From The Streets to Healer ft. Richard Taite | Coffeez for Closers with Joe Shalaby
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In this episode of Coffeez for Closers, Joe sits down with Richard Taite—an entrepreneur who went from addiction and homelessness to building some of the most respected luxury rehab centers in the country.
Richard is the founder of Cliffside Malibu, Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa, and 1 Method. But his real story is about turning pain into purpose—and using business as a platform for healing.
We talk recovery, discipline, why most people never actually change, and what it takes to build a business that saves lives while still being profitable.
If you’ve ever struggled with control, success, or staying grounded when life hits hard—this one’s worth your time.
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It's not rehab, it's a return to dignity, and in a world addicted to shortcuts, Richard still believes in showing up. He's helped over 10,000 people find their way home, and somehow, he's just getting started. From the depths to the top, welcome to coffees. Oh, it's my pleasure. You only got one thing wrong. I've only had one exit. Okay, one exit, but it was a big exit. It was nice. It was nice because, although it may not be considered big, it was nine figures, and there was no debt and no partners, so it was a nice exit for me. And specifically in this space, tell the audience, why does that matter in comparison to other folks who are in this space who have had partners and debt? Well, I mean, you go all in, right? I mean, that's how I do it. I go all in, so I don't want any feedback, or I know how this ends, right? I've done it before, so I don't want any feedback, I don't want any noise, I just want to be able to do what I want to do. Love that. Now, I like to start to show off with the same question I asked everybody. Now, you particularly, I'm sure this question is very relatable. What's your morning routine? My morning routine? It's the same every morning. I wake up at five o'clock. Okay. My buddy Stuart wakes up at four, so he has me beat. But I wake up, I roll out of the rack. Before I do anything, I meditate for five to ten minutes, depending on where I'm at. I'll jump in the shower. I always do my shaving in the shower. But what I really like to do when I get out of the shower is I turn on the cold water and it just wakes me right up when I get out. I feel like that does something to me. It gets me going. Then I go down and work out right here in the gym, and then I take my vitamins and my medication and I come right into work. Nice. Now, that's a pretty regimented routine. It's kind of like cold plunging, which is like the new fat. I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. So, how are you staying in such great shape? Is it diet? Is it consistency? It's important if you want your brain to work the right way. It's important to eat the right way. So, I eat one unit foods. So, what's a one unit food? A steak, a banana, an apple, right? That's a one unit food. There's only one thing in it, and that's it, okay? So, if you can eat like that and get sleep and meditate and move your body and work out, then you're going to have a good mental state. If you don't and you don't take care of yourself, you're not, and then you can't operate at peak performance. You just can't. One unit of food is all three meals. Look, I do as good as I can, but I'm not eating like processed meats, okay? I'm not having sugar, okay? I have very little bread, okay? But I do it, okay? What's important is consistency. That's what's important. Yeah. So, let me ask you, what was it that drew you to this space that you're in now? Well, I lost 25 years to drug addiction and alcoholism. This dog wants to come in, let him in, or he's just going to sit there and do this. Let him in. Okay, he doesn't bark. I'm sorry, buddy. What was the question? What drew you to the drug rehabilitation industry? Well, I lost 25 years to drug addiction, right? And I figured it out. So, when I figured out how to get sober, I opened up a men's sober living, and then I realized very quickly that I was offering therapy, and they didn't like that. So, I had to get my license, and I started my last place, and that's how I got into it. So, are you an MFT, or did you get your therapy license? No. I never did. I never got my therapy license, but I'm probably the most over time. Probably the most over-therapized person on the planet. All of our therapists have between 10,000 hours of treatment experience and 30,000 hours of treatment experience. So, I got that covered. Now, your treatment centers are known to kind of dominate in the celebrity space. How did you gain that reputation? That's a great question. I built it for me, right? So, my last place was considered to be the finest treatment facility in the world, but I wouldn't even smoke crack in it. This new place is far and away. Carrera is far and away the best treatment center in the world, and it's not close. It's one of one. If you're an ultra high net worth individual, or a celebrity, and you go somewhere else and you find out about Carrera, you're hating everybody, and that's how it was built. Word of mouth, not really like advertising. People knew that I came back, and I got rid of all my social media. When I sold my last place, I was done, and when I started, it was really hard. It's a different climate, and nobody knew I was back.
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