The Science of Joy with Dr. MC McDonald
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John and Dr. MC discuss the science behind joy and how they each thread it into their lives. They also discuss the science behind joy and hope and how important it is to practice to rewire your brain. Finally, they end with three off the cut questions to each other and decide to have these science behind the brain " conversations" as a series on The Angry Therapist.
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 |
| 0:16.2 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:18.8 | I just want to remind you before we start today's episode that the angry therapist |
| 0:26.3 | premium is live ad free a bonus episode a week and they're all execution based so a series based on a certain |
| 0:36.9 | topic just go to the annual therapist.com forward slash premium and if you're willing to forego a cappuccino a month it's about five bucks you can |
| 0:47.0 | get commercial free podcast and extra episodes. |
| 0:50.8 | MC McDonald, Dr. MC, how are you? |
| 0:55.0 | I'm good, how are you? |
| 0:57.0 | I'm good, how are you? |
| 0:58.0 | I'm well. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey, I had a revelation. |
| 1:00.0 | By the way, thank you for being on my podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, of course, thanks for having me. So to. So I literally walked in my door like an hour ago, came home from Ida Wild and I was working on the retreat house painting and stuff and you and I were chatting via |
| 1:16.2 | text last night about frustrations career stuff well mostly meing, you should send me an invoice. I will. Yeah. |
| 1:27.3 | And the revelation I had was because I came home and I was like okay I'm gonna on my motorcycle, I'm going to go to a coffee shop and write, I'm going to, you know, catch up on podcast, I'm going to do all these things. |
| 1:40.0 | And I had this moment where I was like, you know I do this full time, meaning I'm able to do this |
| 1:46.8 | full time without like having a full practice or without you know waiting on tables, waiting on tables and, you know, living in LA, the definition of a successful |
| 1:56.1 | actor is if you can actually get enough work as an actor without having a side gig, right? |
| 2:02.2 | And I thought, I know I do a lot of complaining, and of course, like everyone else, I want more, but I thought, dude, I do this full time. Like I have the privilege to design my day, you know, not see clients if I don't want to and just kind of do this full time and I sensed a moment of, like it says on my shirt here pure gratitude. |
| 2:25.0 | Yay that's huge. |
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