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The people everyone else leans on: coaches, healers, teachers, nurses, the ones running things a lot of people depend on. They spend their days asking everyone else the hard questions, and nobody turns around and asks them. The Six Foot World is thirty minutes where somebody does. Hosted by Dylan Bost, author of The 7 Mirrors. No plugs, no promotion, no highlight reels. Nobody follows up on fine. This show does.
For years, my whole life happened at about six feet of space. Let me paint you a picture. A simple desk in the corner with a computer. I had a guitar over to the side, maybe some ham weights on the floor. And one key thing, I love photography and I had this beautiful window outside my office and had a tripod with a camera faced outside that window.
Dylan Bost:The weird thing is I never really looked out the window and here's another strange thing. Here's this camera. Its whole job is to look facing that way and I never really looked. Everything I needed I had within reach. That was the design of this.
Dylan Bost:I had my coffee, computer, snacks, music, exercise if I needed it. All of it was close enough that I never had to turn my head. I built a life that could be lived without turning my head. Here's what I want you to understand about that room. Nothing in the room was wrong.
Dylan Bost:There was no wreckage at this point. There was no crisis. There was no interventions. At this point, bankruptcy was far behind us. But I'd started this new climb and I really wasn't sure what to do with myself.
Dylan Bost:Now on paper, we were okay. I had enough work to get by, but reflecting on previous years, I realized that I was really just still disappearing I couldn't put my finger on that. I didn't know exactly how to deal with that. Right? And there was no single day that I could point to where all of that happened.
Dylan Bost:It just happened over time. Now I will tell you this, the bottom is loud. Mine was so loud that I couldn't hear what I actually needed from myself to understand my own thoughts to move forward in my life. Those thoughts and those ideas came later but only in silence. Mine was a Tuesday afternoon and I remember it.
Dylan Bost:Nothing was on fire, nothing was wrong, and I couldn't remember though the last time that I really felt anything. I was just kind of moving through life. I was functional, functional enough that no one worried, but I was also functional enough to not even notice that I'd stopped living. I wasn't falling apart anymore, but I definitely wasn't living and I don't remember feeling joy at that time. Like real joy, that thing that comes from deep inside.
Dylan Bost:And here's the thing. When anybody asked me how I was doing, guess what I said? I think you're familiar. I'm fine. I made sure my answer was always fine because here's the thing about that word.
Dylan Bost:Fine is a door that closes. No one ever follows up on fine. Yet at some point in one of those quiet afternoons, a question surfaced in me. I didn't go looking for it, but it came up on its own. Am I going to cope like this for the rest of my life?
Dylan Bost:Not am I going to fail because I wasn't technically failing at least at this point. Not am I going to lose everything because I really wasn't losing anything at this point that kinda had come and gone. But am I going to cope? Is this it? Am I going to manage, maintain, get through for thirty more years?
Dylan Bost:And I want to be honest about what happened next because it isn't a movie moment. Okay? I didn't quit my job. I didn't move my house and my family. I didn't buy a motorcycle.
Dylan Bost:I had the same house, the same work, the same money, and definitely had the same problems. Nothing external had changed at that point, but something quiet did. What changed was the man standing in the room. So why is this show called The Six Foot World? Well, it's because I eventually figured out something about those six feet.
Dylan Bost:The six feet were never the actual problem. It was my refusal to look at what was inside. That was essentially the problem. Here's what I know now. Okay?
Dylan Bost:The present moment has a size. It's about the reach of your body and your attention. Six feet give or take. Everything real that has ever happened to you has happened inside that six feet. Just give that a thought.
Dylan Bost:Every conversation that mattered, every meal, every time you actually saw your loved one, every time you saw light come in a window or heard music, like all of that in six feet. Most of my energy though for years was spent outside of that six feet on things that hadn't happened yet, on versions of the future that weren't here. I was either chasing something consistently or I was holding back, embracing really hard for what might happen. I focused everywhere but right in the present. So the room I described at the beginning, the desk, the guitar, the camera, that was a six foot world too.
Dylan Bost:The same six feet that I live in today. That though was a cage. I remember it. I remember it felt like a cage because I would not look at what was inside. Now it's the whole world because I finally do.
Dylan Bost:It's the same room, just a different man. That's the entire story and that's the name of the show. So here's what the show is. I sit down with people everyone else leans on. These are coaches and nurses, teachers, healers, founders, pastors, parents, people running things.
Dylan Bost:Right? People running companies and holding teams together, keeping their families steady. What they have in common is not a job title. It's that other people lean on them and they bring them the heavy things. These are the people who spend their days answering everyone else's hard questions and yet no one ever turns around and ask them theirs.
Dylan Bost:So that's what happens here in thirty minutes where somebody does. Now before recording, my guest and I talk off camera so that the conversation you hear doesn't start with a resume. It starts someplace real. There's nothing for sale in these conversations. There's no plugs, nothing to promote.
Dylan Bost:Theirs are mine. There's just a person who holds a lot getting asked maybe for the first time in a while just actually how they are doing. And I'll tell you what I'm hoping for if you're the one listening. I hope somewhere in these conversations you're gonna hear yourself because if you're the one everyone comes to, if you're really great at your work but tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix, if the answer is always fine, then this show was built for you because no one follows up on fine. But this show does.