Doctor Mike

Would some other struggle have ultimately happened because life inherently has struggles and those struggles were not my choices, but I'm happy how it ended up turning out.

So maybe I'm happy with the way it ended up, but not how it started.

I wish there was a great answer that would make me sound really smart and enlightened.

I had a viral moment of popularity where they called me the sexy doctor and I leaned into it and I viewed it as an opportunity to do the work that I'm doing, educating patients in the office to now doing it on social media.

And it worked.

And a lot of people thought it wouldn't work.

A lot of people said that you have to sell out.

You have to start doing miracle promises or selling snake oil.

And we said, no, no, there's a way to do this where you can be entertaining, funny, have fun.

insightful conversations where people would want to watch because they want the truth.

And I thought there was going to be a moment where this truth would be very important.

And interestingly, the pandemic came around.

By your religious practice?

I worked in some of these celebrity practices when I was younger and I would see the bullshit that was being sold to them and I would always be like, wow, they're being so mistreated with what they're being given in terms of treatment.

So I said, I always wanted to fight back against that and be the truth teller in my group with my friends.

So I viewed truth as always a higher calling in some weird way.

I don't know.

I think humans instinctively have something about fairness in them.

Like when a kid steals a toy, that's not fair.

Yeah, so I feel like I had that.