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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Episode 148: The Best Thing That NEVER Happened to You

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 14 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

I did an interview with Leanne Rimes once on Instagram Live and toward the end I asked her

0:25.3

what's the best thing that's never happened to you and she was so confused. She wasn't

0:30.1

confused on how to answer the question. She was confused at what exactly I was trying to ask

0:36.3

her and totally fair. She was probably thinking, is this guy trying to be clever or funny? What is he asking me?

0:43.9

I didn't explain it well, but I wanted to explain it to you today

0:48.2

because I do have a point to that question.

0:51.2

I think that so many of us, when we're in it, right, when we're in the trenches and we want

0:59.7

something to happen so bad, whether it's, you you know fixing a relationship or maybe it's

1:05.2

getting that job or getting your business going whatever it is we want something

1:10.4

and then for whatever reason it doesn't happen and then looking back later you realize it was such a blessing that it

1:19.4

didn't happen right maybe you found someone else and that became the love of your life and looking back you realized you dodged the bullet or maybe

1:29.4

whatever company didn't happen was a blessing because now, because that forced you to go

1:34.6

in another direction and now you are partners with someone else doing something else that you

1:39.4

love or who knows, right? So there's a lot of things that when we're in the middle of it, when we're in the

1:46.7

storm or in the trenches, we want something so bad, right? And sometimes they are the best things that never happened to us. Okay, hopefully

2:01.8

I have explained it a little more in detail.

2:05.0

Hopefully you get it.

2:07.0

When I think about the best things that never happened to me,

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