Monster Energy Cares: Matt Dawson
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 17, 2024 / Monster EnergyMonster Energy chats with Matt Dawson about founding Dawson's Creek and working with other charities and foundationsCourtesy Monster EnergyMonster Energy Cares FoundationMonster Energy …
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 17, 2024 / Monster Energy
Monster Energy chats with Matt Dawson about founding Dawson's Creek and working with other charities and foundations
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Monster Energy Cares: Okay Matt - I'm looking over your CV here, and I have to say… it sounds like total bullshit. According to this, in your 20s, you had crippling compartment syndrome in your legs, which prevented you from even climbing up a flight of stairs, correct?
Matt Dawson: Yes. A flight of stairs was something I tried to avoid at all costs.
MEC: And since then you have somehow:
- Summitted the 7 highest peaks on the 7 continents in less than a year
- Also summitted the Matterhorn, for shits and giggles, in under 7 hours
- Walked solo and unsupported across the Mojave Desert and Death Valley
- Rowed across the Atlantic Ocean
- Skied to the South Pole
- (And would have already skied to the North Pole AND flown around the world, if it weren't for Covid and the War in Ukraine)
- You turned down contracts to play pro football
- You're a licensed motorcycle racer
- You're a licensed pilot
- You are a Navy-trained rifles and pistols expert
- You run your own charity
- …and it says here your day job is Managing Director of an investment banking firm.
Is that all correct?
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MD: (laughs) Yes.
MEC: So I guess our first question is: Where do you find the energy? And you're not contractually obliged to say Monster Energy by the way.
MD: (laughs) You know, you gotta find… people talk about the "why", you hear that all the time. And personally, it's not what I would subscribe to. Mine is kind of like the "have". It's what do you have inside of you that you have to get out. It's not why I do something, it's just I've identified something in me that's… it's like oxygen. It's "I have to get this out of me". You've gotta find a greater purpose behind all of this stuff, because it's not about running a marathon or backflipping a motorcycle or climbing a mountain; it's why are you doing these things.