This has objectively been one of the most stressful weeks of my business career. Compounded with additional stress from life. And it's interesting because I've reacted so much worse to so much more minor things in the past. It brought me to an interesting realization, just to give some context. This is the first like few days that I've been back from a worldwide trip where we went to just about every continent. We were in seven different countries. We went from US, of course, uh, had a stop over in Taiwan, went to Bali, Australia, stop over in China. Dubai stop over in Jordan back to the States over the course of one month. And that was pretty stressful and hectic. Not only for like what we were doing in the countries and like traveling the world and me and clients and filming with 'em. Like that was stressful in and of itself. But running a company that like has high ticket clients on retainer on those time zones was. Insanely hard and there was a lot of meetings at 4:00 AM a lot of meetings at midnight. You're taking your community call at at one o'clock in the morning while you're in Dubai. Like things like that, it, it adds to mass amounts of stress. I come back to the States and I go out for a dinner meeting with a potential client here in Syracuse while I am here for about a week, and I'm driving back from the dinner and my car just completely bottoms out. Like if you know me, you know that I pridefully drive a 2010 Chevy Cobalt. That is silver that has a white hood on it because the hood needed replacement a, a couple years ago that has almost 170,000 miles on it. And that was the first car I ever got, and it just got completely effed, uh, yesterday going onto the highway in, in, uh, downtown Syracuse. And that was really stressful. Not to mention the fact that wall. I was out on UTC plus 10 traveling, just nowhere near the time zones that the company operates out of. The software that we'd been using for the last nine months just completely went down. And when I say went down, I mean we were on a. Accidental nine month free trial of a software that like we weren't willing to pay the price that they were asking for for the software. I mean, not that we couldn't afford it, but it was just like multi thousands per month for like a video management software, which like I was confident that we could custom build for ourselves inside of something like Clickup. Now. All of this stress is something that I would've just like boiled over, like completely boiled over, even like honestly, six months ago. And that's not even to say like some of the travel hassle that we had, like we had gotten scammed. By the way, Adam Vacations is a scam company, and if you book third party Skyscanner economy like I do. Skyscanner recommended me this Adam Vacations company, and they totally scammed me. Like they took my money, booked the tickets, sent me the tickets, then refunded the money back to their card two days before the trip, and, uh, didn't tell me about it. So if you're watching this, do not use Adam Vacations, but stuff like that, like you're gonna layover in China and you're barely, they're barely making the flights. You have recheck the bags, like all this stuff's happening. And granted, like I put myself in this situation, but. Not to just rant about all of the stuff that's been stressing me out. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure I tore my calf, uh, and we're about a month out from the Alaska Marathon, so I'm in recovery from that. Started to recover a bit from it, and then my other calf flares up on the run today, just rant. Little stuff like this, just really stressful. That would've completely boiled me over about. Even I would, I would say even like three, three or so months ago, and then you just realize that it doesn't serve you to get angry about anything. It doesn't serve you to get emotional about things that don't go your way. Now, that's something that I'm honestly, I'm super grateful for because I didn't get emotional really at all, all this. I think I, I flared up my emotions maybe like. One time throughout the last month and a half when you're fully like under the gun stressed, and that's something that, I mean, like me six months ago would've flared up like at least, at least seven times throughout this entire experience of stress. Now. It's interesting because it serves you to not be emotional in business. But one thing that I've noticed is that my emotional capacity and like personal relationships with people that are close to me, like my family, like my friends, and like my team, like my, my capacity to be emotional and like everything kind of. Went down as a result of this. So it's like I'm trying to balance like, how do you not be emotional in business, but like have a strong EQ and be able to have emotional relationships with people outside of business. Is it possible while you're in that, like, I have zero work-life balance phase, which I'm openly in, like there is no work-life balance whatsoever. Like it's 8 42 and or 8 43 now. Right. As I, as I point my finger over to that, I was up at 5 45 today and I intend on being awake. For another three to four hours, building out the training for the Clickup board that I just built like, like I maintained composure and built out an entire operating system for our company that didn't, I think objectively is better than what we had before with frame.io, which was a software that I was referencing. And now we have a custom built one in Clickup that I was spent all day building with a team who spent all this past week building under all this duress and. It objectively served me to not be emotional about stuff like this, but I'm now facing the conundrum of, is it possible I. To be emotionless in business, to have it serve you for things like this, and also have the capacity to have emotional relationships. Now, I think that that's something that, this is just my opinion right now as a very like narrow view. I feel like this is something, the emotional relationships with people outside of business and maybe even no, you want makes emotions with business. But having emotional relationships with people outside of business is possible while being emotionless in business. But I think that's something you have to work on. And then it's like, okay, well given the nine different things that we have on our plate right now, because on top of all the objective stress that's been on me, there's like the intangible stress of like the nine different things that we could do. There's an AI script writer that I'm trying to finalize. There's a clickup that I'm trying to finalize. I want to get the team on Google Workspace to legitimize things more. We need to hire more editors and I wanna be posting better content myself, like there's so much to do. I'm traveling to Brazil on Monday. We're gonna ine first on Monday and then Brazil on Thursday, and I'm fly back to New York and then my sister's getting married like this. This shit is stressful. So I've been able to maintain composure and do stuff like this under duress. But how do you, how do you balance the two? Because I'm noticing like I have less propensity to like connect with with people on a deeper level like I used to, but that's when I used to was when I'd get very emotional inside of business and make brash decisions. And ever since I stopped doing that, we started being a lot more successful. So if anyone has any tips on how you can maintain emotion inside of business and maintain emotional relationships outside of business, let me know. Um, until then I'm gonna stick with my zero work life balance until Brand Sharks is a multimillion dollar company that runs itself relatively without me. Then I'll start working on stuff like this. That's my philosophy while I'm 22. If I had a wife and kids, maybe it would be different, but I want to make sure I'm prepared for those moments in my life. But. That's just, uh, something that I want to document is the, uh, build out of our first official handmade structure inside of Branch Sharks, and also just the, the warring paradox of wanting to be emotionless and not wanting to be emotionless. So that's just what's been top of mind. Uh, I appreciate you watching, and maybe I'll see you again.