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Joe Wicks

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“You know that experience of seeing your mum shout? Is that affected your ability? Are you calm? You know when you argue, are you confrontational? Are you like, because me and Rosie more like silentry and we soak and we're so stubborn and we'll like go two days about talking. We don't scream and shout at each other. Are you quite a shouted person?”
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“Might have one related last five years, but I do believe that when you are in a relationship, like give it all, don't be thinking this is going to end soon. My last one didn't work out. I know now It's going to break down, and we're going to end up breaking apart. We're going to end up leaving each other. She'll have an affair. I'll leave her. It won't work. That just, it's hard to be happy in that situation. So I think take every relationship and just maximize it to the best of your ability like you would with someone that you work with a business partner. If we went into business together, you try and make that partnership so awesome and so effective and efficient. And it's the same with a relationship. You've got to, you know, keep doing the things that make you happy. And yeah, I think with Rosie, like just having a night out, going for dinner. And do you know what the secret is? If you stop kissing, you're fucked. If you don't kiss your girlfriend and you stop kissing, you just bypass each other and you don't, because everything starts from a kiss. Do you know what I mean? It could become a massage, it could become, you know, you might do a bit of hanky panky. But if you stop kissing that one thing, that intimacy, I feel like everything breaks down. Seriously, he'd kiss him.”
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“I don't know if it's Soulmate, but everyone says, Oh, hard, you know, love's hard work, marriage is hard work. It isn't, it doesn't have to be hard work. Not if you're the right person. Of course, you could get with someone too young, marry the wrong person. It all goes wrong. And, you know, that's a bad experience. But it doesn't mean that the next relationship won't be better and you can't improve and learn from it. But, you know, I do feel like Rosie is the kind of female version of me. Like when we met, you know, we were just having so much fun and she's a wonderful parent. I watch her and I see how patient she is. I think I learn a lot from her because I've got like a two or three minute kind of tolerance of Mali screaming and screaming in my face where I just have to walk out the room. I just can't handle it. Whereas she can be in there like 20 minutes all through the night and I'm like, yeah, with indie crying or Mali teething, I think it's amazing. She's just got this natural, innate motherly patience and love and tolerance. So I watch that and I literally go, I need a bit more of that. And I sort of learn from it. But yeah, I mean, you know, maybe you...”
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“They bring you, I just think your perspective will change over time, and you're just not there yet. You might not get that till you're 35. You could be 45. I was 30. I met Rosie at 30. And I've been the happiest since I turned 30. Honestly, because being honest and being committed is two of the most wonderful things. Being sneaky, being deceitful, not being honest or being jealous and insecure, their feelings you do not want to go through your life with. So when you find someone, be committed and be loyal, it really takes your love to another level.”
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“But when you meet someone and you realize, and when you do fall in love, in whatever sense that could be, it was almost like with Rosie, I was telling her every day I loved her and it wasn't enough. I needed to tell her more. I needed to have something stronger between us. So I said, can we have a baby? You know, then she fell pregnant and we had Indy. So for me, in my head, the ultimate bond between two humans is another child. And then when she was pregnant, I never thought I would get excited about the idea of like proposing and getting married, but it was just, it just changed. My mind has changed as I started to think, do you know, I love this girl? I don't want to be waking up, you know, every other week with a different girl in a different hotel. That's not who I have been. It's never who I'll be. So I love being with, I love being close to one person. I think I'm quite emotional like that. And then after to marry me, we had this amazing wedding day. And I do love being married. And I just think when you have kids and you start seeing your children grow and you see how wonderful that can be how much joy.”
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“Listened to two episodes of your podcast, and I really hear myself in you when I was like 25. And I feel like a part of you is lost because you've got everything on the surface you could possibly want. You've smashed it in business. You've got an amazing story and you've got incredible success, which is wonderful. But maybe you're missing that deeper connection with one person. You've got amazing friends and you've got a great network of people you work with. But I do feel like the love between one person, you know, it's different. It's a different kind of relationship where you can always lean on them. So when I was 25, I was in a relationship from 19 and I really was running away. I couldn't commit to it. I used to say like exactly what you were like. This marriage is like this religious thing. It's a contract. And why should that person get half of what I've got? And it's not going to work. All my other friends are unhappy. They're all divorced. You know, one in three marriages. So the more you tell yourself that, the more it becomes true. And the truth is how you feel now is how you feel and what you believe now is what you believe.”
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“Just unwine. And basically, when I have that time down off the offline and I'm not filming, it really re-energized me when I come back. I'm like, I'm like reset and like body coach volume two, ready to go again sort of thing.”
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“I don't feel like burning out, but I do think at the end of January I need to block a month out. So I've taken the month off, hoping to go somewhere nice. I love Costa Rica. I'd love to go with the kids.”
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“Know being physical and doing exercise, but also doing it with such an amazing energy through the camera is so draining. But last week has been the most emotionally draining. I was doing like radio interviews with Jamie Oliver and Ricky Gervaise and doing all these things. It's out of my comfort zone completely. And then I had phone calls every hour on the hour to promote the new book. So that is a different type of emotion. And when we talk about the body coach, so, you know, I am the physical body, like the energy. And Nicky is like the CTO, he's the brains. He takes all the strength, all the things I can't, the process stuff. Nikki's on a laptop doing Zoom calls nine hours a day, like managing this agency and all the other marketing stuff. So together, we have this perfect kind of relationship where we are working as equally as hard, but we're taking what we can do.”
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“Deal with it in different ways. Like usually, I have these blocks where I work for two, three months, and then I go, right, I'm going to go to Santa Monica for a few weeks or let's go have a nice week in Dubai just to unwind and leave the phones and stuff. And I've missed that. I've missed that, just that reset button because I've had a, I had like a couple of days away just when lockdown was over, but it wasn't enough because I actually spent my time filming workouts because I said I was going to do three workouts a week. So although I was there relaxing, I'm still there. What I do is so physical.”
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“Which is great because it means people are going to go, I want to give it a go. And it's a really amazing way of marketing the product. But I'm going to be exhausted.”
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“This has been the year, I've worked hard, really have over the last years, and during the growing stage, that was social media, you know, it's hard building an audience. And then I kind of had great success with the books. And now, like, you know, this year, since P were Joe, the 24-hour challenge, I then done wake up with Joe, which is three workouts a week for lockdown two because I thought they need to exercise, people need to move. I've now had the book PR. I've been doing radio interviews. I've done the channel for. So the BBC children need 24 hour channels. I've not stopped. I don't know how I'm still going, but I now at this moment need more energy than ever because this is the busy time. This is like leading up to Christmas. I'm also doing a January boot camp five days a week. I'm doing live workouts through the app.”
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“Rosie's my wife. I said, I'm sorry that I'm not perfect. I love you so much. I'm so affectionate and sensitive. But if I'm stressed and I've got something gone, sometimes I'm snappy, sometimes I'm impatient, and I don't shout the kids and I might shout at you and I'm sorry. And it's nice to say that out loud and have a bit of a chat about it because then you kind of move on and you can just get on with it and you learn from it.”
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“Oh, yeah, I have days. I mean, of course, I have days where I shout and I lose the plot, and I feel terrible, but also I know that she won't hold it against me. The amount of times I was shouted at, I love my mum to death. So it's not like she shouted at me. I think she's terrible and I don't love her for today. I think it's okay to not be perfect and not be a perfect parent. And the other day I had a row of roses and I said, I'm sorry I'm not perfect every day. I'm sorry that some days I'm so risen.”
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“Default, yeah, like it truly is, it's like a computer program, and you have to sort of try and undo that code. And I read a book called Calm Parents, Happy Kids. And it's that thing. You can either fight, flight, or pause and have a breath. You can fight them and swear and shout and scream and stand the door. You can run out of the house and just deal with it and let them deal with it and just not even deal with any emotion and show no emotional control. Or you can pause and have a breath. And that's the secret. It's just having that in these two years old her brain's not rational. She can't understand why I really want to just clean the side and put her down on the floor right now. And so like you've got to literally remind yourself every time and then you can start to really respond differently.”
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“At the house, or I want to scream and shout back at them because that's what I had as a kid. So I have to actively work against that. So although I might be screaming in my head, I just take a breath and I like almost just sort of Yeah, just take a moment to just sort of calm myself, and then I can react very differently. But that's like a muscle you have to train it. Otherwise, I'll just be screaming and shouting all day long So that's definitely hard to do that when you've had it all your life and you just got screamed at, shouted at. It's just, it's like what you know isn't it?”
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“It's so true. And like you said, memories. Memories can form like you're literally changed your characteristic and your personality and your belief system. And I had really negative beliefs around commitment, around, you know, people being faithful, people sticking together like when things got tough. And even I'd be affected if celebrities that I really loved, like they'd break up, I'd think, see, even they can't stay together. I just thought no one stays together, no one's loyal, no one's ever actually happily married and stays together. But now as a married man with two kids who I love, I'm really, really like, I don't believe that. I believe that you can be happy. I believe that when I see an old couple on the bench, you know, a 78-year-old couple, I love that I think how amazing they've spent their life together. I want to be like that. I want to be a couple that have stuck together. So it's, you know, my child has affected my love and commitment in a relationship to Rosie, but also as a parent. I don't want to be impatient and intolerant and snappy and swear and shout. But that is my default setting. That's what my head's trying to do. When Indian Mali is screaming at me, I want to slam the door and walk.”
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“People aren't going to always be how you want them to be, and you have to love them unconditionally. But if you ask me as a teenager, I would be too angry. I would be like, fuck that, no, like, I can't deal with it.”
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“Trauma they've had and where that's manifested. And so now, like, my relationship with my dad is, I understand him, I understand he has seasonal depression during the winter. He's really low and he'll have a holiday and he feels great and he comes back and he's up and down. And that's him. And I just have to kind of love him. And although I'm quite consistent with my emotions and you want everyone around you to be happy all the time, didn't you think, I'll buy him a motorbike? I send him to the Maldives. You can go and stay at my house in America. It's all temporary. It doesn't do a lot, you know? So real connection comes from communicating, reaching out, spending time with him. He's happy when comes around and we go for a walk or we go out on our skateboards together. You know, we've got electric skateboards. So it's about reconnecting and being with him. And he needs that. My dad needs to see the grandkids. He needs to see my brothers. He needs to see me. And yeah, I've just learned that, like I said, that really nice quote that the antidote to addiction is connection, not pushing away. I hate you. I can't stand it. Why are you relapsing again? Why are you going into depression? You know, the mind's...”
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“Because I know what she went through as a kid. I know what she went through as a young teenager. And so you start to understand it and then you start to really love your parents even more because they protect you when you're a kid. They just protect you. They can't tell you what they went through. They can't tell you this stuff. So it really makes you realize how much...”
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“Yeah, we do because addiction never goes away, he does his NA meetings, it's a part of his life, but he needs that. He needs to have a fellowship and a network of people to talk to. I don't understand addiction. I've never been addicted to anything. So for me, it's like he needs that network of people he can talk to. And that's obviously at the moment mostly through Zoom, but usually it's like NA meetings. You know, you go and have a talk and you feel better. And he's had therapy. But, you know, he's learned. He's become, he's evolved. Again, his dad left him. I understand my mum and dad because they went through so much trauma. My mum was a bander when she was two years old, was living in a, she was in a, you know, an orphanage. And then my dad, the same thing. His dad left him. He didn't have, you know, he didn't ever, I think, I don't think my dad's dad told him he loved him until he was like on his deathbed when he had cancer. So I understand where that addiction, why my dad chose to do that with his life. And I understand why my mum had OCD.”
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“Yeah, mind being, I said, Mum, I've got an MB, and we're in the middle of Lucky Cat restaurant in London, and she burst into tears. And I'm like in the middle of the restaurant crying with her. And she's like, when she was younger, like all our friends used to say, you're fucking shit parent. Imagine the pride. It is she raised me like I have to put it down to her.”
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“Considering she wasn't parented, her dad left her when she was a kid. She was a banner when she was a baby. So I don't know where her love comes from, but she's got this ability to just love and be so generous. And when she went to university, she went back, she said, I want to study. She went to become a social worker. So the first thing she'd done with her life was go and help people that had, you know, young offenders, people that had been through abuse and all this stuff. So it has to come from her. It is emotional because my mum, so when I took my mum for dinner the night before it was going to be announced. And I said to her like, we're celebrating my birthday tonight, aren't we? Because we were having a late birthday then, but it's something else.”
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“I suppose, yeah, I look back when I get asked in interviews now, where did your generosity and your kindness come from and your kind of desire to want to help others? It's about help. You know, I'm happiest when I'm helping others. So if I know I'm helping someone or I'm helping millions, I'm really happy. And so when it stops, I felt I'm not, I haven't got my purpose. I'm not valuable, but I've realized I am still valuable. I'm still helping people. But yeah, my mum, you know, she left school at 15, no qualifications. She met my dad in a squat. She had my brother when she was 17. Then she had me when she was 19. She's like a kid. And when we used to go places, like people used, is that your sister? She looks so young. You can't imagine. But somewhere along the line, she taught me value. She taught me respect. If I had to be home at 10 o'clock on a Friday night, I was home at 10 o'clock. My mates were down the park till one, two, three, because their parents let them run loose and they were the ones graffiti and they were the ones smoking weed. They were the ones that got in trouble for crimes and whatnot. So my mum was really”
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“Relationship today, but it definitely affected me, you know, the destruction of drugs in my household and what came with all the chaos really put me off ever wanting to smoke weed or drink alcohol. You know, I was so scared that I was going to enjoy it and I was going to become an addict. I thought it was a genetic thing. I thought, I don't want to be a drug addict, so I wouldn't go near it. So it definitely shaped me, you know, and when I look at where my love and generosity and empathy comes from, it's my mum, like my mum is, she's so kind and loving and she's so always putting other people first. And I think that definitely shaped me as an adult.”
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“It was like plywood. And so there used to be holes in the holes in the dog. So I remember I used to think, why are there holes in the door? And I look back now, I know it's because my mum and dad used to fight and argue. And, you know, it'd be like, it was a symbol of aggression and impatience and intolerance. And then it'd be gone. And so I always, I didn't have a positive role model in terms of male. And also when it comes to marriage, you know, my mum and dad never got married. If they were married, they would have been divorced 100 times. I had similar beliefs around marriage and commitment to you like when I hear you talking about it like I suppose I had the same feelings when I was 25. I didn't believe that people stay together, people have committed that marriage is going to work, that people get through tough time because it was always like when it got shit and tough, my dad would piss off and we'd be back on our own again. So, you know, again, it was a tough child, but I also had a happy child. I don't feel like resentment. I don't look back and be like, I wish it was different. I wish my dad was there because we got a great...”
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“And someone said about this is a true story. When I was 16, I had glasses, but I was really embarrassed. I was really shy about it. And the girl I was going out have said, I said something like, I wonder if I'd look good in glasses. And she said, oh, no, you'd look silly in glasses.”
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“Yeah, that's amazing, and it's the power of a negative thought. Like if someone says, your teeth are a bit crooked or you've got skinny legs, someone can say you've got lovely teeth your whole life, but you still think your teeth are crooked. That's happened to me in the past. I got invisalined because one, a girlfriend said to me, your teeth are a bit wonky”
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“Primary school, but when they start hitting their teens, they're in the devices, they become more resistant to exercise. So the challenge becomes tougher as they get older. So, my mission now is to continue the school's work. When I can go on the road, start visiting schools again, creating content. Hopefully creating a TV show around that, you know, like Jamie Moniver school dinners was only six episodes. In my head, it felt like it was weeks and months and months of content. So, you know, I want to do the same thing. I want to create a really amazing series, whether it's Netflix or BBC or Channel 4, where I can continue that conversation to get one teacher or one dinner lady or one head of a school to believe in the power of exercise for their children. So I really feel like I've just started. There's so much more to go.”
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“I think what happened I achieved was a short term thing. It changed behaviors, but they had to. They had to do it because they were locked in. Parents had to keep their kids moving. You know, schools weren't providing pee. Everything was closed. So it was a temporary thing. It was the start of a movement, but the legacy is still continuing that movement, you know, continuing to visit schools, continuing to speak to heads. And I don't see it as a government thing because I've realized that you can actually just speak to local schools and they have the ability to change their curriculum. Well, they have to follow the curriculum, but they can change their timetable. So if they want to fit 15 minute workout in once a day with their children or do it, you know, at the end of the day, they have the ability. So again, it's about continuing to grow that mission to create content. Maybe it's a separate platform which schools can use. But it isn't over because like anything, motivation drops. It drops for me. It drops for you different times of the year. And with young people, they're very engaged at the early ages.”
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“Going to give you one workout a week on YouTube, and I'm still going to do my Instagram recipes. I'm still going to share my daily stories and motivate you. And every now and again, I might meant to mention the app, but it really is just like for people that want to give it that extra push and try something a bit different”
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“No, I mean, look, I was really looking forward to seeing you, and we hadn't been out for a while, but I think coming off the back of that P with Joe, I was emotionally drained, I think. You know, physically, I can do workouts all day. I've done a 24-hour workout. I can move my body. But I think the energy of performing, like going on stage, stepping in front of the camera, when I wasn't in the mood for it, when I had to pick up every, I was literally carrying everyone's emotion and energy and trying to, and I do believe in energy that we carry it and we push it and we sometimes hold negative energy. We sometimes hold things locked up from years ago. And I was just, I suppose, fatigued, emotionally fatigued at that point. But I've bounced back, you know, I'm back in the zone. I'm filming workouts again and I'm refocused. Like I said, on the purpose and the mission, which is like fitness for all, and I've got the app is one option. I've got the books that is one option. But then also Instagram, YouTube. You know, there's so much free content because I don't want anyone to feel like the bodycoach is this premium brand and I can only get him through that paid subscription. No, I'm still.”
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“You know, there's billions of people that Going through a really difficult time. And so my reaction to that is trying to inspire them to move, to eat well, to exercise, because I know that it can counteract any kind of financial pressures or stress that's going on if you exercise and you lift your energy and you put good food in your body. Even temporarily, you're going to feel better and it's going to change your mind. So that's my gift. I try and inspire people to exercise and feel good for, you know, even if it's once a day or once a week, it's enough to change the way you feel about yourself and your life.”
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“I think it's grown him. I think that feeling has grown in me. But where I used to be like, you know, when you're a teenager, you're a young adult, it's all about you. It's like me, me, me. And then you, you know, you find a partner and you start to realize it's about your partner and it's about your kids. But I think, yeah, like the more I realize that we're all connected. It's that thing of connection. You know, it comes from sometimes a meditation or a feeling of like we're all in the same experience. I've been very lucky. Like the bodycoach brand has grown. You know, my YouTube audience has grown. The signups of the plan. It's all gone insane. And so I think about other people and small businesses. I genuinely care about, I think about families that have run like restaurants for 30 years or had, you know, properties or had like amazing nightclubs or amazing restaurants that are suddenly going under like that. It affects me. And that really when I stop and think about all the pain and suffering in the world, it really brings me down. It really kind of brings my energy down. And then I have to kind of exercise or do something positive because I start to feel a bit sad because that is the world right now.”
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“Know where we're constantly like, I need number one podcast, I need the number one app, I need to have, you know, the best bookout, I need everything's got to be number one. I need to be doing everything every month for the year. But I've realised that in nature, nothing blooms all year round. And that, again, made me realize it's okay to have quiet months and not be in the media, chill out, relax, because something good will come later on in the year. You'll bloom again during summer. And I think so little things like that really open up my mind. And I'm evolving quickly, I think, since I become a parent as well. You start to be much more empathetic and you start to understand and you feel a lot more when you've got kids. I don't know where it comes from. But I think a lot more about other people's feelings now more than I ever used to.”
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“That thing you said changed my life. Just thinking, stop thinking about what you did last year, how you went to America and you went to Coachella. Think about what you're doing today and not worrying about that. And it really just brings you to a, it's like a meditation. It's like a thought, a simple thought, where you can actually start to bring yourself back to the moment. Like I said, it could be a quote, it could be a podcast, it could be an interview. Little things are sometimes it opens up a whole new thought process, isn't it? You start to think actually, do you know what? That's amazing. And also I interviewed Fern Cotton and she said one of this lovely quotes is nothing in nature blooms all year round.”
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“And you see that with a lot of celebrities, a lot of musicians like talented people that get everything so young. You know, they get to that point where they go into depression and anxiety and it can manifest in drug addiction or all kinds of things. But yeah, if you're constantly looking for the next thing or almost living in the past of old memories and what you used to have, like you talk about down contrasting and up contrasting.”
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“You haven't taken that long. I think you're very. When I listen to your podcast, I think you've got a lot of wisdom. I think you've spoken to a lot of people and you've absorbed a lot. And I think you've really take that into your own life and philosophies, I think.”
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“I think we all will come to the same conclusion eventually whether you're 30 or 60, we will all level out and realise that what's important is our friends and our connection and our love to the people around us.”
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“Is just a really important message that it doesn't matter what situation you're in, we're all feeling the same, and I really wanted to share that message, and it definitely helped people open up the conversation because we're all struggling mentally with what's going on. And yeah, you know, you've talked about it before, you know, ordering the car in the house. And I think we're driven by these things in consumerism. We're always wanting the next thing. But what I've realized during this lockdown is I'm happy exactly where I am with just what I've got. And that's a nice feeling. It's really nice when you realize that another Rolex, another car, even another motorbike or another holiday, it doesn't give you what you really think. And I think people listening that are desperate for that life.”
2020-12-14 · The Diary of a CEO · Joe Wicks on Addiction, Childhood Trauma, Depression And World Domination · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I kind of thought, you know, I was going to move anyway, but it was like the lockdown accelerated because we had paparazzi outside and I wasn't used to that. You know, I wasn't used to being having like photos taken of me and India and we walked to the park and we lived on a main road so it's quite public and people would knock and sort of say hello and it was fine but sometimes you just want a little bit of privacy like when you switch off so we found this lovely house and it's you know it's got a nice driveway it's got a beautiful back garden and when i was in there i just kind of thought why aren't i double as happy i've got more space i've got more garden but i genuinely felt like i left that part of me behind in that house that was so purpose driven it was all about pee with joe it's where my kids were born so i suppose it's a lesson and i really talked about that when boris announced the lockdown number two and i'm sitting there in my kitchen i've got all this space i'm thinking it doesn't matter if you've got a massive house or you live in a one bedroom flat we all feel the same right now we all feel very disconnected very lonely you know we miss our friends and family we need to socialize we need events we need live music we need dinners so so”
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“You talk about that gold medal syndrome, you know, of people having this, like coming off tour or coming back from the Olympics and they have this kind of feeling of like. Be fitting flat. And it reminded me why I did it, and also I had wonderful letters. I had two or three, I'm going to say it was probably nearly like two or three thousand letters and cards and things. That thing's mad, but I had this stack of things to go through. So I sat in my office for two days, you know, laughing, crying, like feeling this love. It was like this wave of love when I realized what I'd actually done during that time. It wasn't just about me getting kids exercising. It was like widows, it was single parents, it was people with anxiety and depression living on their own. And in all the different places in the world, it was really emotional. So I did feel lost, but I've reconnected with that because now I'm still doing my YouTube work. So I'm still delivering free content. And although there's this new product and this app coming out, I'm so passionate and committed to doing that one workout a week that I'll never neglect that free content and that audience that are there that still may never buy my app or my books.”
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“Total 80 million views on the 18 weeks. So, 80 million individual views, but how many families or schools are doing that? So it's tens of millions of kids. And that was my dream. So I just can't believe it happened. But I built up that trust over eight years. You know, as the bodycoach, as Joe Wicks, as this mission-driven person, anyone could have had the same idea, but maybe they wouldn't have had the same reaction because, like I said, I've put out so much love and energy and positivity and visiting these schools that those teachers knew I was going to deliver a really fun and safe session for their kids.”
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“Even like Madagascar and the Maldives taking part in these workouts, I can't do this on channel four. I need to be global. And I'm so glad I stuck with that because that really allowed it to go global. It allowed everyone all over the world to take part. And don't forget, I was getting a million live streams, but by the end of the 24 hours there were seven, eight million views.”
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“Within a few days. So, you remember I told you the story about the Channel 4 thing? I was trying my hardest to make the UK tour thing in a documentary around schools fitness, but they never had the budget that no one could do it. Well, within a few days, the head of Channel 4, like the top guy, I can't think of his name, called me up personally and said, Joe, what you're doing is amazing. We'd love you to stream the workouts on Channel 4. And I was like, dude, I'm doing this on YouTube. I've got kids in Sri Lanka and South America and India”
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“It blew my mind, and I realized there and then that that was like families, that was kids, it was schools, it wasn't like individual people. So really it was probably tens of millions of people. I felt this amazing sense of purpose. Like, I was there for people when they needed me the most because everyone was locked in, you know, whether you had children or not, you were confined, you felt restricted, your mental health was going to suffer that day. And I was there to be there and just have fun. And I never once, one thing I was really cautious of, never mentioned lockdown, never mentioned COVID or, you know, anything to do with that. It was like, it was a safe 30 minutes where we could forget about things. I put the music on. We were dancing around, being really silly. And that was a gift. That was my gift to the world. It was just a bit of laughter, some feel good energy and a real boost in their mood when that finished. I know that they were happier.”
2020-12-14 · The Diary of a CEO · Joe Wicks on Addiction, Childhood Trauma, Depression And World Domination · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I saw the name. I said it's going to be called P with Joe every day next week. Do it, let's just try it for a week 9 a.m. Monday to Friday. I announced it and loads of PR, you know, loads of school newsletters, school newsletters or Twits tweeting it and I was doing ESPN, CNN, like global PR. And I thought, this is going to be really big. But still had no idea how many people would tune in on a Monday. And on the Monday, we went live. I stepped in front of that camera and I was really nervous. And 850,000, I think it was. Streams, and I thought, wow, if you think about how many kids that could possibly be, and then day two was the biggest one. So day two was 954,000 live streams, which is a world record. Yeah, concurrent”
2020-12-14 · The Diary of a CEO · Joe Wicks on Addiction, Childhood Trauma, Depression And World Domination · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was an intense moment in time, but it was also something I did visualize and I did, I had been working on. So I'd been visiting schools and on the UK tour. I went to Ireland, Northern Ireland. I'd visited schools. I'd worked out with hundreds of kids in these schools. That Monday, I was supposed to go on another tour. Me and Nikki, we're going to take the camera. You know, it's my brother Nikki. And I've always said there was no TV show. There was no money. There was no budget. It was just me and Nikki going and doing what we love, which is connecting. And I suppose reconnecting with a mission and purpose that I have. Because when it's all digital, I do sometimes feel that it's just numbers and is it real people? So I have to go and visit the schools and actually meet the kids and do it. So on the Monday, I was supposed to go out on the road. We had about 15 schools chosen. And Boris announced, you know, there's going to be this lockdown. So it was 12.15 a.m. I was laying in bed on the Thursday night. And I text Nikki because I looked at my WhatsApp the next day and I text Nikki saying, I've got this idea. And honestly, I saw everything. I saw a hashtag. I saw a logo.”
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“What happened, and I remember when we met and we talked about that moonshot thing, that idea of like having a goal so big and so out of reach that you feel you can never, you know, almost never attain it. And that was my vision. It was to have that legacy of making an impact, you know, and I do think about J Mollivise. He's had amazing success as a chef, as a, you know, an author, but I think about the Jamie School dinners. The man who went into the schools all over the UK and said, look, this isn't enough. Our kids can eat healthier. And I feel the same about school fitness and exercise and PE, not just about obesity and the diabetes thing, but I think about our children's mental health. And I said to you that I want to have a legacy where I can create absolute national change and national create awareness around fitness and lockdown happened and within, you know, 18 weeks that happened. So it was almost like a 10-year dream happened in 18 weeks. And I'm so proud of that that I reached that many people.”
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