Monster Energy Cares: Matt Dawson

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 Foundation

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?

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.