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Politically High-Tech
279- We're all students of life, even with a PhD featuring Albert Bramante
Dr. Albert Bramante joins us to share insights on overcoming self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and self-sabotage based on his 21 years as a talent agent and his psychology expertise. We explore how these challenges affect everyone regardless of profession, examining the psychology behind fear of success, fear of failure, and the importance of reframing our relationship with both.
• Fear of success stems from our addiction to comfort and resistance to the changes success brings
• Family and loved ones may unintentionally discourage our dreams due to their own insecurities and fears
• Reframing failure as valuable feedback rather than the "end of the world" creates space for growth
• Visualization is a powerful tool for success as "the brain doesn't know the difference between fiction and reality"
• The difference between confidence and arrogance lies in humility and willingness to learn from feedback
• Changing how we speak about ourselves (e.g., "professional" vs "aspiring") shapes our identity and outcomes
• Dr. Bramante's book "Rise Above the Script" and hypnosis audio collection offer affordable tools for overcoming mental barriers
Check out Dr. Albert Bramante's book "Rise Above the Script: Confronting Self-Doubt, Mastering Self-Sabotage for Performing Artists" on Amazon, and visit albertbramante.com for his extensive collection of affordable hypnosis audios targeting various issues from imposter syndrome to addiction.
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welcome everyone to politically high tech with your host, elias. I tend to like these kind of episodes the development, because this is something I'm developing too. I'm developing too, just because I'm a host. I don't have that all-knowing head and all that craziness. All I do is just ask questions and just guide a conversation. But most guests here they're capable of holding the conversation on their own, which is great. It makes me spoiled, it makes me lazy, it sometimes passes it as a hoax. But enough about me. I'm sure you're not here to hear about me, unless you have to put up with my solo episodes. Yeah, that's where you got to hear me extensively, okay, but anyways, I have a great guest here and I read and look into the stuff we got. Albert, if I butchered your last name, feel free to correct me on air Bramante.
Speaker 2:That's actually very good. Correct Bramante.
Speaker 1:Good, good, all right, great. So I'm going to have him introduce himself, because I believe the guests can introduce themselves better than I ever can and I don't want to have any unintentional misrepresentation. I can avoid intentional misrepresentation, but unintentional Sometimes that's harder, because you think you know in a certain way that that feels a blind spot. I just think they can introduce themselves better than I can, so that's why I personally believe him. So with that, albert, what do you want the listeners and the viewers to know about?
Speaker 2:Well, thank you again, elias, for having me on. My name is Dr Albert Bramante. I've been a talent agent for the past 21 years. I have an office in New York City. I represent actors for film, tv, theater, commercial and voiceover, and I also have, have you know, a doctorate in psychology. So I've been also a psychology professor for 22 years and I teach mainly, you know, classes in personality, developmental psychology, child psychology the areas. One of my areas of expertise is imposter syndrome fear and success, fear of failure. So I wrote a book in 2024, rise Above the Script confronting self-doubt, mastering self-sabotage, warming artists. Now, the one thing about my book even though it's geared towards actors and performers, it's actually applicable to anybody.
Speaker 2:You know, regardless of what profession you're in, because we all grapple with self-doubt. You know imposter syndrome, you know fear of success, fear of failure, all of those things that can come in to play from time to time. That's called, like the being, the human experience. That's what I refer to it as but I was brave for you, don't?
Speaker 1:this is your bragging moment right now.
Speaker 2:Just cheer a little more if you want, if you want if you want um, you know I've been, you know I've booked a lot of clients, you know, in the past on, like you know, tv shows like law and order and fbi and blue bloods. I've also had a couple people clients on broadway and national commercial. So I, you know, but doing this for me, you're working with so many actors for many years that you know I kind of know the actor experience. You know the trials and tribulations, successes and failures, and you know ups and downs of the artist's career and they're relevant to almost every career to some extent. And you know, I guess I didn't even experience. So that's kind of like where I've been studying. I'm a student of life. So while I have a PhD I'm always learning. So every day I'm always learning something new and I like diverse viewpoints, I like talking to all types of people. I'm all up to life.
Speaker 1:All right, you know, that's great. I like when you say that you are a student of life. We have I don't know three PhDs, but there's always something to learn. Get me wrong, you're brilliant in those areas. I'm not knocking that down. But some of you PhD people and this is I'm calling you out, but those of you who have encountered my personal life you think you know everything, and that's when you reveal to people that you're an egotistical moron.
Speaker 1:Okay, if you think you know everything. You see, he got a PhD. He's very successful. He could be. To be honest, he has more reason to brag, if anything. You know he deals with broadway tv shows, various acting careers and stuff that we could pin. Okay, we could just, you know, we could catch on as, oh, he deals that kind of stuff. Uh-huh, oh, that's great. Yeah, so he's making sure that the actors ain't going crazy. Okay, for those of you who are paying attention to the audio, you know I did the whole spin your pointer finger to the side of your head when you think someone is crazy. That's what I just did, I think. Well, you already said it for me, which I'm happy you did that. This is broad. This is not just actors and people who have to deal with a lot of public exposure.
Speaker 1:It even applies to some extent to those who will just sit behind the desk want introverted jobs or being a janitor in a school you don't have to talk to people as much in those kind of jobs. Or be a stock person in the retail. Actually, that's a little more of a gray area, because customers are going to ask you questions anyways. They don't know that. They just want the quickest help possible. Right, I'm sometimes that customer too, even though I know they're stocking. I'm not just speaking about me, but other people that, um, that has done that, so, but people who do desk jobs or computer or tech work. You know you got to communicate in teams and all that, but that's not a huge. You know public exposure, like an actor, a politician or a newscaster. You know the ones that have cameras and social media. You know scrutinizing every single little thing they find on small blemish. Ah, when you find some dirt, you don't have that kind of exposure. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm differentiating. But the stuff you talk about, it applies to you too. Everybody does what.
Speaker 1:You know self-doubt failure, even as in private, right, failure doesn't have to be a public thing. That's ridiculous to think that A good amount of failure is private, believe it or not. Some is public, which is embarrassing. But failure doesn't discriminate the level of publicity. It's going to happen because things just didn't work out. Just to put it simple as possible, we could get into nuances of it as up to this great guest here, um, so to open that up, I mean, what lessons can those besides actors and all that could learn from it? Because we all, we all go through this imposter syndrome, right, fear of success and failure. Let's put both of them out there. We got a fear of both, depending on the person. I think I have more fear of success. I've dealt with fear of failure, I think a crippling fear, but now I'm having now I think I have more fear of success now, which I didn't think that was going to happen to me. I just that's ridiculous you want to be successful.
Speaker 1:Why fear that?
Speaker 2:that's how I used to think well, yeah, and and that's where a lot of people think, you know, when it comes to fear of success, but, but it all boils down to change. As human beings, comfort is the biggest addiction of them all. We're created to be comfortable. We're created for routine. Sometimes, when we're successful whether any walk of life, when we're successful, our lives are going to change and there may be more responsibilities, more obligations which may take you away from your family and from your family and from your loved ones, which you know.
Speaker 2:Another thing that I often discuss is that our family and loved ones may not be the most healthy people to be around all the time and they're operating sometimes from their own insecurity and their own negativity that they'll put you down or they may shoot your dreams down. The important thing is not to take that personally. It's much harder than it is to understand that, but it's true that, coming from their own fear and their own insecurities with that, because I've dealt with a lot of clients who would tell me that their partners, even others, their parents, are sometimes always shooting down their acting dreams I want to reframe that as well. Yeah, that is definitely not a very good thing to do, but at the same time, they're operating from insecurity. They may be more afraid of you leaving the nest and them, especially if they're in a relation with you that has nothing to do with your grades. In a sense, it has to do with their own insecurity.
Speaker 2:So if you look at it from that perspective, it'll, I think, make it a little bit easier to kind of, you know, manage. So you know, a lot of times we don't want to disappoint, we don't want to lose the people we love, and so you juggle with that, especially when you're trying to juggle a career with a family or career with, you know, with loved ones. Change can happen, occurs, it's uncomfortable, and that's where one way as human beings would kind of have that set point built into it for safety and security and sometimes being at the failure moment is safe and secure and therefore we're gonna work, our subconscious, unconscious mind is gonna work really hard to keep us there you know people, you could argue against this.
Speaker 1:But what he's saying is very profound. I'm definitely not gonna argue with it. I mean, you could, you know you could, you could be a fool in this comment right there. I'm not gonna do your comment. I'm not gonna call you to be canceled. I don don't believe in that. But I do believe in exposing and just let you humiliate yourself, do self-sabotage. That's why I say for politics, I want to talk about the one on the other side. So don't let them sabotage you, take advantage, don't try to prevent them from making a mistake. Let them Let it be exposed. But I don't want to be too political. But the point is what you say and I get it and I, of course, you would talk to me about this when I was a teenager. I'd say this Albert guy is freaking crazy. Fear of success.
Speaker 2:What are you?
Speaker 1:talking about, bro? What are you saying, man? I mean, come on. But no, you see, we talk about the family dynamic. They're not going to be the most healthy people because they projected their own insecurities and fears. You know, instead of being supportive of your dreams, rather you succeed or fail. You know that's later that outcome Right. But you know it is very hard. You just, I like what you point out. It's very hard not to take it personally when it comes to fab, because it's it's heavily emotional, especially with a family and even and even friends to a I'll say, lesser degree. But fabi, that's like, really, that's volatile territory if you push the wrong buttons, right. So you know, I, I understand everything you say, because I even got to some of those conversations when, when I wanted to start a podcast, for example, they would just say, oh, you gotta be careful, you gotta do this. They, they would give me all these. They didn't tell me no, but it was giving me all the negative reasons. They want me to land on the no, I get it.
Speaker 1:They were trying to look out for me, they was trying to be um you know they care, but you know, and that's the thing I eventually arrived at conclusions and they're just speaking out of their feelings, they're projecting their insecurities, you know, and it's hard for people not to to do that because we, when we get emotional, we just react right away. So just while they say, what are you talking about, you get defensive, right. That's sadly most people, especially when they're doing something uncomfortable. So I like that is a challenge people. People, especially when they're doing something uncomfortable. So I like that it's a challenge. People and I want to emphasize this because I'm sure some of you are having this problem, a lot of you may be having this try not to take it personally. Just see what they're coming from and try to do you. And if you have to emotionally calm them down, give you know and just try to do that. Don't try to see it as if they are an obstacle and an enemy. Well, they are an obstacle in the sense that they don't want you to move forward, but they're not an evil, malicious obstacle. They're coming from a good place. If you differentiate that, as opposed to a co-worker, that was a backstab you, which is more malicious, you know, I think, um, you'll, you'll not take it as personal, you'll be more understanding. I'm not saying for you to give up your dreams. I would say just understand that. And he's not saying that either. I could clearly vouch for that. It's just he's explaining the nuances and the complications of that, because everybody goes. I, I went through it, um, a few times. I'm sure those of you who are watching and listening is currently going through it, has went through it, or you have people you know are going through it. You know be um. I would say is try to be supportive. You know are going through it, you know. I would say, try to be supportive. You know them, you know what's their triggers. You know what's their enhancers to more feel good Instead of just triggers. Enhancers, you know, are stuff that goes common. Now you know them right.
Speaker 1:So, with that being said, I'm going to reframe this question a little differently. Since we speak like fears of failure and success. How can we reframe the view of the fear of failure and even success? You already talked about the comfort zone. That's why people prefer, that's why people afraid of success. You already said more obligations, more responsibility, more demands from the professional public life, time and time and time with your family, friends is going to diminish some cases significantly. I mean, let's be real, like a Hollywood actress and actors, they say they don't have a lot of time to be with their family and friends. Multiple of them have said that. Just scroll through their interviews whenever you got time. I normally don't encourage celebrity stuff, but it's pretty relevant here, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't care about who's sleeping with who not that garbage and who's taking drugs. I don't care about that garbage. Just pay attention to interviews that they're human too. They're human too. Anything else you want to add before I keep going?
Speaker 2:Well, I want to also reframe fear of failure, you know, in the sense that there's one thing that I've always kind of subscribed to and again, not everyone. So anything that you know, even if you mess up because most people do failures like the end of the world, it's over for me. I've done, I've failed, but actually no, you actually work, you actually got some very important feedback. So if you look at failure as feedback, it's less scary and it's less daunting. That it's part of the human experience. You're going to make mistakes, but it's part of the human experience. You're going to make mistakes and that's the important thing.
Speaker 2:Whether you're a content creator, a presenter, a teacher or a salesperson, there's going to be days where you're going to make errors and there's days that you're going to make mistakes but you're learning. And the important thing is that we're human. We can learn from our failures. We can get good feedback from that. So we can dust ourselves back up and say, okay, what did I learn from this experience? What feedback can I do now for the next time when I'm in that same situation? I can do even better now and this makes me a better person. So if you stop looking at failure as the end of the world and more as like learning opportunities and that, you know, I think it makes it less scary.
Speaker 2:I mean, it mean it's still. You know, nobody likes to, obviously, to make mistakes or errors, but that's part of the human experience. They're going to do it. Um, and I was having another discussion with another podcast where we're saying if you take, let's say, somebody who has a thousand episodes and you listen to episode 1000 and then go back to the first episode, it's gonna be a completely different podcast and you know, even if you look at, like you know, people like joe rogan, for instance, if you look at a lot of his earlier content it's a lot different than what he is now, because he's learned, he's evolved, and so if we take the people's failures and take them and restrain those learning opportunities.
Speaker 1:I love that and I've said this before. This is not unique, but it's valuable. It's valuable. Turn the failure into a lesson that gives you permit and give yourself permission to evolve right, because you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1:The biggest podcast of the world, undisputedly undeniably Joee rogan. Rather, you love him or hate him. I did not ask that, I do not care. Just take this as a lesson, because I gotta, because some of you just comment on opinion. That's all I'm asking for here. Just look at that, because I've looked at his earlier episodes.
Speaker 1:The setup was more messy. Of course, the quality was not as good. I mean, the conversations were kind of free-flowing, but it was just more about hanging out with the friends. I mean, it still got that, but it also has more. I mean, the guest repertoire expanded significantly. So you have in scientists, actors, what have you on his show. And, to be honest, I personally like some of his later stuff better, because I think it's even though's joe rogan's. You know he's mostly free-flowing but he's operating curiosity. I think that part has never really died out, but the earlier episodes it seemed like it was just him hanging out with the friends, having a conversation with the friends. That's my impression and vibe with his early work.
Speaker 1:I didn't I didn't watch all his earlier stuff. I watched like about three of them to get a general idea. And yeah, I, I agree, agree. And of course, the video quality is more granular, not as great. I mean, that's technology right there, but now everything's like what freaking 4K, 8k, whatever K we at now. But you get the point listeners. So yeah, so even the great like Joe Rogan had to go through this process. We are all human. You are not. Even AI fails. Okay.
Speaker 2:So as much as.
Speaker 1:I'm pro AI. I'm a cautious optimist of AI, but AI messes up and I have dealt with some of that personally Was it my prompts. I don't know, sometimes it's just glitches, you know, and we can't keep up with the demand.
Speaker 1:You know, like the like, the like, the whole japanese style art thing. It was a huge demand, to the point that I'll have to tell his customers to calm down with the demand. We can't keep up, I'm, I'm just I'm not giving verbatim, I'm just saying what, what he said, because the demand was just ridiculous. Not even the great ai source can we keep up with it. I mean, it must have been like probably a hundred million requests with that kind of japanese art. It's a beautiful. It's a beautiful art style. I forget what it's called. It starts with a g, they call it get beef. I'm, I'm probably butchering it, but it is a beautiful art. So I can see why. I can understand why the demand of that is heavy. So that's a lesson to sam altman and his team. You know successful, that you got to come up with a better infrastructure to support a super viral demand.
Speaker 2:You know, even Sam Maltman said you know it's not perfect and then it makes you know it's going to hallucinate. You know, that's what we call it, when a lot of times it'll make mistakes or errors because it could be high demand, software glitches, as he said, and even sometimes what I'm not. You know, I'm prompting and sometimes it'll not a lot. Most of the time it's accurate, but there's times where I'm like what are?
Speaker 2:you talking about, you know, and so I think with you know, like with you. I'm definitely cautious, but optimists I've always. I was believing you're gonna put out content or do research with ai. So double check and always put your own voice into it. No matter how much you know, good the content may seem to you, you still need your own voice into it oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Um, you know we we're saying all these exams because, look, you know, they're successful, they're public, but they go through their challenges and I I'm not going to frame all that failure.
Speaker 1:I will just say challenges, that they turn it into a lesson and they apply what they need to grow, to evolve, to become better. I mean me and my podcast. When I first did it, I didn't know what I was talking about. I just stick to the comfort stuff. I sounded even more robotic when I hear my earlier ones. I sounded more robotic. I was nervous as heck. All right, let me just use my own example. I'm not going to get too deep into that. And look, and sometimes it was even inconsistent. Now I'm more consistent.
Speaker 1:Structure is more simplified structure. Can I try to be too ambitious and too innovative to the point that I forgot what was the core importance of a podcast? So I simplified things and that was the feedback. Simplify, simplify, so people don't got time to go through all this. Even I gave timestamps. I used to do a politics tech and development in one episode and I gave timestamps. So people didn't like that. They didn't like going through all that. So now I just do a separate politics tech development and that's been a lot more receptive.
Speaker 1:I've been seeing growth once I started simplifying it being more consistent. They didn't want to deal with my crazy shape-shifted podcast. So you know that was more. You know they didn't say that, but I got the idea it was all that. So you know that's. I have to learn lessons too, you know, and I'm just being as authentic. I'd rather be authentic than being a perfectionist in quotes. Okay, and that's all. That's all I'm gonna. I'm gonna say, but then what about view of success? I think we need a frame that, because you already said that it's too much pressure how can we turn? How can we combat fear of success?
Speaker 2:I mean that being that thing, that's a better way of framing that well, I would say you know, knowing that you're deserving of, of hey, you worked really hard. And also watch the language you use of ourselves. Just do it, actors. I never, I don't like, I know there's a romanticized form of the starving artist or the struggling artist, or the aspiring actor, and those are words that have to be rid of your vocabulary. So I'm a professional working actor, professional podcaster, I'm this, I'm that, and when you start really embodying that, that's where you can start to grow and say okay, I know I hit these milestones comfortably.
Speaker 2:more comfortably is you know, watch the language you use both you know when you're communicating with others and also to yourself. So that communication language you use is extremely powerful and important. Visualization One thing I always say you know, and it may sound sometimes a little fluff, but I think it's true. I think if you actually visualize yourself succeeding, keep putting yourself in these scenarios where you're succeeding, the brain does not know the difference between fiction and reality. Visualize yourself being successful, having that. Whatever it is you're setting out to do, just visualize yourself being successful.
Speaker 1:And do that over and over again. Absolutely, Like I said, some of these things you say is not unique, but it's valuable Once value repeats itself. It is consistent and it's true. Okay, I know some of you are skeptical. I'm a skeptic by nature. Okay, I need to see evidence. I need to see evidence. I need to see proof. I need to try it myself hands on, because I've been a sucker when I was younger and I got tired of becoming a sucker, so I choose to be a skeptic. Before, I used to be downright cynical, not believe anything, even if it was true. Let me just do a ridiculous example. The sky is orange. Can you convince me that sky is orange? Right, and some people will debate you to death that the sky is orange. Either they're trolling or something you know not going right upstairs. Okay, Whatever it is.
Speaker 1:You can see your own eyes. Check. The sky is blue right, with clouds in there. Of course it's great because the clouds are guarded from there. But you say the sky is orange. This person's dying on the hill and the sky is orange. Me personally, I don't entertain that. I say you're not in the right mind. I don't even say that. Just keep that in your mind. I don't even say that, just keep that in your mind. You have your internal dialogue in your head saying this person's not right, they're having a debate.
Speaker 1:Walk away, because you know what Mark Twain says when two people argue, they're the strangers. I'm paraphrasing it here. Of course, the strangers cannot tell who's the rational one, and who's the idiot?
Speaker 1:You both become idiots. That's why you stay, that's why you don't. And to say this, comply to trolls as well. Don't entertain them. You're both are gonna look very foolish, okay, just to put it nicely. So that's what I'm gonna say. I think I think you get the point, what I'm saying here, and you know. Just just focus on what's important at the end of the day. Focus what and the reason I'm saying that is focus what you say.
Speaker 1:Visualization has worked for me. If I didn't visualize me being a podcaster, I wouldn't even bother doing this. I have done it. And you know what's funny? That vision kept annoying me. It kept popping up, popping up, popping up, popping up Every dream. I had those podcasts I can remind us. I think you should be a freaking podcaster. I don't know if you believe in God or not, that's not relevant. You believe it's God, allah, jesus, the tooth fairy, whatever you believe in, right? If you got that visualization, that subconscious telling you do this, that is repeating, you should try it. You should try it, not if it's just a one-off, random dream or something. I'm not talking about those.
Speaker 1:I know some of you're gonna think I'm cooking crazy. I think you're crazier for not giving it a shot, at least give it a shot. If it doesn't work out, fine, it doesn't work out, I will shut up. It's not about me being right. It's about just give it a shot, because if you don't like where your life is at it's stagnant, boring, boring, not great you should try different things. But I cannot force you. It's entirely up to you.
Speaker 1:At the end of the day, we're adults here, right? There's no mommy and daddy or boss telling you what to do. Okay, just make your decision. If you think I'm crazy, that's fine. There's a comment section for that. If you have any frustration, use your time, use this therapy Just to type your little anger away, or positivity.
Speaker 1:No, but you know, just just do that. Um, because it's not. It's not going to affect me personally and trust me, I've received negative and positive comments and I know which ones to respond to. I do read them all, but I am not responding to all. I just hope you listeners and viewers are just getting this message here Give it a shot, just give it a shot. And this is true because more than one successful and evidence supports this there is. You know, 20 years ago this sounds crazy. Some of the stuff we talk about sounds crazy because we didn't think about the subconscious at this level. We are more aware of consciousness, I think, at this time as opposed to 20 years ago. You know, I would have been labeled as a nut. I wouldn't be surprised if Dr Huber would be labeled as a nut too. By today's standards, we are on to something and thank goodness for that.
Speaker 2:So now onto something, and thank goodness for that. So now.
Speaker 1:I want to talk about high self-esteem, and I already know there's two types. There is, of course, healthy and toxic. I call it confident, arrogant. That's just me.
Speaker 2:That's a good way to call it, yeah that's a good way to call it.
Speaker 1:And since I mentioned these two, how can one, how can someone differentiate?
Speaker 2:So it all comes down to really simple in simpler terms. Simplest terms, humility would be the biggest difference between the two of them. You know, someone with high self-esteem, as you were talking about earlier, is someone who's confident but also knows that they're able to learn and change when they make mistakes and that they're capable to grow. Someone with toxic high self-esteem or arrogant is actually it's very related it's a distant cousin.
Speaker 2:I feel of low self-esteem Because I feel like with someone who's arrogant, they're not open to sending feedback and anytime you offer them any feedback or constructive criticism, they get really defensive and really sensitive over that. They get really offended by that and sometimes I feel, even with some actors, like when I give them adjustments or the possible ways that they or even acting teachers to try to give them feedback, it's like how dare you, you know, say that about my zine.
Speaker 2:It's perfect and there's a lot of people who are not willing to accept, you know, conservative criticism and they're not going to grow, and that's where I feel like it's also related to self-sabotage, and I even put like a chapter in my book on that you know the way, how high self-esteem is related to self-sabotage because of the arrogance and then not being willing to accept feedback and and not you know not have the room to learn so willingness to learn.
Speaker 1:It seemed to be one of the biggest differentiators and, of course, the attitude and the reaction to it. Yeah, no, I. You know. This may sound simple, but I think people just need this reminder. It's that, look, we all know it consciously, but once we get into our I'm going to call it a little more spicy, once we get to our emotional Kool-Aid mode, that blinder is turned on. That blinder is turned on and is going to stay on. It's almost jammed until you calm down, until you be sober, right, yeah, so it's. You know, we all know it, people know this. But once we're in them, like I said, in that emotional, visceral mode, as you know, you take it as an insult, you take it as someone's cursing you out, even though they try and provide you constructive feedback. Be more open to constructive feedback. Not everyone is out to get you.
Speaker 1:I had this problem as a teenager, even as a young adult. So why is this person trying to correct me? Did I did everything good? Did I get like a 99? And while you just criticize that 1% like, leave me alone, it's no big deal. I mean, I'm right actually, but this person tried to tell me something valuable and eventually bit me in the butt because that didn't use me. For example, my grades were not as good because I thought I had it all together. You know it catches up to you. It might not be at that moment, but it will catch up to you. You know, you think you're riding high now, but just like you ride high, you can fall down and that land is going to be rough, okay. So you know, and this is why you know don't get me wrong I just jokingly act arrogant, just for entertainment. But I gotta say I'm definitely more on the I would say, sober-minded, willing to learn and all that. Like me, I volunteered to church. When I volunteered to be usher, I was very open to feedback and I picked up that new role really quickly because of my openness to learn. You know, you just, you focus on learning the role instead of just protecting me and my image, my ego or whatever.
Speaker 1:Is yours Right? Right, and I like what you said about the toxic ones. Of course it's coming from someone with a great insecurity. They overcompensate for something. One has to act overly aggressive, overly tough, even when it's not necessary. For example, your mother say I love you, come on. Your mom just say I love you. Do you need to act tough in that situation? No, no, I don't think so. Most of the time you do, um, or or. A friend is just trying to say oh, oh, oh, you gotta stay in your own, you know, you gotta stay in your cheek somewhere. So you're trying to trick me, you want, you want to start somebody. You're just trying to look out for you. Calm down, all right. So, and well, I never had that particular problem. I just said, oh, I just kind of assumed they were just looking out for me, but for those of you who have.
Speaker 1:Of course, if those of you who have, like this, high ego problem listen and I'm going to say the harsh truth you will be replaced. I mean, we are all replaceable, but you're speeding that up. Anything, anything else you want to add?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, and not to set men to truth, but even you know, if you want to go even a step further with that, and this might sound a little bit doom and gloom, but even in 20, 30 years after we're gone, we're going to be. Unless we did something really amazing, we're going to be forgotten you know after this.
Speaker 2:It's just you know, know through the stand of time. So it's not why. Why are we stressing over stuff and why are we worried so much about that critical? Just do it, just grow and make the best of what we can do right now live life.
Speaker 1:Just just do that exactly. He's a student of life. I just have to say that it's simple, profound, maybe cheesy to you critics, but it's true. It doesn't diminish the truth. I care about the truth more than your approval, critics. Ok, this is not. It's not for me to please you. You know you could choose to listen to another podcast anytime. I just want those who are willing to see what this podcast have to offer here a little bit. I gotta say definitely here a lot for valuable guests, what they have to say. I like to bring people who are bringing good stuff and sometimes interesting stuff. I still bring people out of left field.
Speaker 1:Just think politics differently sometimes and ai differently, and definitely spirituality differently. I think spirituality personally. I think a lot of people just got their blindfold, their tunnel vision. Oh no, this is the only way I read the Bible, so I know everything and I want to just stick to this and I'm creating a tunnel vision. I have my fingers covered the peripherals of my eyes, open that up, that's enough.
Speaker 1:God has a unique message. Okay, this is for you, know, or you believe in a higher power or anything like that. Everyone's life's gonna be unique, and then, right, believe in god, jesus or buddha, whoever? Whoever you believe in, they have a different path for everybody. So it's not exactly, you know, it's not a one size fits all. Okay, everybody gets the right cap. Everything's soft. Yeah, some people's going the extra layering. Some people, you know, you know, you gotta, you know, you gotta, you know, have some that fits people more individually, and I think the higher power got that answer. Rather, you know, or if you're an atheist, you can just think I'm crazy, that's fine, that's fine with me too. I'm not going to stop this message, god thing. More people need something positive and don't worry For the atheists is not preaching any dr albert.
Speaker 1:Let me just say that because you got a phd, dr albert, you know it's not gonna have anything super holy, super religious, but he's gonna have something related to subconscious in a more practical, relatable and accessible fashion. Okay, yeah, I don't care if you believe in vishnu, krishna and all that other stuff. That's irrelevant. The stuff he has you he has is stuff that any human being can relate to, not for a cat or dog. Maybe it could work on a cat and dog. Maybe we should try that. Actually, don't even take my word on that. It might be disastrous or it could be groundbreaking. Who knows If a cat and dog start being millionaires and billionaires and living richer than human beings? Who knows if they start implementing that? Uh, but I don't know. That's just me being silly, but all the services it it's all inclusive for, at least for the human species.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, and we would have been much more advanced. Right, absolutely, and there's something for everybody on that set. No matter what you need, there's something for everybody on there. There's something for everybody out there. There's over 250 different audio recordings.
Speaker 1:You're bound to find something. For example, what is it? Body image? Well, america is more obese than ever, so that's something we're going to need. Or even you say, maybe even sports, or stress. Oh, stress, there you go. Smoking, personal development, imposter syndrome there you go. Smoking, personal development, imposter syndrome. Leadership, confidence, children's issue, business skills. You know, I'm sure there's a heck of a lot more. I'm just going by the front page. There are some for everyone, and you know these products are. They are very affordable. That's the key difference. They are very, very affordable. Yeah, that's the key difference. They are very, very affordable. They like what? Correct me if I'm wrong. I say average, like I say like twenty dollars. This is not a hundred or thousands of dollars here. Right, so these are very, very affordable. I'm sure you got twenty dollars somewhere, you know, or even more. Um, you know, or even more. You know these are affordable stuff. Okay, I don't want to hear that you can't afford it.
Speaker 1:You just don't want to. All right, you know I understand the affordability issue. I understand I'm very empathetic with that, but not in this case here. Not in this case here, because these are affordable. If you got access to the internet, a card, something, come on, you can spare $20. That doesn't include tax and that's something you got to argue with the government and advocate to reduce taxes or abolish it altogether. Good luck with that, but you can afford it. You can afford. It Might be $22, $23, depending on taxes, but you got that. This is not a $100 or $1,000 thing. Okay, so it's very inclusive in the fact that it's even affordable, which some businesses don't even dare want to recognize or try to adjust. But when I researched them, I researched him, I said wow, this is the most affordable. So I'd be more happy about pushing this product even harder than some of the Bibles.
Speaker 1:It is coming from a God believing person, cause I cause I'm a pragmatist at the end of the day, even though I believe in God. But I work with people where they're at, as opposed to giving this glorious picture and make myself seem more mystical and distant. No, you got to be connected with the people. You work your way to get there and whatever works for them and make the solutions compatible too, because not everyone has the same exact issue. They got, you know, audio for addiction. It can be porn addiction, food addiction, I'm sure, whatever addiction you got. I got a food addiction, so I got to start getting that. I'll go for the addiction one and money. There's even something for money. There's just so much. There's just so much. The collection is huge.
Speaker 2:What's your book again that you want to put? Sure, it's called Rise Up of the Strip Confronting Self-Doubt and Mastering.
Speaker 1:Self-abotage for performing artists. It's on Amazon and now available in paperback, e-book and also audio book. For you environmental people who criticize all this paper waste, there's e-book. Okay, let's get the e-book, Even though that's slightly environmentally damaging too, by the way. Just pay attention to that. You can't win here. I'm the same way to take care of the Earth. Don't talk to me about that. When I was a teenager, I would have just cursed you out. I said you leave me alone, the earth will heal itself. That's not my problem. But as an adult, I'm more conscious of that. I mean this is coming from a New Yorker that I don't throw trash in the street, Sadly that's a bad.
Speaker 1:New York habit. I got to call y'all on that. If I know I could be a hypocrite, I avoid it. If I'm not aware of it, please call me out, even if I get a little emotional. But I will adjust, I promise. But all of seriousness, go get his book. Go get the audios. Affordable, it's affordable. I don't want to hear you say you can't get it. You know, you just don't want to get it at this point. You know, you just don't want to get it at this point. Okay, so the financial barrier is dead. It's like a, it's like a small step.
Speaker 1:It's like a little small step you can do that one foot over one foot over a wheelchair, have someone help you lift it up. Okay, every small obstacle, worst case scenario, best case scenario. You just leap over it, boom, you made it to the finish line. That was right in front of your face. That's how insignificant this obstacle is. Okay, I don't want to hear it. I don't hear it. I don't have any excuses about that so all right anything else you want to add before I wrap this up I just again want to thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2:You know your podcast?
Speaker 1:no, no, you're no, I thank you for bringing your expertise, because this is something I go through. This is something so many people go through in different fashions, different issues. This is just very relevant and I, you know, forget about relevant.
Speaker 1:It's relevant, just it's perfectly relevant. You know, forget about relevance. It's even back then, even before internet, we got these issues and I'm sure in the future these issues are going to persist. So it's nearly timeless at this point. So you're not chasing a trend, which is good, because trends come and go. They're unstable. They're great one minute, one month, one year, and that's just like bruh change. That was so. That's so old. What are you doing? Trends are that unstable? This is timeless legacy type of thing. Okay, that's what I'm going to say.
Speaker 1:So now let's do the plug for my podcast. So this is what I'm going to say here. Give a like, share, subscribe. If you want to donate, it's $3 a month I'll start coming up with exclusive video and content, exclusive emotes. For those of you who do that, that's entirely up to you, of course. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts as well, and be honest. I want honest reviews. I don't want the overly positive or the old super negative like the over the tops. If you see something I need to improve on, express it. I will not bite you. I cannot attack you through the screen, so just feel free to express it. Okay, so if you have completed this audio or visual journey. You have a blessed day.
