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Mike Posner
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“Couple years. Yes. A couple years. Riding high, I thought this lasts forever. Now, in hindsight, it dwindling was the best thing that ever happened to me. But at the time, what do I do now? Who am I And when your sense of identity is challenged, you start to look for who you really are. And so I got to start this journey of, okay, if I can't rest in being popular and if I'm really honest, when I was at the top, I wasn't all that happy anyways. I grew up sort of like a shy and depressed kid. And I thought, you know, if I got this record deal and I got this fame that I would just feel more secure in myself. I thought this would be concrete evidence that I matter. And of course, you know, that's not an external job. That's an internal job. And so...”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. And what happened was this. The next song I put out, it wasn't as popular. It was still pretty popular, but comparison will do a number on you. So I thought, oh gosh, that's not good. And then the one after that was even less popular by the numbers. As if this is the only metric of art, but this was the metric I was concerned with at 2020. 23. Yeah. And suddenly I found my schedule had just kind of emptied. And this trend continued to where my career was basically considered over. And people would call me a one-hit wonder, I guess, which was true at the time, but. It was challenging. It challenged my identity because I was so wrapped up in being this young, popular young man who was...”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. And so I'm parading around the world and, you know, taking my shirt off at shows and making more money than any 23-year-old should be making.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, it was a lot of madness. And you've been famous for a long time so you can identify with this. I had attained a certain amount of success. And I wasn't able against my ego's best wishes to sustain that. So I came out of the gate. You were a Duke. College when you wrote college. Correct. So I wrote this song in my dorm room and it became this worldwide hit. And it was my first single out. So I thought, oh, that's just what happens when I put songs out, you know, with my first.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dear life, love, God, or the universe, we ask that you give us the stories, the conversation, the jokes, whatever is needed to make a difference in someone's life today. And we thank you for this opportunity and just this time together. And we're just in gratitude. Amen.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was this year in my life where I was only making music and I got to this point where there was nothing to write about because my whole life was in the studio. Right. You have to get from there.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT