This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast. More of what
you here Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. Jay Glazier is a TV personality.
You know him from an insider for Fox Sports award winning NFL Pregame Show and
Fox NFL Sunday as well. He's got a new creation where he bears his
soul in the book Unbreakable, How I turned my depression and anxiety into motivation
And you can to Jay Glazier is with us, Hija, how you doing
a good morning? Good good to have you along. Okay, So in
this book you're talking directly to the reader as a teammate, absolutely because you
know for me, you know, look I was I talk about what I
call living in the grave, which is depression anxiety add by polar I was
born with it in the sucks. And one thing I realized that helpsting through
it as to have teams. And my Fox invos on a team as a
team for me. My fight team is a team for me. God is
a team for me. But I realized there's so many more teammates out there
for me. The more I can open up about this, the more I
can walk this walk with other people. The more it's not just gonna help
me, I in turn could help everybody else out as well. So,
yeah, you're all my teammates. Unbreakable is the book, and Jay Glazer
is here. You say you were born with ADHD and bipolarism. When did
you realize you had it? Oh? No, that's my earliest childhood memory.
Like childhood was rough because you don't really understand what's going on. You
just know that, Man, Why am I sad all the time? Why
am I so anxious all the time? Why can't I sleep? I'm fidgeting,
I'm just it just doesn't stop. And you know, it wasn't until
and even like listen, I started having my first anxiety attack. I was
an empty Raiders stadium in two thousand and five doing a hit for Foxing of
All Sunday, and all of a sudden, I felt like I was having
a heart attack. The walls started caving in, my eyes started shaking and
started shaking. And we didn't talk about mental health at back then. We
didn't know what anxiety attacks were. Back attacks were back then, And it
happened every single week I've ever been on TV since. So I was getting
my heart checked out for a heart attack all these years, and that's the
scary world. You will walk around and for all that time thinking I'm gonna
die on TV for all these years and actually welcome to Terry Broudshaw start talking
about it. I was like, oh, wait a minute, that's what
it is. And Terry was ahead of his time. So I know that.
The more I can talk about it and people go, oh, that's
what I have. Okay, I'm all right, and we're safe. And
we have these packic attacks, these anxiety attacks. We're safe. But you
know, not enough people tell you that. So I want to make sure
I can give it words with the depression, like, look, I wake
up every single day in my life in this gray of man. The sky
has fallen, the universe hates me. Everything that's going to go bad is
going to go bad. And the truth is the universe conspires to help us.
But it's a difficult way to wake up every day. I had to
learn tools and not just get out of bed every day. But once I
did, how to go be relentless. So I now want to show people
you can have this level but still live in the blue. You can beat
the gray and live in the Blue and I went from mental health to mental
wealth, and I'm trying to show everybody we could all do that. Like
my mental health issues motivated me, and that's what this book is about.
Motivated me to go be successful, to go to all these great things.
I've overcome an awful lot to get here, and that's my Money's not my
wealth. What I've overcome, that's my wealth. And he talks all about
it in Lessons for Living from the Mental Health from a Mental health Warrior Unbreakable.
How I turned my depression and anxiety into motivation and you can too,
Jay Glazer a Fox News Sunday you know, and also NFL Insider, What
role did the sports have in your process? So for me, I need
teams and I fought for years. And it's so funny because in my teammates
are the battitudes and the platfor Chuck Lindell and Randy Coutur, and we would
be in the cage and we would beat the dog snot at each other,
and then after that's when we would sit around and we start talking about our
lives. We would be crying each other. I think people walk past the
cage were like many really beat the helling each other. But that's when we
learned how to be vulnerable. And once I started learning about that vulnerability,
and I realize, man, this is what makes us strong. I gotta
teach this to other dudes out there. I'm gonna teach you to other people.
This vulnerability has changed my life, and you know that's that's been one
of the biggest things for me. I used to, you know, be
this athlete who know I'm not gonna show it. I'm not gonna show it
worth back to the show. If I'm tired, I'm never going to show
it. And that works in sports, but it doesn't work for the rest
of our lives. And what I also do you know, sports for me
and I I tell these general teams, I go talk tom Now, lean
into your teammates, Lean into them, make you so much closer. Every
single time I have opened up to one of my teammates, it's gotten us
so much closer. No one's called me a woose. No one said Jay,
stop, your life is great. Stop complaining. No one's told me
to suck it up and sacked. Almost everybody said either they've had it some
former depression or anxiety, or family member or kid or something. A man,
I'm so glad he talked to me about this now and I had to
deals is better and it's something we've all just suffered in silence, which for
so long. Man, screw that those days are over. I want to
keep the door open, you're and make us all talk about this so we
could become one big, badass team together, like we are a sports team
together. We are our common goals to be back to gray and live in
blue. Unbreakable is the book. Jay Glazer is the author. You know,
I'm from Fox News NFL Sunday and we just you had me chuckling a
minute ago. So that's one of the things you talk about. Never underestimate
the power of laughter, absolutely, And that's for me when I'm having an
anxiety attack after it gets me to it. So so here I'm on TV
having a major panic attack where I feel like I'm having a heart attack.
What do you do? I can't just stop and say, oh, you
guys, I'm having a panic attack. I think I'm having a heart attack.
So I had to learn how to deal with it. So it's laughter
for me is everything and you and I'm on the right show to do it
because I want see me and how we long and straight at Kurt Metaphe and
Jimmy Johnson. You know, it's all we do at the time is laughed.
So I will, but I'll push out a joke that may not fit
when I'm having a really bad attack, just to get myself through it.
It helps so much. And now the difference to me also now when I
am having a panic attack or an anxiety attack, now I will tell a
commercial break, I will tell how You're straight at a Kurt oh Man.
I'm going through it right now. Man, the walls are taping in on
me, and the moment I tell them, I start getting relief because I'm
not fighting it on my own anymore. And that that's been a huge change
for me, a huge difference. The book is Unbreakable How I turned my
depression and anxiety into motivation and you can too the books out Now. Another
thing you talk about is being of service or help to others, and it'll
help yourself absolutely from my whole life. That listen, when you have this
level of depression, the roommates in your head start telling you what a bad
person you are, and you live in this guilt and live in the shame,
and it's really difficult. So one of the things I've always done is
when you're of service, it almost off sets the negative stories that you tell
yourself. So you could be of service and help other people out and all
of a sudden, like I said, it kind of the antidote to feeling
like it's such a bad person and I didn't know. I'm not a bad
person. I know how to fight back against what those voices say by doing
this. So and there's ways to be a service. That put the book
that requires zero money, what's whatever, very little money, the way that
you started big foundations, touchdown dreams, that tells children's MDP, merging DUTs
and players which helps combat DUTs and athletes. There's things I did you know
with my son, I put in the ninety nine cent store, and with
my toothbrus toothpaste, handy wives, socks, gloves, m JO and badam
and him at the homeless, at tape books. So there's just different things.
Or just call my friends and check them up on them. That's being
of service. Also, gotta go lessons and learning and live and living with
a mental health warrior unbreakable. It's Jay Glazer, how I turned my depression
and anxiety into motivation in UKN too. Thank you for joining us, Jay,
Thank you appreciate it. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews,
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