December 3, 2025 • 13 mins
In this episode of the Angry Dad podcast, host Ben delves into the importance of self-investment and self-prioritization for achieving a fulfilling life. Ben shares his personal experiences and lessons learned about focusing on one's own needs and desires first to attract the right people and opportunities. He emphasizes that understanding and working on oneself is crucial for happiness and success. The episode also features sponsorship segments for Everyday Fit Life and Max Performance Peptides, offering special discounts for listeners.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Love a die Die Die Die, Die die die.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
All right, this is the Angry Dad. Thank you guys
for tuning and I appreciate it. And before we get
in today's episode, I like to thank my podcast sponsors,
every Day fed Life. If you're looking for nutritional program,
you're looking for something that can help lead you to
the path of the body image, the weight that you want, Well,
guess what you can do this with every Day fit Life.
It's the foundation that you need to change your life.
(00:36):
I'm talking about thirty days, sixty days, ninety days worth
of information that will help lead you to your goals.
And if you want to learn Keto, you want to
learn pale, you want to learn Mediterranean, you want to
learn carnivore, Well, guess what. There are programs for everybody
out there. Each one of them comes with a training
program that can help accelerate your needs and your wants
to get to the goals that you want, and you
(00:57):
can get it at every Day fed Life. You can
use code Angry Dad at checkout for twenty percent off
your order. That is code every Day or it's code
angry Dad at checkout for every Day fit Life. Link
is in the notes. Please use it. It helps me.
I appreciate it. Else to Max Performance peptides, you're looking
for a peptide company that could be quick, fast and reliable.
And you know what, you can get the BP one
(01:18):
five seven, TV five hundred known as the Wolverine stack.
You can get reditrue tide, ozepatide, you can get tricepatide,
you can get you can get the g LP ones
one through three and get hooked up. You also have
impimoral and CJC. You know, the list goes on for
high quality, fast peptides that are out of the United States.
(01:40):
So get hooked up at max Performance for you dot Com.
That is max performance for you dot Com. Max Performance
for you dot Com with code angry Dad for ten
percent off. Get hooked up at max performance for you
dot Com. All right, it's getting today's show. Here's one
of those things. A lot of us, and you know,
(02:01):
we grow up with this notion that we need we
need somebody in our life. We need this person, or
we need these things, or we need something to make
us feel whole, and we put ourselves on the back burner.
We put ourselves as we're not important. We've put ourselves
in as we're lonely, we don't know, we're insecure about ourselves.
(02:26):
Nobody is for me. I'm all alone, And this is
the mindset that we're almost programmed into. But the thing
is that a lot of people don't realize, and you
don't realize it till you get older, until you get
much older, that if you know what that need is,
that need is you need to invest in yourself. That
(02:49):
need is you need to pay attention to yourself. That
need is you need to look inwards on yourself to
realize that you don't need nothing from nobody. Because here's
the thing. You put that need and you put that
want towards yourself and you figure out what you need,
what you need to do, what you want in your life,
(03:11):
the priorities that you have. That draws in the right people,
because if you're just reaching for something that you don't know,
you're going to get something that you don't need, and
that really happens. It attracts people that have bad intentions.
It attracts people that want to draw on your life
(03:33):
because you're just reaching for somebody who will give you
this feeling and this emotion that you think you want,
and that's what happens. All right, because that's real life
scenario right there. But if you concentrate on the need
of yourself, understanding yourself, understanding your needs, understanding what you want,
understanding that you can trust in yourself to relive your
(03:57):
life the way that you should be living. And what
I mean you should be living. I'm talking about the
things you want to do are fucking fun, The things
that you want to do make you happy, the things
that you do are positive in your life. And when
you start living your life like that, when you start
prioritizing yourself first above everybody else, your needs are fulfilled.
(04:21):
And then it gives you the ability to help others.
It gives you the ability to let in others, and
it gives you the confidence to understand that you are
a good person, gives you the confidence to understand that
you're valuable. It gives you the confidence that you need
to have to live in this fucking world. And it's
the truth. This is it's an uncomfortable conversation a lot
(04:43):
of us don't have. It's an uncomfortable conversation that we
have to learn. It's an uncomfortable conversation that we have
to just really work on. All right, I never grew
up having this conversation. But these are the lessons that
I learned until I really started prioritizing my self, prioritizing
my life, really concentrating on me before anybody else, just
(05:05):
like anybody else. Bad relationships, poor mistakes, being in a
steady situation, letting myself be led into paths that I
don't want to fucking be in, all right, Being in
situations that just draw on my life, like why am
I here? What am I doing with this? Why am
I dealing with this? This fucking sucks? But this person's
here with me? Or this is what this is the
(05:27):
consequences for my actions that that's something a lot of
us deal with. But if you can turn that life around,
guess what, that's that's the goal here, all right. It's
understanding that, you know, a lot of times we get
asked ourselves, what do you want to do with your life?
(05:49):
What do you want to do for a living? How
do you see yourself in the future. You know, the
common answer that we should have is I want to
be happy, I want to be fulfilled. I just want
to be good. But the thing is we don't answer
those questions. We don't fulfill those questions. We just kind
(06:10):
of throw those goals to the side and be like, ah, whatever.
But if you really concentrate on them, you really put
effort into those goals, it'll change your life. It really will.
It'll put you on the forefront of everything that's going
on in your world and really make you look deep
into yourself and deep into the things that you're doing,
(06:34):
and it will help answer those fucking questions. You know,
it's all about understanding this. You know, everybody's worth everything, right,
You're worth it in your life, yourself right now. You
deserve everything that you want, but you have to put
in the work. You have to put in the time,
(06:55):
you have to put in the effort because guess the
fuck what, no one's gonna do it for you. No
one's gonna come in and fix it. No one's gonna
fucking grab you, pick you up and carry you away
to a happily ever after, because that's not how the
world fucking works. All right. We can hope, we can pray,
we can dream, we could be like one day, maybe,
(07:16):
guess what, It'll never fucking come. You have to make
sure that you understand that you come first in your life.
I'm talking about before your wife, before your kids, before
your family. You know, it might sound selfish, it might
sound oh, that's fucked up, you're very conceited, or you're
very fucking no. Because the thing is is when you
(07:39):
lead the path, when you blaze the trail, it makes
life easier for everybody else. And if you can show
that example to your kids, you can show that example
to your wife, you can show that example to your friends,
your family. All of a sudden, people start picking up
those fucking traits because it leaks fucking down. You start
at the top, everything comes down out and it just
(08:01):
fucking rolls. You know, that's one of those things. You
want a great life, you got to surround yourself with
great people. Well, guess the fuck what. You gotta start
with yourself. You gotta start with your standards. You gotta
start with your beliefs. You have to start with the
mental attitude of understanding that I want this and I'm
gonna do anything for this. And guess the fuck what.
(08:25):
It'll change your fucking life. It'll show you who you
need to have in your life. It'll show you who
you don't need in your life. It will push you
in the direction that's going to fucking just really change
the landscape of everything around you. It took me a
long fucking time to figure this the fuck out. But
guess what after I started implementing it this. Once I
(08:47):
started doing this, once I really started emphasizing myself and
the needs that I want and the needs of myself,
and the need to be this person, to be independent,
to be able to rely only on me and not
to need somebody else. All of a sudden, my life
changed in the way of the right people in my life.
(09:08):
The wrong people leave my life, the fucking the things
in my life have dramatically changed to the point where
my life is no longer what it used to be.
I'm a completely one point eighty everything in my world.
That's exactly what ended up happening, all right. The job,
the money, the house, the car, the fucking my financial everything, everything,
(09:34):
my kids, my wife, the happiness that I have. You know,
it's so fucking crazy that I've gone from what I've
had to what I am. All right. I remember being sad,
I remember being depressed. I remember just burying myself into
all the bullshit that I was fucking dealing with, drinking, partying,
(09:54):
doing all these fucking crazy, fucking things and putting my
livelihood and jeopardy just because I was trying to drown
out what I thought. But guess the fuck what. Once
I had that epiphany, once I had that wake up call,
Once I realized that only I can change this and
that my needs are important, my wants are important, the
(10:17):
things that I want to do are important, that I
don't need anybody else in my life, That's when things
really fucking changed. But guess what. I do have people
in my life. I do have a beautiful wife, I
have beautiful kids. But the thing is, guess what. Because
I concentrated on myself did these things, it gives me
a much better appreciation for the additions in my life,
(10:39):
for the people in my life and the loved ones
in my life that support me and that are there
for me. That's the change. You know, I'm just not
clocking in, clocking out of life. I'm fully immersed. I'm
fucking emerged. And you know I delve, delve, head first
and everything that I do every day because guess what,
(11:00):
I have an appreciation for everything that I do. Now,
you know what I'm saying. It's just not a fucking
like oh, this fucking sucks, and I'm fucking you know,
I gotta do this. I gotta do that. It's like, no,
I gotta clock in, I gotta get up early. I'm
fucking exhausted. Why am I fucking here? Why am I
doing this? It's like, no, there's purpose in my life.
Because there's purpose in my life. Guess the fuck what.
(11:23):
I'm happy because I love what I do, and I
do what I love, and you can have that too.
But it's also it's all about understanding what's gonna make
you happy. It's all about putting yourself first, putting these
needs first, because once you get that all straightened out,
once you get that all that figured out, and it's
not an easy fucking task once again, but once you
(11:46):
line yourself up, the rest just comes. The rest just
shows up. The rest happens. It's not a fast process,
so please understand that. You know, it's not like I
just you know, want I fucking figure it all out
the next hour, it fucking all magically happens. No, it
takes time, It takes effort, it takes work, and you
(12:08):
have to put in that work. You have to put
in that fucking time just to get there. This is life,
the life lessons that I fucking learned, and the life
lessons I want to fucking share so everybody can figure
it the fuck out and get to the fucking goal,
because in that the goal of everybody to get to
the end, to get to the retirement, to get to
(12:29):
the enjoyment, to get to the fulfillment of life, and
to get there it starts with you and it ends
with you. You have to understand that you have to wake
up to that, and as soon as you do, gets
the fuck what shit works out? It just does. I
can't tell you how, I can't tell you why, but
(12:51):
I can tell you it will if you concentrate on yourself,
if you understand that you need to have your needs
fulfilled first. It sounds selfish again, I guess the fuck what.
It has to be selfish, all right, because if you
want a better life and you want to share that
(13:11):
better life, it requires you to do the things that
you need to do, the things you want to do,
and the things that you need to fucking handle. That's
just what it is. So I guess the fuck what.
This nagger, motherfucking dad. Thank you guys for listening. I
appreciate it. I'm also part of the Inner Circle Podcast Network,
group of powerful podcasters out there sharing their ship that
is inner circlepn dot com. We'll take it everyone, our websites,
(13:32):
everyone our show, so it make sure you check it
the fuck out. Yeah shows, says the Plunge failing Hollywood Simmonson,
more the untrained Eye, the hood diner. Shit happens when
you party naked, so make sure you check it the
fuck out. And I'll see y'all motherfuckers on the next one.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
But always living, always always living, always living
Love a die Die Die Die, Die die die.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
All right, this is the Angry Dad. Thank you guys
for tuning and I appreciate it. And before we get
in today's episode, I like to thank my podcast sponsors,
every Day fed Life. If you're looking for nutritional program,
you're looking for something that can help lead you to
the path of the body image, the weight that you want, Well,
guess what you can do this with every Day fit Life.
It's the foundation that you need to change your life.
(00:36):
I'm talking about thirty days, sixty days, ninety days worth
of information that will help lead you to your goals.
And if you want to learn Keto, you want to
learn pale, you want to learn Mediterranean, you want to
learn carnivore, Well, guess what. There are programs for everybody
out there. Each one of them comes with a training
program that can help accelerate your needs and your wants
to get to the goals that you want, and you
(00:57):
can get it at every Day fed Life. You can
use code Angry Dad at checkout for twenty percent off
your order. That is code every Day or it's code
angry Dad at checkout for every Day fit Life. Link
is in the notes. Please use it. It helps me.
I appreciate it. Else to Max Performance peptides, you're looking
for a peptide company that could be quick, fast and reliable.
And you know what, you can get the BP one
(01:18):
five seven, TV five hundred known as the Wolverine stack.
You can get reditrue tide, ozepatide, you can get tricepatide,
you can get you can get the g LP ones
one through three and get hooked up. You also have
impimoral and CJC. You know, the list goes on for
high quality, fast peptides that are out of the United States.
(01:40):
So get hooked up at max Performance for you dot Com.
That is max performance for you dot Com. Max Performance
for you dot Com with code angry Dad for ten
percent off. Get hooked up at max performance for you
dot Com. All right, it's getting today's show. Here's one
of those things. A lot of us, and you know,
(02:01):
we grow up with this notion that we need we
need somebody in our life. We need this person, or
we need these things, or we need something to make
us feel whole, and we put ourselves on the back burner.
We put ourselves as we're not important. We've put ourselves
in as we're lonely, we don't know, we're insecure about ourselves.
(02:26):
Nobody is for me. I'm all alone, And this is
the mindset that we're almost programmed into. But the thing
is that a lot of people don't realize, and you
don't realize it till you get older, until you get
much older, that if you know what that need is,
that need is you need to invest in yourself. That
(02:49):
need is you need to pay attention to yourself. That
need is you need to look inwards on yourself to
realize that you don't need nothing from nobody. Because here's
the thing. You put that need and you put that
want towards yourself and you figure out what you need,
what you need to do, what you want in your life,
(03:11):
the priorities that you have. That draws in the right people,
because if you're just reaching for something that you don't know,
you're going to get something that you don't need, and
that really happens. It attracts people that have bad intentions.
It attracts people that want to draw on your life
(03:33):
because you're just reaching for somebody who will give you
this feeling and this emotion that you think you want,
and that's what happens. All right, because that's real life
scenario right there. But if you concentrate on the need
of yourself, understanding yourself, understanding your needs, understanding what you want,
understanding that you can trust in yourself to relive your
(03:57):
life the way that you should be living. And what
I mean you should be living. I'm talking about the
things you want to do are fucking fun, The things
that you want to do make you happy, the things
that you do are positive in your life. And when
you start living your life like that, when you start
prioritizing yourself first above everybody else, your needs are fulfilled.
(04:21):
And then it gives you the ability to help others.
It gives you the ability to let in others, and
it gives you the confidence to understand that you are
a good person, gives you the confidence to understand that
you're valuable. It gives you the confidence that you need
to have to live in this fucking world. And it's
the truth. This is it's an uncomfortable conversation a lot
(04:43):
of us don't have. It's an uncomfortable conversation that we
have to learn. It's an uncomfortable conversation that we have
to just really work on. All right, I never grew
up having this conversation. But these are the lessons that
I learned until I really started prioritizing my self, prioritizing
my life, really concentrating on me before anybody else, just
(05:05):
like anybody else. Bad relationships, poor mistakes, being in a
steady situation, letting myself be led into paths that I
don't want to fucking be in, all right, Being in
situations that just draw on my life, like why am
I here? What am I doing with this? Why am
I dealing with this? This fucking sucks? But this person's
here with me? Or this is what this is the
(05:27):
consequences for my actions that that's something a lot of
us deal with. But if you can turn that life around,
guess what, that's that's the goal here, all right. It's
understanding that, you know, a lot of times we get
asked ourselves, what do you want to do with your life?
(05:49):
What do you want to do for a living? How
do you see yourself in the future. You know, the
common answer that we should have is I want to
be happy, I want to be fulfilled. I just want
to be good. But the thing is we don't answer
those questions. We don't fulfill those questions. We just kind
(06:10):
of throw those goals to the side and be like, ah, whatever.
But if you really concentrate on them, you really put
effort into those goals, it'll change your life. It really will.
It'll put you on the forefront of everything that's going
on in your world and really make you look deep
into yourself and deep into the things that you're doing,
(06:34):
and it will help answer those fucking questions. You know,
it's all about understanding this. You know, everybody's worth everything, right,
You're worth it in your life, yourself right now. You
deserve everything that you want, but you have to put
in the work. You have to put in the time,
(06:55):
you have to put in the effort because guess the
fuck what, no one's gonna do it for you. No
one's gonna come in and fix it. No one's gonna
fucking grab you, pick you up and carry you away
to a happily ever after, because that's not how the
world fucking works. All right. We can hope, we can pray,
we can dream, we could be like one day, maybe,
(07:16):
guess what, It'll never fucking come. You have to make
sure that you understand that you come first in your life.
I'm talking about before your wife, before your kids, before
your family. You know, it might sound selfish, it might
sound oh, that's fucked up, you're very conceited, or you're
very fucking no. Because the thing is is when you
(07:39):
lead the path, when you blaze the trail, it makes
life easier for everybody else. And if you can show
that example to your kids, you can show that example
to your wife, you can show that example to your friends,
your family. All of a sudden, people start picking up
those fucking traits because it leaks fucking down. You start
at the top, everything comes down out and it just
(08:01):
fucking rolls. You know, that's one of those things. You
want a great life, you got to surround yourself with
great people. Well, guess the fuck what. You gotta start
with yourself. You gotta start with your standards. You gotta
start with your beliefs. You have to start with the
mental attitude of understanding that I want this and I'm
gonna do anything for this. And guess the fuck what.
(08:25):
It'll change your fucking life. It'll show you who you
need to have in your life. It'll show you who
you don't need in your life. It will push you
in the direction that's going to fucking just really change
the landscape of everything around you. It took me a
long fucking time to figure this the fuck out. But
guess what after I started implementing it this. Once I
(08:47):
started doing this, once I really started emphasizing myself and
the needs that I want and the needs of myself,
and the need to be this person, to be independent,
to be able to rely only on me and not
to need somebody else. All of a sudden, my life
changed in the way of the right people in my life.
(09:08):
The wrong people leave my life, the fucking the things
in my life have dramatically changed to the point where
my life is no longer what it used to be.
I'm a completely one point eighty everything in my world.
That's exactly what ended up happening, all right. The job,
the money, the house, the car, the fucking my financial everything, everything,
(09:34):
my kids, my wife, the happiness that I have. You know,
it's so fucking crazy that I've gone from what I've
had to what I am. All right. I remember being sad,
I remember being depressed. I remember just burying myself into
all the bullshit that I was fucking dealing with, drinking, partying,
(09:54):
doing all these fucking crazy, fucking things and putting my
livelihood and jeopardy just because I was trying to drown
out what I thought. But guess the fuck what. Once
I had that epiphany, once I had that wake up call,
Once I realized that only I can change this and
that my needs are important, my wants are important, the
(10:17):
things that I want to do are important, that I
don't need anybody else in my life, That's when things
really fucking changed. But guess what. I do have people
in my life. I do have a beautiful wife, I
have beautiful kids. But the thing is, guess what. Because
I concentrated on myself did these things, it gives me
a much better appreciation for the additions in my life,
(10:39):
for the people in my life and the loved ones
in my life that support me and that are there
for me. That's the change. You know, I'm just not
clocking in, clocking out of life. I'm fully immersed. I'm
fucking emerged. And you know I delve, delve, head first
and everything that I do every day because guess what,
(11:00):
I have an appreciation for everything that I do. Now,
you know what I'm saying. It's just not a fucking
like oh, this fucking sucks, and I'm fucking you know,
I gotta do this. I gotta do that. It's like, no,
I gotta clock in, I gotta get up early. I'm
fucking exhausted. Why am I fucking here? Why am I
doing this? It's like, no, there's purpose in my life.
Because there's purpose in my life. Guess the fuck what.
(11:23):
I'm happy because I love what I do, and I
do what I love, and you can have that too.
But it's also it's all about understanding what's gonna make
you happy. It's all about putting yourself first, putting these
needs first, because once you get that all straightened out,
once you get that all that figured out, and it's
not an easy fucking task once again, but once you
(11:46):
line yourself up, the rest just comes. The rest just
shows up. The rest happens. It's not a fast process,
so please understand that. You know, it's not like I
just you know, want I fucking figure it all out
the next hour, it fucking all magically happens. No, it
takes time, It takes effort, it takes work, and you
(12:08):
have to put in that work. You have to put
in that fucking time just to get there. This is life,
the life lessons that I fucking learned, and the life
lessons I want to fucking share so everybody can figure
it the fuck out and get to the fucking goal,
because in that the goal of everybody to get to
the end, to get to the retirement, to get to
(12:29):
the enjoyment, to get to the fulfillment of life, and
to get there it starts with you and it ends
with you. You have to understand that you have to wake
up to that, and as soon as you do, gets
the fuck what shit works out? It just does. I
can't tell you how, I can't tell you why, but
(12:51):
I can tell you it will if you concentrate on yourself,
if you understand that you need to have your needs
fulfilled first. It sounds selfish again, I guess the fuck what.
It has to be selfish, all right, because if you
want a better life and you want to share that
(13:11):
better life, it requires you to do the things that
you need to do, the things you want to do,
and the things that you need to fucking handle. That's
just what it is. So I guess the fuck what.
This nagger, motherfucking dad. Thank you guys for listening. I
appreciate it. I'm also part of the Inner Circle Podcast Network,
group of powerful podcasters out there sharing their ship that
is inner circlepn dot com. We'll take it everyone, our websites,
(13:32):
everyone our show, so it make sure you check it
the fuck out. Yeah shows, says the Plunge failing Hollywood Simmonson,
more the untrained Eye, the hood diner. Shit happens when
you party naked, so make sure you check it the
fuck out. And I'll see y'all motherfuckers on the next one.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
But always living, always always living, always living
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.
The Brothers Ortiz
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.