#009 — 'Meeting The Lion': a Conversation with Alex Dziri.

In this conversation, I sit down with a remarkable young man, Alexander Dziri, whom I have had the honour to meet earlier this year. A bit about him: A professional breakdancer in his younger years, Alex was part of 'Team Shmetta' — one of the top crews in the world between 2009 and 2013. With them, he has travelled the world and 'battled' on stages of more than 10.000 people. Alex has organised a world breakdance championship called 'Raw Circles' in his home city of Antwerp, in Belgium. At its peak, 'Raw Circles' has had one million yearly YouTube views, 2000 people present and 50 countries participating... After the peak of his career as a breakdancer, Alex moved to London and started working for the highly popular show 'London Real' as their head of product. During his three years with them, Alex has created four major online courses and has led most of the marketing efforts around them in terms of launch strategy, copywriting, sales-pages, and social media strategy — all of which had made millions of pounds in revenue. Today, Alex has a successful career as a business-and-awareness coach. He coaches entrepreneurs in helping them with their marketing strategy, content creation, product creation and launch strategy. He combines all this with awareness, helping the entrepreneur understand what they really want, and prevent them from getting 'burned-out', feeling lost or overwhelmed. In this conversation me and Alex delve into topics such as: — growing up with an uninvolved father and the endless drive to prove yourself — inheriting your father's burdens — the inability to feel and pass on the love that you've never received as a child — suicide and the dark side of (external) success — the serious consequences of not expressing yourself — being 'driven by fear' versus being 'drawn by love' — the difference between what most people think they want and what they need — meeting 'the lion' inside yourself — letting go of old, pent-up emotions — learning to love ...and a lot more besides! ________________________________________________________________ Relevant links/resources: Alex's speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUylN8ybSg&t=1s Alex's website: www.alexanderdziri.com John Richards: www.awarenesschange.com ________________________________________________________________ More: On suppression and integration: https://soundcloud.com/mrjukes/integration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c5IRXoH18g