Chapter 1: What challenges has Ryan Tubridy faced in recent years?
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What a pleasure and an honor to sit down with Ryan on The Good Glow today. So I wanted to get into the healing with Ryan today. I wanted to talk about when life suddenly shifts. And nothing feels the same anymore. When you feel like you're looking at your life from the outside in and you can't quite recognize it anymore.
After years and years in the spotlight and a very public chapter that changed absolutely every part of his life. How did Ryan find his way through the stress, the noise and into an entire new version of his life? What a shift, what a change and how did he navigate that? But this conversation, it isn't about the headlines, the money, the job or TE.
It's about what happens after in those long days when it's just you. The healing, the resilience it takes to get through a time like that. The unnoticed moments that actually bring you back to yourself, to reality. Hearing the birds again. Leaning and really relying on the people who love you and support you and hold you up in those dark, dark moments. How did Ryan find steadiness in it all?
How did he come back to himself? And how did he emerge as a more compassionate, caring, understanding person through it all? And will Ryan run for president? We actually recorded this podcast in my home where most of my healing was done after the earthquake in my life. It was so nice to have Ryan sit down in my living room with me for this really intimate chat.
So I hope if you are facing into darkness at the moment or you feel like you're in the middle of it, I hope that this conversation gives you hope. Ryan, welcome to the Google. How are you?
Right. And so I was so pleased to hear from you because we go back a little bit. I don't know you well, but I met you and I know who you are. And when you said, can you really do the podcast? I was really happy to do it because, you know, I really liked when we spoke and I love what you do. And the word that I've come to I appreciate, admire and love of latest resilience.
And I think you're one of those great resilient people. So, yeah, I admire you.
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Chapter 2: How did Ryan navigate the pressure and stress of public life?
I said to that deer before I came up, I said, about six minutes in,
Right when she's talking about sitting in the garden.
This is the Truman Show. Isn't that lovely?
Isn't that fabulous?
But finish the story.
So you're looking out and suddenly... So I'm looking out and I said, one day it will make sense. And actually, before I finished that question, I used to sit in that garden and we bought this house three months before I got sick. And as I was sitting there, I realized that I'd never heard the birds before that moment.
Do you know what I mean?
And it allowed me to stop and listen. But my original question is, has it made sense at this point or are you still in that messy middle, do you feel?
Well, first of all, I think your description is lovely. I've definitely fallen in love with nature again, the way you describe it there. There was a while when it was the messy middle, that's a really lovely description, where I couldn't listen to music. And I was really, really sad. And I couldn't, I could always read, like I'm always going to read. If I don't read, I'll die.
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Chapter 3: What healing processes did Ryan undergo during tough times?
So rather than just going, that's what it is. That's what the birds do. That's what the trees do. That's what that random deer does. You go, stop a second. That's beautiful. It's gorgeous. gorgeous. How does that happen? How's that bird flying? How's that beak make that sound? Like it's bonkers. And why is that one ugly?
Chapter 4: How did Ryan find support from loved ones during his struggles?
Why do we think crows are mean? They're really smart. They can unscrew things like, you know, and then it gets on and on and on and on. So yeah. Curiosity, isn't it?
Do you remember the time of when things started? The bad bits. The bad bits. Yeah. But do you remember that when it started to get better again?
Do I remember, your flat white is as good as they said, if I may, just as an aside. But do I remember when the sun started to come out again? Well, to be honest with you, I had met somebody extraordinary in Clare, and she was, I think the sun never quite got behind the clouds when she was there, because There's too much brightness. I'm flogging this metaphor. But there is.
Chapter 5: What insights does Ryan share about personal growth after hardship?
And even though it got dark, but it just didn't get dark enough that I couldn't see anything. And I'd largely put it down to her. And we used to quote this beautiful song by Paul McCartney, which is actually quite a recent song by Paul of the Beatles called My Valentine. And we often talk about it because it was desperate. And I would be running or walking. And what if it rains? We didn't care.
She said that someday soon the sun was going to shine. And she was right.
Chapter 6: What does Ryan think about the possibility of running for president?
This love of mine, this Valentine.
Wow.
And that quote is very special to us because it rained, physically rained. We went out running once or twice. And I said, actually, like a metaphor, we went running in Connemara and the rain started bucketing down. And I said, and it was really at the heart of the badness. And I said, let's get the hell back in. And she goes, no, let's keep going. Metaphor.
We went, got drenched, came back in, laughed and said, yeah, OK. So that's what it was. Yeah.
Were you good at moving the anxiety or sadness or what was going on?
No, I was terrible at moving things. Like, I don't want to dress this up and say it was, you know, I was fine. You know, I didn't know what was happening. So I was very confused. because I didn't understand the nature of the kerfuffle, because that's how surprised I was by it. So I was blindsided by it. And then even when it was put before me what was going on, I still didn't understand it.
I'm not that person. I'm not a very technical person.
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Chapter 7: How does Ryan reflect on his career and its impact on his life?
And so I wouldn't have known details of things. And I was going, what? And they were saying, well, you know, it's like in the cartoon when the serious people come along. It's like, . That's all I heard. That was like being back at school. And so, you know, lesson learned, of course. You just do your homework, you know. But yeah, so it was a very peculiar time. And I didn't know what was going on.
I remember thinking at one stage, I was talking to my therapist. And I said, crikey, I said, I'm really kind of weepy today. And he said, yeah, that's OK. That's normal. He said, that's post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. I said, but doesn't the P stand for post? I said, yeah. He said, yeah. I said, I'm still in it. There's no post about this.
That lasted for a couple of months, I'd say, at its worst.
Chapter 8: What exciting new projects is Ryan involved in now?
And then the rest, then it just started to pick up again. But it was slow. It was a slow unwind.
Thank you for talking about that.
Thank you for asking. You know, I just don't want people who are going through the absolute horrors to think that it's easy and to think that just because you're the guy off the TV or the guy with all the success that I've had in my career, which I've had and I'm grateful for, that it becomes easier. It doesn't matter.
It's helpful that I'm not living in poverty, of course, but emotions are universal. So yeah, it's not an easy thing. So the key, as you'll know, is communication. I think it's talking. And I think as an Irish man, I talked a lot, but I said nothing.
And I didn't I didn't listen to my my and it was my job to talk to people I talked to you on the late late show, you know That's my job and I loved it because I was curious and I was interested I was interested in in people like you I say this respectfully to you But I didn't listen to myself.
So I probably should have been on the couch and myself By somebody professional, but I'm a big kid interviewer. Yeah. Well, that's nice you to say but I but I love interviewing I love my job I'm fascinated by the world. I'm curious. I will die curious.
And as I see older people getting older and drifting into the fog, I think the most common thing I see is a lot of people who tend to survive a bit longer in terms of mental acuity are the ones who do the crossword still and are still curious about who's bombing who and why, who got assassinated last night, the news and what I'm saying.
It's the blue zone way of life.
It's like keep your brain busy and walk. Go up the hill, go down the hill. Yeah, that blue zone was really interesting. I watched a couple of episodes of that. Why are certain places in the world full of people who will live forever? And it was this, they were getting their daily exercise because they lived in hilly, all that stuff was really interesting.
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