Josh Peck: The "Drake & Josh" Child Star Opens Up + Shares The Truth Behind His 127lb Weight Loss!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

You feel as if you’ve grown up with him, he was a constant presence in the background of your childhood, the beloved character Josh on the wildly successfully Nickelodeon show ‘Drake and Josh’. However, you definitely don’t know the Josh behind the bright lights and rolling cameras. Growing up in poverty with a single mother and under the shadow of an absence father he never met, Josh channeled his pain into comedy and acting, sacrificing a normal childhood in order to support his family as a child star. However, on his journey to fame, these same mental crutches and defence mechanisms became Josh’s worst enemies. In this wide ranging conversation, Josh discusses his life of constant hustling and reinvention, from surviving the pitfalls of child stardom, to a dramatic weight loss journey and finding his niche as a pioneer in social media, this conversation will show you a Josh Peck you’ve never seen before. Josh: Youtube: http://bit.ly/3UABiY6 Instagram:https://bit.ly/414GxBG Twitter: https://bit.ly/41sHCDb Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	With Drake and Josh, I felt pissed that I...
0:04.0	That started this whole mess.
0:06.0	Josh truck, ladies and gentlemen.
0:08.0	He's an actor, comedian, one half of Drake and Josh,
0:11.0	a staple of my childhood.
0:12.8	The headline of the first 10 years of my life was a single mom,
0:17.8	never knew my dad, didn't have enough money for a slice of pizza.
0:20.8	15 years old, Drake and Josh, one would assume that you'd be like set for life.
0:25.0	There was no residuals and I'm as worried about next year's financial status as anyone else.
0:30.0	I don't have that security and I do want to say that I was not properly
0:35.2	appreciated for my work if I wanted to at will I could blow that up.
0:39.3	18 years old you lose 127 pounds yeah one would assume that dropping 127 pounds would make you feel different about yourself
0:48.0	I dealt with the effect but I didn't deal with the cause it was anger at my dad it was anger at my dad, it was anger at my circumstance. Everything was going right and I still didn't feel like enough. Substituting what I used food for with drinking and with other substance,
1:03.0	at 21, it all came barreling down on me.
1:06.0	I hurt relationships and work, I worried the people that love me,
1:10.0	and I realized that I needed to do something and what you do in that moment
1:14.7	decides what's going to happen next for you. You cannot think your way into
1:18.6	right acting. You have to act your way into right thinking. Is there anything that's
1:22.3	really helped you that you might recommend to someone listening at home?
1:25.6	Yes.
1:26.6	So... Josh having read through your story extensively it's quite clear to me that the most pertinent part of your story, it's quite clear to me that the most pertinent part of your story, and really
1:45.8	like the throughline begins, the sort of dot in that throughline begins with this dynamic your parents had when you were very very young. Can you take me
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