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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Life is Like Rock Climbing

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

John Kim (The Angry Therapist) is doing things differently. Therapy in a shotglass. Ten minutes, no filler. Get 7 days free with BLINKIST --> https://www.blinkist.com/angry 3,000+ bestselling nonfiction books, transformed into potent little packs you can listen to or read in just 15 minutes. 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 change your own life, give back to others and change the way others experience the world? Let's talk. 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 shotglass 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

So what started off as a gorgeous day for a fun mandate which would include some food, a

0:27.7

motorcycle ride and a hike ended up being sort of a nightmare for me if you haven't seen on Facebook because the video

0:37.6

ended up going viral and I have mixed feelings about this because you know I spend my life

0:41.6

Trying to create a important dialogue and get people

0:45.2

to maybe see something a different way or to challenge their thoughts and those videos get

0:52.0

not many views but then this one video of me

0:56.0

trying to climb a rock sideways and possibly falling into the cold river got

1:02.4

1.2 million views. Anyway, so I've never really been rock climbing and

1:08.6

my boys, not my sons, my friends, I call them my boys. We went to Malibu on a beautiful

1:18.9

motorcycle ride and then my friend Andy led us to a hike, which turned out to be, and he knew this shit,

1:28.5

he just didn't tell me because I know how he is, turned out to be an adventure of sorts.

1:32.4

We started climbing right rocks and it became more difficult.

1:36.4

It's one of those things where you just go so far, you just can't turn back.

1:39.6

And then when you're on a rock, you can't just jump down unless you're at an indoor climbing place.

1:45.9

You know if you're out in nature on a rock you either fall or I mean I don't know I didn't have the tools to like climb down I just there was only one

1:55.2

gear and it was forward so there's this thing called traversing I guess it's when you

2:00.4

kind of climb a rock sideways and I knew that if I fell into the cold

2:06.3

ocean it's a river that the motorcycle ride on the way home being soaked and it wasn't a hot day it was

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