Dr. Robb Kelly | Homeless Alcoholic, Session Musician, Concierge Doctor & Behavioral Science Expert

<p>Growing up Robb had a tough childhood filled with trauma.  He had a babysitter that would burn him with cigarettes.  He also had a choirmaster in grade school that told his parents he was taking him to a recital and took him to hotel to abuse him sexually.  He tried to tell his mom, and she slapped him and didn’t believe him.</p> <p>He was also playing in the family band at the age of 9, playing in adult venues seeing all kinds of stuff he shouldn’t have seen at that age.  He would go to school with holes in his socks and shoes, while his parents drank their money away at the bar every night.  He inherited this gene from his parents, and it started to affect him in his early teenage years.</p> <p>When he was 15, he auditioned to play bass for a session musician gig for Abbey Road studios.  He had one beer to take the edge off, and did well.  They asked him back for 7 more auditions, so he had 7 more beers.  He got the gig, and decided that alcohol was the fuel of his creativity and him doing well, so he didn’t want to stop.  This led to harder drugs like cocaine, and larger amounts of alcohol.</p> <p>He was playing with legendary artists like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Elton John on some of their most prominent recordings.  But his drinking and drugging got so bad, he was fired from a gig, and that was the beginning of a downward spiral, that eventually saw him living on the streets, with full-blown addiction.  This was also the time he enrolled to Southampton University and Oxford University to get his PHD in Behavioral Science.</p> <p>At the height of all this, Robb lost his kids, his mother and some of his best friends & colleagues due to his drinking and addiction.  One time after drinking for 3 days straight, His kids were taken from him, he lost his house, his marriage and his medical license.  Suddenly, he was homeless, angry at the system for not having the answer to his problems, but eventually he found his way to recovery.</p> <p>He noticed that the health care systems would just be a revo