Episode 240: How to Deal with Anxiety attacks & Depression
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Summary
In this episode, Patrick talks about his experience with anxiety attacks and panic attacks in the early stages of building his business. He talks about how he overcame them and how he was able to overcome them to become a successful CEO.
Transcript
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and today I'm going to talk about an experience I had
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and that was anxiety attacks and panic attacks.
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where I have many, many employees and many agents,
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and I have responsibilities with different carriers
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relationship with my family, my kids, my friends,
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And this is a very difficult subject to talk about sometimes
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you don't see a lot of times CEOs talk about this
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because in private settings, when we're together,
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5, 10, 15 of us, and we're openly talking about it
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CEOs feel like they have to live this perfect life
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you stay positive and you go out there and do this
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and you do that and all this stuff that everybody knows how to do
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because I want to tell you about some of the things
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I grew up in an environment where there's a lot of uncertainty.
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because you didn't trust your kids to be outside
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So, you know, that had me grown up in an environment
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with a certain level of confinement from parents to protect you
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because you didn't want to see anything bad happen
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we go to Germany, we're living in a refugee camp
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and I remember when I was 11 years old in Germany
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and I had a hard time making friends in Germany.
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In Germany, I experience a little bit of discrimination
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And eventually, November 20th, we come to the States
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you know, you have a lot of different pressures.
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And, you know, we were trying to meet a commitment
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and a deadline that we had to get this thing going
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and you're going to have this and all this stuff
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and later on, it happened again at 24 years old
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and I didn't really know what was going on with my body
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and my family's going through struggles financially
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competitors every day are telling me I can't do it
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and telling them your CEO is not capable of doing this
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It's a typical part of a competitive environment
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and, you know, one day I'm on a three-week tour
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that's got me to do some research late at night
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it was 12 o'clock at night, 1 o'clock at night,
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You know, when you're pushing everything you got,
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the subject of anxiety attacks and panic attacks
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because it happened to so many of my family members
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This is what Lincoln said many, many years ago.
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