Stop Being Yourself At Work Is BAD ADVICE! The Identity Crisis Keeping You Broke & Broken
The Table with Anthony ONeal
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๐๏ธ 2 October 2025
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Summary
What happens when success costs you your identity?
Dr. Joel Tubman (author of "The Fight to Find Yourself") and I have the most raw conversation about pretending, grief, and the dangerous cost of not knowing who you really are.
Dr. Joel opens up about losing his son, battling suicidal thoughts, and realizing he'd been performing his entire life. I share my story of pretending in relationships and how grief led me down a destructive path.
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| 0:00.0 | How's the business going? |
| 0:01.1 | We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee. |
| 0:22.7 | Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. you at the job center. We've hired some great people and Job Center Plus really took the hassle |
| 0:21.1 | out of it and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at business.gov.com. Eligibility criteria apply. Dr. Joel. Yes, sir. Welcome to the table, man. Man, thank you. I finally made it to the table. Finally made it. First time. Yes, sir. You know, We don't need to introduce you, man. |
| 0:38.9 | You are, You are Dr. Joel Tubman. And I want to get straight into it. You have a new book coming out called The Fight to Find Yourself. Yes, sir. And I want to say thank you up front, bro, for this book. Because you mentioned in your book, and I have notes here. |
| 0:56.6 | Yes, sir. Because I was like, oh, this is good. You mentioned in your book that many people are |
| 1:01.5 | pretending and do not know their true selves. That's a statement that came from the truth, me. |
| 1:10.2 | I pretended for a very, very long time. And I think |
| 1:13.3 | pretending comes from, it's sad to say, but we have even preached it, you know, fake it to you |
| 1:18.9 | make it. And I'm not blaming that on the church. I'm not going to blame it on the church, |
| 1:22.6 | but that has been a statement, a colloquialism from our church to fake it to you make it. And here's what we look at. When you do that in any realm, whether it's in church or whether you do it in your family and your personal life, you foreclose on your own identity. Foreclosure is a term that I know you are very aware of it when it comes to money. Foreclosure is simply I don't have the money to take care of the asset. |
| 1:46.4 | So if I don't have the money to take care of the asset, the asset is gone. |
| 1:49.5 | The same thing with my life. |
| 1:51.5 | If I don't have the attention and the focus to pay what needs to be paid for my identity, |
| 1:59.5 | I foreclose on who I'm supposed to be. |
| 2:02.6 | And I end up becoming what I create to have some form of sustainability within whatever |
| 2:08.4 | culture I'm trying to stay in. |
| 2:12.0 | For instance, whether it's, I want to look a certain way with money or with my clothing. |
| 2:17.0 | I want to present myself a certain way with females or males. |
| 2:21.3 | We put on an identity and at the expense of losing who we are and some never finding who we are. |
| 2:29.8 | So here's what happens. |
| 2:31.2 | Here's what happens. |
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