The Big Pharma Lie Exposed: SSRIs, Diet & The Truth They Don’t Want You to Know | Mikhaila Peterson (Fan Fav)
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🗓️ 24 May 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Fan Favorite: This episode originally aired on July 8, 2021. It’s easy to quietly go through life never really facing yourself, your struggles and your fears. There is a solution to numb the pain of reality and move towards comfort where it’s easier to accept things as they are no matter where you are.
Mikhaila Peterson gracefully embodies the struggle of what it means to face yourself and all of your inadequacies and continue to push and explore through discomfort in pursuit of finding meaning while protecting what it means to be human, be a mother, be sexy and a successful business woman.
SHOW NOTES:
Accidental | Mikhaila talks about unplanned pregnancy at 23, career, & marriage [2:03]
Anxiety & Chaos| Navigating stress from relationships and reducing chaos [7:17]
Marriage | Mikhaila on the challenges of marriage before building foundation [10:12]
Having Children | Is there a “right” time to have kids or only trade-offs to consider [14:54]
Parenting Balance | How to balance an ambitious career and guilt free mothering [18:15]
Criticism | Mikhaila on identifying where she could be wrong & being even keeled [25:28]
Volatility | Mikhaila on how she’s navigating her triggers and stress response [28:32]
Self-Awareness | How Mikhaila began to notice her symptoms and reactions [33:18]
Sex Appeal | Mikhaila on embracing her sex appeal and growing her business [38:12]
Confidence | Having confidence & the borderline of being overly self conscious [51:12]
Being Hardcore | What it takes to push self-limits and see what you can achieve [56:18]
Having Impact | Mikhaila on getting “greedy” wanting to help many people [1:01:39]
Pushing Limits | Finding balance to push too hard or being more reasonable [1:04:34]
Burnout | Mikhaila on pushing through work you don’t enjoy doing, outsourcing [1:10:18]
Order & Chaos | Mikhaila on the navigating the balance of order and chaos [1:16:55]
Discomfort | How to explore discomfort while building a brand vs. individual [1:19:46]
Healthy Diets | Mikhaila on how she regulates diet chooses for her daughter [1:23:33]
Carnivore Diet | Mikhaila on the benefits of an all beef diet on her body [1:29:00]
FMT Experience | Mikhaila shares her experience with 10 FMT transplants [1:32:43]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Conversations with Tom. I am here with somebody I think you guys are going to find utterly fascinating, the one and only Michaela Peterson. |
| 0:13.5 | Michaela, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me on. This is exciting. Man, of course. So you obviously have come to prominence for two |
| 0:22.3 | very interesting things. Number one is the lion diet, which I'm sure we will get into, but is |
| 0:27.1 | definitely not where we're going to start. And then the other is your dad, Jordan Peterson. |
| 0:32.1 | But you are far more interesting than either of those two things. And so I'm really interested to talk. We've |
| 0:40.1 | spent time. I've been on your podcast. We've had some business-related conversations going on, |
| 0:46.0 | which I have found you incredibly professional and easy to deal with. So I know sort of both of your |
| 0:51.7 | hats of sort of public intellectual and, you know, CEO of your dad's company. |
| 0:55.9 | So I've gotten maybe a little bit of a glimpse into something more than people would see if they've just encountered you in the media. |
| 1:04.1 | And what I want to talk about is life architecture. |
| 1:08.4 | Okay. |
| 1:09.1 | Which is I'm sure I have to explain. So the way that you've built your |
| 1:13.5 | life to me is atypical. You have said of yourself that you're not afraid to be a contrarian. You're not |
| 1:21.2 | afraid to go counter to what people tell you. And so you've created a pretty interesting life for |
| 1:26.7 | yourself. |
| 1:33.2 | I think the best place to start to explain that is in a day and age where people are having kids later and later and later in life, you chose as a ambitious person, as far as I can tell, |
| 1:39.2 | to have kids in your 20s. So why don't we start there? How thoughtful was that? Was that accidental? Was it something |
| 1:45.0 | you put a lot of thought into? Oh, that's an interesting place to start. That is a very |
| 1:50.5 | complicated story, actually. Scarlett was an accident. So I was in university. I'd done two years |
| 1:58.6 | in psychology, and then I'd switched over to biomedical science, and I was in my second year. |
| 2:03.2 | And I got pregnant, and I kept her because I couldn't emotionally handle any other option. |
| 2:14.2 | And it was extremely stressful because I was, so I was 23 when I got pregnant. |
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