Michael Franzese is a former mob boss that was caporegime of the Colombo family in New York in the 1970’s. He made billions and then went to jail and ultimately turned his life around. He’s now a successful motivational speaker and entrepreneur who teaches people negotiating techniques and how to communicate and be successful.  Sunil Tulsiani is a former cop turned real estate mogul, best-selling author, speaker, and founder of Private Investment Club.

Shawn Stevenson is an author and nutritionist. He wrote the best-selling books Sleep Smarter, and Eat Smarter.  Shawn was able through diet, research, and lifestyle choices to overcome a debilitating diagnosis of degenerative disc disease as a young adult. He has a whole philosophy of work that can be explored on his website TheModelHealthShow.com

Benny Lewis is an Irish author, blogger, and podcaster. He is a champion and proponent of free speech, anarchy, and many other non-mainstream ideals. He is best known for his website ‘Fluent in 3 Months’ on which he documents personal attempts to learn languages within short periods.

David Sobral is a Portuguese extragalactic astrophysicist and lecturer, best known for the discovery of galaxy CR-7. He illustrates the complexities of many basic principles such as gravity, time-space nuclear fusion, and more. Abraham "Avi" Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist and author of the recent book “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.” His book explores the recent discovery of an object named Oumuamua.

In this episode, I interviewed four individuals that have had insane transformations on a carnivore diet here are their stories. Take them in whatever way you want to, it sounds insane but it fixed me as well. Once your joints disintegrate you are willing to try just about anything.

Welcome to the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast - this is an episode co-hosted by Jordan Peterson. In this episode, we spoke with Russell Brand, an English comedian, actor, radio host, writer, and activist. The three of us explore family life, having kids, the role of sacrifice, mentor/apprentice relationships, seeing the divine in others, working with family, the aspiration of fame, and more. Find more Russell Brand on his Podcast Under the Skin and in his new book, Revelation: Connecting with the Sacred in Everyday Life. Thanks to Youtube demonetization, any donations to keep this going are much appreciated - https://donorbox.org/mikhailapeterson   A special thank you to Ground News for supporting this week's episode. Download the Ground News app for free http://bit.ly/GroundNewsMP to join the fight against media bias and see the full story.    This episode was also sponsored by Self Authoring. The Self-Authoring Suite helps you sort through your past to get past trauma, write your present life, and organize your mind for the future by identifying and prioritizing goals.  Visit https://www.selfauthoring.com and use promo code “MP” for 15% off. 

Rav Arora and Mikhaila Peterson discuss some of the controversial viral articles he has written in the past year. Many of these articles use data and facts to disprove current cultural narratives surrounding race in American culture. Some of the topics include white privilege, teaching systemic racism to students, the ethnic groups consistently outperforming whites in America, that different groups excel in other areas due to their internal culture/focus primarily, and more.

Michael Malice returns to the podcast to dig into all types of topics; travel during lockdowns, the police, anarchy manuals, mental health, differences in Russian and Western social interactions, podcasting, and traditional versus self-publishing are just some of the topics Mikhaila and Michael do the opposite of tip-toe around in this episode.

Mark Hyman comes on the podcast to talk about his new book The Pegan Diet. Mikhaila and Mark are able to cover the basic principles of the Pegan diet and additionally foods all people should avoid, dairy for adults, rebuilding gut health, chronic stress and viral immunity, raising kids on the right diet, the theory of the bored immune system, and much more. Mark Hyman is an American physician and New York Times best-selling author. He is a practitioner of functional medicine. His latest book, The Pegan diet, takes a look at combining many similar principles of the Paleo Diet and the Vegan diet. Find more Mark Hyman on his website, his books, on Twitter @drmarkhyman, on Instagram @drmarkhyman, and his podcast The Doctor’s Farmacy

Comedians Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis of Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast join Mikhaila Peterson to crack jokes, answer fan questions, and discuss cancel culture, Salt life™, Saturday Night Live, the power of media journalists, “inappropriate content”, being misquoted, and much more. The boys and Mikhaila bring some much-needed humor to many of the problems surrounding lockdowns, cancel culture and political correctness that has some of us very concerned. Find more Matt and Shane on their podcast Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, and if you want to support their work you can join their Patreon Thank you very much to TruLocal for supporting the show and for being an awesome meat-delivery service. https://trulocal.ca or https://trulocal.com and use code "MP" to get free steaks! Thanks to Youtube demonetization, any donations to keep this podcast going are appreciated - https://donorbox.org/mikhailapeterson?default_interval=m Socials: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikhailapete​rson Facebook health groups: https://linktr.ee/mikhailasupportgroups​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikhailaAleksis​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikhailapeterson Telegram main channel: https://t.me/mikhailapeterson​​ Discussion group: https://t.me/mikhailapetersondiscussion​ Show Notes: [2:30] Matt and Shanes background [5:00] Dick sirens [5:30] Quitting Porn [8:00] #saltlife [10:00] Meeting each other and starting a podcast [16:00] 1776 life [17:30] Getting canceled from SNL [22:30] Dealing with trauma from cancel culture [24:00] Being misquoted from journalists [28:00] Lady beef with the London Times [30:00] When the comedy scene got politicized [36:00] Did cancel culture change your comedy? [45:30] Experiences with COVID-19 [52:30] Thoughts on the economy bouncing back [54:00] Curfews and Lockdowns [1:00:00] Why are Matt and Shane funny? [1:02:00] Where to find Matt and Shane [1:03:00] Increasing the trait Conscientiousness