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Eventful Lives Podcast

#160. ‘Just Ask A Question’ Mental Health App Founder - Danny Gray

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

Eventful, True Crime, Risk, Interviews, Crime, Events, Entrepreneurship, Festivals, Sports, Life Story, Entrepreneur, Roger Woodall, Start Ups, Society & Culture, Military, Business

5857 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

After a bullying incident left Danny Gray with deep insecurities and an obsession with his appearance, he developed body dysmorphia: a condition that dominated his life.


Danny shares his deeply personal journey of dealing with the disorder and how it ultimately led him to establish Warpaint - a cosmetics brand for men. 


He wants to empower men to embrace self-care, and is now on a mission to change the world of mental health through his non-profit, JAAQ - Just Ask a Question. 


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0:00.0

What was the stage where it really took off for you?

0:04.0

So we had this ad running on social that went really well, which was like a good looking guy,

0:08.0

muscles, tattoos and a fucking nice flat.

0:11.0

Completely what people wouldn't fit with men's makeup.

0:13.0

Put that on Twitter and it went viral.

0:16.0

And we trended number one in the world, but it was negative.

0:20.0

Give an example of the negative impact. The girl worked for me, called me. trended number one in the world, but it was negative.

0:23.4

Give me an example of the negative impact.

0:26.3

The girl worked for me, called me, so I'm going viral on Twitter, and I didn't even know a viral minute.

0:27.6

I said, what do you mean?

0:28.5

They went, I'm listening to my phone, and it had like 100,000 views, and it was just

0:32.2

like, this is a fucking joke, this brand toxic masculinity, a joke what they're trying to do every time i looked half a

0:38.0

million million wow two million how did that how did that affect you personally when you saw that

0:44.1

hell me i couldn't talk but look on the flip side what i've learned now the worst thing about

0:49.7

people talking about you you're people not talking about you, you're people not talking about you.

1:05.0

Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. On this podcast, I speak to

1:10.4

fascinating people who have all lived

1:12.5

eventful lives. If you haven't already, do us a favour, press the follow button and check us out

1:18.6

at Dodge Woodall on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, where we've now had over 80 million views.

1:26.9

After a bullying incident left Danny Gray with deep insecurities and an obsession with his

1:32.0

appearance, he develops body dysmorphia, a condition that dominated his life.

1:37.1

Danny shares his deep personal journey dealing with this disorder and how it ultimately led him

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