FTS Podcast: F*ck The Standard

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...

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...

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...

<p>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...

<p>Season 2 opens with a solo episode.</p><p>No guest, no script to hide behind, no filter.</p><p>This one is about the political outrage machine, the echo chambers you built yourself, the news channels that stopped...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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:</p><p>“I...

<p>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...

<p>Mark Maselli was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease — the same disease that killed members of his family before 40.</p><p>Dialysis was waiting.</p><p>Instead, he chose something different.</p><p>After receiving a...

<p>Men’s mental health is collapsing, and most men are pretending they’re “fine.”<br>Burnout, divorce, suppressed trauma, and suicide are silently destroying fathers and husbands.</p><p>In this episode, Rob sits down...