E123: Roman Kemp: Why Communication Is More Important Than Ever

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Roman Kemp is the breakfast radio host on Capital FM, waking up millions of people every day. He is also a television personality, featuring on a variety of popular shows including Celebrity Gogglebox and I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here and Soccer Aid!

Roman is an charismatic and outgoing guy, but last year his sensational BBC Documentary revealed a new side to him and has helped millions of men with their mental health. In Our Silent Emergency, Roman explores the mental health and suicide crisis affecting young men and is looking for answers, after loosing his best friend in August 2020.

It was a hard project for Roman to make, and while filming it he had to take a break for a month to gather his thoughts. But his efforts in opening a dialogue around the crisis is aimed to help those who are struggling in silence. It is available to download on BBC iPlayer now.

Topics:

Your early years
Getting into presenting
Your documentary - male suicide
How have you found being in the spotlight?
Do the super stars you meet seem happy?
Your romantic life
Looking forward to your future
How are you doing?
The last guest question

Roman:
https://www.instagram.com/romankemp/
https://twitter.com/romankemp

@Joesbuddyline aims to promote and protect the mental health of young people, from Primary school to University - https://www.joesbuddyline.org/

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Myenergi - https://bit.ly/3oeWGnl

Transcript

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0:00.0	Could you do me a quick favor if you're listening to this? Please hit the follow or subscribe button.
0:03.5	It helps more than you know. And we invite subscribers in every month to watch the show in person.
0:07.5	Basically that documentary became my own therapy.
0:10.4	This is how he's gone.
0:12.4	Still such a weird thing that people don't want to talk about, but yet is the biggest killer fit in men at our age.
0:18.0	Roman Camp is truly remarkable and deeply inspiring.
0:22.6	It's all about creating tools, you know, in our brain to learn how to deal with these issues.
0:28.9	Your brain becomes Mike Tyson and he's just beating you up and you've not had one boxing lesson in your life.
0:34.2	So you just can't do anything, you're just taking it.
0:36.5	If you've told me 10 years ago, that would be my job and that's what people know me for.
0:40.6	I honestly would not even know where that would have even started.
0:43.9	I'm pleased that I've got a good core friend and group around me.
0:47.0	I'm glad that I've got my parents around me.
0:48.9	I've got out there and I've taught myself the tools that I need to go and fight Mike Tyson in there and be able to go up against him.
0:54.8	And that's why I feel passionate to be able to go and do that for for kids now.
0:59.2	Without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the Diary of a CEO.
1:03.2	I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this true self.
1:07.7	Roman, hello, what were you like as a kid?
1:17.7	Tell me.
1:18.3	As a kid, I was, I'd say, verging on attention, Seeker.
1:27.8	And yeah, always just performing, I guess.
1:30.0	I loved mimicking and doing impressions and things like that.
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