How Nearly Drowning In The Sea Gave Me Back My Life

We live in a world where you can 10x your business, build a personal brand, move to Dubai, trade crypto, launch an AI startup… and still feel like you’re quietly failing at life.

This talk starts with the night I almost didn’t come back from the sea.

That near-death experience gave me a brutal mirror to my drive, my success… and the person I was becoming.

From there, I share a new way to think about ambition:

• Not as a straight line of “more, more, more,”

• But as a long game where outer success and inner aliveness support each other.
  
  

WHAT THE AUDIENCE WALKS AWAY WITH

By the end of the session, participants will:

• Redefine “success” so it stops quietly destroying them.

• See their drive clearly: is it fuel or poison?

• Move beyond productivity into “creative high performance”.

• Adopt a new approach to “success” for the next decades.

WHAT Do people Say?

“I saw Alexander’s keynote at The Conscious Health Summit in Lisbon. Out of all the speakers, he was the one who moved me to tears.

His delivery of the story had me on the edge of my seat and I walked away feeling so inspired knowing that the impossible is possible.

The talk is etched in my memory forever.”

Suzy Perry
London, England
@breathewithsuzy

WHO THIS TALK IS FOR

This keynote is ideal for:

• Entrepreneurs scaling businesses in fast-moving markets

• Executives under constant pressure to perform and adapt

• Creators whose work depends on originality

• High performers who are “successful on paper” but feel a quiet disconnection inside
  

CORE STORIES & THEMES INSIDE THE TALK

• The Sea Story: Nearly drowning as a hard reset
  How almost dying instantly reordered my priorities around health, relationships and work, and exposed how my own drive almost killed me.

• Success Without Soul is Modern Slavery
  Why so many high achievers end up exhausted, numb or self-destructive, even after they get the money, status and followers.

• The 100 Swords Metaphor
  Your potential is like 100 swords on a battlefield. Most people spend their life fighting with the wrong one because they’re chasing someone else’s version of success.

FORMAT OPTIONS

• TEDx-style talk: 20 minutes

• Keynote: 30–45 minutes (ideal for large stages)

• Optional add-on: 60–90 minute follow-up session (breakout / closed-door with founders & leaders)

• Guided reflections

• Decision-making frameworks around drive, stress and potential

• Space for deep conversations

ABOUT ALEXANDER DZIRI

Alexander Dziri is a Strategic Business Advisor and former world-class breakdancer who helps driven entrepreneurs simplify complexity, sharpen their positioning, and scale without burning out.

Over the years, Alexander developed a business approach by achieving world-class results in 3 different areas of life:

• He was a professional champion breakdancer in his 20s and founded one of the most famous breakdance world championships called Raw Circles, with over 2000 people live, 50 countries participating and more than 1 million YouTube views yearly.

• He worked behind the scenes of major personal development and entrepreneurship brands, helping build online education businesses from start-up level to multi-7-figure media companies (brands include London Real and Eben Pagan).

• Now he coaches various world-class top performers, from Olympic athletes to pharmacists and financial tech gurus.