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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. There's an old joke on the

internet that says every day there's a trending topic on Twitter and your goal is to never be that

topic, right? You might think you want everyone to be talking about you. You might think you want

the whole eyes of the world on you. But if they are, it's almost certainly because something

really bad has happened. Or you screwed up in some huge way.

Or things are about to get real bad, real fast.

Like, imagine going to sleep and you wake up and you're trending nationwide.

But it's because everyone thinks you're dead.

People are total strangers or posting your photo. They're tying you to this

tragedy. They're politicizing you and your identity. They're telling stories and lies about you that

aren't true. They're incredibly angry. Imagine it's so extreme, so crazy that you have to record a

proof of life video just to make sure the world knows

you're still alive. And in the process, try desperately to defend your name. And that actually

happened to the person that I'm talking to today. Joe Ellis is a Black Hawk helicopter pilot. She was in the Virginia Army National Guard

for many, many years when she was suddenly, falsely accused in January of 2025 of being responsible

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