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The Angry Therapist Podcast

The Unfinished Man with Lair Torrent (Part 2): Men and Fatherhood: Embracing the Life Cycle Event

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In part two of The Unfinished Man Series, John and Lair explore the complexities of fatherhood, identity, and emotional health. They discuss Lair's personal experiences growing up without a father, the impact of that absence on his adult relationships, the challenges of transitioning into fatherhood, and much more. Find out more about Lair HERE Follow Lair on Instagram HERE Buy Lair's book The Practice of Love: Break Old Patterns, Rebuild Trust, and Create a Connection That Lasts HERE You can pre-order John's new book, Break Up. On Purpose, HERE Jump into John’s new Single. On Purpose app HERE Follow John on Instagram HERE Find out more about John HERE  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago,

0:05.7

and I've been documenting my journey ever since, sharing my life lessons and revelations.

0:10.6

I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you.

0:14.2

I come unrehearsed on purpose because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.

0:21.4

Hey, quick question. Are you sick of swiping? Are you sick of the toxic dating landscape?

0:27.5

Like most of my clients are, are you sick of being ghosted and unresponsive people?

0:33.2

Well, check it out. Put all the dating apps away and jump into my online community sing on purpose the app it's

0:40.9

a community of like-minded singles working on connecting to themselves first and by doing so they are

0:47.1

creating organic connections and listen i never said single forever so you could of course connect with

0:53.2

someone and find love on the app, but that's not

0:55.2

the goal. I'm also in there all the time doing lives at least once a week and we're going to

1:00.6

eventually do in-person hangs. It's going to be an amazing community. It just launched. Check it out,

1:07.0

sing on purpose.life. I'll see you inside. before we begin i want to just uh do a quick check

1:13.8

in uh not that this is a group or therapy but uh i want to kind of reset before we start um

1:21.7

layer maybe i could actually start with you uh yeah just checking in how are you doing? How are you feeling?

1:31.1

You know, it's kind of a surreal time. As I shared with you, we are moving to Costa Rica.

1:38.4

And so it's making kind of a weird Christmas. And it's interesting.

1:51.0

And again, we don't have to touch into this now, but we are talking about fatherhood, being fathers.

1:55.3

And I did not have a relationship with my father.

1:59.6

He was sort of out of central casting, not awesome.

2:07.6

And he died this week, which I thought was sort of very interesting that these two lines sort of come together with our topic of fatherhood, me being a father, having not had a father,

2:14.2

and then, you know, he passed away this week.

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