Emotional Fitness Is Real and You’re Out of Shape ft. Dr Emily Anhalt, Clinical Psychologist & Author

Demoted

Demoted Productions

Comedy, Business, Careers

4.8 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Strong core, emotionally flabby. Time to balance it out. Welcome to your emotional fitness check-in. This week, we’re joined by Dr. Emily Anhalt, clinical psychologist and author of Flex Your Feelings, to explore the emotional chaos hiding beneath your polished LinkedIn persona. From “emotional push-ups” to whether ADHD counts as a superpower, we unpack the psychology of ambitious entrepreneurs, overthinkers, and yes—Ross and Natalie. We break down emotional fitness, how to spot burnout before it wrecks you, and the fine line between rewatching The Office and spiraling. Plus, we dig into what it means to pull an emotional hamstring, the rise of autonomous golf bags, and whether paying extra for guac is a moral failure.

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0:00.0	Wait, Natalie, are you about to have an emotional meltdown?
0:01.9	I'm already crying.
0:02.5	Are you ready to flex your feelings?
0:04.3	How about do an emotional push-up?
0:05.8	Not on your knees.
0:06.9	I think I just pulled an emotional hamstring.
0:08.7	In this episode, Ross and I look each other dead in the eye and give feedback on things that actually bother us about each other.
0:14.7	We're bringing in an actual real life doctor, Dr. Emily Anhal.
0:17.9	Thank God we can finally have a real professional in the building. We're diving into emotional fitness and how it can make you a better person and professional.
0:32.2	What is up, motorheads?
0:34.0	Welcome back to demoted.
0:35.6	We got a guest today.
0:36.8	If you're seeing like tears in our eyes,
0:38.9	we are ready to flex our feelings. We're going to be flexing so freaking hard. And you'll see exactly
0:44.0	how small our emotional muscles are. We spend a lot of time in the gym at berries and, you know,
0:49.7	other various classes, but you're going to leave this episode thinking, wow, those two people would be great candidates for therapy.
0:56.5	Yes.
0:57.6	Despite the fact I already go to therapy.
0:59.5	I could always use a little bit more.
1:00.5	Always a little bit more.
1:01.3	We might have to up to double days.
1:02.7	Our guess is amazing.
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