227: Men and Mental Health with Sam Delaney
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Sam Delaney was a British jack-th-lad, drinking, partying, not taking anything seriously. Then his mental health caught up with him it all came crashing down. Sam talks to Veronica about how hard it is for men to be vulnerable talk about their feelings and how he hopes his new book will change that.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.2 | that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure |
| 0:21.8 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome back to the Soberful podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | I am joined today by a return guest, Sam Delaney. |
| 0:35.6 | Hi, Sam. |
| 0:36.5 | Hi, how's it going, Bronica? Good. So Sam is a |
| 0:41.3 | journalist and writer and broadcaster. And we're here to talk about his new book because as soon as I |
| 0:47.4 | heard about it, I wanted to get him back on the show. I'm going to say throughout this interview, |
| 0:51.8 | Sam is British, as you can tell. and I'm going to do have to do |
| 0:55.9 | some translating because there's going to be some words and phrases that I know that we're going |
| 1:00.3 | to use that won't always translate in America. So Sam's new book is called Sort Your Head |
| 1:05.4 | Out. Mental Health Without All the Bollocks. So I'll interpret that for the Americans. Sort your head out is quite a |
| 1:14.8 | British phrase, isn't it? Sort your head out. It's like, I don't know, get it together. Get your |
| 1:18.2 | head straight. Would you say that in America? Yeah. Get your head straight. Yeah. Mental health |
| 1:23.1 | without all the rubbish. Garbage. Bollocks is just going to say, yeah, |
| 1:28.4 | bollocks is a very, |
| 1:29.7 | I mean, we've certainly been into this one minute. |
| 1:31.5 | We've had a lot of, |
| 1:32.4 | that's just a very British, British phrase, right? |
| 1:35.8 | We use it to describe most things. |
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