Podcast 2025 Audio
Crush · #120 · Marie-Charlotte Danchin

The passion that becomes a way of life

How does a simple infatuation turn into a lifelong commitment? On Crush, Marie-Charlotte Danchin gets her guests to tell the story of an encounter that marked them. For Domitille Kiger, that crush has a name: freefly.

Published Jun 25, 2025 Hosted by Marie-Charlotte Danchin Format audio Language French

Some passions stay hobbies, and others redraw an entire life. Domitille Kiger's freefly belongs to the second category. This light episode, built around the crush, says something at bottom that is very useful to organizations: lasting commitment cannot be decreed, it comes from wanting to. That is also one of the convictions of her keynote “De l'Audace”.

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Crush · Domitille Kiger

The crush that changed everything

One summer, her mother suggests she try a new activity. It turns out to be skydiving, then very quickly freefly, the artistic discipline where you fly in teams of three, judged on technique, execution and the creativity of the choreography. Domitille falls for the movement, the sensations and the community that comes with it. What could have stayed an experience would become a way of life, then a career as a world champion.

Committing because you want to, not because you have to

This is where the episode meets the corporate world. Domitille has a simple conviction about desire: you do not impose it, you cultivate it. She speaks of it in terms of passing things on, the image of seeds you plant that, when the time comes, grow on their own. The idea holds for any team: the most solid commitment is not the one you obtain through constraint, it is the one that comes from wanting to, when each person moves because they found their own reason to.

You plant seeds of desire: the moment they sprout, they grow very strongly.

From personal passion to collective performance

That individual crush, Domitille turned into elite team performance, then into material for keynotes on leadership and daring. The loop is coherent: a passion lived fully gives the energy to push past your limits, and that energy becomes contagious for a collective. Performing together, the promise of “De l'Audace”, often starts with a sincere desire someone knew how to grow.

What your teams take from it
  • Lasting commitment comes from wanting to, not from constraint.
  • Cultivating desire rather than imposing it, so that each person moves on their own.
  • A personal passion turned into elite collective performance.
What does Domitille Kiger talk about on Crush?
Falling for freefly, the artistic discipline of skydiving, and how that passion became a way of life and then a career as a world champion.
How does lasting commitment come about?
For Domitille, from wanting to rather than from obligation. You do not decree passion, you cultivate it, like seeds of desire that end up growing on their own. Chosen commitment holds up far better over time than imposed commitment.
How does it connect to the keynote De l'Audace ?
Performing together assumes shared energy. That energy comes first from each person wanting to, which the collective knows how to sustain. It is one of the springs Domitille develops on stage.
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De l'Audace

Performing together by telling the risks that destroy from the risks that propel.