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Hosted by Rob McCarthy · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 25 episodes
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F*ck The Standard is a no bullsh*t podcast for people who look “fine” but know they’ve been coasting on comfort, fear, distraction, and half truths. Hosted by Rob McCarthy, this show digs into discipline, identity, mental health, sobriety, family, emotional resilience, and the rebuild that happens when you finally take ownership. No gurus, no hype, just real conversations for blue-collar minds, parents, spouses, anyone tired of numbing out, avoiding the mirror and pretending they’re good.New Episodes Drop Every Friday!!
Rob McCarthy hosts F*ck The Standard, a health show with 25 episodes published.
JoJo Lynn came out of eight years of severe clinical depression and built a podcast to make sure other people did not have to survive in silence the way she did. In this episode, she walks through two divorces, narcissis
Kimberly Love is a six-time published author, a licensed pilot, a radio host with a nine-year track record, and a woman who spent years as the invisible support system in her own marriage before she finally reclaimed her
David Jarvis spent 21 years in the British Army before a medical discharge in January 2022 forced him to rebuild everything from scratch. He was three months into his training when he watched a fellow soldier die in the
In this episode of Fuck the Standard, Rob sits down with Dean Griffin, also known as the Travelling Veteran, a British Army veteran who served in Bosnia and Iraq before being medically discharged in 2003 with PTSD. When
Deepak Saini walked into adulthood as the chronically ill, morbidly obese kid who kept telling himself the next thing would eventually fix everything. The next job. The next raise. He lost thousands of pounds over his li
Season 2 opens with a solo episode. No guest, no script to hide behind, no filter. This one is about the political outrage machine, the echo chambers you built yourself, the news channels that stopped reporting and start
Laura Ferri grew up in a house where love came with conditions and threats, where her mother used suicide as a manipulation tool so consistently that Laura carried the guilt of it into her thirties without ever questioni
Most addiction recovery conversations stop at sobriety. This episode starts there. What Rob McCarthy and Mike Jarrell examine in depth is the psychological architecture that makes addiction necessary in the first place,
Steve Knapp was drinking on the drive to work, during his lunch hour, on the drive home, and through the entire evening. In his late thirties, that was his daily life. Then his wife found the credit card bill. What happe
Dan Ahlborn has been a real estate investor for 16 years. He's failed forward through most of them, made mistakes, learned the hard way, and built something real. Two moments nearly ended him: a foreclosure notice on his
Kimberly Stevens calls herself a Hall of Fame winner and a Hall of Fame loser, and she’s earned both titles the hard way. A University of Iowa swimmer who set Big Ten records and won national championships, Kimberly also
Angie Hawkins (author of Running in Slippers and Inner Glow Coach) joins Rob McCarthy on F*ck the Standard to share the moment that forced her to confront the belief that had been running her entire life: “I don’t deserv
Richard Lynch is a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor, EMDR practitioner, advanced grief specialist, and long-term recovery advocate who works inside a large Department of Corrections treatment program. He’s al
Mark Maselli was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease — the same disease that killed members of his family before 40. Dialysis was waiting. Instead, he chose something different. After receiving a live kidney transplant
Men’s mental health is collapsing, and most men are pretending they’re “fine.” Burnout, divorce, suppressed trauma, and suicide are silently destroying fathers and husbands. In this episode, Rob sits down with Jonnie Jen
Melanie Whittaker grew up in a controlled home with a narcissistic parent, learned early what emotional manipulation looks like, and made a decision most people never do, she rebuilt her life on her own terms. In this ep
Addiction recovery isn’t always dramatic, sometimes it starts with a phone call. Jeremy thought he had a lung anomaly. He spiraled into alcohol, self-destruction, and the mindset that if cancer didn’t take him out, he wo
In this episode of The F*ck the Standard Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Robb Kelly, a neuroscience-based addiction and trauma specialist whose story carries as much weight as his work. Dr. Kelly didn’t study addiction from
Most guys don’t realize they’re on autopilot until life starts breaking in half. This episode is with Uncle Jimmy — Boston union man, union vice president, host of Uncle Jimmy’s Podcast — and he’s lived the version a lot
Most rebuilds don’t fail because they’re hard, they fail because the blueprint gets punched in the mouth and most people walk away. When this podcast launched, the original blueprint was simple: four solo episodes, then
Steve Knapp
Plan. Grow. Do.
1 appearance on this show
Kimberly Stevens
Kids Connecting Parents
1 appearance on this show
Angie Hawkins
Inner Glow Coach, author, advocate for authentic self-love · Inner Glow Coach
1 appearance on this show
Richard Lynch
licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor, EMDR practitioner, advanced grief specialist, long-term recovery advocate · MacDermid Enthone
1 appearance on this show
Jonnie Jensen
High Value Man Project
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Robb Kelly
neuroscientist, behavioral specialist, recovered alcoholic · Robb Kelly Recovery Group
1 appearance on this show
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