Being True to Yourself Despite Growing Demands

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The speaker reflects on a period of rapid growth and fame, when they realized that constantly socializing and saying yes to things was draining them. They discovered through a diary entry that they were more introverted than they had thought, and that the demands of their YouTube channel and public persona required a level of extroversion that was difficult to maintain.

In 2021, Matt from Yes Theory, one of YouTube's biggest channels, revealed he was quitting the platform. Despite being an internet celebrity, Matt's story is a common one—about someone who gave away too much of themselves to be liked by others, and now desperately trying to get themselves back. In this episode, Matt and I unpack this familiar dilemma, as well as covering topics like codependence, managing success, dealing with parasocial relationships, determining when vulnerability goes too far, and much more.