E127: Jaackmaate: The Untold Story Of My Battle With Health Anxiety & OCD

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Jaackmate is the host of the popular Happy Hour podcast and a youtuber with over one million subscribers. From humble beginnings in Norwich to one of the largest internet personalties working in Britain today, Jack has had a hell of a ride.

But more thought goes into Jack’s comedy and its targets than you might think. Because Jack doesn’t just mock anyone, but is always interrogating himself as to whether he’s mocking the right targets, and whether there’s a sufficient ‘why?’ to everything he does.

His ride to the top hasn’t been easy either, and Jack has had to overcome challenges he never expected along the way. From anxiety to dealing with criticism, Jack gives us the truth about inventing, and then reinventing, yourself on the internet.

Topics:

Your early years
Your fake Youtube persona
Your YouTube journey and losing motivation
Does money buy happiness
Imposter syndrome
Why stopped posting on Youtube
Have you ever thought about the person on the other side of your criticism?
Happy Hour Podcast
Health Anxiety
Your partner
Whats the reason you’re sitting here today?
The last guests question

Jack:

https://twitter.com/Jaack?s=20&t=vmSg7Y60pTpQcFOWvrd8mg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0BjnjltT8FEZyN3Iw5mN0Q

The rapper NF that Jack Refers to https://www.youtube.com/c/NFrealmusicvideos/videos

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 favour if you're listening to this? Please hit the follow or subscribe button.
0:03.4	It helps more than you know.
0:04.7	And we invite subscribers in every month to watch the show in person.
0:07.6	People know Jack mate for being the guy to slag stuff off and that's funny.
0:13.8	And then when the content dried up, well I've now got a good look for someone who's doing something wrong.
0:18.3	Can only do that for so long before you just hate yourself.
0:22.2	Didn't really get on with my mum. She would do and say things that I don't think any mum should really do.
0:27.1	Things would happen at home and I'd have like a mark on my face, like from someone that shouldn't have given me that mark.
0:33.0	I made a video reacting to so well as Advent calendar.
0:36.6	That changed the game for me and the upload before that I was going to quit.
0:40.2	I struggle with Health anxiety and OCD.
0:43.8	There's probably 15 to 20 times a day where I actually convince myself that I have cancer.
0:50.4	So you're too fearful to go and get a health check done?
0:53.0	If I go there and the doctor's like yeah you're real, then that's the end for me.
0:58.0	What do you mean that's the end for you?
1:10.4	Jack, give me the context on your life.
1:13.4	I sat here yesterday with Israel as a senior and he told me about his childhood.
1:18.3	There was hints of that that felt similar to the experience that I read you've had as a young man as well.
1:24.0	Also, I think the other one where I could see real distinct similarities.
1:27.8	You might have listened to this podcast as Jimmy Carr.
1:29.8	Yeah, what a man.
1:31.2	What a man, right?
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