Russell Kane: How To Build Confidence & Stay Young

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Russell Kane, a Multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, actor, author and scriptwriter. Russell Kane is best known for the BBC Radio 4 podcast Evil Genius, which has become a flagship show and was the best performing original podcast on the BBC Sounds platform. Russell's other podcast, Boys Don't Cry, also features regularly on the iTunes podcast chart. Kane is also the author of two books, “The Humorist” and the very well-received memoir about his father “Son of a Silverback: Growing Up in the Shadow of an Alpha Male”. Russell went on to make history as the first comedian to win both the Edinburgh Award and Melbourne Comedy Festival's Barry Award in one year. In this conversation you see the less funny side of Russell, it is however one of the most informative, fascinating and mind-boggling conversations I've ever had on this podcast. This guy has more knowledge than you could ever imagine and I think you’re really going to enjoy this chat. Follow Russell: Twitter - https://twitter.com/russell_kane Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/russell_kane Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Russell Kane, he's known as a multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, actor, author, and script writer,
0:07.3	but man, this guy is so much more.
0:10.0	I started doing all this biohacking to survive on less sleep, to not lose your hair,
0:15.6	or to slow down the ageing process. It fucked my life in the proper sense.
0:22.4	Everything fell apart like a junkie. How can I get more of that?
0:26.4	My relationship with my girlfriend fell apart. My bill started to not be paid. I started to look thin.
0:32.1	It's the closest thing to a drug addiction I've ever experienced. Russell Kane. He's known as a multi-award winning comedian, presenter, actor, author and script writer, but man this guy is so much more. He's genuinely, deeply
0:58.4	intellectually curious, something that honestly surprised me and this sounds like it
1:02.1	might be offensive or a weird thing to say
1:04.5	but I'm gonna say it anyway I didn't realize how smart this guy is remarkably self-aware and
1:12.2	on top it all off brutally honest he says it how it is
1:16.7	He has an ability to point out things that I think most of us muggles miss and he's also
1:21.2	Genuinely just a really nice and hilarious human being.
1:25.0	Today you won't hear many jokes. This is the more serious side of Russell Kane and
1:29.4	a side of him that I did not know and would not have guessed before speaking to him.
1:34.5	So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the Diyvis CEO.
1:38.4	I hope nobody's listening, but if you are then please keep this to yourself.
1:42.5	Russell, one of the things I read when I was...
1:46.5	Russell.
1:50.5	Hello.
1:51.5	One of the things I read when I was reading about your story was a quote and I'm going to read the quote to you.
2:01.0	You said, I remained a boy while he was alive even when I was 18 and I needed to be a man to tell these stories
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