Hosted by Rob McCarthy · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 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 19 episodes published.
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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Silence isn’t punishment, it’s the filter that shows up when you stop performing and start rebuilding. In this episode, Rob breaks down the four silences that hit you during a rebuild; social, tribal, work, and internal,
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Most people aren’t stuck because they’re incapable. They’re stuck because they’re addicted to validation and terrified of silence. In this episode, Rob breaks down how performing for approval destroys identity, why opini
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Self-awareness feels like growth, but without change it’s just avoidance. In this episode, Rob breaks down how people hide behind insight, explanations, trauma, and clever self-awareness while their life stays the same.
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F*ck The Standard isn’t a hype show, it’s a straight shot for people who look “fine” but feel like they’re rotting in quiet comfort. In this opening episode, Rob McCarthy breaks down discipline, comfort, identity, and th
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