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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Episode 145: What is a Beautiful Person?

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

PRE-ORDER John Kim's new book here! John Kim (The Angry Therapist) is doing things differently. Therapy in a shotglass. Ten minutes, no filler. Music in this episode is by Keshco, used under a creative commons license. The Angry Therapist Podcast is Produced and Audio Engineered by Amanda Meyncke, with support from Stephanie Zoccatelli. Want a free relationship toolkit to improve your relationships and yourself? Sign up here theangrytherapist.com/podcast. Want to become a life coach? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, my name is John Kim. I'm a licensed therapist and life coach putting

0:07.2

self betterment into a shot class because let's face it who's got that much time

0:11.4

these days. I come unpolished, unrehearsed, on purpose.

0:16.0

If you're looking for more of a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place.

0:20.0

Back in the day, my definition of beauty was two dimensional and predictable, mostly

0:26.5

aesthetics. Today my definition of beauty is multidimensional and has layers.

0:32.7

Now, I used to think the greatest compliment you could give someone

0:36.8

was that they hold up, meaning that they are who they say they are, you know, there's no posturing or falseness and their

0:48.7

character lines up with their words and I always thought like that would be the greatest compliment for me is if you

0:55.4

know someone said that you know John you hold up you know and I'm saying you know a lot, which I need to stop doing.

1:05.2

Anyway, but today I think the greatest compliment is

1:15.0

if someone thinks you're a beautiful person.

1:18.3

And so I thought about this for a while and I was thinking, well, what is my definition

1:20.8

of a beautiful person?

1:32.0

I think beauty starts with kindness and then right after kindness compassion. I don't think that being a dick is beautiful and I don't

1:39.0

think that we're born dicks right? No one's born an asshole. Being a dick or unkind is actually usually a defense coming

1:50.6

from some kind of hurt, coming from not having tools coming from one story upbringing you know so many factors right so even like someone being a dick or unkind isn't black and

2:06.2

white and there's a story behind that no one's born an asshole we're born

2:11.5

with a clean slate. We have little pure hearts and as we grow up and

2:17.9

experienced life and we start getting hurt and all the pain that comes with the life in general, all the turbulence,

2:30.7

we start trying to protect ourselves, We start to become reactive. We start coping in

2:35.9

unhealthy waves. Waves. Well, waves too. We start we start coping in unhealthy ways and in waves and then being a dick slowly becomes the knee

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