Finding out these hosts passions outside of work [Clubhouse 24 Hour takeover]
25 Nov 2021 · 4 min
Mark Simpson shares clips from a 24-hour Clubhouse takeover where hosts reveal what they do outside work. Liam talks kayaking, Luca mentions family time, and others discuss travel, fitness, and TV series.
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Welcome everybody to the audio version of the Boostly podcast. So today I am going into the vault and I am finding some of the best clips from a 24 hour clubhouse room that we ran this year. It was an, it was an amazing experience to be part of, to host it, to admin it, and to grab friends and peers from the industry into one room on the, the leading audio app and help hosts all over the world. We had a lot of fun, we touched every single corner of the globe and what I wanted to do is be able to put it together, find the best bits and put it into the daily Boost podcast. So I hope you enjoy. The section is not going more than 10 minutes, but it's going to feature a part of the 24 hour room that resonated the most with me. So thank you for tuning in and I will be back tomorrow with another podcast podcast episode. Right now though, let's jump into that clubhouse room. When you're not working. So when you're not doing the hospitality, when you're not doing property and etc. How do you like to spend your time? So what is it? What is your passion that's outside of work? Like what do you enjoy doing when you're not working? So we'll go to Liam and we'll just sort of go down the list.
Thanks, Mark. Yeah, so outside of work, I mean there's, you know, it is all about spending time with the family, walking the dogs along like the broads, the beach and really just trying to create some, some really nice memories and you know, just experience some of the, the world around us really. So about two weeks ago we bought a kayak and myself, Charlie and my son Harry is three years old. You know, just, it's a three person kayak. So we, we just went down to a little sort of river and went along the Broads for, for a few hours and I would quite happily spend my time doing that. Other than that, I mean I'm, I'm a proper junkie for information. So I, I kind of get, I don't know if it's a form of ocd, but I'd like to research different things a lot of the time. So I watched Everest not too long ago, the film Everest. So since then I've been reading lots of stories about Mount Everest, all that sort of thing and I like to set myself like challenges. I mean, I'm not ever planning to do Everest, but I've done the Three Peaks and you start to look around and I think just having a focus on what kind of challenge to do is another way I like to spend my time. And, you know, one thing I've got coming up is a tough mudder just to ease me back into getting fit. So, yeah, a bit of a mix, really, other than that, Netflix and I am a proper, you know, series junkie. Anything that's a bit of drama from Breaking Bad to know some of the other long series things like that we're watching. We're just reaching the end of line of duty at the moment. So, yeah, I know a lot of people say, don't spend too much time on. On stuff like that, but I find it relaxing. And other than that, spending time with family, nothing too exciting really. But, yeah, that's. That's me.
Thank you very much. Okay, moving down the list. Luca.
Hi. Hi, guys. Well, I'm a. I'm a traveler.
The heart.
So I used to travel a. A lot. A lot. And then recently I used to travel around Europe to talk about trips. And that, for me, wasn't work. I mean, the. The line between work and. And no work, it's been blurred for me for 20 years now. So. And that was, like, really fun for me, right? And then Covid happened, and I stopped traveling. Last time I was in Italy is 2019 December. I'm in Bulgaria, where I live. And it may sound strange and maybe sad to some, I basically started traveling online in the sense that. And maybe you mark, it resonates a bit with you, what's happening in crypto, what's happening in this Web3 thing, which we call. It's a totally different universe. There's. It's basically, you can have a general online, right? You can do anything, which you do in the real life, except bring your body there, right? And I know it sounds sad, because somebody's gonna say, yeah, but, you know, what's the experience with going on the beach and feeling the sand in your toes and stuff? And I'm all for that, right? But the Internet has evolved in incredible ways in the last 10 years. And I started to think about the Internet as, like, the last continent discovered by the humankind in a way, right? It's. It's like a new continent, like the Americas now we have the Internet, and there's opportunities there. There's dangers there, there's work there, there's money there, there's people there. Right now we are online. We are together, but we are online. So the feeling I had, like, psychologically, I started traveling in a different place. And of course, I'd like to travel to Italy. I'd like to travel to other countries, but since this is not possible and my character is not the kind of. I'm not the kind of person who looks back and feels sad because I can't do something right, well, that's the situation today, and I just make the most of it. And it's been a trip. I mean, it's been incredible the last year, right? And so what do I do apart from work? I don't know, because I'm working all the time, but it doesn't feel like work at all. The choice I've made three years ago, getting full time into trips was the same choice I've always done in my life. I only do things which are really, really passionate with me. And even if money is bad, and money has been bad forever in my life, except now, because crypto is kind of giving me, like, fake money, because if you don't change it in Euro, it's fake money. But it feels like you're rich, right? Or at least richer than before. So I'm constantly online. I have a wife and I have a kid, so I spend time with them. And often, to be honest, is the three of us on three different screens, which is, I know, very sad but very true at the same time. I'm sure many of us do this. And I meet friends, but not too much because of COVID I travel basically nothing. And incredibly, I feel fine. So, yeah, it may be pathological. Don't take me as an example. But life is good. I know we're gonna start traveling again, and when this happens, gonna be again, it's gonna be 10 times better than before because it's another thing I realized. We got so used in being able to hop on a tr. On a plane and go somewhere that we stopped enjoying that, right? So before I went to Italy maybe 10 times, right? And it was like getting a bus, right? I get on the plane, I go to Rome, I get to Naples, I go to FL months. When I'm gonna do this at the end of next year is gonna be like going for the first time to Thailand or to Bali or to Africa, whatever, right? So life has a way to balance things, right? Expectations went down, and the pleasure in doing these simple things is gonna go up 10%. So that's where I stand now. I hope I haven't made anybody sad with my online life, right?
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