Are we letting people underestimate us, or are we underestimating ourselves? Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Welcome back! Thank you to Anthony for the topic for today. I don’t know if I experience this and I may be a jerk for not knowing that. All I know is that I have…

Can we still be thankful in a thankless world? Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Welcome back! This time around we try to be thankful for what we have. The power of being grateful can have some positive lasting effects. But sometimes you look around and wonder, what’s there to be thankful…

Isolation can feel alien. Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Welcome back! It’s been a harrowing last couple of years, and I’ve been avoiding a topic for a very long time. There’s so much attached to the pandemic and how it has been weaponized. I try to avoid that but instead talk…

All aboard the Leader Ship! Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Welcome back! This time around we are talking about leadership. Now, personally, I don’t know much about leadership. I just know that it’s a thing. So I use the help of Psychology Today to help break down what is needed to…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. First off, a big thank you to RightCowLeftCoast for the recommendation for today’s episode. He was kind enough to recommend a bunch of topics for the Simulator. So we are starting with Friendship. We start right at the beginning with a little help from the Mayo…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. This time around, I get a topic recommendation from Anthony on my Twitter. The question is if the fear of rejection is a rational or irrational fear. I can see why people would see it as being either rational or irrational. We don’t like rejection and…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. It’s been a very busy last few weeks, and I’ve just recently returned from a vacation. So this time around it’s a travel episode, where I talk about my time in Mexico City, Mexico. If there’s any advice I can give, it’s that you take time…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Summer is in full swing. It’s so hot. And what’s hot right now? The art of manipulation. The people around us are ready to use us if they could. Not everyone mind you, but sometimes there are people who want to play us like a fiddle.…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. With this simulator, I talk about personal responsibility. Now, I could be wrong, but I feel we no longer take responsibility for our own actions and our own self growth. So I do a little, do as I say, not as I do, as I talk…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. A big thank you to Anthony for the topic of anger management and anxiety. I hope I help in some way with recommendations and suggestions that helped me. But I also tie this to the concept of weakness and strength. An issue we have either ignored…