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The Mark Divine Show

The Real Reason You’re Still Addicted (It’s Not What You Think)

The Mark Divine Show

Mark Divine

Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Unlock your full potential and lead with courage, clarity, and purpose—join the Unbeatable Mastery Tribe and master the Five Mountains to become truly unbeatable in life and leadership. Join for free for 7 days: Unbeatable Mastery Tribe Podcast Highlights: In this episode of the Mark Divine Show, Dr. Adi Jaffe shares his transformative journey from being a drug dealer and facing incarceration to becoming a nationally recognized expert on addiction, mental health, and personal growth...

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Dot. Millions of people are dying. So I would argue that what we're doing currently is killing

0:46.2

people and somebody needs a new method. My family had nine generations of alcoholism. So I

0:51.6

had my issues with that. I tried the maybe AA is right and I'm powerless over alcohol

0:57.3

and I just couldn't resonate with that. The behavior, the drinking, when you're drinking as your

1:04.9

central coping mechanism, it's all you do to deal with the world. That's the symptom. Is there a singular root cause?

1:12.6

We lie to ourselves, and by extension we lie to other people.

1:15.6

You need to have some people in your life that you can have transparency.

1:19.6

The weight of lying, the weight of pretending, the weight of disconnecting from your true self

1:24.6

by creating this armor of who you pretend to be the mask, it kills us.

1:29.2

If you're not leaning into that one thing every single day and dealing with that discomfort instead of glossing it over, you're still going to get stuck.

1:37.1

My argument is this.

1:39.5

Welcome to the Mark Devine show. I'm your host, Mark Devine. Thanks for joining me. Super stoked to you here.

1:44.7

You are in the right place if you are committed to transformation and vertical development,

1:49.8

meaning growing who you are, not just what you know. This is a tribe of bold leaders committed to

1:55.8

growing, courage, resilience, and heart. So if you like to leave with purpose and unlock your full potential,

2:02.2

then you found your team. Huya. Super stoked to have Dr. Adi Jaffe with me today,

2:09.0

who doesn't just talk about transformation and teach it, but he embodies it. Dr. Jaffe went from

2:14.8

drug dealing in jail time to earning a PhD from UCLA, becoming a nationally

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