You Don’t Have to Suffer to Succeed with Ryan Hopkins

After that, I went to, I finally got to university.

I've been traveled around different, like around South America.

I set up a hostel business in Ecuador, did what I could, came back, learned Spanish.

And I was like, I can do more.

So I went to uni, but then I was at uni, but so much pressure on myself.

I was so anxious that every time I left my flat, I felt like I was going to wet myself.

And it's just how my feelings.

like anxiety manifested again is this like control thing isn't it but then now then toilet break well-being was born partly to shine a light on something that troubled me so much when I was younger everything I wanted was a toilet I couldn't be in public without one so I thought if I'm going to start doing content normalize this conversation to give people practical things it has to be from here and by shining a light on the things that once we were incredibly ashamed of.

I wouldn't have believed that those moments where I felt true fear almost of anxiety being in public spaces would be a catalyst that put me on a stage in front of like 2000 people.

You couldn't have told that young man that story, right? But that is what's happened.

And it's, yeah, sort of wild when you look at it in reflection.

I tell that story sometimes about my younger self.

It doesn't feel like I'm talking about me anymore.

So I have to try and really take the time to get back into that, which is a challenge.

I love it.

Yeah, it's like that.

You bring in vulnerability, which is always something people connect with, into a topic that people aren't speaking about.

It doesn't surprise me at all that it's grown to the level it has, right?

No, well, I was practicing my first TED Talk and it was called Engaging a Billion People from the Toilet.

And I actually brought a toilet from Screwfix and that took it to the theater in what ensured it's where I was presenting.

I was the first person in history to do a TED Talk from a toilet.

More unsurprisingly, right? It's not an accolade that people are looking for.

I practiced that talk 38 times before delivering it.

It was called Engaging a Billion People from a Toilet.

So I want to engage a billion people in this subject.