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The Angry Therapist Podcast

How I Traded Hollywood Dreams for a Real Life

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the blueprint you’ve been chasing - cars, houses, status - no longer fits who you’ve become? In this powerful episode, John Kim shares how he traded Hollywood dreams for a meaningful life in Costa Rica, and how redefining his blueprint transformed everything. In this conversation, you’ll hear about: Why chasing cars, houses, and status leaves you empty The shift from living “outside-in” to “inside-out” How unconscious definitions shape love, work, and happiness The moment John redefined his blueprint as a parent Steps to rewrite your blueprint and live with meaning This isn’t about rejecting success - it’s about creating new definitions that actually serve who you are today. Join John in Costa Rica, Dec 1–5. A retreat for connection, creativity, and fresh starts with an optional two-day medicine journey. Sign up HERE John’s SubStack HERE Order John's new book, Break Up. On Purpose,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow John on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find out more about John⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If your definition of a love, for example, includes struggle and drama and chaos, like many of us, right, had that definition, hopefully past tense, you'll keep attracting relationships that provide struggle and drama and chaos.

0:13.7

Not because you consciously want that, right?

0:16.3

You don't want fucking chaos in your life, but because your nervous system recognizes chaos as love,

0:22.5

that's what you gravitate toward.

0:24.3

You're pulling from your unconscious, your subconscious, as they say, what's running

0:29.9

underneath, right?

0:31.6

Your definitions or your blueprints also determines what you consider possible, and this

0:36.6

one's big.

0:37.1

If your definition of success requires grinding yourself into the ground, you'll keep blueprints also determines what you consider possible. And this one's big.

0:40.8

If your definition of success requires, it's grinding yourself into the ground.

0:45.8

You'll keep choosing opportunities that, like, burn the candle at both ends.

0:50.5

Again, not because you enjoy exhaustion, but because your blueprint doesn't include sustainable access as an option.

0:56.3

I'm John Kim, a licensed therapist who used to be a miserable fuck before going on a

1:00.7

hero's journey and turning expired relationships into revelations.

1:04.8

I use my story to help others come with you instead of at you, unrehearsed on purpose,

1:12.7

because self-help doesn't have to be polished or complicated, just honest.

1:20.9

So I was supposed to interview a guest today, but because I'm really bad at math, I fucked up

1:26.7

the time zone.

1:28.5

You know, Costa Rica's tricky because it's like half the year.

1:31.6

I think we're one hour ahead of Los Angeles, and then the other half of the year were two hours.

1:39.2

Anyway, there's math involved.

1:40.7

And anytime there's math involved, I always fuck up.

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