Spencer Matthews: lack of purpose, taking responsibility, and the power of small healthy habits

Wellness with Ella

The Wellness Scoop

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week Ella is joined by Spencer Matthews for a candid conversation on the pressure to fulfil your potential, avoidance, and the detrimental impact of a life without purpose. They discuss taking responsibility of unhealthy habits, how sobriety transformed Spencer’s life and has enabled him to be the father, husband, friend, and businessman that he always wanted to be. They discuss: Chasing fame in his 20s Feeling a pressure to succeed and live up to your potential Using drinking to numb out boredom and a lack of purpose His catalyst moment for addressing his relationship with alcohol Spencer’s experience of breaking the cycle of excessive drinking Building mental strength through physical fitness Cultivating self-awareness The mindset shift that helped him transform his health Spencer’s outlook towards implementing healthy habits Links: Spencer’s podcast Big Fish For new subscribers, use code podcast20 to get 20% off the Feel Better App Wellness Toolkit for this episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	by the personal growth that our guests are talking about and take those lessons into their own lives.
0:51.2	Welcome to Wellness with Ella, the deliciously-ella podcast. This is a podcast that
0:56.8	aims to inspire you, to empower you, to leave you feeling uplifted. And each week I want to share
1:03.1	what wellness really looks like. As we unpack the simple tools that have helped each one of our guests
1:09.1	turn a negative into a positive and unlock true happiness and genuine health. And by health,
1:15.6	I don't mean how they look, I mean their energy, their excitement, their fulfilment. The question
1:21.0	is how can we all get more from life? So a few months ago I met today's guest on a panel
1:29.1	for a Facebook event that we were both doing and it was about turning a negative into a positive,
1:35.4	how do you take your rock bottom and transform it into purpose. And prior to that, I'm not sure if I'm
1:42.0	completely honest that this guest is who I would have immediately had in mind for the show.
1:47.8	But as part of this panel and this discussion, I was really struck by his story, his experience,
1:53.2	his very honest way of talking about the catalyst that made him want to change his life,
1:58.3	what it felt like to go towards his sense of rock bottom and realise what was really holding him
2:04.0	back from the life that he wanted. And I think we can all relate to those habits, the ones that we know
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