Why I started walking people | Chuck McCarthy | TEDxUCLA
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- We've all heard of dog walkers. How about People Walkers? Crazy idea? The more you think about, the larger the implications, and the more you may want to throw on some sneakers and take a walk. Chuck McCarthy is a thinker and creator who takes a problem-solving approach to innovation and invention. Chuck is the original People Walker and is the co-founder of People Walker Inc. He has been featured by many media outlets for his theoretical ideas, inventions, and of course, People Walker. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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Thank you for this, I to am a walker, I started in 2009 , when I was having many health issues from being overweight.I can tell you that in the beginning I had no idea how great it was going to be.I can’t tell you how many times I have tried to convince people how wonderful it is. I now call myself an outdoorsy, because not a day goes by that don’t wake up with that strong urge, to get up & go outside for my walk , (serenity now ).When Im walking,I am so involved that I don’t even feel my legs moving,I do some thinking but most of the time it’s just breathing , sounds, sights ,nature. I am hooked totally , I love it with my whole being & in 18 months I
lost 128lbs.I encourage everyone to go enjoy walking!!! 🧘♀️💃🌺🌼🇬🇧🇨🇦M
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I lost 31 lbs in 5 months by walking almost two hours in the early morning. In a fasted stomach.
Wow , what a wonderful testimony ! Thank you for sharing your experience
He’s a genius. Companionship does eliminate pain, sadness and depression.
Everyone is a genius. Even you my friend small brother. May peace and love find you and show you that you are enough and a beautiful genius under all conditions
@small brother its all gonna be bright again one day my friend
You are Genius. Elizabeth!
@@aliciaarkell135 🌎🌏🌍❤🖤💛💜💚💙
small brother...I never said I was but your negative trolling makes you look very small minded and less than intellectual. Facts.
This guy is funny, charming, and brilliant. He made a entire business solely out of human companionship. Ingenious in its simplicity. Sometimes ideas don’t need to be crazy or innovative in order to work
Perfectly put ;D
Beautifully said !
I'd take a walk with this guy. Great personality and funny.
His genuine kindness is so beautiful. His message is really quite simple " be there for someone", be a friend and you too will be happy.
I work at a Senior Citizen 'wellness' center...the last thing they bother doing is Walk. And you know...I'm going to PUT IT Out There!! I love walking
This is the first time I’ve watched anything about mental health, and not cried, but smiled the entire time. Thank you...
Oh my gosh! I love this guy! I just told my husband the other day that the elderly neighbor seems sad and lonely and that I should ask him to go on my walks with me! Looks like this wasn’t a silly idea after all!
That is true_so many elderly are told by their doctors to walk for personal heart health, but there is no one to walk with if the family is not involved
You seem to have the rare ability to just BE with people, and make time okay. You are a treasure.
It's all about connection in our ever increasingly isolated society 👍
Man! what a fresh breath of air.
This cured my depression I swear
"I ruined my own joke!" Me....
I wanna walk with you
Walking is one of the best medicines existing. Communication must be the other.
As a lifetime walker I have to ask myself: why didn't this idea occur to me? Anyway, happy other person was cleverer.
You can still start this. I'm sure he can't walk everyone who needs a walk. It's not about getting all the attention and praise for that idea. It's about providing something to the community that is helpful. I see his talk as an invitation to do something that you could do too. His talk just reminded me that I should have done it when I came up with the idea half a year ago. I called the idea walk'n'talk.
@@familiebvmichael Well said. You're absolutely right.
WOW....It's amazing that this day, after long time when I was driving everywhere, I just took walk. Don't know why. Came home and this was first video that I saw on my screen. Beautiful speech.
I've lived 47 years without a car, it's been great !
didn't you die at 33?
Isaac lol
Jesus ™ hai I am nabeel from sedan
Easy for you. I can't walk on water.
@@_nabilhussein8269 As-Salaam-Alaikum
I’ll walk with you Jesus
This is life changing. I love a simple idea turning into a global sensation.
He is so deeply kind , he reminds me of Forrest Gump : )
I hate that this feels so profound to so many people (myself included) when it's literally just "community building 101". How have we become so individualist that "go out and talk to people" sounds so revolutionary?
Small talk to get to the big talk!!! Love it!! Great point. Walking is a great way to build relationships. Congratulations on your TedTalk Chuck!
Colleen McNeese walking was a key negotiating tool for Ronald Reagan as president
That resonated for me, too. That small talk is ok. Its an important and safe place to start.
in india people are doing this for thousand of years its called "kavad yatra"
LOL there is nothing new under the sun
That was a really great speech
Well I really think that walking and talking can change you mood
We should go more outdoors and talk to each other together :)
YES ;D
*reads title*
“.... like.. on a leash?”
*watches video*
“Oh , okay”
I loved this so much and I'm even more motivated to start a walking club in my community. Thank you for the thought provoking talk, much love from Eswatini, Africa. ❤
What an amazing guy and what a simple idea. These stories re so important and are just not covered by media anymore. I miss television shows from 10 years ago when the content was inspiring. I got so fed up of the kind of shows that I finally started my own TH-cam channel a month ago. I hope more and more such people get platform!
I love creating shared experiences
facts: The German TV show he mentioned is called "Galileo", ~ 1.5mln people watch it per episode.
I started local walk groups for people over 45 30 years ago an still doing it, over 55's now! It's kept me in better health, taught me about all the areas around the places I live, got me new friends and new experiences. Walkers help each other with ideas, repairs and other information, a few laughs, and stress relief!
Brilliant.
Just brilliant 👍
This guy reminds me of Tom Hanks in the movie Forrest Gump when he was jogging...ha-ha! Great speech though!
Was thinking the same thing :)
Nikolai Penev same
CHUCK IS THE MAN! SO INSPIRING!
That was so inspirational ! LOVED IT
Oh heck yeahhhh! That was an amazing talk, sir!!! 🎉
'Now walk it out!' 🚶🚶🏽♀️🚶🏻♂️🚶🏾♂️🚶🏼♀️
I offer to do this in my little suburb..Let me try
There is a tribal saying that if you speak out your ideas, the stress that causes pain and disease leave you..And thats is the essence of this people walker to let the walked talk
One advice : don't say- people I walked, but instead - people I walked with.. It might be a slip of the tongue.. But anyway, great talk man! Great example! My heart goes to you! Thank you!
thats. thats the joke.
Some of us walk our dog, he walks people.
Yesterday I had a thought. Today I shared it with someone and they said "Like the People Walker in LA". So here I am. And quite happy that good ideas are popping up in different forms all over the place.
Sir you are like me.....
You spoke what I wanted ❤
You are so funny, easy to talk to I am sure, you are saving lives! Helping lonely people is a cure for so many! Helping their depression and loneliness and getting them healthy at the same time. People that are isolated need more people like you!! What an amazing idea! You are brilliant! God Bless you!
Jim Morrison's son LIVES!!!
During COVID-19 walking is freedom from worrying about the future! ☮️
Very nice 😊, thanks. I take Christine’s little dogs for a walk everyday. Christine said it’s the best thing I can do for her. She’s so busy and it takes a load off her mind knowing they get out for fresh air and exercise. Walks around here are beautiful and entertaining. We walk the beach and down by the harbor. We are doing good, so greatful for Christine and Tom’s support. So glad Dan is going to the YMCA, it does wonders for his physique . Dan keeps me updated on how you’re doing, sounds like you’re doing well. Take care and stay safe and well 💕
Hopefully, in some of your walking time, you can also go to an animal shelter and walk a dog - it will make the dog so happy, he/she will get exercise, and being able to interact with humans and go on a leash will make the dog much more adoptable, not to mention the benefits you will get from exercise, interaction with an animal, and knowing you did something selfless (which you already do for your friend's dogs). Thanks!
What if you have trouble talking and listening, like I do? I jump all over the place with my subjects and always bring the subject back to myself: I have Asperger's and BPD. Outside of my immediate tiny family, I have no friends. I would love to be walked, though.
God bless you. We have this in the family and I know it's not easy... Good luck...
God Bless you my friend! I wish I was there to walk with you.
@@emilija74 Thank you so much! Love to you. ❤❤❤
@@ajbarnett9345 Me, too! 🙆❤
I feel for you try walking by yourself I've been doing it for a year now and its helped me in different ways
Chuck, if you ever read this, you're a LEGEND, for real!
Tv channels full of drivel....and then you stumble upon this guy on a TED talk !
Wonderful !
Our time is called a job and we give it up for paper. It's a shame priceless
Would you rather spend your time hunting and foraging for all your food? How about building your own house with your time? The concept of money has allowed society to get this far. Think a little deeper next time
Read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn for further insight
They locked up all the food and made us all dance for it!
BlowItOutYourCunt hunger games
Here in KSA had a walking competition that contains people around the world. they walked over 622 miles for 30 days!!
Most of them reached safely.
A girl has got in coma because of sunburning .
And several already quit.
Hopefully kind of this competitions spread around the world.
Smalltalk is not so small.
This guy probably charges extra for walks over water.
Lmao
😂😂😂
This is so great! I love walking so much and even more with other people... I wanna become a people Walker now! X
As technology pervades our lives, I think among the jobs of the future will be those that facilitate inter-human contact. This speaker has it right.
What a novel idea. Let's walk and talk together.
This is soooo uplifting, thank you.
You win my coveted thumbs up sir. Well done!
Walking, especially on a quiet beautiful trail, is like bird watching with tremendous additional health benefits that money cannot buy.
One of the best I’ve watched, got me right here 💙
now people are paying for simple things like walking and talking, the world is on a downhill smh, anyway i like what this dude is doing 👍👍 more often we should shutdown our computers and social medias and just walk and talk with our family, friends and good people
one the one hand, I have the same opinion. But maybe those learnings bring us back to what is important anyway. When people pay for something, they value it. We somehow behaved that way too. We only focus on the things we are getting or paying money for. Others are often neglected. Maybe, it's all just a part of evolution :)
I AGREE, 100%!!!!
I AGREE, 100%
So inspiring! Great TedTalk! !
Value yourself when you give your time to others . That's the core essence of this speech.
Know yourself, be together, give a smile......
Manners cost nothing but kindness !!!
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Have you seen king of queens??? The heffernanas hire a dog walker to walk her father a few times a week. It was a huge part of the show for years.
I was trying to remember the name of that show.
A helper for helper, a work for work, a pay for a pay, finding your ability
I wanna work with this guy
I want to walk people
LOVE the talk. HATE the UCLA promotion camera work. I am a grad and sometimes I'm ashamed of the fact.
Amusing and oh so powerful!!
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. - Anne Wilson Schaef
Beautiful.
One word, Brilliant!
This man is great!!!
I clicked on this because the thumbnail looked like the hound from GOT
Making connections. ❤️
My pulmonologist would love if I had a People Walker; they sure would get me out more with my rollator and oxygen tank.
Cherie Parks If you live nearby I'll walk with you
Cherie, where are you? I'll walk with you too 😊
Hey, me too!
@@kittye8340 Los Angeles South Bay
@@tkomla and Kitty E, are either of you close by?
I love this man xxxx
Useful tools: deep knowledge of local paths, flora, fauna, geology, geography, history & economy (interesting walks), good hat, sunscreen, & shoes, sensitivity to symptoms of looming medical emergencies and basic response skills (CPR).
More powerful than Uber.
Go for a walk President, don't play golf, just walk, it will help.
Excellent.
What a wonderful video. What an enlightened man. I’m inspired.
Loved the talk...but let's not forget that humans are not the only ones who need to walk. Go to an animal shelter and walk a dog - it will make the dog so happy, he/she will get exercise, and being able to interact with humans and go on a leash will make the dog much more adoptable, not to mention the benefits you will get from exercise, interaction with an animal, and knowing you did something selfless. Thanks!
Love this...love the humour.....love the beard 🧔
Love it so much. Thank you
One best video I have watched. You are weird and people like you are much in need.
Great talk
If it is coming to Australia please let me know!
You gotta be the start man 👍
This was brilliant! 👍
Really it's interesting video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
👏👏👏👏Thankyou.
Great Man.
Do Holly and Arthur from “King of Queens” ring a bell? Lol This guy is awesome! 🚶♀️🚶🏻♂️
This guy is so clever 🤩
This guy is so funny 😂 I love it
Love you man👫
Good stuff.
❤🔥
Hey, That Guy... are you coming through New Jersey...like a town called - Woodbine?
I think I'm going to make me a TShirt!!!
I love walking it’s my cure for everything lol . I need to start walking people too
Fantastic
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I look around at all of the 'workout' options there are and I asked myself, "what did Jesus do"? 🚶🚶♀️
What a guy 😊
Companionship.
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tried to look for the app its not there