Owning It: James Kavanagh talks panic attacks and letting anxiety happen
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
For this episode I am joined by James Kavanagh, TV presenter, broadcaster, social media superstar and co-founder and co-author of the award winning and bestselling Currabinny book and brand. James shares his experience of anxiety in recent years - manifested in midnight panic attacks - at a time in his life when everything is - on paper - very good. So why now? We trace back over his experience of being badly bullied for being gay throughout school and how perhaps his anxiety now, at a time when he accepts himself entirely, might be in fact a delayed reaction to having gone through a very hard time growing up, coupled with the anxiety of leaving a full time job and going out on your own in the unreliable freelance world. We chat about the comfort zone, social anxiety, panic attacks and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com. Thank you. |
| 0:22.5 | Hello, dear listeners and and welcome back to owning it, the anxiety podcast, with me, your host, Caroline Forin, author of both owning it or owning it in the States and the Confidence Kit. |
| 0:33.3 | This week, I'm joined by James Kavanaugh, who is quite a hard man to introduce. |
| 0:38.5 | Probably doesn't need an introduction, as you all will know him anyway, but we had to chat |
| 0:42.7 | about how we hate being asked what we do or how to describe ourselves. |
| 0:45.9 | So I'm going to describe him as one half curbinny, co-author, award-winning author, TV presenter, |
| 0:52.1 | social media star, and I guess you could just go on, there's just no way |
| 0:55.8 | into his list of professional accomplishments. But James obviously joins me on owning it this week to |
| 1:00.6 | talk about anxiety and confidence and his experience of bullying as a kid in a all-boys |
| 1:07.4 | school and the anxiety that went along with that bullying and what he's learned from |
| 1:11.1 | what it thought him. And then obviously we talk about anxiety in his day-to-day life now. In more |
| 1:17.5 | recent years, anxiety is something that has presented itself for James and we kind of explore |
| 1:21.4 | why that might be the case because he says himself he's happier now than he's ever been |
| 1:25.4 | and everything on paper is great. So why did he start to have these panic attacks in the middle of the night last year? |
| 1:31.9 | So I hope you get a lot from this. |
| 1:33.5 | I want to apologise. |
| 1:35.3 | My sound just came out a little bit funny. |
| 1:37.6 | The levels kind of changed a lot. |
| 1:39.5 | And oh my God, I just need to get a bloody producer. |
| 1:42.3 | This is just a headache. But if you're |
| 1:44.9 | focused on the content, hopefully you won't notice that it gets a little bit quiet in some |
| 1:48.8 | places and I sure I could do nothing about it. Well, I could, but I don't know how to. I'm trying |
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