A podcast about anxiety and other things
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Flying solo this week companionship! During this episode I decided to talk about anxiety (amongst other things). I wanted to share how my anxiety presents it's self, where I think it comes from, why so many of us feel it and what's actually helped me manage it.
I also take some time to answer some listener questions around MTB origins, riding with pros, running in a new bike, ebikes, Billy Bolt's Tyne Ride, fitness/bodybuilding, music, books, podcasts and more.
I don't find doing this easy AT ALL so, I hope you find some enjoyment from me putting myself through it!
Resources mentioned:-
The Anxiety Prescription (Russell Kennedy)
The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, ladies and gentlemen, it has been a while since I have done a solo episode. |
| 0:17.3 | And one topic I want to get into is part of what I'm doing right now but hold on a |
| 0:23.5 | second until we get there so yeah big up to everyone who's tuning in a little bit of a random one |
| 0:29.6 | this week. Ollie is once again away he is traveling he's in Lejeet and we didn't have an |
| 0:36.8 | episode for this week and I thought you know what I'm going to challenge myself again. I'm going to hit live. I'm going to roll with the punches. We've got a bunch of listener questions to get to and a few topics that I really want to hit as well. I also want to say a massive thank you to everyone's tuning on Patreon. There's not many people because we're not doing that much on there just yet. |
| 0:56.5 | But hopefully in the future we're going to do way more. |
| 0:58.9 | That is live. |
| 0:59.8 | So if anyone's got questions over on Patreon, feel free to tune in and submit them. |
| 1:07.3 | All right. |
| 1:08.2 | So what shall we talk about? This was, again, quite a scary thing to think about |
| 1:14.6 | over the last couple of days now and I was going to do this, but I thought I'd do a little |
| 1:17.4 | bit of preparation and talk about something that I think a lot of people will probably relate |
| 1:24.0 | to who are listening and watching this podcast. Knowing our demographic, knowing the state of |
| 1:30.4 | the world at the moment, I thought I would open up and talk to you today a little bit. First |
| 1:36.4 | topic, don't worry, we'll get to some more lighthearted stuff, but a little bit about |
| 1:40.1 | anxiety. Never thought I'd be saying that on this podcast, but there you go. Again, Ollie's |
| 1:49.1 | away. I always like to do something a little bit different when it's not just hit me and him in |
| 1:52.7 | studio or with a big guest. And I thought, you know what? It's something that I've been thinking |
| 1:57.8 | about a lot recently. I've been really, really thinking about anxiety, what it is, how I'm dealing with it. Do I have it? Do I not have it? Do you have it if you're |
| 2:07.8 | watching or listening? And hopefully some of the stuff that I'm going to talk to you about today is going |
| 2:11.9 | to resonate because ultimately, although we love talking about mountain bikes and action sports and |
| 2:16.1 | this and that on this show. |
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