Welcome to the Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton, and this podcast brings together some of the best thought leaders, teachers, and extraordinary individuals to help teach and mentor you on how to be a

top performer in life, love, and business. And joining me today is the angry therapist, John Kim.

He is the author and licensed therapist who pioneered the online life coaching movement eight

years ago after going through a divorce

and a rebirth. He started a blog called The Angry Therapist and quickly built a devoted following

of fans who loved the frank and authentic insights that he freely shared on social media. He pulled

the curtain back and showed himself by practicing transparency and sharing his story

something therapists are definitely not talked to do.

He became known as an unconventional therapist who worked out of the box by seeing clients

at coffee shops on hikes and at the gym.

He quickly built a coaching team of his own and launched a sister company called

J.R. and I creating a new way to help people, help people, and change the way we change. So today,

we're going to dive into a bunch of different topics. John's going to talk about his relationship to

divorce and how that process changed who he was.

But we're also going to talk about one of his latest books called I Used to Be a

Miserable Fuck, an Everyman's Guide to a Meaningful Life.

Now, it's a very well-written book.

He's quite funny. You know, he's not as

angry on this, on this interview as you might think based on based on the title. But we do talk a lot

about social conditioning around anger and how some of the patterns that we experience when we grow up really shape and

develop us as men to being prone to anger and aggression, how these things can shut us off

from a much deeper, more meaningful life. And one of the things that we talk about is our,

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