Life After Life with Paul Chamberlain

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks with Paul Chamberlain about depression and suicidal ideation.

Paul is also known as the Smart Funny Tortured Coach who has learned how to find the better part of our darker angels and shine a light on the unique gifts that make us powerful.

Formerly a senior creative officer and serial entrepreneur for over 25 years, he contributed his award-winning expertise in branding, event/entertainment production, and pop culture to companies and industries that everyone knows.

After suffering from over a decade of undiagnosed chronic illnesses and an inauthentic self. He became profoundly depressed and at times suicidal, all while struggling as a husband, father, and creative. It all came to an end with one last project that would “fix it all”. It didn’t. It just made it much worse. That led to separation from his family and near bankruptcy. At that point, he recognized his story of self harm and chasing illusory overnight success was becoming fatal.

Today, thanks to an abundance of love and grit, as well as a blend of traditional therapy, coaching, integrative medicine, and holistic lifestyle changes; he now lives a happy balanced life with his wife/business partner, their two kids and the beloved chaos bundle of pets.

He is also the creator/host of the popular Smart Funny Tortured podcast which trends in the top 2.5% of Personal Journals on iTunes globally. Along with everything else, he profoundly enjoys the privilege of teaching Social Entrepreneurship within the UNLV Lee Business School and volunteering as a certified crisis advocate at The Center - serving the LGBTQ community of Nevada.

Coaching played such an integral part in his redemption that it served as inspiration to become one and gave his story an accredited, evidence-based framework that could be adapted and empowers him to be of service to people he knows, loves and understands…the smart, funny and tortured.

Paul's Website:

https://www.smartfunnytortured.com

https://www.smartfunnytortured.com/coaching

Paul's Podcast

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/smart-funny-tortured/id1568775383

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago
0:05.6	and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.
0:10.4	I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.2	because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated. Paul can you describe to us the day that you were in the parking structure the day that you put all your chips on one bet possibly the day that you put all your chips on one bet possibly the day that you were I mean I guess you know I guess many people would call it a rock bottom
0:50.0	but also it was also the day that I feel like was your bounce back or maybe the beginning of that?
1:00.6	Yeah, it was my wife and I had produced a large scale national comedy festival in downtown Las Vegas.
1:10.0	And while it was a critical success and well received by those that attended, it was, you know, a slow rolling financial disaster.
1:19.7	Yeah.
1:20.2	That I saw coming, lived in denial, tried to put things together, you know, lost a little
1:29.6	integrity along the way and you know was kind of in this mentality what I call a
1:33.7	heist mentality that it's like okay if I can pull this off then I can pay off all the
1:37.9	debts I can do this and after the first night when I knew for sure that we were going to be seven-figure debt hit.
1:52.4	I woke up, you know, my wife was still asleep at the hotel and went to the parking
1:57.4	structure and stood on the edge and you know the irony was not lost on me that I was planning to whack myself at a comedy festival I thought that that would be that would be bad for the overall theme of it and everything but
2:12.0	I was saying by the you know
2:15.0	No I was saved by the you know the memory and images of my of my kids and and stepped back and I can honestly say that day was the beginning of my
2:28.3	redemption and reinvention.
2:30.8	Yeah. So when you're standing on the edge on the roof of the parking structure, you said your kids.
2:41.6	How do your kids? Now they're 15 and 12. Then they were 10 and 7.
2:50.0	So what were you thinking as you were standing there?
2:54.3	Was it a kind of like challenge to yourself?
2:59.6	Was it, you know, kind of going back, you know, I'm sure there's a lot of inner dialogue and then obviously
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