I realized I was making you personally responsible for my emotions in that moment. And when you said,

how did I do? And the answer is you were failing miserably. And it's because you actually can't

regulate my emotions for me. It's not something that another person is capable of. We have to

regulate our own emotions. If you're seeking the outside world to regulate

you in your behalf, then you're going to create some problems.

I will come back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt. And I'm Antonio

Dodge. A couple of weeks ago when we were in, well, we hadn't even

made it to the podcasting studio yet. We were just intending to record the podcast. And we ended up in

quite a bit of a fight. And I want to, I want to say that we ended up in a fight, but the truth was

is that I was actually just really mad at you. And you were trying to manage my anger. Now, a little backstory. How did I do? Did I do a good job?

Well, no, which sparked this entire, like it's going to spark this five podcast series, actually. We're going to do five episodes on the topic I'm about

to introduce. Okay. All right. But you didn't do a good job, but you weren't supposed to do a good

job. And so that's why, anyway, all of this will make sense in a moment. Okay. So a little

backstory is that there was a time when I basically, I feel like I was being dragged into the studio kicking and screaming.

Yeah.

I was having a very hard time podcasting.

I went through a real difficult, you know, moment there when I don't know if I just got to the end of the line and I was like,

okay, I'm done. I just didn't want to do it anymore. It might be, and actually most likely is

that we were in a very stressful time period. Yeah. On personal and financial and business stuff,

it was like, it was just, you know, it was just a squeeze time period.

And the last thing I wanted to do was like go into a studio and, gosh, talk about personality

types and pin a smile on my face and like, you know, and do podcasting. So during that time

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