Doctor Mike

What about from just the aspect of creating empathy and fostering that connection?

Frequently, if someone has lost a parent or in kind of a similar but very disconnected form of loss or grief, a professional athlete that got injured and can no longer play their sport of choice.

I tell them that I too lost a parent at a young age or I too got injured when I was on my boxing journey.

And it creates a moment of, wow, okay, so this person would actually see me differently because I know about their experience.

Is that valuable?

Yeah, because I have to do this quite often where someone has a torn rotator cuff, a meniscus injury in their knee.

And I'm like, well, you don't need surgery.

That's not guaranteed.

You know, 90 plus percent recover with physical therapy and conservative management.

I have a torn rotator cuff and issues with my meniscus.

And look, I'm functioning quite well.

So I try to use myself.

Yeah.

But it's obviously gonna be very widely different depending on what you're using that for.

And what kind of tool.

Yeah.

Have you seen, speaking of bereavement and grief, the recent Mr. Beast video where there was a gentleman that was living in a secluded home away from family and loved ones and was trying to lose, say, 100 pounds?

And in the midst of it, the personal trainer that they hired for him ended up dying.

And they told him in the middle of this experiment, and he had a very viral reaction.

I mean, over a hundred million views, right?