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Kat Johnston

Kat Johnston

Licensed clinical social worker, family advocate, and President of For The Family Foundation, specializing in family estrangement.

Aug 27, 2026

9:29
It is kind of hard.
9:29
This is the hardest one.
9:31
It is hard.
9:32
I would say, um, I thought at the moment it was Tortured Poets Department 'cause I was just so sad a lot of the time when I was filming, but looking back, I think it was Red.
9:42
It was Red.
9:42
Like, I'm sorry, like, Cooper was my Jake Gyllenhaal, and I will die on that.

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16:42
Mm-hmm.
16:42
And she was just, like, a, she's honestly, like, she did suck a lot of the times on the boat and to work with.
39:04
... has that always been you since you were a kid?
39:07
Yeah, I just think, like, I just had just, like, a happy, go-lucky upbringing with, like, such a loving family and great friends.
39:13
So I'm just, like, I always say I'm the, like, the luckiest girl in the world.
39:16
And, like, to even experience something that, that is Below Deck, and to be on a super yacht working with, like, people that are just, like, hilarious was just, like, so fun.
39:25
And, like, I just had the best time of my life.
39:27
And Kayleigh, she's one of my best friends to this day.
39:29
So I just, like, had the, like, made great friends.
44:30
[laughs] What i- what is the craziest experience that you witnessed this season of Below Deck Med?
19:19
Yeah.
19:19
It's crazy.
19:20
I never thought I'd get into a romantic situationship.
19:22
That shocked me, 'cause I'm usually so, like, uh, scared of that.
19:26
So yeah, I'm, I'm surprised that I let myself do that.
19:29
[laughs]
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22:34
Cat, my question is, uh, what's one way that Kaylee is a better chief stew than Aesha?
22:41
I think they're both amazing chief stews, and I would never wanna diss Aesha 'cause she's like the queen of all chief stews ever.
5:27
[laughs]
5:27
So I love your content as well.
5:30
So yeah, the, um, [lips smack] Ethical Standards for Mental Health Coalition is, um, a coalition that was started by several content creators that we all have kind of the same, uh, philosophy on what's happening with mental health.
5:46
And I think mental health is probably one of the key...
5:50
Well, I think it's the second leading cause of estrangement according to Josh Coleman in his 2021, um, research information.
6:00
So we have that.
6:02
And with this coalition, which we, um, recently got our 501[3]c, which is the nonprofit part of it, which is, that's a feat in itself, um, we have several groups, subgroups that are doing, uh- Incredible work.

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31:23
And so does that make sense [laughs]? Yeah, the-

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