The Life You Build Is What Saves You - Vincent Van den Broeck - #169 - Unwritten | Lyssna här

Vincent Van den Broeck was hit on an e-scooter in Brussels on October 11, 2024. He says the crash did not change him. The life he built before it is what got him out.

Doctors put survival near 10% and a full recovery near 1%. Rehab was supposed to take two years. He walked out the week of his birthday, in 3 months, January 25, 2025. This conversation is not the injury. It is the three questions he uses before the day ends, the difference between feels and done, and the one word he adds to “why me.”

Book, out October 11, 2026: Everything Feels Impossible Until It’s Donehttps://www.amazon.com/Everything-Feels-Impossible-Until-Done/dp/1911774360

Vincent: Instagram @vincentinthekitchenUID Club: https://www.theuidclub.comBook page: https://www.theuidclub.com/the-book

Timeline:

0:00 — The same Vincent as that morning

2:30 — October 11 did not change him
4:40 — Priorities shifted, not the person
7:10 — People-pleaser, and non-negotiable
10:20 — His mom, and dropping engineering
16:40 — How he knew hospitality was it
20:10 — The rooms that made him competitive
24:00 — The yeah-but, and what happy actually is
27:40 — Three questions before the day ends
33:20 — Half the days is a life
36:10 — Not happy at $1,000, not happy at $10,000
39:00 — When did we stop being kids
42:20 — Why the book
46:40 — Alignment: think, say, do
49:20 — Feels vs done
53:00 — Grief, and going back to work
56:40 — Destroy the personality built around the pain
59:20 — Ten words you love about life
63:00 — What “I made it” means
65:40 — The life you build is what saves you
69:20 — Out by January 25
73:40 — There is no plan B
75:20 — The unfinished thing that keeps you up
78:00 — Live authentically
80:20 — Why not me
82:00 — Where to find him

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