Have your friends, coworkers or family ever made you feel uncomfortable in your own skin? Sometimes it happens pretty directly — you’ll be doing something you love, or acting in a way that feels natural to you, and those around you will judge you for it. Other times, it can be a little more discreet: you might preemptively dress a certain way around your parents to avoid their ridicule, or maybe you don’t talk about your job with your older sibling because they’re jealous of your career success.
Situations like these are enough to make most of us scratch our heads and think, “who the heck am I, really?” If we’re always changing our personality traits for the people around us, can we ever really have a solid foothold on our true values, morals and beliefs? What’s more, if our closest relationships only exist because we act a certain way to maintain them, are those connections actually authentic?
These are big questions, and they’re exactly the kinds of conundrums our coaching client is going through today. His name’s Bruce, and he’s part of a crime-fighting group of superheroes called the Avengers… kidding, of course. Bruce is… just an average guy going through average problems. He feels like he has two personalities: on the one hand, he’s a smart, thoughtful and compassionate person who values science and human connection. On the other hand, he’s a tough, strong and resilient person — one who can also be emotionally distant, headstrong and stubborn as all get-out.
Bruce finds it tiring to have to constantly switch between his two sides, but it’s his only way of maintaining the relationships he currently has. He’d like find some way to be accepted for who he is, but that seems nearly impossible in his current state. As such, he’s written to us — your friendly neighborhood Character Coaching coaches — in search of help.
Let’s see if we can help Bruce (and anyone struggling with finding acceptance!) tackle some of his identity issues.
Sup normies! We're here to get you what you want and what you need and what you crave. Do we succeed? Listen to the full episode to find out. Unless what you need/want/crave is quiet time. In which case, turn the volume way down.
Coaching Pearls: Swearing Spit-Take, Thick Soup Guy, After-Before, Fireplace Amnesia Exercise, Double-edged a-hole, Normies
This episode is the one where we decided to just make our jobs easier by deciding if people are assholes from the title of their Reddit post. We then immediately learn why that does not work out....enjoy!
Coaching pearls: First Takes, SIL Vacuums, Demetre Dates, Star Economy Moguls, Weed Snack Improprieties
Everybody is getting married this week. You, us, the posters on AITA, everyone. Does that mean we all have to go get marriage licenses? Do you have to make an appointment for that? Maybe we should all coordinate because we only get an hour for lunch.
The Pearls: Clean Screen Queen, Celebrating Love with a Mushroom Risotto, Consensual Bedroom Knocks, Wedding Guest Goofs
Both Jonathans braved sickness of the body and soul to get this coaching podcast to you this week. We really hope you like it, because all the medical professionals we bamboozled so we could record this episode are pretty peeved at us.
Coaching Pearls: Poor Grammar Poetry Slam, Juicy Booty Problems, Adopting The Ring of Fire, Limits of Horse Biology, A Testicular Argument, Ice Cream Lottery Dreams
We're back-ack-ack-ack! Not like a heart attack, though, more like an old friend that shows up at your door with a nice ready-to-go meal and podcasting equipment.
Coaching Pearls: Strong Warbler Energy, Dookie Howser, Breaking the third wall, Why do you want her dead!?, Death Trifle, 1731 was a mid-year.
Being or not being the AH in a situation is a tricky
Little situation that takes the
Expertise of the Jonathans to
Encourage thought and adjudication to
Posit who is and who isn't the AH
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It's us....
HI.
We're the Jonathan's, it's we.
It's AITB time.
The Jonathans agree.
After a brief meeting at 4 am, the council of Jonathans met to discuss a very important matter. After hemming, hawing they began to understand what the real question here was...
Doest calling thy colleague a nosy ***** maketh thee an AH?
Let's find out.
Geronimo! The jabbering Jonathans jump judiciously into the stories of jaded jabronies and shed their jacklight onto jackass juveniles to judge the justifiableness of the jabbering gerrymander.
Don't worry. We won't quit our day job.
In this epic episode of Am I the Bleep!?! We are ecstatic, elated, and another generic 'E' word that describes excitement to introduce a very special guest.
The one...the only... JROSE11!!!!!!
You may know him from Twitch or one of his many other endeavors, but today you will get to know him as a very special co-host of our show. While he is not a Jonathan, his name also starts with a 'J', so we can hopefully all take this in stride and move in with exuberance to today's episode of Am I the Bleep!?!
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