Nov 10, 2019
Dan
has such a light energy to him. He’s always making others laugh
around him.
In
this episode we speak about his transition from Australia to the
States. How it’s like to live and work in the TV industry in Los
Angeles. Navigating through pain.
Dan
says he had a great childhood but as a gay boy he felt he didn’t
fit into his school setting. He is from Geelong,
Australia.
He
says most of the bullying that took place in Junior and High school
he felt it was the whole school against him. When you’re so used to
the whole school being against you he says he never wants to see
anyone hurting.
“I’m
very sensitive, and I never want to hurt anyone, I always want to
make them laugh.”
When
he switched schools, he decided he’d change his attitude and come
up with a survival method to avoid bullying.
His
life lesson through all of this has been “worthiness.”
It’s
probably still there deep down you think it’s gone because it was
so far away but it’s still very much there, worthiness is what I
struggle with from that. I grew up in a household where I was told
I was worthy. My parents always instilled worthiness into me but
having been unworthy time and time again for a decade to my peers
it didn’t matter how worthy my family made me feel.
He
shares a story of his mother who he says weighed up to 300 lbs at
one time and did everything she could to lose the weight but even
at 300lbs she’d walk into a room like she’s a
rockstar.
Everyone else in the world that I deal with on a daily
basis is telling me I’m not worthy. I feel this lesson will follow
me for the rest of my life.
“You
make sunshine out of rain.”
“Rooster one day and feather dust the next
day.”
Los
Angeles is a city that’s constantly telling you you’re not enough.
It’s not just Hollywood. But Hollywood is magnifying what everyone
is going through.
I get
rejected a least 10 times a week from roles because I am considered
not enough for that role. It doesn’t make sense with this
upbringing that I had.
Dan
Babic says it comes naturally to put on a show for him. It is my
form of meditation he says.
It’s
interesting I chose show biz. A lot of people who work in Hollywood
want to feel worth.
Dan
says his form of meditation is working in show business. He says he
feels most present through his line of work. He says his job keeps
him grounded, sane, and the chatter of his mind. This and being in
nature he says.
Tips
for self love from Dan Babic:
-
Stay
off your phone for 24 hours. Go into nature, go somewhere with no
cell service “It’s the most relaxing thing in the
world.”
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Do
what makes you happy (ice cream? Movies? etc.
-
Be
kind to yourself.
Everyone always says the one thing to do when you look
back in your life is to just relax.
Dan
says to him happiness and love and light is always around the
family. That’s why he’s spent his sick days binge watching the
Sound of Music he says the movie is a giant symbol of through
darkness there is light.
Dan
shares he struggles with wrapping his mind around why many of us
are so blessed in the states and in third world countries people
cannot even get water. He speaks to me about the sorrow he’s felt
visiting orphanages and villages where people struggle with disease
and hunger.
He
says there is a lot he’s seen with his own eye that he’s felt
helpless about. “It just seems like it’s in Western countries that
everything happens for a reason. There are so many people who are
just trying to survive.”
He
says he loves to give back and it brings purpose to his
life.
To
learn more about Dan Babic, find him on Instagram
@DanBabic.
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