Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

It sounds like I've got a cold, but I don't think I do. I just turn it like coughing for some reason,

right before we hit record. So my throat is really scratchy.

Tintoni, you've kind of had an interesting week. We were getting ready to sit down today

and record a podcast. We're actually getting ready to leave

for the airport in minutes from now. As soon as we're done recording,

we sat down to record a couple different topics of podcasts, but

it was really hard to get to any of those topics because of the reason we're leaving for the

airport very soon. Your father actually is not doing very well. And so we're getting ready

to fly across the country to the Portland area on the west coast to see your father

because he's 81 now and he's not doing very well. And the reason we're talking about this is

because we've talked about your relationship with your parents specifically and personally before

Antonia on the show is about, I'd say, three years ago on an episode that was, well, actually,

a two part called making peace with your parents part one and making peace with your parents part two.

And you unpacked some of the feelings and some of the experiences you've had with your family

on that. And I know people were like, you know, let us know what happens. And it's been about three

years since you really had an engagement with your family. And if you are a listener that hasn't

heard that yet, you want to go back and listen to those episodes, get some context for what we're

talking about today and check in with you. So I guess I'll ask you, Antonia, how are you doing

right now? How are, how are things for you? I'm really, really emotionally zen, which I don't know

if that's the result of authentic work or if that's just a numbing out. I can't, I can't quite put

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