E31 - Mike Majlak: It’s a Miracle I’m Alive
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
Mike Majlak went from being an opioid addict to a successful author, podcast host, and content creator. Today he shares his story of overcoming 10 years of addiction, having the courage to begin recovery, and making impact his redemption.
He opens up about his biggest regrets in life and explains why he wouldn't trade his past for anything. He also shares the struggles of balancing life as a content creator and using his platform for positivity. He debunks the common misconception that more money/fame = more happiness, explaining his current struggles with anxiety and mortality.
Mike and André reminisce about their time together living at the Maverick house with Logan Paul, and the journey to making Impaulsive.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
3:57 How Far I’ve Come
7:46 Addiction & Rock Bottom
23:15 Recovery & Redemption
34:14 How it Shaped me
40:29 What I Regret Most
44:24 Life as a Content Creator
51:49 Creating Impact
1:02:51 Success & Stardom
1:11:25 Will Success Make You Happy?
1:17:03 Mindfulness and Mortality
1:23:15 The Maverick House
1:33:59 Impaulsive
2:01:09 Conclusion
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Mike Majlak:
Mike Majlak is an author, content creator, and co-host on the popular podcast, “Impaulsive,” with Logan Paul.
Mike Majlak was a seventeen-year-old from a loving, middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair. While his peers were graduating from college, buying homes, getting married, having kids, and leading normal lives, Mike was snorting OxyContin, climbing out of cars at gunpoint, and burying his childhood friends. Unable to escape the noose of addiction, he eventually lost the trust and support of everyone who had ever loved him. Alone, with nothing but drugs to keep him company, darkness closed in, and the light inside him--the last flicker of hope--began to dim. His dreams, potential, and future were all being devoured by a relentless addiction too powerful to fight. Despair filled him as he realized he wasn't going to survive.
Somehow, he did... He not only survived, he thrived.
Now he's a social media personality with millions of followers, and an entrepreneur, marketer, podcaster, YouTuber, and author who hopes to use his voice to shine a light for those whose own lights have grown dim.
"The Night Shift" YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MikeMajlakVlogs
Impaulsive: https://www.youtube.com/@Impaulsive
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heybigmike/
Mike's Book "The Fifth Vital": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087L8DWZQ/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_VZP4W87QW8JZQR0J8ZZ4_0
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| 0:00.0 | Addiction is a nasty thing. It's just not simple. And that's really the worst part about it. I went and I hit this jump full speed, overshot the landing, and I woke up about five minutes later with my foot right next to my head. I remember the nurse bringing me this small yellow pill within a couple months of that I was a full-blown opiate addict at the age of 16. And I've lived a lot of life. |
| 0:21.4 | I've seen the absolute lowest of the world and the absolute highest. In this setting of this, |
| 0:27.2 | you know, six million dollar house being led by this rocket ship, which was Logan Paul, it was a |
| 0:32.3 | roller coaster. Not only does money and success not solve your problems, in fact, it generally |
| 0:36.9 | leads you further |
| 0:38.3 | away from those solutions. |
| 0:40.0 | The story I've more so wanted to tell people since I've gotten clean has been that is not |
| 0:44.9 | your only opportunity. |
| 0:45.8 | I want to show people that you can flourish. |
| 0:47.7 | If you have the chance to take risks in your life, like you better take them because the |
| 0:51.3 | upside is massive. |
| 0:59.9 | Hello, beautiful humans. |
| 1:02.6 | Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast for every single week. |
| 1:06.1 | We get the honor and privilege to sit down with a beautiful mind and open heart, |
| 1:09.7 | somebody that can teach us through the lessons that they've learned in their life to help us know ourselves in the world at deeper and deeper levels. Today, I am really looking forward to this podcast |
| 1:14.7 | is going to be a little bit of a different one. We have a bit of an interesting guest today. He is |
| 1:19.3 | co-host of the Impulsive podcast, runs his own vlog channel called The Night Shift. He's got |
| 1:26.0 | a best-selling book called The Fifth Vital. And this formal intro feels slightly weird, bro, because you're just my boy. I know. It's funny. I never know if people are going to do like a more like relaxed intro or if it's going to be like a proper one. Yeah. But I feel like you have a format and that's what you like to do. |
| 1:44.4 | And so you stick with it. |
| 1:45.2 | I do. |
| 1:45.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.9 | And just so for the listeners that aren't familiar, I'm sure most that are tuning in probably already are familiar with you. But I just think that I'm excited to pull out a little bit of a different side of you for this podcast today because getting to know you over the years and like living with each other and all the things, I've gotten to see a side that I don't think it's to be as expressed as much as maybe even you would like. |
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