Joe Wicks: ‘The antidote to addiction is connection’ | 5
How Do You Cope?
Wondery
5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
How does being the child of an addict affect your life?
John is joined by fitness and health coach Joe Wicks to explore the trauma from his childhood, living with addiction in the family, and switching off from social media.
The son of a father with addiction problems and a mother with severe OCD and eating disorders, Joe grew up in a chaotic environment. He explains how he used exercise to escape from troubles at home, and how getting people moving and eating healthily became his main mission in life.
On Thursday in our bonus episode The Gratitude List, Joe shares the 5 things that he is currently grateful for.
Organisations mentioned in the podcast:
NA - Narcotics Anonymous: https://na.org/
ACA - Adult Children of Alcoholics: https://www.adultchildrenofalcoholics.co.uk/
Al-Anon: https://al-anonuk.org.uk/
NACAO - National Association of Children of Alcoholics: https://nacoa.org.uk/
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of How Do You Cope early and ad-free? |
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| 0:52.1 | Hello and welcome to How Do You Cope with me, John Robbins. |
| 0:56.3 | This is the show where I sit down with special guests to talk about the challenges they've overcome |
| 1:00.3 | and the coping mechanisms they use in their everyday lives. |
| 1:05.2 | Today's guest is the fitness coach, cookbook writer and social media personality Joe Wicks. |
| 1:10.7 | Joe shot to fame during the coronavirus |
| 1:12.4 | pandemic when he launched his PE with Joe live streams. On the day that national lockdowns were |
| 1:18.2 | announced in the UK, Joe started streaming the daily workouts which aimed to keep children and their |
| 1:22.8 | families fit and healthy during a tumultuous time. The first streams watched by over 900,000 people and the numbers kept climbing from there. |
| 1:31.0 | Prior to this, Joe had been working as a fitness instructor, which he began doing after first |
| 1:35.4 | working as a teaching assistant. |
| 1:37.3 | He launched his YouTube channel, the Body Coach TV, in 2014, and gradually became an online |
| 1:42.6 | success. |
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