FIGS O'SULLIVAN

Featured on NPR, Mark Groves, Daddy Issues & 50+ podcasts — bringing attachment science and Bitcoin together.

Hi, I’m Figs — a husband, dad, outrigger paddler, and a Marriage and Family Therapist. I created the Empathi Method after years of sitting with people in the messy, beautiful struggle of love. Somewhere along the way I became the guy other therapists and thought leaders call when their own relationships go sideways — which still makes me laugh, because if they don’t have it all figured out, what hope do the rest of us have?

I’ve shared what I’ve learned on NPR’s All Things Considered, the Mark Groves Show, Daddy Issues, Almost Adulting, and 50+ other podcasts. What people connect with isn’t “advice” — it’s that I tell the truth, share my own awkward and funny stories, and make the scary stuff safe enough to face. That mix of humor and vulnerability is what makes change possible, whether in love or, lately, in money. That’s what I explore in my piece, Love & Bitcoin and Why You Won’t Change Until it Hurts Like Hell — because real transformation, in relationships or finances, only happens when it hurts too much to stay the same.

Figs O'Sullivan, Empathi Co-Founder, LMFT, and EFT therapist
Biography

What's a Figs?

I’m an Irish guy who somehow ended up in Hawaii raising two kids, a dog, and a rabbit with my wife Teale — and spending my days helping people face the hardest, funniest, and most beautiful parts of love. I don’t just teach this stuff, I live it (often awkwardly), and I share my own stories so people feel safe enough to face theirs. At the end of the day, “What’s a Figs?” It’s someone who believes love is worth the struggle, change only happens when it hurts enough, and a bit of humor makes it all survivable — whether we’re talking marriage or money.

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Figs' Influence

5,000+ Course Members

30,000+ Empathi App Users

48,000 Email Subscribers

5,000+ Course Members

30,000+ Empathi App Users

48,000+ Email Subscribers

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Love & Relationships

Bitcoin & Money

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"Meeting Your Partner In The Middle"

Discover Figs & Teale's struggles with disconnection and how they work through them.
Appearances

Conversations I’ve Loved Being Part Of

with Mark Groves

with Violet Benson

with Connor Beaton

by Chase Kosterlitz and Sarah Kosterlitz

with Larry Hagner

with Christa Biegler, RD

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