E2: Creating Adventure In Your Everyday Life: Nick Costelloe

GROW with Dan Russo

Nick Costelloe is an adventurer. But not in the way that you might think. He's climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's given 800 soccer balls out to underprivileged children around the world through his organization Universal Dialect. And he's delivered a talk on the TedX stage.

However, Nick believes that we can find adventure in everyday, whether it's playing soccer with friends or spending a weekend with his girlfriend. Nick (@nickcostelloe) is the Head of Content at Demand Curve, a growth marketing agency. While he loves his job he is relentlessly designing his life according to his values and optimizing to be happy as he is right now.

In this episode, you'll learn how to turn everyday events into an adventure, how starting a project or business is the best and fastest way to define your values, and how to design your life according to your values. Nick brings all of himself to this conversation in an authentic and gripping way. So tune in because I promise you won't want to miss this conversation.

• What's your definition of adventure?
• Your early years
• How to find adventure in everyday life
• Facing burnout
• Work-life integration
• Healing from childhood tragedy
• Creating community through soccer
• Starting Universal Dialect and delivering 800 soccer balls worldwide
• Defining your own version of success
• Why starting a business or project is the quickest way to define your values
• The toxic side of entrepreneurship
• Building a freedom lifestyle
• Using self awareness and practicality to design your life
• Pairing groundedness with excitement
• Being happy as you are
• Starting a project or business is the fastest way to design your life
• Nick's definition of growth