Overcoming the Pressures of Life: The Power of Communication | Angry Dad Podcast

In this episode of the Angry Dad Podcast, the host shares a personal journey of struggling with internal pressures and the game-changing impact of open communication. From managing financial stress to handling family responsibilities, the host reveals how learning to communicate effectively with loved ones has transformed his life. Tune in for candid insights and practical advice on how to ease anxiety, release stress, and improve emotional well-being. Sponsored by Everyday Fit Life—get 20% off with code ‘Angry Dad’ at checkout!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I didn't know that I had anybody to talk to,
to speak to, because I just thought, I keep these
thoughts in my head.

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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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You know, I'm really big on communication, And the reason
I'm so big on communication is because I was so
horrible at it, so so horrible at communication, communicating my thoughts,
communicating my feelings, and communicating what's going on inside of me.
You know, it's still I work on it as much

(01:51):
as I can to try to be as open and
as communicative as I can to my wife, to my kids,
to my friends. Because guess what, having that open goodness
and just being able to talk candidly, talk about feelings,
talk about emotions and not be judged, it's something that
has changed my life in a dramatic way. Where, when

(02:13):
I mean change my life, the anxiety of letting out pressure,
the anxiety of fucking being like vulnerable to a fucking point,
all right, because guess what, you know, as me for
myself and in my example, the stress of money, managing money,
the stress of managing finances, the stress of managing fucking

(02:34):
you know, the social calendar that needs to happen for
as a family, take care of the kids, take care
of the why fucking everyone wants to see you going
to work, trying to have a hobby, trying to have
you time. You know what I'm saying. There's so many
things that come with it, and you know, a lot
of us don't know how to deal with it. You
know what I'm saying. We get overwhelmed, we get stressed out,

(02:56):
and some of us drink, some of us party, some
of us do all these different things, you know what
I'm saying, and that leads to a path that can
really like run you down. You know what I'm saying
right off top, It's like I said, I was overweight,
fucking you know, stressed out, just thinking I'm doing the
right fucking thing, not letting my family in on fucking

(03:17):
understanding the load that I was carrying because I'm like,
how many hours I gotta work? How much time I
have to fucking put in everything that I have to
do to make the show fucking happen, you know what
I'm saying. And then and now I'm talking about the
show of life. You know, the car, something's wrong with
the car, something's wrong with the house, something's wrong with
my fucking my mom, my, my mother in law, or

(03:38):
whatever the fuck it is. You think of anything that
happens as a father that pops up, and it's everything's
a fucking emergency. Everything's a fucking rush. Everything requires an answer.
And when you're getting all these sensory overloads on a
regular fucking basis, it builds up. We all have a limit,

(03:58):
we all have a tolerance. We all have these things
that are constantly going on in our mind, but we
don't communicate it. We don't talk about it because we
don't want to place that stress on other people. But
every time I have an issue, now, every time I'm
fucking stressing or wondering or have a fucking question, and
I don't give a fuck if it sounds fucking stupid,
I don't give a fuck if I sound idiotic just

(04:21):
fucking saying these fucking words. I will say things to
my wife because I just need to make sure that
I see it clearly or I understand it. Clearly or
am I right or am I fucking wrong? That's one
of those things, you know what I'm saying. You got
to be able to have that kind of conversation with
the most important people in your life, whether that's your

(04:41):
wife or your best friend, or your mom, your brother,
your sister, your dad, whatever the fuck it is. You
have to be able to just fucking bounce shit off
of other people so you don't feel like you're alone,
so you don't feel like you're the only ones stressed
to fuck out, so you don't think that I have
to do this all by my fucking self, because that's

(05:01):
one of the biggest fucking things in the fucking world
that can fuck you up. It can send you into
a into a tailspin in your life. You know, it's
the depression is a real fucking thing. Anxiety is a
fucking real thing. And people like, oh, you're fucking pussy.
You can't fucking deal with this fucking bullshit. Guess the
fuck what life is fucking nuts. I don't know your situation,

(05:24):
you don't know my situation, and we're on every one
of us is on a different fucking income level. So
that really puts a lot of fucking pressure on a
lot of people. A lot of us live paycheck to paycheck,
a lot of us barely make it from check to check.
A lot of us are fucking scrounging up fucking pennies
trying to buy fucking gas. All right. That that's a

(05:45):
that's real fucking life. That's just what it is, all right,
And everyone's level is fucking different. But the thing is is,
guess what at my level and everything that I've ever done,
everything that's ever gone in my life, I didn't have
anybody and I didn't know that I had anybody to
talk to, to speak to, because I just thought, I

(06:07):
keep these thoughts in my head. I never speak about them,
and then that's fucking it back in my fucking head.
Let this pressure build up and just deal with it,
because that's how I fucking dealt with it. I didn't know, Oh,
you should talk to the ones that fucking care the
most about you, the ones that you truly fucking love.
You know what I'm saying. I've been married three fucking times,

(06:29):
and with my first two xys, not once did I
ever share any of my fucking bullshit with them. Guess
what that could have led to a lot of fucking
problems that was going on, but with my wife. Now,
I fucking am an open fucking book. I'm stressed out,
I feel fucking sick, I fucking you know, I'm not
sure about this. I'm scared about this, you know, like,
what's gonna fucking happen? Are we gonna fucking make it?

(06:51):
You know? And it's like, okay, now we can talk
about what the fuck's going on. Here's a fucking plan,
here's what we can do. Did you look at it
from this fuck angle? Did you talk? Did you talk
to this person to see what they you know, like,
whatever information you need to fucking get from this fucking person.
That's what I'm fucking saying. You know what I'm saying.
I didn't get in to my much older fucking years

(07:13):
to think like, oh, I should be sharing these thoughts
and these experiences with the people that are there to
support me. Your wife should be there to support you. Thick, thin, rich, poor,
sick health. All that fucking bullshit's in the fucking vows.
But here's the thing. We don't say it, we don't

(07:34):
practice it. I was never taught this. It's not even
shown in fucking movies. Because almost everything that I learned
how to be an adult I learned from fucking action
fucking movies, fucking romance fucking movies, all these fucking misconceptions
of what a fucking guy supposed to be watching fucking
westerns is. I'm a fucking stoic, fucking quiet, dangerous, fucking man.

(07:55):
But that's not what real life is. Like I said,
I didn't grow up with the dad. I grew up
with my mom and a lot of strong women, and
I had uncles, but no one ever coached me on
how to fucking be you know what I'm saying. It's
not even a school curricular fucking course. I just got
pushed through fucking school. So, like, how are we supposed

(08:16):
to understand what dealing with emotions and feelings and these
thoughts and all this shit is. Because it wasn't a
thing then it is now, And because it is, because
there's terms for it. Because there's words for it, we
can express these things. And because we can express these things,
we can get them offer fucking chest and live a
lot better. I live so much fucking better, all right.

(08:40):
I used to feel like I had this fucking huge
boulder on my fucking shoulders, holding all the weight of
the fucking world, struggling just to fucking maintain, and now
I don't have that. All right, I'm still a man's man.
I'm still a guy's guy. But guess the fuck what.
I utilize the support that I have in my fucking
life life. I have a great wife, I have great

(09:03):
fucking kids, And guess the fuck what. We communicate, We
fucking talk, we fucking think. Like even my son comes
to It's like, Dad, I had this feeling, I had
these emotions, and this is what's going on, and I'm
not sure. Guess the fuck what, Son, You're right, You're
doing the right fucking thing and that's exactly what you
should have done. And because we're talking about this, communicating
about this, understand that you can always come to me

(09:26):
with these conversations to see verify or check if the
thing's going on or what you think they are. You
see what I'm fucking saying. And then he felt better
because he's like, Okay, cool, I did do the right thing.
This is morally fucking right. This is how I feel,
this is how I view these situations. And it made
me upset. Well, guess the fuck what you're in the

(09:48):
right to feel the way you fucking feel, and you
did the right fucking thing. That's what I'm trying to say.
It's these small conversations that you can fucking have that
can make the biggest fucking difference. I'm fucking understanding your emotions,
regulating your emotions, and also to releasing steam, releasing pressure,
because we all are a fucking volcano when it comes

(10:11):
to a fucking guy, and it builds up, builds up,
builds up, and then it comes out. But if you
don't know how to let out a little steam, it's
gonna get fucking ugly. But when you learn to fucking talk,
when you learn to fucking communicate, when you learn to
be more open and more comfortable with being open on
what the fuck you're thinking, it changes your world. It

(10:34):
changed my world for the fucking best. Like I said,
I used to fucking feel like I had these changes
dragging me down. But now I don't, you know, I'm
confident in talking to my wife, I'm confident talking to
my kids. I'm confident and being open on what I'm
thinking and feeling, and it's helped me deal and regulate
my emotions. I used to be a mad, angry, upset,

(10:56):
fucking stay the fuck away from me person. And that's
not how I am now. And because of that, I've changed,
I've grown, I've become a better fucking person, all because
I'm willing to talk. I'm willing to speak, I'm willing
to share these intimate things with my loved ones, with

(11:17):
my support group, with the people that I fucking care about,
with my wife. You see what I'm fucking saying. And
then if anybody fucking tries to talk shit, if anybody
fucking tries to push you, put you down for fucking
trying to fucking be open like this, that person doesn't
need to be in your life. That's a piece of
fucking shit. That's the garbage of the fucking world that

(11:37):
wants you to fucking do bad. That's exactly what it is.
I'll call a spade a spade, I'll call what it is.
I'll fucking say exactly what the fuck is going on.
You hear what the fuck I'm saying. Understand that that's
the kind of negativity that you don't need in your life.
If someone said telling you you have problems, man the

(11:58):
fuck up deal with with it. Guess the fuck what
if you're having to deal with it, it's because you
don't know how to deal with it, and that person
themselves don't know how to deal with shit either, and
they don't give a fuck about how you feel or
what the fuck's going on in your life. And that's
the fucking truth. So guess the fuck what this danger
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