Guillermo "Gimo" Gomez is the rehabilitation program director giving alcohol and substance abusers a new chance at life through the innovative treatment at Bridges of Hope Rehab Center.

BoH is the therapy center where GIMO works that offers wholistic therapy and counselling to get people off their addictions. He's also a certified instructor at Triad Jeet Kune Do, one of the local chapters of Bruce Lee's martial arts system.

Before that though, Gimo was also an addict himself who had gone through different therapies to get himself off drugs and alcohol and the inevitable depression that came from relapses. So he understands deeply how hard kicking dependencies can be.

On this episode, we talked about what wholistic and compassionate rehabilitation therapy is, his hardcore journey through addiction recovery to become a rehab specialist, and the role that studying and eventually teaching Jeet Kune Do and other martial arts played in his own redemption and his path towards physical, mental, and spiritual fitness.

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