Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets.

Today we are joined by a reality television icon, entrepreneur, and one of the most recognizable TV personalities of the past decade.

Mike the situation, Sorrentino. Mike rose to global fame as an original cast of MTV's Jersey Shore and continues to star on Jersey Shore family vacation with over 15 years of television.

Beyond reality TV, he's a bestselling author of Reality Check, Make the Best of the

Situation. He's a successful entrepreneur, investor in a leading voice in addiction recovery,

now with his own addiction centers, Archangel centers, inspiring millions with his platform.

Now he's also known as St. Michael. He lives and dies by comeback is greater than the setback,

but also now it's cookies and comeback with bang cookies. They're on the desk if you're watching

on YouTube. We'll talk about that too. But Mike, so much action. What a story. Welcome to Trading Secrets. I'll be honest with you. That intro was fire. Let's go. You deserve your life has been fire. Thank you, brother. Your life has been fire. I'm very grateful to be here. Yeah. And I'm very excited to have a very interesting and intriguing conversation. I love it. And we're excited to have you. And I want to let everyone know, go give us five stars in a review and put your email address in the review because we have a signed copy of Mike's book that we are giving away. If you're watching YouTube, it's right here. And a lot of the stories we're going to talk about are in your book. Yes. So this is a big promotion for the book and everything that's going on, but let's start

with where it all started. And that's before Jersey Shore. Yes. I mean, you have, I was digging through things online. I saw all kinds of stuff. I saw that you might have been a stripper. Yes. It might have been a drug dealer. Yes. You were a personal trainer. Yes. Talk to you about like what was the professional life of Mike the situation before.

Well, I had quite, like, what was the professional life of Mike the situation before?

Well, I had quite, well, I wore many hats, okay?

And you are correct.

I was a stripper.

I was a drug dealer.

I was in a spying lot.

And I'll be honest with you, around that time, I didn't really make that much money,

and I didn't even have to file taxes. Wow. Yeah. Of all those areas, where was like, where were you making the most? Probably off the books. Yeah. Yeah. Drug dealing. Yeah. I was pretty good at that. Yeah. Yeah. So when, like, that actually starts from the onset. that were you ever taught anything about taxes or finance from your...

No, no.

I'm very glad you brought that up.

No, in school, they don't teach you any of that.

They might teach you the plethegillium theorem.

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