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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Passport to Shame with Sam Louie

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John brings on his old friend, Sam Louie, to discuss the topic of shame. They share their personal experiences growing up with shame, including racial discrimination and cultural differences. They also discuss the impact of early exposure to pornography, the coping mechanisms they developed, the role of shame in their adult lives, particularly in the context of divorce, and discuss strategies for working through shame and the importance of sharing one's story.


Sam Louie has a private practice specializing in multicultural issues, trauma, and sex addiction. Prior to receiving his Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, Sam worked more than twelve years as a television journalist where he researched, produced, and reported on a number of stories related to psychotherapy, relationships, and recovery. He garnered two Los Angeles Emmy Awards. Sam is the author is Author of: Passport to Shame: From Asian Immigrant to American Addict and Spoken not Broken: Healing through Poetry. You can find out more about Sam by following him on Instagram @SamLouieTherapy


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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Transcript

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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 because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.

0:22.0

So Sam Louie and I go way back. Here's what's interesting about Sam. So I grew up in an all white neighborhood. Sam and I roughly the same age. Sam grew up in a predominantly all black neighborhood. I grew up skateboarding.

0:36.9

Sand group grew up playing basketball. We both loved hip hop and the way that I met Sam was I was at church and I didn't have many friends and this guy

0:50.1

You know we started talking. He's like I got to introduce you to my friend Sam he's also

0:54.8

Asian he's also going through a divorce and he's also studying to be a therapist and I

1:01.7

remember that's why he brought me to your house and that's how we met. And then from there, I remember the moment that Sam asked me for my phone number and it was kind of a

1:15.3

weird moment because it's kind of strange for guys to because Sam and I are older

1:21.0

and you know we we were kind of we have our one foot into kind of like you know

1:27.4

The old generation were asking a man for a phone number might be kind of weird.

1:32.6

And I remember, it was kind of forced.

1:37.0

It was like, it's almost like, you almost demanded it.

1:40.8

It was almost like, you know, if you get nervous instead of being polite

1:44.0

asking I think you threw me your phone and you were like give me your phone number and I was

1:47.5

like oh shit and from then on we moved in together, became friends, and we went through divorce recovery together as we were

2:00.0

working on hours toward licensure.

2:02.7

And here's what's interesting,

2:03.7

and you can see this,

2:04.8

you can see this literally on YouTube.

2:06.6

Now if you look at Sam,

2:08.2

he became the shirt and tie guy, right,

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