Fats Timbo

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

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

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Do you have main character energy? Comedian, model, and social media megastar Fats Timbo reckons we should all have the confidence to play the main role in our own lives, but that being confident is a skill that needs to be learned.

In this chat with Fearne, she explains why so much of life is how we choose to perceive it. We can choose whether to laugh or cry at a certain situation... and Fats’ family definitely taught her to laugh. She also talks about how, having been born with achondroplasia, the loving support she experienced at home wasn’t necessarily mirrored out in the rest of the world.

Fats’ book, Main Character Energy, is out now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that looks
0:06.3	inwards to find confidence and contentment. Today I'm meeting FAT's Timbo.
0:12.4	The more you fake it, the more you start to believe it and the more you actually feel good about yourself
0:19.0	because it's not easy. It's not easier at all like from self-loving to self-loving.
0:25.0	It's a journey. It's not going to happen in one day, it's not going to happen in a week,
0:28.8	it's not going to happen in a year, it takes a long time but it takes work as well and I knew
0:34.9	inside as well that it's going to take some time. FAT is a comedian, model and social media
0:42.3	Megastar. Born with A Condra Plasia, she's known online for her comedic sketches and disability
0:49.2	advocacy. Now she's written a very powerful memoir about facing adversity but learning how to
0:56.4	become fearless as a result. It's called main character energy and it's both incredibly funny
1:04.3	and incredibly thought-provoking at the same time. I absolutely adored having this chat with
1:09.5	Fatima. Her positive outlook on life is honestly infectious. Her ability to find positives,
1:17.1	to laugh where others might cry, seems to come from her brilliant parents. Honestly, I bet you,
1:24.0	like me, will want to meet her dad after listening to this episode. We also talked about
1:30.2	there being real merit in faking it until you make it when it comes to confidence and positive
1:36.1	self-talk in particular. Listen to this chat and let me know afterwards what you reckon.
1:54.1	For this episode of Happy Place, we partnered with Heritage by Julux. Heritage Velvet Matt has
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2:36.7	rich feelings we please. I've got a pot of an utterly gorgeous rich shade called Deep Ultramarine
2:46.9	right here. Do you know the Lapis Lezouli Stone? It's like that. A completely hypnotic blue that
2:56.0	reminds me of just how much I feel mesmerised whenever I'm by the sea on the south coast. It's got
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