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,
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