Dominic de Moura McCarthy is the Founding Director of the Global Institute for Leadership. He has led leadership, entrepreneurship, and public diplomacy initiatives across the Pacific, Latin America and Europe. He is also the Founder and President of the Pacific-Australia Youth Association Inc. (PAYA), one of the region’s leading youth NGOs with over 400 members. Dominic has represented Australia at international dialogues and summits hosted by the OECD, the Australian Government and the U.S. State Department, and has implemented programs in more than 15 countries. He speaks English, French and Brazilian Portuguese, and is currently learning Tok Pisin.

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website: https://dominic.global/

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominicdemouramccarthy/

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gringodominic/

PAYA: https://paya.org.au/

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Dominic de Moura McCarthy is 25 years old, he grew up in regional queensland, spent 15 years doing ballet, taught himself french and founded an international youth organisation that now connects over 400 young leaders across 12 pacific island nations. and it all started with a facebook messenger group chat. in this episode, we get into what it actually costs to build something meaningful while saying yes to everything, how a debilitating injury in his first week of university changed the trajectory of his entire life, what 15 years of ballet taught him about resilience, commitment and the long game, how he navigated tall poppy syndrome, loneliness and the grief of outgrowing old friendships, and what liberation looks like to a 25-year-old who has already built more than most people twice his age. this one will stay with you. enjoy 💙

what we explored this episode

00:00 the hidden cost of saying yes to everything

02:28 what servant leadership actually looks like from the inside

05:22 where the drive to give back really came from

08:05 the injury in week one that changed everything

10:29 what 15 years of ballet actually installs in a person

13:39 why Dom commits to things for years not months

16:25 a facebook messenger group chat

18:59 the simplest possible first step and why most people overcomplicate it

29:30 COVID, evacuation from new caledonia and what he did next

34:26 tall poppy syndrome - what it actually looks and feels like on this path

42:56 if you haven't found your tribe yet

46:16 faith, God and what sustains him when nothing else does

52:58 what liberation means to Dom

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