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This episode includes discussion of addiction, family abuse and gang violence.

Dr. Torie went to a performing arts high school. Almost nobody knows she can sing. Four minutes into this episode, Maximus Leroy stops the interview and asks her whose voice told her not to.

That's the whole episode, really. Maximus is a certified psychotherapist and EQ practitioner who wrote a book called "Mental Health Is a Lie" — not because mental health isn't real, but because he thinks we're arguing about 30% of the problem and ignoring the other 70%.

What follows is less an interview than a session. Two practitioners in the same field, taking turns putting each other on the couch.

You can follow him on IG @maximuslerois

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00:00 The episode starts here
00:30 "Maximus, where are you?"
01:30 Wait — you can sing?
04:00 Whose voice told you not to?
06:00 Cycle breakers, and the author of your own script
09:00 When singing was the therapy
11:30 Awareness + Community = Empowerment
13:00 You don't have time. You don't make time.
15:30 Why boundaries are hardest for the first one out
18:00 "I don't keep score"
19:30 Do you see me? Do you love me?
21:30 Forgive the version of you that needed it
24:00 The Ninth Child, and an audiobook in someone else's voice
25:30 The room where nobody is alone anymore
27:00 "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" — I've got sandals on
28:30 South LA, and the brother who wouldn't let him come
30:30 Becoming the father who could give better answers
33:00 Trauma bonds, and the difference between loving and liking
34:30 His father, still using, and the line before that
36:30 The trauma Olympics: I'm not running this race
38:30 Entrepreneurship, and what your kids are actually watching
40:00 "You're so strong" — and why that's not a compliment
41:00 The imposter syndrome tool
42:30 Mental Health Is a Lie: the 70/30 split
43:30 Be it so you can see it
44:30 Where to find Maximus


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