The Covert Malware – Why It’s Stealing Your Energy Without …

Warning: This episode may cause clarity, self-reflection, and the urgent need to upgrade your life. If you’ve ever wondered why certain people seem programmed to drain, manipulate, and control you, this one’s for you. In Epis...

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February 27, 2025

The Covert Malware – Why It’s Stealing Your Energy Without You Knowing

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Warning: This episode may cause clarity, self-reflection, and the urgent need to upgrade your life. If you’ve ever wondered why certain people seem programmed to drain, manipulate, and control you, this one’s for you.

In Episode 13, we expose how toxic behaviors operate like malware—silently corrupting your mindset, slowing your progress, and feeding off your energy. But today? You install the firewall. You take back control.Join your host, Daniel Nelson aka your sobriety buddy, alongside the Sobriety Crew:

🛑 Jane Marie – Breaking down different types of emotional malware.

🔍 Chucky Chip – Explaining how toxic people hijack your mental system.

💡 Marcus The Motivator – Closing it out with humor and straight-up motivation.

🚨 Are you unknowingly letting toxic energy drain your progress?

Let’s scan your system and find out. Stay tuned—you might just listen twice!"*📌

"If this episode hit home, share it, comment, and replay it. Let’s spread awareness!

And as always… Stay awesome and smile on purpose, ‘cause YOU ARE the purpose.

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Oh here, slacker.

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Last warning. This episode may cause clarity, self reflection, and

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the urgent need to upgrade your life. If you've ever

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wondered why certain people seem programmed to drain, manipulate, and

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control you, this one's for you. Welcome to Episode thirteen,

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where we expose how toxic behaviors operate just like malware,

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silently corrupting your mindset, slowing your progress, and feeding off

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your energy. But today you install the firewall, you take

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back control. With us, your host Daniel Nelson aka your

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Sobriety Buddy, and the Sobriety Crew. We've got Jane Marie

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analyzing the system failures, Chuck e Chip decoding the technical

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and Marcus the Motivator closing it out with humor and

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straight up motivation. Sit tight, you might just listen twice

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the covert malware Why it's stealing your energy without you knowing.

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You ever wake up feeling drained and you didn't even

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do anything wrong. You gave, you helped, you stayed patient,

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you tried to do right by people, and still it's

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like something or someone is draining your energy, running in

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the background, messing with your peace. That's because some people

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are like covert malware. They don't just come out and

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attack you head on. They work silently, running their toxic

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programming in the background of your life. Think about it.

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Ever felt manipulated into apologizing for something you didn't even do.

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Ever questioned your own memory after someone gaslit you, Ever

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felt obligated to help someone who never shows up for you.

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That's not love. That's a program system attack. And here's

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the scary part. Malware doesn't care if it crashes your

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system as long as it spreads its damage. Toxic people,

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they'll self destruct if it means making you look like

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the problem. The key to survival watch how you react.

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The moment you denied them access to your emotions, their

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control weakens. Let's go deeper with Jane Marie.

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How different types of toxic malware work.

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Jane Marie, let's break this down because awareness is your

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first firewall. Spyware, the monitor everything type is the person

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who pretends to care, but they're really just collecting data.

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They remember your struggles, not to help you, but to

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use against you later. Ransomware the guilt trippers. Ever heard

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after all I've done for you or you owe me this,

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that's emotional blackmail. They want you to feel indebted, even

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when you never agreed to the contract. Trojan horse. The

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fake supporter looks safe, feel safe, but once inside, they're

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corrupting everything. They come as friends, partners, or even mentors,

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but their goal control adware, the emotional energy leech. They

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pop up whenever they need something. Their crisis is always urgent,

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their drama is always high priority, but when you need

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them crickets. Fact, seventy eight percent of emotionally manipulated individuals

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report higher stress, anxiety, and difficulty making decisions. Source Journal

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of Behavioral Psychology. What does this tell us? Toxic people

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don't just drain your emotions. They weaken your ability to

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think clearly. And that's why Chuck E. Chip is about

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to break down the science of it all.

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The science of toxic people. How they hijack your mental system?

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Chucky Chip, all right, let's talk about how toxic behaviors

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literally hijack your brain's processing system. Stat your brain processes

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thirty five thousand decisions per day. Toxic people use emotional

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manipulation to disrupt that function, keeping you stuck, doubting yourself,

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and emotionally exhausted. How simple dot they flood your system

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with cortisol stress hormone, your brain stops focusing on logic

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and switches to survival mode. They mess with your dopamine cycle.

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The good moments they give you just enough to keep

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you coming back. They trigger glitch loops. Ever had an

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argument where no matter what you say, they keep twisting it.

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That's because they're forcing your brain into an exhausting logic

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loop realization. Toxic people don't want resolution, they want control,

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and the best way to take your power back stop

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responding to their programming. But I know y'all need some

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motivation now, Marcus take it away.

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Marcus the motivator brings the firewall.

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Listen, Ever, try to close a pop up ad and

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another one just opens up. That's a toxic person in

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your life. You say I need space, they send a

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guilt text. You set a boundary, they suddenly need you.

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New rule, you are not free tech support for people

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who refuse to upgrade their own mindset a lama, because

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here's the truth. If you want a system that runs smoothly,

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you need to block bad software. No more giving unlimited

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access to people who drain your battery. So today's challenge

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audit your life like a security scan, who's slowing you down,

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Who's a virus in disguise? And once you find them, delete, uninstall, block,

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feel me.

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The final system upgrade.

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If this episode made you rethink some things good, that

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means you're waking up. Toxic behaviors aren't just annoying. They

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rewire your thinking, break your peace and hold you back.

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But now you got the firewall, you got the tools,

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and you are in control. If this hit home, comment,

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share it, replay it, Let's spread awareness, and as always,

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stay or and smile on purpose because you are the purpose.

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Catch you all next time. I f my try.

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Step by step, I'm.

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Walking on this road with every heartbeat, lifting up the load,

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moving forward. Now I'm looking back with my eyes on

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the tries.

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I'm staying on tried.

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Journey is mine and I'm ready this one step better time.

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I'll keep wandering more