“Life can offer much else than one just thinks”

« When I was young, I had three leisure jobs, breaking and hung out in the youth club in Odense. I’ve always had a speed, » says Dennis, who, in addition to being a TV host today, runs his own carpentry company, a real estate company and a company that does TV and advertising tasks.

For Dennis, the ambassador role is first and foremost about giving something back to the wide crowd of young people he meets daily and as host of DR:

« I would like to take a stroke for more young people to have the opportunity to find out what they are good at. We lack entrepreneurs and skilled workers in Denmark. Part of the explanation for that I think we lack focus on the arenas where young people even find out what they can. Leisure can be one of the keys to more young people starting to see their strengths rather than focusing on all that negative. »

If you ask Dennis, we as a society should be better at telling the story that there is not one real way in life. He himself went directly into carpentry lesson after 9th grade and has not looked back since:

« I am a mirror that life can offer much else than you just think. Taking the carpentry education has meant everything to me and made me come to where I am today. »

More important factors

But it’s not done with education alone, Dennis believes.

While it is a social responsibility to tell the good story that there are other ways to go than the more book, it is also important that children and young people are an electricity of a community where they learn to form relationships and talk to all people:

« Just as guaranteed is today, I also went to the club with young people who were older, younger, and in many ways different from me. But I think my ability to create relationships and talk to everyone today, including coming from my time at the club. I became not only wiser on myself, but also in all the different ways you can be young.

With him in his new ambassador toolbox, Dennis also has a special message for young people. For him, leisure is just about getting out, being present and feeling the community in practice.

« It starts by lifting your gaze. Look up! Make eye contact with the people who are around you, » he says and continues:

« We spend so much time looking down – on phones, on ourselves, on everything we don’t feel we are. But it is in meeting others that we really find out who we are. It is in the club, in the workshop or where you are with others in reality that you discover new sides of yourself. »