The Rise, The Fall & The Rebuild Of True Geordie

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is my friend and all round good guy True Geordie, otherwise known as Brian Davis. Brian is from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He was born on a council estate, raised mostly by his mother as he describes his father being in and out of prison and not really being the father figure he desperately needed. When Brian left home he went to work on the oil rigs, scuba diving to work on them underwater. He describes how this would put him into life or death situations on a daily basis. The colleges he gained on the oil rigs became his father figures. After leaving the oil rigs he started YouTube under the name footballfan533, and first rose to prominence when his first video (titled A True Geordie's view on Nile Ranger) went viral. Brian quickly gained a following due to his expletive and passionate opinions, and therefore changed his channel name to True Geordie, uploading more regularly. He was originally known for uploading rants about his football, but has since become best-known for the eponymous True Geordie Podcast, hosted by himself and his best friend Laurence McKenna. Geordie was chosen the host and commentator for the KSI V Joe Weller fight in February 2018. He had previously been a commentator for some of the charity football matches. I met Brian back in 2017 to record his podcast, we recorded it in a tiny abandoned bomb shelter that he paid £50 a day to rent out. Brian has come a long way since then, running a rapidly growing Youtube channel thats accumulating millions upon millions of views per week, he’s commentated on one of the largest Youtube events in history and he’s also created some of the best content I’ve ever seen. All of this was quickly ripped away from him last year after one of the hardest weeks of his life, something we talk a lot about today. He’s gone through it all, been to the darkest of places, anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation. However this didn’t stop him getting back on his feet and rebuilding himself from the ground up, coming back bigger and better than before. Follow Brian: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TrueGeordie Twitter - https://twitter.com/TrueGeordieTG Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/TrueGeordieOfficial Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I feel like I'm struggling to breathe. It blew my fucking mind. I don't know whose
0:04.4	dick I've got to suck to get fucking respect round here. True Jordi went through
0:08.2	incredible adversity to get to where he is today. Depression, anxiety, and he's one of the few people that's willing
0:15.2	to tell you about it.
0:16.2	The ego was just going fucking crazy. I'm the man. All the worst parts of me,
0:21.4	amplified, it was better than a drug, it was better than a drug it was better than
0:24.0	anything it was like wow I would have carried on doing that probably if I hadn't
0:29.1	had a moment of like boom it just felt like everything I'd been building to had been like really like
0:36.0	fucked up. I know I needed humbled, but it was brutal. I literally wanted to kill myself, like, you know, I really, really did.
0:45.0	When you love someone more than anything else in this world, that matters more than anything.
0:51.0	And where others would have capitalized on a sub-story she was
0:54.7	far too precious for me to share she was mine she wasn't there for anyone else was just
1:02.2	my mom and I miss her every fucking day bro but once you give it there's no
1:06.8	taking it back the day I don't need money anymore that's going to be a scary day for the rest of the internet.
1:13.0	I don't want to let the fans down and I don't want to stop doing what they love me for, but... True Jordi, Brian. He's one of the real pioneers in the YouTube space. He runs one of the
1:32.1	biggest football shows, the biggest
1:33.5	podcast, the biggest boxing shows, and much, much more. But he is at heart, not the
1:39.7	guy you see on screen. He is a gentle giant, one born in a council estate who went through
1:46.0	incredible adversity to get to where he is today. Billions of views. His conversations
1:51.6	seem to sway cultural conversation, but he's still not getting what he deserves in his opinion and in mine.
2:00.0	When you see True Jordi, what you see is this big six foot five guy with tattoos and huge muscles.
2:05.0	But when you peel the layers back, you find the total opposite.
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