Matt Willis Q&A: Addiction, Getting Sober And Facing Your Emotions
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever realised that the biggest obstacle to your growth might be you?
In this solo episode, Matt Willis answers your questions and shares powerful moments from his personal journey through addiction, recovery, and the ongoing work of self-awareness. Matt talks about the emotional realisation he had when he understood he was the common denominator in all his drinking situations, and how being "emotionally young" in recovery has challenged him to confront feelings he once numbed with alcohol.
He also shares the pivotal moment when Jack Osborne planted the seed for his decision to seek help and how rock bottom doesn’t always look like you’d expect. With practical recovery tools, including the "Fact or Thought" technique for managing negative self-talk, and the importance of self-compassion, Matt offers a raw and honest look at his journey.
This episode is about embracing vulnerability, facing tough truths, and continuing to move forward, no matter how imperfect the process.
This episode covers the following themes: addiction, sobriety, self-awareness, and personal growth.
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| 0:10.0 | Hi guys, welcome back to On the Men. This is the podcast where we look back at life's toughest moments to figure out how we move forward. |
| 0:16.9 | If you've been watching this for a while, you'll realize that when I do the intros to these podcasts, I read that line because I have it on the iPad. And I realize it's just one line. But for some reason, I freak out about it, so I feel like I have to read it. But it's quite simple. This is the podcast where we look back on life's toughest moments to figure out how to move forward. Easy, memorize, never going |
| 0:38.5 | to have to look at it again. This is a really cool episode. I'm really excited about this. |
| 0:42.9 | Slightly nervous in a weird way. But basically, a couple of weeks ago, we put a message out |
| 0:47.8 | on Instagram for you guys to write some questions into me, to kind of whatever you want to talk |
| 0:53.1 | about really, what you want me to talk about |
| 0:54.9 | any questions you have for me any questions you have that are kicking around your brain you're like |
| 0:58.5 | right okay let's see if we can get some answers um just to kind of put this out there i'm not an expert right |
| 1:03.5 | i'm not a psychologist i'm not a doctor i'm not anything i'm just a recovering alcoholic drug addict |
| 1:08.9 | who might have some knowledge of that. |
| 1:11.5 | That's all I have. |
| 1:12.7 | This is a video. |
| 1:13.7 | This is very exciting, isn't it? |
| 1:15.3 | Hi, Matt. |
| 1:15.8 | Love the podcast. |
| 1:16.8 | I was wondering who the first person you admitted you had an addiction problem to. |
| 1:20.8 | I did Jack Osborne's adrenaline junkie show, right? |
| 1:24.5 | And I went on his show and this was in, I mean, the very end of my |
| 1:29.3 | drinking, right, like about a month before I went to rehab for the last time. And we were in |
| 1:34.8 | New Zealand, I believe. This is the point I don't remember being there. Right, but we're |
| 1:39.3 | filming this TV show and I was an absolute disaster. I was drinking from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed. |
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