The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast - Q & A to End the Year ｜ EP 174

00:00:00.000 What's your favorite color? Rainbow. Oh, that's nice. How do you like school? Do you like school

00:00:04.900 in Miami? Yes. Good. Are you having fun today? Yeah. Are you gonna go play outside? I'm not

00:00:09.900 gonna play outside, but I'm gonna eat something and lie down outside. Oh, you're gonna eat

00:00:15.620 something and lie down? In the sun? Yeah. Oh, that's fun. You wanna go play? There's Scarlet.

00:00:21.240 hello and welcome to my channel i'm michaela peterson if you've been watching my channel

00:00:31.620 for a while or my podcast you may notice i look slightly different it's because i was sitting

00:00:36.840 extremely close to the camera and the focal length was at about 25 and now it's at like

00:00:43.720 50 60 something like that so this is actually what i look like in person i don't look like

00:00:50.360 the fish from Pinocchio. I've been wondering what was going on for about a year. Every time I looked

00:00:55.260 at a clip, I was like, oh, like something was off with my nose. Not entirely sure. Talked to my

00:01:00.440 husband about it. I was like, we need to fix this. Something's weird with my camera. I do like 12

00:01:05.860 other things other than the podcast. So it wasn't my primary concern. I was just kind of avoiding

00:01:09.800 looking at myself on video. Anyway, focal length was off. This is me. So I'm going to do a Q&A.

00:01:16.920 here we go i asked my instagram audience for questions so i'm just picking randomly

00:01:21.800 from questions that were asked on instagram if you weren't creating podcasts what would you be

00:01:26.440 creating i actually don't spend very much time podcasting i got so busy with other work last

00:01:31.480 year that i dropped my podcast from twice a week to once a week i think it was last october i'm

00:01:36.360 actually going to be going back to twice a week in january doing in-person podcasts so that should

00:01:41.640 be a ton of fun we have a studio in miami now and i'm really looking forward to that if i

00:01:46.600 I wasn't creating podcasts, what would I be doing? So what I currently do is I spend probably 60% of

00:01:53.760 my time, maybe 70% of my time managing my dad's brand. I started the social media. Dad started

00:01:59.020 his own YouTube channel way back in the day and Twitter. Everything that he's doing, I've set up

00:02:03.900 a team and oversee that team. That eats up most of my time because he's doing so many different

00:02:09.700 things and I want to make sure people experience him online like he is in real life. There was a

00:02:15.500 of misinformation to counter i also manage pr so that's mostly what i do now and then we're starting

00:02:22.940 this peterson academy which is launching next year which is massive and i'm insanely excited

00:02:29.740 about it uh that's where i'll be also filming my podcast so we have a studio we're going to be

00:02:34.780 bringing professors in from all over the world top professors to film eight hour lecture content to

00:02:39.580 put on peterson academy we're building in a social media element that's kind of like reddit and

00:02:43.980 instagram people will be able to dm each other and form study groups and watch lectures and comment

00:02:49.020 on the lectures and take notes there isn't an app out there like this we're going to be launching

00:02:53.580 late next year so i'm spending a good portion of my time managing that project basically what

00:02:58.700 happened was my dad's had this idea for an online university for a very long time and we put out a

00:03:04.620 course dad's personality course in 2018 and that was massively successful so i was like okay dad

00:03:11.100 Dad should be doing more courses.

00:03:12.500 That's what he should be doing.

00:03:14.020 The books, but he should really be doing the courses

00:03:15.780 other than the podcast.

00:03:17.120 And so last year, I thought we can do our own courses, right?

00:03:21.060 We don't need another company.

00:03:22.500 We can have our own production company

00:03:24.160 and make our own courses.

00:03:25.460 But couldn't we also make courses for other people?

00:03:27.660 And couldn't we give people who deserve a platform

00:03:29.800 more of a platform?

00:03:31.040 And so the idea kind of sprang out of that last year.

00:03:33.980 And then since last year, it's kind of morphed into,

00:03:37.400 well, dad wanted to build an online university.

00:03:39.780 i kind of want to make courses for people let's combine that and now we have an app in production

00:03:44.680 we're going to be filming like 60 courses in the next year for peterson academy i'm so excited

00:03:51.340 it's going to be massive i think we can transform education i think we can make education accessible

00:03:55.460 to everyone i think we can start to fight back against the massive scam that is particularly

00:04:01.400 american universities the amount of money that students are charged to take courses from

00:04:08.280 ideologically possessed professors to leave them with a degree that doesn't lead to a job to teach

00:04:14.420 them that capitalism is evil and the reason they're in debt and don't have a job is because of

00:04:20.380 capitalism and corporate greed even though they just overcharge for a university degree you can't

00:04:26.880 use it's just a it's such a scam and so i think it would be really funny to get professors from

00:04:32.980 like oxford and cambridge and stanford and u of t and mit and these massive universities really

00:04:39.560 top-notch professors and then produce really beautiful courses try to make the courses

00:04:45.120 entertaining because you can learn from podcasts you don't have to sit in a stuffy classroom and

00:04:50.860 learn from a professor anymore you can learn from podcasts now so why why can't you get a degree

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00:06:45.480 and i focus on that because i'm currently on that diet ruminant meat salt and water my parents are

00:06:52.400 on that diet for autoimmunity and severe food allergies to everything and i would not even be

00:06:58.740 close to where i am i wouldn't i wouldn't be able to get out of bed if i wasn't on this diet so

00:07:04.640 part of the money i make from the advertising that i do on my podcast i put towards spreading

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00:07:14.500 information at liondiet.com. And I did a Q&A for my five-year lion diet experience, which I will

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00:07:37.140 level. So I use this hangover pill, which is, it's fun. It's dihydromyricotin. It helps you break

00:07:42.440 down acetaldehyde, which is the toxic byproduct of alcohol. So you ingest alcohol. It works

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00:07:53.040 on GABA receptors, which is why it makes you feel calm and relaxed and kind of giggly. And

00:07:57.780 your body desperately tries to break it down because it's toxic. And it starts producing

00:08:03.220 acetaldehyde. And dihydromyricetin helps people break down acetaldehyde more rapidly. And they've

00:08:08.560 done studies on rats that are conclusive that this works so i'm launching that as well hey guys i

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00:08:58.340 okay next was it hard to divorce considering what your dad talks about yeah actually it was and this

00:09:06.860 is an interesting topic so i grew up believing that if marriages failed it was because you didn't

00:09:12.580 know how to negotiate that's kind of what i grew up believing was if marriages broke down it was

00:09:16.800 because the people in the marriages didn't know how to negotiate i don't believe that anymore

00:09:21.160 after going through what i went through i don't want to get into details but you can also just

00:09:26.480 have people that are not compatible at all. I have no difficulty negotiating. And I think if I had

00:09:33.920 known that some people are just incompatible and that, and if I had been told it's better to get a

00:09:45.000 divorce than to spend years fighting and like suffering really in a relationship that's not

00:09:52.820 good for anybody uh i would have got divorced sooner and i think that would have been better

00:09:57.880 for everybody i i also don't like this kind of and i think it's more in the red pill community

00:10:02.560 or right-wing community that women are basically blamed for the divorce epidemic they're like oh

00:10:08.180 70 of divorces are initiated by women and in the red pill community it's kind of like it's funny

00:10:14.640 in the conservative community it's like it's women's fault and in the liberal community it's 0.51

00:10:19.720 men's fault. My theory is everyone's crazy now. That makes relationships very difficult. So yes, 0.94

00:10:25.400 I guess the answer to that question was it was very, very difficult to get divorced considering

00:10:29.460 what my dad talks about. It made me stay in a relationship longer than I should have. I don't

00:10:34.860 agree with the more conservative story of divorce that people are being told. I think being in a

00:10:42.280 relationship that's not good for you, I think you should get out of that relationship because

00:10:48.000 the like jordan my current husband he's amazing he's amazing i have never felt this good before

00:10:58.180 in my entire life okay we can negotiate he doesn't take anything i say personally i which makes me

00:11:05.200 which allows me to communicate right because i don't feel like i'm going to hurt anybody's

00:11:09.340 feelings it's fantastic so just because like if you're in a shitty relationship 0.55

00:11:16.620 and it's killing you don't think that you're just the problem next how many children do I want

00:11:24.360 okay this is fun I think children are amazing I particularly like them when they're a little

00:11:31.020 bit older I'm not as much of a baby person but I know my relationship with my parents now I think

00:11:36.460 above the age of 23 was just fantastic and I really want that when I'm old so I think I would

00:11:42.620 like probably like four more kids it's a lot of kids five kids in total however and i might get

00:11:49.180 some hate for this but i don't care i probably won't carry all of those kids and the reason for

00:11:55.040 that is it depends i guess how my pregnancy my next pregnancy goes so i'm and i can't tell you

00:12:02.920 how much this is true but i'm petrified of being depressed again when i get pregnant so with

00:12:11.120 scarlet my depression came back and i've spent my entire life trying to fight my way out of

00:12:15.640 depression which is why i'm on like only eating meat and salt and water like i have tried everything

00:12:21.540 to get rid of depression and i'm not depressed i'm doing fantastic and i'm petrified that the

00:12:27.220 pregnancy hormones are going to make me depressed and if i'm depressed then i'm less productive and

00:12:32.580 if i'm less productive then all these projects i'm doing will at least slow down or at least

00:12:37.260 they'll feel like they're falling apart they won't necessarily fall apart but they'll feel

00:12:40.620 like they're falling apart. When Peterson Academy launches, I'll have a hard time promoting it if

00:12:47.200 I'm depressed during pregnancy and pregnant. Anyway, as you can tell, I'm extremely concerned

00:12:52.420 about this. I've literally been praying about it. Like, please, please don't bring the depression

00:12:58.580 back if I get pregnant, when I get pregnant. If I have a, you know, the end of pregnancy is hard

00:13:03.840 on women, period. That's fine. It's just, I don't want to be hit with pregnancy hormones and go 1.00

00:13:07.820 crazy as soon as it happens and then not be able to work because not working kills me so if the

00:13:13.840 pregnancy goes well then I will be having a bunch of children if the pregnancy doesn't go well though

00:13:21.620 and I get depressed and by depressed I don't mean anxious I mean like suicidal because I don't I

00:13:26.600 don't get like anxious depressed I get like I'm gonna punch holes in walls and jump out a window

00:13:32.620 depressed and if that happens I'm going to be egg harvesting and getting a surrogate because I'm not

00:13:40.080 just because my brain is weird when and it's definitely weird I'm on this diet to stay sane

00:13:45.320 doesn't mean I don't want to have kids plus I guess the benefit of a surrogate too would be

00:13:49.880 I think some of these allergic diseases which I have in my family are passed on through the birth

00:13:57.120 canal you inherit a lot of your microbiome from your mother and so maybe if I also didn't have

00:14:03.480 the kid they wouldn't have the same kind of allergic disorder that I have it's a theory

00:14:10.580 it's not a bad theory so anyway that's my answer to having children I do want more children I really

00:14:14.860 hope I don't grow crazy during pregnancy how do you handle getting targeted negatively for being

00:14:19.780 conservative. I don't really care about what anybody, including news sources, say online about

00:14:28.080 me anymore. Also, jokes on you guys, I'm actually not conservative. I would say I like the temperament

00:14:36.000 of conservatives better than the average temperament of liberals. I think it's harder to

00:14:40.760 offend them, which is satisfying. You know, it's easier to communicate with people that aren't just

00:14:46.300 like oh how could you say that all the time but I'm not particularly conservative I just kind of

00:14:52.980 want the government to leave people alone so I'm libertarian I'm probably libertarian to the right

00:14:57.820 a little bit I don't think I'm particularly conservative I don't really like anybody

00:15:01.140 whatever that political party is oh you and your husband met and married very fast you advise this

00:15:08.640 for most people no I don't definitely not so we met in Austin and we really got along like

00:15:16.180 really really got along and I flew back to Toronto and like maybe a week and a half after that so

00:15:24.380 two and a half weeks after meeting him he told me over the phone he wanted to marry me and I almost

00:15:30.140 I was driving I almost died I was like are you it's like first of all you're younger than me I'm

00:15:37.800 30 he's 25 it's like you're quite a bit younger than me that seems to pose a problem second like

00:15:43.900 I work all the time so in order for this to work you're gonna have to work all the time

00:15:49.980 we're gonna have to work together we were already working together and I had met him and I knew that

00:15:54.540 he was conscientious so that helped I was like we're gonna have to work all the time I was like

00:15:57.440 also I have a child I have a child so there is a child I also have an ex-husband like that's not

00:16:04.040 going away that's a continual relationship anyway I listed a whole bunch of problems

00:16:11.860 and he was like yeah i know it's like okay well that worked for me because i'd met him and

00:16:17.380 i'd already been like i knew what worked for me and i'd never met anybody like him exactly and so

00:16:24.080 i knew that was going to work for me i don't advise it for most people however i also don't

00:16:28.460 advise waiting 13 years what is that about i feel like i feel like two years is reasonable two and

00:16:35.260 a half years is reasonable like you have the honeymoon period of a year um i have now known

00:16:41.100 jordan for a year and a half so i'm over the honeymoon period still very much in love with

00:16:46.720 him so that's a relief but i think at the two-year period of like dating somebody you've passed

00:16:51.800 through the honeymoon period and then you could get married then at least get engaged i think two

00:16:57.480 years is like plenty of time um maybe under a year is a little soon because there's that first

00:17:03.940 kind of nine months of honeymoon period where you don't necessarily argue or know each other very

00:17:09.180 well so no for most people i wouldn't recommend that but also if you've been dating somebody for

00:17:13.480 four years and like well just need to get to know them a little bit better and then maybe we'll get

00:17:18.600 a dog like guys you're gonna die at some point maybe hurry it up especially if you want kids

00:17:28.120 and if you don't want kids you should want kids because what are you gonna do when you're old

00:17:31.060 who's gonna take care of you i'm taking care of my parents i'm a very helpful daughter

00:17:34.140 if I do say so myself. I feel like that's what when kids are useful is when like above the age

00:17:40.680 of 20 and then they can have their own little families. You can have grandkids and stuff. Why

00:17:44.300 wouldn't you want that? Next, encouraged by your post-kicking meds. Are you still taking any

00:17:48.900 prescriptions? No, I can't take any prescription medication really without experiencing all the

00:17:55.220 side effects listed on the label that's the insert in the bottle, right? So I can't take any

00:18:01.620 antihistamines. I can, I can take certain painkillers as long as they don't have any

00:18:07.060 preservatives, super allergic to sodium metabisulfite, which is in almost every

00:18:11.220 painkiller in America. I can't take those. I can take Tylenol, kind of, and I can take this

00:18:17.440 after-party pill. Isn't that convenient? Although I wouldn't be selling it if I couldn't take it.

00:18:21.240 And I don't take any prescriptions anyway. No, because I get severe side effects, right? As soon

00:18:26.660 as I came off of psych meds, I came off of psych meds when I was 23. For those of you who don't

00:18:31.080 know me complaining about the pharmaceutical industry and how dangerous psych meds are. I

00:18:35.040 came off when I was 23 and since then I really haven't been able to take any prescriptions without

00:18:41.220 experiencing severe side effects like crawling sensations all over my body and extreme volatility

00:18:46.900 like anger like punching walls angry and doom, irritability, a lot of psych symptoms. Sometimes

00:18:54.220 I get hives on my arms so I don't take any prescriptions. Favorite clothing brand? I really

00:19:00.900 like Aritzia they have plain clothing so most of my stuff's from Aritzia I'm wearing sweatpants

00:19:07.560 right now on the bottom from Aritzia and then I really like Balmain for the bougie brand I like

00:19:13.200 Balmain I think they have very cool clothes how's your sleep has it improved mom of a nine month old

00:19:18.440 and everything wakes me up no I am mom of a five-year-old and everything wakes me up I don't

00:19:24.420 I think as soon as you have a kid as a mom it just damages your brain into never being able to sleep

00:19:30.360 again. I have to sleep with white noise. So I sleep with like my phone next to my ear on airplane

00:19:35.540 mode for all of you health nerds out there. But I actually sleep with it on airplane mode so that

00:19:41.640 I don't get phone calls. But anyway, white noise and a mask. I use this mask that doesn't squish

00:19:48.220 these eyelashes. Actually, it's gotten intense now, my sleeping routine. It's like yesterday I

00:19:55.040 put my hair in this weird, I saw it on TikTok. Ugh, I was on TikTok for, for a day. It was

00:20:00.040 horrible. Anyway, it wasn't a whole day. It was a little bit of time. It was awful, but I did see

00:20:05.060 this, um, thing that you can wrap your hair around, make it curly so that it's not damaging. So I had

00:20:11.440 like my hair curled and I had like nose tape on so my nose doesn't get puffy in the morning. And

00:20:16.620 then I had my eye things on and my white noise. That's how I sleep. What's your biggest goal of

00:20:21.860 2023 and what is your smallest? So my biggest goal is successfully launching Peterson Academy

00:20:28.900 and my smallest goal is getting my sleep schedule on track because Jordan, the introduction of

00:20:35.240 Jordan into my life has severely negatively impacted my sleep. I feel the best when I go

00:20:41.440 to sleep at 10.30 and I wake up at 6.30 and I've been going to sleep at like 12.30 or 1 and it's

00:20:46.900 just been terrible for productivity for me feeling good for overall health and well-being so my

00:20:55.560 smallest goal would be shifting that bedtime backwards back to 10 30. what would you tell

00:21:00.860 young women as their role model i really look up to you smiley face that's cute i would say

00:21:06.980 don't sleep around it just hurts that's coming from somebody who you know had experiences in

00:21:15.280 university that hurt so don't do that just because everyone else is doing it doesn't mean you have to

00:21:20.580 do it doesn't make you better it doesn't make men want you more if anything it works in in the

00:21:27.800 opposite way so don't do that and work on yourself watch educational podcasts read books learn how to

00:21:37.080 do something and get your diet in order get your sleep schedule on track exercise there you go do

00:21:43.740 all those things and then you'll find somebody because you'll be sane and also don't take birth

00:21:48.280 control it makes you crazy how is your current relationship with god that's an intense question

00:21:53.280 uh i don't know i think it's good i think there's more that i could be doing i was reading the bible

00:21:59.500 more a year ago and then since my sleep schedule kind of went off track i stopped waking up as

00:22:05.380 early and then i stopped reading the bible in the morning so i should work on that because i did

00:22:10.460 feel better reading the bible more seems weird i know to all you people who aren't christian that

00:22:15.300 sounds strange it was strange to me too it's still strange to me i don't know how it works exactly

00:22:19.640 but it makes me feel better and i haven't been doing it very often i've been doing it but not

00:22:24.660 very often so i should work on that um but i'm trying to i'm trying to go with the flow you know

00:22:32.320 when you're trying to make something happen and nothing is working for you i'm trying to avoid

00:22:36.980 things like that. So if things don't work out that I want to work out, I'm thinking, well,

00:22:41.700 maybe that's not meant to be. Maybe God doesn't want that for me. So I've been trying to operate

00:22:46.040 like that and it's been good for me, I think, because I like to exert a level of control over

00:22:51.260 everything that isn't good for me or the things around me. And so I've let that go a little bit.

00:22:57.400 What are your thoughts on gluten? I don't think anyone should eat gluten. I think there's a lot

00:23:01.240 of evidence that it contributes to gut permeability in everyone, not just people with celiac disease.

00:23:06.980 so you shouldn't eat it because it causes gut damage and even the you're like oh maybe maybe

00:23:12.740 you only eat sourdough bread maybe it's the super healthy sourdough bread there's still evidence

00:23:18.260 that the gluten in sourdough bread that's made in the old-fashioned way damages your gut so my

00:23:26.900 thoughts on gluten is everyone should cut out gluten right now and they would feel better i'm

00:23:32.020 that person around my friends. You're eating a donut. Then I give them the stare of judgment.

00:23:39.320 Like, don't bring it into my house. I have celiac disease. I don't want any donut in my house. But

00:23:44.480 it's true. Don't get that crumb on me. I don't know what'll happen. Go crazy. Can we see your

00:23:50.560 forehead more often? You imprison it way too much. What did it ever do to you? So here's my forehead.

00:23:56.360 look at it exposed for a while there i thought my forehead was too big and i've decided it's not too

00:24:02.800 big i think it's too too fat too too long i thought it was too long for a long time being

00:24:09.780 female is hard for everybody anyway it's like my forehead's too big i need bangs so then i had

00:24:14.060 bangs for a long time and then this year it was worse like oh my forehead's so big but that was

00:24:18.340 partly because the focal length was too short on my camera so it was like stretching my face out

00:24:25.080 making my nose bigger and like my upper lip bigger and my forehead a little bit bigger

00:24:29.300 so now my i'm trying the no bangs look what did it do to me it didn't do anything to me i just

00:24:35.540 thought it was too big and then i changed my mind this episode is brought to you by nordvpn

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00:25:25.340 educational background okay so my educational background i went to concordia in montreal

00:25:32.420 which is basically the school that people go to if they don't get into mcgill and i had my hip

00:25:38.980 and ankle replaced when i was 17 so i missed about a year of high school and in order to make up that

00:25:44.420 year it was a huge pain i missed the last half of one year and the first half of the next year

00:25:51.300 so it screwed up two years of high school for me and i hated high school and in order to get

00:25:56.100 all the sciences i would have had to stay in high school for two extra years and at that point i

00:26:00.260 didn't know that you could just take courses online i just didn't know that so i was like

00:26:05.140 well i'm not going to catch up on sciences i'll just go into arts anyway i had a good average out

00:26:10.260 of high school i think i had a 93 average out of high school it was good average but i didn't get

00:26:15.700 into the program i wanted to at mcgill so i went to concordia for psychology and a minor in classics

00:26:21.700 and i did that for two years and i got unbelievably sick and dropped out and i was so sick year two

00:26:28.260 i gained about i'm 123 pounds right now i was 145 pounds so i'd gained 20 pounds in two years and um

00:26:36.820 I was mostly surviving off of Mr. Noodles and beer and pizza. There's a pizza place right

00:26:43.100 around the corner from me. And I was going crazy and I couldn't get out of bed. Like I couldn't

00:26:48.020 move. And I was very, very sick. So I dropped out. I didn't even go to my finals second year.

00:26:53.460 I remember trying to get out of bed and being like, I can't do it. And I'm not somebody who

00:26:57.980 does that. I thought I was, for a while I thought that everyone had a really, really hard time

00:27:03.340 getting out of bed and i was just lazy i thought that for a really long time that wasn't true i was

00:27:08.380 like deathly ill anyway so i did two years of that then i went to makeup school because i thought i

00:27:14.560 wanted to be a makeup artist because one of the things that helped me survive through the hip and

00:27:19.820 ankle replacement was putting on makeup because it was like okay i i feel like i'm gonna die i'm

00:27:24.020 in chronic pain and putting on makeup at school made me feel like i could survive so i was like

00:27:31.780 I want to become a makeup artist and then I can help people, you know, feel like they want to

00:27:38.360 survive. So I did that for about three months and I was like, oh my gosh, this is my dad was so not

00:27:45.860 impressed. My mom was like, do what your heart feels. And my dad was like, you're going to hate

00:27:50.040 it. And this is a bad idea. And I was like, what do you know, dad? And so I went to makeup school

00:27:56.020 anyway. And he was right. And about three months into it, I was like, I'm going to die of boredom.

00:28:00.580 and i wasn't on a diet i was i was taking adderall at that point to wake up and get out and i went

00:28:07.580 back to school after that i got all my high school sciences when i was when i was 22 which was that

00:28:14.500 was a whole thing that's very frustrating to have to do that it's like well back in high school

00:28:19.560 you're joking so i went back and got my high school scientist sciences and then i started

00:28:25.240 taking night school for a biomedical science degree so that i could get good enough grades

00:28:29.140 to get into the day school program then I got into the day school program for biomedical science

00:28:33.640 and I went into biomedical science because I was in makeup school and my wrist was like not working

00:28:39.920 my right hand and I went to my rheumatologist and I was like I think I think maybe I'm gonna need

00:28:46.700 my wrist replaced because this was a this was quite a bit of pain I was taking painkillers at

00:28:51.440 night to sleep on my shoulders because my shoulders hurt and I'd already had my hip and ankle replaced

00:28:55.600 and he goes, not, this is a good rheumatologist in Toronto too. He goes, joint replacements are

00:29:02.280 very rare. It's like, not really. I have two. Like what, that's, what's going to make me feel

00:29:09.240 better. They're very rare. They're not rare for me. They're fairly common for me. And so my wrist

00:29:13.940 hurt. Like I couldn't lean on my arm to bring myself out of a chair or, or anything. And even

00:29:20.500 just doing fine motor movements. Like I used to do my exams for instance, when I went into

00:29:24.800 biomedical science um i used to do them in a special like disability room that people now

00:29:30.780 take advantage of so that i could type because i couldn't write out the essays because of my wrist

00:29:34.860 anyway so i went into biomedical science and i thought i'd need to get a phd in microbiology

00:29:39.520 or immunology to figure out my autoimmune disorder and two years into that degree i came across you

00:29:45.680 know i was researching the medications i was on and how the immune system works and i was taking

00:29:49.860 cell biology and things like that and um i figured out the rash that i had was a celiac disease rash

00:29:56.160 called dermatitis herpetiformis you guys might know this part of the story that is my life and um i

00:30:02.700 started going down the diet route and then the diet just paleo diet like simplified very restrictive

00:30:08.280 paleo diet just fixed me it's like okay maybe i don't need a phd then what are these food allergies

00:30:15.440 what's going on then I went off of antidepressants when my when my arthritis went away and my skin

00:30:21.200 healed when I went on the paleo diet and then shit got real so I was in school suffering a lot

00:30:29.240 throughout the antidepressant withdrawal trying to reintroduce foods to figure out what I was 0.96

00:30:33.480 allergic to hallucinating occasionally from the antidepressant withdrawal and then like

00:30:39.640 midway through the antidepressant withdrawal I got pregnant and that was scarlet and then

00:30:48.600 my life kind of like blew up I ended up with a baby so that's cool but uh that's also at the

00:30:55.580 same time dad got famous and so uh I got pregnant I finished what was I taking organic chemistry

00:31:04.740 and immunology during pregnancy and then I started working for dad when I had Scarlett

00:31:11.720 started working for dad because he had all this opportunity and he needed help like

00:31:15.540 organizing podcasts and capitalizing on the opportunity that was presenting itself to him

00:31:22.000 and I was like well this seems like something I should jump on I'm gonna help and so I didn't go

00:31:28.620 back to school and he was like well are you gonna go back to school I was like well do you want me

00:31:31.620 go back to school or do you want me to help you because I can't do the job I'm doing which was

00:31:37.120 growing social media managing events I like hired a different book agent hired a touring agent

00:31:44.020 because the people who he was working with were gouging him so I like restructured all that and

00:31:50.860 I didn't go back to school because one I had put my autoimmune disorder into remission which is

00:31:56.660 why I wanted to go to school in the first place. And two, I was making money. And three, some of

00:32:01.960 the things I was learning in school didn't line up with what I was learning from scientific

00:32:06.500 articles online. Right? Try taking nutrition in school. It's like, well, that's not true.

00:32:12.780 It's like, ah, I don't want to pass tests by lying. So I took two years of biomedical science

00:32:17.960 and two years of psychology and classics, and I have no degree. But maybe with the launch of

00:32:22.500 Peterson Academy I'll just get a degree from there wouldn't that be funny how's your book

00:32:26.920 coming along so I've been working on this book since I was 17 writing is part of what kept me

00:32:32.220 sane through the hip and ankle replacement and like chronic illness so if I was angry I wrote

00:32:37.100 down I've been keeping a journal since grade one so I have this memoir that I've been writing

00:32:40.900 forever I've taken a bit of a pause because I'm a bit traumatized from what happened to dad

00:32:46.520 um i had ptsd from hospitals which is something that you can get so i had that and i was managing

00:32:56.580 that and trying to desensitize myself by like exposing myself to hospitals um and then dad

00:33:02.420 and mom got sick and it was like oh i have to go into these places in order to visit them and then

00:33:08.620 i took care of dad for two years and it was the worst experience of my entire life the amount of

00:33:14.120 suffering he had was unbearable to watch you know that um scene in harry potter when they're

00:33:23.720 showing the cruciatus curse to the bug that's what dad looked like for two years so um i'm still

00:33:34.980 processing that and so if i get too stressed or if i stay up too late then i start having 0.96

00:33:41.040 flashbacks of like Russian hospital, Serbian hospital, stupid Canadian hospital. And I've 0.98

00:33:49.400 written like one draft of what happened, but I haven't gone back and edited it because I'm

00:33:54.800 stressed out about it still. But I feel like I'm almost able to do that. So I woke up this morning,

00:34:00.260 for instance, I woke up too early and then I was awake in bed and I was just like revisiting what's

00:34:05.480 happened over the last number of years and I need to get this book out of me desperately it's

00:34:11.300 torturing me and I need to write down all these memories so that I can put them in a nice little

00:34:15.620 memoir and then get it out of me and so that's still gonna happen I think maybe March I'll sit

00:34:22.700 down for a month and just solidly write I have way more than I need for a book already and I haven't

00:34:27.320 even written the last couple of years and I kept wanting to finish the book but I couldn't finish

00:34:32.200 it because it was like hey I had an autoimmune disorder and then I found this crazy diet that

00:34:37.320 nobody believes although some people believe it and it's working for them and then my dad got

00:34:42.000 famous and and now he's really sick the end like I couldn't end it or now I'm in the middle of a

00:34:48.520 divorce the end and it just wasn't a good story so I kept waiting for my life to and my family's

00:34:56.360 lives to sort themselves out so that the memoir has a good ending and it has a good ending right

00:35:01.980 now so i should write it really quick maybe in march i'm gonna call it could be worse because

00:35:10.300 that's what i told myself a lot when i was suffering well it's bad but it could be worse

00:35:17.140 i don't know why that made me feel better dad hated that how much of marriage is about

00:35:21.900 predetermined compatibility and how much is about effort so this is one of those things that kept

00:35:28.040 me in a marriage i shouldn't have been in for too long uh it shouldn't be constant effort i don't

00:35:34.920 believe that i don't think it should be constant effort it should almost all be about predetermined

00:35:39.800 compatibility there are people you get along with and there are people you don't if you marry one of

00:35:44.040 those people you don't get along with how much effort can you push into that to make it work

00:35:49.720 so predetermined compatibility there's also this interesting study that i just read about on twitter

00:35:54.520 the other day and then i read the actual study that was off of twitter um and they did i'm just

00:35:59.320 going to butcher this but they did fmris to monitor brain waves oh my gosh i'm gonna have

00:36:07.960 to find it i'm just gonna butcher it they just they found out that it wasn't just personality

00:36:13.240 traits that made you attracted to somebody you had similar brain waves so the vibe thing that

00:36:19.880 i've been talking about a little bit about if you're around someone you get a good vibe that's

00:36:24.040 a real thing so i used to ignore vibes and ignore intuition because i thought that that wasn't

00:36:31.480 scientific or something ridiculous instead of understanding that i'm picking up on things that

00:36:36.200 maybe i can't verbalize but they're real anyway i'm going to put a screenshot of that study up here

00:36:43.960 and then you guys can read it if you want it's very interesting my understand myself results don't

00:36:49.720 reflect myself at all can i take it again so i've been doing you know running the marketing teams

00:36:56.200 for my dad's brands as well and he's got these two products um whoop he's got these two products

00:37:02.920 understand myself and self-authoring very useful products can be very helpful for people and on

00:37:08.520 understand myself it's like only take this once i was like that's the worst sales pitch i have

00:37:15.080 ever heard. Don't put only take this once on the website, dad. You can sell it multiple times.

00:37:22.760 Anyway, I personally have taken that probably eight times over the period of my life. Before

00:37:29.320 it was understandmyself.com. You had to manually score your personality. I used to give those to

00:37:34.620 people I dated and then add up their personality traits. Be like, you're a psychopath. That sounds 1.00

00:37:40.520 interesting uh so yes you can take it again just don't lie on it like don't manipulate the answers

00:37:50.540 look at the question and just answer the question don't think about the answer uh and then you can

00:37:56.160 do it multiple times i took it throughout my diet experience uh to see if my personality traits

00:38:02.200 changed throughout you know coming off of medication and getting healthy and the only

00:38:07.820 thing that changed is my politeness level went way down and uh my neuroticism level went way down

00:38:14.840 my neuroticism level is at like 20 now things just don't really bother me and my volatility used to

00:38:24.160 be at 99 but that was with psych meds and like seven medications and adderall making me crazy

00:38:32.320 so yes you can take it again take it again just don't lie on it what do you think you'd be doing

00:38:39.680 for a career if your dad wasn't jordan peterson before dad got famous i started writing a blog

00:38:45.560 called don't eat that which is now it's been transported over to lion diet.com and i started

00:38:52.220 getting invited onto podcasts this is before i went on rogan um to talk about diet my experience

00:38:57.220 with diet so I do think that even if dad wasn't my dad I would have gone down the diet route and

00:39:03.580 tried to educate people on what had helped me that's where I would have started I would have

00:39:08.800 written my book because I'd already been writing my book and I really enjoy podcasting so I may

00:39:12.600 have just started a podcast anyway so I might be in a similar place I wouldn't be launching

00:39:17.200 Peterson Academy you know if dad wasn't my dad maybe I would have finished my biomedical science

00:39:24.020 degree but i think i would have just gone into the diet route instead because that works for

00:39:28.420 chronic disease i think i would be in a similar place but i wouldn't be launching peterson academy

00:39:33.460 and i wouldn't have you know i wouldn't have as much of an audience for sure

00:39:38.580 it would have just started in the diet realm and kind of spread out from there

00:39:41.860 who is someone you really want to have on the podcast no one is too far-fetched dave portnoy

00:39:47.140 he's so entertaining he's such a dick he's hilarious i want to have him on my podcast

00:39:52.180 who else i'd like to have andrew schultz on he said yes and now i'm putting in a podcast so 0.98

00:39:57.980 you're gonna look like a dick if you don't come on tom and christina segura those are three good

00:40:02.400 people gabber mate i would like to talk to him i mean everyone wants to talk to elon musk right 0.99

00:40:08.420 so him what do you think of psychedelics like psilocybin used more to treat depression i think

00:40:14.700 psychedelics are so much safer than antidepressants it's a great idea i would say it's a great idea

00:40:21.440 be careful. I'm trying to find a practitioner that can walk you through your trip, but I've

00:40:27.640 found them extremely beneficial. I think that they can really help open your eyes. They can

00:40:33.320 increase your openness and being more open, generally speaking, is a good thing. So I'm a

00:40:38.380 huge proponent of psychedelics. Now don't do so many that you end up in a loony bin,

00:40:44.960 specifically psilocybin. Okay, I'll end with this one because people ask me this all the time.

00:40:49.500 does scarlet get to see her dad yes we co-parent so she's with andre half the time i think that's

00:40:55.360 good i have to run and do something else i hope you guys enjoyed this uh thank you for watching

00:41:00.500 and i guess subscribe if you want to see more content like this and me not looking like a fish

00:41:05.780 thanks husband so annoying i'm gonna have to look at those clips for a long time

00:41:12.760 it's fine it's fixed it doesn't matter it's cool okay ciao

00:41:19.500 We'll be right back.

The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast - December 22, 2022

Q & A to End the Year ｜ EP 174

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