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Dr. JJ Kelly, the punk rock doc, so excited to have you on today.

I've been looking forward to this interview because it just seems like you are so much fun. And I love talking to really fun people. It just makes my time enjoyable here.

Yeah. Thanks for having me.

Tell us your that story. How did you get to be the punk rock doc?

Tell me tell you my what story? You cut out a little there.

You're just, yeah, your story. Like, what is you, let me move my microphone closer to me. What is your story? Like, how did you become the punk rock doc? I know you talk about unorthodox. That's the, you know,

your company name.

And yes, to dive into that.

That was because the people that I had trained in emotional intelligence skills of all ages

were way more emotionally intelligent and happy than any of the doctoral interns,

that doctoral level interns that I had supervised and many professionals as well. So I just call them docs. I don't like the doctor worship that

goes on in the medical profession and it's pretty patriarchal.

And so I just started calling these young people docs because they're spreading the joy more

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