Matt Wolcott - From Drug Dealer to Family Man
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John sits down with Matt Wolcott. They talk about Matt's struggle with addiction, and how he got sober in 2016. Matt grew up in Huntington Beach and moved to LA in 2005. He spends most of his time working on various projects, businesses, hanging with his wife and two daughters. He surfs, tends to bonsai trees, and rides motorcycles in his spare time.
Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own |
| 0:04.3 | rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life |
| 0:08.9 | lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:16.2 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:22.0 | Bonafide Hustler slash Street Pharmacist, DJ to entrepreneur, tech executive. |
| 0:32.0 | This is actually when I met him, father and husband. |
| 0:35.0 | Matt grew up in Huntington Beach and he moved to LA in 2005 and struggled with |
| 0:42.2 | alcoholism and addiction most of his life. |
| 0:44.6 | He got sober in 2016 and he spent time working on various projects and businesses hanging out |
| 0:52.3 | with his wife and two daughters and in his spare time he goes surfing |
| 0:58.2 | Trims Bonzai trees I don't know if that if that's the way you say it and it's rides motorcycles. So Matt is my friend but I have him on my |
| 1:07.1 | podcast because he has an amazing story. You know we have a lot in common Matt. We both grew up in |
| 1:12.4 | LA right? |
| 1:15.8 | And I want to know, because I know broad strokes about your upbringing, but I want to know |
| 1:21.1 | details we'll kind of get into, because I think you you have a I'm going to say a beautiful character arc right from from from where you were brought up where you started I think streets of Huntington Beach, Long Beach to where you are now and some may argue you should not be alive. |
| 1:39.0 | And whenever you hear that there's obviously an interesting story there. |
| 1:44.0 | And then we have other things in common like fatherhood, we're both entrepreneurs, you know, |
| 1:51.0 | all of that. So let's start with your upbringing all right yeah |
| 1:59.3 | where were you raised I was |
| 2:05.0 | a eight and then I moved to Orange County and moved to Orange County |
| 2:10.0 | and moved into the Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach area and grew up there |
| 2:16.6 | until college age I left and moved to all around there, you know, Huntington, Long Beach, |
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