Joel Dommett: “Pretending’s the first step!” Build confidence and quieten nerves
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Do you find yourself running a mental list of what you’ve got to do tomorrow...next month... instead of living in the moment? Comedian and presenter Joel Dommett is getting better at appreciating the present.
In this chat, Fearne and Joel debate if it’s a good or bad thing to set career goals, and explore how to focus on the process rather than an outcome. Joel also has some advice about faking confidence in order to build it, and explains why his marathon efforts brought out his shadow side...
Plus, Joel justifies some of his more questionable tattoos, and reveals some big behind the scenes gossip from The Masked Singer!
Joel’s Happy Idiot tour has been extended into the autumn; get your tickets here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and a massive welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show that makes you feel a little bit lighter. |
| 0:08.0 | Today I'm chatting to the lovely Joel Domit. |
| 0:12.0 | I've got these awful flashes of what I think is the worst part of my personality that came out at this time. |
| 0:21.6 | I have a flash of me being dragged by two marathon employees to the ambulance |
| 0:26.6 | and me shouting at what is people who are watching the marathon |
| 0:31.6 | and just going like, someone record this. |
| 0:34.6 | Like I think I'm more important than the 50,000 people who are running. Like, |
| 0:40.1 | it's the worst side of me that's ever come out and God forbid it never comes out again. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm really excited for you to hear this episode for lots of reasons. One of them is because, |
| 0:48.7 | I mean, we touch on lots of different subjects, but one thing we talk about is really trying to |
| 0:52.9 | sort of be present and find joy in the moment. |
| 0:55.7 | And I think it's been a bit of a theme of my week. I took my kids to the circus. It was a circus with, |
| 1:02.1 | it was like an old school circus. No, you know, animals being mistreated, etc. Just sort of acrobatics and a clown |
| 1:08.9 | doing ridiculously funny things. And it was one of those moments where I was |
| 1:13.7 | mainly watching my kids' faces, which were lit up so beautifully. They were like laughing their heads |
| 1:20.6 | off, squealing with joy. And I sort of got carried along with it. And I, like, I'm sure many of you, |
| 1:27.2 | I'm the sort of person that can get a little |
| 1:29.7 | bit in my head and if I'm at something like the circus I could be thinking oh my god when I get |
| 1:34.1 | home I need to do the laundry and then I forgot to buy cat food and I'm just running a mental |
| 1:37.9 | list of what I need to do next but actually just watching their faces and seeing the joy in |
| 1:43.4 | the moment made me do exactly like it was contagious. |
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