Everyone Needs A Little

Let's take a trip down memory lane in this episode reflecting on the jobs I had in my teenage years. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

One thing that has discouraged me from recording new episodes for this podcast is the disclaimer I've been told I need to do before each episode. That disclaimer is the dumbest thing for the dumbest of people. Do I really need to remind everyone that my views are my views and I don't speak for any other organizations, companies, or people? People can't be that stupid...or can they? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I still don't exactly know what a "trauma response" is but that doesn't stop me from analyzing the article "10 Anxious Behaviors That May Actually Be Trauma Responses" from Psychology Today. How many of the 10 anxious behaviors will I, and will you, recognize? My number was higher than I thought. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

TikTok has made it apparent that one of the most triggering opinions I have is that if you are not a doctor stop diagnosing the shitty people in your life as narcissists, sociopaths, or bipolar just because it makes you feel better. It is a reflection of your level of self-awareness. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I'm celebrating 2 years since asking my former fiancee to leave my life. On and off dating during those 2 years has defiantly been an adventure. What I've taken away from my dating experience is that there are A LOT of single people that have decided to ignore their insecurities and live in a world of very little self-awareness, I was even guilty of this at times. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

All of us are extremely dumb in a lot of aspects of our life. We are also very intelligent about other aspects but mostly we are dumb. It's time to embrace our dumbness. Whether it's my dad's fight with cheesecake his entire life, the people who left their phone's location services on when they stormed the US Capitol on January 6th, or me when I'm trying to figure out my I can't get my water bill on automatic payments; we all can be dumb AF. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

As I'm perusing the aisles of Sam's Club, buying stuff I absolutely don't need, I can't help but notice all of the different types of families at this store. Families with kids are all over the place; it seems like every other person is carrying around their little munchkins or quietly yelling to "put that down." There are dads who look like they haven't slept in days and there are moms who seem to be able to keep track of their children without batting an eyelash. This Sam's Club visit has me pondering how different my life would be if I had kids earlier in life and/or got married. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

It's been almost a full year since a new episode of the Everyone Needs a Little podcast has been released, so what in the hell have I been doing? The answer is extremely simple but complex at the same time. I started a business, adopted a bulldog, and have experienced a crazy ride on the app TikTok. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

After realizing how much my mental health was deteriorating I made the decision to hit the road. This episode coming to you from sunny Destin, Florida. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

A great conversation with my French Canadian buddy Bert Couvrette about how life is different when you have a great partner providing a support system. Bert and I compare lives and find out, not only how different we are but also the same. Gut Feelings vs Wanted Facts and kicking in doors to get into my inner circle. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I've known Lindsey Shaker for years but have only met her once in person. So, like many friendships in today's world, our relationship has always been online. Following Lindsey on Facebook has me asking a ton of questions about her, from the squirrels outside her house she names to hours of belly dancing. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I've known Dan Seitz for nearly 20 years. He's a guy I currently want in my life but my bullshit stories in my head keep that from happening. Today's podcast is my first step in creating a new friendship with this awesome person. Hearing his story and learning of his struggles and successes helps me relate with him more, making it easier to start that reconnection. I also pitch him my new podcast idea, "Forced Friends" getting his feedback. See the Seitz YouTube description and channel link: Family vlogger and special needs dad. Their family motto: "the only way to it, is through it." Become a "Hopester" by subscribing - we're grateful you're here! Dan posts videos 2-3 times a week so click the bell icon to be notified when one is uploaded! Mailing address: P.O. Box 860214 Shawnee, KS 66286 https://seetheseitzfam.com/ https://www.patreon.com/hopesters https://www.facebook.com/SeeTheSeitz https://www.instagram.com/seetheseitzfam --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Amy mentioned in a Facebook comment to me that she wanted to start a podcast with our mutual friend Katie so I invited them on my podcast to let them give it a trial run. Between Amy's microphone challenges and the tequila, Katie was full of I had a great time. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Is it just me or do you see metaphors everywhere? Today, a pork shoulder became a lesson on life for me. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I believe there are three types of places to work in America; the Corporate Structure, the Start-Up/Small Business Structure, and the Government Structure. It's safe to say I am not built for two of those categories, and at least one of those structures agrees. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Thirst Trap: A sexy photograph or flirty message posted on social media for the intent of causing others to publicly profess their attraction. This is done not to actually respond or satisfy any of this attraction, but to feed the posters ego or need for attention, at the expense of the time, reputation, and sexual frustration of those who view the image or reply. Simping: A male overly catering to the exaggerated emotions of a woman. Also; a man saying things to a woman he does not believe but only saying them because he thinks that she wants to hear them. Intimacy: close familiarity or friendship; closeness. Dunbar's Number: A suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

A lack of communication can be the foundation of almost every failed relationship, romantic or platonic. The inability to be vulnerable with someone you love is absolute cancer on the relationship. As an over communicators, people who repress feelings instead of talking about them is dumbfounding to me. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Recently I began thinking that all this bad and negative stuff happening in my life is due to karma. Maybe all the shitty things I did earlier in life were coming back to haunt me? I was not a good boyfriend in the majority, ok...all of my relationships in my 20's & 30's so maybe it's time to pay for those mistakes. But according to Hinduism and Buddhism karma is not what we think it is in western culture. I also complain about loneliness a lot in today's episode, but what's new? :) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I need to be creative daily or I just don't function right. Luckily I have to opportunity to have a career that requires me to be creative daily. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

We all tell ourselves stories that we believe that we shouldn't. Sometimes believing those stories can cause a lot of unnecessary destructive energy and drama. I have been doing it my entire life but justifying it by labeling it as psychoanalyzing. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Large Shopping Malls in medium market cities, Large Movie Theater Complexes, Car Dealerships still using old school methods, and any small business without an online presence like a website or upkeeping their Google My Business listing and providing every bit of content needed by customers searching are just many of the businesses that will need to adapt to the new world of consumer behavior & demand for positive customer experiences or they will just simply die out after social distancing is over. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I'm in a place right now that I've never had to deal with as a professional digital content maker. That place I've never been before is in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 is a difficult thing to go up against when you trying to market a product to an industry that is being negatively affected and currently struggling. Plus, I pitch a new idea I have for a Netflix series. Since I recorded my brilliant idea here it has been time-stamped in case one of those Hollywood city slickers steal it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I loved this conversation with my friend Mabel Peralta. Mabel is a few years younger than me and looks 20 years younger as well, who was raised in New Jersey approximately 5 minutes away from the Lincoln Tunnel to New York City. Fascinating discussion about the differences in growing up during the 1980s in two completely different American cultures and regions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

My friend Jillian has never been one to hold back her opinion, and she doesn't hold back in this episode. Jillian gives every married woman hope as she gives her tips and tricks on how not to murder your husband while on coronavirus lockdown. So, if you're currently thinking about killing your husband, this is the episode to keep you out of prison. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I learned a lot about my friend Stacey Ellison in this episode of the series "Conversations with Friends". Stacey is a lot more than an OCD, dog-loving, hard-working, Pabst Blue Ribbon drinking, West Virginia lady. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I know it sounds cliche but Dan Seitz is probably one of the friendliest people you could ever meet. I've known Dan, and his wife Kacey, for many many years. I met Dan when he was a flair bartender, you know, the bartenders that throw bottles and do tricks. Dan's life is very different now from when we first met. He is currently a family vlogger and special needs dad. His family's motto is: "the only way to it, is through it. What's a day in the life like for Dan especially right now due to socially distancing? Click here to check out Dan's Youtube channel, See the Seitz. Make sure you subscribe. Click here for the See the Seitz Fam Website --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I have known Micah Birkholz for years but mostly online. We have been in each other's presence a few times but social media is where we keep up on each other's lives. During the COVID-19 coronavirus social distancing, I have invited friends across the world to join me on the Everyone Needs a Little podcast and conversate about anything they want to conversate about. Micah wanted to talk about false leaders and snake oil salesmen that are selling "improve your life" remedies, what it costs to become a priest, and being a closeted liberal-minded person while faking his conservativism. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Just when I thought the Netflix documentary "Don't F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer" was the craziest thing ever, here comes Joe Exotic and the documentary "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness" --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Today's episode starts out with good intentions of providing activities to you the listener as we all go through social distancing due to attempting to stop the spread of the COVID-19 (coronavirus). Unfortunately, social distancing does not save you from my attention deficit disorder. This episode goes off the rails quickly with whatever is popping into my head. These random thoughts include the awesome things my sister-in-law is doing with her kids while at home, a dissertation featuring a big personality difference between Sydney & I, and websites that will keep you busy and mentally occupied. Here are some of those websites: Take a tour of a national park here. Take a free, online class from an Ivy League school here. Peruse the NASA media library here. Take a free, online, 30-day photography class with local photographer Jessica Kaminski here. Create an electronic musical masterpiece by downloading the Moog and Korg synthesizer apps for free – info here. Download Smule and start karaoke-ing – it's free to download, $7.99 for a month. Stream the Ann Arbor Film Festival films for free (starting March 24). Watch 15 available Broadway plays for free. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

We apparently now officially in a Pandemic due to the Coronavirus and really have no idea what the hell is going on. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

My best bud Noodles but you can call him Bill or Franklin. But under no circumstances ever call him Kevin. We talk about religion, Facebook, self-awareness, and Mc Donald's breakfast sandwiches. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I've had the MTV show "Catfish" in the background while I've been working lately. Now I am completely dumbfounded on how someone can be catfished. Catfish: lure (someone) into a relationship by means of a fictional online persona. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

So I've been away for a while. I promise to explain everything. Tons of changes in my life including a future wife and a new podcast studio. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Today is my birthday. 45 years celebrated being 6ft above ground. Its time to focus on what I need to do in life before I turn 50. Hard to swallow that is only 5 years away. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

My buddy Drew joins me on this episode of the podcast. The conversation starts by discussing a series I'm currently binge-watching on Showtime called Ray Donovan. Loving the show because the main character shares a Myers-Briggs personality with yours truly. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

If Superman's weakness is kryptonite then my weakness is definitely overthinking. Overthinking has been a huge part of my successes in life but it has also been the central issue to the majority of challenges in my life. So how does one deal with overthinkers like me? I discuss the article 16 Things Know if you Love an Overthinker to bring some light to how my brain works. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Call-out Culture aka Outrage Culture is a form of public shaming that aims to hold individuals and groups accountable for their actions, by calling attention to behavior that is perceived to be problematic, usually on social media. A variant of the term, cancel culture, describes a form of boycott in which someone (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or unpopular opinion, or has had behavior that is perceived to be offensive called out on social media is "canceled": they are completely boycotted by many fans, often leading to massive declines in celebrities' (almost always social media personalities) careers and fanbase. via Wikipedia --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

The place I work has created a great opportunity for our employees to go back to college. I've taken advantage of the opportunity and have been taking online classes with Rockford University. School for me in the past has been sort of a nightmare so enrolling at 44 years old still have me apprehensive. Do I have the focus and passion now later in life that I didn't have as a young man? I guess we are going to find out. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

After a lot of encouragement and multiple attempts in recording a new episode, only to delete them, I finally have a new Everyone Needs a Little podcast episode. A lot has changed in 6 months. Let's catch up, shall we? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Podcasting still brings me happiness but I was feeling way too vulnerable when so of you that listen to this podcast would see me and bring up something I had talked about in an episode. Not your fault at all that I would die a little inside from embarrassment but it did make me nervous to realize there are a lot of people that listen to this podcast and know some pretty personal things about me. So I took a little step back. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Knowing how my mind works and how it has made me the person I am is extremely important to me. Especially when it comes to understanding my challenges. With this in mind, and a suggestion from my primary doctor, I went a saw a psychiatrist. Never at first going but it was the greatest decision I've made all year. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I don't know if it's just today, but that spark for getting up and recording a podcast episode keeps dimming more and more. That passion and excitement I made just isn't there every morning anymore. I find my brain blank with ideas to talk about and discuss. I find myself five out of six times not excited to turn on the microphone. Is this the end? Do I just need a break? Should I start recording at different time? Or do I need new brain meds? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Celebrating my mother's birthday with a special podcast episode thanking her for being a great woman and wonderful mom. I couldn't have raised a kid like me. I would have pulled my hair out, but she did and I grew up a decent person. No arrests, DUI's, children out of wedlock, etc. All and all she did a great job with what she had to work with. :) Happy birthday mom! http://Facebook.com/EveryoneNeedsaLittle http://Twitter.com/YouNeedaLittle --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

We all could use a daily dose of positivity and I was hoping that this podcast could provide that but I think I lost focus. My worries for constantly wanting to entertain changed what this podcast was supposed to be all about. So, I think it's time for a reset. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

It takes my brain in overdrive to think about the first humans to do certain things. Normal things that aren't discussed that often. I'm not talking first to walk on the moon or the first to stand up to a cause, I'm talking about people that don't get any credit. Like the first person to drink cow milk. What in the hell was going on that someone took a sip of that stuff? Or the first person to eat eggs? That had to be a weird and culturally disgusting thing at the time. Who are these human superstars that don't have their names in history books? Subscribe to the podcast http://Anchor.fm/EveryoneNeedsaLittle http://Facebook.com/EveryoneNeedsaLittle http://Twitter.com/YouNeedaLittle Snapchat: YouNeedaLittle --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

How can you truly explain a feeling? To provide an explanation for something that is felt, is an art form of its own – but, luckily language can serve as our palate, allowing us to paint pictures of these inexplicable moments through the imagination. Today's episode is a list of 23 emotions we have (almost) all certainly felt, and possibly didn’t have the word for. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Customarily there are three things you're not supposed to talk about to avoid an argument; Sex, Politics, & Religion. You can add a ton of social issues to that list as well, like abortion, immigration, vaccines, taxes, drugs, and much more. But how long have humans been divided and arguing about social issues, because I keep reading online that we're currently at a fever pitch? We've been at each other's throats since humans discovered fire and invented the wheel. Nothing is new. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

After being humiliated by a Southwest flight attendant not once, but twice I've learned to watch what I say and what I do when around larger people on Southwest flights. I've lost 100lbs so my experience with being an extremely obese person on a Southwest flight is no longer an embarrassing experience I suffer. My flight to North Carolina last Friday put me in an extremely physically uncomfortable situation and I hope I handled it correctly. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Many people are in disbelief when they find out I'm not a huge fan of drinking alcohol. I get treated like I'm an alien from a different planet. And even at 44 years ago, most people turn on the peer pressure to get me to have a few drinks. This reaction has always dumbfounded me. Why do drinkers need others to drink with them? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

Want to get hip with the youngsters' lingo? Check out UrbanDictionary.com, but a warning for the faint of heart out there. Plus, I really want to make a short movie. My idea of the non-porno but make you think its porno might be the worst or best idea yet. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support

I've never been a fan of society telling me what I need to do. I think each one of us can figure that out for ourselves. This is one of the reasons I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day. If your relationship is built on expectations and not communications, then I believe you are in an uphill battle. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyoneneedsalittle/support