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welcome back to the show everybody our guest today it a very special guy coming all the way from the land down under an inspiration list the host of 100 things yeah this is very very cool we have Sebastian Terry here with us what's happening yeah this is such an awesome inspiring show that yet you are doing now to tell us a little bit about it thanks very much um well it's called 100 things it's essentially based on a journey that I've been on for seven years so I several years ago I lost a close friend of mine and it made me reconsider life basically and you know what I was doing and you know how my friend was living his life i think was something that i really enjoyed I really valued and I thought right I'm unhappy so i need to change it so i got a piece of paper and a pen and i just jotted down things I thought would make me smile and that was the beginning of this journey really so I dropped everything in my life and I just went for it so I started seeking off very bizarre things I you know married a stranger Las Vegas I delivered a baby I walked across the country but a Guinness World Records go away said you wrote a list of things that make you smile and they include marrying a stranger in Vegas yeah delivering a baby you're smiling well that's true i mean we're very shaky well but everyone's which is different but the progression is now that I spend all my time helping people achieve their goals and that's the show yes I get to help people around the world achieve very specific unique goals yeah and so the trailer dropped I think today or yesterday yesterday yesterday and then so tell us a little bit about maybe if you give us an idea of what some of the people have on their list that's we're gonna see in a hundred things yeah well I mean it's a relative concept isn't it so everyone's list is completely different so we're helping all sorts of people in all different ways so my voice is a bit hoarse today because yesterday we helped a guy delights his name was his dream was to place a major league fastball so we reached out to my community so I've got this incredible community follow followme online and they just want to help people out basically so I said how can we help this guy out and someone put me in touch with somebody else to put me in touch with Brett Tomko I'm a you know an X and X major league baseball player so he organized his mate Adam Kennedy played for the most of team Anaheim Angels he was our batting coach and we went down there and basically made this happen and I won't tell you exactly how the episode ends but we met on the center mound and the diamond and we went to the you know the the plate that we call it the batting plate and batting plan we watch I'll take it yeah you know what I cricket in Australia Tobias oh yeah and we had a lot just got to face you know this guy and his fastball as well and he swung and the endings just amazing and I couldn't stop cheering so you probably guess what happened but it was unreal shatters the backboard marks everywhere all the best music swells so yeah Grand Slam that was the latest one but you know it is you know everyone has a list I think and it's often forgotten about so some of the episodes kind of remind us of that there was a lady Kim cleaning out her house and she found a bit of paper at the back of her husband's you know draw got it out and it was his list of 100 things that he wrote up when he was a high school Wow and he'd forgotten about it basically and she contacted us and said can you help him to play these things and one of the items was to do a cattle drive ran a cattle drive he wanted to be a cowboy so we said yeah we can do that so we surprised him we knocked on his door this guy's called a loo really nice guy and he went you know who are you I was like I'm from Australia I'm gonna make you a cowboy I did cattle rancher so I said let's go so we hopped on a plane went to Arizona lived on a cattle ranch for three days and we know we ran a cattle drive we took one hundred head of cattle roughly and just took them across the plains and we had to learn how to ride horses and laughs ooh and it was unreal we helped a girl in LA I guess create a first solo art exhibition which was awesome it's just what we go to Europe today actually to film another 14 episodes we're going to go I mean it's a very mellow very emotional episode but one of the first ones going to a concentration camp to reunite to people family members oh wow which is deep which is heavy very heavy but if it's on someone's list of course and that's that's the thing I mean actually idea is a journey it's just to give someone a beautiful moment right just to create something that brings happiness yeah yeah take a drain because we will have them and just make him reality in my one person it's starting a company for someone else it's learning the harmonica now so at first a hundred things like said you you made your list and you started doing those things and we bring a baby over you're marrying stranger Vegas um and you started a hunter things calmed I you yeah and this you talk a lot about one of the things that I think is really cool is your community of people the whole bunch of people just got really inspired by you and now you have this global community people all want to help each other out yeah and it's all just happened accidentally I mean I I didn't set out I'd never thought I'd be talking to you guys you know I just thought it was a personal thing but there was something to it very quickly got a bit of traction and I think it just goes to show that we all want to be doing things and some of us you know like I was you take a backseat to your own life sometimes and you know we create a lot of excuses like we can't do things whether it's money or commitments or you know fear of getting out of your comfort zone and all things that definitely applied to me but I started breaking down those barriers I think just through you know trying yeah thanks ray and so people you know enjoy that so yeah that the progression has been that I got to apply use this analogy you don't even or plane and they say in case of an emergency and oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling before helping anyone else put yours on first rare which is so interesting like it's almost selfish you know put yours first yeah but I think in life you have to you have to help yourself out I think you need to be pursuing a meaningful life style purpose driven and I think once you do that you will find yourself able to help others more productively and so that's what's happened I was on I do live with a TV backhoe in Australia I'm huge true raising the interview and this guy wrote in he said I saw your you know your list you've inspired me to create my own can you shave my head so I thought okay why not it sounds quite quirky so I flew to Melbourne my shaved marks head and the mark story is that he was completely able-bodied until 30 got bitten by a tick and got Lyme disease so within six months he's like I gosh change he's a quadriplegic now he needs a ventilator to sleep at night he can't talk you know because of a tick and as I was shaving his head I saw how stoked he was and I was so happy to be helping and then I said well I can do more than this for you what else coming to and he said via his translator you know I've always wanted to do a half marathon so I said okay how can I help you do that because I'm slow on the uptake and he said well you could push me so answer yeah yeah full elegant answer and I said like what why is no one offered to push you and he said I only came up with my lease yesterday there was something in there so I just signed us up for the Melbourne half marathon when I pushed him and it was the first time that ever helped anybody out and the interesting thing on that was by the time the marathon came around I had a bunch of people who wanted to help me help mark so you know if my findings if you want to call it that is I'm just discovering that we all want to help people yeah we all lately want to we have the ability and we have a desire and it's about I guess matchmaking now for me so I you know I find people who need help because I can't help everyone and I find a lot of people who want to help and I just match them up and it feel sir I think that's such a cool thing and you know we're technology focused here and I think the thing that's so amazing about this is that it really is because of the internet right because people are connected you can do this and people talk about the internet being a negative thing a lot but this is a positive thing yeah I mean I look I'm not that tech savvy to be honest but yes this communities built up and it's just an idea of connection I think you know i I've got no problem putting anything on social media about what I do because it ultimately it helps people and so I you know it's not an egotistical thing but the beauty of it is that it connects it just connects with people when I haven't tried for that to happen so yeah people are you know all around the world meeting people and helping people online and I get contacted by everyone people a little old lady who his partner passed away she wanted me to move a pot plant in a yard I saw it helped yeah and the same thing happened for a lady in Perth the other side of the country I'm from Sydney so someone in Perth got in touch with me said can I do it and I just put them in touch and that happened and this is all by of social media a lady who was suicidal contacted me she found a bit of hope in what I was doing really sad story I won't go into it but it was it was terrible and then yeah I just rang her up and someone else connected with whom they rang her up and all online we found her a counselor the police got involved and she's good now so I mean it's gonna be so rewarding it's just really cool well their lives being saved I would I can't stop what I do now yeah um with my awesome I don't know what direction you going yeah it's like when people start working out they say like oh I can't stop now because it feels so good to exercise like it's the thing and like this is really kind of like a spiritual exercise like you're you're sort of out there helping people and it feels so good that you just don't want to stop it's an it's almost addiction like help people which is really great yeah and end the show it just brings it out so it's done so well and of course i would say that even if that wasn't the truth but it is a truth and i saw the trailer yesterday and it's you know it's only a minute long but it's like a it's a bit of a tear jerker and I've seen a few of the episodes you know behind the scenes and they're they're just awesome so I before you go I definitely have to ask you how the delivering and someone's baby went what's because jeff has a baby do like I do and I'm telling you be the relay I don't know even sure I want to be in the room my wife says I have to but he should it was one of the most beautiful experiences I've ever witness the funny but this is you know to the point that social media helps you know connect people this girl can follow me online in canada and said I'm pregnant I'm jus I if you want to help out I know you want to you can come and help deliver so I've said okay sure I got my credit card out cuz I have no money right this just it just happens and i flew to her hometown of regina in canada which i think so that's hilarious that's a coincidence so you saw her Regina I saw her interest excuse me i apologize i don't know whatever you call it I did I have one of our legs over my shoulder I want to happen and and so and like so when when it came out the baby's mother sighs a robot baby yeah there was no lightsaber but but it came out and it was I just couldn't stop crying so I had the baby I put on a tummy and um how long do you train for this or did you just show up and you're like I'll just wing it there was a midwife there I see what you said put your hands here yeah I mean it it was an amazing thing it was a really well the bad you have a connection with that child well it's weird because obviously the emotional connection isn't you know the same as being a parent sure but to me it just showed that everyone is I mean how generous to invite me into something else so intimate yeah it was I mean it's a much longer story than that what a moment for everybody involved I mean it's just another big deal and I made lifelong friends oakleys just turned three and a half I think so um yeah wow it's all semantics so aside from a hundred things you also do things with make-a-wish yeah I raise money for charities um so you know I I wanted to raise ten thousand dollars a camp quality which is an Australian kids cancer charity and I ended up making a thousand dollars for him somehow again accidentally so I thought well why would I stop here so I then raised hundred thousand dollars for Alzheimer's Australia my mom has younger onset of dementia which is which is really sad least 60 so I did that and then make a wish approached me and said can you be an ambassador and I guess I do a similar thing in terms of helping people so I said absolutely and so I'm raising a hundred thousand also those guys I don't know how but it will happen I'm sure yeah so there's you know I I love the idea that you can go through life and help other people you know on a peer-to-peer level or know in a charity sense as well so very blessed to be doing what I do that's right how can we watch the show ya how much you need to download the go 90 app so it's a verizon platform online digital thing and it's been produced by made man so it's also available on the made man youtube channel gets released on the 13th of april new episode every two weeks for a year so they're 26 episodes a lot faster and they are I mean they're awesome and my very last question will be to anyone out there who is having trouble thinking of things for their own list what's your best advice I give yourself permission to consider your version of happiness and I think what you've done that just make a choice to pull the trigger it's that simple what else what else is more important than just feeling good about yourself so what is that and I think by doing that you know asking yourself the question what's on your list which I want to ask you to you know I think the ramification of that answer yeah could change your life and I think probably more importantly change the lives of people around you and that's just what I'm fine i love that that point about you know helping yourself before you can help others loving yourself a free out of others because like you said sometimes we feel too selfish and you really do have to be whole and happy and right yeah before you can be of service I still just the Instagram name or whatever you call them the other night and as I said you can't fill up someone else's cup if yours is empty it's true man it's so simple so what's on your list I want to see the Northern Lights that's good I would like to learn a fight choreography like in a superhero movie is amazing is that I want to learn how to like I don't know I don't maybe fight a robot or something i don't know i think it because because she's not as a life anyway that's great good answer amazing but thank you so much we are big fans on this show we sign off every day by saying be good humans and you are certainly one of those oh it's nice of you decided but have a safe flight over to Europe yes and have great time shooting more episodes 100 things the go 90 app the made man youtube channel is that right made me yeah okay good yeah I was like oh please don't let that be backwards uh you can check that out you can always go over 200 things calmed I you Sebastian Terry thank you so much for having and if you want to follow me on Twitter or any of those into one of those things are my isn't called a handle yes sure and always at said 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