E17: Marriage, Mental Health, Masturbation

D It's been a while. I've not posted a podcast in the last few weeks because I've moved from the UK to the US. I guess this is a bit of an excuse, but I'm trying to explain my headspace. I've been hyperfocused on the new office, my new home, the business, and everything else in between. I've had this immense, immense tunnel vision. However, I've still been scribbling in my diary since the second I left the UK, and the first point in my diary this week actually comes from the plane journey from the UK to the US. Today's podcast marks the return of the diary of a CEO and the start of the United States chapter. Of this diary, but also of my life. For anyone tuning in for the first time that doesn't really know what they're listening to, I'm twenty five years old. I'm the CEO of a global marketing, media and commerce business that employs hundreds and hundreds of people across the world in five different offices. The business started uh in my

bedroom as a broke student drop out. I've just moved to the United States to help grow the business here in this new massive challenging market and this podcast that most CEOs wouldn't share. This podcast is my way of offloading random, deep, dark, and indifferent thoughts, and in doing so, in being so honest in a world of fakery, not only does this feel like therapy to me, but I guess the chance of you resonating with something I say is drastically increased. I usually record these podcasts at three AM from a cupboard under the stairs in my apartment in the UK. But today the environment's slightly different. I'm in a suite in Hollywood, near the Hollywood Hills. I'm out here on business for a week and it's two AM in the morning.

Anyway. Without further ado, I can't wait to get back into this. I'm Steven Bartlett. This is the diary of a CEO. I hope nobody is listening. But if you are. Then please keep this to yourself.

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