How Loveline Made Me A Better Psychologist

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That’s an amazing story thanks for sharing.

I’m not a therapist but I had a similar discovery of love line as you.

I never listened to Loveline or Adam’s radio show. I had heard of Adam just from The Man Show as a kid (ie juggies after South Park).

I heard about this new thing called a podcast and found Adam’s in the comedy section of iTunes when Adam had first started.

In the beginning of the podcast Adam would do those long form interviews that I found fascinating. Eventually he told an old story from his childhood about him and his friends peeing on each other.

I was trying to find that episode of the podcast to play for a friend of mine and I found an Adam Carolla message board where I asked. GIO answered me and that’s how I found GIO Get it On classic love line.

Like you I have been listening to every episode in order and I am hooked.

Just like you, I found it fascinating at Adam and Drew’s ability to identify callers’ pasts.

During a difficult in my life, went to seek out therapy.

If I had never listened to LoveLine, I would have never seeked out therapy or understood how it works.

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That’s really awesome to hear! I’m so glad you did end up seeking out therapy and I hope it was helpful and life changing. When I first began seeing clients as a psychologist I thought if I had a sliding scale for appointment fees that it would allow ppl struggling financially to still be able to get the help they need regardless of whether or not they could afford therapy. I figured this would bring in enough clients that I would still be earning enough money overall that I could make a living wage despite charging clients significantly less per sessions than other therapists in the area. However, I discovered after a few years of doing this that it didn’t actually end up bringing in a bunch more clients.

Around this time I was listening to the classic Loveline shows and I remember hearing Adam talk about how back before he became a radio show host he was working digging ditches & doing construction which paid extremely low wages yet despite barely earning any money to live off of Adam still was able to pay every week for his therapy sessions because he valued his own mental health over pretty much everything else he could have spent his money on. After I heard this, I realized “if Adam was able to pay for therapy even though he had next to no money then pretty much anyone can afford to pay for therapy if they really want to,” and so I switched to a flat rate (still lower than most other therapists in the area) and I ended up getting more clients than ever before. And now whenever I hear someone say, “I would get therapy but it’s so expensive,” I say to them, “Hey, if Adam Carolla was able to pay for therapy back when he was digging ditches then you can definitely afford to pay for therapy.” And you know what? The other person always says in response, “Yeah… you’re right….”

Thanks, Adam!

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