You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. You were here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that are going to help you actually execute on your dreams.

Today's guest is not only a double board certified doctor, he plays one on TV, and over an insanely long and illustrious career, he's become one of the most recognizable names in medicine as a whole, and arguably the most recognizable name in the treatment of addiction.

The marriage of his medical and media careers began in the 80s when he realized someone needed to be talking about sex, especially to young people during the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Viewing himself as a civil servant using media to reach a broad audience, he served as the host of Love Line for over 30 years, including a four year run on MTV with co-host Adam Corolla touching millions of lives in the process.

And that is just the tip of a very large iceberg. His positive effect on people is so far reaching that the inner main belt asteroid number 4536 is named after him.

I'm not kidding, this self identified recovering workaholic has hosted countless TV shows and podcasts, including everything from rehab and celebrity rehab to this light, the Adam and Dr. Drew show Dr. Drew on call and about a dozen other shows in between.

What continues to make him the go-to guy for nationally syndicated advice is his deep desire to help people and the fact that he's kept his skills razor sharp by maintaining a thriving medical practice.

He's been called the Dr. Ruth for Gen X, but given his continued relevance, I think it's fair to say that he's the soothing voice of reason and sexual and medical advice for millennials and Gen Z as well.

So please help me in welcoming the man who debated whether he should become a doctor or an opera singer. The New York Times best selling author of the Mirror Effect and Cracked, putting broken lives back together again. Dr. Drew Pinsky.

That was her coming. It is an absolute pleasure.

Why did an intro? Of course what jumps out is the insanely long career.

I wondered how you would take that. That's all right. You have looked the same though for literally your entire career.

God bless you. Did you grade early like a secret? Yes. We have triplets. I think you met a couple of them on your house.

I didn't meet them, but I've heard about them. Yeah, and that first year, boom, your hair to the right.

Oh, no, it's funny, but it isn't. And the work hallism. Between the work hallism and the triplets, that pretty much that.

You said you were getting up at 5am and struggling to get home at 10pm for years. For years, years.

And after years and years and years of doing that, I experienced dread at my work and that's all this is really right.

This is a long story there. I mean, the, you know, love line went to 5 nights a week and then I had to change my schedule.

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