Back In The Rehab Days with Joe Akira
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, John interviews Joe Akira, a kid John treated years ago when he was working in non profit. Joe was a lost 13 year old but now a thriving 27 year old. They reflect on Joe’s troubled youth and awoling the program. And how John was fresh off a divorce and rebuilding his own life, which he hid from the kids. A heartfelt episode about our collisions and how they affect us.
Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own |
| 0:04.3 | rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life |
| 0:08.9 | lessons and revelations. I believe in casual over clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:16.2 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:19.2 | All right I want to tell you a quick story. When I was a screenwriter, there would be days that I lose an entire, you know, half of a screenplay. |
| 0:31.0 | Oh, you're a screenwriter now, right. So we have a lot of parallels, by the way. of a I was meant to lose those pages because something better is going to come out of this |
| 0:45.1 | and it's the only way that I could get myself to calm down because when you grind |
| 0:50.6 | and you're writing you know 12 hours a day and you lose it all. |
| 0:54.6 | This is before there were clouds, right? This is when you're just typing shit on word |
| 0:58.8 | and you save it to your desktop. There was no such thing as clouds and so I used to lose you know 30 40 50 pages of a screenplay and when I did that or my computer would crash or whatever I would just trust that I was meant to |
| 1:16.0 | lose those pages so I could start over and it's going to be better and Joe as hard as |
| 1:21.1 | it is I think we have to both approach that mindset because |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah Joe and I have been talking for like what 16 20 minutes and we lost the whole thing it wasn't recording |
| 1:32.3 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:33.0 | So... |
| 1:34.0 | That conversation was genuine, so, you know, I think it was good anyways. |
| 1:38.0 | It was good, but I think it was, um, I think it was I think it was the warm up I think it was the runway I think it was |
| 1:48.8 | what we needed for now this to be the episode and that's of course me choosing to believe that |
| 1:55.5 | I'm gonna get frustrated and not not want to do it anymore. |
| 1:59.1 | Joe quickly tell us who you are and why you're here. |
| 2:03.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Akira. |
| 2:06.0 | I'm a film director and actor from Los Angeles, California, |
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