire trip, down Sitting at theend of that trip holding our
beers commemorating that wholeexperience.
It really brought togethereverything for me, which is like
you can't do it alone or youshouldn't try.
You shouldn't try to do italone.
It's easier and more enjoyablewhen you have other people in
your corner.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Now, this is great.
You share some great highlights, cool things that helped you
personally, helped youphysically, helped you
spiritually.
I mean, it's helped you in alot of ways.
But I know, you know, likeanything we do, there's going to
be challenges, there's going tobe setbacks.
What kind of challenges did youface while doing this?
I know, and in fact I don'tthink you even accomplished all
52 things.

(27:54):
I think you had a few thingsthat you couldn't get done.
Can you kind of let me knowabout some of the challenges?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, one of the things I like to always
emphasize is I didn't actuallyfinish all 52.
And I think a lot of peoplewhen they hear that I gave a
TEDx talk about the experience,they assume it was all success
and the reality is I got 32 doneout of the 52.
So that's a D minus if you'relooking at academic records.
One of the lessons that I shareand sort of what I took away
from this experience, was theimportance of celebrating
failure and celebratingrejection.
So I have, you know, Iobviously have 20 goals that I

(28:29):
didn't achieve, things like I'vealways wanted to.
I wanted to turn $1,000 into$10,000 just in 24 hours, just
to like see how crazy we couldget.
Friend and I went to Las Vegas.
We tried to you know, do abunch of gambling and we failed
miserably.
One of the things on my bucketlist was to be able to compete
on reality TV, whether it'sSurvivor, amazing Race, mtv

(28:53):
Challenge, whatever it is.
I applied to probably 15different shows and I didn't get
a single one.
One of the things on my bucketlist is to take a selfie with
Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
I've been told he's mydoppelganger and I've always
thought it would be funny tojust have that picture on my
phone.
I reached out to his team.
They did respond, but they saidno thanks, but no thanks.
As part of this journey, Irealized that it's not really

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about whether you successfullyachieve the goal or not, as much
as it is about just trying,like just taking the leap on the
thing that you've always wantedto do.
That's what's actually sorewarding, and so I learned to
celebrate failure, because thathelped me actually get more
addicted to the process asopposed to the end result.
And you know, even to give thisTEDx talk a lot of people don't
know that in order to get thetalk, I actually reached out to

(29:37):
11 different venues and I onlyheard back from one, which is
less than a 10% success rate.
But the one that got back saidyes, and I think it's an
important reminder for us thatif you just try, that's already
winning, and then maybe you'llget the reward at the end, or
maybe not, but either way, giveit a shot and that's what

(29:57):
matters.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, I think that's so important too.
And let's take a look at this.
So you did your year-longproject, the 52 weeks, and you
only got 32 of them done, butyou learned a lot.
Like you said, you celebratefailure a little bit and the
lessons it taught you.
When you look back on theoverall, when you were done, and
you look back, what did it dofor you?
What were your thoughts?
Looking back to like, okay,remember when I had some

(30:20):
suicidal ideation, what was yourthinking when you were done?
What did it do for you?

Speaker 2 (30:25):
For me, it helped me redefine how I measure success
in life, something that I don'twant to sugarcoat is I still
struggle at times with thatsuicidal ideation, those
thoughts.
Thoughts do come back, but themost powerful thing for me is I
know that there is a light afterthat.
I feel so much more convictionthat I can get out of it,

(30:46):
because I've experienced itfirsthand, that I was able to
rediscover my reason for wantingto live in the first place, and
that's really what it came downto is.
I just felt like what's thepoint of living?
And again it's because I hadbeen chasing the wrong goals.
And so now for me, I'verecognized that success for me
in life isn't about all thesethings that society has

(31:06):
prescribed to me.
For me, I measure the richnessof my life based on the
experiences that I can sharewith other people.
Whether they're good or badexperiences actually doesn't
matter as much to me is whatI've realized, because sometimes
the shittiest situations excusemy French those create the best
stories and the best memories,and that actually makes my life
feel really rich too.
So my MO in life is just to goand experience as much as I can,

(31:30):
and that's not just travel andadventure like we talked about.
Those are big things, but Ithink starting a podcast, that's
an adventure, right, trying tostart a business, that's an
adventure.
Spending more time with myfamily because I know that
they're not going to be aroundforever, that's an adventure.
Those are all adventures.
I want to go on and that's howI measure happiness now.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
I love it and that's one question I always ask on the
show is I ask people you knowwhat?
What adventure means to them?
You sort of kind of describe itthere.
If you were to put it into adefinition for you, for you,
jeremy, what does, what doesadventure mean to you?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
I think that to me, adventure means doing something
that helps stretch the edge ofyour comfort zone.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Of everybody I ask, I think the biggest the word I
hear.
I hear comfort zone a lot whenI ask this question because I
feel it's so true.
I think that's where a lot ofour growth is is getting outside
that comfort zone, stretchingit a little bit a hundred
percent, and I still strugglewith that.
I struggle to get out of mycomfort zone a lot, so I love
hearing people talk about itbecause it motivates me to get
out of it.
You've talked about a fewthings you talked about like,

(32:33):
for example, celebrating failure.
There's a couple other thingsthat I know you mentioned your
TEDx talk that I kind of want totouch on, if you don't mind,
some of the lessons that youlearned.
And the first one and I knowthis was kind of big, you
mentioned this right at thebeginning confronting mortality.
Tell me a little bit about that.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
You know, I think you and I chatted on this a little
bit, I think, before we started.
I think a lot of people areafraid to confront mortality.
Right, it's an uncomfortablethought, it's an uncomfortable
conversation.
It can sort of feel like it's amorbid place to be.
What I found is becausemortality or the idea of death

(33:09):
came to me without my choice.
I just started having suicidalideation.
It wasn't something I signed upfor, but here we were, so I was
forced to reconcile with thefact that I might not wake up
tomorrow.
But when you talk to people whohave had neardeath experiences,
or folks who work in hospice,who are surrounded by people who
are constantly passing, yourealize that it can actually be

(33:32):
incredibly empowering, becausewhat it allows you to do is it
allows you to strip away all thethings that don't actually
matter, because if you're trulyon your deathbed and you truly
don't know if you're going towake up tomorrow, you don't care
about the true realities oflife.
You start spending more timethinking about the things that
truly matter to you, and in mycase, I'm so grateful that I'm
still here.
But I was able to sort of havethat perspective of feeling like

(33:53):
man if I wasn't to wake uptomorrow, what would I regret?
And so that, for me, isincredibly empowering.
So I think if we reframe theidea that death and the end of
our time is not a scary thing,but it should actually be really
helpful for navigating yourcompass, then I think everyone
will have a lot more clarity onlife.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
And I know you've had , you know, besides the close
encounter with your mom almostpassing away and not sure what
was going to happen there, Ibelieve you had a friend when
you were just a youngster whopassed away.
I know you had a buddy whocommitted suicide.
Do you mind just kind ofsharing a little bit about that?

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, my first encounter with real sort of
intimate relationship to deathwas my friend, bobby Kramer, who
passed away when we were 11years old.
I think at that point in myform of reality it really struck

(34:49):
you home that like, oh, thereis a permanence to this, and I
think, although obviously it'sreally tough as a young child to
have to go through that, it didshape the way that I viewed the
world, I think from a young age, and I started to think more
about life and death and whatdoes it really mean to be here
and how do you make the most ofour time here?
Hence the reason I was sointrigued by creating a bucket

(35:11):
list, because I knew that Iwouldn't be here forever.
And then I did more recently,have a friend that took his own
life and that was a huge shock,and so he actually in many ways
helped me when I was goingthrough my own suicidal ideation
, because I remember thinkingways helped me when I was going
through my own suicidal ideationbecause I remember thinking,

(35:31):
alex, you had so much going foryou, right, like, why did you do
it?
You had so much that you couldhave done in this world that
allowed me to actually look atmy own self objectively and say,
jeremy, you have so much goingon for you, right, you shouldn't
do this?
I know you shouldn't, so I'mreally grateful to him in that
sense.
But yeah, these are topics thatpeople don't tend to like to
discuss on a day-to-day basisand I think I'm partially on a
mission to help just normalizethat conversation Because, like

(35:53):
I said, I think it can beempowering more than depressing.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
A couple other things you mentioned.
Catalog your dreams.
What does that mean?
Writing them down what doesthat mean?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah, I use the word catalog intentionally, because
there's certainly value inwriting it down and I think you
should bring it to life in someway.
So not only should you writedown what you want to do, but
add pictures, videos,inspirational quotes, memories,
whatever it is that truly bringsthis goal to life and helps you

(36:24):
think of it as more than just athing that I'm going to check
off, but helps remind you of whyyou want to do this in the
first place.
By cataloging your dream andadding photos and videos and
things of that nature, you startto already visualize success,
which then brings you one stepcloser to actually doing the
thing.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
So with your list that you made the 52 weeks, and
I know you, obviously number onewas get, start the list, write
the list, boom check.
Did you do that with any of theother ones?
Did you add some pictures, Didyou?
How did you do some?
Can you give us some fewexamples of what you did to
catalog your, your dreams, foryour bucket list?

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah for sure.
So for everything on my bucketlist, I did my best to try to
you know sort yeah for sure.
So for everything on my bucketlist, I did my best to try to
you know sort of help, visualizeit in some way, and so for some
of them I'm trying to think so,like whether it was cliff
jumping in Hawaii, you know, andget it just putting together a
collage of a bunch of dudes andgals jumping off and, you know,
doing cool things, if it was.
One of my goals was to spendthe day at the beach from

(37:21):
sunrise to sunset, just to sortof be a part of that full day,
and so I would have videos ofpeople that were doing that.
I wanted to learn how to nail a360 on a jump on a snowboard,
and so I would just havepictures and videos of people
doing that.
But then the more sentimentalones one of my goals was to

(37:41):
handwrite a thank you letter,something I just hadn't done,
probably since I was a child.
Everything's over email.
Now my inspiration for that wasI wrote a thank you letter to
the doctor that saved my mom'slife.
So obviously that had a veryemotionally triggering response
when I used my mom's photo ofher in the hospital.
That was my reminder, that wasmy source of inspiration for why

(38:03):
I wanted to write this thankyou letter.
The emotion, I think, is whatdrives you, and it's easiest to
inspire emotion in ourselveswhen we have visuals attached to
it.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
You had a few other things and I think we kind of
touched on some of those already.
So I want to dive into BucketMatch, because you took what you
did and now you've created acompany out of it.
What is Bucket Match?
How do you get involved?
What's the purpose behind it?
Just tell us about Bucket Match.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
So Bucket Match we launched publicly December of
last year, so we've been livefor just under four months, but
it's an online platform.
It connects people based ontheir bucket list goals, and our
mission is to help people takethe leap on their bucket list
dreams by finding inspirationand help from other people in
the community.
And the way that it works ispretty simple.
You log in it's a free account,at least for now you write down

(38:53):
what's on your bucket list andthen our job is to
algorithmically go and match youwith other people in our
database that either have thatsame goal Maybe it's a friend of
yours that has the same ideaand you guys can go off and do
it together.
You can help each other withplanning, or we'll match you
with someone who's actually justrecently crossed off that thing
you're trying to do and, as Ifound in my experience, they can
coach you through the process.

(39:13):
They probably have done someresearch, they have itineraries
or playbooks, diet schedules,whatever it is that you would be
able to benefit from toactually go and achieve your
thing.
As I described, for me thenumber one rule and the catalyst
that I found the thing that wasmost indicative of whether I
successfully achieved a goal ornot was if I just had one other
person in my corner, and that'swhy it's so important for Bucket

(39:35):
Match to just say hey, jake, Iknow you want to do X.
Here's five other people thatcan help you do it.
Good luck.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
I'm guessing, because of the fact that you've got
access this is your company andyou've got access to this I'm
guessing you're seeing somepretty cool things that people
are putting as their bucket.
Can you give us kind of abehind the scenes and maybe some
of the things that people areputting as their bucket list
items?
Oh man, that's such a greatquestion.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
I actually just did a post on this not too long ago.
I'm just trying to rememberwhat all the unique goals were.
So yeah, so short answer.
Yes, I mean, right now we havejust over 400 users, just over
1500 bucket list goals, andthere's a lot of really
interesting ones in there, andthat's part of what I love about
is just seeing, like, what arethe things that other people
want to do.
I'll start with the most commonones, because that's the

(40:18):
easiest for me to remember.
Most common one is to see theNorthern Lights, which is, I
guess, in some ways not asurprise, but so you get a lot
of adventure ones, right, I wantto go see the Northern Lights.
Second, most common is actuallyaround learning a new language.
So we see a lot of skilldevelopment or personal growth
ones.
So a lot of people want tolearn a new language.
Third, most common as acategory is to write a book.

(40:39):
As a human species, we have thisdesire to just create and leave
behind.
So we want to leave the worldbetter than we found it and
especially, I think, as you getolder, you want to be able to
create something that you canpass on to future generations.
So, whether it's write a book,start a company, something
tangible that you can leavebehind.
Some of the more unique ones isI saw someone who wanted to
train Kung Fu with Drukpa nunsin Nepal, I believe.

(41:04):
So it's like this very specificgroup of nuns that know how to
do crazy Kung Fu.
That's a really interesting one.
I've seen someone who wants togrow their rubber band ball to
50 pounds.
It's 20 pounds right now, Iguess.
I have a friend who he wants tolearn how to fly a plane from
Alaska to Argentina like thefurthest north, the northernmost

(41:25):
point of Alaska to thesouthernmost point of Argentina.
So that's a big one that he'sprobably going to be working on
for a while.
All kinds of really interestingideas out there.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
All right, let me give you a scenario here.
Say, someone like me pops onand I just don't necessarily
have ideas of what I want to do.
But I know I was like you.
Know I want to do something butI'm not sure.
Can someone like me pop on andjust kind of see what other
people are doing, maybe beinspired?

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, so we have an explore page where you can
actually see all of thedifferent ideas, the different
bucket list goals that peoplehave.
And we've we've organized it tomake it a little bit easier to
digest, so we have differentcategories, like you know travel
and adventure, or personaldevelopment goals, creative
goals, finance goals, et cetera,and so you can kind of scroll
through it the same way.
It sort of looks like a Netflixscreen, you know.
So you've got like horrormovies, comedies, et cetera, and

(42:11):
so you can scroll through them.
If you see an idea that youlike, just single click and
it'll be automatically added toyour bucket list.
And the thing that I actuallyreally love is if you see
something you've already donebefore, you can click a
different button that says, hey,I've done this and so it'd be
added to your list and thenautomatically crossed off.
And what I love about that isit helps.
Some people realize you and Italked about how some people

(42:32):
think bucket list goals are toofocused on just big epic
adventures.
And when you see something onsomeone else's bucket list that
you're like, oh, I've alreadydone that, I didn't even know
that was bucket list worthy, Ithink it reframes our idea of
what it means to live a trulyfulfilled life, which is, hey,
you've actually already done alot of really cool things that

(42:53):
are on other people's bucketlists, and so that's kind of a
nice takeaway that I think a lotof folks have.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
You've only been doing this for a few months now,
so you said you went live inDecember, I believe.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
What kind of I don't know feedback or what kind of
have people done it?
Have they, you know?
Has it worked out for peopleLike what kind of feedback are
you getting?

Speaker 2 (43:13):
You know, the biggest piece of feedback I get around
like how we can make BucketMatch better is continuing to
inspire more communityengagement.
So, like one of the one of thenumber one things that I want to
build out in this next quarteris a way for people to engage
with each other in a morecommunity fashion.
Right now, really, the only wayyou can engage with folks is
kind of one-on-one.
So if I see something on Jake'sbucket list that I like, I can
give you a little heart icon,like every other social app, so

(43:34):
I can tell you hey, jake, I likethis idea.
Or if I want to message you hey, jake, I saw that you started a
podcast.
I want to start a podcast, canyou help me out?
But I think that then requiresyou to conform to just a
one-to-one relationship, and thereality is, even in my own
personal experience, the valuethat I got from sharing my
bucket list was that people fromall different walks of life

(43:55):
were able to help with differentparts of it.
There wasn't typically onesingle person that helped me do
the whole thing, and so I'mreally excited to create more
community forums.
We're going to have a discoveryfeed where everyone can see like
what's everyone else up to.
You can post something to say,hey, I've got this crazy idea,
can anyone help me out?
And people can comment on it.
You know, for anyone that'slistening, if you sign up, you

(44:15):
should see more communityengagement.
That's going to be coming outin the next couple months.
And, yeah, tell everybody wherethey can find it, what the
webpage is and just where theycan get access to all this.
Yeah, the website iswwwbucketmatchai Free to sign up
, as I mentioned before, untilprobably the end of June.
We'll start charging for theapp in a little bit, but for now

(44:36):
it's completely free.
You can find me on LinkedIn,jeremy George, at Bucket Match.
I should probably be the firstguy that shows up.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
This has been fascinating.
I've learned a lot about whoyou are.
I love your story.
I think it's relatable to a lotof people and I love the fact
that you're out there trying todo what you're doing.
I want to ask a little bitabout the future.
Okay, besides Bucket Match,what other goals do you have for
the future?
What are you looking at movingforward?

Speaker 2 (45:03):
You'll have to log into Bucket match and take a
look at my bucket list to seewhat all is there.
But, in all seriousness, rightnow I'm so dedicated to the
business I think this is reallyone of the biggest goals on my
bucket list that I'm trying toachieve.
But outside of that, I want tohave a family.
I want to be able to shape thatand, as I've mentioned a few

(45:24):
times, I have a reallytight-knit family as well, and
that's an important thing for meto be able to pass on.
So that's really critical.
That's on my bucket list is toraise a family.
I want to be able to conversewith the world more, so I've
traveled a lot, but I haven'talways been able to engage at
the level that I'd want to.
I think there's sort ofsuperficial travel and then
there's more immersed travel, soI want to learn more languages.

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Part of the reason I wanted tolearn a magic trick is because
you can do magic anywhere in theworld and you can connect with
someone right away, right, evenif you don't speak a single
language that the other personunderstands.
You can even do a magic trickto a monkey and they will get it
right, and so I think it's justa powerful way to connect with
other people.
So I want to find more ways tobe able to connect with as many
people on this planet as I can.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
All right Now, kind of a tough question for you to
end up.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Of the things that you did, the 32 things that you
accomplished, is there any oneparticular that just stands out
to you like wow, for whateverreason, which one?
If you had to pick one and Iknow you've probably really it's
been all of them for youbecause they've all done
something for you, but if youhad to pick one, which one would
it be?

Speaker 2 (46:27):
The one that stands out the most is number 52,
actually.
So number 52 on my bucket listwas to help someone else cross
off something from their bucketlist.
And we did the classic we wentskydiving.
But one of my friends, robertthat's what he wanted to do, and
it's funny.
I posted something on myInstagram feed and said, hey,

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what's on your bucket list?
And I got a bunch of differentresponses and Robert was the
first person that I messagedabout it and I said hey, man, I
have this thing.
I want to help someone elsecross off something on their
bucket list.
You told me you want to goskydiving, do you want to do it?
And I was sort of expecting himto be a little bit wishy-washy.
So I figured I have to move onto the next and probably go
through 10 people Within fiveminutes.
Robert responds he's like screwit, let's go.

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And so next thing, you knowwe're planning this trip, we're
jumping out of an airplane from13,000 feet, and we actually
recruited another one of ourfriends to join along the way.
But what's so amazing abouthelping someone else do
something on their bucket listis you get to see the value of
what you've just done in someoneelse, and I think I keep
talking about the people, butthat's really what it all comes

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down to is when you experiencelife with other people in your
corner, that's what makes it soenriching, and so, for me, I
always like to remind myselfthat that's what made this whole
experience so rewarding.
So, number 52, help someoneelse cross off something from
their bucket list.
This whole experience sorewarding.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
So number 52, help someone else cross off something
from their bucket list.
I love it.
This has been awesome, jeremy,thank you so much for coming on
Journey with Jake.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Jake likewise.
Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
A big thank you to Jeremy George for joining me on
the show and sharing hisincredible journey of chasing
dreams and checking off hisbucket list.
I was especially struck by howmuch community means to Jeremy,
and I couldn't agree more.
It means a lot to me, too.
If you'd like to learn moreabout what Jeremy is doing and
his mission behind his business,visit bucketmatchai.

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You can also connect with himon LinkedIn or follow him on
Instagram at bucketmatchai.
As Jeremy talked about theBucket Match community, I
couldn't help but think aboutthis community you, the
listeners.
I'm honestly humbled and sograteful that you continue to
follow along and be part of thisjourney.
When I first started Journeywith Jake, it was mostly just a

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personal project, but now,nearly 200 episodes in, I've
come to realize this show is somuch more.
It's a community built onstories, adventure and the
courage to live fully, and Ihope you find meaning in each
episode.
If you're enjoying the podcast,I'd love it if you'd share it
with just one person this week.
Word of mouth makes such adifference and I truly

(48:58):
appreciate your support.
Next week, I've got anotheramazing episode coming your way.
I'll be chatting with Brandonand Amber, who made the bold
decision to uproot their familyof six and move on to a sailboat
.
It's an inspiring andeye-opening conversation you
won't want to miss and, asalways, remember, it's not
always about the destination, asit is about the journey.

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Take care everybody, thank you.