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What Diary of a CEO says about psychedelics

Everything Diary of a CEO and guests said about psychedelics across 18 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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A new paper links non-nutritive (diet) sweetener consumption to dementia via reactive oxygen species.
00:15:36Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Lustig debuts his theory that Alzheimer's stems from a mitochondrial ATP energy crisis, not just genetics - 95% of risk is environmental.
00:16:41Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Reveals he secretly re-engineered 18 products for a Kuwaiti food company (Gratus/KDD) to be metabolically healthy without hurting sales or profits.
00:35:38Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Discloses a private half-hour December 2024 phone call with RFK Jr. that was supposed to be about food but was entirely about vaccines.
00:46:33Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Says he was asked to serve in the administration four times and declined each time because his views clash with RFK Jr.'s.
00:39:51Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Claims only one-third of people respond to GLP-1 drugs and that the weight lost is half muscle, half fat - essentially induced starvation.
01:14:13Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Testified before Congress to get soda removed from SNAP/food stamps.
01:25:36Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Names ketchup, white rice and orange juice as foods he wrongly believed were healthy until using a glucose monitor.
01:41:42Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
There are 262 different names for sugar, and the food industry uses all of them.
00:00:31Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
About 73% of items in the American grocery store are effectively poison.
00:00:31Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Caffeine works by blocking the adenosine receptor, preventing the sleep signal.
00:17:45Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Only about 5% of Alzheimer's is genetic; 95% of the risk is environmental.
00:26:43Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Pipedrive claims teams using it close on average three times more deals.
00:55:27Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Serotonin is made from tryptophan, the rarest amino acid, found in eggs, chicken and fish - not ultra-processed food.
01:06:26Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
About 90% of the body's serotonin is made in the gut and travels to the brain via the vagus nerve.
01:07:58Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
A can of Coca-Cola contains about 39 grams of sugar - roughly 40% sugar.
01:21:57Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Heinz ketchup is about half high-fructose corn syrup.
01:41:12Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Psychedelics act as serotonin mimics that can 'fill in the ruts' and rewire belief systems on MRI.
01:42:12Dr. Robert Lustig · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2025
Opens by admitting he may not survive his upcoming heart surgery this month, making this potentially his last interview.
00:00:00Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Reveals a failed heart valve is causing blood to regurgitate; he can't climb three stairs without exhaustion.
00:11:26Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Says a hostile journalist has been trying to publish a story smearing him for over two years, prompting him to speak now.
00:12:28Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Cites the Oronteus Finaeus map (drawn 1531) showing Antarctica, which mainstream science says wasn't discovered until 1820.
00:17:38Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Claims the Great Pyramid encodes Earth's polar radius and equatorial circumference at a scale of 1:43,200.
00:41:40Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Discloses his mother lost three children besides him, and his surgeon father had him watch dissections of executed prisoners at age five.
01:13:53Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Describes being repeatedly caned on the bare buttocks by a sadistic boarding-school headmaster.
01:18:08Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Says he would require every world leader to take at least a dozen ayahuasca sessions before applying for the job.
01:44:36Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
The Younger Dryas comet broke into thousands of fragments around 12,800 years ago, hitting sites from North America to Belgium to Syria.
00:08:17Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Anatomically modern human remains date back 315,000 years (Jebel Irhoud, Morocco), yet city-based civilization only appears ~6,000 years ago.
00:15:03Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is ~11,600 years old, built by hunter-gatherers using T-shaped megaliths weighing up to 20 tons.
00:20:15Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
The Great Pyramid is aligned to true north within 3/60ths of a single degree (3 arc-minutes).
00:39:34Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
The precession of the equinoxes completes its cycle in about 25,920 years, the source of the number 43,200 (and 72).
00:44:16Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
LiDAR surveys suggest the Amazon once held millions of people in city-sized communities linked by 100km+ roadways and man-made 'terra preta' soil.
01:07:39Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Ayahuasca works because the vine contains an MAO inhibitor that lets orally-ingested DMT be absorbed instead of destroyed in the gut.
01:10:17Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Imperial College researchers use IV DMT infusion (anesthesia-style) to keep subjects in a sustained peak state, exploiting DMT's lack of tolerance buildup.
01:10:47Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
Hancock and his wife Samantha blended six children from three previous marriages into one close family.
01:34:14Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
His career began accidentally as a 1980s current-affairs journalist before The Sign and the Seal led him to lost-civilization research.
01:53:24Graham Hancock · The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026
With Joe Rogan as partner, Onnit's Alpha Brain sold out in 12 hours and the company grew from zero to roughly $60 million.
00:00:00Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Marcus broke his father's lineage of rage after yelling at a sweet front-desk employee who then cried at her desk.
00:11:01Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He skipped the Kentucky Derby with best friend Bode Miller to meet Joe Rogan for coffee, the choice that launched everything.
00:29:47Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Onnit nearly went bankrupt ('cashpocalypse') after distributing all cash for an investment that never came; the CFO quit on the spot.
00:44:48Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
When his primary partner Whitney took her first lover, it 'absolutely broke' him despite his own polyamory.
00:58:48Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
After eight years he concluded he could never master polyamory and refused to do it again with Vylana.
01:01:58Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Marcus admits ongoing reliance on stimulants and sleep medication he knows is harmful but keeps returning to.
01:30:39Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
His mother reached the Wimbledon semi-finals (losing to Billie Jean King) and his father, a futures trader, appears in the book Market Wizards.
00:02:37Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Marcus claims deep breathwork produces endogenous DMT, the same psychedelic compound active in ayahuasca.
00:20:55Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Onnit's link to Joe Rogan began when Marcus pitched Rogan's podcast as an ad slot for his client Fleshlight.
00:28:43Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Onnit could only afford its first Alpha Brain batch via net-30 credit terms and sold through two orders before paying the first invoice.
00:33:58Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Before Onnit, Marcus ran a failed men's nail-polish line inspired by fighters Chuck Liddell and Roger Huerta painting their nails.
00:40:09Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Friends Christine Hassler and Stefanos resolve conflict by him going into a plow stretch and yelling at her 'between his own legs.'
01:14:59Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He cites John Gottman's research that contempt, not arguing, predicts divorce, mirroring his own 'monster that eats love.'
01:19:11Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Marcus bought Vylana's wedding ring before they had even had sex, certain she was 'his queen.'
01:09:47Aubrey Marcus · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Perplex City raised about $10 million and burned through roughly $9 million, becoming one of the most commercially disastrous projects he ever worked on.
00:28:56Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
He gathered his 25-person team and, shaking, told them the company was running out of cash and the game had to be killed mid-second-season.
00:31:30Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Moshi Monsters' collapse forced five rounds of layoffs and made him feel that because the business was failing, he himself was a failure and worthless.
00:42:25Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
A solo holiday in the Austrian Alps where he first tried meditation cleared his mental fog and planted the seed for Calm.
00:46:34Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm nearly ran out of money around 2015; a book advance from Penguin editor Vinisha unexpectedly kept the startup alive.
00:58:09Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Raising the Calm subscription price from $10 to $40 a year caused no drop-off in sign-ups, a key tipping point proving the product's value.
00:58:39Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm reached about 8 million downloads before spending any money on marketing.
01:00:13Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
He describes 2021 as the hardest year of his life, suffering a herniated disc, chronic pain, burnout, painkiller use and isolation.
01:08:32Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Firebox's first online orders required customers to print an order form and fax credit-card details, which Michael manually keyed into a bank PDQ machine.
00:12:55Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
A friend, Matt Shown, secretly placed orders under fake names to keep the founders' spirits up while waiting for real customers.
00:14:31Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Firebox's breakout product was a shot-glass chess set where capturing a piece means drinking it, earning press in FHM, Loaded, Maxim and The Sun.
00:14:31Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
For Perplex City they buried real treasure worth a 100,000 pound reward, found by a player a couple of years later.
00:27:52Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Before Moshi Monsters, similar nurturing toys included Tamagotchi, the Pet Rock and Neopets.
00:37:14Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Michael argues mental health is not 'one in four' but 'one in one' since anyone with a mind has mental health.
00:51:25Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Meditation shifts reliance from the amygdala toward the prefrontal cortex, helping you respond rather than react.
00:54:02Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm discovered an 11pm global usage spike of people using Tamara's voice to fall asleep, which led to the invention of Sleep Stories.
01:00:44Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm's Sleep Stories use a 'story slope' instead of a three-act structure, gradually becoming more soporific so few listeners hear the end.
01:01:47Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Calm gave its entire 300-plus person team a full mental health week off, which Michael calls one of the smartest decisions in company history.
01:12:10Michael Acton Smith · The Diary of a CEO · Jan 2022
Dan reveals he had bulimia for about four years in his twenties, throwing up involuntarily, a story he had buried and never told publicly until a recent newsletter.
00:01:34Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
He once coughed a hole in his throat (a pneumomediastinum) at a festival, his head swelled, and he spent a week in intensive care.
00:03:39Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
His only real depressive episode followed his father's death, after his dad survived six months on life support only to die of a cold caught in recovery.
00:07:46Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
Ayahuasca flipped him from a cynical atheist to spiritually 'enlightened'; he has now done it about 12 times, going back roughly every year.
00:13:23Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
He had insomnia for six months waking at 2am unable to sleep, and a dietitian's three supplements (omega-3, B vitamins, blueberry extract) fixed it within two weeks.
00:53:47Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
Dan and his wife spent their first year together non-monogamous and have openly discussed reopening the relationship in future if attraction fades.
01:30:14Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
Steven shares a never-before-told story of ending a relationship with an intellectually perfect, gorgeous partner because the sexual chemistry simply wasn't there.
01:49:20Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
Dan grew up Jewish and notes Judaism is both a race and a religion, so you can lose the religion but keep the cultural identity.
00:11:50Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
Ayahuasca is tree sap from the Amazon, practiced for thousands of years, and shamans hold a legal license to administer it.
00:16:33Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
Heights began as a weekly newsletter where Dan distilled one science paper at a time; he had read over 100 papers in about 100 weeks.
00:28:32Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
Dan's number one health hack is an undistracted daily walk, through which he gets through roughly 50 books a year via audio.
00:52:13Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
The human brain is about 60 percent fat, and roughly 90 percent of that fat is the compound DHA.
00:57:53Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
The minimum legal omega-3 dose to matter is around 250mg, but Seven Seas allegedly puts only 45mg in its bestseller, so you'd need six days' worth for one day's dose.
01:06:39Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
Dan frames his life through the Japanese concept of ikigai and honeymooned in Japan after discovering it.
01:17:22Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
He and his wife apply OKRs to their marriage, breaking goals into mind, body and soul with a nightly habit tracker.
01:31:48Dan Murray-Serter · The Diary of a CEO · Oct 2020
Reveals world-first footage of an uncontacted Amazon tribe making contact, asking for bananas and rope.
00:31:37Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
The tribe asked 'How do we tell the bad guys from the good guys?' after being hunted by loggers and narco-traffickers.
00:44:31Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Day after contact, his friend George was shot through the body with a 7-foot arrow that collapsed his lung; he barely survived.
00:55:59Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Discovery rebranded his science show as 'Eaten Alive,' a stunt that set his career back about 10 years.
01:24:58Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Admits he volunteered to potentially be eaten alive by an anaconda to get a conservation message on TV.
01:18:16Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Reveals he secretly quit and decided to get a regular job, then a week later billionaire Dax Silva called to fund Jungle Keepers.
01:52:29Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Describes nearly being crushed to death by a 12-foot anaconda that wrapped his wrists and chest until his collarbone began to flex.
01:14:13Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
An 80-year-old shaman fell asleep while boiling ayahuasca, giving Rosolie an accidental mega-dose 'creation of the universe' trip.
02:24:10Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
The Amazon holds about one-fifth of the planet's fresh water and produces another fifth of its oxygen.
00:03:08Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
The tribe is described as still in the 'bamboo age' - they don't even have stone tools and live like people from a thousand years ago.
00:39:21Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Uncontacted tribes mimic monkey and bird calls to communicate and surround prey, including humans, without being detected.
00:59:09Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
'Eleanor,' the anaconda, was the largest snake ever verifiably scientifically measured at 18 feet 6 inches and over 100 kilos.
01:23:26Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
The anterior mid-cingulate cortex - the 'muscle of doing hard things' - grows when you do things you don't want to do but do anyway.
00:23:21Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
A snake reads your inner state; if you're nervous and jittery, even a baby snake picks up on it.
01:30:38Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
An indigenous tree sap killed an infection in one night that double antibiotics couldn't beat in two months.
02:30:57Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Less than 3% of sunlight in the rainforest reaches the ground; leaf-cutter ants farm fungus, one of few species besides humans that farm.
02:39:53Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Conservation success stories: tigers recovered from ~3,000 toward 5-6,000, humpback whales rebounded from ~1,000 toward pre-whaling numbers.
02:41:26Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Jungle Keepers funds rainforest protection via donations as small as 'the price of a Starbucks coffee once a month' at junglekeepers.org.
02:27:51Paul Rosolie · The Diary of a CEO · Feb 2026
Pollan bought a real cow (number 534) and followed it through the industrial meat system for a New York Times exposé.
00:08:13Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
After his article published, the slaughterhouse cut ties and a Beverly Hills producer and a vegan radio telethon tried to buy and save the cow, but Pollan refused.
00:09:47Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Caffeine works by blocking the neuromodulator adenosine, so you 'borrow energy from the future' and get rebound exhaustion when it wears off.
00:18:35Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Pollan found giving up caffeine for three months harder than trying LSD, psilocybin and 5-MeO-DMT.
00:19:37Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
On psilocybin Pollan experienced ego death, seeing himself explode into blue Post-it notes and merge into a Bach cello suite.
00:33:35Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
A Johns Hopkins study found attribution of consciousness to plants rose from 13% to 58% after a psychedelic experience.
00:37:41Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Two-thirds of patients in many psychedelic trials lost their diagnosis, pointing toward potential cures rather than symptom management.
00:43:20Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Pollan's next book investigates consciousness, asking why we have it and which other creatures possess it.
01:00:28Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
About 90% of people on Earth have a daily relationship with caffeine via tea, coffee, soda or chocolate.
00:21:42Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
A cup of coffee at noon still has a quarter of its caffeine circulating at midnight, and most caffeine researchers Pollan interviewed do not drink coffee or tea.
00:23:44Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Coffee and tea drove the first widespread boiling of water, dramatically improving public health in countries that embraced them.
00:26:18Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Some plants put a low dose of caffeine in their nectar to attract bees and improve the bees' memory, making them better workers.
00:27:53Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
A neuroscientist described the mind as a snow-covered hill where thoughts cut grooves, and psychedelics as a fresh snowfall that lets you take new paths.
00:48:00Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Breath work was developed by Czech psychiatrist Stan Grof after LSD was banned in 1970 to induce psychedelic-like states.
00:55:50Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Psychedelics may work by decreasing activity in the brain's default mode network, the seat of the ego and narrative self.
00:57:23Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Pollan cites Andrew Weil's 4-7-8 breathing exercise as a fast way to lower stress and blood pressure before going on stage.
00:59:26Michael Pollan · The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2022
Recounts asking his mother if she had been sexually abused; she fainted and fell off her chair.
00:14:40Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Describes the moment he nearly hit his three-year-old daughter and chose to break the cycle of his parents' abuse.
00:22:01Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Claims 78% of adult-trauma patients in his research were completely cured by EMDR.
00:57:33Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Performs EMDR live on Steven Bartlett, who reports he can no longer recall why he was bothered.
00:59:39Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Says he is 'very desperate' after the last US election and bluntly calls Trump a psychopath.
01:20:16Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Reveals his own MDMA session left him in eight hours of agony as the trauma stories he'd absorbed came flooding back.
01:39:32Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Admits much of his lifelong quest to understand trauma was really about his own childhood, something he only grasped after age 70.
01:42:40Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
A CDC study of 25,000 people found ending child abuse could cut depression by half and suicide, drug use and domestic violence by three quarters.
00:15:10Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Roughly 90% of the patients in his practice can trace adult dysfunction to early childhood experience.
00:17:18Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Children from low-income families are 400% more likely than the privately insured to receive antipsychotic medications.
00:28:21Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
In trauma the brain's 'timekeeper' (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) goes offline, so the past is felt as the present.
00:50:48Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
The yoga 'happy baby' pose is especially triggering for sexual-abuse survivors.
01:08:43Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Rolfing, an intense fascia massage, was one of the most helpful things he ever did for his own body.
01:09:44Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
An MDMA-assisted therapy trial found 67% of participants no longer met PTSD criteria, versus about 30% on placebo.
01:37:26Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
A single dose of psilocybin reduced treatment-resistant depression with effects lasting up to six weeks.
01:38:28Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
The average American now reports zero people to turn to in a crisis, down from about three two decades ago.
01:18:42Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
An insurance executive told him plainly he wasn't interested in getting people better, only in maximising subscribers.
01:53:08Dr Bessel van der Kolk · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
PE with Joe hit roughly 954,000 concurrent live streams on day two, which Joe calls a world record.
00:04:10Joe Wicks · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2020
Despite the global success, Joe felt flat and lost afterward, experiencing gold medal syndrome.
00:07:15Joe Wicks · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2020
Joe reveals his father was a drug addict from a young age and his childhood was chaotic, with holes punched in doors from fighting.
00:22:45Joe Wicks · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2020
His mother was abandoned as a toddler and grew up in an orphanage, later becoming a social worker.
00:25:55Joe Wicks · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2020
Steven admits he has a negative, pessimistic view of romantic relationships, partly from witnessing his parents' screaming matches.
00:43:24Joe Wicks · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2020

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