Christian O'Connell

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The concept of a mid-life crisis has become a funny cliché, and that’s what Christian O’Connell jokingly told people he was having when he left his successful radio career in the UK to start a new life in Australia in 2018. The truth was that he had had what he now recognises as a break down, and needed to find adventure and joy as an adult to reignite the fire in his belly.

In this chat, Fearne and Christian share their experiences of having panic attacks, and compare notes on how they both use distraction techniques to avoid confronting difficult realities.

Christian’s book, No One Listens To Your Dad’s Show, is out now.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that looks for the positive things
0:07.4	we can learn from difficult situations.
0:10.0	Today I'm talking to a man who's voice you're likely to be very familiar with.
0:15.1	It's Christian O'Connell.
0:16.5	Once I started to understand a bit more about what was going on with the panic attacks,
0:20.4	I found it very hard because the therapist said to me, you need to make a friend with
0:24.2	them and I was like, what I need you to get rid of them.
0:28.0	I want it to go away, I want it to start happening, except it's in you.
0:32.1	If you could show me where I wasn't you, I'd be the richest man and why not cut it out.
0:35.4	He said, when you make a friend of it, that's when you'll get to a better place.
0:39.0	Christian won a record-breaking number of awards as a breakfast radio presenter here in the
0:43.8	UK.
0:44.8	His show was so incredibly successful and it wasn't showing any signs of slowing down,
0:49.6	but in 2018, he and his family moved to Australia and he in many ways had to start his career
0:56.5	from scratch.
0:57.5	He's written a book that now a couple of years down the line explains why he made that
1:02.2	huge decision to uproot his life.
1:05.0	As you'll hear, he felt it was time to make his mental health and happiness a priority.
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1:17.2	innovation.
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