Podcasts Health & Fitness Mental Health Typology Preempting Pain as a Counterphobic Six with Josh Shipp (Type 6)

Preempting Pain as a Counterphobic Six with Josh Shipp (Type 6)

Published: Feb. 2, 2023, 11:30 a.m.

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As a former at-risk foster kid, Shipp found it difficult to trust adults: \\u201cThe way I defined trustworthiness was: are you gonna not give up on me when I show you what I\'m capable of? When I show you all my ugliness and all of my past and everything you didn\'t cause, but now you\'re gonna be dealing with\\u2026can you handle all of that?\\u201d

Josh Shipp wants to pass that experience on to as many others as he can, so those adults can care for the kids in the way he needed: \\u201cEvery kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.\\u201d

This week, we talk to Josh Shipp about how growing up in foster homes and being a counterphobic six has impacted his current work as a global youth empowerment expert.\\xa0

Josh Shipp is an author & youth advocate, and television producer of a documentary TV series on A&E that follows his groundbreaking work with youth and families.

He has written two national bestsellers, \\u201cThe Grown-Up\\u2019s Guide to Teenage Humans,\\u201d winner of the Nautilus Gold Award for Parenting & Family \\u2013 and \\u201cThe Teen\\u2019s Guide to World Domination.

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