How One Night at Home Changed Russell Kane's Life Forever
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is Russell Kane, the award-winning comedian and writer whose life and work span far beyond the stereotypes people often place on him. Despite growing up with expectations about who he should be and what his background meant for his future, Russell carved his own path, challenging labels, breaking cycles, and proving that your starting point doesn’t have to define your destination.
In this episode, Russell talks about the power of self-love, the damage caused by negative self-talk, and how breaking free from internal and external limits is often the first step toward real change. He also highlights the impact of small, consistent actions, showing how incremental progress, not dramatic transformation, is what truly moves us forward.
Through honest insights and thoughtful conversation, this episode offers a roadmap for anyone who’s ever felt boxed in by circumstance.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? |
| 0:01.6 | Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first to find out. I did not think it was an issue. As I got into my 20s, it started to get a bit more extreme. So I'd have an argument and then pick up a pen and straight through the arm. Like just not through, but like I would stab my arm. And I'm also having to start making cover stories, which I'd never had to do before. Some of these marks. |
| 0:24.2 | Oh, look all that rabbit. arm like just not through but like I would stab my arm and I'm also having to start making cover |
| 0:21.4 | stories which I've never had to do before so some of these marks oh look what that rabbit did to me |
| 0:25.5 | at a weekend fucking thing no one would question it because I had my shit together I would have arguments |
| 0:30.2 | and I'd do more serious injuries that nearly hit veins and then it wouldn't stop bleeding for about |
| 0:35.2 | two hours that was what mine was. |
| 0:38.1 | As we've discovered, I'm quite sort of emotionally different in most areas. |
| 0:42.4 | And then one night... |
| 0:47.3 | Hey everyone, welcome back to On the Men with me, your host, Matt Willis. |
| 0:50.4 | In this podcast, we explore the toughest moments in life and understand how people find the strength to move forward. |
| 0:55.9 | Today, I'm joined by comedian, writer, actor, and I just want to say, possibly the sexiest man who is 50 who plays Dungeons and Dragons. |
| 1:05.9 | Little caveat. |
| 1:07.4 | You killed it. |
| 1:08.0 | You killed it. |
| 1:09.4 | All the girls are like you said, oh don't see the dragons, that's it. |
| 1:11.6 | Absolutely, absolutely. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, that's how to get you into Afghanistan. I didn't, I left school without losing my kiss genity. I was one of the few. Even the ones that smelled... Let's school, what, a 16, without having kissed a girl. Even kissing. even the lads that smelt with Wii and played chess got a kiss |
| 1:28.4 | but I don't know what it is Dungeons and Dragons is like a giant being kissed a girl. Even kissing. Even the lads that smelt of Wii and played chess, got a kiss. |
| 1:49.2 | But I don't know what it is. Dungeons and Dragons is like a giant force-filled condom around your whole aura. It's a chastity belt forever, in it? But it all switches at 28. And we'll come on to it later, but I've just been involved in a survey about British sexual habits. Yeah. And the number one group that gets laid the most that's freakiest in the sheets are geeks over 30. |
| 1:52.0 | Hey guys, thanks so much for watching this season. |
| 1:55.9 | If you want even more from On the Mend, hit follow wherever you get your podcast. |
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