#149 Joe Wicks on The Power of Positivity

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

4.8 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

My guest on today’s episode needs no introduction. Whether you’ve read his books, tried a recipe on social media or joined in with his PE (Physical Education) With Joe workouts, Joe Wicks has been inspiring wellbeing for nearly a decade.

Behind the success is a truly inspirational – and surprising – story of a man following his passion against the odds. When I spoke to Joe, he’d just raised £2.5m for Children in Need by doing a 24-hour fitness challenge and had been awarded an MBE. But, as he tells me, struggles at school and family problems could so easily have derailed his ambition.

As an 11-year-old at school, Joe would motivate his classmates to get more out of PE. This is a man who knew his calling in life from an early age and is now doing the same on a global scale. This is an authentic and touching conversation. It’s easy to assume Joe’s success must be driven by an empire, a slick marketing machine, but nothing could be further from the truth. Family is everything to him and he opens up to me on topics like parenthood and coping when you’re the child of an addict. He has great advice on the importance of consistency and self-belief when striving for your goals and believes that optimism, compassion and healthy living are choices that are within everyone’s reach.

As well as being full of practical tips, this episode is a brilliant chance to get to know more about a man who’s familiar to many of us – yet has hidden depths. I hope it puts a smile on your face.

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0:00.0	I do think that every person that's mastered their craft or their art are what they're good at.
0:04.6	There's always been a struggle. I've just trained myself to be positive and be optimistic in every
0:09.7	situation and that's something you can really learn to do and it feels so good when you realise
0:14.0	you can be positive, you can live your life not moaning about things and actually take and control
0:19.4	because when you do that when you realise you can react differently and you can see things
0:23.2	positively, life is better and you can be so much happier. Hi, my name is Rongan Chasjil.
0:31.2	Welcome to Feel Better Live More.
0:36.9	My guest on today's episode needs no introduction whether you've read his books,
0:41.7	try to recipe on social media or joined in with his PE with Joe workouts.
0:47.6	Joe Witt has been inspiring people to get moving for almost a decade.
0:51.7	The behind the success is a truly inspirational and surprising story of a man following his passion
0:58.8	against the odds. When I spoke to Joe, he had just raised £2.5 million for the children in need
1:06.4	charity by doing a 24 hour fitness challenge but as he tells me, struggles at school and family
1:12.5	problems could so easily have derailed his ambitions. As an 11 year old, Joe would motivate his classmates
1:20.5	to get more out of their PE lessons. This is clearly a man who knew his calling in life from an
1:26.4	early age and is now doing the same on a global scale. This really is an authentic and touching
1:32.9	conversation. You see, it's really easy to assume that Joe's success must be driven by an empire,
1:39.1	a slick, marketing machine but nothing could be further from the truth.
1:43.9	Family is everything to Joe and he opens up to me on topics like parenthood and coping when you're
1:50.0	the child of an addict. Joe's got some really great advice on the importance of consistency and
1:57.0	self-belief when striving for your goals and believes that optimism, compassion and healthy
2:02.6	living are choices that are within everyone's reach. As well as being full of practical tips,
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