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When Motivation Fades — Rethinking Energy, Drive & Personality Type | Podcast 609

Personality Hacker Podcast

Release Date: 10/06/2025

4 Personality Double Binds: Trapped, Exposed, Invalidated, or Out of Control | Podcast 621 show art 4 Personality Double Binds: Trapped, Exposed, Invalidated, or Out of Control | Podcast 621

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Explore Your Personality:     Joel and Antonia explore how the seventh function  (trickster) clashes with our core fixations using the FIRM Model. They unpack how this creates double binds for each type, and why it feels so personal, offering a fresh lens on inner tension and growth.

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4 Types of Extraverts: People, Ideas, Results, Environment | Podcast 620 show art 4 Types of Extraverts: People, Ideas, Results, Environment | Podcast 620

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Explore Your Personality:     Joel and Antonia challenge the common myths around introversion and extraversion, showing it’s not just about being social or reserved. They explore how each extraverted function creates “rapport” with different aspects of life (people, ideas, environments, and projects) and why this helps explain the ambivert experience. Drawing from Jungian theory, they offer a deeper, more accurate lens on how we engage with the world.

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Is Your Personality Fixed or Fluid? | Podcast 619 show art Is Your Personality Fixed or Fluid? | Podcast 619

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Explore Your Personality:     Joel and Antonia explore the dynamic nature of personality type, challenging the idea that it’s static or defined by stereotypes. Using metaphors like pinned butterflies and coloring books, they show how type is a fluid, developmental system that evolves over time. They discuss why real mastery means shifting focus from the system to the individual, and how our cognitive functions reflect deep, irresistible patterns of attention.

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Do Sensing & Intuition Functions Get Dirty? | Podcast 618 show art Do Sensing & Intuition Functions Get Dirty? | Podcast 618

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Explore Your Personality:     Joel and Antonia explore how our cognitive "lenses" shape what we perceive and how those lenses can become distorted. Using the metaphor of smudged glasses, they dive into each of the four Jungian perceiving functions, examining how past trauma, addiction, projection, and overstimulation can cloud perception and disconnect us from reality.

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The Hidden Currency In Every System | Podcast 617 show art The Hidden Currency In Every System | Podcast 617

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Explore Your Personality:     Joel and Antonia explore how generational views on value have shifted—from land and productivity to emotion and social currency. They discuss fiat money, debt, AI, programmable money, and the hidden “currencies” that shape society and relationships.

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When Should You Quit Your Job or Relationship | Podcast 616 show art When Should You Quit Your Job or Relationship | Podcast 616

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Explore Your Personality:  In this episode, Joel and Antonia unpack the aspirational phrase “never give up” and explore how to tell the difference between healthy persistence and knowing when to let go. They discuss sunk cost fallacy, quitting with integrity, emotional regulation, and why completion doesn’t always mean finishing.

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The Hidden Power That Self Regulates You | Podcast 615 show art The Hidden Power That Self Regulates You | Podcast 615

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Explore Your Personality:     In this episode, Joel and Antonia explore how people can regulate the four channels of personality: body, emotion, mind, and meaning. They unpack resistance to gratitude and why practicing it might be one of the most powerful, rebellious acts in today’s world.

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Leaving the Sensor World for the Intuitive Future | Podcast 614 show art Leaving the Sensor World for the Intuitive Future | Podcast 614

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Explore Your Personality:     In this episode, Joel and Antonia explore how intuitives can shift from surviving in a “sensor world” to leading in an increasingly abstract, intuitive one. They discuss intuitive strengths, existential regulation, and why it’s time to reboot their Intuitive Awakening framework.

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Is Personality Dysregulation Always Bad? | Podcast 613 show art Is Personality Dysregulation Always Bad? | Podcast 613

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Explore Your Personality:     In this episode, Joel and Antonia unpack the concept of dysregulation, asking whether it's always a problem or sometimes a path to growth. Through stories, psychology, and metaphor, they explore how emotional, cognitive, and physical dysregulation can be both destructive and transformational, depending on context, awareness, and self-regulation skills.

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How to Stay Curious in a World That Knows Everything | Podcast 612 show art How to Stay Curious in a World That Knows Everything | Podcast 612

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Explore Your Personality:   In this episode, Joel and Antonia explore how AI and perfect information are reshaping human freedom, mystery, and decision-making. Using metaphors like chess and real-world trends from GPS to algorithmic media, they ask: "Does optimization steal our humanity, or enhance it?" Through the lens of personality type and societal cycles, they unpack the tradeoffs between clarity and sovereignty in a data-driven future.

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In this episode, Joel and Antonia explore the complex relationship between energy, motivation, and personality type. They unpack the hidden “dirty” motivators like anxiety and the desire for credit, discuss what truly drives us at a deeper level, and examine how uncertainty can drain motivation. Using Enneagram instincts and cognitive functions, they reveal how understanding your own energetic patterns can lead to more authentic and sustainable motivation.