Content warning: This episode includes discussion of suicide, suicidal ideation, mental health and homelessness. Please take care while listening.

This week on Pop Therapy, we go below the surface with Joe Bradley from Below Deck Mediterranean - and it goes far deeper than the edit ever could. Behind the yachtie lifestyle and reality TV storyline is a life shaped by instability, survival mode and a fierce determination to do better.

Joe opens up about his early life, the sacrifices his mother made for the family and the inconceivably dark days that followed the loss of his career and home. These were the moments that shaped him and he's not afraid to talk about it.

Yachting for Joe became not just a job but a way out. We unpack what it’s really like to have your lowest moments, relationship mistakes and drunken nights out judged in real time by the internet.

And yes, we go there. Joe answers the V and Kizzi questions that are probably burning inside of you too - with honesty, accountability and a lot more nuance than a reunion couch would allow.

This is a conversation about resilience, self-reflection and what happens when you stop running from your past and start rewriting it. About public perception, private pain, and the quiet work of becoming someone you can live with - and eventually build a future with.

This is Pop Therapy at its best: reality TV, minus the mask.

Catch Joe on Season 10 of Below Deck Med airing now on Hayu, Bravo and Peacock.

Follow him on IG at @joebradley_

Follow the show at @jana.firestone or get in touch online at www.janafirestone.com

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This episode was filmed and recorded by the brilliant Angus O'Loughlin at SESSION in PROGRESS

Thank you to our wonderful sound engineer Sam Talbot for all of his incredible work and support. You can work with him too! www.samtalbot.com.au