No BS with Dr. Adi Jaffe

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Dr. Adi Jaffe -- an amazing man with an incredible story of transformation, addiction, recovery and rebirth.

Dr. Adi Jaffe holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He teaches courses at UCLA that address addiction specifically, research statistics or biological psychology and behavioral neuroscience more generally. Well-known for his online and academic writing, Dr. Jaffe’s views on addiction and his research on the topic have been published widely in both academic journals and popular magazines and websites. He has appeared on several television shows including Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors and Larry King Now and in numerous documentaries discussing current topics in addiction.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim and I'm a therapist who went through his own
0:06.0	rebirth I share my feelings and revelations I believe in casual or clinical and
0:11.2	with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:15.8	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. Super excited about today's
0:21.5	guest Dr. Ad. Jaffey.
0:25.0	He has such an amazing story.
0:27.0	It's inspirational. I mean, it's like a movie from where he was to where he is now.
0:32.0	I'm a huge fan of character arcs and this man's
0:36.0	character arc is stunning. Anyone who's gone through their hero's journey and
0:40.5	come out the other side is always someone that I want to to get to know
0:46.4	and learn what they've learned along the way you know and Dr. Adi has slayed many dragons, his story opens like an episode of Breaking Bad and it just drew me right in.
1:00.0	He's got an amazing TED Talk.
1:03.7	His story starts with addiction and ends
1:06.9	with a successful entrepreneur slash doctor slash man husband father doing amazing things he also has his own podcast
1:19.9	Ignite and he just he's a good guy doing good things here is Dr. D. Jeffey. I kind of wanted to
1:30.6	start with and I'm sure we'll hop around, but I really love your TED Talk and I was watching it earlier today, and the opening of that feels like, it feels like the opening of an episode of
1:45.4	Breaking Bad it's so compelling. Thanks bad. So maybe we can start there I want to
1:51.3	front load that and of course we'll get into other topics.
1:54.4	But I think you have a powerful story.
1:57.1	Can you tell us the early days of addiction?
2:01.9	You know, what was your rock bottom? I mean I guess you talk about it in your TED Talk.
2:05.6	And then and then just you know how did you go from that to now a father,
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