Building A Life That's Bigger Than Yourself - Guest Damon Harvey
About this episode
Damon Harvey discusses the challenges of balancing multiple roles in life and the importance of self-reflection and community support.
Damon Harvey wears more hats than most men manage in one lifetime. He's a journalist by training, a PR advisor and strategic marketer by trade, and the editor and publisher of The Profit, Hawke's Bay's business magazine. He co-owns O Studio, chairs Gemco Group, spent three terms as a Hastings District councillor and fifteen years on the board at Sport Hawke's Bay. He's married with five daughters. On paper, it's a full life. That's exactly why I wanted him on. I came across Damon through a mayoral campaign billboard in my neighbour's yard, then kept bumping into him through the work he does in the community. What pulled me in properly was a piece he wrote called Being Damon - a public bit of self-examination off the back of losing that mayoral race. Most men come out of a loss like that and just charge into the next thing. Damon stopped. Sat in a sauna with his heart rate at 160 and realised something had to give. We get into what it actually costs to be the bloke who's always on - the PR man who can't communicate at home, the councillor who nearly lost sight of who he was there to serve, the father working out how to close the gap with his stepdaughters. We talk tall poppy…
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