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F*ck The Standard

F*ck The Standard

By: Rob McCarthy
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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 Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • I Was Mad I Woke Up: The Opposite of an Epiphany -- JoJo Lynn on What Eight Years of Severe Depression Actually Feels Like
    Jul 10 2026

    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, narcissistic abuse, the loss of a stillborn daughter, and the sudden death of her best friend; then traces the slow, unglamorous process of rebuilding herself from that stack of losses.

    The conversation covers what severe depression actually feels like from the inside, how anger was the first emotion she felt that was not directed at herself, why boundaries only hold when the people around you are willing to respect them, and the grounding technique her therapist gave her that still works when the spiral starts.

    JoJo also shares the full version of the blood of the covenant quote, explains why the word narcissist has been so diluted that people who actually lived it have lost their footing, and delivers one of the most practical closing answers in Fuck the Standard history......... SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!


    Find JoJo Lynn on all major platforms by searching No Hard Feelings Kinda or NHFK Podcast, or on Spotify at:

    https://open.spotify.com/show/4Q2mmRyZspf9Qr40ZGB25R?si=50c7842c244d45c5


    Book -- F*ck The Script: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/CK-SCRIPT-Caring-Others-Rebuild/dp/B0FQ4F5NBB

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • The Rewrite: How Kimberly Love Rebuilt her Life After Disappearing into Someone Else's
    Jun 26 2026

    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 herself. In this episode, Kim talks about childhood abuse as a foundational experience, how she dissolved her own creative identity to prop up someone else's goals, the specific moment she realized she was disappearing, and what the actual process of rebuilding looked like after the marriage ended. She also tells the story of getting her pilot's license and what happens when a flight instructor cuts the engine mid-air to see what you are actually made of.


    This one runs deep.


    Topics covered: identity loss in marriage, divorce and healing, becoming the main character, the foundation metaphor, resilience built through repetition, creative life and self-prioritization, attention span and social media, advice to your younger self.


    Get Kimberly Love's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07H1YY4NW?ccs_id=bac4f071-8ff4-4653-8856-95680ec6f09b


    Get Rob's book F*ck The Script: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/CK-SCRIPT-Caring-Others-Rebuild/dp/B0FQ4F5NBB

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    46 mins
  • The Unluckiest Man in NATO: Who Transitioned in to the Definition of Resilience
    Jun 19 2026

    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 bunk beside him, days after 9/11. That moment, and the PTSD it helped create, followed him through three tours of Afghanistan and two decades of using busyness as a coping mechanism. When the Army finally let him go, he had no plan, a deteriorating credit score, a family to house, and a fraud charge from his own unit hanging over him.

    In this episode, David walks through his five rules for navigating adversity, the moment a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis forced him to actually write those rules down, the six weeks his family spent effectively homeless, and what finally pushed him toward motivational speaking. In September 2024, he delivered the Time for Reflection address at Scottish Parliament. In April 2024, he had just started his company.

    This episode covers PTSD in the military, the real cost of a medical discharge, financial literacy as survival, and the difference between responsibility and accountability.

    If you are rebuilding something right now, this one is for you.

    Connect with David at SpeakingSBC.com

    Book: F*ck The Script -- https://www.amazon.com/-/es/CK-SCRIPT-Caring-Others-Rebuild/dp/B0FQ4F5NBB


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    46 mins
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