Pete Wicks: Why I've Always Felt Angry & What Led Me to Join Strictly (E296)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Pete Wicks is a reality TV star, best known for his role on The Only Way is Essex, where his charismatic personality and love life dramas gained him a dedicated fanbase. Beyond the cameras, Pete has navigated many personal challenges, including mental health struggles, which he openly discusses to help others facing similar battles.
In this episode, Pete sits with Jake to have an honest and raw conversation about mental health, anger, and personal growth. He reflects on how anger played a significant role in his life, especially during his younger years, and why it became a "safe space" for him. Together, Pete and Jake explore how therapy and recognising triggers can help in overcoming emotional struggles, along with discussing the healing process of addressing trauma.
Through his personal stories and insights, Pete offers valuable takeaways on mental health and self-awareness. He shares how this mindset affects him in different areas of his life, including his experience on recent shows like Strictly Come Dancing, and whether public opinion affects him.
This episode offers a raw and honest exploration of the complexities of anger, challenging the stigma around mental health. Their conversation is filled with honest reflections and insights on dealing with anger, trauma, and the importance of therapy.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes it's busy and it's not good and that's when you have to go no I need the |
| 0:04.8 | time out otherwise everything I do from this point will not be to the best of my |
| 0:08.2 | ability and when you're doing things not to the best of your ability and then |
| 0:11.3 | what's the point until you understand your own thoughts and feelings, |
| 0:16.0 | it's very difficult for you to find a way through darkness. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm still here and I'm still trying, |
| 0:22.0 | and I'm still willing to try and I'm still willing to try and be better |
| 0:24.4 | That to me is a triumph |
| 0:27.6 | So that's the voice of someone who I guess you'd call a reality TV star, Pete Wicks. |
| 0:32.6 | But you know what? |
| 0:33.6 | That doesn't even begin to explain who he is or what is. |
| 0:37.5 | He joins us on this episode of High Performance, |
| 0:40.0 | the podcast that explores the stories and ideas of some of the most extraordinary people |
| 0:44.4 | in the world because he wants you to hear and see a different side to him. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm Jake Humphrey and like a lot of people I'm just simply fascinated by becoming a better version of myself. |
| 0:55.6 | And I think one of the most powerful ways you can do that is lean into other people. |
| 0:59.6 | Forget the headlines, forget the stories, forget even the things that they put on their own social media because that's just what they do. |
| 1:07.0 | That isn't who they are. |
| 1:08.0 | And you're about to hear Pete Wicks talk as he tells us in this conversation in a way that he has never done before. |
| 1:14.6 | He opens up about traumas from his childhood, how that created incredible anger issues, but |
| 1:20.0 | also how he carries those with him to this day. |
| 1:22.6 | There's a moment in this conversation where I ask Pete if he's proud of himself. |
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