After Dinner
Jamie McDonald – adventurer, speaker and part-time superhero
An evening with an Adventurer
45 minute (keynote) or 20 minute (no visual aids)
Want to spice up your dinner party with a night of uplifting, hilarious and inspiring stories of adventure?
Guinness World Record holder Jamie McDonald draws on his experience as an award-winning adventurer and
fundraiser to share his story leaving people with a feeling of ‘now that was a night to remember!’
Audiences will be challenged to think about new possibilities, new opportunities and new perspectives - while being
taken on Jamie’s personal endeavour to achieve the unthinkable. With Jamie’s dry sense of humour, he will send the
audience on a roller coaster ride of laughing one minute, and crying the next.
45 minute Keynote (videos and images) – key takeaways for audiences:
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Jamie’s story – succeeding against the odds
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Adversity – how to just ‘crack on’
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Goal-setting – the importance of making life goals
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Inspiration – how draw on inspiration as motivation
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Role models – the importance of mentors and heroes
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Knowing yourself – creating the life you want to lead
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Fun – learning to enjoy the journey
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Fulfilment – giving back and helping others
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Be humble – never think you’re the Daddy
20 minute speech (no visual aids) — key takeaways for audiences:
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Jamie’s story – succeeding against the odds
Goal-setting – the importance of making goals manageable
Inspiration – how to draw on experience to inspire others
Fun – learning to enjoy the journey
Fulfilment – giving back and helping others
About Jamie
In 2012 Jamie began an adventurous fundraising quest to give back to the hospitals that helped him as a child by cycling
14,000 miles Bangkok to Gloucester. Using a second hand bike bought for just £50, Jamie cycled through more than
twenty countries on his way home. Along the way, he was shot at when caught in the middle of a military firefight,
arrested by wary border police and slept rough.
Just weeks after returning to Gloucester, Jamie decided to attempt the world record for cycling non-stop on a static bike.
Jamie stepped off the bike a Guinness World Record breaker, cycling for more than 12 days and having raised more
than £20,000 during the two challenges.
In February 2013, two months after setting the new world record, Jamie used his savings to travel to Canada, where he
continued his fundraising efforts, again for the children’s charities that helped him as a child. Jamie ran the 5,000 mile,
200 marathon, distance across Canada without a support crew – raising more than a quarter of a million pounds along
the way.
Named ‘Runner of the Year’ by Running Magazine and winner for the Pride of Britain Fundraiser of the Year award,
Jamie was also honoured by the National Adventure Awards as its Fundraiser of the Year in 2015.
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