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Okay, interesting anecdote.

A friend of ours, a mutual friend of my guest today said, hey, I've got Ryan Leak that wants to come on your show.

Puts us on a group text.

I said, Ryan, I know who you are.

Let's do an interview. This friend is Rory Vaden. Then he sends me the book. And it's not the same Ryan Leak after I agreed to do the interview. But then I read the book. I'm open. I read the book. I go, no, no, no, I definitely want this guy on the show. So actually, the content of your work is so good. I'm like, oh, no, this needs to be discussed because it's a topic, which we're going to talk about next, that's under discussed and is a massive issue in people's lives so they don't know how to navigate it. So this Ryan leak, no offense to the other one, my upgraded guest today, has a book called How to Work with Complicated People. And I got to

tell you something, I want to know a lot of this stuff. So I read the book from the cover to the end of it.

Every word of it took me three days. And it really changed my life. He's worked with everybody from

the NFL, you guys, Google, Microsoft. And so once I figured out who this Ryan Leak was, I told him also off camera, everybody I know that

knows him raves about him and tells me this is going to be an incredible conversation today.

So the real Ryan Leak, welcome to the show.

Thanks, it is a pleasure to be here.

It's so good to have you.

So this is perfect segue since I blew it.

One of the quotes from the book, I'm like, this will be perfect, is you're somebody's idiot. And I'm like, I clearly represent that. But it's one of the principles of working with complicated people. So let's just start there because I'm a perfect description of somebody's idiot. So tell us about what that means. You know, it's this idea that we could live in a world where we think, man, this person's an idiot. And it's just like we have, but we're always somebody's person that is that person. And so anytime I tell people, hey, I'm working on a book called How to Work with Complicated people, they go, yeah, I need that book. And then I go, hey, spoiler alert, somebody needs that book for you.

And somebody needs that book for me. It's interesting. We hear this phrase a lot, toxic work

environment, or I've got a toxic boss. The problem with that word is, no one admits that they are that.

We've never met someone to say, hey, man, I'm going through a lot in my life right now,

and I'm toxic. Like, people just don't admit that kind of thing. And so it's a word that it's like 72% of America would describe their work environment as toxic. Like, it's just thrown out there a lot, but nobody wants to admit that they're that. And so I think that idea that we're all

somebody's idiot, it just postures us with a little bit of humility to say, hey, man, you know what?

Maybe on the other side of me, it's a little bit more kind of. You know, I never thought

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