Dylan Verrier | Better Questions, Better Conversations

Meet Dylan Verrier: Kismet's acquisitions specialist, serial community builder, and the person who sat outside his Bondi apartment with a handmade sign that said 'Here to Listen' the day after one of Australia's most devastating events. Dylan talks about the card game he built called Beyond theWeather, the overnight kayak race and the sand marathon he ran for Mensline, how an ex taught him the most important lesson he knows about friendship, and how DJ decks borrowed from a Kismet investor led to a very unexpected career. Better questions create better conversations. This episode isthe proof. Article mentioned at the 24ish minute mark: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/68983/1/so-excited-to-catch-up-culture-friendship-recaps-friends CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and fashion as a survival strategy with three sisters 01:30 Dylan's role at Kismet 02:00 Exercise physiology, WorkCover and moving into sales 03:30 Taking the leap: joining a mate's startup and what that taught him 05:00 Plus Communities: from university LMS to music festivals to retirement villages 08:00 Advocating for young people in aged care and seniors loving technology 09:30 Happy hour at 3:00 PM and learning you cannot drive to training 10:30 Community as a through line: the best all-rounder, the musical, the saxophone 12:30 Moving to Sydney, saying yes to everything and building from scratch 14:00 Othello the Musical: three males auditioned and the singing got reassigned 15:30 Goals: where he is amazing and where he has been too loose 17:00 Putting a date to it: the shift that changed everything 18:30 Exercise as a mental health toolkit since age 14 19:00 The 10K Bondi to Watsons Bay ocean swim in winter 19:30 111 kilometres overnight in a ski paddle on the Hawkesbury River 20:30 A full marathon on soft sand at Bondi for Mensline 22:00 Why the challenges are always different and what comes next: the dance challenge 24:30 Beyond the Weather: the card game that started as a Christmas experiment 26:00 The Mankind Project and why better questions create better conversations 28:00 The lesson an ex taught him about sitting in discomfort 37:00 How that lesson became a superpower 40:00 Sydney as a community: why Bondi is the exception 42:00 Bondi: what happened 30 metres from his apartment 44:00 Setting up a table out front with a sign that said Here to Listen 47:00 The career break, South America and solo hiking 48:30 The DJ decks, the Kismet investor and how he ended up here 51:00 Luck: if you think you're lucky you look for luck and you find it 52:30 Big goals: the Beyond the Weather movement and events at scale 55:00 The 80th birthday: the connector, the Lego piece, the spark 56:30 What would you tell little Dylan? Keep playing. Remain curious. Follow us! Instagram: @kismethealthy LinkedIn: @kismethealthcare YouTube: @Kismethealthcare Apple Podcasts Kismet Contact us 📥 [email protected]