#720 Working On Ourselves - Ahmed Al-kadri

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Ahmed Al-kadri (@AhmedLovesBread) is a Yemeni-American comedian who is trying to be a better person, a better partner, and a better man. He shares his journey to realizing his addictions and doing the work to change for the better. Check out his new comedy special: Special, Not Special on YouTube.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 720 with my guest Ahmed al-Qadry.
0:06.0	You, just you specifically, are listening to a podcast that is hopefully a place about honesty,
0:14.2	about all the battles in our heads.
0:17.2	Just a reminder, I'm not a therapist.
0:20.2	My opinions here are those of a peer-to-peer person.
0:26.4	And the opinions of my guests.
0:28.9	And speaking of my guests, I have a friend Brooke who helps me by listening to the episodes and giving me notes.
0:40.7	And here's what she said about this episode with Ahmed.
0:45.2	She writes, I enjoyed this one.
0:47.0	It's really refreshing to hear someone so young have this kind of self-awareness.
0:51.0	He had asked for feedback from the audience at the end, so I actually ended up messaging him and letting him know he was impressive and funny and that the interview was great and that he said bitch a lot and it was off-putting.
1:04.8	He was super gracious for the feedback and agreed that he needed to stop using that word.
1:10.0	Anyway, great interview. So I wanted to read that
1:12.7	ahead of time because, yeah, some of you might be off put and be like, I'm going to bail on this
1:24.1	fucking thing. So maybe you want to, you want to bail in advance if that's going to be a
1:28.9	deal breaker for you. But, you know, I left it in because you're adults. And I got to deal with
1:39.4	that people pleasing part of me that doesn't want anybody upset. And it's really been coming to the fore lately with me reading some of the comments
1:53.0	that people have had where they were angry at me about my comments on a survey a couple of weeks ago.
2:02.8	And the overwhelming number of people weighing in on that have been positive and supportive.
2:13.1	But it's been a lifelong battle for me to deal with that part of me that is afraid that something
2:21.1	I'm going to say is upsetting to somebody or even sicker is that somebody on my podcast
2:29.1	is going to say something.
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