#805 Eating Disorders & Males -Retired Boxer Danny O'Connor
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Danny O’Connor is an elite professional boxer and former member of the U.S. Olympic Boxing Team. He’s also the author of the book Weight Class: A Fighter's Life-or-Death Battle with an Eating Disorder. He opens up about his own struggles with disordered eating in the hopes that more men will see that they are not alone.
Link to theatre show that I mentioned, by comedian Tom Hertz June 26-28 in Hollywood at the Fringe Festival. it's about his bi-polar mother, and his bi-polar and it's called 'That's Where the Nail Was', it's at the Upstairs @ El Centro Theater in Hollywood, Go to hollywoodfringe.org, and search for the show's title.
More about Danny:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 805 with my guest, Danny O'Connor. I'm Paul Gilmartin. You're listening to, |
| 0:07.7 | yeah, you know the name of it. You clicked on it. This is a place for honesty about all the |
| 0:12.6 | battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction, |
| 0:18.6 | to everyday compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:21.2 | This show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:26.1 | You have been duly warned. |
| 0:29.3 | I want to mention something. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm recording a guy in a month or two. |
| 0:34.0 | He's a fellow comedian. |
| 0:36.0 | And he's doing some shows locally here in Hollywood, June 26th through |
| 0:42.1 | the 28th. And the show is about not only his bipolar, but his mom's bipolar. And it's called, |
| 0:50.4 | uh, the comedian's name is Tom Hertz. And the show is going to be at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. |
| 0:56.5 | And his show was called That's Where the Nail was. |
| 1:00.2 | And it's upstairs at the El Centro Theater. |
| 1:04.6 | And I will put the link to this in the show notes for the episode. |
| 1:08.8 | So, yeah, if you like getting out and seeing some theater, |
| 1:11.9 | especially in mental health-related stuff, |
| 1:14.7 | go check that out. |
| 1:16.8 | All right. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm still kind of in the holding pattern, it feels like. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm still doing the trauma work. It feels like. Still doing the trauma work. |
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