The Checkup with Doctor Mike

Treating Steven He's Emotional Damage

Feb 12, 2023

01:41:13

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The Most Important Thing About Education in China

03:27

Do You Have Superpowers?

02:31

Do You Have a Personal Health Hack That You Love?

01:32

Introduction

2min

Did You Mishear What Your Parents Wanted You to Do When You Were a Child?

1min

How Did You Get Into Acting?

2min

I Can't Memorize the Lines. I Couldn't Do It.

2min

How Many Auditions Have You Submitted?

2min

Is That Why You're Disconcerted?

2min

Is There a Difference Between Social Media and Medicine?

3min

How Do You Navigate the Struggle of the Algorithm?

2min

How Long Have You Been Burning Out?

2min

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How Does Your Mental Health and Physical Health Change Over Time?

2min

11.

Is Your Mental Health Suffering When You're Not in the Creative Mind?

2min

12.

How Did You Lose Balance?

2min

13.

The Human Body Creates Symptoms Based on What's Going on Situationally Around You

2min

14.

Did You Go to a Doctor? Oh, I Did Not Feel Rushed.

2min

15.

Infected Hair Follicle?

2min

16.

RIP Stresses

3min

17.

What Is Parastasia?

3min

18.

Is Your Neck Pain Reproducible?

2min

19.

How Did You Get Into Racket Sports?

2min

20.

How Did You Make the Transition to Tennis?

2min

21.

Neuroplasticity of the Mind and Mental Health

2min

22.

Is There a Social Support Structure?

2min

23.

Is There Anything Wrong With the Way We Speak?

2min

24.

Are You Getting Offended by This?

2min

25.

The Butt of Every Joke Has to Be Me

2min

26.

Comedy Can Be a Healing Tool

2min

27.

I Hate Everyone, but I Love Everyone

2min

28.

Are You Trying to Please an Algorithm?

2min

29.

Hollywood

4min

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Is There Demand and Supply in Your Industry?

2min

31.

Is Medical School Too Competitive?

2min

32.

The Most Important Thing About Education in China

3min

33.

Why You Decided Not to Stay in China?

2min

34.

How Does Being Smarter Than Being Dull Lead to Being Smart?

3min

35.

What Is Scarring About Being a Teenager?

2min

36.

How Did You Learn to Speak Mandarin?

2min

37.

Do You Feel Like You Have a Traumatic Experience?

3min

38.

You Dissociated From the Books

2min

39.

Is There a Name for That Copies?

2min

40.

You Have More Control Than Your Body's

2min

41.

How Do You Manage Failure?

5min

42.

How to Disarm the Power of Anger

2min

43.

You're Charitable Thinking

2min

44.

What's the Fastest Lightning Round?

2min

45.

Do You Have Superpowers?

3min

46.

Do You Have a Personal Health Hack That You Love?

2min

47.

I Love Hanging Off of the Bed, I Love It, It's Healthy for Me

5min

Watch the full interview on YouTube here: https://go.doctormikemedia.com/youtube/StevenHeVOD Steven He is a comedian, actor, and media pioneer who you may have seen online in the last year as the "emotional damage" guy. This line from one of Steven's videos hit a meteoric viral rise in the summer of 2022, but unlike many viral stars who are a flash in the pan, Steven was ready. His years of hustling as a working actor and content creator allowed him to run with his success and build a rapidly growing audience of people who enjoy his "Off Brand" TikToks or YouTube shorts about his most popular character known only as "Asian Dad". Steven has big plans for the future with the impending release of his original series "Ginormo" and a seemingly never-ending waterfall of fresh content across social media. We talked about his health, specifically the recent surgery he had on a cyst above his eye he believes was caused by stress. We also shared stories of our immigration backgrounds. Steven was born in China, raised in Ireland, and then went to college in the UK and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC, so we actually have a lot on common. I'm so grateful we got to spend a full day together and hope you enjoy our conversation! Follow Steven: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@StevenHe IG: https://www.instagram.com/thestevenhe/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@steven_he?lang=en 00:00 Intro 00:51 Worst Auditions 08:32 Starting Social Media 16:38 Emotional Damage 19:26 Mental and Physical Health 26:36 Eyebrow Surgery 44:00 Reading Negative Comments 59:20 Chinese Pressure 1:05:35 Why He Left China 1:13:20 Coping Mechanisms 1:22:53 Failure Management 1:31:30 Lightning Round 1:37:08 Q/A Executive Producer and Host: Dr. Mike Varshavski Produced by Dan Owens and Sam Bowers Art by Caroline Weigum CONTACT: DoctorMikeMedia@gmail.com