Hello, welcome to the show.

This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful.

I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, live coach and psychotherapist.

And I'm your co-host, Chris Iacono, producer, and husband.

And on today's episode, we're discussing rage bait, doom scrolling, and managing our nervous system online.

On to the show.

So this is a topic that I really wanted to speak about, and I kind of brought it to you a few weeks ago.

I think it is so important right now.

When the internet has permeated every single aspect of our lives and we are inundated with media,

AI driven media, influencers, and all of these things that are kind of bombarding us online. I think it's

very important that we really examine how the internet is affecting our nervous system, how it's

making us feel, how it's misleading us and tricking us and making us angry. Because I've dedicated so much of my career

to helping people unravel and understand manipulation, I've realized how many people don't see

the manipulation of advertisement, of media, of the ways the social media algorithms work. I know you and I having the show,

gosh, we're getting close to nine years. In that time, we've really learned, been forced to learn

the manipulation of the algorithms and how really every algorithm out there

runs on rage bait. It's been a real dilemma. When you see some of your favorite podcasters or

content creators increasingly doing clickbaity things, it's because we are under this constant dilemma of

how do we do this? If the algorithms work with outrage and pissing people off, creating

controversy, how do we actually just have a conversation about anything when the algorithm wants what is salacious,

what is poking people in hate and disdain and anger and fear when everything about the work

that I do and the work that we've done together on this show is about the opposite of all of that.

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