tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79790304106768941242024-03-20T13:13:29.155-05:00Project Management That Works!Embarking on the AI-Enhanced Project Management JourneyRick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-5046368422607460572024-03-20T13:12:00.001-05:002024-03-20T13:12:58.243-05:00The Future of PM: Metrics 2.0<p><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Stepping into the future </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">feels like opening</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a door to a realm where the once labor-intensive tasks of yesteryears transform into seamless, automated processes, thanks to the marvels of modern technology. When I penned "Metrics 2.0 - Data Rules All!" back in 2012, it was with a vision of a world where project management transcended beyond the mundane, manual compilation of data to a more strategic, data-driven approach that not only streamlined operations but significantly bolstered project outcomes and stakeholder satisfaction. The premise was simple yet revolutionary: to meticulously harness the power of project management metrics to unveil insights into resource participation, engagement, and project focus. Yet, the technology of the time posed a significant challenge, making the collection of these insights a daunting, error-prone task. Little did I know that in just over a decade, the advent of </span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlAdvancedProofingIssueV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">AI</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and the widespread adoption of collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams would not only catch up to but also spectacularly exceed the aspirations laid out in that paper. Today, we stand on the brink of a new era where AI's prowess in automating the collection and analysis of project metrics is not just a possibility but a vibrant reality, heralding a new chapter in the annals of project management.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Here </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is an excerpt from that paper:</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><div class="SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{198}" paraid="478432921" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“The project manager wanted to select metrics that could be easily tracked and could prove or disprove the theory of proper involvement by each department</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Since the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">previous</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> project managers were removed from the project for not involving the team appropriately, the project manager wanted to track the number of opportunities each team member had to be involved in the project and whether the team member took advantage of the opportunities</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">However, with the amount of work already assigned to the project manager, the new metrics had to be clean and quickly accumulated to be effective</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">As the project manager sifted through the various PMO forms, the answer became crystal clear</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Resource participation metrics were all around him</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">They were always there and were often even filled out; however, they were not filled out in such a way that they could be collected to tell a story</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The metrics were found in the meeting agendas, meeting minutes, issue and risk logs, project plans, and e-mails</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The metrics the project manager decided to track were:</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{204}" paraid="152941931" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">From the Meeting Agenda and Meeting Minutes:</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW180379267 BCX8" role="list" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: text; font-family: verdana; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{210}" paraid="1405456999" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of times the resource was invited to a meeting</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{217}" paraid="1569606825" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of times the resource attended the meeting</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{224}" paraid="924837896" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Meeting Participation Type (In Person, On Phone, Web)</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{231}" paraid="1578450768" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Meeting Engagement Level (How engaged was the resource during the meeting</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This can be subjective, but necessary)</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{238}" paraid="1975541353" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{242}" paraid="922471708" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">From the Issue and Risk Logs:</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335559685":720}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW180379267 BCX8" role="list" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: text; font-family: verdana; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{248}" paraid="1962443113" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of issues assigned to the resource</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{dbd093e8-1433-4aa2-8fa0-f7dc6e7970ff}{255}" paraid="2089393143" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of risks assigned to the resource</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{7}" paraid="1177639073" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of issues resolved by the resource</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{14}" paraid="1847714493" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of risks resolved by the resource</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{21}" paraid="621047063" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of issues introduced by the resource</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{28}" paraid="903465912" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of risks introduced by the resource</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{35}" paraid="2137599182" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{39}" paraid="15255631" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px 48px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">From the Project Plan</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335559685":720}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW180379267 BCX8" role="list" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: text; font-family: verdana; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="2" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{45}" paraid="1679057134" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of tasks assigned to the resource</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="2" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{52}" paraid="2094495112" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of tasks completed on time by the resource</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1800,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="2" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{59}" paraid="1891946982" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Number of tasks past due assigned to the resource</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li></ul></div></div><div class="SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{66}" paraid="1236617519" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{70}" paraid="1254451153" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px 24px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">From these statistics, scores can be derived</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Each PMO or project manager may want to put personal touches to these formulas, however, for this case study, the following scores and formulas were used:</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335559685":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{76}" paraid="1374216873" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px 24px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Resource Participation Score (((Number of Meeting Invitations/Meetings </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Attended) *</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(Average Engagement </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Level) </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">+ (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Issues Resolved-Issues </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Introduced) </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">+ (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Risks Resolved-Risks Introduced)-Tasks Past Due)</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335559685":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{82}" paraid="29711977" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px 24px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Resource Engagement Score (Resource Participation Score + ((Tasks Assigned</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">+</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Tasks Completed))</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335559685":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{88}" paraid="1735941029" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px 24px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Resource Project Focus Rating (Resource Participation Score / Resource Engagement Score)</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335559685":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{94}" paraid="1226606747" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The scores and ratios did not provide as much value as having the percentage of meetings missed or understanding the number of issues that were being introduced versus being resolved</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">What is always interesting in the collection of metrics is the identification of patterns and what is found during the collection phase</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The value of having the scores is the ability to set context or introduce the scores in a manner of factual basis</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{100}" paraid="707500271" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">While the metrics outlined were comprehensive, offering insights into resource participation, engagement, and project focus, the reality of the time was that these metrics were </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">manually</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> gathered—a process both time-consuming and prone to inaccuracies.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{106}" paraid="1668603808" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Fast forward to today, and the landscape of technology has evolved dramatically. The advancements in AI and the widespread adoption of collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams have revolutionized how we can approach these metrics, transforming what was once a manually intensive task into an automated, efficient, and precise process.</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{112}" paraid="825064877" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">AI's role in automating the collection and analysis of project metrics cannot be understated. Microsoft Teams </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">already knows who was invited, who attended, how much he or she </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">participated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and much more</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Connecting the dots to project plans, financial information, and many new possibilities now only relies on the imagination to create the connection</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This automation liberates project managers from the drudgery of data compilation, allowing them to dedicate more time to strategic decision-making and fostering team dynamics.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{128}" paraid="776669310" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Microsoft Teams, augmented with AI, becomes more than just a platform for communication and collaboration; it evolves into a central nervous system for projects. It proactively manages tasks and deadlines, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identifies</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> risks based on conversational trends, and even suggests interventions drawing from historical data. Such proactive measures </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ensure a project environment that is not only efficient but also adaptive to the needs and working styles of individual team members.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{136}" paraid="1555383284" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The potential for AI within Microsoft Teams to tailor project management practices to enhance productivity and engagement is immense. For instance, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">determining</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">optimal</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> meeting times based on productivity patterns, recommending resources for current issues based on past solutions, and predicting project risks from communication patterns are just the tip of the iceberg</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Here are some ideas of where metrics could go:</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW180379267 BCX8" role="list" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: text; font-family: verdana; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="3" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{144}" paraid="1851583535" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Active Participation Index:</span><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> This metric could analyze the active contributions of team members in meetings and discussions, distinguishing between mere attendance and meaningful participation. By evaluating the frequency and relevance of contributions in chat discussions, comments on shared documents, and vocal contributions in virtual meetings, AI can </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">provide</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a nuanced view of each member's engagement.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="3" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{153}" paraid="1065953304" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Collaboration Efficiency Score</span><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">: </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Leveraging</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> AI to analyze the interaction patterns within Microsoft Teams, this metric assesses how effectively team members collaborate on shared tasks and documents. It considers the time taken from task initiation to completion, frequency of collaborative editing sessions, and synchronicity in task handling.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="3" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{162}" paraid="1612905445" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Innovation Quotient:</span><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> By examining the novelty and diversity of ideas proposed in project chats and documents, AI can score teams on innovation. This metric involves semantic analysis to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identify</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> unique solutions and creative problem-solving approaches, emphasizing the quality of contributions over quantity.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="3" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{171}" paraid="251820662" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Consensus Building Efficiency:</span><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> This metric evaluates how quickly and effectively a team reaches consensus on project decisions. Using AI to analyze meeting transcripts and discussion threads, it </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identifies</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> key decision points, tracks the evolution of discussion towards consensus, and measures the time taken to resolve disputes.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="3" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{180}" paraid="468309933" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Emotional Intelligence Indicator:</span><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Through sentiment analysis of communications within Microsoft Teams, AI can gauge the emotional tone of interactions, providing insights into team morale, stress levels, and overall project atmosphere. This metric helps </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identify</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> periods of high stress or conflict, allowing for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">timely</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> interventions.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="3" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{189}" paraid="2147394130" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Skill Adaptability Score:</span><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> By tracking the types of tasks assigned to and completed by team members, AI can assess individuals' ability to adapt to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">different roles</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and responsibilities. This metric </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identifies</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> not only versatility but also the willingness to step outside one's comfort zone, highlighting potential leaders and highly adaptable team members.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="3" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{198}" paraid="1722164356" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Network Connectivity Score:</span><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> This metric analyzes the communication flow between team members, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identifying</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> central figures in the project's communication network and potential bottlenecks. It highlights how well information is shared across the team and can </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">indicate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> isolated members or subgroups within the project.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="3" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{207}" paraid="1800272455" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Predictive Project Health Indicator:</span><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Combining various data points from project interactions, timelines, and deliverables, AI can forecast potential risks and issues before they become critical. This predictive metric evaluates current project status against historical data to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identify</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> patterns that may </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">indicate</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> future project health issues.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="3" role="listitem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{207}" paraid="1800272455" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></li></ul></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{216}" paraid="1259166416" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">These advanced metrics, powered by AI's ability to analyze vast amounts of data in real-time, offer project managers a deeper, more actionable understanding of their team's dynamics, efficiency, and overall project trajectory. Integrating such metrics into project management practices can significantly enhance decision-making, project outcomes, and team satisfaction.</span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{222}" paraid="1842381759" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Reflecting on the famous words of Albert Einstein, "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change," </span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlAdvancedProofingIssueV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it is</span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlAdvancedProofingIssueV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> clear that the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> project management field is undergoing a significant transformation. The integration of AI and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> tools like</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Microsoft Teams embodies this intelligence, automating and refining the process of monitoring resource metrics initially laid out in 2012. This shift is not just about keeping pace with technological advancements but about leading the charge towards a more agile, responsive, and efficient project management future.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW180379267 BCX8" paraeid="{1aaf4841-c761-4073-b057-f79e4d843b4b}{232}" paraid="650600979" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In essence, the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW180379267 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> vision of "Metrics 2.0 - Data Rules All!" is finally being realized, thanks to the technological leaps in AI and collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams. The once laborious task of metric collection has been streamlined, making the goal of insightful, data-driven project management not just an aspiration but a practical reality. This evolution from manual to automated processes signifies a pivotal moment in project management, paving the way for a future where focus can shift from data collection to strategic innovation and leadership.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW180379267 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.85px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-1394144861481801622024-03-11T14:43:00.005-05:002024-03-11T14:43:39.848-05:00Announcing: "The Future of PM: AI Innovations Series"<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are<span style="color: #0d0d0d; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> standing at the edge of a revolution in project management, where artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a distant dream but a reality reshaping how we work. My latest blog post, "Embarking on the AI-Enhanced Project Management Journey: A New Chapter," delved into how AI is empowering us with insights, efficiency, foresight, and improved leadership.</span></span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(69,89,164,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25em 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Your response has been incredible. It's evident that AI's role in simplifying our complex world resonates deeply with many of you. That's why I'm launching "The Future of PM: AI Innovations Series," a monthly exploration into AI's impact on our field. We'll cover everything from data-driven decision-making to the automation of routine tasks, outcome predictions, and nurturing leadership qualities.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(69,89,164,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25em 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This series isn't just about discussing what AI might offer; it's about demonstrating its real-world impact, challenges, and victories. I'm here to arm you with the knowledge and tools to bring AI into your projects, pushing the boundaries of what we can achieve.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(69,89,164,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25em 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stay tuned for our first installment, where we'll look at how AI is changing the way we handle meetings, allowing us to concentrate on what lies ahead, not what's behind us. This journey is about unlocking AI's full potential in project management, transforming obstacles into opportunities for growth and innovation.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(69,89,164,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25em 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No Day But Today,</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(69,89,164,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25em 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rick</span></p>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-26693226951681574212024-03-05T10:37:00.003-06:002024-03-05T10:37:49.526-06:00Embarking on the AI-Enhanced Project Management Journey: A New Chapter<p>In the confluence of project management and AI, there lies a story not of accolades but of shared learnings and personal growth. As I venture deeper into this integration, I'm not just pursuing a professional goal but embarking on a journey that brings together insights, challenges, and breakthroughs. This isn't about managing projects in the traditional sense; it's about leading them through innovation and strategic foresight into new frontiers of success.</p><p>This journey has been about providing real-world solutions and actionable insights derived from facing and overcoming project challenges head-on. It's a path defined by continuous improvement and a commitment to exploring how AI can revolutionize project management.</p><p>And now, I'm excited to announce a significant transformation of our blog site. We're reformatting to document this ongoing exploration into AI, sharing insights that have been nearly 15 years in the making. Our journey together has been marked by constant creation, innovation, and the pursuit of new paths. And as technology finally catches up, enabling some of our more advanced concepts, I look forward to sharing how AI is not just enhancing project management but transforming it.</p><p>AI in project management is proving to be a game-changer, offering data-driven insights, boosting efficiency, anticipating problems before they arise, and providing new avenues for coaching and leadership. It's about elevating the role of project managers, empowering them with tools and insights to lead more effectively.</p><p>As we embark on this new chapter together, I invite you to join me in exploring the potential, navigating the pitfalls, and celebrating the triumphs of AI in project management. Let's dive into this journey, not as a testament to personal achievement, but as a shared exploration of the future of project management and AI. Stay tuned for future posts where we'll delve deeper into how AI is reshaping the landscape of project management, enhancing our capabilities, and enabling us to achieve more than ever before.</p><p>No Day But Today,</p><p>Rick</p>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-37961667888173497452023-06-22T14:16:00.001-05:002023-06-22T14:16:11.144-05:00The Power of Believing in People: Unleashing Their Potential<p>Belief is a potent force that can shape destinies and unlock hidden potential. When we truly believe in someone, we ignite a spark within them, affirming their worth and capacity for greatness. It's not merely about superficial encouragement, but about seeing beyond surface limitations and recognizing the unique talents and possibilities that lie within each individual. When we believe in people, we create an environment where dreams can flourish, and they are empowered to transcend their perceived boundaries.</p><p>Imagine a world where everyone felt the unwavering belief of others in their abilities. It is in this space of unwavering belief that incredible transformations occur. People find the courage to step into their full potential, to embrace challenges, and to push beyond their comfort zones. Belief instills confidence and fuels determination, enabling individuals to rise above obstacles and surpass their own expectations. It's a ripple effect, for when we believe in others, they, in turn, begin to believe in themselves, creating a powerful cycle of growth and achievement.</p><p>So, here's a question to ponder: Who in your life could benefit from your unwavering belief? Take a moment to reflect on the people around you—your family, friends, colleagues, or even strangers whose paths you cross. Consider how your belief in their capabilities and dreams can become a catalyst for their success. What small action can you take today to express your belief and support? Remember, a simple word of encouragement, a genuine compliment, or a listening ear can have a profound impact on someone's journey. Believe in people, and watch the incredible transformations unfold.</p><p>Remember, your belief in others can ignite a spark that changes lives. Let us be the catalysts of growth and empowerment through unwavering belief in the incredible potential within each individual we encounter.</p><p>No Day But Today,</p><p>Rick</p>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-11674416492769770932020-11-14T11:38:00.007-06:002020-11-14T11:38:53.750-06:00Why Strong Women Are In Terrible Relationships - Michelle Baxo<p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/126952/why-strong-women-are-in-terrible-relationships-michelle-baxo" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris111320.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick A. Morris,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 0:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and welcome to another edition of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. It's November now the weather's starting to get cooler. And it's, you know, still crazy times for all of us. But we thank you for listening in. And we have an amazing show for you today. The person that that's going to be with us today is a returning guest. She's also an empowerment coach, author and speaker, bringing motivated women around the world from power less to powerful in every aspect of life. Her advice can be found in Forbes cosmopolitan insider and thrive global global. And our YouTube channel provides a wealth of knowledge around love and empowerment. And our new book power love dating. It's not so new. It was new when we talked the first time last time but our new book will still call it new is</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 1:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">my next one yet. So</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 1:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">there we go. So it's a woman's real world guide to empowered love and is now available on Amazon. Let's bring around Michelle back. So how you doing Michelle?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 1:23 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'm doing awesome. Thanks for having me here.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 1:25 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, thanks for coming back. I had such a great time with you. It's, we don't do a lot of we were pretty well booked out in the show. And we don't do a whole lot of repeat guests. So you probably have three or four that have repeated either that or that I didn't drive away in the first interview. So that's good. But the topic, the topic, you've got me, you know, ready to jump into what we're talking about today, which is why strong women are in terrible relationships, or they're just feeling lonely. So let's let's dive into this. Michelle, first of all, where did that topic come from? Is this something that you do regularly with coaching with with your clients? Well, yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 2:01 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">put</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 2:01 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">this</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 2:02 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">well, it's funny, right. And, you know, I find I attract a lot of clients that are similar to me and my journey and my past. And I'm someone who's always related to myself as a strong woman, it's something I aspire to be as a young girl, I always looked up to strong women, I considered myself strong as I grew along. And so of course, I attract other women who are on that path or relate to them selves in the same way, which, you know, brings me here, I know a lot of your listeners are entrepreneurs or people in leadership and business. And so those women probably do on some level relate to themselves as strong, so, but the topic came up, because this just comes up a lot for the women that I work with, or the people that that follow me through through my channels. And there is a shocking and alarming tendency for strong women, women who relate to themselves as strong or powerful, up to things driven, inspired, like all these really incredible women who tend to be either in terrible relationships, or have been in terrible relationships, and therefore on some level or avoiding that happening again, and so maybe aren't in relationships, or aren't finding what it is that they're looking for. So I just thought, you know, what a great platform here to talk about this, because I'm certain that there are a number of people here that either deal with it themselves, or know someone or many people who are dealing with this.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 3:25 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But let's be fair, that's not just relegated to women, either. Now, I know that there's some role shifts there. Yeah. But I know a lot of strong men, I'll say me included that Yeah. Got into a terrible relationship and don't know how I found myself there. So hopefully,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 3:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and you know, there may be a lot of parallels, like the stuff that we're going to talk about and share. So this is why it's so great. Having you know, you being a man that we're in this conversation with, because yeah, there is a there are certain tendencies that can happen when there's a certain level of strength and personal responsibility. And, and I think, yeah, you're right, whether it's a man or a woman, we often think if I develop myself a certain way, if I become independent, if I become self sufficient, if I become emotionally evolved, then naturally right, I would attract someone that is, uh, that is equal to that. And sometimes that happens, but very often not and I think it's an important thing that we talk about because it can be just so disheartening when we're doing that work, thinking that it's going to results to that to that relationship and then Wow, I keep you know, so for men or women we might want example is where strong Pete Why don't we say strong people I work so much with women, so I'm really it's fair,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 4:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">nobody will be offended.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 4:44 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But, but, you know, strong people are, you know, there's this tendency, for example, to be with people who ride on the coattails of a strong person or depend on on a strong person who you know, just As one example right there can codependency can start showing up in those relationships. And, you know, I'll just dive right in when I would say one of the biggest sources of that is that strong people. And like I said, I, I see it most with strong women, because that's who I work with. And that's what I am. So I have a past of it too. But strong people tend to tolerate a lot. Right? Then you as a strong person can probably actually I know a little bit about your past, right? And so it's when there's things unhealthy things going on, or like, like, we were like, okay, I can handle that. I can handle that. And we tolerate and then it can that can quickly turn into unhealthy patterns, it can turn into over accommodating, it can turn into losing ourselves, it can turn into just a straight Yeah, like I said, a straight up on healthy, toxic relationship. And then we're thinking, Wait a minute, this isn't supposed to happen to healthy evolved, you know, people emotionally enlightened people, what, what happened? How did this happen? And you know, if there's one message I'd want to say is, you know, we do play a part in that. And</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 6:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think, again, you and I've shared a lot of my personal stuff. And I think one of my biggest personal struggles, certainly something that's been more in my brain lately than than anything else is, like I'm a fixer. I take care of stuff. Yeah, you bring me a problem. I'm gonna go do it. But But is this overwhelming feeling now But who do I get to talk about my problems with right now, outside of a counselor and stuff, I was like, you know, every once in a while their shoulders, they don't stay strong, right? And when I'm having a weak day, or I'm having a day where I'm not on top of my game, then I'm like, why can't you call that person? Why can't you deal with that issue? Why can't you like, is that a normal feeling in this scenario?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 6:53 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, well, because like you said, there's roles that we play, and they can happen in both directions, I would say for men, for sure. Men, you know, tend to be play the role of the emotional rock, it's something that even as strong women really love and in men and in our relationships is to not feel like we have to be the strong one all the time. But in whatever direction it is, whoever is sort of coined as the emotional rock, let's say in the relationship, it's really easy to then depend on that and get into just get into the habit of that. And then there's, the balance is lost, because of course, both people need, you know, sometimes need someone to lean on to bring up an idea. I think Song 80s 90s song there.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 7:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Lean on me. Yeah. So yeah, it was interesting. I had a conversation this morning. And I feel the same way all the time. It's so funny, I think you and I talked about this in the past, too. I can dispense advice, like anybody's business, but I can't follow this advice that I dispense. And this person was just getting bothered by mundane things that the person like just total distraction, and was feeling upset that, you know, I was like, I've got other things to do yet. Now I gotta go deal with this stuff. And I'm sitting there going, Well, just, you know, this is what you say, cut them off. And the response was like, Yeah, and it's so funny, because that was the exact same feeling I had when somebody was like, well, you need to, you need to put your foot down at home and start taking care of this. And you kind of go, Yeah, what is what is that apprehension? Why is that there?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 8:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, well, so that conundrum is why I coined the term power love, because there's two parts of us there is the loving, compassionate, tolerant understanding, giving part of us whether you're a man or a woman, and then there's this other part that is, you know, fully aware of our sense of self, our personal power, our desire for control. And I don't mean that to the negative extreme, it just like, just in general, there's so so both parts are in us, and they're both, I would argue they're both primal, they're both necessary, but what we tend to do is polarize them and so that we're in one extreme or the other, we're either put up the wall, don't mess with me, God, you know, this is my boundary deal with it, you know, like that kind of, you know, or I cut you out, like that kind of response. Or I'm a lone wolf, you know, so the extreme or we're all the way on the other side, which is being walked all over, you know, saying yes to things we have no right to say yes to because it's causing a big mess, either for ourselves, or sometimes other people that just aren't there in that moment. Right. And that can cause you know, just like big messes for people in their careers or at their families or their friends. So it's, it's this, it's this tendency to go to go from one to the other. And I think that just comes from a culture where we have polarized them, right. And that may, we could say it's through archetypes. We can say it's through All kinds of different things. But, but that's a problem, when we start considering that both in almost any I would. So I talk about relationships a lot, because even whether it's in business or in love, or dating or family, all of it, relationships is our everything, including our relationship with ourselves, but really, in any aspect of life both really need to be there to be effective, both being powerful and being loving, and all that goes with those two things. So when we start not so it can be like either sort of considering both, which I say is like navigating the in between. So in that instance, right and navigating in between. Just Just give me your example again, so that I</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 10:45 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">know this is so typical, typical conversation if it were your accountability partner, so our job is accountable. And so she'll say something like, well, this person's doing this, this this, I was like, well, you need to cut this off. It's like, yeah, and then I'll go, yeah, and this is what I'm dealing with. And she immediately will go, you got to do this. And you go, yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 11:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">it's cuz like, in that moment, it's like, I know, what I need to do is to be like, cut it off. But there's this part of me that I'm not honoring, if I do that. And so it's this internal debate. So then the question becomes, how do I honor both parts? And how do I do that in a communication with another human being, so that they understand my boundary, for instance, and that they are loved and cared for, but also i'm not owning their stuff. Like it's it's a very tricky, complex thing that we tend to want to avoid. So we do the easy thing, which might be,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 11:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">we just eat, we just drop the boundary. That's it. Yeah, I can tell you personal experience. I'll deal with it next time and worn down and you get worn out. And then you start to have that negative self talk with yourself like,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 11:53 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and resenting the other person?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 11:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, and we talked about the three R's the last time, but once you get to that resentment, that's when it's over. Right. And I think I think we're at break. So I want to pick this up when we come back. But I think the question I really have is, again, I'll speak personally, I think my power was awakened. Hmm. And so therefore, things that used to not bother me, bother me now, and I'm dealing with it, versus I was almost in a phase of unawareness, that I should even be powerful in those situations. So I'd love to talk about that when we come back. All right, we'll be right back with Michelle back. So you're listening to Rick Morrison the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 12:38 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? 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Allow r squared to ensure that you are getting the value of your investment, visit r squared consulting.com today</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 14:22 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">from the boardroom to you voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 14:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 14:58 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon look I love I love when I get messages from for my listeners especially you know live and john things I just need to hire you in. He said I need some counseling time some one on one time with fix all my baggage. What do you think I have a radio show for I just fix it live on air.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 15:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So and what a contract.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 15:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So we were talking though, right before break it in. So I know a lot of people in this situation, certainly through my association with the john Maxwell team where people have have sought, you know, they want something different. That's what I wanted. I knew I had a leadership lid. And I knew that I had previously failed in my business I went to certification in this world just opened up to me in that personal development world, where I just started pulling on that piece of yarn. That's never ending, right. But But I feel like that's where my power was awakened. So again, I, I don't think I I knew things bothered me. I knew things bothered me. But like I accepted them all. And I started to grow this backbone that says, I'm not going to accept that anymore. So is that something that you see when we're talking about these two sides of power in love? Yeah, just one awaken. Like, why</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 16:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">don't wait against but we have to be careful. It doesn't fly all the way to the other extreme, so we can become aware Oh, my gosh, like, I wait. I am like, I have a moment actually, when I was about to leave a relationship in the past. Were a couple girlfriends as I was sharing about what I was the plans for the next year. And they were like, wait, what do you want. And I had this awakened moment where it was, you know, my first time being in a really long relationship. I think I was in my early 20s. I was like, Oh my God, I've totally lost sight of who I am and what I want, I got lost. And we and it was a new thing for me at that time. And so like, so I just even that can be an awakening moment for people. And certainly, I mean, I also, you know, through my personal development over and over and over, it's like, wow, yes, I, okay, my voice matters. There's something here, no one's going to advocate for me, nor should anyone advocate for me, this is my job to live my truth nobody else's. And what does that mean? And so and we know, people I know, I dealt with that with some of my parents and different relationships, like really awakening that. But what we have to be careful of is that when that's awakened, that we don't bring, turn that into walls, that we don't have that be the, like transformation as an ego trip, as like, a way to divide ourselves from people because we're so enlightened. And, you know, we can't, you know, there's a lot, there's a big culture right now happening around, you know, don't surround yourself with toxic people and all of those things. And I agree with that to an extent, but there's something to be responsible for to and who we really are as humans who desire to connect and do have love and compassion.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 18:00 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, so I think so. I can describe my awakening a little bit better in the sense that I found this passion to serve others to serve people, okay with people and, and then I noticed how selfishly my family in the relationship was living. Don't Why would you? Why would you pick up that tablet dinner? You know, why would you buy it? It was all me, me, me my mind, mind what I want to save. And I was in this mode of, you know, really pushing blessings out because the blessings that were coming back were tenfold. right in that not only monetarily, but but you know, in my</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 18:36 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">spirit as well. And so now that I'm receiving that, like, that was something that you were Yeah, okay. Yeah.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 18:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. So that's where that power, it wasn't so much, like all of a sudden, you know, or no, yeah, way or the highway? Yeah, you know, coming back to the women men thing, you know, I find it really interesting. Obviously, it's, it's more of that female role. But I know a lot of women that had were very powerful, and then took time to take care of their little ones. They they, you know, had little ones they they did their archetypal role if we want to call that Yeah, but lost themselves in that vision and now trying to regain themselves are running into a lot of problem what what about,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 19:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I mean, you're asking the right person, because literally what I grapple with right now, I have a two year old daughter, and this was after creating, you know, my own my own entrepreneurial Empire and you know, being who I am out in the world and then becoming a mom and what does that mean? What does that look like and, and so what I can what I can share about it for my own experience is there is a, it puts there such two strong, strong, what seems like polarizing poles that we deal with in that situation. One is like all there is for me to do is to care for this little this little human being that got made in my body. It's like every cell in our body like that's what we want. To do, and we can lose ourselves in that we lose a complete sense of ourselves. But that is such a it's almost like a genetic like, it's like in our, in our blood to lose ourselves in that. And so one of the things I really worked hard at was knowing and noticing the gift it was that I could give myself my relationship to my daughter and my relationship to my partner, Tommy, when I did hold parts of me and these things like my business sacred, like my daily meditation doesn't have to be three, it can't be three hours a day, even if I wanted it to be. But like, even just like prioritizing some of that, to hold on to, who and discover and grow who I am, who I want to be, what who I am separate from being a partner separate from being a mom, that is a really important part for us, too. And I think for men, too, it's just a little bit more in the culture for men to hang on to that that's a little bit more and I think, embedded in a norm. Whereas for women who become moms, it's, it's it's really a it's like an internal debate that you deal with. And so, but yeah, when we prioritize that we are happier We are, we are better with ourselves, we are better with our kids, we are better with our partners, we have better sex, like everything is better when we make that part of ourselves. So for those that don't, it's like don't prioritize that. There's often a lot of unhappiness. I mean, just being a new parent is challenging for everybody involved, for sure. Men and women. But yeah, I would say that it's just there isn't a whole lot of modeling for for doing both. And, and it's also okay to be heavier in one for a little bit and heavier in another. So I obviously focused more on my business before I was a mom, when my daughter my first year of my daughter's life, I did a lot of focus on her. But I still hang on hang on to some of it. I still like I you know, I did get my book written in the first year of her life, you know, there's certain things but not at the pace that I wanted to, you know, not at the the way I thought it should look. So you we have to be flexible and have it be okay, if we change our priorities, but but hanging on to that sense of self, even if it's just a little is a real is a real saving point for us.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 22:31 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think it's a scary realization it was for me, how much of ourselves we did lose in that process? Yeah, I always felt like, you know, I was still I remember having conversations with my kids, I came up with this concept of the first 15. And really, I was trying to get them to prioritize their chores and things for us. And I used to walk them through my day. And I was like, Alright, I get up, I get you guys to school, that I work, I come pick you up from school, and I cook dinner and clean, we do homework. And I was like, that's 15 hours in a day that I've given to everybody else. So when you see that, you know, Dad take the time. So what I'm asking you to do is your first 15 minutes, knock out your chores, then you can do whatever you want for the rest of the day. Yeah, right. And so that was it. But when I was building that out, I was like, literally, I had no time for me. And I lost so much and didn't realize that until I was kind of living on my own again, you know, yeah. You know almost bachelorhood for for a moment. But</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 23:29 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and what I can tell you just for and this is I know I have to tread lightly when we do sort of the the mom versus dad conversations they know it's hard for everybody and I don't take that away. But one of the things for for for women that's not always recognized is is for us like just getting to go to work is something for you in comparison to not right and and i'm not saying and I'm thinking</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 23:51 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'm thinking play the PlayStation you're thinking drive to work or</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 23:56 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">drive to work. hour of peace. Are you kidding? me get a coffee on the way. Like I'm like, Oh my god, you get to shower alone, dude, like</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 24:09 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">people walking into you in the bathroom, you know, just Yeah, well,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 24:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">like is your supervising off. And so it's just so it's different. And you know, and as someone that you know, I work from home and so like I like having having to create boundaries and getting support and not being like, there's almost like this idea that you can somehow magically do a full time job from home and full time take care of a kid, it's impossible, you actually can't be doing two things at the same time. So anyway, so it's not to diminish any of what you're saying. I think one of the biggest things that happens in relationships and why you see so many relationships fall apart after a kid is at the you know, within the first couple of years and within those first those first four years of children's lives, you know, my parents divorced when I was two not not you know it fits right within right within it. Is that we Yeah, we Lose, don't we, we lose so much of ourselves. And I think even like for our generation, too, we got that extra. Well, at least I did anyway, that extra decade like the 20s, like, I didn't have kids in my 20s. So I really got to know what living an adult life, you know, just me I didn't I didn't have a child until I was 30. I got pregnant at 3535, something like that. So really like a good amount of my adulthood, which is great. I felt like I really got to live it up. But also, I had become used to it, I was attached to it. I knew who I was, and all of that, you know, or a lot of that changed after becoming a mom, too. So it's, it's tricky. It's tricky for everybody.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 25:43 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">For sure. So I think we're gonna take another break right here. But what I'd love to just tease the audience with is, what about when your power has awakened, but the other person is completely oblivious or unaware? Whether it be the narcissist or whether it be just the person who's selfish. I'd love to dive into some of your tips and tricks around that. We'll do that right on the other side of this break. 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Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 28:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. So I'm going to set up a little situation here for you, Michelle just I'm gonna make it you know, as random as possible. But when we start dealing with certain personalities, and we're in our awakening, let's take something like out of like we're remodeling a bathroom or something like that, you know what I mean? is like, yeah, and so the partner goes, Well, what do you want? You go, this is what I want, like a while now that I want this, you're like, No, that doesn't work for me. They go, Well, I'm just trying to make you happy. It's like, well, if you want to make me happy, then this is what I want. Now, I'm not gonna do that, right? And you're like, and so it just becomes so much of a fight that you just rather give up, then stand your ground. But then the way I feel is every time you walk by the stupid bathroom, it's going to be another blow or reminder that they really didn't care. Like how do you deal with this situation like that?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 29:25 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, something like that. I mean, in that particular situation, neither party is right. So even that, like you saying, well, like why, you know, why should I be the one that disappointed there must be a history of disappointment, like there's baggage coming into that being such a big deal. because really what I would say, if looking at that relationship, neither should be even considering an option that the other person doesn't want. You know, to give you another example, like naming children is an area where people also get really, really frustrated and they're like, I really want this but I really want that neither You should even be entertaining. The one that your partner is not also entertaining. Like, that's partnership right? So where do we overlap not how do I get what I want?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 30:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">What but let's let's take that situation a little bit further though it's it's not that neither one. I love that thought neither one should be entertaining something that they don't want. I just had a really good point to that that just went right out right out of my head. Now but but essentially it's the the history is that they were going to do it anyway. Right and after so many of those fights, you're like, why am I why even asked me? Why would you even ask me?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 30:42 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, that okay, god yeah. So I mean, I can tell that there's more to this. I just like, you know, then I then I'm aware of so it's a tricky answer specifically without surely that's in the history behind it. Right. But, you know, what I can say is with any of these kinds of things that turn into bickering or nagging or It feels like you're banging your head against the wall at these same conversations. Is that kind of like the Yeah, we're talking? Exactly. Yeah. Okay, great. So in something like that, which I'm sure anyone listening in relationships can relate to, because we all have those things where it's like, how many times do I have to bring up that I care about composting and you don't, but like, Can we please be a family who composts right? And no one wants to be the neg. So we all anytime any of us are in a situation where we feel like we're nagging banging our head against the wall, we want to just give up, it's like, you know what, maybe I should just say you do you I'll do me. And there is something to be said for that. And I think that to some degree that can be okay, in terms of accepting certain differences and of some values are ways that we do things, right. But if it is eating away at a core value, like if it is something where you're like, wow, no, like, I now interpret this as being unloving from you, or I feel disrespected or dishonored, or, you know, like something that's like a value, that's going to start disintegrating the relationship very, very quickly. And you're going to start collecting evidence for where that shows up. So nagging and arguing isn't you might as well stop nagging and arguing about it, because it probably isn't going to make a difference, what needs to start happening, and it likely will need to happen more than once, or be referred back to is a real conversation about that value, and about the actual impact of that kind of situation and getting to the bottom of it. Because it may be like that feeling disrespected or feeling dishonored may be totally legitimate, or it may be an interpretation of something that's happening. And without a real conversation, we don't really know. And, and also the other person may really be leaving you felt dishonored, or disrespected on love, but they really may not realize the impact of that. And so it needs to be on a very visceral level, that kind of conversation because just like, hey, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, hey, don't do that tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. It just doesn't work.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 33:20 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, in my in my personal thing. And so being being the baby of five, right, yeah, kind of my stuff was it was important thing. So if I bought something at the store, right, and something as simple as that, it's not that I don't want to share it, whatever. It's, it's, if if you took it and then I'm expecting it to be there, you didn't tell me or something like that. So it was it was happening so often, that I sat down and had that conversation. I was like, This is that's hurtful to me. It's disrespectful, I know to you, there's just more at the store. And there was even Oh, I'll go get more at the store and never did it. Right. So every time I wanted it, I had to go get it, and then it would be gone. And so I was like this is disrespectful, and they just kind of laugh it off. They go. Yeah, like that. That's where I got to with that. And so I started started saying, Well, I'm not going to go get it anymore. Right. So now I'm depriving myself that that's where I saw that relationship. Yeah, some of the other ones</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 34:15 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">could have done you bought that one.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 34:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, we did. But they would take them both.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 34:21 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I see. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 34:23 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I know. I did a lot of that.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 34:25 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know like to me, I think at the end, people will get it or not, but it's only through here's the thing is people often want to know, is it worth having those kinds of conversations or isn't it and we just don't know until we have them. Some people really are in their own world. Some people really do think the world turns because they're there or they live that way anyhow and won't get it and won't take responsibility and won't get into your world. But our job as a part of a relationship is to is to help facilitate that as much as we can. And if we're the ones who are a little more emotionally involved, then we'll probably be the ones doing a little more legwork. And if it's not going to if the relationship isn't going to work, it's not going to work. But it's not going to be excited and try and it's not going to be like, because so many relationships fail out of misunderstanding, it's insane. Out of like, honestly not understanding the other person's perspective. So we have to, if we really value a relationship, we have to do our part to help the person understand and to and to also practice understanding that person's perspective and find some something that can kind of work. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, right. I mean,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 35:36 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">let's take that let's take if it doesn't work, so basically, you've you sat down and he said, you this is really important to me. Yeah. And and there's, there's nine of those that continues to be diminished. Yeah. And then you just turn around and go, you know, almost in your own head, you're like that this person's never going to change. The question I get often when you kind of come to that realizations will what do you do that?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 36:00 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, um, so I think it just needs to be a very candid conversation of really can't so I had a conversation this is getting a little personal here. I don't know if I've been sharing all kinds. I know. Right? But like, I had a conversation with this with my partner recently, because there were certain things that led me to question his character. And but I was doing that the nagging and feeling and like not wanting to change him, but also like, wait a minute, like, this isn't the person that I thought like, like, these are, these are new things to me, I didn't expect this. And I noticed myself lose I actually losing some respect for my partner, the father of my child, the love of my life, like always, I'm like, I can see that there's something brewing in me that is not going to go well if I don't really deal with this. So I started the conversation by by actually started by taking responsibility. Listen, I know I've been snippy with you. I can actually see now that somewhere along the way, I've lost respect for you. And I know you can sense that. Am I right? And he's like, Yeah, definitely. Okay. So this is super hard and uncomfortable. I don't want to hurt you at all. But I've been reflecting on some of the things that have happened along the way. And I think I've pointed some of them out, can we talk about them? And we did. And we did talk about them. And some and I actually had said like, why this is starting to really eat away at me is because, you know, we chose each other because of each other's character and, and our integrity and our commitment to grow and like all of these things, but this stuff showing up is not matching that and it's incredibly discouraging for me, and it has me question, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. So we're having like, a real conversation about it. You know, one of the things that he had to deal with around it, and that I was scared about is he was flip flopping for a bit between. This makes me want to be a better man, you know, the man that I really did do believe I am and I got lazy, and I got sloppy, and I thought these things. And then sometimes he'd be like, why bother? Whatever I do, it won't be enough. Which is like something I'm always really careful about when I have these kinds of conversations. I don't want someone to feel like they're not good enough. Because we know that's a trigger for every human on the planet. Right? And so and and, you know, so he would share that with me, which really helps me understand where what he's grappling with. But I am also like, Well, listen, honey, that's that's got to be something you choose. Like if the giving up being the person that you really believe you are or, you know, fighting the practicing, and we working together do and I know I'm not perfect either. So let's talk about that too. And, you know, so that's what it literally has looked like in my life recently. To give you a sense, Does that help? Does</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 38:44 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that? No, it does. It does. And I'd love to get some help with some phrasing. So I call them symptom fixer symptom fixers. Yes, essentially, you say, Look, I'm not happy because I feel disrespected. Well, give me an example. Well, an example is you parked behind me, you know, and I asked you not to do it, you continue to do it when I asked you not to do it again. So then they stopped parking behind you. But that's not fixing the problem. That was the an example of the larger thing. How do we phrase that better to where we're really getting to the issue? Or if somebody's like, demanding an example like, I don't do that. What do you mean and you go, Okay, well, here's an example of where I felt that and they just diminished that they just go right by it. Does that make sense?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 39:28 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it does. Um, well, one thing I would just say like if it was like to you right, this is something that's happening a lot I would actually look to why am I seeking relationships with people who treat me like shit? Like that would actually be something worth looking at. Right? Like why like and is there like a I would just guess, right? For anyone listening who resonates with any of this? Is there a parent that we didn't get that much like validation from that was a bit of a deck that like now that's playing out in our life over and over again, where we surround ourselves with, you know, bitches addict, sorry. And then if I can win that person over, then maybe I'm actually I am good enough like some subconscious version of that could be going on that that said sometimes though, like I said, sometimes it really is that we, and it's hard to know, it's really hard to know the difference between when is it really like, this is just generally a disrespectful human being who's just not going to get it. Versus I'm very easily triggered by these types of things. And when one thing happens, I create a world of disrespect from it, right? So it's, it's tricky to know. So that's why I say yeah, jumping into those conversations is a way that you can get to know that. And so so like, I think we make it a little significant, more significant than it needs to be. So I think it's like if we can drop the like, the emotional drama from it, the baggage that we're carrying the trigger, we kind of have to let that go. And, and it just kind of, I don't know, for me what I had, just because I used to be such a pleaser. And then I became the opposite way, way too honest and blunt. And now I'm just like, I don't know, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna compassionately be brutally honest and clean it up if I need to have to. And like, just sort of let it out. So for me, I probably be like, Dude, why? Like, like, like, you know, I don't know, maybe in that particular case, it would be like, Dude, don't park behind me anymore. That's not cool. If that's just the thing, but if it's actually like a number of things, I probably would say, listen, we got to talk here. I like there's there is something going on in our dynamic that we need to sort out? Or are you aware of there being something off with our dynamic? Or shall I, shall I? Is this just me something I need to talk we need to talk about, because there's probably some sort of other side to it or not, but then you like, you have to say, like, Look, I just sort of, I just feel like you're walking around doing this. And it doesn't feel good. And maybe you don't mean to. And that's the thing that's important to say to people is maybe you really don't mean to you don't realize, and I can own my own interpretation and dealing with my own triggers. But if we're going to have a relationship like these, like we've got us we've got to figure out something that's, that's a fit for both of us.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 42:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I had to flip from I'm not going to give you a specific example. I'm just going to tell you how this makes me feel. Yeah, that's that that was how I had to get through and it still didn't solve it. But I felt better at the explanation because it sounds so stupid when you say don't park behind me that that's such a simple little thing. But at the same time, it's such a simple little thing. Why don't you fix it like,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 42:38 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 42:39 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">do I not care at all? You know, those types of things, but we're gonna wrap up this segment. We'll be right back with Michelle back so we'll ask her the question we asked all of our guests in your listening to the work life balance with Rick Moore's.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 42:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with your company's business strategy? 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Whether you want to build a project management office, train project managers or learn how to bring the oversight and governance to your project processes. r squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 44:39 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business, you'll find the experts here voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 44:50 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today. We'd love to have you call into the program at 18664 725790 Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 45:16 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon at fresh, fresh off the presses where it's being suggested that we either eat have a support group or a mastermind around this, but I have a feeling Michelle, you have a support group in which people can reach out to you and talk to you and have some of these conversations. How did they find you?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 45:35 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, definitely, well, the best place to go first is my website, which is Michelle bakso.com. And there's some different options there to reach out to me to work with me privately. I sometimes run group programs, I'm not currently but that is something that usually once a year, I do run as well. But another great thing that's available is I have a private Facebook group called empowered women, the place for women who give a shit about being empowered. That's the that's the thing. Um, and, and so that's a really great place to where I offer, you know, free training segments, and people can connect and talk everything really women empowerment. But it's not to say men can reach out but they wouldn't be in that particular group.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 46:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I was gonna say I'm out. That's it. Yeah, I</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 46:16 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">know. So I don't have a face guy. That's right. Well, you can just, but also, like, you know, friend me on Facebook, everybody, it's fine. I'm not I'm not I'm not like, I'm open. I'm open with my Facebook. It's all good. Um, so? Uh, yeah, no, but Facebook is the best place to find me and my website. Outstanding.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 46:35 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So the question we ask every guest is, what is some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 46:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, you know, I was thinking about this When, when, when you mentioned it, and you know, I don't know if it was advice. But it made the biggest difference in my life when I had this conversation with my dad. And it was actually dealing with something similar to what we were talking about, where I realized every time I went over there, I always end up at my feelings would be hurt, every time I would just wait for that thing, or my feelings were hurt. And I finally talked to my dad about it. And this was about this was sort of when I first got into my personal development, and, and he was like, Oh, my gosh, Michel, he goes, he goes, sometimes I'm just an idiot, because I don't know what comes out of my mouth half the time. So please, whatever I say, Please don't take it as being anything like, valid or anything. And that was mind blowing to me. And it altered not only my relationship with my dad, because I realized I was getting putting so much weight, so much emphasis, I was letting the words falling out of his mouth define me and my life and my relationships with men and women and authority figures and all these things. And when I took the weight off of it, not like to not hold them responsible not to any of those things, but it just totally altered everything and freed me up so much. So not really advice as much as a response. But that's what came up for me when you when you ask that question</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 47:59 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">is triggered so so my daughter is going to be 20 next month. And at 17. She had that awakening with me and I was just, I was being goofy, but she came in and she was like laying something down on me. And I started to look for something behind my desk and she's like, what are you looking for? I said, the manual that came with you at your birth? Because like, I don't know, if she just had this moment, she was like, wait a minute. You've been making this all up? And I was like, Yeah, you're the test baby. Like we screwed you up so bad. I was like, that's why baby number two is much better. But baby number one like we made every possible mistake with you. Yeah, but I didn't know like, I did my best I did. I was the best person I could be at the time always. And that was like this, but she you could just see on her face that that was that same moment that you just had mind blowing. Like, dad doesn't know he's just been making it up as it goes along.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 48:51 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Where it's like I don't know about her. But for me I had this internal dialogue being like you don't know me you don't know what life is really like? Like this whole argument going on. I was like always fighting with them. When not we weren't even fighting. We never fought Actually, it was all just on the inside. And how to be able to let that go. My God. Yeah, amazing.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 49:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So what about final words, final advice for people that that have been struggling? And let's let's tailor the advice of you. You're either at the point that you're going to make the ultimate decision or you've made the decision but you're stuck in limbo. What What advice can you give to them?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 49:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When you say made the decision? What</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 49:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">do you mean that to end a relationship and</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 49:30 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">relationship? Yeah, yeah. I think that the only because I also think sometimes we stay in relationships way too long when they really should be over. Right. So I think what's important is to is to take a personal development approach to to all of our relationships and everything we do is just something I just believe in firmly. That is to say we can never be the only one taking responsibility for a relationship. So and that's one of the traps. We didn't really talk about it as much in this So, you know, for anyone here as like, as a strong human being who's in a relationship, and is in a terrible relationship, if you are in one, you know, I would say the first place to look is okay, like, how can I take responsibility? It's always a good place to look, if I trained someone to treat me like crap, could I maybe train them a different way? Can I tolerate different things? And I have real conversations, like really, like really? Do the have the hard talks, go to the vulnerable places really share and you know, all of it, right? Like, that's part of taking responsibility. And if we're and, and you know, if it really isn't going to change, then, like, it is a gift to you and the other human being and all the people around you to clean that slate right to to clean that slate. And that also comes from a, you know, a vulnerable, real honest conversation as well.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 50:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But some people don't see that as a gift. So they feel like they're the bad person. Yeah. Or, or they have to be the bad person to make the decision. Yeah, right. And I probably stayed way too long. in service of my kids thinking, I was doing them a favor. And what I was doing was teaching them how to live in an unhealthy household. Yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 51:15 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah. Well, I know, but I mean, hindsight is 2020. Right. And so now you maybe would do it differently. But maybe that was part of the journey you needed to go through to really, because because there was those two parts of you pulling, and you didn't want to just give up on something without you feeling like you gave it your all. So it's important for all of us, I do think it's important for all of us to feel like we gave it our all, but we need to be really honest with ourselves about what that what all really is. And it doesn't mean give ourselves away, it doesn't mean sell ourselves out. It doesn't mean drag something through the mud. And you know, until you have to disintegrated human beings, right. So that's where I think it's we can't be inside of tolerating can't be what giving it our all is, it needs to really be real conversations, whether that's counseling or or group, you know, group therapy, or personally, everyone does the landmark forum in the family or whatever it is, right? Like that stuff. And the real conversations that come from that, that's what giving it your all is not just like, I'm going to numb myself or, you know, whatever we do, just like put a create a barrier. So I can tolerate this until the kids go to college. Like that's different. Yeah, but we have to learn that we all you know, I think a lot of us have to learn it. And so not that everyone has to go through it, you know, but there's always to some degree, we have to kind of go a little too far somewhere to realize we're not going to go quite that far again the next time. Right?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 52:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">For sure. For sure. Michelle, we certainly appreciate ya. I have a ball with you every time and we'll have to get you back again soon.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 52:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I'd love to. Yeah, thanks</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 52:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">so much.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 52:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think there's so much more that we're leaving on the table here that we just start to scratch the surface and then an hour flew by. That's when you know when you're having fun.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 53:09 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's great. Yeah, thank you so much.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 53:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so listeners Thank you so much. Thanks for the immediate feedback as well. From the from the listeners. I always love that always to make sure that we try to adapt to react if you would like to be one of those listeners that gives us that feedback. You can hit me up at Rick A. Morris on Twitter. You can find me at Rick k Rick A. Morris calm or are more star square consulting. com. Find me on Facebook and LinkedIn as as Michelle is I'm open as well. Come join us Come have a ball. Until next Friday. We hope that you live your own work life balance and we'll talk to you then.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 53:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here. It's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thanks again for listening.</span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-70134858450096329282020-11-10T07:57:00.005-06:002020-11-10T07:57:53.682-06:00Overcoming an Introverts Fear - Johnna Danielle<p> <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/126794/overcoming-an-introverts-fear-johnna-danielle" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris110620.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick Morris. And welcome</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">to another edition of the work life balance on a Friday afternoon. So excited to have everybody along. And thank you again for the continued support. I get tons of messages, LinkedIn messages, Twitter messages, Facebook, from the audience. You guys are amazing and certainly appreciate all the love and support and look forward to having another fantastic show and I'm excited about this one. The person I'm bringing on today is a professional life coach, mentor, leadership trainer and speaker that helps men and women reach their career and relationship goals. As an executive director with the john Maxwell team. She has numerous leadership tools to elevate leaders, their teams, as well as businesses. She has a heart to serve a love for personal development with an enormous passion to help people reach their best potential. At the start of the covid 19 pandemic. She was in a 17 year lucrative career in the healthcare industry, and decided to utilize a time of great transition to offer her gifts to individuals and businesses that also wanted to make the most of who they are. So she launched her business to really help people land their dream jobs in really, anybody who's been unemployed or laid off or contemplating a transition. She's going to help you land your dream job, but we're talking about something entirely different today. That's just who she is. But we really want to get into the fact that she's had to launch all of this and build all of this while being an introvert. So I think it's gonna be a great conversation. Let's bring around right now. Jonathan. Yeah. How you doing, Jana?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 1:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I am doing great. Thank you for having me today,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 1:59 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick. Oh, we're so excited. So john and I, we have to be fully transparent on the show. She You and I both know each other from the john Maxwell team, both servers in the in the food room is what I call it, where we get to greet almost everybody that's at IMC right there in the cross ties. But that's how you and I met was was serving the team?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 2:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely, yeah, lunchroom servers from the get go of executive directors.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 2:25 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's right. That's right. So and I and I've told several stories about that. But those people that I missed the mariadb people I miss coming in and having a line of them just say good morning to us. And, you know, they were they're such a great, a great staff and a great team there. So for those that don't know, when we talk about introverts extroverts, what really to you is I have a definition of what what it means. But what is an introvert mean to you?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 2:51 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So first, let me start with like the dictionary definition, because what they say is a reserved or shy person who enjoys spending time alone. And then when you kind of dig deeper, and myself personally, I wouldn't call myself a shy person. I just basically at the end of a social interaction or engagement or an event like the IMC that we go to need a little bit more downtime than your next person, or I prefer one on one conversations versus talking to a big group of people doesn't mean I can't do that. It's a preference. So instead of small talk, many of us introverts prefer prefer a little bit more of an in depth conversation, if</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 3:28 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that makes sense. Yeah, and I've considered more of an extrovert except in the in the scenario that I need that downtime as well, like I need you. But I feel it personally from a definition I feel like an extrovert is that I get my energy from an audience versus getting my energy from the downtime, I need the downtime, but I'll give every ounce I have if I'm on front of the stage of 5000. And the more the better for me. In fact, if I'm talking to four people or to one person, I find that more draining then, right if I got 5000 people in the room, I can I can do that stuff all day. No notes, no bullet points, let's go I'll just make stuff up. But yeah, so that's that's kind of how I feel so that it's that really that energy level at the end of the day, though, but why? Why do we think introverts and then shy, it gets so misconstrued?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 4:21 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Why do we think it gets so misconstrued? I think it's like anything, we have a picture painted in our head. And, you know, if you don't know then you don't know. So a lot of people who are completely really, really high on the extrovert spectrum, which there is a spectrum we know that right? There's a really high extrovert level, then there's a really high introvert level, then there's the people right in between. And then I know there's what is the word for somebody who's pretty equal on both there's a word for it, and I'll think of it but you know, so I just think that we all have our own perceptions and, and most people think that introverts are shy and don't really like being in the crowd and all that kind of stuff. But one thing you just mentioned that I kind of remembered, when we're at our imcs people who are listening, they don't realize that we're going we're going from like, 6am in the morning until the, you know, later into the day. And one thing that I remember when I first met you, as an introvert, I don't know if you remember this, I came up to you. And I was like, question this question, question, question question. And you go, Hey, are you a see,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 5:22 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">like, you have a lot of questions.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 5:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And I said, Actually, yes, I am. But that also is actually hand in hand with an introvert, we do tend to want to prepare, we want to know, what am I going into when possible, it helps us to kind of relax, you know, and so and you we could throw you in a room with?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 5:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I did, I did?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 5:42 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And, you know,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 5:43 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">what do we do? I don't know, just stand up there, just talk to people,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 5:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you help to calm me down, because you were still kind enough to answer some of my questions. So I knew you know, and so. So yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 5:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that's fine. And so, you know, there's this concept of this perfect leader, which, which doesn't exist, right? It's all it's all within ourselves. And also, I feel like there's different skill sets at different times, there's different times where you need a boisterous leader, and there's times where you need that calm thinking leader right in it, and everywhere in between, but how do introverts make good leaders?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 6:22 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I think one of the reasons if we're to generalize is good listening skills. Most of us would rather be listening and asking questions and listening, versus being the center of attention and really kind of out there in the open. A person who comes to mind, you know, Joel olsteen, no, yeah. Okay. So he was always behind the scenes, but when his father was a pastor, that's what he's like the perfect example, he did not want to be on the stage, he didn't have the desire to be a pastor, when his father passed away, it was his why kind of took him his purpose took him to the center of the stage. So once again, you could call it shy or whatever you want that he was behind the scenes, but in reality, he's not because he went and look at what he does now. And he's, you know, this huge figure and all of that. So that's an example of, I think, an introverted leader. And then also, other than the listening skills. negotiation is another one that a lot of introverts excel in. And so in leadership, that's a really good skill. Once again, I think it's kind of this quiet, assertiveness, it's not your boisterous and, you know, necessarily always high energy, but definitely leadership. That's, that's a little bit different. That tends to be, you know, really focused on one on one versus again, a bigger group.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 7:42 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's interesting, the set negotiation, I mean, he's, I think through that, that's, I feel like I'm pretty strong negotiator through through business. But that's something I felt like I had to learn to slow down. And, you know, we were laughing about it. And I'll tell you the story later when we're out there. But, you know, I had to light up a company today, but I walked him into a trap for 10 minutes before I revealed the information that I had, just so that, you know, it was more impactful, instead of coming out of the gate, and just like, Oh, you know, blowing it up, getting them talking and getting them to kind of share their position before I took mine. But now that you say that as that that's something I've had to learn to slow down, and and and not have the gotcha ready, you're ready to come out of the gate. So I think that's interesting. An interesting take on it. You know, when when you and I talk, there's a lot of I don't want to say fear and fears. Here's a tough word to say. But you overcame a lot of personal doubts, I think it's probably a better, we can call it fear, we can wrap it in fear. But you had to overcome a lot of personal doubts in launching your business, what was that like? Or what were a couple of those examples that you felt you were struggling with a little bit more because you were an introvert versus what you thought maybe comes easier to somebody else.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 9:02 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So one of the things nowadays, we know if you're going to be an influencer, a coach, a consultant, you do need to kind of be on social media. And it's just something it's the world we live in. So for me being an introvert, that was beyond scary, and it's also just not a world I really necessarily had the desire to be on and kind of get consumed in. But that's the way to reach for people. So once again, if I want to help other people, then I have to go okay, if I want to do that, then part of that means being on social media. That was definitely a fear. And also just something I wasn't really wanting to put myself out there. But again, my why was bigger than that. And so that's why I chose to do it also was speaking, being on videos, knowing that videos are going to reach more people, again, more people that you can help. So learning how to kind of let go of, yeah, you're going to be judged. Yes, people are going to not like you that that's the same thing in real life. And so when I used to to kind of think, well shoot, I don't want them to judge me or the people that know me are gonna think I'm crazy for leaving this great career and, you know, putting myself out there online, but it's just it's part of the process, and it's so worth getting over the fear. Do I have time to share a couple others? Or? Um,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 10:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think we'll we'll do that when we come back. It's funny that you said, just, again, a fair warning or full transparency. I feel more prepared for this podcast than really any others because of the phone calls that you and I had to go through that, which you do. But But I was just contemplating that. On Wednesday, I showed up to a podcast, it was called the capital gains tax. So So mainly, they took the high net worth people and how to save money through capital gains tax and having a process and so I had no idea why he booked me on the show or what I could even offer, and we ended up having a phenomenal conversation. But I was just like, Alright, let's go, Hey, I showed up. What do you want me to talk about? Which is, which isn't always a good thing, right? Because there's some times where it's really awkward, or I definitely missed the mark. And so there's almost it's I don't want to say it's a cockiness, but overconfidence sometimes, that I do have something to say versus taking the time as you did to go. Okay, we're your listeners, you know, what we'll we think that works. I think that's interesting is a compare and contrast, I had no idea we were gonna go down the path of truly comparing and contrasting our personality styles. But what does work is our friendship and relationship. So that's cool. So the fact that you the respect and understanding of both, but you were always a calming force for me, in the food room, as well, kind of I sat side by side and did our thing. But I think when we come back, I'd love to get into some of the examples of some of these fears that we had to overcome. And also just, if you wouldn't mind just also just really saying exactly what they are. And maybe maybe somebody listening is dealing with that same thing. So what steps you took to overcome it versus just identifying what you needed to overcome? So we'll do that. Just on the other side of the break and listen to Rick Morris on the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? Are you aware that businesses identified capturing time and costs against project as their biggest project management challenge? 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Allow r squared to ensure that you are getting the value of your investment, visit r squared consulting.com today</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">from the boardroom to you voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're visiting with Janet Danielle who owns Janet Danielle coaching so it's it's a snappy name that continue to catch on to it's really hard to remember if you know Jana, but we were leaving into the break we were talking about fears and kind of certain things you felt like you had to overcome because you are an introvert so why don't you give us a couple of examples of that.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 14:58 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I mentioned social Media and you know, putting yourself out there. fear of being judged. And and so that would be the same thing in a classroom growing up, you know, getting in front of the class, raising your hand and speaking. I think with maturity, you grow confidence with learning more about, you know, your personality and accepting it. Instead of faking it till you make it, you know, I used to kind of tell people that and it's like, No, you can still learn skills that are going to put yourself out there and challenge yourself, but you don't need to be fake in order to do that. Lots of fears, Rick, you know, I used to fear flying, scuba diving, and that one's my favorite. Can I stop on that one? Okay, so I don't remember this. But my mom said, you wouldn't even like look down into the water because you were so afraid. And I think of anything you could think of. So I was 29, about 10 years ago. And I thought, you know what, that's it. Why am I doing this? Why am I so fearful? So I threw myself in a class of all men in Washington state in the winter time, of course, and we go through these classes. And along the way, I thought the fear was going to go away, I thought, Okay, I'm gonna overcome this fear. And we're talking about overcoming fear. But really what it is, is, it's not like it 100% goes away, you make little steps. And the fear with scuba diving is my example, for everything in life, though. Because each step along the way, when they told me all the horrible things that were down there that could, you know, be poisonous, or this net, I thought, Oh, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. But I kept that inside. And I kept taking a step further, because it meant something to me to work through the fear to do it anyways, right? We've heard that a million times feel the fear, do it anyways, that's the the biggest example in my life that I really did try to work through it. And then you know, you do the pool dive and you're, you know, going down 12 feet, take your gear off, put it back on, go back to the top, all these things until you get into the open water. And then you get down there and the breathing, and you hear yourself and it's this peaceful, still kind of anxiety producing thing. But it was an example of putting myself out there and help, you know, working through the fear. So I tell people that story, because I think we can do that with anything in our lives. So that's really huge for me is, is making sure that you find whatever those things are for you and taking baby steps to get through it to the other side, because so many amazing things happen.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 17:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Wow. Love it. Yeah, if your fear isn't something that I, I fear, more difficult outcomes than I do, you know, like, Hey, you want to get on a roller coaster? Heck, yeah, let's go and jump out of a plane shirt, scuba dive, whatever. It's when I'm down there that I was like, Are there things that could kill me? Yeah. It's I don't know if that's a good thing or not. But I think that's I think that's interesting. You know, one of the things I hear about introverts and that, you know, I've thought it before as well as is the moment you meet somebody, you know, that's a little bit socially awkward, or they're, you know, they, they have that weird handshake or they they avert their eyes when they're meeting somebody, which let's just talk about that for a second. Because I want to come back to the socially awkward, but even that, right, that becomes a train behavior, right? Is your natural kind of like it being shying away, but you have to like tell yourself, look them in the eye and shake their hand, you know, be there like, Is there any of that going on?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 18:20 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I can picture a moment when the first international john Maxwell conference, you know, we have to do our five minute speech at every conference, right? Yep. So I've been to six now. So let's go to the first time, I was literally standing behind the curtain, okay, where someone took my picture. And I was so terrified to go down into the Hall of 3000 people and, you know, do this first speech. Now, fast forward, every single event I got better. So that to me, if you would have seen me in the room, it would have looked very socially awkward. The eye contact part is different. I've been pretty good with that. But I can see where people think that some introverts are socially awkward, because we do tend to be kind of internal and think a lot before we speak. We don't always just jump in, you know. So that could be misconstrued as socially awkward. I'm sure there are some of us that are but I think it depends on how much you work on it to right as you get older and mature, what career you choose. If you're in it might be a little easier to stay a little behind the scenes and you might not have to make eye contact as much. Someone like me that wasn't an option. You know, you have to get out there and do your job and interact with people and everything like that.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 19:33 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, as I think through that I'm thinking through so you know, again, at IMC I have I have a role I have a job. I know where I stand in the organization and so it's very easy for me to meet people and direct them and do you know eye contact and try to make them feel comfortable? It's my job to try to make them feel comfortable. Right. But I when you were talking about the the eye contact thing for there, when I do these keynote speeches, and you know it's been a while since I've gotten to go to conference and do a keynote speech. But normally there's a speaker dinner. And so normally it's the top four or five people that are being paid and they take you out to dinner. And they they like to explore your brain a little bit, you know, but it's always like, I'm socially awkward in that situation. And everybody thinks I'm an introvert during that, because I just don't talk. Because most of it's a brag session. I'm not interested in why you spoke at this event. I did this event like and I like to get into, like, what's the problem we can solve? And let's all dive in. And, in fact, one of my best friends, Collin Ellis, he and I met that way where we're at the speaker dinner, and he and I just kind of kept going off into the corner, because we wanted to talk about like real stuff, and like, get into it and understand each other's experience. But But my point to that is, it's like, I feel so socially awkward at the table at dinner, because I don't want to be there. I don't want to have that conversation. And I'm not trying to one up the next guy. I'll let my stage talk do the talking for me right in. But I just find that interesting. I haven't really related that. But I feel incredibly socially awkward in that in that instance. So we talked about socially awkward, that's somewhat of a myth, then Are there other myths that are other things that people tend to say? Well, because you're an introvert, you're axure that the assumption is this what what are some of those other myths?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 21:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, we talked about shy we talked about socially awkward and outgoing, you know, they must not be outgoing, they must not be friendly. And I remember in in high school, you know, they said, I had a you know what face or you know, I look too serious. And I thought, Gosh, I didn't even realize it, but I was so in my head, walking around the halls and people that knew me knew I was friendly. But I looked, you know, I looked like I was so serious. They just didn't know the people that didn't know me. And so I think it's easy sometimes with with some introverts to think, you know, they Oh, they must not be on lunch, lunch, breaks breaks in general, I'd often go and study alone, because walking into the room of people was just like energy draining, and in between classes. I needed a little bit of downtime. So it's you know, giving yourself the permission to do that is huge, because then you're going to show up to the next thing with more energy. reclusive loners weird you know, those are other words that you hear a lot. Okay, sometimes reclusive, short, but overall 100% you know, they say alpha chinos a huge introvert and that he is actually reclusive. Okay, that's unique to him, right? There's people who are, but but for the most part, I think we do crave social interaction, and we do create friendships, fewer, perhaps, deeper ones. Now, we don't need to be friends with everybody. And there's nothing wrong with that. But because of kind of conserving our energy, we tend to have a little bit of a smaller group of people who are deeply connected with</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 22:51 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">so we're, we're radio but it's internet radio so you can you can fully say resting bitchface Okay.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 23:00 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I censored myself just to see I had a resting bitchface</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 23:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I've got a resting bitch body is what I was told. No, but but it's it's interesting you that that kind of the first seven seconds somebody makes an impression and because you're studying or your deepest thought then you have resting bitchface and that's that I can imagine how many times people just in general deal with that it's just like just because I'm thinking and I'm not smiling ear to ear to your fakely but then you've got you know, I live in the south and you want to talk about you know, the the blood I come the bless your heart moms. Now they've got to smile ear to ear all done up and they're gonna trash talk to you as soon as you walk away, bless his heart. But he was wearing You know, there's that going on. So I prefer the the non fake interaction would be much better. So. So you had said, in kind of one of your pre questions that you know, how do you make the best of being an introvert and an extrovert favorite world? But before we get into that, is it an extrovert favorite world? Why do you say or what do you say or maybe even phrase it that way?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 24:16 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I should say we live in an extroverted country. And that is statistically you know what they say? When you read on the topic, they say about a third. About a third of us are introverts, but a lot of people don't know they are or a lot of people are hiding it because they're embarrassed. They don't want to admit it. So</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 24:39 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah. But then but then when you look at this great 3% or ds 14% sir eyes, so the 17% is outgoing and then the 83% reserved. So that's why right there, so if you look at the statistics there, your high ass, which is your 69% then you've got your other percentage and C's. And I always leave that I do that on purpose. Because if you are a C, you're calculating what percent you are based on numbers, but you're already 17 is</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 25:09 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'm CIC technically.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 25:15 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I do. By the way side note, when I teach this guy I, I normally have everybody take a profile before I teach class and then I have the standard percentages and then the percentage for the class. And I always make it add up to like 110 or 104. And I let it sit there and I go through and when I go the CS and say if you if you have any doubt to the C, who knows that the numbers don't add up? They just started like, yep, do that on purpose. Gotcha.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 25:42 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, yeah. So good. I remember when I worked for an anesthesiologist I was measuring out the exactness of this cleaning solution for one of my you know machines or something and he's like john please even he an anesthesiology goes it doesn't have to be so exact.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Like you know this measuring.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 26:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I know I kind of want my anesthesiologist to be good three CCS for whatever he's gonna be knocked out Who cares?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 26:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, what I was doing it wasn't that</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 26:23 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">nice Fedak world?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 26:25 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">There it is. 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Put your people first with resource first from PD where join us at PDX where.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business, you'll find the experts here voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance. And for those of you that asked about the music is the lead into the show that is group called the party that I produce. And we're very, very thankful to Disney for finally releasing all of their album catalogs on Spotify that took almost, I don't know we say 30 years is how long the music has been out there. But probably 10 to 15 years to get it digitized. So we're very, very appreciative and you can find their entire catalogue now at Spotify slash the party coming back with john. So john. Right. As we were going into break we talked about how do you make the best of being an introvert in an extrovert favorite world? Yeah, so</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 29:35 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think accepting one's strengths and weaknesses, you know, and also stretching yourself growing in the areas you know, and one of the things too, when you connect with somebody, if you know letting them know, Hey, this is who I am, and I'm okay with that. And maybe let enlightening them a little bit on your personality maybe helping to dispel those myths that they're unaware of I think that helps and having a really supportive network of colleagues, mentors, you know, for me, I've always enjoyed having a good coach in my personal and business life. But friends that understand you that don't judge you and try and make you feel bad for, you know, being the way that you are, which can be annoying, if you don't want to go to that gathering, or you know, and if they're trying to peer pressure you into it or something like that, but just having people that understand you for who you are. And then another note to I think making the best would be to find the areas that really matter to you. If it's helping people in any way, shape, or form or whatever it is to you, taking action is so incredibly important. And making the best of it by not just over preparing, which is extremely easy to do, and a bad habit that I get into myself. Because you do you have to just pull the trigger and launch as well.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 30:54 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, that is that's, I think you need you and I even had a conversation about that. But you you were saying that you had to overcome kind of this thought pattern that everything had to be perfect before absolute trigger?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 31:06 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. Yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 31:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you still live with that, or you just couldn't is it just getting easier to go, Okay, I gotta go. And then I'll figure it out.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 31:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I would say it doesn't get easier, but I know better now. So I don't do it as as much I still do it, but almost to a healthy extent for me, because it really does help me to show up in the ways that I need to my best. But remember earlier, when you mentioned how you can just wing it. And you you even said I don't know if that's good or bad. I will purposefully put myself in situations to do that. And it's not like I pick and choose sometimes I just do need to wing it. And I go for it. And I know that it's not going to be perfect. And I know that I might feel Oh, you know, that didn't look so great. I'm learning that it's okay. And that, okay, I laugh at it. And that's the thing, it's okay to just kind of laugh at it instead of be embarrassed. Yeah.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 31:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The thing about winging it for me, it's, it's more. So if someone I coach, and they have a fear of initiating the sales call in the fear is, is that they don't know all the objections that are going to be raised. And they're fearful that they lose the sale. And I'm like, okay, but I don't care. We could spend the next six years and the very first call is going to throw an objection your way that we haven't prepared for. So yes, if you're confident in you and your product, then it doesn't matter, we should just go and you should just make the call. And you'll find out if you do lose that sale. I need to be a little bit better at this. But we could prepare for nine years and you can never you won't be any better spot than you are today to go make that phone call. Right? Yes. And</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 32:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you helped him understand that right by being as coach.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 32:44 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I hope so. It's still it's still, you know, it's still I'm scared. I don't know what to say. And then we go, Okay, well tell me how it goes after the call. And then I get the phone calls like yeah, that went really well. And I felt like you know, and so it's reminding them of that feeling. Right in terms of that piece. But I think it's it's interesting. So, yeah, that's a little advice that I share with people in terms of winging it. It doesn't just obviously I'm prepared, right, in the sense that I know what it is that that who I am and what I can talk about. But what are some of the pieces of advice that you would share with an audience is specifically around, you know, they're an entrepreneur, they feel like they're introverted, or there's some tips and tricks that you could give them that would hopefully make life a little bit easier for them. Yeah, well, you</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 33:33 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">kind of hit on one point about you know, none of us are perfect, it's not going to happen. So when I was looking at one of my videos that was absolutely not even close to being perfect. The point was just doing it right because being an introvert, not having done it, just do it, and it's gonna suck at first. It's just it is I remember Paul Martinelli with john Maxwell says, you're gonna suck it first. It's just the way it is. It's part of the process, but then you'll get better. And you know, and one thing you just mentioned as well with the with your client, I was told by my amazing business coach, he said, Gianna, you could go back on that video for years and years and years, and it's still not going to be exactly what you want. So I've kind of learned Yep, let it go. self talk is one huge one. We all know that. It's for anyone extroverts, introverts. It doesn't matter who you are. But for us introverts because we tend to internalize more. The way that you talk to yourself is huge. affirmations help immensely for me. I have them on one, you know, sheet of paper, read them out loud every day, it just kind of helps Pump me up and prepare me for the day. For me prayer for a lot of other people that might be meditation. I think not sitting too long with your thoughts as an introvert is good, you know, sitting long enough, but there's got to be a point where you get out there and you interact with others talk it out to a trusted friend. I didn't touch on this earlier, but we do tend to be pretty private. I have been told that so many times. It's not even funny. I'd rather ask the questions rather than have the center of attention on me. And so being in this business, that change Everything right? So which is good, because people need to get to know you, you have to build rapport and many businesses, not just in the coaching and consulting world. I think getting a mentor or a coach, or again, having that supportive family and friend network is huge for people. And breaking it down into small steps, kind of like you tell people about, you know, breaking down your goals into small steps, I tend to go from here, and I want to get it done way over that I want to get to the destination, right? And so I'm glad I'm like that because I can help my coaching clients and say, okay, slow down cowboy, let's go, let's go here. And then we're going to go here and kind of, you know, break it down. And then going back to the why that is one of the biggest pieces of advice. And I know we hear it a lot. But people need to know what their Why is what is their purpose for doing it, because that is what will drive the introvert to taking some steps that maybe they don't want to take to doing some things that they don't really want to do. So those are those are a few things.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 36:05 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The wise got to be pretty big to</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 36:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">absolutely make more money. Absolutely.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 36:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Right. Because it but I think a lot of us start there. Why in again, referencing Paul and I love that is whenever you ask somebody what they want, the first thing they do is tell you the 10 things they don't want anymore. That's not Yeah, well, I don't want to have to work for anybody. And I don't want to worry about bills, and I don't want to have to be tied to my desk. Okay, those three things you don't want. What is it that you want? Like? Absolutely. Where do you want to go? Although I was asked a question yesterday of what's your perfect life? And I was like, I don't know, you know, and you started to talk it out that kind of stuff. I thought that was a great question.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 36:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's a great question.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 36:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, just what what what is it? What is a perfect day in a perfect life for you look like? And so I've actually been churning on that over the last couple of days trying to come up with, you know, what, what does that look like? What is that because we all get stuck in that hamster wheel, we don't know how to get out sometimes. Do and that, you know, we</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 37:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">do an exercise. That's called the perfect day, which is funny that you said that that was one of my coaching trainings. And what do you hear? What do you smell? What do you feel? Where are you, you know, and digging really, really deep into figuring that out. And I think it's a phenomenal exercise. So that's good that you're working on it?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 37:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, so from a coaching perspective, let's dispel some myths real quick around coaching, in general. Right? So do you need to be an expert in my business in order to coach me?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 37:38 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">No. And that's definitely a myth that you do need to be an expert.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 37:43 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And why is that?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 37:44 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Because the person that you are coaching is the expert of their life. And I don't know enough about Rick Morris, I don't know the ins and outs, I don't know how you wake up and how you go to bed. And if your energy is low in the beginning of the day, and not at the end of the day, and you know, all the ins and outs of your business, I can assume it I can read all I want on business doesn't mean that I know your business.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 38:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure. And so it almost you know, kind of a conclusion that we're coming to here is that introverts can make really, really strong coaches, because the natural tendency is to not speak, the natural tendencies to ask questions, and the natural tendency is to listen. Definitely, that's interesting. Versus you know, an extrovert spends 45 minutes of the hour, telling them about you know, your day, which is not what you're there to be coached for. what what what's one of your kind of go to quotes from from any of these people that we've talked about? We talked about, you know, you had a Brian Tracy quote in the beginning, but what's one of your kind of go to quotes that is a helper or driver of your Why?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 38:56 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, it's actually one of my advice, ones that I was gonna wait till the end to share.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Do you want me to save it?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 39:01 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Okay. All right, really good. That's really good. got me out of that one. So talk about just again, in your business, putting yourself out there. How many times did you do that first video. And tell me their process today, on the videos that you're doing? So I'm assuming these are like Facebook Lives or Facebook videos, or something of that sort of, can I reach out?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 39:31 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, things to use for marketing or Instagram or Facebook or LinkedIn? You know, I sped it up actually pretty quickly, because I needed to get them out. I did a 30 day challenge, which for me was good, right? Because I don't have a choice. You got to do it every day for 30 days. So and my coach said, Just get it out there. It's not all about being perfect and you know the quality yet, but now fast forward, I've done some that were it was important to do the quality. So I didn't retake a lot, because I knew that wasn't going to be perfect like we talked about. And I was okay with that. Because I've gotten to that point, it took a while It took a long time. But now I'm at that point. So just not really being too concerned about other people because of the why we go back to that, because it's not about me. So who cares if I sound silly or whatever, hopefully, there's something in the message that is going to reach one human being that matters to me, therefore, just do it. So that's kind of the approach that I that I took with the videos. It's not easy. I still have to talk myself into doing it. I'm not gonna lie I do. But it's it has gotten easier to not care. It doesn't have to be perfect. That part is what I launch a lot faster, if that makes sense.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 40:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Do you go back and watch it after you know that I knew the answer before? for them? Yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 40:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">no, I do not.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 40:52 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Very good reason. Well, no,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 40:56 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">then we might be having a different conversation. I'm never gonna do a video again.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 41:03 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think it's important every once in a while, I'll go back and see something I put out there. Sometimes I'm like, I don't even remember saying that dude. Yes.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 41:09 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Funny. Yeah, in the ones that I'm editing professionally, and actually going to be using for some things like getting ready for a course that I'm gonna launch I, I do I do have to go back. And that's important. I need to know that it was edited in a way that it's going to reach somebody who's never met me, that is maybe specifically to target people who are unemployed, that want to get a hold of me for career coaching or transition. So now that's different than just my social media posts. At least at this point. So</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">sure,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">sometimes, yes, I do have to go back. Which is good for us to learn.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 41:44 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. Absolutely. We're going to take our final break right here and we'll be back with john asked the question we ask of every one of our guests also to find out a little bit more about her and her business. We'll do that right on the other side of this break and listen to Rick marks on the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? Are you aware that businesses identified capturing time and costs against projects as their biggest project management challenge? Are you aware that 44% of project managers use no software even though PricewaterhouseCoopers found that the use of commercially available project management software increases performance and satisfaction? Now, imagine that you could have the ease of entry like a spreadsheet and a software tool set up and running within two to four weeks. Imagine within two weeks being able to see clearly where all of your resource conflicts are? Well, you don't have to imagine because PD ware has already created it, PD where it can give you real time access to KPIs easily updated views of what your teams are working on. And immediate feedback to some of project management's toughest questions like, when can we start this project? What happens if we delay this project? Can we do this in time? How does this new project impact our current portfolio? Find us at PDX were calm and imagine not manually compiling endless reports again, Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? Do you lack consistency and project delivery? r squared consulting provides end to end services to assist companies of all sizes in realizing and improving the value of project management. Whether you want to build a project management office, train project managers or learn how to bring the oversight and governance to your project processes. r squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business, you'll find the experts here voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1864725790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon visiting with Janet Danielle and john and I've been having a really just kind of frank discussion of what it's like to be an introvert and in some of the things that you've had to learn and or overcome. You know, one thing we didn't touch on though was like networking like how, how do you feel about like going to a networking and how do you prepare and how does that go for you?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 44:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So definitely I prepared by listening to music, making sure that I talked myself into it, maybe exercising beforehand. And then during for introverts is important too. You know, finding the people who you want to have the one on one conversations with it is intimidating because again, we're kind of wanting to be sort of internal and listening to a lecture, versus going to a networking event and interacting with a lot of people being overstimulated, which is a huge thing for introverts. You know, one funny thing I've read, and I also experiences, just excuse yourself to the bathroom, or go for a walk outside or something where you can be with yourself, and giving yourself permission to do that. It makes a world of difference, remembering to breathe, and ask questions, if you're more comfortable with that, in those situations, and sometimes even preparing those questions ahead of time. sounds silly, but it has definitely worked for me. And I know a lot of people who that works for, after networking events is equally as important and usually just planning something to unplug, whether that's a movie or a book, or, you know, putting your phone away. And that's what I do after each IMC day I make sure that I go to the pool or, you know, go with my mom to dinner and do something to just really unplug so that you're recharged for the next day. Or if it's at work, you know that you're doing a networking thing, making sure that again, you plan something for afterwards, because you might not be the funnest person in the world. If you're an introvert that's drained, and then you go home to the family and you know, it just you do. It takes some planning, if that makes sense. If you really want to, you know, feel good and everything. So,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 46:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, I ended up planning almost two days after IMC that I just hang out at the hotel afterwards just before I reengage. Exactly so one day to sleep. That's that's to catch up on that. But you hit me with the music thing. So I'm wondering what an introvert listens to to pump themselves up? Is it a little hit him up from Tupac? He goes, like what is it?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 46:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It is a little bit of everything. And it depends on the day. And it depends on a new song that I might have heard, but I love so many different genres. Good. But</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 46:59 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">what was interesting is is when you came on I was so I listened to music right before the show to kind of get my energy level up. Yeah. And yeah, it changes today was was jumping by Jake Miller. That's what it was. So how do people get in touch with you? How do they find you?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 47:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So my website is Gianna Danielle calm. And I am going to spell it because people tend to get my name wrong, understandably. So. It's Jo HNNAD, a n i E, ll e.com. Or Gianna Danielle coaching@gmail.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 47:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Perfect. And so what are some of the other things you're working on. I mean, you've got so many kind of irons in the fire, just give us some high levels on a couple of the other things that you're doing right now.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 47:46 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I'm doing my one on one coaching and mastermind groups right now a little bit of corporate consulting, slash coaching, which you understand Rick with our john Maxwell tools, I've got my business. And then I'm doing some of the things with Maxwell disc reports, career impact reports, of course. And then I'm working on my first online signature program. And it's relevant to what's going on right now I really want to help people who are unemployed laid off which we've had a ton of people, including myself. And also we know that we're going to see more of that and in different fields like the airline industry, etc. So also people in transition, right, I came out of a big huge transition. And I want to help people that might be in a situation where maybe they love what they do, but they don't love certain aspects about it, they want to get into something different. So this course is called landing your dream job. And I'm working with my business coach on creating that. And it should be done in a couple of months. So I'm really excited about that. And then another one is we're going to be starting a nonprofit with a business partner, my friend Annie, and it's coming from the world of medical esthetics that I came from, and she's in. She's a hairdresser and owns a salon and spa over here in Washington State. We both in our careers had a lot of cancer patients and they would come in and from the diagnosis to you know, going through treatment to after treatment, there was a lot of question marks, there was a lot of concerns and a lot of feeling alone. And we'd hear these things. And one day we talked about this years and years after both of us had seen it. And you know, we both have a huge heart in this area for numerous reasons. And so we're working on creating a nonprofit that is going to be kind of like almost a concierge kind of thing where people will go to a website, it's going to offer cancer coaching, it's going to offer you know an experience of if if it's a female and they're going through breast cancer, any kind that maybe they would lose their hair, helping to make that process you know, as good as possible. And also knowing a lot of people in our area. The surgeons who might do breast removal, nipple tattooing, makeup, you name it. We've got so much many people's names that we've written down the best of the best to help give resources to people. So that's really exciting. We're working on that as well.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 50:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Outstanding. And so what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 50:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So it's actually a quote for me from Joyce Meyers. And it is, I believe the greatest gift that you can give your family in the world is a healthy you. tied into that is the one that we've always heard, which is put on your own oxygen mask first. And I think that it is incredibly vital for introverts in any human being, you have to take care of yourself, if you're going to be your best for your family, your co workers, for anyone in the world.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 50:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I'm a movie quote guy in the fact that you just did that I go right to four Christmases, even the FAA wants me to put my oxygen mask, which I understand that whole scene was improv wasn't written, I thought that was hilarious. And so any last words that you'd like to leave for our audience today?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 50:59 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Anyone who wants to reach out to me via email or the website, I do complimentary consultations and strategy sessions. So I would love to connect with you on the topic we discussed today or on anything in general life or business. Well, Jana,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 51:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">it's a pleasure to see you. Normally we see each other at least twice a year. And it's been a bit, it's been a while, ready for I'm ready for at least a way for us to start to get together again, and definitely experienced some growth and learning opportunity. So appreciate you coming on the show and sharing this with everyone and we look forward to hearing what you're going to be doing in the future.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Johnna Danielle 51:34 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you so much for having me today. Rick, it was a pleasure.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 51:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thanks, Jenna. Next week, we're gonna have Michelle back. So Michelle was with us probably six, seven months ago. So this is the the second time that she'll be joining us and we had a fantastic conversation. She runs loving life guidance. And so we're super excited for that. That will be next Friday. Otherwise, please reach out at Rick A. Morris or Rick A. Morris, on LinkedIn or Facebook or at Rick A. Morris calm. Always love to hear feedback from the show suggestions for other guests. Things that you love things that you didn't like all that stuff. I read and respond to all that personally and certainly appreciate all the feedback. Otherwise, we will see you guys next Friday, the same time the same channel. We ask you to stay on and continue listening to the voice America business channel in the voice America business network. And until next Friday, we hope that you live your own work life balance and talk to you soon.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show. Thanks</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-31903475605435689832020-10-31T10:24:00.003-05:002020-10-31T10:24:34.271-05:00Leader of the Pack - Matt Sweetwood<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/126654/leader-of-the-pack-matt-sweetwood" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris103020.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick A. Morris,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 0:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and welcome to another edition of the work life balance. So happy to be live with you guys. Again, sorry for the the replays. But all for good reason. One was my birthday. And that was good. And the other one was because of the annual tradition of the Tennessee alabama football game. So my buddy Carrie, and I got to get out. And we didn't actually go to the game for the first time in several years. But we still made a weekend out of it. So excited to be back with you excited to have everybody back online with us and look forward to a fantastic conversation. I want to talk to our guest today who's the CEO and co founder of insurance. It's an insurance platform that protects your most valued gear and equipment. He's an internationally known professional speaker, author and consultant. With over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience. He's been credited with the reinvention of the modern camera store. However, his greatest achievement is having raised five successful children to adulthood as a single dad. He's a frequent national TV and publication contributor and has the number one best selling book leader of the pack how a single dad of five let his kids his business and himself from disaster to success. So let's bring him on right now. Matt sweetwood. How you doing, sir?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 1:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick, I am thrilled to be here. How are you today? Happy birthday.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 1:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, thank you a couple a couple of weeks, right. But But yeah, I'm still celebrating</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 1:44 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you go, just let it go slow. And then the age slower.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 1:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's what it is, we stopped counting quite soon. So it's good to be 23 feeling feeling solid about that. So my first thing, while Matt, thank you for the gift of your book, and that really should come with the disclaimer that says, you know, don't expect to be super happy. When you're done. It's quite a story it's in makes me really just want to kind of dive in and start talking to you about the book, talk to me about, you know, leader of the pack writing the book. And we'll get into and curious as well. But I want to hear about the book and what led you to write that and tell the story. And, and I don't want to shy anybody away from the book itself. When I say it should come with disclaimer, it's just incredibly raw and real and straightforward. And so lead me through your decision to do that, and why you felt like you needed to tell that story.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 2:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, I appreciate the raw thing. You know, I'm a jersey boy originally and you know, Jersey guy who's just, you know, we just put it out there, whatever it is, you know, it's uh, that's just the way it is. I think for the book for me it was you get to a point in your life, and you're like, there's no way all of this stuff happened for no reason. It happened because there's a story to tell. And what happened was, it was actually sort of a indirect, you know, you always say everybody always says they have a book to write, you know, not many actually do it. But I think it was a situation where I was running a company at the time, and I was trying, I was an early adopter of social media, I got a point for this. And I was trying to build my personal brand that was like an original personal brand, or, you know, using social media or early adopter and everything. And I found that when I talked about my business, people were a lot less interested than when I would talk about life as a single dad. And I started, you know, writing articles posting things I started talking about. And then what I discovered was, the more raw I was the more you know, honest, just, this is how a man feels raising children. This is what a man feels like when he goes through divorce when his wife leaves. And when all of those things I started, I started attracting big audiences. And I had people come to me and say, you know, that message really resonates with me, both men and women. And then as I sort of looked back on the craziness of my life, you know, I had a Supreme Court case that came out of my divorce and the journey of raising children and going through very, very difficult times when men didn't do this. And women didn't leave their children, and things like that, I really felt it was a story worth telling. And so I went out, and I went to write a book. And of course, you know, being a math major in college, I didn't do very well on my first try and threw away about a year's worth of work and then restarted again and wrote that memoir, which is ultimately what you read, which is really just story after story. And I kind of let the reader come to their conclusion about how to get yourself out of really bad jams and why it's okay to make mistakes and how God stands there for you at some point and you know, pulls you out of it, and it's a story of how you can overcome anything. And I think to me, the most rewarding thing about the book is if you go out on Amazon, for example, there's like 130, something five star reviews, and people talking about how the book changed. Just airlines. I just had somebody say that to me, wrote me on Facebook, I didn't even know the person. They said, I read your book, it changed my life, it made such a difference to me. So to me, that's what it's really about. I really feel like, you know, even the difficult times I went through, I got to pay back in that book and got to sort of express myself and you know, do something worthwhile on this earth.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 5:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so the word there too, is authenticity. Right? When when you're authentic, if we can change raw for authentic, right, when you're authentic, and just who you are, that does resonate much more on social media, then, you know, hey, look at my beer. I'm having a great time. But I'll tell you, there's there's a lot of personal parallels in your story in mine, in what I'm going through now, right? And so it was it was interesting timing for me to to get the book and to read through it. And I think, well, well, and I'm going to give people an inside joke here. So they have to really listen to it after they read your book. While my current is more of a Charlotte than a Marnie. Right. It's, it's, it's, it, it's still resonating with a lot of stuff. But there was, I mean, there was parallels. So to tell the story, you know, you originally were married several kids, then you got remarried. And it was almost a repeat, right? And I love the fact that you, you had to hire her whole family and 30 others and that kind of stuff and support them. But so let's, let's talk about the first one, and then we'll come come to Marnie. So, what what, and not without getting into the details, but what were some of those key lessons you felt like you've you've taken forward as a benefit from from Charlotte,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 6:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think that, um,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">if you go into a relationship with and by the way, this he anything, I say you could almost make a business parallel, I really want to emphasize that because they know we talked about working life here. So you can almost draw a business parallel. And one of the things that I teach what I coach men, now I help man I've helped men and women actually coach both, is I tell them that you have to learn to love being alone. And when you don't learn that lesson, and you're desperate for companionship, you make mistakes, you know, and the other thing that I think you really walk away from that is that everything counts. You don't overlook things in people's past, they become part of the whole person that they are. And I think, you know, I was very naive and young when I married Charlotte, and I got drawn in, and things didn't go so well. Because of that, because I was really just desperate to not be alone. I didn't I just ignored things that were happening. And I think there's a third thing. And this I'm going to shout out to the whole audience. Under no circumstances is anybody? should anybody accept abuse? under any circumstances? It's any</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 7:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">kind of abuse, right? Any verbal, psychological?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 7:53 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. And abuse comes in many forms, you know, abuse can come from just being ignored. You sit at the dinner table, and your significant other doesn't look at you, ignores you, it could be putting you down, it could be passive aggressive. No, I'm not saying every human is perfect. And we all sometimes get mad at other people. That's what I'm talking about. When it becomes you know, a regular thing or it's pervasive, or you're in fear in your own home and all of those things. That's not okay. And it's okay to say it's not okay. And it's okay to walk away from it.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 8:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So when in the story, and this is just part of this is just proven that I actually read the book, just just to be that clear, but not just</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 8:34 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">usually, by the way, I've been on many podcasts, and people usually say, I'm going to read your book. And then I know when they're telling me that they're just going to read like read the first chapter. Skim read the last guy. Yeah, right. But my book is very hard to put down. I know that yeah. Yeah, for sure. And to get through</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 8:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">it. So what so you say with with Marnie, your second wife, so you know, start to go with her. At first, when she says, Hey, you know, let's not have the kids at the ceremony. You know, you're thinking that's a romantic gesture. But now you you realize, in hindsight, that's more of a divide and conquer type of strategy. But you said that she almost instantly changed the before the ink was dry on the wedding certificate.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 9:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I think that people, you know, without giving away too much of the book, I think that individuals that have disorders, particularly personality disorders, they have a skill set. They know how to find vulnerable people. They know how to draw them and get them to fall in love with them, get them connected to them legally, emotionally, physically, in every way. And that's at that moment, they're able to do what it is that they need to do. And in the case of these people, these people are feeling extreme pain themselves, not not from anything you've done, even though they make it something that you've done, but they themselves are wounded individuals and they suffer from you know, a great amount of internal pain. And when they have somebody locked in either because they're in love with them. The other person is in love with this disordered person, or they're married or whatever they have them locked in, they unload their pain on them. And that's essentially the way they all operate, it's really made me a very, very good coach. Because when I speak to people I, like I'll meet somebody for the first time. And they'll start to describe their situation to a man or woman with their husband or wife. And I'll start to tell them what the other person has been doing to them before they tell me because believe it or not, they actually all operate in a very similar manner. And it's simply because they themselves go through an extreme amount of internal pain. And for whatever reason, God made it like this, the best way for them to expel the pain is to abuse other people, it makes them feel better.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 10:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Wow, that's incredible. So I, it makes it makes a tremendous amount of sense. What I want to be able to do, and I'm teetering here, because we're right up against a break. And so I don't want to launch into this until we get into break, but I want to get into what are some of those tips and tricks in items that you've picked up through these two marriages? If there was somebody out there listening right now, that was like, I'm in a marriage, I know, I shouldn't be in. I've already kind of made that decision. That kind of stuff. But I'm afraid to take that first step I'm, you know, what's life gonna be like afterwards? What about the kids? What about all those things? I'd love to get some tips and tricks, and I'm gonna have you answer that question. Just on the other side of this break. You're listening to Rick A. Morris and the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 11:35 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? 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Today, boardroom</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">to you voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 13:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon visiting with Matt sweetwood, who's the co founder and CEO of a startup insurance as well as author of leader of the pack and right before break. Matt, we kind of tease into it. So what advice would you give somebody that, you know, at this point, they've kind of made the decision or the think they've made the decision? Or They just know that they're not happy? What advice would you give them in how to get started or what they should do?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 14:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Um, well, okay, those are a couple of different circumstances there, sir.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Let me let me just sort of say this, you know, they say divorce is the most painful and expensive process you can go through, and it's worth every penny of it. Okay, you know, we've all heard that or maybe it's pretty popular expression. So here's what I would say. Obviously, if you're unhappy in the relationship, and you know, you're thinking about getting divorced, you know, this is the time to seek help of some kind. Whether that means you know, really being honest with your partner, if you don't feel you can do that. Obviously seek a coach or a counselor or something like that, and really decide that that's what you want to do. But I am, you know, I coach people and in many times, I'm really forward with it. I'm like, I think divorce is really the best option for you. And you know, the only thing to fear is fear itself. This is one of those things, it's not necessarily an easy process. But your alternative is living in an unhappy life. And, and that's not a way to live. That's not the way God put us on this earth. And when you're unhappy, if you have children, the children know you're unhappy, you're not going to be productive or creative, you're going to stifle your career, you're going to do all of those things. So the sooner you get out, the better it is. And I'm saying that with certainly exhaust possibilities of trying to make the marriage work. I believe marriage is a worthwhile institution, despite my best selling book about two very difficult marriages. It's a worthwhile institution worthwhile making a really fair attempt to save but if it's irreconcilable, you're being abused. You're been unhappy for a long period of time, you need to take that step, find the courage, and take that step because you have your whole life on the other side. And the sooner you begin, the sooner the process ends, and the sooner you can start to heal and move on with your life at any age.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 16:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And so again, we're being personal. But I stepped away after 24 years of marriage, my first marriage, and it certainly was time probably, maybe I should have done it if you're 18 or 19. Right. But, but I think what happens with people is, first of all, there's the social pressure, right? There's the people of like, Look, you know, especially, you know, I live in the Bible Belt, very religious area. And, you know, once you're married, that's it. I was like, but I can't see where God says, This is my path. This is where I'm supposed to be dealing with this every day, because I made a decision when I was 21. Right? They just did just</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 16:52 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">exactly. Yeah.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 16:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So coming up some of the kind of darker conversation there. You as well, though, are very successful business person. And you're dealing with all this turmoil and and essentially paying for, you know, all this, this turmoil on it, we won't get into the settlement things that I read in the book, because going through that conference right now scares me reading that stuff, but</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 17:16 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and you shouldn't.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 17:20 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But the fire was not my favorite part of the book.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 17:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That was, that was two or three years is what after</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 17:31 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">was, or a shot. But um, so. But how did you? How did you maintain? And what did you take into your business, based on some of these things that you that you went through?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 17:44 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think that it was really ultimately, when I look back love of my children. The mother walked away, when they were young, the youngest was 18 months still in diapers, the oldest was eight, imagine five kids 18 months through a, I had a business that was in a very difficult industry electronics industry that had major technological revolutions, one after the other business models change was very, very hard business, low blow margins. And I think ultimately, you look at these kids, they're looking at me, they're looking up at me, and they're like, Dad, what's next, you're in charge. You know, and that just, it really gave me the motivation to go and just make it all happen. And you know, at first I was scared out of my mind, I don't totally terrified, I looked at it, like, Oh my gosh, I have these five kids in jail sins, you know, I'm gonna have to raise them for whatever and I just want to work and play and watch football on the weekend and do whatever it is I'm going to do and be a daddy and you know, show up at home, pat the kids on the head, throw the ball with them a little bit. And I think you just it grows you It grows you as a man, I'm the person I am today, because I manned up was almost the title of my book, by the way, it was called the man up. And it's just a question of Manning up and wanting success for yourself. And your and your business and your children enough. I developed a personal motto which I follow all the time out of that, which is how badly do you want it. And I looked at my kids, I'm like, I don't want them on the street. I don't want them in jail. I don't want them on drugs. I want them to be successful. I need to make money, I need to pay all these x's I need to run a business and grow this business and I was desperate. I was desperate enough to make it happen. I put my head down. Fortunately, God gives me a lot of physical strength because physical strength is the foundation for emotional mental strength. So if you're going to get through these things mentally, and emotionally, I always tell that by the way, when I counsel people or help people, I always start by putting them try to get them in physical shape. But if you're going to go through divorce, here's a tip. Make sure you're really good physical shape, because it makes you It allows you to handle those stresses much much better. And I think it was just that will to be successful and will for my kids to make it and be happy and give them a happy life. prevented me from quitting, and allowed me to use all of my energy and that strength to make it happen. I think that's at the base level. That's really what it's about. I mean, on a day to day basis, obviously you struggle, and sometimes you have doubts, and you have those things. But when I look back over the 25 years, I was doing it. That's really what's the driving force? And you there's certainly a fight or flight scenario there. Right? So yeah, do do I continue to, but but at the same time, pre divorce, you're doing the same thing anyway, right, you're killing yourself. And it's all, you know, exiting in a different direction. You're not getting into the benefit of it anyway. That's right. When you go through divorce, you're in decomposition, destruction mode. The second your divorce is over, that's when you can start building. Yeah, and we all the same amount of like, the point you made is a great point is that you're expending all of this energy during the divorce phase. And it's just negative, it's pulling away from you, the energy is coming away from you. The money is coming away from you, everything is coming away for you. And then when you move outside, that's when you can start your life again, for sure.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 21:01 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. So what what were you what was the business then that you were doing?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 21:06 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Um, that wasn't electronics business. It was a camera store, and electronics, distribute distribution business. It was quite a large business. We, I exited that business. And we were it was 100 million dollar business, I get to claim on my business profile, I grew a business from 1 million to 100 million. And it was a tough business. Really? Yeah.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 21:25 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So what led you then to this new startup that you're working on now?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 21:28 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, after I exited that business in 15 2015, after working every day, literally at home and at work for balance, you know, your work life balance? The scale was? Yeah, like that heavyweights had bent to scale like this just then. And I said, You know what, I'm going to be Austin. Because I'm a little bit of a type A personality. I remember the day I signed the agreement. The next day, I woke up in the morning, like you're an employee, you're a loser. So I actually went out, that's when I finished and I wrote the book. And I've been doing consulting. And speaking in between there. I've written a lot of articles, hundreds of articles, literally, from entrepreneur, the good men project, the Huffington Post, my own blog, in sweetwood, calm I just, I've been very prolific, I acted as interim CEO, for two companies, to startups along the way, to help them sort of get themselves going. And then just two connections. Recently, I landed with this product and curious, which I am thrilled with. The irony is that the product is going to allow me to sort of step back into the photo industry, which thought they got rid of me a few years ago, because what insurance does is it provides equipment insurance for life's disasters, which doesn't exist, you take your laptop, or your camera out of your house, it's lost, stolen, broken, whatever it is, we can cover it seven minutes or less, for a very small premium. There's no product like that in the market covering for earthquakes, floods, terrorism, anything that basically can happen to your equipment, from golf clubs, to tennis clubs, to bikes, to cameras to that kind of thing. For about 12 and a half dollars a month, you can get about six grand worth of insurance. And you can do in about seven minutes or less. Don't speak to anybody, that site should be alive by the way, we're just starting it up right now should be live in about a week or so a week, two weeks tops.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 23:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So there's certainly a competitor to the market. Right?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 23:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So there is actually there is nobody in this place. There are policies which touch elements of what we do. You know, there's some writers you can get on existing policies. But people one of the issues, you know, when you go out into the market, you have to make people realize that their homeowners does not cover this. Right. What</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 23:46 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">about like at the register when they when they try to sell me the equipment protection program? Right. So how do you differ?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 23:53 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Okay, so here's how this is actually a really good question. Because when you if anybody, have you ever tried to claim those insurances? Oh, yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 24:01 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, I never get them never get.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 24:03 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Never get them. But that's really the point. So that's because they're designed like that. They're designed very easy. We have a very easy claim process. It's through a very large insurance company, you'll it's really about the process, you make a claim, you'll be paid very, very quickly. In our scenario, and the claim process is very easy. It's not a you know, it's not harder than divorce, let's put it.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 24:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But so do you have to submit, send the equipment back Are you know, you just have to,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 24:33 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you have to provide some sorts of proofs, depending upon what happens with the equipment, but the claims process is much, much simpler. You go right online, you click it's not like you ever do one of those things where you can't even find where to make a claim. Oh, absolutely. And you have to call some 800 number, press 17 digits, wait online and then don't get through. Yeah. And then you get to the person and the person tells you you have to then go to this website. You know, something, something that claim structure You are five nine type. This is just go online, enter a few pieces of information will process your claim relatively quickly. So the claims process is easy and the insurance doesn't have a lot of loopholes in it as you would say. No, which is what they do with the policy is extremely straightforward. And to me, that's really what it's about. And it covers a lot of things. And But once again, people do not have this kind of coverage coverage. For example, when you buy that equipment insurance most of the time, if it's the stuff stolen, you don't get it's not covered. Right, it's usually covered against accidental damage. That's typically what they cover. We even have coverage that if you drop it, it drops in water, we'll cover it. Try that with your laptop. That's one of the one of the big stores, right?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 25:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so it's accidental, but but we get to turn what an accident.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 25:53 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, there's all sorts of you know, anybody who's done them as you so we have a very we call it It's seriously easy insurance, you go up, sign up, enter your credit card, you're insured. You know, you insure bikes, you know, bikes are very expensive, very front, you know, stolen item a lot. Cameras are actually the number one stolen item, it's going to be the first market, we're going to go heavily marked into the marketplace. When we go in and advertise I'm going to be like Cameron Street. That's what it was back.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">To close, all the doors are gonna close and they're gonna go run it.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 26:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So again, we've mentioned your your father of five. And so I think when we come back from the break, I'd love to get into the difference between parenting and say, leading a company. Right, I think that that'd be interesting for us to get through. So we're gonna do that just on the other side of this break and listen to Rick Morrison the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 26:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? 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Put your people first with resource first from PD where join us at pd where.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">business, you'll find the experts here voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 29:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back on the work life balance is Friday afternoon visiting with Matt sweetwood, who's the co founder and CEO of a new startup insurance and also author of leader of the pack. Matt so tell you a quick little anecdote here and I want to get into my question but I get to work with in hang around john Maxwell quite a bit. And he tells a story about he got approached right after Enron and all those things with Danny get approached by his publisher to write a book about business ethics. And after looking at it, he says I can't write that book. And they said you know why not? It'd be great. It's a perfect time for your voice and he goes because there's no such thing is business ethics. It's just ethics you either have them or you don't. And that story is always stuck with me and it's so as you're going through a lot of these hardships with the divorce but being very successful with companies and running these companies. The question becomes how do you? How did you manage them? And what's the difference between you know, leading your family versus leading your company?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 30:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Okay. might be my favorite question of all time about that. So I wrote, you know, I talked about I wrote an article, I wrote an article, actually, I published it before, I suppose, you know, a lot of these platforms, I published it on LinkedIn, called what's the difference between great parenting and great leadership? The conclusion I'll, I'll give you the conclusion. And then back into it again, the conclusion is that the skill set is basically the same. And the things that the really powerful lessons we learned at home, and being at home and running home and caring for children, really help you in business, and certainly some of the things that you learn in business, some of the things that you learn in business really can make the home run in a much more efficient fashion. You know, I think that when you apply a little bit of fathering, which I can say, to your staff, I think that that sometimes has a, a really beneficial effect. And I think that when you apply an organization, and business life skills to the way you run a home and sometimes pull the emotion out, you can be better. And I can give you really concrete examples of how that you know, really comes to play. So first of all, from a time management perspective, I was an original Palm Pilot owner, and really</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 31:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">damn this little green box. Oh, you don't have to tell me I know. Exactly. Well,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 31:30 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">so that allowed me to put all of my personal and business information together. And it was great, you would see President of Fuji 11 o'clock call, you would see soccer practice four o'clock, you know, you would see these kinds of things in there and mixed in there. And I became, I was always a pretty organized person. But having to manage these two businesses really turned me into an Uber organization. And in fact, you can call me up, I have a bunch of videos that I've done and stuff like that people tell me I should give a course in organization. So that's rule number one, you want to be good in both, you'd be really organized and manage your data, manage and be on top of everything, because otherwise, life will spiral out of control. But from terms of leadership, I'll give you an example from home. So when the children's mother left my eye, each of the children you know, had effects of that, one way or another. And my, my middle son, I won't name him here. So he doesn't get embarrassed, people don't go Google him and stuff. My middle son, his reaction to all of this was he sort of became a little bit ADHD. And he became very, very quiet, wouldn't speak, like people thought he didn't speak. And I'm talking about, you know, a six year old kid 656 years old at the time. And I kept getting calls from the school, he wasn't sitting still in school, you know, it wasn't it was causing trouble. He just wasn't doing his work. And you know, I'm going to try to manage all of this, you know, it's imagine the craziness, right? getting calls from the school you work and the thing and the divorce and the oil, okay? So I kept getting and they kept putting pressure on me, you know, he needs to be medicated. They should put them on Ritalin, they should do this. And that. And I'm like, you know, I had like a business moment. Um, you know, when you run a business, you're like, you're listening to advice. And you're like, I'm not doing that. I'm not putting my kids on drugs. There's got to be a better solution. So what do you do at work? When you're faced with this thing? You come up with a solution, right? That works for you. So what I decided to do was I put the kid in soccer. I said, I'm going to drag his button, I'm going to figure out a way to get there and I'm going to put them in soccer. Why did I put them in soccer? Because they run them like, you know, I was in a town with a competitive Soccer League. And they he was a good athlete. Even though all of those things I put the money made that like the traveling team right away. And they ran him like five miles a day. Well, trust me, you run a kid five miles a day, eight miles a day. And he was a little kid too. So he got smacked around. You know, he had to listen to the coach. He had to talk to his other teammates that made him talk. He spelled his energy, he started to build some self esteem. At first he hated it. It was like he was looking at me with daggers in his eyes. The end of that story is this boy ended up playing on the high school championship team of New Jersey, he became an all state player and got a soccer scholarship to college. And that went from giving them real and and I believe that that's a business principle that you apply you, you. You think out of the box, you come up with a solution and you execute that solution for long periods of time. unrelentingly, that's a business. That's a business philosophy. And then I can give you an example at work. I had a I had a young man who actually I had hired him but he was hired as an accounting clerk. He had an visual problem, but he assured me to come to work and then I didn't really pay attention. It wasn't my area of the company. And he worked for a couple years. I knew a really, really nice guy, very honest, really liked him. I only heard pretty good things about him and eventually Our accounting manager left his boss left. And my human resources person put an ad and said, We need to hire an accounting manager. So it's like, okay, of course, that's what we're gonna do. So I went in, and I talked to him, I asked him how he's doing and so on. And I noticed that he was like, like, looking, I'm sorry to do this to you, but he was like, looking at the screen, like, two inches away. And I'm like, gentlemen, why are you doing that? He goes, Well, I'm gonna be honest with you, because you know, I'm really legally blind. And I'm looking at him like, you're legally blind. I'm like, how do you because I asked you figures, you, you get them for me right away, he goes, I memorize them all. Wow, I looked at him. I shook my head, I walked into my human resource office, I said, here's what we're going to do. He's going to be the finance manager, I walked back down, we helped him we got him, we gave him a little bit of love, a little bit of special equipment, got him set up. And he became the finance manager was in that position for 10 years, became like a vice president of the company. So there's an example where you show your staff member a little bit of love a little bit of care, sort of pay attention to them like you would your own child, and you can maybe end up with a good results. So I think that those kinds of leadership skills, that you can exhibit your homework, they just sort of overlap, you apply it, you understand the mindset, in those cases is basically the same. I believe they are, you know, it's this sort of like reading and being fearless and doing what you got</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 36:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">to do. So back to the point of the the anecdote itself, right? There's no such thing as his business leadership and family leadership. It's just leadership.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's just leaders, just leadership.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So what's some advice you could give them to an entrepreneur that might be listening right now that you think is going to help them you know, lead to success?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 36:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The meme, you haven't failed until you quit. I'll balance that with sometimes the first loss is the best loss. So you analyze if you down the wrong path, feel free to shift or quit, it's okay. Don't Don't keep piling, you know, on top of bad ideas or bad principles. But ultimately, success in business comes down to how badly you want it. If you want something badly enough. And if it's not working, you should ask yourself that question. I do that to myself. Sometimes, when things don't work, right. I say to myself, Matt, do you really want that badly enough? Are you doing everything you can? So that's what I always say to an entrepreneur, and entrepreneur, right? This is, I love this saying an entrepreneur works 80 hours a week, so they don't have to work 40.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 37:39 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's right.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 37:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And if you go into it with that attitude, that you are going to do anything and everything. It doesn't matter how many people say no, it doesn't matter whether the banks will give you money, nobody will loan you money, it matter if you believe in what you're doing, and you want it badly enough, you are going to every step of the way, make it happen. And I don't know too many entrepreneurs that haven't been turned down that haven't had failures that haven't had that, but just pick themselves up and just keep going and going and going and going until they cross the finish line. So that's it, a young entrepreneurs, starting out entrepreneurs have to realize that if you want to be successful, you got to be in it to win with 100% of your effort.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 38:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, in fact, is for those of you that that most of you can't see the video, but if you can see this guy right up here on my screen, that's my Sisyphus. And so I have a saying in something that I've worked on in my speeches is everybody has the want to succeed, but do they have the will. And so to me, that is my visual representation. And I've written blog posts and articles on that too, that the emails, the distractions, the nose, all this stuff, that's the rock, I got to push up the mountain. And if I quit for a second, it's gonna push me back down the mountain, I got to start all over again. So it's about building that momentum and going after and I have a visual representation that I can see, especially when I'm doing zoom meetings all the time, I can see my sister face hanging in there, telling me you know, keep pushing, keep grinding. But I think the other interesting principle around that is, don't give up. Do you want it bad enough, but be careful what you define as what you want, right? So your definition should be success, your definition should be happiness, but not this exact product going this exact way. Because that's what like if you're all in on that and you're afraid to pivot, then then you're going to lose as well.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 39:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's right. I couldn't agree with you more you have to be flexible. You know and when you go in and you know, Ben like the read you know, snapped like or whatever. I think that that whatever that expression is that I just completely butchered but you want to bend like the read and the winds, you know, sort of be able to maneuver like that very swiftly. Don't get so rigid, because you definitely will break it. I don't know of I know a very few successful businesses, the even the biggest ones that that ended on exactly the same idea they started.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 39:58 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, for sure. Yeah, and I'll give you a quick anecdote we'll take, we'll take a break here. But I, I'm a big fan of thinking Grow Rich Love, love the book, was mentor to the book by by a great mentor, and had to come up with a mantra. And if you haven't read thinking Grow Rich, the people listening, haven't read, Think and Grow Rich, you have to develop a specific mantra, a specific amount of money, the action and a timeframe. And the mantra that I created was $2 million of free and clear in the bank account, from the sale of online products by March of 2023. That was my mantra. When I wrote that the full intention was my own products, I write books, I've got information products. So I go in, I mean, just heads down, full out, blow all that stuff out, right, you finally start to launch the ads. And now you're just waiting for the registers to ring and it was crickets. I missed the mark. I absolutely missed the mark. And it's very discouraging. But May of last year, I'm running an event that Mickey Mouse Club, 30 year reunion, and it hit me said who said it had to be your products. So my mantra is exactly the same. But what I realized is through that I learned how to do the podcast, how to build the online products, how to do the advertising. And so many people are just like, I want to write a book, but they don't know where to how to get started, I want to do a podcast, but they don't know how to get started. I was like, Okay, so I've switched that, that model to where now I'm helping other people do it, and starting to generate revenue that way. But my mantra the point of that is the mantra is exactly the same. Just the definition of how I got there change slightly</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 41:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">after businesses need reinvention to survive. It's as simple as that.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 41:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And and if you don't believe as that as Kodak. So we know they invented digital cameras, and didn't see the market.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 41:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You're taking away when I give my keynote talk. I actually talked about I talked about that, because I was in the boardroom of the CEO of the Eastman Kodak company when they showed the slow decline of film how it was going to play out. And you know, they gave you this nice, you know, nice slope like this. I'll tell you something else that was as ironic as it can get. And that is Kodak had something called the Kodak gallery. Yep, it was an online storage for photos where you could display your photos. And they had like 50 million users had no idea what to do with it. About a month, three months after they went through their first chapter 11 they went bankrupt. A small startup got a billion dollars worth of financing from Facebook called Instagram, Instagram with less photos online and less users than Kodak had with their photo gallery and didn't know what to do with it. They could have been Instagram.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 42:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's unbelievable. So we're gonna take a break right here, we've got the question we ask every guest on the other side of this, you're listening to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 43:02 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? Are you aware that businesses identified capturing time and costs against projects as their biggest project management challenge? Are you aware that 44% of project managers use no software? Even though Price Waterhouse Coopers found that the use of commercially available project management software increases performance and satisfaction? Now, imagine that you could have the ease of entry like a spreadsheet and a software tool set up and running within two to four weeks. Imagine within two weeks being able to see clearly where all of your resource conflicts are? Well, you don't have to imagine because PD ware has already created it, PD where it can give you real time access to KPIs easily updated views of what your teams are working on. And immediate feedback to some of project management's toughest questions like when can we start this project? What happens if we delay this project? Can we do this in time? How does this new project impact our current portfolio? Find us at PDX were calm and imagine not manually compiling endless reports again, Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? Do you lack consistency in project delivery? Our squared consulting provides end to end services to assist companies of all sizes and realizing and improving the value of project management. Whether you want to build a project management office, trained project managers or learn how to bring the oversight and governance to your project processes. r squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business, you'll find the experts here voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life. To reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 45:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back for the final segment of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We've been visiting with Matt sweetwood. He's the author of leader of the pack. And so Matt, how do people find the book? How do they find you?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 45:35 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'm easy. I was an early social media guy. So I am m like and Matt m sweetwood.com. And add m sweetwood. Everywhere Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, wherever you can find em sweet, calm, you can go there find the book. The book, of course, is on Amazon with its glorious hundred and 30 plus five star reviews.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 45:56 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Nice. So the question we ask everybody that attends the shows, what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 46:03 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Um, so that's interesting question. I think I probably should have listened to my dad who said never get married.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's what you</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 46:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I, that one got me. Right, that one got okay.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 46:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think given given our first segment here, I think that that was that was apropos. That was apropos. Exactly. I think, you know, if you'd asked me this question, while I wouldn't answer it differently, but I I read a book recently called relentless by Tim Grover. And that book was very, very good for me, because it reminded me It's okay to be different and lead at the end, go your own way. In other words, have trust in yourself. And when you don't never let your level go to other people's levels, bring your team to your level. And to me that always keep that in mind that when you see people struggling, or even if they're unhappy, or they're unhappy with you, and the tendency to try to please them and change yourself to their level is not good. You bring them to your level. And then when you get everybody up to your level, this is the magic that he tells you is raise your level again. And I try to keep that in mind with almost everything I do. I'm always trying to raise my level. And so to me, that's don't get complacent. Don't think you've crossed the finish line. And he does a very good job in that book of describing how the best athletes that ever lived are like that. They win the NBA championship. They walk off the court and they're like, time to practice for next year. Yeah. And it's that attitude that I think really helped me It sort of reminded me I need to keep always keep pushing forward. So best advice is bring everybody to your level up to your level and when they get to your level raise your level again.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 47:58 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, the best the the Kobe's the the Jays the Tigers. I mean, it's the amount. It's what they do in the offseason. And what they do at night when nobody else is looking is what made them so good. That's right. My hero</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 48:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">was jack Nicklaus. Yeah. And I used to watch I used to like jack Nicklaus and Cal Ripken.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 48:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Those were two of my Oh, come on. A huge calcium. My I was like a 13 year old baseball team was the Orioles and I played shortstop. So of course, I was a Cal Ripken fan, right.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 48:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I was more of a third baseman and a centerfielder. But nevertheless, um, you know, I look at those guys. And the longevity and the consistency and the continuous pushing the level of what they did. Always really stuck with me. And so I really think that that's a good lesson. It's good lesson for entrepreneurs, is that never be satisfied with the level you've gotten yourself to always keep pushing ahead pushing it. You're not dying until you're dead.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 48:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I grew up three miles from Bay Hill in Arnie and so we we used to be able to go down and play and hang out with Arnold and I always talked to the kids you know, he was but the big Bay Hill Invitational i think is the Nestle now is what they call it. But yeah, good times. Well, listen, man, we certainly appreciate having you on the show and you hanging out with us. And again, getting into it all. I appreciate you. Let me just fire off in that first segment. Let's just get into the nitty gritty.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 49:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it's a pleasure. That's the best mix for the best. The best talk.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 49:28 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">For sure. For sure. Yeah, but no, no, no pandering questions on this show. No,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 49:34 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">chocolate chip cookies and milk.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 49:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Any final thoughts for the audience before we wrap up?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Matt Sweetwood 49:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Now go out there and get it right. Stop sitting around if you want to be successful that power is totally within everybody. success lies within each individual. Just a question on how badly they want.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 49:53 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Amen to that. So coming up on the show, you know next week's gonna be really fun getting it For a lot of you that are john Maxwell team followers, we're gonna have Jana on and Jana and I are both john Maxwell team members. In really, we're gonna get into a discussion of overcoming an introverts fear in entrepreneurial ism. And she and I had a pre meeting today for that show. And it's super, super excited to have her on. We've got Michelle back. So that'll be coming up on the 13th. She's a repeat guest with us as well as Simone Vincente is going to be with us on the 20th. So we've got some really, really exciting guests coming up. We're booked out through the rest of the year. So I think there's only one more replay left, which is going to be right around the holidays. But otherwise, we're going to be live with you every Friday. Right here on the work life balance. You can always reach out to me at Rick A. Morris on Twitter, on LinkedIn on Facebook. And of course we hope always that you're continually living your work life balance, and we will talk to everybody next Friday.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 51:16 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-29268444799521952732020-10-10T11:12:00.002-05:002020-10-10T11:12:44.578-05:00The Ten Terrains of Consciousness - Allen David Reed and Tahnee Wolf<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/126188/introducing-the-ten-terrains-of-consciousness-tahnee-woolf-and-allen-david-reed" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris100920.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">VoiceAmerica<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">00:05</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">One
problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work
life and a personal life, do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way
of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're
not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into
today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick A. Morris,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">00:26</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">and
welcome to a Friday edition of the work life balance. So excited to have
everybody along with us as we've got some new guests here that we're going to
talk to really excited about that. And because of that, I'm gonna forego a lot
of our normal opening announcements except for the one, the entire catalog now
of the group, the party, the music is now available on Spotify. So if you
wouldn't mind helping us out, it's been literally 30 years in the making to get
all this catalog back out there, digitize it. So if you search the party and
just go add those to your albums and listen to some of the music that we
created. I think the album we just dropped today came out 95 so fantastic of
Disney to finally work through that with us and Hollywood Records and so
excited that it's out there. And of course, thanks to Yvette jacala and Jason
Hampton for really keeping the the their feet to the fire and keeping the music
alive for us. So let's get into today's show. Today we have Alan David Reed and
Tawny Wolf, and they're the CO creators of the 10 terranes model. There are
authors of the book Introducing 10 terrains of consciousness, understand
yourself, other people and our world, which is being embraced and studied by
people around the world as a new way to understand themselves more deeply, and
the shifts that are happening on the planet. I've taken the test and we're
going to also discuss the results and really what are the 10 terrains of
consciousness. Let's bring them on the show right now. We've got Alan and Tawny
How you doing?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">01:55</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Good,
Rick. Hi. Good to meet you. lovely to</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">01:58</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">be here.
Thanks for having us a new show.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">02:00</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And so I
we were talking a little bit pre show. And so Tony, you guys are both in
Australia.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">02:06</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We are
on the east coast of the most Eastern tip of Australia near the area called
Byron Bay.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">02:13</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">One of
my dearest friends lives there. Colin Ellis is one of my compatriots. So we're
hoping to come to Australia soon. So it's been seven, eight in the morning on
Saturday for you guys right now. somewhere around there. Yeah. Eight o'clock
right now. Eight o'clock in the morning. Yeah, for sure. Hey, have you we
started a group called the pm circle, which is an international group of
mentoring people. But to get the faculty together, we have somebody in India,
somebody in Australia, somebody in England and a couple in the United States.
So seven in the morning, my time it seems to be the best, which is around 11 or
so your time almost midnight. But yeah, it's interesting to try to find the
time for all of us to meet. So let's let's jump right on into this because we
talked about 10 terrains of consciousness. What inspired you, first of all to
write this and how did you develop the model?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">03:04</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well, it
was really inspired over a lifetime of research that I've been doing. And Tani
and I came together to really look deeply into a lot of questions that we were
having about life markets, just ways to understand the world for, for bringing
out of our projects and in business. And this just really evolved from the
conversation, it was like there was a body of work that just wanted to emerge,
merge itself from all that we've researched over our lifetimes. And this is the
culmination of that at this point.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">03:41</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Yeah.
And Elena, I have quite different backgrounds and very opposite brains. And
when we came together, you know, Ellen's spent years as a scientist and a
mystic and a very big picture thinker, and lots of different industries. And
I've been much more focused on personalities, and interpersonal dynamics and
relationships. And you know, how humans get along with each other. And Ellen's
got this big, vast political and scientific overview and when our two opposite
brains came together, but we kept asking the question, what is underneath the
differences between people like beyond personality type, but beyond
conditioning, and values and culture? What's actually deeper than that? That's
wrong, this information started to drop in when we asked that question.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">04:19</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So do
you need to have a good understanding of interpersonal dynamics in order to, to
understand tend to range like, Is there a graduation to where you've kind of
studied this, you've studied this now tend to range is the next step or how
does that work?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">04:33</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">No, it
stands alone. And it really it is really as the word implies, the terrain under
all of these other systems, it is the terrain, it's your operating system, it's
giving rise to your perceptions and your values and your beliefs and really,
all these other systems that you would study and look at for understanding, as
we mentioned a few before disc or Myers Briggs or what have you, enneagram. They
really are On top of this negative, they're like the shrubs and the trees that
grow on the terrain. So knowing the terrain is really fundamental to
understanding how someone is relating to, to work to the world to life to
reality.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">05:13</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
other thing I'll say, for those of you listening who like Rick and like myself
have spent time studying those kinds of systems, Myers Briggs disc enneagram, I
personally love those, I find them incredibly helpful. They're actually a very
different thing than what we're talking about with the terrains, the terrains
is actually an evolutionary model. So someone's terrain can change over the
course of their lifetime, it's more akin to their age, like it could be 20, it
could be 30, it could be 40, but you'll still be a seven enneagram at all of
those ages is the same with your terrain, you'll still be a three enneagram and
Ian TJ Myers Briggs or, you know, an eye on the disc. But that will, but you
will take your personality with you, as you grow and evolve and you have a
shift in your awareness is one day, you may even shift into another train of
consciousness where and if you do make that kind of shift, a lot of things will
show up very differently in your life, you might find it starting to question
the career that you're in, or the relationship you're in, or the kinds of
people you're hanging out with. And it can be a really huge life change. And so
it's really interesting, if you are interested in personality types to see that
your personality type comes with you, obviously, because you're born with it.
But how you express that personality, how you embody, that is going to be
different depending on which terrain you're at.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">06:24</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So let's
just briefly if we can go through the 10 terrain, so that the audience knows
what we're talking about, because I'm going to want to dive into a couple of
them. And so I kind of want them to understand where we are in that mix when I
do so. So if you can't just give a brief, you know, Introduction as to what the
10 terrains are and how you move through them.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">06:42</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well
there continue the rise of the continuum of 10 terrains that are put together
to represent our evolution from the most extreme separation from from our self
as an infinite being to that which we're really one with ourselves. And so
there's these points along the way, the first five are relating to the world
from an outer perspective. And having things coming from outside to you. The
other five are really more coming from within yourself to looking at a deeper
understanding of who you are as a being.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">07:22</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So I can
run through old 10. That was just like a sort of background context, when I run
through all 10, you'll get a sense of them, they're they're each very different
from each other, I'm just going to run through them super quickly, because each
of them we could write a book about and talk about for hours. So I'm just going
to do a couple of sentences on each just to give you as just a very, very simple
kind of flavor of each one. But I think it'll be enough that you can see the
differences between them. So the first one, so if people listening want to have
a look at this, it will help you to follow along if you go to 10 terranes.com T
and T ra ns, because you'll see that we've given them 10 different symbols. And
the symbols actually tell the story of what I'm gonna share. And each symbol is
very specific for that terrain. And you'll see that the first one which is like
a collection of dots called the metabase terrain particle, and the last one,
which is a bunch of lines, the void base terrain, nothing, they're just they're
kind of as bookends, like you're not going to really meet people at those two
terrains, because they're very extreme. But we have them there just to tell the
full story of humanity's journey of evolution. And so the first one the
metabase terrain particle, this is you could think of caveman this is this is a
being who's in such a state of fear steps such a state of responding from instinct
to moment to moment without much thought without really a narrative or a story
about meaning about life or God or anything. They're just in fear running from
the bear trying to survive. Then we have the next terrain, which we call the
faith based terrain, radial and there are people at this terrain in the world,
they're what you would think of as the fundamentalist people, they're very much
giving their power to something outside themselves, and then fully obeying it
hundred percent. And they deeply genuinely believe that if they don't, they
will be smoked down or they will not get to salvation. And it's not just
something to participate in their community, it's a deep belief that they've
ceded their power to something outside themselves. And so we've seen that play
out in the world over the years politically and, and culturally. And then the
next terrain, the will base terrain pyramid, if someone was to shift from radio
to pyramid, this is the terrain where someone says, Well, I don't care about you
know, God or deities I'm the master of my own destiny. And pyramid is really a
kind of wild west mentality, think scarcity, consciousness, it's a belief that
in order to feel safe, I need to accumulate as much wealth and power so that I
can dominate other people control other people and, and it's really like the
terrain what we see mafia and we see slavery and we just see exploitation of
people in power games. And obviously, Empire and conquest. And a lot of the
things we've seen play out in civilization over the years have come from
countries that pyramid and lead as a pyramid. So this is a very well known
terrain, and they're all num fit fairly decent numbers of people that pyramid
in our world. The terrain after pyramid if someone wants to shift from pyramid
to square the order base terrain square. This is the terrain where somebody
believes that that the highest good of society is more important than their
own. So their own goals. So someone that pyramid is very much about self
interest, they're just trying to survive stay alive as much money as they can,
somebody square is actually trying to contribute to society be an upstanding
member of society. And at square, they're very much believed that the safety is
going to come from being part of a smoothly running system. So think of people
who believe in the banking systems believe in the government follow what
authority tells them, they're wearing their masks, they're going into lockdown
and compliant. And not really interested in innovation or pushing over the arm
but pushing an envelope, but they really just want to contribute be a doctor or
a lawyer and do what they you know, what their parents expect or what their
society expects. And so this is people who really believe in the consensus
reality, and I'm sure there's a lot you know, lots of people like this probably
people listening like this, it's a fabulous terrain of contribution and service
to society. And then the terrain after this, if someone wants to shift from the
order base terrain to the next one, the reflection base terrain, Diamond, the
thing that changes is someone starts to feel that I decide my own identity, I'm
not going to do just what society tells me or what I'm expected to do. I'm
choosing my own path. And a diamond is a terrain of individual expression,
unique expression. Innovation is where we see social structures being
overthrown and new technologies being invented. And it's all about growth and
expansion, I'm going to be the best person I could be I'm gonna be the most
innovative person was a lot of entrepreneurial ism at this terrain, we do see
that at square two, but a diamond, there's much more willingness to take risks,
there's not so much of a focus on financial security, it's more on financial
independence, and freedom and diversity. And a lot of the things that have
happened in the last 50 or 60 years in our culture have happened because of the
prevailing terrain and about the 1960s shifted from square to diamond in the
Western world. So we have the internet, freedom of information,
decentralization, customization, all the things that have that now so prevalent
in our society, a natural out picturing of this terrain, the terrain after
this, the connection based terrain circle, there are decent numbers of people
on the planet at this terrain at the moment, even though it's not the
prevailing terrain. And the big jump that happens from diamond to circle, as
Ellen said, the first five are out of focus drains and the second five are
inner focused. So some of that's the jump that happens from diamond to circle
is really the jump from outer to inner from doing to being and from head to
heart. And people at circle are very much connected to the web of life, in a
visceral sense, not just as a concept that really deeply feel nature, they feel
the web of life, they're living in a much more community kind of way, think of
indigenous cultures, most indigenous cultures are so cool, very collaborative.
You know, we're gonna raise all lifeboats, there's not really visionary
leaders, everybody's collaborating for the highest good of the whole group. And
there's a deep reverence for nature and the sacred, the terrain after this the
coherence based terrain spiral, these ones are going to be less and less
numbers of people. So I'll go fairly quickly through them. spiral is a terrain
where somebody shifts from circle from the connectedness to the web of life,
and that and that now expands to a multi dimensional sense of self. These are
people who have a real sense of self in all different dimensions, maybe past
lives, maybe energetic stuff, but they're very much about self responsibility
and being fully coherent on all levels of their being. So they're always
working on keeping themselves neutral, and forgiveness and discernment. And
they really deeply know that they create their reality from the inside out. And
then the terrain after this, the fractal base terrain toroid This is the
terrain of a lot of the spiritual teachers over time, a lot of the scientific
geniuses people who have just downloaded truth, and they've downloaded it
because they're in a very surrendered state. And they really deeply connected
to the quantum field. And these are people who are really aware in every moment
that the highest good of all is playing out. And they're always seeing things
from the perspective of how is this playing out for the highest good of all,
that's really where their focus is. And that and they're also in a place of
deep trust. The terrain after this the Unity based terrain infinity, when you
think of, you know, so called enlightened beings, Buddha, people like that.
That's the this terrain, the Unity base terrain, infinity. This is people who
really, really are embodying a state of oneness. There's no more separation,
how they're behaving, or how they're thinking or how they're seeing others.
They're very much in a state of surrender, and instead of witness and a very
deep state of peace, but also very extreme state of self responsibility, making
sure they're always staying neutral and bringing themselves back to a state of
unconditional love if they're ever triggered out of it. And it's not just
Buddha, who's at this terrain are people around and about her at this terrain,
but it's less than 1% of the population, but they are around and they're
usually not the big spiritual teachers. They're very humble people. You
wouldn't even probably notice them in the room. And then Final trend, the void
base terrain, no thing that's really just there as a bookend, you're not going
to meet anyone that has to end these are beings who have kind of expanded so
much that, you know, they don't even really believe anymore that they need
water or gravity or these people kind of people call them Ascended Masters,
things like that if you're not even really in physical form.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15:17</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well,
thank you for running us through that when we come back, we'll talk about what
terrain most of us are in and I can I also want to know what terrain you guys
are in. So we'll do that after the break. You're listening to reports on the work
life balance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17:53</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're talking
with Alan David Reed and Tawny Wolf, who co founders co creators of the 10
terrains of consciousness now we just went through what the 10 terrains are
very, very quickly. But if you go to 10 terrains comm slash quiz, you can
actually find out what terrain you're in, in, in downloads material. And on
request. I did that prior to the show when we found out I you know, the common
thing and I think in most humans is you know, did I get a high score? Did I
score well, but I ended up in diamond at the mastery phase of that, which I
found out isn't that rare? It's it's pretty common at this point. But I'd like
to ask when you guys took this quiz, where where did you end up?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18:43</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well,
I'd like to probably just step back and say that you one thing to know about
the 10 terrains is there there is no score there aren't these aren't levels.
This isn't something like you're trying to get to someplace, you actually
already are an infinite being I'll just I'll just say that for the record. And
so you've got as many lifetimes as you need to do what you need to learn. And
so you're you're where you're at for a reason. You're you're sitting at one of
these terrains, because there's a lot of learning there, there's a lot of
service to get back from there. There's challenges to learn about yourself,
it's about knowing yourself and so really we we learn about ourselves by coming
in and living in any of these terrains throughout lifetimes literally. And so
there there is nothing wrong with being in any any point because you actually
have a lot to offer there. And the majority of the world if you look at a bell
curve across this continuum is sitting in the middle of this continuum at the
order base terrain at square at the reflection base terrain, Diamond, and you
know, indigenous cultures as Tony mentioned, makeup other population so that this
really does follow a bell curve. And and there's a lot of wealth. It's
happening in generating right now in our world in a lot of excitement happening
because we moved from the order base drain, at square to now being a diamond.
So as a culture, we're really innovating and coming up with a lot of new
technologies and understandings of ourselves. And there's a lot of growth,
personal growth is big at this point. And I want to say this too, because the
point of the balance between work and life is to really look at the fact that
in the past, as civilization the industrial age was, was at the order base
terrain, we were really living from an institutional model, where we went to
nine to five jobs and cradle to grave sort of IBM, you know, business talons
kind of thinking, to now at the reflection, base terrain, Diamond, you're,
you're really the institutions are going away, we're really at a point in our
evolution, we're really creating our own jobs, we're creating our own selves,
and we're finding out who we really are what really excites us, it's sort of
like, what, what's your passion, and in any coaching, I would say, you know, be
clear on what you're passionate about, and then build your business model
around that rather than trying to fit yourself into some existing Kog. So as
we've shifted now to be with the prevailing terrain, Dr. Diamond in our, in our
businesses, excuse me, in our, in our cultures, and in our businesses, we're
having to completely relook at what we're doing to create ourselves going forward
and creating our careers creating, you know, the entrepreneurial opportunities,
there's those limitless capability available to us at this point, it's really
the, the currency going forward is creativity. And that's what we need to be
mindful of.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">21:48</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Yeah,
I'll let you come back to Tony. But where I got confused a little bit in that
in is, you know, when you look at desk or enneagram, or you take a step, and
Tony thought you did a really good job of saying, you know, you live out your
personality, you're going to be a three, you're going to be a seven. And that's
what you do. To me, I felt like this, this does have levels that you it's not
necessarily a reward level, but it is a growth level. Right? So you you're
graduating across your continuum as you as it's been laid out, as almost a as a
visual of, of how aware you are and, you know, I'm a big fan of Carl Jung, and
some of those, you know, unless you make the subconscious conscious that will
rule your life, and you will call it fate. And I think there's a lot of us that
that are understanding that portion. But to me, it is a leveling up it is a
graduation up is that fair to say?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">22:35</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That's
definitely the perspective from diamond, someone's looking at this model from
diamond, I will see that that it's about growth and expansion that each ring is
a progressive expansion, depending on which terrain you're at is how you will
see this. So that's why it's a hard thing to answer. But the main thing we want
to get across is that there's no judgment in it, there's no one better than the
other one is worse than the other, you can see it as they're progressively more
expanded. It's almost like if you think about a spaceship is on the ground, and
when it's on the ground, all it sees is the trees in front of it. As it goes up
a little bit higher, it sees more, it sees the village and then it goes up
higher, it sees the forest and the ocean, and it goes up higher and it goes
past the stratosphere and it sees the whole globe. At each iteration. It's got
a larger perspective. But the ship's not better because it's 2000 feet, then
it's at 1000 feet, it's just as a broader view. So really, this is more just
expanding perceptions progressively more expanded perceptions. And the thing is
from the reflection base terrain, Diamond, which is so much focusing on growth
and expansion, it seems like the goal is to get to infinity and we should all
grow and learn and become as most expandable possibly can. But actually,
there's another perspective here, which is that really each terrain has
something very profound to offer the world. And there are things that people
contribute in each terrain, when put together as a collective tapestry all fit
together for the highest good of all. So that's just another way to see it. And
also that sometimes it's actually not easier to be at the more expanded
terrains for someone and infinity that really lunch when they're doing constant
work to stay neutral and stay surrendered and to not take anything on and not take
anything personally like, it's not necessarily an easy job to be at that place
in your journey, like you have it 100% that you create your reality in every
possible way. So it might sound like it's a great place to be. But it's not
necessarily any better than where you are. Now. That's one of the things we're
always emphasizing, like really learn about where you're at now. And really
master the lessons of this terrain and the things that you're here to offer the
world of this terrain. And when it's the right time when your own miles off is
really When you've completed that learning, you may shift to the next terrain.
And that will be another adventure that though will then begin with huge
amounts of learning and growth in it. And some people are really here to grow
and learn in their life. That's their purpose of being on the planet. And they
may shift terrain once, twice, even three times maybe more in their life. And
other people are actually here to really go deeply into one terrain and really
master that like think of someone like Abraham Lincoln. He was at school. You
know, he's ended slavery from that terrain. Only someone who spent their life
at square could do that job because it's happening in reaction to pyramid and
exploitation, inequality pyramid, all about institutionalizing equality and
making quality, widespread and systematizing equality that that has to happen
at that terrain. So you can see that depending on your purpose in life, you may
need to stay in a terrain for a long time, or you may be someone who's here to
really shift, the most important thing is to just be really compassionate with
yourself and accept your own journey. And just enjoy your own journey and
appreciate the lessons that you're being given. And anytime.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">25:36</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So
you're not going to tell us what turnings you're on? I'm just teasing. So you
pulled you pulled the presidential debate card of if I talk about something
else over here, I want to answer that question, but I'm just playing with you.
So the thing that strikes me though, is again, everyone's beliefs I'm
completely open to so please don't take this as a challenge. But the the
assumption of the model, though is that there is the the infinite lives that
there is this isn't the only life that you lead, and off you go is that so
there's definitely a reincarnation thing I'm picking up here as well. Is that
is that fair to say?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">26:10</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well,
yes, what what this model is really based upon and this has been at the core of
my life work literally working with leading scientists around the world in my
entire life being looked at both in the mysteries and studying all of the
religions and the mysteries, as well as all of the sciences very, very deeply,
very deeply steeped in the quantum physics, and at the cutting edge of quantum
physics are now starting to see what the mystics have been saying all along,
you've got to apio electrons talking to each other over space and time
simultaneously beyond speed of light. What it's starting to really show science
is what the mystics have been saying that this is a self aware universe, this
universe is consciousness, this entire universe all multi versus down, every
last subatomic particle is simultaneously aware of itself across all of the
galaxies, infinite galaxies, infinite stars. So when when we look at this, you
know, there's a perspective that the religions hold, is it Well, there's a God
up in heaven, but that's an anthropomorphic projection, when you really come
from a mystical perspective, and this is being again supported by the sciences
now really starting to see this as can the only way it can be this universe is
self aware. And so the more we connect into that self awareness that we already
are, then yes, we have access to, to the ability to become telepathic to to do
many things to self heal to, to to look into the future we can, we can see a
lot of stuff happening, when we really come into a relationship with this
conscious being that we all are because it is one conscious universe. And so it's
it's the idea of non local is nonlocality non local consciousness. And that's a
real shift from the current science, which is the current psychology thinks
that well, consciousness is just the result of our brain chemistry. And once we
die, it goes away and consciousness goes. But the truth is, there is I can give
you which really brought me deeply into this was all my research in the past
lives. And I mean, past life, excuse me, near death experiences, scientifically
validated in many cases. And they were saying the same thing again and again,
and you know, they're out of body, they're in other places they're seeing
themselves being operated on I mean, they're, you start to really look into
this a cycle, how could all of this be possible? You know, there's research of
people that have come, you know, back and known about their themselves and
other places and taking their families there to meet the people they knew in
the past? I mean, there's a lot of evidence of this.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">28:41</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So
bottom line answer to your question is that one of the core assumptions
underneath this model is that this is an infinitely intelligent universe. But
there's plenty of people who have used our model who don't necessarily believe
that. So there's still there's still a lot of use in understanding humans and
how they're acting each terrain, even if you don't really believe that core
assumptions, but they're definitely there in our work. And that work is
definitely coming from place of non local consciousness. So that's what you're
picking up on.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">29:05</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Absolutely.
And I think I think we're gonna take this, this opportunity to take a break
right here because I think I'm about to open up a Pandora's box of questions.
Once we come back on the other side of the break, you're listening to the work
like bounce bars.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">VoiceAmerica<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">31:42</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon having a fantastic
conversation about the 10 terrains of consciousness. And I really,
intellectually I'm just I'm intrigued and in really wanting to dive further in.
You said something right before we went to break there, Ellen, just talking
about the infant conscious the near death experiences, there was a TED talk
that I saw and anybody can go look at it's by Neil Seth, about how your brain
hallucinates the reality that the fact that your brain itself isn't it doesn't
have any tacit senses directly with the outside world, right? It's all
interpreted of what we're seeing what we're smelling what we're tasting, what
we're hearing, it's an interpretation. But the biggest thing, and what
triggered me in that conversation is because when you get put under for
surgery, where does your consciousness to go? Right, that becomes that that
question? I was just wondering if you've run across anything, right? So you
basically we lose time when when we're put under, right? So six hours of
surgery could happen. And to us, it's, you know, we're out and we're back up. And
so they're wondering if they can study that or understand those portions of
that brain, then maybe we can interpret, you know, some of the diseases and
some of the things that people are afflicted with, certainly around mental
health. And I'm just wondering your studies in the things that you've come
across? Is that really the kind of stuff that triggered you into starting to
study some of the 10 terrains?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">33:12</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well, I
have seen that video that you're referring to, and I understand this argument,
I understand this conversation on both sides. And what really brought me to
this was, was working with a number of core scientists at a foundation for mine
being research in Palo Alto, California for many years. And we were looking at
the leading edges of consciousness interfacing with matter with the being. And
this is where a lot of this understanding was really being generated. And and
these, again, were scientists that really wanted to ground us. So what I've
come to realize is that because there's an infinite possibility available to
us, we can interpret data in many different ways. And so depending on your
terrain, and your beliefs and your perceptions from that terrain, you're going
to project onto the data, what you think's happening there. And so you're going
to have probably just like you'd have a witness's at an accident scene, and you
have 10 different versions of what happened when you take a police report,
you're going to have 10 different, you know, stories of what's happening here
based on the perception and the terrain that a person is coming from. So that's
a lot of what's what's going on is that based on on that relationship, that's
how that story is being seen.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">34:41</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So
there's a real kind of fight in the world, between you see it in multiple
aspects, right. Science versus faith, if you talk about, you know, Darwinism,
right versus the creation theory. You've got climate control, climate change,
whether that's manmade or is that just, you know, Mother Nature, just going to
shrug us off as well. She can do those types of there seems to be distinct
things. And I feel like, what what I'm concerned with is I don't want anybody
here say, well, because you say this or you believe this, then I don't believe
in the model, like I'm encouraging. I want people to be encouraged to go read
and see it and feel it and understand it and determine on their own. But what
do you say to let's take the first one around, you know, energy, you know,
faith based, kind of, well, there is a God, there's only one life, that kind of
stuff. And then this other side of we are this infinite conscious and, and
that, like, we're all energy, and one thing that we were always taught even in
schools that that energy doesn't go away, right, he creates an opposite
reaction, but energy doesn't go away. It's something I was taught, you know, in
youth. So talk to me a little bit around.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">35:51</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Really,
you know, when you really look at it, the there are two sides of the same coin,
really, as I've become more expanded and aware of I have become much stronger
in my faith than I was when I was at a point where I was actually somewhat
atheistic, thinking that what I had been taught, was really was was really not
accurate. So there was a reaction to that. And that now, as I've, as I've come
more deeply into, learning about myself understanding who I am, and who we all
are, and what consciousness is, I have I have come to, to a very deep place of
faith. So it's, it's like, if you go around a circle, you can go around one or
two ways, but you're still going to reach the same point. And so so there are
those that are that are coming from, from faith from a biblical perspective.
But there's a lot of truth in that. But it's a journey, and it's a different
journey than the journey I've taken. But the truth is, you end up at the same
place, ultimately, when you when you come into it, that I am my brother's
keeper, you know, do unto others as you want done unto yourself. I mean, I
could go down a whole long list of principles here. But those principles are
because we really are caring for each other as ourself at the end of the day.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">37:14</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So,
Tony, if I, as I did, I took this test. And it said, test quiz understanding, I
don't want to say test it wasn't, was an open, multiple choice question where I
pass and fail, but the self analysis and I end up at diamond, how do I take
that in and apply that are some practical applications of what I do with that
information next?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">37:39</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well,
it's really useful as you going out into the world, especially if you're
accountable. Firstly, in your own journey, just to see, for example, you might
have a period of time where you remember where you maybe you were at square,
and you can now you can understand why things have shifted for you so much for
some people who were at diamond, were at square when they were younger, and
they could look back and go, Oh, I finally understand why I left that career.
And all these things I've always questioned about myself all these years, they
finally makes sense. I didn't go crazy, I just had a terrain shift. And that
can give a lot of peace to people. And then looking forward, you can see, okay,
this I'm a diamond now. So it actually makes sense that I'm making these
choices. Now I understand why I'm having these challenges, okay, they're not as
stressful for me because at least there's some context for them now. And, and
actually, these are the kinds of things I'm here to do. I'm here to change the
world at this point in my journey. So that's quite empowering to just be told
that I'm here to change the world right now. Because that's really the purpose
of someone at diamond, it's to change the world, it's to make an impact, it's
to make a difference. And that can be very motivating. Some people read their
diamond report, and they go, Oh, wow, it's almost like they feel like they're
being given cheering on permission to do the thing that their hearts already
telling them to do. And then from that place, you can start to go out into the
world and really notice when maybe other people are not at the same terrain as
you and whereas in the past, you might have been frustrated by that. Like maybe
you have family members at the order based around square who think you're
totally over the top of your entrepreneurial ism, you're taking too many risks.
And why are you doing all this cutting edge research into health? And why do
you not want to do chemotherapy you got cancer is what the doctor told you to
do. And you look really frustrated with them, because you want to do, you know,
hack your health and hack your life with all these innovative new approaches
and technologies, and they don't understand that. So it's when you come into
contact with people not at your terrain, which is very common, that having this
information becomes crucial, because now you can communicate to them
differently, especially if you have taken time to learn about the 10 terrains
and you understand the other terrain so you've read our book, or watch some of
our viewers have done some learning, then you can find ways to speak to that
person without judging or criticizing them to actually communicate to them in
language that they'll understand. Because each terrain has very different kinds
of language that appeals to them very different mimetics so if you're in
marketing or in business, it's very helpful to understand particularly the most
common trends like pyramids square diamond circle to really understand how
people think, and the kinds of things are gonna land with them. But even just a
conflict management if you're running a company and most of the people in our
company at diamond, but there's a group that are at square and they're
struggling because they They don't fit the corporate culture because their
fundamental relationship with reality is different than everybody else's. This
is important stuff to know, if you're trying to create cohesive teams harmony
in your family harmony in your marriage relationship, if you and your wife are
in a different terrain, so that's why this work really starts to come alive.
And then for other people who are more politically focused, so most of them say
to Elon, once they understand this, they can then start to look at what's
happening in the world politically, economically, socially, and see the
terrains of different world leaders or the terrain showings of different
countries or the terrain, the different eras in history or the terrain of a
particular city. Because as groups of people, there's always a prevailing
terrain in the room, if you're in a conference filled with people at diamond,
the terrain of that room is very different than if you're a very conservative
mainstream conference at square or a sort of rally a pyramid where everyone's
kind of stood up and agitate and trying to get their anger out. Like it's a
very different kind of demonstration, a very different type of crowd. So this
is</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">40:58</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">often
I've got personal experience there. So as I was saying, with the john Maxwell
team, something I joined about five and a half, six years ago now. But it's a
it's a group that believes in valuing people believing in people in living
beyond yourself. And I feel like I was seeking that because I was stuck. What's
interesting to me though, is I see I, and I'll just be transparent is very
personal to me as well. I outgrew my spouse, as I as I transition in so what
I'm picking up on this is that I transition terrains, essentially, somewhere in
that journey somewhere at that point, where I really started to see the greater
good wanted to start serving other people, financial things didn't really
matter to me. And it was still something that was very strong for her. And she
just couldn't understand why I was doing that. And I'm seeing this often I see
a lot of my friends go through it, of you know, even, you know, asking
questions, why? Why didn't this bother me before, but it bothers me now. Right?
Those types of things?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">41:56</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Yeah,
one of the things you really want to do is run some trainings for people and
one of the groups we want to train is relationship coaches, because it'd be
very helpful for them to understand as well as personality differences, that
they actually can sometimes be terrain differences. And as one person shifts,
the other person may not because people's journeys don't go at the same pace.
And that can create problems exactly like what you're talking about. So we're
really actually very excited about training some relationship coaches in this
stuff.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">42:19</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I felt
like she transitioned down while I transitioned up, but maybe that's just me
now. So I'm gonna I'm gonna reveal the biggest thing that I picked up in this
conversation so far, my biggest aha moment, but we're gonna do that right after
the break. You're listening to Rick bars and the work life balance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">VoiceAmerica<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Are you
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life balance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">45:01</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon fascinating
conversation with with our guests on David Reed Tawny Wolf, creators of the 10
terrains of consciousness. And I promise to reveal kind of my greatest aha
moment. And I teach this, but I didn't. I didn't pick it up until it was
something that you said, Tani. And I was actually saying something almost
tongue in cheek, but it was your response to that, that, that got me. So we
talked about disc and disc profiles and meeting people where they are. And so
then here we are talking about the consciousness and you turn about the
practical application and understanding where they are it but it was their
understanding of their view of the world. And that really kind of helped me
grasp what what we've been talking about here. In terms of the judgment of it,
meaning not one terrain is better than the other terrain, but you understand
how they're viewing things. So kind of when you said, well, as a diamond, you I
can understand why you're saying it that way, or why you see it that way. That
was one of the most impactful things that I picked up in the conversation for
sure. So I appreciate that. On another tongue in cheek moment, we were talking
about I'm watching a lot of people graduate into different terrains and have
growing spouses or relationships or whatever. What's your advice if somebody
there if somebody kind of recognizes that I'm operating, whether they're
conscious of the trains or not operating at a different level than a long term
relationship or spouse? What's your advice at that rate?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">46:31</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well, I
think the the best advice is to the first thing to understand is that really,
any terrain the person is coming from, from a perspective of worldview as you
as you're indicating, that is looking to help them feel safe, safe in themselves
safe in the life around them just safe in their world. And so if you got two
spouses that are one shifting, and the other is not, it's because the one is
feeling like they are ready to expand and take on a new perspective. And and
it's, you know, and feel safe in doing that. And the other spouse may not yet
be ready to or not feel safe to go in that, on that journey. And so it's really
a matter of one of two things. It's really about like meeting people where
they're at talking to them, or speaking to them in a way that reinforces and
lets them know that yes, I understand your fear, I understand how this is
feeling. And and I'm wanting to read, you know, reiterate and reinforce that
you'll be safe. That's one approach. And the other approach is that well you
know, we are growing differently and it's maybe our cycle in this time is
complete and it's it's time for us to evolve in in new directions. And so this
is a very personal choice. But if you want to look at it from a from a place of
of taking you know ownership of it and saying well either I'm not understanding
you and I need to be more compassionate and and that's where learning about
terrains and learning about other people at their point is allowing you to be
more compassionate and that could save the marriage or you may both just come
to a realization that well it's time that this is the cycle is done. And it's
time for us to evolve in the direction</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">48:21</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">did you
want to say something real quick Tony to that or</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">48:24</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">okay say
it also it's gonna depend on the terrains are of the people will play out
completely differently between a couple of square and spiral or between a
couple of square and diamond because, for example, the coherence base drain
spiral at that point there very, is really not much judgment left. And so
someone like that could be in relationship with anybody, no matter how they see
the world, it wouldn't bother them. Whereas to people who are in one of the
first five terrains where it's much more like a much more in my own beliefs,
and I'm a bit challenged by people who see the world differently. Like it's not
as comfortable for someone at the first five trains to try and live with
someone who sees the world radically differently from them. Yes, it really
depends where you're at.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">49:05</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Yeah,
personally The only thing I can I can speak to his personal experience in I
have a group of friends that that we have this conversation often but you know
for me I even identified the points in which I kind of felt the transition so
first it was trying to appease the other person make them happy not rock the
boat go along with the flow that kind of stuff and then I started to get into a
phase of regardless you're going to be upset about something so I might as well
do what what makes me happy and then realizing that doing what makes me happy
serving other people and making them happy I I shifted out so I feel like there
is a tutoring difference potentially as I'm learning about that of one is it's
not even square base. It's more pyramid based of this is the way the world
works. And that's the only way the world works. And you know, to me, to me, I
felt like it was exploitive to budge. But there's several of us in that friend
group that's that's in that cinco.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">50:01</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Yeah,
and and you know, traditionally people when their culture was at square people
stayed in marriages, even if they weren't that happy because it was a done
thing it was expected. And square is a terrain of roles. So people are playing
a role because it's expected role and everyone's functioning together as
smoothly running system. You know, Diamond people are about their own journey,
their own path, and I'm going to stay if it's nourishing me, and it's and it's
giving me energy, and it's good for me and I can serve the planet from here and
I can make a difference, I can change the world, they're not going to stay in
something just because it's their role or because it's expected. This is why
the divorce rate has skyrocketed since we've, since we've moved into diamond
and everything's been thrown open gender and the kind of relationships and how
we interact, the whole thing's up for grabs now because the diamond world as
opposed to what everybody's got their own opinion, their own ideas, their own
theories, and all exploring our own paths. And so that's one of the things that
she as a society shaped as the prevailing terrain shift. So it doesn't just
apply every now so it actually actually applies across our culture. So you may
have experienced in your personal life that shifts in the square kind of
relating to diamond. But actually, as a culture, we've also had that shift over
the last year. So it's been, you know, it's been a massive thing to influence
society. And, you know, we're not, we're not creating these, we're just
describing it. We've just found a map that describes that it's all already
there. And most people who come to understand this model, once they really get
it, they look around and go, Oh my god, yeah, it really has been playing out
all this time. I just didn't have the words for it.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">51:25</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It's
kind of like gravity. You know, it was always there until somebody who pointed
it out and say, hey, look, and then went to the wayside and went, Oh, yeah.
Well, this is really what's happening with the 10 terrains. These are all here.
And you can see it from anthropology. There's, there's elements of other
research that this is all informed process. And it's once you see this, then
you see the world and you'll never go back to seeing it. You can't not see it.
It's like, yeah, it's like riding a bike. You get it, you see it and it just
becomes part of your life.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">52:00</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So for
everybody listening, if you visit 10 terrains calm, you can find out more about
the 10 terrains as well as 10 terrains comm slash quiz, you can learn about
where you are in where you possibly could be going. I've got about three
minutes till we close, but I love to ask every guest what is some of the best
advice you've ever received?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">52:23</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Go.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">52:27</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And I do
that on purpose for that,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">52:29</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I would
say is to just really be true to yourself. Just really, you know, my whole
journey has been to understand human nature and to know myself to Know thyself
is one of the the axioms. And so it's really I've been on a journey. So who am
I? Because as I was born into a world where I was being told who I was supposed
to be, I didn't feel right. And so it's been a journey to know who am I.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">52:58</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And for
me, I can't really think of the best advice I've received. But I can just tell
you the best advice that's coming to me to share with you were donor who told
me where I learned, I feel that the more compassion you have, the more joyful
your life's gonna be. And by compassion, I mean compassion for yourself, like
where you're at in your life, at your point in growth, and also compassion for
the people in your life, the people around you, the people in your family, that
business to pick the things that are happening around the world. And one of the
things that the 10 trains model has given me is the ability to have compassion
for myself, for other people, and also for other people in the world.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allen David Reed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">53:31</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I would
probably just say as a final piece, just just for your listeners, that
understanding terrains is really important in this time, because you need to be
having an alignment with with with yourself with the people you're working
with, with the products that you're bringing to this market that you're going
into and the market itself and they all have to. They could all be at different
terrains. And if they aren't, if they are, then you need to align those and
understand that. So it's really a critical knowledge to make sure that
everything flows and then people get you and receive what you're offering.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">54:05</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well,
Alan and Tony, we are so sorry, we are we're out of time, but we can hang out
and talk. But if there's more to two, if you're interested, you want to know
more. It's 10 terrains.com. Also, you can buy the book that's out everywhere, I
imagine. But thank you, Alan. Thank you, Tony.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tahnee Woolf<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">54:22</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I would
also say to check out our YouTube channel because we've just done a really
fascinating series applying the 10 trends to the Coronavirus situation,
outstanding terrain and how they're responding to 10 different videos really
worth watching.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rick A. Morris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">54:34</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Outstanding.
Thank you so much for sharing. Thank you gang for listening next Friday, I'm
actually going to take it off, it'll be my birthday. And who knows where we'll
end up or what will happen on that day. But we'll be back on the 23rd and I
look forward to having you all back then. Thank you for listening to the work
life balance please stay tuned to the voice America business network as we have
another fantastic show coming up and we will talk to you in two Fridays.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">VoiceAmerica<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: silver; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">55:02</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thank
you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be
heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice
America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink
your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span><o:p></o:p></p>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-7384562043909803022020-09-18T18:09:00.005-05:002020-09-18T18:09:28.769-05:00 In Defense of Adversity - Steve Gavatorta<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/125757/in-defense-of-adversity-steve-gavatorta" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris091820.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:05 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick A. Morris,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 0:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and welcome to another edition of the work life balance listening to Rick Morris and we're so excited to have a wonderful guest on but before just a quick announcement, for those of you that follow me on the entertainment side and are aware of the you know, the Mickey Mouse Club and the group that I produced called the party. We announced today that for the first time, this music that we made 30 years ago is now available via Spotify. It was it was crazy, because Hollywood Records they were the first band that Hollywood record signed, and through purchases and acquisitions, and all of that Music masters have been somewhere we don't know where but it was, you know pre digital age pre cellphones pre all that. But we finally have gotten that done, that first album was released, and we couldn't be more excited. So Jason Hampton did it did a big announcement on Instagram around noon, but you can search the party, find the original album that we released August 31 1990. So we're so excited for the band. So excited for those guys. We just had, you know, Jason and Damon on the show not too long ago. Let's get to today's show, today's gentlemen that specializes in empowering individuals and organizations in identifying, developing and exceeding performance goals. He's had the privilege of coaching and training thousands of high performers across an array of industries, from small businesses on the move to fortune 500 companies. He collaborates with organizations to build foundations set goals and Eclipse their highest potential. He's got a lot of the similar backgrounds that I do, I already know which subject we're gonna really dive into, but let's bring him on. To the show Steve Gavin torta Steve, how you doing, sir?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 2:02 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'm good Rick, how about yourself</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 2:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">doing wonderful so thank you for the advanced copy which was in defense of adversity is not advanced copy but you sent me a copy of in defense of adversity, turning your toughest challenges into your greatest success. And when I read that the thing that jumped out right out the gate to me was one of my favorite subjects to discuss and that's disk. Yeah.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 2:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. Oh, god, I'm sorry. No, go ahead. No, I was gonna say I think I use that nearly everything I do on my base premise is to be successful in life to be successful in business sales leadership, team dynamics, such as facing adversity, overcoming obstacles, we must know ourselves know others whom we're communicating with. So we can also lead go trust. So I use the disc disc assessment and almost everything I do, because my premise is, without trust, you're not going to be successful in whatever endeavor. you're attempting to Do our to do.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 3:00 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so there's multiple organizations that certify disk. One of the things a lot of people don't know about this because it is public domain. Now there's several companies that do certify, but it's it's public domain out there now, but I want what was the organization, you certified through?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 3:15 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">A TTR? target training international? Yep.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 3:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I'm certified through TTI, as well. Maxwell's method. I went through a certification with Dr. Robert Rome, who owns personality insights. And so yeah, I can't learn enough about it right, the more the more I can gain that. And interestingly enough, I did a keynote this morning for the PMI chapter of Tampa Bay and one of the people that was reaching out said that she really wanted to learn how to communicate better with executives, and And my response was, you've got to learn disk in about 2002 is when I first ran into it. I wrote about it my book in 2008. It really was a staple as a project manager. My job is to communicate 90% of the time, and if I don't know what my audience is, Or how to communicate appropriately with them at least meet them where they are. That of course, you know, it's not gonna it's not going to fare well for me. Yeah. So let's talk about the book for a moment. Why did you decide to write your book in defense of adversity?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 4:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, as we spoke earlier, I'm actually in my home. I live in Tampa, Florida, but I'm home in Pittsburgh now, taking care of some family matters. And as you probably can imagine, Western Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, is coal mine steel mills and natural drawl back in the day and even still today for immigrant families. So about five years ago, I was home for the holidays. And I told my father I want to see where you grew up the little neighborhood when you grew up, and it's a little village within my hometown called Lang Lothar Burg, it's town to and it's nothing special. It's about a bunch of tenement houses. They're small little houses, nothing special. So my father we got there. My father points to his house and my father, by the way, was a successful entrepreneur himself said that where I grew up, there's we're doctors pathogens grew up. There's we're Dr. Stross. He grew up. There's we're Dr. So and So grew up, there's we're Barry Alvarez grew up I'm not sure if you know who Barry Alvarez Yeah, the winningest football coach of all time at University of Wisconsin. So it just really hit me like a ton of bricks. What a great story and especially as day and age with all the law, so much negativity and a lot of complaining that, you know, all these immigrant families came from around the world, to this little town, not speaking English, let alone each other's language, became doctors, lawyers, business men and women entrepreneurs, athletic directors, athletes. really a great story I wanted to tell. The only problem was I'm not a biographer. So I actually went forward, I started interviewing a lot of these families and their stories were tremendous interviewed Barry Alvarez for about three hours. And the common denominator that I found that made them successful was the fact they all it was really about The adversity that they all face and successfully overcame. And that drew to the title of the book called in defense of adversity turn your toughest challenges into your greatest success, meaning adversities placed in our lives, I firmly believe to help us grow, transform and evolve into the people were ultimately meant to become.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 6:22 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One of the greatest quotes that I heard actually going through training with Dr. Robert Brohm is he said, The universe is going to keep giving you the same adversity, and it's, it's a pass or fail. And if you fail, it's just going to keep coming at you the same issue. And so if you ever questioned in your brain, you know, why do I keep making the same mistake? And that's because you haven't grown or learn to move past that mistake yet. I I've never heard anybody but it did you know that eloquently before,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 6:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">right? That's right. You know, I talked about three things in the book or in workshops, too. It's really First of all, when adversity strikes, you must face it. You can't act like it's not there. You can't make or you shouldn't act like it's Not there, you shouldn't get angry, your response should not be emotional, you should be willing to face it, then hopefully successfully overcome it. But at the least learn a valuable lesson from it. Because as you said, it's going to come up again if you didn't learn that lesson. So hopefully, if you learn that lesson, it's gonna prepare you down the road for when things happen again, as well. And there's, I'm not just saying this on a whim, this there's a lot of brain science and brain functionality that backs that as well to the fact that when we learn from things when we learn from obstacles, they're something that allows our brain to develop our cortex part of our brain, our rational part of the brain. So adversity in our life is very useful to our development as human beings and in roles such as leadership, sales, business management, ownership, whatever that</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 7:50 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">might be. Even Bill Gates says that the enemy of success is too much success. That's my sense, right? They you start to cruise right</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 8:00 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">licensing, you know, I subscribe to the fact my worst times have ultimately been my best times I've learned the greatest lessons during my adverse times. In fact, I dedicate a whole chapter. I'm not sure if you had a chance to read the book. But in chapter three, I dedicate a whole chapter. And it's titled this summer from hell. So it's one of the toughest things I face that in my younger years that made me become who I am today. So</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 8:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think that's a prevailing factor. You know, I, I intrapreneur, or intrapreneur. I'm a professional speaker. I interview entrepreneurs all the time. But now I've now created a new word if you like that intrapreneur means I interview entrepreneurs. I like that. But anyway, did none of them come on and say, you know, my first idea was a hit. My first idea is where I made my millions, all of them overcame and many times extreme adversity, in order to understand what the work ethic is to create the wealth that a lot of people desire. That's right. Everything in life teaches us a lesson if we're willing to learn from it and use it to our advantage. So I couldn't agree with you more. So you see, this topic is really important now and even more important now than ever white. Why do you say that?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 9:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, a couple things I say even before this whole COVID thing had I part of my tagline for my business, you can look at my capabilities video I produced like, two years ago, I stated we are in a fast paced, high tech, ever evolving world changes hitting us faster than ever adversity, striking deeper than ever. And the speed at which we make a decision to make decisions is getting shorter and shorter. This is the current and future place of our world. So if we are not with the intensity, things are hitting instead, it's not going to get any easier because of technology. If we're not prepared to effectively deal with fast change, deeper adversity, if you need to make a quick decision, we're really going to struggle we're not going to be successful. So you Even before this whole COVID thing I was talking about, you know, the need to be better at handling obstacles, learn from it, overcome it, and succeed from it because I firmly believe those people who can those companies who can are not only going to survive, but they are going to thrive, they may even get a competitive advantage when they're when their competitors aren't able to be successful in these crazy days. You know, as I was researching my not only that whole philosophy there, but when I was researching my book, this is should three and a half years ago, I googled the phrase how to deal with adversity with when back in the day when you plug that you when you Google that phrase, I think it was over 20 million results came back. So obviously this is this was a hot topic even before COVID and whatnot. So I just think it's hotter now because of COVID. That just the fast pace of our world today.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 10:58 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But in so let's look to relate this back to the science of disk for a moment as well 69% of the population are in that highest calc category which means in that highest category you include the one big thing and they say that you fear change I don't think you fear change I just don't think you'd like your pattern disrupted without a why right? Is that fair to say?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 11:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, when I talk about the motivators reached out a motivator for a high s is peace and stability. So obviously COVID doesn't tie anything to peace and stability you know change doesn't tie into anything regarding peace and stability so you're exactly right you know COVID if if for any adverse situation if a high ass or any style but if especially high so does it understand that being a trigger you know that lack of peace lack stability, the the uncertainty if they don't understand that that's a trigger for that potential trigger. It can lead to bigger problems because body don't know that, you know, life's not fair lifestyle. Like isn't going to happen in a normal order. So if you struggle with that, you're going to struggle during those times or during adverse situations. If I'm more aware of that in myself, because of my disc style, I'm going to be much more cognizant of those things that set me into a, you know, a negative, what I call an emotional state. And also I'm going to understand what that emotional state feels like, Am I freeze or fight or flight? Or if I can understand those triggers and responses, I'm going to be better at dealing with adversity. And disk is a way of identifying,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 12:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you know, what are my triggers? And how, what are those emotional triggers? And how do I respond in my freezer fight or flight or, or some combination of those three, and it's interesting is better said than the way I phrase it because really 14% of the population is task based, or the rest is is people based. So even the highs which are the people based now going, we tend to turtle, you know, in the face of adversity because we just don't want to deal with the conflict itself. We're going to continue discussion and talk much more about disk and the book in defense of adversity with Steve Gadd. Vittoria, you're listening to Rick Moore's the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 13:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with your company's business strategy? 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Visit r squared consulting.com today</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 14:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">from the boardroom to you voice America Got business network</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 15:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com Now back to the work life balance</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 15:33 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon we're talking to Steve capitata who's written a book in defense of adversity and right before we went to break we made a point I just wanted to come back to it for a moment. So the 14% of the population are task based people right so that means the other 86 is is is people base people and people based people which is your high your high as we tend to turtle or we hi eyes turtle hi SS fear That kind of that change so when we start talking about adversity that doesn't mean we can't overcome adversity doesn't mean we can't overcome obstacles it just means that our initial reaction is something that we have to fight is that fair to say?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 16:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. And you know, even from those task based people you know, their response could be fight for anger or get frustrated you know, so each each disc style has their respective emotional triggers and those respective responses you know, it's not a black or white answer here but the rule of thumb that I found it research is dominant styles tend to be if they're functioning in a non productive emotional state will be free or fight I'm sorry fight a an influencer will be flight kind of you as you were saying it's you know, don't deal with it head on. steadiness mouse or more. Freeze don't shut down and we internalize and a compliance now is a combination of free And fight, no shutting down then punching back. So that's it that's kind of a black or white description of how what how they may those emotions may manifest when they're negative. In addition, you want to consider the blended styles I as an example, and I may Hi. So as I said earlier, that also I had some high D. So when an emotional trigger such as lack of peace and stability hits me, it works like clockwork, for me, I will initially shut down or freeze I'll start internalizing things. Then if it carries on too far, my de may come up and I'll fight I'll punch back. So that doesn't look very well because people are thinking, Oh, speed, fine. He's not saying anything. Because he, no one knows what I'm thinking because I'm internalizing, not in a good way not. I'm blind when I'm internalizing. But then I snap back. Knowledge of those things that trigger me knowledge of my freeze and fight, response, a freeze and fight response has helped me better self manage in adverse times, I'm much more cognizant of those things that can set me in that limb, that negative emotional state, and what it feels like. So it's essentially through this understanding, I've been able to raise my emotional intelligence and become much more productive under duress, or change or adversity and things of that nature.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 18:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think the two biggest things for me that I learned when I when I really started to study desk and really started to become passionate about it, I think the first one is the identification of our blind spot. So to tell you a story in that as a professional speaker, when I first started speaking and being a high I, one of the first things that people will automatically target you as whether you are or not, right, it's that it's that communication trigger is egotistical. And at the same time, I hadn't learned the lesson yet of speaking kind of from the heart. So it was it was success after success after success. So I look like a radio an egomaniac on stage right. And once I figured that out to internalize it, the first thing I do now is I tell self deprecating jokes on stage just to kind of, you know, get everybody down. But in, in coming back to your book, though, I want to get into the leadership side of it. But one of the things that I do to make it hit home with people, is I read the section as I'm going through each profile of responds best to a leader who write and there's a few. There's a few bullet points for a D, and I and C. And then I come back around, and I said, which means if you're leading a team, and you've got more than 10 people, right, chances are you have every style on that team. So this is the leader you have to be and I read that whole section across again, and I get a lot of laughs at that point. But that's the point that we're trying to drive is that if you've ever caught yourself saying I've said the same 10 cent, same thing 10 times and Johnny doesn't get it. You're not communicating in a style the Johnny can</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 19:54 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">grab it. Exactly. I think one of my favorite quotes I use in my workshops a lot it would be from Vincent bardy who said the key to his success was he had to learn 40 different ways to motivate and communicate with 40 different men. So you know, he knew the hot buttons to push on his players like I think was all pro Hall of Fame offensive guard or tackle Jerry Kramer. You know, he could throw raped on the field, he could kick off the field, yell at him and scream at him. Jerry Kramer would come back the next day, Matt, he won the show coach Lombardi he was wrong. Were Vince Lombardi, I'm sorry, Bart Starr and Paul Horney. He couldn't critique he couldn't embarrass them in public because it would shut them down. And that really resonates with me too, because I played 13 years of football. And when a coach put me in the doghouse, I'm sure you know what being put the doghouse? Well, I felt that Yeah, yeah, you're in trouble base. But when a coach put me in the doghouse, right, wrong or indifferent. I bought furniture for the dog house. I decorated the dog. Meaning I wasn't coming out at the dinner. motivate me so the coaches who got the best nonummy knew my hot buttons and how to get the best out of me. I never responded to yellers and screamers some of my other teammates did those coaches who knew that about their players awfully got the best out of him as well to</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 21:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">a coach told me when I got up to college and did not have a stellar career there told me that I had what was known as game film speed. I said what's that being coach he said, and on film your fastest I'll get out he goes but in person not so much. Got that? I had</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 21:38 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">let's go this one I had gained film height I was</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">when I went on recruiting visits coaches when they elegantly saw me they were a little surprised and so that's how I ended up at division three football versus Division Two or one there are I get exactly what you're saying. And but you didn't point out Doug Flutie to them</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 21:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">going con science doesn't know</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 22:03 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I have the arm Doug Flutie.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 22:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So what are what are some of the attributes that you think great leaders exhibit to be successful in the face of adversity itself?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 22:16 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I think several things, I think, tying this to emotional intelligence as well, too, I think they are highly introspective. They know themselves. They are they understand their behavior, their communication style. They understand how they make decisions, what they're motivated by how they deal with change, risk and conflict and adversity, they really understand themselves. Then second, so they have great intrapersonal skills. Secondly, they have great interpersonal skills to just what we were talking about. They have they know the motivators, the behavior, the attributes, same attributes I just mentioned for them. They know those same attributes and those people with whom they're leading so they know who they can put in production. situations, they know who they're the strengths of their team, where the strengths lie. So the interpersonal skills, intra personal skills are key. And with that the ability to build resilience for themselves and their resilience and perseverance for themselves and their team, and the ability to effectively solve problems and resolve conflict every day. But again, especially those adverse times, yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 23:28 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I want to challenge you on something. It's something I'm sure you've heard. I hear it all the time, especially with dealing with executives, when we start to talk about your human behavior consulting and the things that it can do. They say all that sounds wonderful. You said, Yeah, but I want to start with you. Oh, no, dude, I'm good. I'm fine. How do you how do you overcome that piece?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 23:46 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I mean, I think anecdotal evidence is the biggest one because they see the problems in their team they need to do this. I mean, I've even done workshops where you're applying disc and the leaders think everybody should be adapting to them right now. And that's the key issue I found. And I'm like, No, no, no, no, that's not what I'm saying. So I think you have to point out real evidence where their lack of introspection or their leadership skills is really met panning out in the workplace. If there's conflict, if there's if salespeople aren't closing sales, it's ultimately going to go back to them. So I think you have to really prove provide that evidence because at that higher level, leaders are blind and so many times it's a lonely position, no one is there to necessarily critique them. So you have to show actual evidence of maybe this fault. The these issues you're having are tied back to you as well. So essentially evidence of how it's manifesting in their own team their own business. Absolutely, absolutely. So</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 24:51 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I find that you know, again, they they say like, I'm successful. I was successful to get here. So I don't understand why I have to change but I think it's mindset. And and you said it before when you were talking about? What are the attributes that leaders really need to have? And it's that intra perspective that they have. How do you other than other than, you know, showing them is there, have you had a method or phrase or something you've used to really create that aha moment for them, that they really do need to look inside?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 25:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, what I try to do is, again, help people again, that's self knowledge, their ability to make good decisions in face of obstacles, things of that nature, I try to point out, where again, they're decision making, are they functioning in that what I call the rational part of the brain, I talk about two important parts of the brain in my book, the limbic system and the cortex. Our limbic system is called our emotional brain. Our cortex is our rational brain, and I can dig into that deeper if you want. But oftentimes, I see leaders functioning in that limbic or the emotional part of the brain Whether you're getting angry or they're shutting down, or they're out there taking control things, so I try to point out to leaders to when they're functioning in that emotional part of their brain, and the results of that. So if I'm if a leaders taking control of things instead of delegating, that's not productive, because they should be delegating as leaders. So again, I try to point out where they're not functioning in that rational part of their brain and what those results are. Does that Does that kind of make sense?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 26:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. Absolutely. To in it's funny, but it is the emotional side. I wrote a speech A long time ago called Making emotional conversations on emotional, which was a check point to say, is this really even an issue? And so using project management terms, you get into the data, and then let the data decide whether or not you're having an issue or not, versus You know, I think this person is always late. Well, if I go back and look at the last two months, and they were only late once All right, then I'm just I'm a little bit more emotional about it right now than I am logical. And for me being an emotion based person, I had to teach myself that kind of system to make sure I validated that I had a right to be upset,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 27:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">right? That's right. And like I said, the emotions when I say motion, some emotions are good. I'm talking about when we are angry. We're seeing rat rat fight mode when we're not functioning our optimal brain capacity. It's okay to be how should I say this? A? What's the right Burbage Ay, Ay Ay, ay, you can be direct to the point and send a very clear hearts message from your cortex part of the brain. You know, if you're thinking rational, illogical, and you need to lay down, you've told someone you folks need to operate in that, you know, you need to get your act together as a team. We're not making our numbers. There's a difference between being direct to the point. When you're in control. It's when you're out of control and you're yelling or screaming, you're seeing red You're not functioning at optimal level, that's when it gets, it gets out of control. And there can be a thin, you know, fine line between, you know, delivering that harsh message while in control versus delivering that highly emotional fight or anger message as well too. So, that's the fine line, someone's got to draw so</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 28:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">so we're gonna take a break right here. But when we come back, I want to get into fear and adversity. And when you when you know you're supposed to do something, or you know, you're supposed to make a decision, and that adversity in the fear of that adversity is standing in your way, but we're going to deal with that when we come back from break or listen to Steve gavita brick Morris on the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 28:43 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? 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Put your people first with resource first from PD where join us at pd where.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 30:25 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 30:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">business, you'll find the experts here voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 30:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com now Back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 31:03 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're dealing talking with Steve, dude, we're dealing with you. Alright. Can we get through this interview? Steve? We're talking to Steve, Kevin sorta. And so you're Steve, as we tease going into the break. You know, there's several people out there that that have a tough decision to make, or they're flirting with the tough decision. And the fear of the unknown becomes more of that prevention point, meaning, they kind of know they need to make a decision. They're certainly not happy, you know, whether it be a job or relationship or whatever it is. They're not happy where they are, but that fear of taking that next step. They're weighing that fear versus knowing that they're going to stay on happy if they stay where they are. What's your advice when they're facing that level of adversity?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 31:50 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I think you have to really check what I call your perception of adversity, your perception of difficulties, and I talked about two things in my book. Number one, well the two words are your perception ties to acceptance and acknowledgement, to accept the fact that adversity, difficulties change, uncertainty, uncomfortable things are a part of life. When you accept that you're no longer I guess surprised or apprehensive that it's happening. And again, that ties that whole brain functionality piece I mentioned earlier I can connect to then the second part of that is acknowledging that adversity is brought in your life to learn overcome face and at least learn a lesson. So if you can learn look at everything in your life, as regardless if you fail, there should be no fear because there's always a lesson to be learned there are no there's no such thing as failure. I call it perceived failure because if you've learned a lesson, it's not failure. So acknowledge accepting that adversity is part of life. And when I say adversity, I'm saying, you know what might be going back to disk what might be an exciting challenge for one disc style may be a frustrating, frightful thing for another disc style. So with First is deeply personal and is defined by you. So really accepting that these uncomfortable things happen in our lives and they're put in our lives to help us grow, transform and evolve. That acknowledgement piece I learned from a gentleman name you probably have heard of him, called Chad hymas. Oh, you've not heard I'd highly recommend reading up on Shabbat Chad is a quadriplegic. He was a elk farmer, I believe it was and through. He was loading hay and unfortunately, he did not have enough hydraulic fluid in his tractor. I forget how many tons of bale of hay fell on him, but it fell on him. And he ultimately became a quadriplegic. And when I interviewed him, he stated that, you know, it's it's acknowledging that he can use this accident to help others and now he's one of the hottest speakers on the National Speakers Association circuit. Great Great guy. And you're using that difficult time to parlay that really, really teaching others lessons, especially around industries where there's any safety involved there environmental health and safety departments things that nature. So I'd highly recommend reading chat and following up on him, but that's where I got the acknowledgement part about it said, Hey, it all depends how you look at it. You know, and if you look at it and fear if you look at it with apprehension, then cancers are the result may validate your feelings. But if you could look to say, hey, there's no risk if I don't take it, the worst thing could happen is I learned a lesson from this. Does that</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 34:36 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">make sense? Absolutely. And so what are some of those greatest lessons you think you can learn from those difficulties?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 34:43 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I think that you can, you can do things you previously didn't think you could do on you can land that job. You didn't think you could land you can land that woman you didn't think or guide that you didn't think you can land it off ultimately proves that I think there is no no limit to our lives. If we are willing to make effort, try and seek our goals, if we have solid goals, we're willing to fight for them. We're willing to go through walls for that we're learning there learn valuable lessons, we can ultimately become what we ultimately strive to become or achieve. Let's put it</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 35:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that way. You just made a connection in my brain that I've never made before. But if you ever, you know, it's a standard response, male or female, just say, Wow, how is that person with that person? What you just taught me is? Well, the person that we think isn't worthy. He's just really good at overcoming adversity. Is that is that simply? So, you know, we've already discussed why we think obstacles are put in our path. We think that, you know, we've discussed, you're learning some lessons. Are there any exercises that we can practice to become better at dealing with adversity both in the short term and long term?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 35:53 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, again, really look at three things. I think, again, going back to the desk, I think raising understanding Your disc style could help drive your intrapersonal skills out self knowledge. It can also drive your interpersonal skills, learning how to deal with others. So the more you can understand based on your personal style, those emotional triggers What are those things that can set me into a emotional state of freeze fight or flight The more I can understand that myself, the more I'm going to be successful, the more I can understand those things in those people whom I'm leading, the more I'm going to help them be successful ultimately become successful. I also talked about something called the ooda loop. Have you ever heard of the ooda loop? Nope. ooda loop is developed by someone in the Air Force for rapid decision making how following a series of a thought process to make good solid decisions in in fast moments. It's an acronym, Udo is basically observe the situation. Number 202 o dl Da, da loop o da observed The situation as it's happening, orient yourself to the situation meaning I've been here before, or I know how to handle this, or I have training to deal with this for, I'm gonna learn a lesson from it now, then once you've oriented yourself, then the D comes in, decide what you're going to do then ultimately act. And it's a loop because it's a never ending loop and it can full feed on itself. So the more experiences I have, remember to dot o, o da, so Ori, observe, orient, decide and act. The more experiences I can learn from in my life that I have in my arsenal, the more goes into the ooda loop, especially the Orient phase. Because I'm observing an adverse situation happening, the more experiences I have to access I'm going to orient myself much better to what my decision is in the DEA of the ooda loop. Does that make sense?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 37:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, absolutely. It's it's the same language. When you tell a salesperson, don't worry about your first Yes, go get 100 knows that the reason behind that is the practice, essentially is you're setting the ooda loop. I didn't I didn't know that term but that's what you're doing is, is obviously you learn to become better on how to close business. If you're not afraid of that. No.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 38:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Let's go backwards. The observing piece is about forcing myself to observe it rationally. Don't jump in and look at it, not emotionally so you can see it clearly. Secondly, orient myself to what options do I have to respond to this thing in a productive manner to your point, if I'm a salesperson I have I have not experienced or I have one or two knows that in my in my belt. I'm not going to be as successful as that person who has those 100 knows and hopefully has learned lessons from those. he or she's going to be able to orient themselves better because they have more of an arsenal they have more of a options than grasp. So that's why I say r&b. ability to learn from our obstacles is productive, because that feeds into our future decision making into that ooda loop phase. You know, I, I hope I'm not insulting you or any of your listeners, but that's why I'm very adamant against participation trophies for kids.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 39:16 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Don't get me started. Yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 39:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you're not helping them do two things, one formulate the cortex part of their brain if they're not accustomed to losing or failing. They're not learning any lessons to fend to benefit down the road. In addition, it's not going to allow them to make those decisions and walk through that ooda loop phase because they have nothing to orient to. I've never failed. I've always gotten a trophy. I don't know what it means to win. So when something happens that the Orient phase there's not much to it number one, and that decision isn't as sharp and the action behind it isn't as sharp as well either. So that's my whole point about the more we can learn from our obstacles it's going to, it's going to benefit us because down the road when we have to make decisions, we have more experiences to fall back on to make wiser decisions, and have much better actions behind those decisions as well, too.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 40:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And there's some great research out there around highly successful highly performing CEOs. And one of the common traits that they found was that they were on a high level team or championship team, that that lost the championship game. And it's interesting that that that's the common trait, but what happens is kind of in the psyche, they don't ever want to feel that way again, right. So it is a negative feeling. So they work harder and develop a work ethic that says, I'm not going, I'm going to be over prepared because I don't want to fail, and thus built a work ethic within them. That led them to great success. I think we're doing a huge disservice by not letting that failure set at these early ages.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 40:56 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">We're going back to the brain funktionelle if you don't mind, I'm going to build on it. There's two important parts of the brain I talk about the limbic system. And the cortex. The limbic system is known as our emotional brain. It's what we're born with. It does not eat, grow, transform and evolve through time when we're functioning in the limbic system. During adverse situations, our adrenaline starts rushing in our response is going to be freeze fight or flight or some combination. So as you can imagine, freezing or being angry is not a good place to be when you're trying to handle an adverse situation. The cortex part of our brain also known as our rational brain, does grow transform and evolve through time through our experiences both good and especially bad through our education system reading writing arithmetic through our training that's why I'm I'm so into this training and development world we're in because what we're doing we're helping people build their cortex muscles to be successful leaders sales purse, people or two functioning effectively under situational dynamics such as adversity, change risk taking conflict resolution. So, the bottom line is when adversity strikes you, you want to be functioning in the cortex part of your brain. Because if you're not, you're going to have an emotional spot responsive freeze, fight or flight and you're not going to make wise decisions, you're not necessarily going to say the right things, you're not going to solve problems. And you're not going to be able to see think creatively or find solutions you may have if you weren't thinking from that rational part of your brain. So that's why that's so important to function in that cortex and our life experiences. If we're willing to learn, we can build our cortex muscles, so to speak.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 42:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. So it's important to have those experiences so we can learn essentially. So we're gonna take our final break right here. We'll be right back with Steve Gavin torta. You're listening to Rick Morris and the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 42:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives Do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy. 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To reach Rick Morris or his guest today. We'd love to have you call into the program At 1-866-472-5790, again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 45:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. And I've been visiting with Steve Gavin torta. Steve, kind of final question, then I've got a question that, that I asked every guest. That's, that's on the show. But why is this topic so important right now as we go through the pandemic?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 45:36 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it is. As I said before, even before this pandemic, we're in this fast paced, high tech, low touch world. Everything's heading it's faster than ever. technology's not going to get any slower. And the other other factors that multi generational workplace, we have boomers, X's wires, everything in the workplace now, so I think Just the speed of things, speed of everything hitting us at once. a customer's needing answers speed at which to make decisions adversity. Again, I think even before this COVID the need to be strong and sit and think clearly is more important than ever, because the speed of change and whatnot. So we as leaders, if we can function effectively and our teams can function effectively during change, adversity, COVID, whatever that might be. It can again help the leaders their business, their business is not just survive the craziness that thrive in it. I truly think it's times like this, where companies can get a competitive advantage they can steal market share, because their organizations running on all cylinders or other other organizations. They're they're not changing fast enough. There's turnover. And you know, what turnover can do to the bottom line of an organization so that I have the word All machines that can solve problems minimize conflict is ultimately going to increase their cash flow, profitability, and grow their business as well to where others may not if they're not functioning on all cylinders. So I feel like what's happening with the speed of technology and everything else is if you look at the ooda loop, it's that observing orient is is getting further and further compressed. I think that that's leading to some of the the, I mean, you can have one mistake go down as a company or whatever, and it'd be all over the world within 10 minutes of you making it not having time to observe, orient, decide what you're going to do next. That's right. And if you're using the ooda loop, I mean, it's it's a successful process. It was developed again, by the airport, if I'm not mistaken by the Air Force for their pilots can make those snap decisions, you know, and that observation, the importance of them to pilots to stay rational, then the orientation is They have a whole man, they have a manual of responses, they have training of responses. So that orientation is all about them falling back on their training falling back on their experiences, then that's why I'm such a proponent of training too. And let's take a sales person who's thrown to the wolves, you know, he or she can observe a situation hopefully, rationally, but if they don't have training and skills to orient themselves, they're not going to be successful. You know, I've seen I've observed plenty of sales people who have never been trained on handling objections. So what happens is they start sweating, they start getting nervous and they're gonna fake push back at the buyer right away or the key decision maker right away, they get defensive, it's because they have nothing to orient to because they've not been trained on how to successfully deal with adversity. So those life experiences again, funnel into that orient face. The more we have to put in there, the more we're going to make better decisions, and our actions are going to be much better as well, too. So, and that's how that loop comes into play to your point. It's more compressed now than ever, then. So the more we can learn about ourselves, the more we can understand our triggers and responses, the better we're going to put input into that little loop and that loop that adds another little tool to write, to remind yourself to observe it rationally, don't go into limbic system and my emotional triggers and responses helped me know that better about myself so I can observe more rationally, then I have all these experiences and training to orient myself Oregon. There's nothing wrong with orient orient whoring or emptying yourself to the fact that I don't know I've never been here for I'd never done this before. But you know what, I'm open to learn a lesson. I'm going to acknowledge as I said earlier, this is a chance to learn something new. And what do I need to decide to do? Looking forward and whether those actions, once again, what you're going to do is add more to your orient phase down the road. So sure if that makes sense.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 50:10 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So how do people get in touch with you?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 50:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it's really easy. I'm like, maybe it's not so as easy if you've seen my last name, but feel free to Google me. My website's Gabba torta.com. It's my last name. It's spelled ga VA to rta.com. And you can find out if you google me, I'm out there on the public domain. You can check my YouTube sites out I have a lot of good YouTube content out there that you may find useful. My email address is very simple, Steve at Gabba torta.com and feel free to call me 813777941 for I'm easy to find out there so</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 50:50 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">outstanding. So what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Steve Gavatorta 50:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh my goodness. Um, there's a lot of it.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think again, Chad highnesses, it all depends on how your vantage point how you view those adverse situations which is going to determine your outcome. If you choose to view something negatively in a negative manner, it's going to be perceived in the outcome is going to be negative. So I think, you know, acknowledging that, you know, adversity is brought in our lives to help us grow. You know, I think it's not as much advice that I get. I've gotten but it's more of the motivational quotes and things I've read, one of which I often read in workshops leading up to this whole adversity topic. It's regarding Abraham Lincoln. Upon his passing it was it was stated by a news reporter who called on him at the time, and they were often at odds and I'm gonna paraphrase, but it's essentially states that Abraham Lincoln use the obstacles that he faced in his live life to his advantage. You He took every brick thrown at him and built steps to offer me become the greatest president. There was another quote, I often use it as I'm paraphrasing again. But it's the gem only becomes perfected through trials. So I think it's basically mother nature's way of telling us that we become ultimately who we're meant to become through the difficulties we face. The difficulties we face are about helping us grow, transform and evolve into the people we were meant to become. So I am not sure if that's the lesson I received or two quotes. It's been an array of different things. And they all fall under the fact that the difficulties are met help us. So.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 52:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. Well, Steve, we thank you so much for coming on. And, you know, most of the audience is not aware of the adversity you're dealing with, but we appreciate you pushing through and being a part of this with us. We'd love to have you back. My pleasure, would love to a lot of content I'd like to talk about so let's stay in touch. Absolutely. So next weekend. We're actually going to go to a replay I'm doing the keynote in a networking event for the PMI chapter of Austin, Texas. So I will be busy with them that next friday so we'll do a replay after that we've got Ryan Stanley coming up and, and quite frankly, getting you the the the success that you guys have given us the show, and continue to support the show and continue to push the show out there. We I'm literally getting eight to 10 requests a week now to be on the show. So not only do we have some phenomenal bookings coming up, but we're able to pick some of the best in the world coming up. And so we're booked all the way out until March on the show. We're going to continue to drive phenomenal entrepreneurs continue to drive phenomenal leaders. And of course, we'll have some fun surprises throughout. So that's what's going to be coming up in the future here at the work life balance. We always appreciate your support. You can find me at Rick A. Morris on Twitter, or LinkedIn find me at Rick A. Morris on Facebook book or Rick ab Rick A. Morris calm are more said r squared consulting.com and until next Friday, we hope that you live your own work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 54:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-77952473892811616762020-09-12T10:58:00.002-05:002020-09-12T10:58:50.377-05:00Thirty Minute Mentors - Part 2 - Adam Mendler<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/125555/how-to-live-a-bucket-list-life-trav-bell" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris091120.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:06 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick Morris.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 0:28 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And welcome to another edition of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. So excited to have everybody along. We actually have a repeat guest with us today. He was first on with us back in May, and he's the CEO of the billows group, where he co founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries Beverly Hills chairs, which is the leading seller of refurbished Herman Miller Aeron chairs in the country custom tobacco, which was a one of a kind e commerce platform where customers could create fully customized private label cigars in real time. billows solutions, a technology consulting and software development practice. He's also the host and creator of a podcast called 30 minute mentors, and we're gonna bring him on right now. Adam Mendler. How you doing, Adam?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 1:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Great. Great to be here with you again. honored to be here for a second time. This is awesome.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 1:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, right repeat customers, it means we must have liked each other the first time.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 1:23 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely pretty.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 1:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's right. So we were we were on in May. And it was interesting because, you know, we were just kind of in the midst of the pandemic, we there was a lot of uncertainty of how long things we're going to be going on, you know, maybe would just be to like June back in that timeframe. But how, how have you been doing in what's what's really happened since we last talked from from May to September.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 1:50 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Good question, Rick. I feel like like the rest of the country. We're, unfortunately having to come to terms with this new norm. that we're in. We don't really know how long this new normal is going to last for. But as long as it's lasting, all we can really do is try to make the best of it and try to adapt. What I've been doing professionally has been trying to figure out how to adapt the best that I can. personally very much the same. I haven't really been going out of time, but I've been focusing a lot on my businesses. I've been focusing a lot on my podcast. It's been an unusual period of my life, but I've really just been trying to stay as positive and productive as possible and using this time to work on things that I can work on and not focus on the negative, despite all the negativity around us.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 2:50 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it's been it's a difficult time because, you know, for me, a lot of my revenue comes from speaking consulting, which just hasn't been around and so you we've been focused on spinning up a couple of different online businesses, one that we'll probably be doing a show about and launching hopefully within the next week. But at the same time, I think it's been a blessing in the sense that, you know, a lot of distractions have been cleared away. But, you know, I think the people that are truly looking at this as a transitionary period are the ones that are going to come out of this in the long run. What, what kind of advice could you give? Or have you heard from some of your guests on 30 minute mentors? It has been some of the best advice you've heard on how to use some of this new time in the pandemic.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 3:39 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, good question, Rick. And I can tell you just from my own personal experience, and then can talk a little bit about guess. I think it's first and foremost, really important to try to eliminate whatever noise is going on around you. That brings you down So I don't remember if we talked about this, when, in our first conversation, but a game changer for me has just been eliminating things that were that I was doing before the pandemic. And an example would be watching cable news. There's so much bad news going on around us. And when you watch cable news, and I'm not the only one that watch way too much cable news in America, just cutting that out eliminating that. It's it's like someone who has a bad diet. And when you cut out unhealthy food from your diet, you physically feel better, you're more productive. You're you sleep better, you move around better, you're better in everything you do in your life. And the first thing that I recommend anyone everyone do is evaluate what your habits are, and try to understand what habits you have that you can turn around that you can change And secondly, along those lines, what are things that are taking up a significant amount of time that you can either eliminate or that you can reduce and things that are not additive to your life not additive, to your professional life, not additive to your productivity, not additive to your health, your happiness, to your physical health, your mental health, to your bottom line. So that's how I've tried to view this period. It's been a period where again, I've been largely focused on work but I have incorporated things that bring me joy outside of work. I've been thrilled that baseball has been back it's been a great opportunity for me to sort of sit back and watch a lot of baseball and you know, watch Netflix. I hadn't watched a television series for years because I've been so busy with other things and you need to have some kind of balance in your life. I have been doing home workout say, I can't go to the gym. So I started doing Beachbody workouts and the advice that I've gotten from the guests on my show. And I think it's universally applicable no matter what period you're in, but it's particularly applicable. Now. A constant theme that I hear from my guess, is the importance of lifelong learning. No matter where you are in your journey, even if you're a fortune 500 CEO, even if you're a four star General, even if you're the head coach of a sports team. To get to the top to stay at the top, you need to continually learn you need to continually hone your craft. And in a time like this, what better opportunity than to learn to grow to spend time doing things that you've always wanted to do and now we have the opportunity</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 7:01 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, leaders are readers are for sure. You coming back to the cable news, you you you pick something there for me because it's it's been difficult for me to have professionally I you know, business wise and tax wise I lean more right and socially I think I lean more laughs I'm really kind of in the middle. And the biggest thing I've tried to teach my kids is how to see the middle meaning. You know, one of the things that we did an activity during either one of the conventions, is you watch the convention and then we'd watch five minutes of Fox and five minutes of CNN and then discuss kind of, Okay, how do we end up where do we end up with this? But it's getting to a point that you can't even do that. It's so my daughter actually asked me a question about, you know, how did it become like this and i and i believe and I haven't gone back to make sure but it comes back to the Fairness Doctrine, which I think was eliminated in Reagan Reagan's term Which, which basically led the path or built the pathway for CNN and Fox to come out, which remove the if you're going to err one side, you have to give equal amount of time to the other side doctrine in news. And what's happened to that from a society perspective and a echo chamber perspective has just been fascinating to watch.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 8:23 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, Rick, so full disclosure, you and I could talk politics all day all night. I have a degree in political science. I am very passionate about government politics policy, have very strong opinions about where the country is going. With that said, I try to delineate between my content and my political views. So I try to keep my show. As a political as I can. I try to keep my content as a political as I can. We're in such a politically charged environment. Right now, unfortunately and something today and when we're doing this podcast on 911, it's September 11, which is a solemn, somber day. It's a day that lives in infamy. And it's also a day that we should all take a step back and remember that we're Americans first. We're human beings first. But we're Americans before we're democrats before we're Republicans. I feel like the country has unfortunately gotten to a place where we are so divided along ideological views and along partisan lines, and it's sort of like, you know, Rick, I'm a hardcore angels fan, and I hate the Dodgers. But the hatred that I have toward the Dodgers is nothing like the hatred that Republicans have toward democrats and vice versa. Like when did this happen. All right, oh, we need to sort of take a step back and get a little bit of perspective. And hopefully, we can live happier, healthier lives with a little bit more perspective.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 10:15 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">See, I don't want to rekindle the whole Lane Kiffin conversation with you again, but I do have a question around that, but you so, you know, I dislike Alabama being at being a Tennessee fan. But I don't hate them because I love them because they are so tough because I get so excited to play. So when you say you hate the Dodgers, don't it? Doesn't that come from a level of respect, though? No, not at all. Not at all that for you.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 10:45 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">comes from being an LA native and growing up here in LA. Just being a hardcore angels fan and angels have always been my team. The first game I ever went to when I was</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 10:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">the first professional game I ever went to was the angels.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 10:58 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Really? That's really cool. Yeah. So, I was a seven year old kid and the first game I ever went to was an angel game at Angel stadium. They were playing the Cleveland Indians. It was called Anaheim stadium back then and the big eight. And I was hooked hardcore Angel fan and look when you're a seven year old kid, you love your team and you hate the other team. So 30 years later, I still hate the Dodgers. It's nothing more complicated than that.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 11:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I was trying to make a more a better but there but I think your answer now So yeah, I was I was at four. I went out there and saw the Olympics. We caught a little we caught the angels play. I want to say Reggie Jackson was still around with the angels.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 11:46 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Over Yes,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 11:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yes, twilight of his career there but I got to see him him play live as first time I ever saw a professional baseball game for sure. Same same Stadium, Anaheim stadium.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 11:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's awesome. First game I went to is 1990 So Reggie Jackson was already gone by then. But the angels have a history of signing. Certainly when I was a kid, they did this. It would sign guys like Reggie Jackson, who were legends who are Hall of Fame caliber players, but they were way past their prime and they were sort of on the last legs of their major league journeys. And they played the last year, half a year in Anaheim, and I saw a lot of guys like that. So kind of a cool experience.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 12:33 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And for a while they're kind of the Kansas City Chiefs right there were great players go to retire but but before the Chiefs went through this rebuild, so we're gonna go ahead and take a break right here. We'll be right back with that a Mendler that you're listening to Rick Mars in the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 12:50 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? 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Allow r squared to ensure that you are getting the value of your investment visit r squared consulting.com today from the boardroom</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">to you, voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today. We'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 186647257 And zero. If you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 15:10 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're talking with Adam Mendler. And Adam has his own podcast, creator of the podcast, 30 minutes mentors and, yeah, I feel like I'm somewhat of a dinosaur in this industry now, as we're getting into our fifth year of doing this every Friday. And, you know, there's been probably 1.4 million podcasts that have started in quit in the time that I've been doing this. And so I just let's get a little bit into podcasting for a moment. So first of all, you know, why create the podcast? Do you do it all on your own? Are you using a service? Let's just talk a little bit about the creation of it.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 15:51 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, happy to talk about it. And I am one of those 1.4 million that started I have not quit, but I'm going strong at on episode number 35, as of today's recording and a bunch more in the pipeline, I actually have most of my episodes through the end of the calendar year already recorded, which has been pretty cool. So, or if not recorded, it's already scheduled. So it's been a lot of fun and love doing it. What inspired me to do it, Rick was, I've been working in addition to my entrepreneurial endeavors on a lot of different content over the years, I've written a lot in Forbes and Inc, and huffington post on leadership, on management, on entrepreneurship, marketing on these different topics. And I started an interview series a couple years ago, in Arianna Huffington platform thrive global, where I've interviewed over 300 of America's top leaders and You know, you can go on and read those interviews. They're 1000 to 1500 word interviews. But I felt like the right medium for this kind of content was a podcast. And what I really wanted to do was I really wanted to create a place where people could go and gain access to the best network of mentors possible. I'm a very big believer in the power of mentorship. Each and every one of us has been impacted, in ways big and small, by mentors in our lives by mentors who have begun powerful roles and by many mentors who we might have one encounter with, but that encounter could play a huge role in our personal and professional success. And what I wanted to do was I wanted to give a broad audience access to the best Networking mentors possible. And it was a pretty easy pivot for me, given that I'd already kind of been doing these interviews and what I wanted to do a 30 minute mentors, and what I've been doing is really bringing the best of the best to the show. So in 30 minute increments, doing interviews with CEOs and founders of household name companies, major celebrities and athletes, influencers, generals, admirals, leaders to listen to. And that's really, why I did it and why I keep doing.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 18:42 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So having said that, you know, and again, I started I love the format, we'd started a nother podcast, we call it transformational leader podcast. We're pivoting that into breaking average, but was the same reason we had this transformational leader award that we gave out through the john Maxwell team and unless you were in the room, and saw the three or four minute clips from the 10 finalists. You really didn't know anything about them. And, you know, we have 35,000 people now in the john Maxwell team, maybe there was 3000 people in the room. So I felt like we were doing a huge disservice there. So, Paul Gustafson my Carver started that that podcast and I get to be the the interviewer for it. But it's been fascinating to kind of get those stories out. Even when you say 30 minute mentors, there's a lot you can get out in those 30 minutes. But having said all that, if I'm going to ask this question as delicately as I can. Yeah, obviously, you have some favorites. I think it's easy but without naming names. What what was a huge learning point or disappointment when you finally got on with somebody that you were expecting big things from?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 19:54 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, that's a good one. I'll tell you I have not been this appointed in any of my guests, I can tell you some challenges that I've had. But each and every one of my guests has been awesome. On Air and author. I and I say that with all sincerity. I have not had a single guest so far. Who, again, again, it's anonymous, so it's not like I'm saying, oh, Episode 30 whatever. Every single one of my guests has been incredible onair incredible oftheir as a human being, what I would say is the biggest challenge for me. And the biggest learning experience for me is that not all guests are created equal. And brick, you know this, but your listeners might not. Not all guests are created equal when it comes to their mastery of the format. So a lot of guests really get it and our absolute pros and understand when you're doing this 30 minute podcast interview, you can't give an eight minute answer. Because if you give an eight minute answer, number one, listeners are going to turn it off, they're going to tune out. And number two, if you give an eight minute answer, the there's no opportunity to really cover a lot of ground because right then and there, that's, you know, a huge chunk of the show. So, that can be challenging. And when someone gives an eight minute answer, then I have to, I'm not, Rick, you're doing a live interview. I'm not doing a live interview. So if someone is giving long winded answers, I then have to sort of go back and and do a lot of editing and extend the interview out. So instead of it being a 30 or 35 minute interview, often turned into like a 40 or 45 minute interview, and then do a lot of work on the back end. To turn it into was hopefully an enjoyable 30 to 35 minute interview. So those to me The interviews that I would say are the ones that are not as enjoyable for me. Because it's, it's not like if you think about it from the perspective of a director or an actor, if you can shoot something in one take, that's awesome. So if I could do a podcast and there's, it's just a conversation and then no editing, I love that. But if it's something where as I'm doing it in real time, I know that I'm going to need to go back and shave this eight minute answer and get three minutes. Hey, this is a there goes my Saturday afternoon.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 22:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I think it's the the reverse is true for me. I get people they give four second answers. And as like, we're filling a 15 minute segment here. We've got work to do. I've really fallen into enjoying podcast producing and truly producing so not just the editing side of it, but listening to the interview and then prodding the conversation. Between the interviewer and interviewee to expand certain points or to get, you know other things out. So getting that opportunity to hear it as a listener, and then be able to interject into how we can, you know, beef it up. It's been it's been a blast for me. So what's one of the biggest things from technology or format perspective that you felt like that you had to learn in order to get that podcast out?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 23:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Great question, Rick. And the The short answer is everything. I'm not. I had I walked into the process with zero knowledge about how to launch a podcast from a technological perspective. I had a lot of knowledge on the topics of how to bring on the best and most successful people in America. I had a lot of knowledge about how to conduct great interviews had a lot of knowledge about how to Talk about leadership and related topics. But from the perspective of how to actually get these interviews into podcast format, man, that was a big learning experience for me. The best advice that I could have that I could give to anyone listening is understand your strengths, understand your weaknesses. And when you don't know something, try to bring someone in who does. And in this case, I know very little about this stuff. And what I did was I called friends of mine who have deep expertise in this area. One buddy in particular, I'll say his name, guy named Alex worser. Great guy. childhood friend of mine, and Alex worker, really just held my hand throughout this process and told me what equipment to buy helped me set the equipment up. The first interview I did there was a problem because I didn't I sort of screwed up from a technology perspective I called him up he held my hand and walk me through it and having him in my corner was integral to getting this off the ground.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 25:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So for those of people that are interested, you can visit pm that's pm is in project management that works calm is a blog of mine in search for my my complete podcast kit, which basically walks through my entire process routine, all the tools I use all the technology I use, how I use it for social media, and that's out there completely free for you is just a way for us to give back. It's all my lessons learned in podcasting. You can find that at pm that works calm. You know, I'll tell you the biggest advice that I give Adam is you know, when somebody says I want to do a podcast is you know I pitch seasons to them. So do seasons because One of the biggest things and we talked about it on our last time that we interviewed about pod fade, right, which is after the seventh episode is when most people kind of run out of steam is to plan out 10 episodes to do a season and the season and then take a break and breathe in see if that was something you enjoy, didn't enjoy. And if you never go back to it, then there's a logical conclusion and end to the podcast. But if you did enjoy it and you loved it, then you can easily pick up a season two, what do you think of that?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 26:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">If you did, that's interesting advice. I think that's an interesting perspective. I complete to be completely honest with you. I haven't had really had that mindset because I've just been so laser focused on trying to produce the best content that I can I've, from the day I started the show I've been focused on how many great guests can I get indefinitely so I, again sort of almost booked up for the rest of the year and then next year is going to start filling up. So, but I do think that that's interesting advice for new podcasters. I can tell you the advice that I give because even though I'm a relatively new podcaster, again, I only have 35 episodes up, I release one episode a week, I launch the podcast in January of 2020. The piece of advice that I give and record it curious to get your perspective on this is, I tell people before you take the leap before you make the decision to start a podcast, understand why you're actually doing it. Because there are so many people who have podcasts you mentioned the 1.4 million number which is staggering. And something that I've learned is there probably 100 different reasons as to why people have podcasts and What is the reason why you're doing it? And that will really dictate what you put into it. Because if you're doing it, because you're a hobbyist that's going to drive it in a completely different direction than if you're doing it to try to monetize the podcast, or if you're doing it because you're trying to build relationships, or if you're doing it because you're trying to build your personal brand, or if you're doing it because you're trying to gain exposure for one of your businesses. In my case, I'm doing it because I'm trying to build this platform of mentorship and giving listeners the ability to access great leaders and great mentors. So my motivation is different than the typical person out there. But I don't know Rick, what do you think of that?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 28:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think it's a great question. And I think what I'm gonna do is answer that right after the break. So you're listening to Rick Morrison the work life balance, I'll provide my answer right after this.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 29:03 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? 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Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 31:23 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance with we're visiting with that a Mendler. And Adam, you just posed a question to me right before break as to what I thought about your advice, in terms of understanding the why. And I can't I couldn't agree more with you know, not only understanding but identify why do a podcast. It actually makes me think of listening. JOHN Maxwell talks about a book. You know, people come up to him all the time says, Well, I want to write books like you. And it sounds harsh when he says it, but he'll say but who's going to read it and his point is is you know, he Other than your mom and your family members, who's going to read it. And the point he's trying to make is to get you to focus on who you writing the book for everybody feels like they've got a story, everybody feels like they've had, you know, this unique life and most of us have. But when you're putting that into a book format, nobody really wants to read as to why your life is unique, right? So you have to turn turn it around and say, why am I doing this? What's in it for the reader? And so the same goes with a podcast, what's in it for the listener? You know, when I originally started this podcast, I used to, you know, as a professional speaker, use my speaking as my marketing for consulting and for my books. And so the podcast became a natural extension of that, but that has morphed quite a bit as my leadership journey has has morphed into more service people, more leadership, more entrepreneurship. And that's really The direction this show has gone. But I couldn't agree with your advice more on you know, finding out your why. Because I can tell you there are times as you do it that you need to tap into that Why? To keep that energy and momentum going.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 33:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You're right in to your point. I guested on a number of podcasts so far. And I can tell you and that when I talk to a lot of the podcast hosts, and when I talk to people who reach out to me who try to seek my mentorship on whether to start a podcast, how to get going, advice around podcasting and just advice in general. Some people are starting podcasts because they like hearing their own voice. They like it, they just like talking. And they're not thinking about the audience. They're not thinking about the listener. They're Not really thinking about it from a marketing or branding perspective. And you know what, that's fine. But I just think it's important to understand what your reason is because Rick is, you know, and as I know, and as anyone who's gone somewhat deep into this process knows you're, you're a lot deeper into it than I am. It's a lot of work. It's very involved. It's a big time commitment. It's not easy. It's, it's a lot of fun. It's very rewarding. It's very enjoyable. But there's an opportunity cost. It's, it's very involved. So for you to take the plunge, know the why, and align that why with your house. Because if you're doing this, for example, as a way to just have fun, and great then view it as a hobby and dedicate hobby time to it. But if you're doing this as a way to try to make money, if you're doing this as a way to market one of your businesses then view it as a marketing job. Use the same prism use the same framework as you would any other marketing channel, whether it's the same kind of budget, whether it's budgeting the same kind of time. I think having that kind of perspective, having that kind of mindset is extremely important in terms of how you process</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 35:34 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I couldn't agree more. So are you advertising? Have you gotten sponsorship on the podcast?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 35:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">have not taken on advertising as of yet? It's kind of a loaded question. So the show is still young and I wanted to keep it ad free at the moment, sort of in until I reached that whatever critical passes this point, if I bring on advertising, I don't necessarily know that the payoff really justifies adding, adding advertising to the show, but hopefully sooner than later I will. But I'm not at that point yet.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 36:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it's it's a difficult process and it's one that I think is still relatively new, you know, people are still trying to figure out how that works and where that works. And I know you know, I've looked into it, you know, obviously on several different occasions but I also am the one that will fast forward the commercials when I'm listening to a podcast in the car. So you know, I'm not sure that that I want to make the listeners do that even though you know, obviously we have commercials on this show. And so advertising directly to the work life balance here that's through more than network itself. No, but I find that interesting. What so other than technology what what have you found is the hardest thing So we've heard the eight minute answers and the technology. But what is the hardest thing you feel like you personally had to overcome in order to continue the</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 37:10 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">podcast? The hardest thing for me, and it's it's an ongoing challenge is it's just the time commitment. It is a big commitment. And it's like anything else. Hey, you and I can go to a movie. We probably can't go to a movie right now. But, you know, rewind six months ago, or hopefully fast forward, six months or a year from now, when we go to the movie theater, and we watch a movie, and we see 90 minutes of entertainment. What we don't see is what goes into it. And it's sort of like when you go to a restaurant, you have your meal and the meal is great and you enjoy it, but you don't necessarily see what goes into it. And in action A 30 minute mentors, I'm working really hard to give listeners a 30 minute experience that will add enormous value to their personal lives into their professional lives. And to make that happen, transcends me just sort of rolling out of bed and jumping on the phone with a guest and shooting the breeze with them for 30 minutes. There's a lot of preparation. There's a lot of homework. There's a lot of thought. I spent a lot of time really trying to understand what kinds of questions I should ask that I think will really optimize that 30 minutes. I worked really hard during the interview to try to control the pace to try and manage the clock. I feel like I'm back in my sports days where I'm, you know, focusing on the clock whether it's football or basketball, that's how much baseball but we really are managing clock. And then once the interview is done, there's the editing process. I have an editor who I send the episode to, but he does more of the technical editing. So we'll then send it back to me and I'll do a run through and want to make sure that it sounds good for listeners that if there isn't an eight minute answer that we get that answer down to three minutes, so that it it's an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. At the end of the day. anyone listening to 30 minute mentors, has lots of other options as to how they could spend that 30 minutes. So I want to make sure that it's 30 minutes, that they're gonna walk away from and say, this was great. And I can't wait to listen again.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 39:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I have several friends in the entertainment industry and they were telling me their dislike for Netflix. And I was like, why is that? And they said because you know, you'll get excited for a show. They release it. You'll binge watch it In a day and a half is that was literally like a year of our lives. putting that together editing it, you know, pulling all that stuff off. So it's an interesting perspective. What What is one of the the things that has stuck with you the most that a guest has said on your podcast to you.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 40:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's a tough one because it truly every episode, there's one or two takeaways or three takeaways that are just really, really powerful for me. And we can almost do it by the guests. So I'll just pick one out that stands out because we posted it in our social media for 30 minute mentors yesterday. And it was an interview that I did forget which episode number but was relatively early on in the podcast. It was an interview with the founder of one of the largest companies in the financial services. And told me don't hire good people. We were talking about hiring. He said don't hire good people. And I was like, taken aback. What? What do you mean don't hire good people. He said, don't hire good people. Because you can't fire good people only hire great people. And I just thought that was really interesting those just a tidbit that as an entrepreneur is extremely relevant because I've had a lot of people over the years that I've hired, who were maybe good enough, but weren't great. And over time, they're never they're never really assets to your company. The people who are true assets to your company, are the great people. Anyone who I look back on or anyone in my organization now who is still in our company is someone One who is a great person. Anyone who has stood the test of time is someone who was a great hire, who had greatness and has greatness. Someone who was good, you know there. And I never really thought about it that way. That's one example. I'll give you another one. I did an interview with general Reynolds, Hoover, retired Army General, great guy. And general Hoover told me when you go into a meeting, anytime you go into a meeting, always sit in a different seat. literally sit in a different seat. And I thought about it and I said, Well, you know, I wish I had that advice in business school because they assigned us to the same seat. Every class we had to sit in the same spot. And when I was in college, I just sort of naturally sat in the same spot and we're Naturally predisposed to go to the same spot where we sit in because it's comfortable for us. But his point was, get out of your comfort zone, physically get out of your comfort zone. And one way to do it is by getting into a different seat. It will change your perspective, you will see things differently. You'll sit next to different people. You'll talk to different people I can tell you if I had that, if I did that, if I knew general Rendell Hoover, when I was a college student, and I had that advice, I would have known a lot more people because I wouldn't have just sat next to the same people in every class. I would have been sitting next to a different person in every class and shooting the breeze with different people. Every club, got more relationships made more friends. So I have a tidbit like that for every episode I've done.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 43:53 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, we're gonna get the the answer to our favorite question, which is what some of the best advice you've ever received, but we're going to Right after the break, you're listening to the work life balance with Rick Mars.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 44:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? Are you aware that businesses identified capturing time and costs against projects as their biggest project management challenge? Are you aware that 44% of project managers use no software even though Price Waterhouse Coopers found that the use of commercially available project management software increases performance and satisfaction? Now, imagine that you could have the ease of entry like a spreadsheet and a software tool set up and running within two to four weeks. Imagine within two weeks being able to see clearly where all of your resource conflicts are. Well, you don't have to imagine because PD ware has already created it, PD where it can give you real time access to KPIs easily updated views of what your teams are working on, and immediate feedback to some of project management's toughest Questions like, when can we start this project? What happens if we delay this project? Can we do this in time? How does this new project impact our current portfolio? Find us at PDX where.com. And imagine not manually compiling endless reports again. Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? Do you lack consistency in project delivery? Our squared consulting provides end to end services to assist companies of all sizes and realizing and improving the value of project management. Whether you want to build a project management office train project managers for learn how to bring the oversight and governance to your project processes. r squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business, you'll find the</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">experts here voice America Business Network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 46:29 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon with our final segment with Adam Mendler 30 minute mentors So, Adam, we asked this question always we asked it to in May, but we're gonna ask it again what some of the best advice you've ever received.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 46:42 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I don't know if it's changed this May and I don't remember exactly what I told you in May. But I'll tell you great advice that I got. And it wasn't from a four star general or Admiral. It wasn't from a fortune 500 CEO. It wasn't from anyone famous But it was from someone is, why is it any of those people? It was from a mentor of mine. That's my mom. And my mom told me that and I will not be able to say it as articulately as she said it. But what she told me is you only have one life and you need to live it for yourself, not for anyone else. Her message was, life is hard enough as it is. It's only harder if you live your life trying to please others. So, live your life, do what you want to do for you. Not for those around you. And it was a very powerful message. It's a message That resume resonated very deeply what she told me and resonates very deeply now and hopefully it resonates with your listeners.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 48:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And it is the same advice you provided last night.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 48:16 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I can't pick out my mom.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 48:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, what do you got to do? So fine. How can people find your podcast find you reach out to you</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 48:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">try to make it as easy as possible. So I'm accessible through my website, Adam mendler.com. So just my name, Adam mendler.com. through social media at Adam Mendler. So that's Adam Mendler on Instagram, at Adam Mendler on Twitter. And my podcast 30 minute mentors is available on every major podcasting app, probably every minor podcasting app, but you just type in and spell out 30 minute mentors. It's also available at 30 minute mentors calm.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 49:05 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And any final advice or things that you would like to share with the audience?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 49:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, we were going to talk a little bit about college football. So unfortunately, we didn't have an opportunity to get a lot as a USC. graduate. I went there during the heyday, we won two national championships. While I was there, I went to college with three Heisman Trophy winners. Unfortunately, these days, I don't have a whole lot of advice on the topic of college football. But the best advice I can give to listeners is, stay positive, stay productive. Times are tough. Let's be realistic about the situation that we're in. But control what you can control. And that is your mindset. That is your time. That is your attitude. We're all in this together. Let's make the best of it. And let's be better for it tomorrow. It</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 50:01 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">is so you guys, so Pac, the PAC 12 canceled football correct. Now, so they're trying to think about it in spring.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 50:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">They're talking about potentially bringing it back for spring, potentially bringing it back sooner. The whole situation is so fluid that it's almost like a day by day, week by week kind of thing.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 50:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So SEC is scheduled to kick off two weeks from tomorrow. However, it was interesting that there was supposed to be a scrimmage I think two or three days ago at Tennessee, in which 46 players were either in the quarantine protocol injured or had COVID. So they could they had to cancel the the scrimmage. So it's interesting to see how that's going through. But I think the NFL you know, I don't I'm a huge fan of hard knocks. I love seeing the behind the scenes stuff. So it was really exciting. To see how they went about their practices, their training camp, and they seem to be successful, and obviously we kicked out football last night. So I'm hopeful and excited that the at least the SEC will play on the on the 27th or 26th.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 51:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'll tell you, Rick is such a complicated issue and such a complicated subject. And look, I think if there's one sport that did it perfectly, it's the NBA. And he really executed it to a tee. Baseball was criticized by just about everyone but they've seemed to pull it off. I know it's not over yet. But they've somehow made it happen. And, look, college football, I think is the biggest challenge. I know that universities across America are facing a big question as to whether they can stay open right now and i a lot of universities, are going completely virtual. And I don't know, Rick, I really don't know this is above my paygrade. And there are some things that I'm just sort of waiting back like the rest of America and watching and wondering and really curious to see how this plays out.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 52:21 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I agree with you on the NBA. The other insight that I have so Hoover High School is is where you know, my kids go. And it's a it's a perennial powerhouse in the state of Alabama is one I want to say seven or eight of the state titles in the last 12 years. Interestingly enough, the day before school started here, Coach had everybody go virtual, so all the players went virtual, and don't attend school, but they show up on campus, obviously for practice. So it's interesting to see how that's being managed and so far they've been pretty successful in continuing to be To play, I think they're going into their third game tonight for high school football. So yeah, we're getting a little bit of it. But we hope for more. But Adam, thank you so much for joining us again. And we appreciate you coming back on a second time, and always look forward to hearing from you in the future.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Adam Mendler 53:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Really appreciate you having me. This was a ton of fun. And thanks again. And thank you one more time to your listeners for tuning in. And hopefully, who knows, Rick, maybe third time will be the charm.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 53:30 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Maybe so maybe. And of course you can join us next Friday. We're going to have Steve gave a torta on India. He's got a fascinating entrepreneurial journey that we'll have him on next Friday with us. Otherwise, we ask you to continue listening to the voice America business network. And as always, we will talk to you next Friday at 4pm Central, five Eastern, and we hope that you live your own work life balance. We'll talk to you next Friday.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 53:58 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-47120346122837362392020-09-05T09:48:00.004-05:002020-09-05T09:48:59.730-05:00How to Live a Bucket List Life - Trav Bell<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/125555/how-to-live-a-bucket-list-life-trav-bell" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris090420.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick Morris.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 0:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And welcome to another edition of the work life balance. So great to have everybody along. Thanks for hanging with us in the replay last week, I thought it was apropos as that that lead in music for those of you that don't know that lead in music is by a group called the party that I've been an executive producer of. And we had their 30th anniversary on Monday of our very first album dropping so that's how long I've been with the group and how long this musics been around for us. So congratulations to them. 30 years In we've got some pretty exciting announcements coming up but there's some merchandise that was just launched for the party, which you can go to MMC reunion COMM And check out the 30th anniversary stuff all handpicked and created by our man chase Hampton, who was on the interview last week of the replay. I think that was like four years ago, but we had daymond and chase on the show. So today we've got an incredible show and I'm so excited to talk to this gentleman. He's He's known as the bucket list guy, and he's the world's number one bucket list expert. As a self appointed bucket list. ologists. He helps people live their bucket list before it's too late. His unique life engagement message really wakes you up, stops groundhog days and helps you to experience more fulfillment. He says a bucket list is a tangible life plan where our business plan or career plan should fit into our life plan and not the other way around. A perfect example of the work life balance and what we're looking for. Let's bring him to the show trap bow. How you doing trap. Hey, Rick, really, really happy to be on the show man. Thanks a lot. And so for me, this is the last thing I do on Fridays, right four to 5pm for me and I normally shut down the laptop for my own work life balance. And that's first thing Saturday morning for you, man. So thanks for getting up early for us there in Australia.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 2:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yes. So you've got your lot work life balance, just totally on point. And here I am on a Saturday morning 7am here in Nova Alya talking to the great man, Rick Morris. So my life balance has gone out the window but I'm really, really stoked to really look online. A lot of podcasts right now a lot on a lot of shows and a lot of interviews but what I love honestly, my what I love talking about is this concept of work life balance because it's been thrown into a cyclone lately.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 2:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, for sure. And for me as well. You know, I always say that work life balance technically doesn't exist. You just have to love what you do, right? You have to love what you do where it doesn't feel like work. But even you know, 2020 years You know, 2019 is probably one of my biggest years 2020 I actually named as the year of transition, right? So I always pick a word at the beginning of the year had no idea what I was saying, when I said that, but</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 3:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">is it transition? My year is my aim is going to be 2020 as well, it was kind of rolled off the tongue and around January. And then it did transition or so. But I don't think in the way that we wanted to do</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 3:25 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">this. I know for sure. I watched a quarter of a million dollars in speaking engagements go away. I had walked away from my number one revenue source in December as a decision again, January being transitioned. And yeah, all that's done is clear the deck because I think that people that are working the hardest right now, you know, I've been a firm believer whatever work I put in today is what's going to pay off six months from now. It's not, there's no immediate gratification. It's an entrepreneur. So how did you become the bucket list guy like, I'd love to hear that story.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 3:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, for sure. There's not a lot of bucket list going on at the moment. Well, there is no I'll get into that. But yeah, I'll share that I've been a speaker, a professional speaker for the last 10 years so prior to that I was that real, real quick backstory. My first business straight out of university I started personal fitness training back in the early 90s when there wasn't this industry of personal trainers was one of the first personal trainers running around Australia. I found salad with one client took it up to 10s of thousands of clients around Australia no to me and personal training sessions. Founded franchise the first first personal training business in Australia helped heaps of people pay for personal trainers got jobs. But I and I love I've always loved helping people but I wanted to help people you know in life more than just health, health and fitness. So I am there's a kind of a perfect storm I found myself. Things got on top of me I became someone that I didn't like there was a relationship issues and also things going on my little breakdown before break. Through moment and should I say, I found myself in a in a going through a bout of depression. And I found instead of going on heavy antidepressants, you know, and I knew a lot of people like that kind of walking around like zombies, you know, not really being themselves. I'm like, yep, that's a bit of a band aid fix. It's not really getting to the root cause. So I found myself in personal development courses. Can we do seminars like like you probably put on night, you know, reading the books, Gallic, like, like getting coaches, mentors, really forcing myself to get to the root cause and really seek and I've always been fascinated with psychology. It was actually at one of these seminars sort of after about a year of pretty intense learning that a friend of mine said, Why don't you teach this stuff and so I'd learnt the NLP I learned cycles, positive psychology, I learned how to be a coach to life coaches, all this sort of stuff, and it helped me compartmentalize for those going through. You know, again, shorter story. long. I then went on and put on a seminar. And it was crap compared to what I'm doing now. I really had to pay the 48 It was my first public seminar and I even tried to do this selling at the back of the room thing, you know what I mean? That was that was a disaster. And but I, in that seminar, I had about 40 people there and packaging everything that I knew. And one thing I shared with the group was the fact that I'd had a list of new before I die actually written down since I was 18. And this is about 10 years ago, I'm 47. Now this is when I you know, 10 years ago, but 3537 years of age, I kind of put on this talk, and I I I shared it with the room and then it really inspire the group. As my reason for getting out of bed in the morning. What drove me through my depression that helped me create a light at the end The tunnel and he helped me live you know more on purpose with more meaning and fulfillment and being happier. And so share this with the group and then someone at the end of it Joe, one of the clients there at the time said our household is listed we do before you die stuff. It's like a bucket list. You're like the bucket, this guy. And I went light bulb moment I went home and registered in the domain name that bucket this guy.com and I've been doing that ever since literally running around the world doing my bucket list, and helping others to go after this before they get given to us by date, just like the movie.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 7:38 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So that's I mean, that's a lot of your your entrepreneurial journey as well. What is what is one of those outside of the depression side? What's one of the biggest failures you really felt like you had to overcome in order to really develop as an entrepreneur, entrepreneur.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 7:52 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Wow, you know, that's a really good question i one of the failures or one of the areas that I recommend I had to work on was my ego. I made the ego based decisions, not smart decisions. So I did a lot of work around that. And I still, you know, there's flashes of it in what I do now, but not, not to the extent and not to the competitive extent that I was doing it back then. I was all ego and bravado and it didn't serve me well. So I look at that as a as a massive learning not so much as a failure. But I guess one of the other learnings, one of the other factors was letting toxic people into my life, you know, to control my life and to have more of an influence over me than I would have liked. And so that that contributed towards a downward spiral, you know, and, you know, I didn't travel I didn't do my bucket list for a lot of those years. And, you know, I sacrifice my happiness to win You're later but that you know that later I just I have to draw that line in the sand make the decision when I decided to become the buckle this guy gave I gave all my franchisees at the time six months change your own brand change to you know, change your own brand you know I sold off my my personal training studios that I owned with staff with chain and just had to go You know what, cut my losses and go towards something that was even what I do now is even more congruent to what I was doing back then.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 9:34 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So you said you'd let some toxic people into your life looking back at that now and knowing what you know and kind of gone through. Why would you say you allowed them to come into your Oh,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 9:45 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">because I was insecure.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I was insecure in amongst at all. Um, and and I wasn't hard and fast on my own values on my own standards. You know? On my own barrier, you know my own boundaries. And when you are not, you know, people create them for you.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 10:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? 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Visit r squared consulting.com today</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">from the boardroom to you. Voice America Business Network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 12:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance thanks to our engineering team there to see that my internet had frozen and thrown us to break so we're back We're ready. And hopefully we're stable at this point. So tribe we were talking about, you know, toxic, I think you and I have a lot of similarities and first of all, same age. For me it was I would say ego was my number one thing as well. I started in business got quite successful, and then I would make what I call career limiting moves. And if I go back and really analyze What those were, they were generally ego driven, I had to be right. Or it had to be my idea, whatever that is, even all the way up until about 2014. And I want to talk about the coaching industry here for a moment, because a lot of people had said, you know, for me to get a coach and ego wise, I was like, I'm running a, you know, seven figure business, I don't know what I need a coach for, until I didn't have that seven figure business. And I finally aligned myself with john Maxwell, my john Maxwell team and became certified through through a gentleman by the name of Christian Simpson, and it's changed everything. And so my question is, is what why do you think there's so many misconceptions about the coaching business and about life coaching in general?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 13:45 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, yeah, it's, um, a lot of people. You know, the stupid thing about being an entrepreneur is we think we've got to put the cape on every morning and go out, you know, go out and tackle our You know, be the biggest solution that flies in on every problem known to man and there's a lot of ego around that superhero done of what an entrepreneur should be, you know, and the best entrepreneurs as you know, probably now more than ever Rick is the best entrepreneurs in the world are the people that ask for help the most from smarter people than them? Yeah, but that's not the Small Business mantra. That's not the the kind of brave out there in front entrepreneur image that we all have, unfortunately. So there's a lot of ego around it. And it's I think it's even exacerbated more with with social media, you know, by because you've got to be the front man or front front woman and have the opinion be seen be the pinup boy or girl for your for your business or for your industry. Trying to get that cut through takes up takes a fair bit of personality. And with that personality comes ego too.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 15:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think social media is a good call out on that. There's so many people Oh, just signed a seven figure deal. No, you didn't. You didn't. I tell</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 15:15 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you what, I am seated with respect I need to set up but I don't care how many sales figures you've got in your business, right? It's all about profit. That's right. Like I don't care how much you have 10 figures don't care but if you've got 10 figures of expenses as well, it's nothing.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 15:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's right. That's right. But now I have several people that that I coach they'll say so and so just got this I'm not doing it. I was like they didn't do that that they didn't get it like if we it My favorite thing to do is call and go well, how did you do that? How did you land that? How did you get that? And there's no answers. I was like, so but but I know that because I fell into that trap early on as an entrepreneur as well.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 15:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">We all had we'll have look look come back to your question about coaching Are you know, I've I'm in some form or another, always personally always outsourcing, you know, and I'm getting better and better and better at it. And whether it be through a book, you know, learning from someone else that I can't get access to, whether it be getting a coach being part of a high level mastermind or mentor group or, you know, going to a seminar, that's all a way of getting more and more help. And I think as an entrepreneur, you've got to be an avid learner, right? You've got to be always open to being coached. Yeah. And and admit to yourself that you don't know everything, you know, and and there's different sides, you know, over the last, especially the last two and a half years, I've had to learn how to be a global entrepreneur, you know, to run a run a global business, but our coaching business and and that's a whole other, other, you know, kettle of fish box of dice, whatever they say. There's a whole other level of learning so on Getting around, and getting around on learning from and milking the information and the psychology that goes along with being a global CEO, you know, rather than just small business mindset, rather than just being a speaker or a standalone, single person operator in terms of a coach, you know, or a thought leader. So it's a different business model, different skills, different psychology. You got to be open to be coached.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 17:28 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So the great Seth Godin said, you know, he asked me a question one time are you an entrepreneur or Freelancer and I didn't really know the difference. So he said, Well, an entrepreneur builds a business with other people's money and hire smart people gets out of the way. a freelancer trades their time and knowledge for money and he goes, there's no right or wrong answer. You just can't be both.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 17:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Now that's not very difficult as a consultant Yeah, consultant same thing. Yeah, yeah. Now an entrepreneur, you know, the the an entrepreneur What is it? Brad sugars have action coaches it, you know, a business. The definition of a successful business is a commercial profitable enterprise that works without you. Wow.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 18:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I like that. So coming back to your specific business, what exactly you know why why would a bucket list even be important? What do you tell to, to your people?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 18:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, look, it's not important to a lot of people, to be honest. But it's very important to others. So, I've been talking about this bucket list concept for 10 years since I became the bucket list guy. And I've always stayed in that line, you know, pick a highway, pick a line and own the line. You know, Rick, as you can appreciate that with the entrepreneurial journey, or when I registered the bucket list guy. I was like on the Google machine. I'm like, who's searching who's like the mack daddy who's like the king who's like the world's number one expert look no one so I literally called myself the world's number one back at least ex marriage and just read it out before my bio man so stuff that no one else has taken. So that's that's that's a story of my life man I big day for myself in a deep work deep end and learn how to swim. But I've been you know why I love it is have been so cool. I'm so congruent with my business. I'm so congruent with the brand, the brand is me and it's an extension of my values is there is really no difference between me and that. And going back to what was your question again?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 19:46 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Just Why is the bucket list important?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 19:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yes. So So why it's important is because I'm in a way through this, effectively coaching my former self who went through depression Right. So it's a creation of programs, coaching programs seminars, and now we've got licensed certified back at this coaches in 22 countries around the world teaching this stuff. And it's all most of it's all. For the majority. It's based on positive psychology. And positive psychology is the Science of Happiness, right? The science of fulfillment, the science of having more, you know, allowing people to experience more meaning more purpose and more fulfilling life and be more grateful and more mindful, right. But rather than going out there and saying, Hey, we were positive psychologists, or were masters of NLP here, I've put this brand of pocket list over the top of it to make it more appealing to kids, you know, to teenagers, to to the everyday person to get these personal development tools out into markets that would seemingly be shut off too. People that went out and call themselves, you know, life coaches, I'm a I'm a coach to life coaches, but I don't I still don't call myself a life coach because the brand of life coaching gets a little bit. Okay, you know, it's met with skepticism, right? It's largely intangible. So we're trying to make the intangible tangible through this brand of bucket list. And yeah, bucket list is important to a lot of people. So I say like you said before a bucket This is a tangible life plan where a career plan or a business plan should fit into our life plan not be the other way around. So one, so myself before licensing this out around the world, on myself has been a big proponent of the work to live principle. And it's not about work life balance, I hate to say it's about work life blend now. Sure, right. So because nothing ever balances, he said, you know, nothing ever balances means you know, if you're trying to grow a business, that's nothing balanced. If you're trying to get laid</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">off Sorry, no form a meaningful relationship.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Nothing balances you doing whatever it takes.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">If you're trying to make money, you know, like, it's the same sort of thing and maybe you can look at that later down the track but there's that really intense obsessive period right? So at the end of the day back at least is my spin on on getting this out to these tools out to people so they can live a life of more meaning more purpose and more fulfillment be happier, have a regret free life rather than regret full life, be more engaged in their life and therefore more engaged in their business as well or or in their career. Because I've seen the direct result, you know, look at I've given talks and I, you know, there's depressed people, there's people going through anxiety, there's people on suicide watch, there's people that, you know, we've got this thing and it's a real thing. called the loneliness epidemic, Google. It's a real thing, right? The adverse effect of social media out the mental health of the planet, especially at the time of this taping. With COVID-19 the mental health of the planet is in disarray. It is so bad and it was already bad, right? So with a stats climbing up with the amount of engage, you know, disengagement, disengagement in America is something like 87% of people, that's 87% of people who go to work every day don't like what they do. Yeah. Like, dude, you do that for 40 years really. And then you retire to have one to maybe 10 good years and then you're gone. Like that, that that sacrificing happiness now to enjoy later. That is a myth. That is the matrix waiting till Sunday or that perfect time to do your bucket list or I want to wake people up before they get given to us by day, at the end of the day, that's why it's important.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 24:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So you said that positive psychology is that influenced like by shirzad, Charmaine, or like what are some of the influences that you're drawing from?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 24:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh Tobin shaha. I was, I mean, he worked under Martin Seligman who's the dawn, I guess of positive psychology. We've got you know, I'd had on my podcast yesterday, not yesterday day before Dr. Happy Dr. Timothy sharp, who's one of the preeminent guys here in Australia, you know, it's become it's become a more of a movement rather than doing regressive psychology with people were regressive or typical clinical psychology is about helping people be normal again, you know, and who the hell wants to be normal, especially in corporate, no one. But, and that's, you know, we have drugs, we have all sorts of things to get as normal so we can function in a society that's what that's my circle. Kind of exists or traditional psychology but positive psychology works with the people works with the person's strengths, works with what they're good at, works with what brings them meaning purpose and happiness and gets them to do more of that so they perform better and they go to another level in their life and help them be more mindful, more present and more grateful. And that really works well in the corporate settings. So that takes a lot of explanation. bucket list for us is more of a fun brand that we put over the top of the when we go run programs. When we go run programs, we you know, unpack all of what I'm saying right now and in a more of a tangible and fun way.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 25:46 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So what's one major tip that you go to we got about two and a half minutes to break when you say how to create more meaning purpose or fulfillment their life what's what's one of your kind of go to quick hit items. To</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 26:00 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">look real easy I want everyone who's listening watching, you know, right now is is to take time out of their life like this weekend, right to write their bucket list down. How about that? Yeah, it like if you actually run you probably know this already, Rick but if you actually stop, take time out of your life to work on your life and you actually write stuff down, you got a 42% more likelihood of actually manifesting things actually happen, you know, showing up in your life 42% so you might as well write this stuff down because you're halfway there. See right now, people are so busy being busy for this weird badge of honor that we kept you always bragging or complaining like</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 26:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you're good, busy or bad busy, but you know, so and we're busy on our to do lists, not not on our bucket list. All right. It's only until something traumatic or dramatic happens to us or a loved one or the There's a diagnosis somewhere, then suddenly people shift on their priority, something, you know, suddenly a bucket list becomes of utmost importance. And people become an infinitely resourceful around their time and money to go after the things that they truly want to go after. But it takes a diagnosis for people to do that. wrote the I wrote a book called no day, but today because of that reason, why do you have to wait to get sick? Yeah, absolutely. I'll send a copy. Why would Why wait for the diagnosis? Why wait, you know, for for that big thing to say I wish I had have. And so it's not even more of a thought. But I get people to think about how I would want to be remembered at my funeral. So what am I doing today to live up to that standard, like I just started today in order to get to that standard of where I want to be. So when we come back, I'd really love to hear some of your personal bucketlist stories and we're going to do that right after the break. Oh, visiting with the bucket list guy. Trap bell. We'll be right back. You're listening Rick Morse and the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 28:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? 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To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com Now back to the work life balance</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 30:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon we're meeting with the bucket list guy trap Bell and what better question to ask the bucket list guy then what are some of the things that you've ticked off it as a matter of fact, you've got a sweatshirt on a lot of people can't see it. But But tell everybody what your hashtag is and then tell us one of your favorite bucket list stories</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 30:43 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">ticket before you kick it and it's the for you ticket before you kick in. So we've where we've got you know, l we got a bucket we got certified bucket this coach is now in 22 countries around the world even in countries where if you actually translate the word bucket list Makes no sense at all places like Vietnam and Finland and Germany and but yeah, we're we're gonna we're gonna try we're gonna community back at these coaches and what we call back at listers who are people who've gone through our programs and be able to see me speak all around the world now and I tell you what, I'm I'm challenged every single single day I'm challenged and inspired by our tribe of bucketlist is around the world is so cool, man. And but for me, personally, yeah, they kind of pushed me to another level. I mean, is this is this PG or is this our road or</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 31:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you go how you want to go, man, we're us. That's who we are.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 31:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Okay, well, because there's different levels of bucket lists. So I got this. Well, there's three. There's three types of bucket lists, right, there's the future bucket list, which is what everyone thinks a bucket list isn't all the stuff you want to do in the future. There's also a reverse bucket list. A reverse backup list is your done list. There's also a nother list called the bucket list. There's a lot of things that I have done in my life. That when I go out on stage I show this like cool video clip of climbing mountain surfing big waves going fast jumping at things. And and I know that half the audience is Sydney gone after? Yeah, I don't want to do that shit. So</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">if I'm sworn, so blame the Australian in me.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">At the end of the day, the future bucket list is what this is known for. And, you know, I did a TED talk and I did Ted to a TEDx talk a few years ago called life's too short by Trev. Bell and I sort of go through some of my stories on that. And actually doing my TED talk in front of was the biggest TEDx stage in Melbourne. Sorry, in Australia was 2000 people. And yeah, that was actually I ticked it off live in front of everyone. Look of One of the, you know, I've done the bungee jumping, I've done the skydiving I've done I've done, you know surfing at different places all around the world. I've traveled to a bunch of countries, probably the most, I'll give you a heartfelt one and also a very embarrassing one if you're up for it.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 33:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 33:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">are so we'll start the heartfelt one that's better.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I grew up here in Ocean Grove an hour and a half out of Melbourne here in Australia and my I'm adopted My dad is a fitter and Turner he's, you know, a mechanic. A man's man in the union's same job since you know from 16 through to retirement. Not a big man of emotion. Me his adopted son who's a serial entrepreneur. We didn't really speak the same language going up</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 33:52 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">if you know what I mean. absolutely understand. Yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 33:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, dude. Yeah, man. I mean, but but on you. That is really You know we had to come together so I actually wrote on my list to do before I die the one I had since I was 18 this The third thing I wrote was do a big hike with dad both being nature guys on a surfer he's he's he's been in surf lifesaving as being a been a surfer his whole life as well. I want to do a bit hot because I knew that that would connect this. So went down to I found myself in a four seater airplane with daddy's two best mates at me. And it was, we landed this plane in a in the middle of the old growth forest areas in a town called Tasmania, sorry, at a state called Tasmania. Tasmania is the southernmost town of southernmost state in Australia, very cold down there, very desolate, but some amazing hiking, so the plane dropped us off, pissed off and maybe In the website said pack, eight to 15 days worth of food. We had to walk back from our drop off point back to a place called cockle Creek. cockle Creek is the southernmost town in Australia. And it hangs off the end of Australia.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Have you seen the movie deliverance? Rick?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 35:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yes, of course. You got your banjo playing right</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 35:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">through the hills Anyway, you get the drift. And so we we ventured off and it was an amazing trip. It took us nine days. It was about ELS about you know, 500 meters after these nine days from the from finishing this trip and we were walking on the boardwalk more boardwalk before we got the group selfies before we had some food before we finished the whole thing. And I said dad is something I'm going to tell you. I said my doing this walk With you was on my was on my bucket list. I'm really glad we did it. And he was always walking behind him he is just going I and I thought it was going to be a big father son Hollywood movie. Embrace and I love your luck not nothing. Not a matter of emotion. We had lunch we did the selfies we did all that. And he's gone years ago years ago. He's gonna try what's what's a bucket list? Man? I got Jesus Crow, man. It's all it's all the shit you want to do before you die. And, and I saw a twinkle in his eye and he said I'm glad you put it on there because this has been fucking special. Nice still no embrace made I still no hugs still.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'm still waiting.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Dad, give me some clothes.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Unknown Speaker 36:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">eimer Sun</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 36:59 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">basic. What else If we got on the bus back to Hobart, he said, Man, what else? What else is on this list to do you know what's on this list of yours? I said, Don't worry, I'll get back to you. at about six months later, I said, Oh, you know, there's lots of things on there that I'll get back to you that six months later, a friend of mine who I cycle with grant, he's in New Zealand, they're even crazier. They're all they're all mountain ears. And he's a he's a mountain near so much so that he's got no toes and his left foot he lost them from frostbite. I swear, they all sit at all these mountains sit around the little Bunsen burner at high cap and compare what ends they're missing. Anyway, Grant, Grant said, Mike, I know every morning you're talking about this bucket list, we're going to Mount Everest, you know, I know that going to base camp is on your on your bucket list. I'm like, Alright, how much is it? He said, 15 grand, I get mine. I've got 15 grand he goes I bet you'll find a way. You know, when the wind is strong enough to hell work itself out. We know this. I really want to go under it. Man under doing a full Ironman Triathlon going to Mount Everest base camp was the second thing on my list is that you'll find a way and I found a way that you know that bucket list thing we talked about down in tazzy. Yep. Well, we're going to, we're going to Mount Everest, we're going to base camp like we he's gone, right? Shit. Again, we're going through Tibet, and we're going on the north side and he's gonna trip with the fast Tibet. Our mind is part of China. It's not part of China anyway, doesn't matter. The point is, we went through Beijing down through Tibet, we went to the northern side of Everest, we were on part of a full on expedition team, you know, 13 guys went to the top we went to advanced base camp. absolutely phenomenal. He was fine. I was shit with the altitude sickness. That's another story. night after that. We take that off the bucket list after that. Since then we've done the Kokoda track which is an Australian Australian pilgrim engine Papa New Guinea. It's a wartime track. Papa New Guinea, we've done the Inca Trail Machu Picchu on the morning and my 40th birthday took 10 out of the bucket list is with us. We and then we did Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa after a game and a game drive as well with mum as well. And that actually no no that killed him is he's now in his 70s he did a 71 and read why camp Kilimanjaro and he's gone tribe. This is he had really bad altitude sickness he's got I've looked over and he was full on gray. And he's he's gone to have no more fucking hills. All right, no more he'll kill him. But now we're best mates. That's awesome. You know? And I've done the Burning Man festival. I've done Eurovision song. contest final in Germany for God's sake. And I think I was the only straight guy at that. And, but now it's listed. It's it's all the other funny ones well always, always also encouraged very heavily to be a nude model for life drawing class mice. I grew up as a swimmer as a surfer. I'm relatively comfortable in speedos. That's next level when you take off that last layer and you go 15 people behind easels looking at you a bit.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And you're awkwardly just posing going Yep.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 40:42 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you trying? Are you trying to style it out while you're doing it?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 40:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think so the thing is, is and they face do they pay me 50 bucks as well. So let's look at cheap hope. But the end you you're going near you, you're, you're like I was super nervous. You disrobe you stand there. You know. So I know you're gonna do this mate. So I know you're writing this on your bucket list in and our friends at voice America and doing the same air producers and so, Rick so when you do this on your bucket list when you're not a nude model for an art class, so get some tips for it. Number one, don't do it in the middle of winter. Of course. Don't do it in the middle of fall. No shit. I did. Anyway. So he does in the room. Number two, don't do it in the art studio that's literally next to the coffee shop where you get coffee every single morning where the gay barista who serves you every single morning actually exotic as well apparently. And let's just say from there, I got a little Bit more sugar in my coffee if you know what I mean. And number three, is make sure that you're the only person there when I talk. I use this story of colored a bunch of times, and I show a picture of me nude. When I do keynote presentations, and there's someone else in the room with me, there's someone right next to me. Next person is a younger, hotter girl. I did not know that she was going to be in the room with me. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. So I've disrobed on doing my best it was already awkward. She comes in I thought, all right, she's going to jump behind an easel here. She's going to get a paintbrush out. No, she undresses she stands right next to me. I'm like, Oh shit.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh shit. And like I said before</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">it was I had to you know, I've done the NLP. I've done the positive psychology. I've done all the psychology in all the code. and stuff like that, you know? And let's just say I had to channel all that. So that to talk it down for sure if you know what I mean no hardest Pun intended 20 minutes 20 minutes half an hour my life</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 43:20 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and I think we're gonna leave it right there and go to break. We're gonna take a break the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 43:35 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? 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Scientists at PD were calm and imagine not manually compiling endless reports again. Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? Do you lack consistency in project delivery? Our squared consulting provides end to end services to assist companies of all sizes and realizing and improving the value of projects. Management. Whether you want to build a project management office, train project managers or learn how to bring the oversight and governance to your project processes, r squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business, you'll find the experts here, voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 45:56 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back for our final segment of this Friday afternoon with traveling The bucket list guy all the way from Australia live from Australia. Even at that, so, trap How do people find you? How do people connect with you?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 46:09 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, the bucket list guide.com is my main website and people interested in the back of this coach side of things, you know, back at least coach.com they can check that out. Yeah, I'm mostly on Instagram these days is bucket list guide, dot Trev Bell or tribe L dash the bucket is gone and LinkedIn and Facebook. Awesome.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 46:36 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 46:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Wow, the best. The best advice I've ever received. I've got a tattoo that says if it is to be it is up to me. There we go. I'm showing that on on the screen. It's on my right forearm. And that rather than a throwaway line that really means something to me, you know?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">responsible,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">be, you know, be responsible for my own action, be accountable to myself take ownership over my own lot in life. Choose my behaviors, in no matter what the situation is, we've all got the power of choice. And we know we've heard it a million times. But honestly, you know, we're right in the middle of COVID-19, the world is falling, the you know, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, and there's conspiracy theory everywhere, but I'm in a really happy place because I choose to be, you know, choose happiness. And I choose how I, I</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">how I proactively</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">face the world, you know, I'm, you know, ensure we also like between, you know, being at being at the cause versus being at the effect, but I like to think that I'm at the effect of my own Life I've always been an entrepreneur. I've never worked for anyone in my life. And you know, I don't. Anyway, that's that's a whole other episode right there. But you know, I've always taken responsibility for everything that I've done and</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">so I guess</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'm always I'm always evolving You know, I'm always learning how to do that better. And you know, trust others more delegate more as this business as this movement grows, and as I grow as well outsource more to you know, that that I'm not Superman I shouldn't do everything myself. And</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">overall, though,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think the best advice that I've always live by and learn is be the example but you example for others to follow the example Be the change that you want to seen in, in life, you know, be the example for your kids. I've got four kids in my life now. And there's no, you know, no bit of mirror. So be the example. Don't just talk about it, but be live it be the example.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 49:20 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, it's interesting, you're saying in an earlier segment that you know, people turn about being busy. I think one of the greatest opportunities for us with COVID is that it's removed the distraction. So just speaking personally, from my perspective, you know, I was always on planes always traveling always, you know, going everywhere to speak. You go to a speaking engagement, you really lose three days, right? Every time you get the day out there, of the day back. And so I've been really blessed in COVID of all those distractions, what what suggestion would you give to people now in the time of COVID, where, you know, we're not having to run the kids to soccer practice or to, you know, to football practice. And we've got So there's time to really work on ourselves.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 50:03 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, well, that is that is it. You know, a lot of people are taking a big collective deep breath in right now man and and they're recalibrating on their happiness. You know, there's a lot of people that have been laid off jobs been retrenched. But there's a lot of people that have also quit, because they're just not they're not happy. They're not fulfilled. They're not finding any purpose or meaning it's not aligning with their values. The The, the downside is, like I said, before, the depression statistics, I think depression has doubled in Australia over the course of COVID, which is scary, not to mention the suicides as a result, and not everyone's you know, in a supportive family ecosystem. Now that we're sort of forced into lockdown in certain parts around the world. That's not good. But yeah, I mean, that's the downside. The upside, there's a lot of families coming together. There is no organized sport, you know, family are actually spending quality time together. We made it a pact, in our family, with my partner Tracy and I, and the kids that we want to come out of this whole thing better in every single area of our life, business income, as parents as leaders, as a couple, and in our health as well. And so far, so good. You know, and I think also on the positive side that people and and business owners are innovating like never before they're redefining what their new normal is going to be. They're radically collaborating like we're doing right now. They're embracing technology and failing forward faster. You know, one to three business plans to go online just had to happen in seven days. I mean, it's just like, this is what's happened. Everyone's adapting, inviting. So I'm really excited to see what happens as a result. The last downturn, Airbnb and Uber were created in 2009, you know, after the GFC so who knows what's going to happen as a result of this? So I'm on the fence, you know, there's some really good stuff happening. There's some horrible stuff happening as well. But I'm always an optimist, and I think we're gonna be definitely better for</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 52:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">so I mentioned to you I've got a mate there in Australia. Really good friend, February. I'm supposed to be coming to papa New Guinea, working with what we call a country transformation team. So now on my bucket list is comm do something really, really stupid with trap Bell? That's That's how that's now happening February 2021. So,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 52:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">dude, let's do it. And we're vice versa. We're about to you in the States. I'm in Alabama, Alabama. Literally</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 52:57 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">the guy right where deliverance is so</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">there you go listen trav we've enjoyed having you on partner we're gonna be watching you from afar we hope to have you on again soon you come back to us.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Trav Bell 53:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Alright man, and we'll put that banjo why when I, when I come down there,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 53:21 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">man, a woman and absolutely. Let's do something stupid together. I'm with it. So thanks so much to our guest Dr. Bell next week we're gonna have Adam Mendler on. He's the chief executive officer of the Vilas group where he's co founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries. He's going to be sharing his entrepreneurial journey with us and talk about really the mindset of some of the leading CEOs, founders, athletes, celebrities, influencers and other people that he said opportunity to work with. So that's next week. Otherwise, you can always find me at at Rick A. Morris on Twitter at Rick A. Morris and Facebook and or LinkedIn and as always We hope that you live your own work life balance. We'll talk to you next Friday right here on The Voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 54:09 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Transcribed by https://otter.ai</span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-82046546387132926772020-08-22T14:42:00.002-05:002020-08-22T14:42:29.799-05:00 Flexible Leadership in an Era of Constant Change - John Tabis<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/125281/flexible-leadership-in-an-era-of-constant-change-john-tabis" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br />To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris082120.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick Morris.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 0:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And welcome to another edition of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. I apologize for the different sound as I'm attending a business mastermind in an undisclosed location. But many of you know I'm a member of the john Maxwell team. And we normally have these huge events that we run twice a year. And as part of that I've got an incredible inner circle of people that that I get to fellowship with and with everything in COVID in taking AMC virtual this year, we decided to create Come rent a house and have the nine of us get together and speak into each other's businesses and lives and catch up with each other. It's been a phenomenal time. So I'm not in the studio is normal don't have the normal setup. But we're glad to have you guys with us. But I'm so excited about this interview. As a matter of fact, normally when I have an event like I'm doing today, and where I'm talking all day in and working with people, I normally go to a replay, but this gentleman was just too good to pass up our schedules aligned. And I'm so excited. So I just want to jump right in and talk to this gentleman. He's a proven brand builder, builder, an entrepreneur with deep experience in innovative media ventures and consumer products. He's the founder and chairman of the books company. And for those of you that are Shark Tank nerds like myself, we know the story of books and I can't wait to get into it in 2012 along with co founder, Juan Pablo and I want to say man too far. Hopefully I say that right? He he launched in Marina Del Rey California based company, and is now an industry leader in the online floral space that delivers flowers and plants fresh from eco friendly, sustainable farms around the world. doorsteps nationwide prior to launching boops. This gentleman worked in corporate breach strategy for Disney and shoedazzle and advise fortune 100 clients at Bain and company so let's bring him on john Tablas. How you doing, john?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 2:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Great. Thanks so much for having me.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 2:29 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It did it. Did I say your partner's name properly? I</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 2:31 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">think you nailed it.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 2:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Get out. Yeah, that that that Alabama accent is rock better, but I like it. Listen, there's so much I want to cover on this. And you know, you gave me a few questions in kind of pre roll in. But yeah, I don't know if I'll even touch those questions because I've got so many that are burning down to talk about whatever. So I would love I know it. I've watched it. I know the follow ups. Again, I'm not just a shark tank. You know? fan but a true on just geek. I've had the pleasure of working with a gentleman by the name of Paul but drazi who had a lunchbox that they brought on, but he's he wrote talent was hired by CAA to reinvigorate their whole online UI experience. But just whenever I get to meet people have gone through that experience. I'm just fascinated. I'd love to tap into the mindset and everything else. So let's let's bring the listeners up to speed if you know if they haven't followed the story, but you've got every entrepreneurs dream, which is a chance to pitch to you know, some incredible people, but it didn't quite go the way you expected. Can Can we talk about that for a moment? Sure. I don't mean to rip off scabs their job yet</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 3:46 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, look, I think that shark tank is one of the best thing that's ever happened to our company. It's one of the best things ever happened to me as an individual. So I love shark thing. I talk about it all day. So yeah, so we we filmed in the state Summer of 2013 and we're getting we're getting back there in the company's history and then we aired in the spring of 2014. And I believe it was the highest rated season in terms of ratings for Shark Tank since it started. I'm not saying it was because of us but I'm not saying it</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 4:16 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">was a great season though for sure.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 4:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. Crazy amazing companies the first season where they had startups on and all that kind of stuff. And, and so I pitched that summer. It's a fascinating experience. You know, as I was a fan, I am a fan of the show as well just as a viewer. But what you see is so very different than what the experiences you know, I I luckily it was sort of easy for me I live about a mile and a half from the Culver City lot where Sony Sony lot where they filmed the show. And so for me, I just drove over, parked and hopped into the into the star wagon to get my makeup and my hair done and all that kind of stuff. But you walk in, and it's the first time you see the sharks, you You're not hanging out with them beforehand, you're not hanging out with them afterwards it is it is just like in the show. But then you're in there, you know, I was in there for an hour and 53 minutes or something like that. And six and a half of that makes it onto the TV set. Sure we are at home. And so it was a it was a it was a heck of an experience. Because you're in there for a while the lights are on you, you're cooking under these lights. And the sharks are just peppering you with questions, I mean, left and right, left and right over top of each other at the same time. And so it's highly stressful environment.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 5:31 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So what's interesting to me about that, because you go into the pitch, and the sticking point really was around the the time the six days to fulfill and then you know, you you stated you were launching online or overnight delivery in about three weeks. That was going to be a different cause so that Barbara gets a little bit miffed on the fact that you're changing your strategy, which I didn't follow that comment at all. But then I agree. I was like, Dude, it's a higher cost because it's overnight like there's no change. Strategy whatsoever. So I, you know, I was like, Alright, whatever. But Kevin, who can be, you know, historically just brutal, right? He gets into the I don't even know where to send the flowers for your funeral because funeral will have I mean, that was it's a great line. I mean, it's probably one of his top five ever he landed on the show. But But you didn't get the deal. You didn't get the deal. So talk to me about walking out of that tank. And this is really where I want to get into with this interview because a lot of my listeners are entrepreneurs, startup people, coaches, that kind of stuff. And what I'd love to bring out in the show is it's not the success is the few. It's the failure to breed the success that really learned from so you're walking out of the tank, walk me through that experience. Sure. And you couldn't be more right. You know, I've failed a lot more in this journey than I've succeeded in terms of percentages of actions that worked or didn't work or, you know, fundraising or whatever it might be. It's not That you succeed all the time or you get it all right it's that you refuse to stop. Right You keep going you learn from it you get better and that is absolutely for any entrepreneur if you don't have super thick skin and just an obstinance about you where you will not give up no matter what, try something else right? You can be great at a lot. I'm not overweight, this is just scar tissue from entrepreneurship. That's that's what it is. Yeah, I love that. But</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 7:24 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, so look, I I got roundly rejected by all five sharks. It was it was, you know, I think I walked out and I said brutal sort of under my breath as I walked out of the, because it was but here's the thing. And you know, this wasn't part of the show, but I had been rejected by well over 150 investors before that show. Now, none of them were five at a time and none of them were on national television under the hot lights. But I'd already developed that thick skin and they were from super smart investors, investors you've all heard of in Silicon Valley and like very famous people down to folks who, you know, Mom and Pop sort of angel investors that were like I don't know if I want to give you my $20,000. JOHN, thanks very much. And so I gotten used to this idea that they can pass and I can still be right. Right? These are not them passing or them rejecting or whatever you want to call, it does not mean that my thesis or my company is not going to succeed, like those two are, that is not an incontrovertible truth. They could be right. And they might be smart to pass. Many of people that pass in those early days have come to me and said, Wow, I guess we were wrong. But they never they never bad 1000. And once you get comfortable with this idea that super smart people can be wrong. And then in investing, often they are. You can come out with this position of Hey, I can I can keep this thing going. This does not mean the end of the road for me. And so because we had gone through, we had raised a $1.7 million seed round right before I went to pitch. I had already been through the meat grinder of just pitch, reject pitch, reject, pitch reject. I took it. I won't lie. It didn't. It's not that it didn't hurt. It always hurts. Sure. It wasn't the end. To the world because it was sort of like okay, so five more people add them on top of 103 that have already said now now we're at 108. We're moving on to Wednesday. Let's go get Wednesday.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 9:09 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I think in the journey what was most fascinating to me, right, so I love the episode. I love that Kevin was brutal. I thought it was cool. I actually was one of the people that ordered you know, you obviously get that spike. Yeah, I'm notorious for getting emotionally invested in the company base, just in that six and a half minutes, like, well, I'm gonna go get it. Okay. You know, and it was awesome. We I actually, again, I mentioned my business mastermind, we were just talking downstairs and I had to put it on pause, like, come to the interview. They said, Who you interview and I told them and they started raving about the company, right? And they're like, Oh, yeah, you can go to FTD. And, you know, maybe the flowers are good for two to three days. But you know, it came from Ecuador via nitrogen packing and all this other stuff, right? Or you can go to boots and it's gonna last you a good two to three weeks right now. I can't guarantee that you can't guarantee that but that's the that's the reality of what's Done. But in this journey, what fascinated me more than anything was the follow up interview with Robert Hirsch. In fact, when they came back and had that episode of, you know, deals we wish we would have gotten in on or things that we passed on. And every one of them had regrets on passing of books. But my herjavec said something really, really cool. And I want to dive into it. So he bumps into you guys run into each other somehow. And but then you said, let me show you the flower business. And based on that, that's when Robert finally came in and jumped in with you talk to me a little bit about that.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 10:35 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so it was actually around his wedding. So he was on Dancing with the Stars. That's right. That's right fell in love with his dancing partner, which is kind of an amazing story. And so he calls me out of the blue and and literally a phone number pops up. I don't recognize it. I think it's my three o'clock call. It was like 258 and he's like john Robert from Shark Tank. I need help with my wedding flowers. Help him with his wedding flowers, we saved him a ton of money. And in the journey with with me, he got to spend so much time he got into the business really got to learn the business. At the end of his like, hey, I'd really love to invest time still invest. And I was like, of course you're gonna invest, Robert, but the shark tank itself is such a rapid fire experience that he didn't have the time to understand the nuances and complexities of the supply chain and how what we were doing was really different. But in that time with me over his wedding, he was able to get that learning and that got him really excited about the business.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 11:30 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Kim as a matter of fact, his wife was dancing partners with a good friend of mine and Joey Fatone when they live they did that. So I was a fan of Kim. So when I saw that go down I thought that was pretty cool. But that's right. So he he was a customer first and he was running into the normal side of the business of how expensive they can really be for no reason. And so what I want to get into next and we've got to take a break right here we're gonna we're going to go to commercials, but I want to see the questions so that everybody knows what we're talking about when we come back. What I really want to get into next is how did you figure out what those nuances of the business and essentially you've, you've revolutionized the the the online flower, you know, boutique bouquets. But I really want to understand like, what's different about your flower business than any other flower business that's out there and what makes boots so special? So we're gonna, we're gonna get that answer right after the break. You're listening to Rick more from the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 12:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? 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Today</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">from the boardroom to you, voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 14:46 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back on the work life balance this Friday afternoon with john Tavis and john I you know I got to apologize up front because I'm just geeking out man I love this story, the perseverance, the overcoming everything that you've kind of been through When I get opportunities to speak to somebody that's been through as much as you have I kind of nerd out. So, you know, advanced apologies as I continue to geek out in business here. So we gave a seed question right before we went to break, though, but what makes boots so different? Like what? What is the pitch? And what did you figure out that made you kind of feel that you were right?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 15:23 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, that's a great question. So at the beginning, you know, this company started as a conversation between my co founder and I, and he is a good buddy of mine from from Notre Dame go Irish. And he, he had been running a floral farm. And he had reached out to me because he wanted to start doing more direct sales from the farm, but he wasn't a marketer. He was a biochemist. And in those conversations, all these sort of call it negative externalities or inefficiencies, or just poor negative experiences for farmers and consumers kept popping up and those prices Problems just they started like eating at me and eating in him and these conversations. And there were things like, hey, his farm invested heavily in sustainability and then invested very heavily in their people, they treated them, right, they paid them well, etc, etc. But no one on the other end even knew that because they don't know which flowers come from which farm. And the farmer always gets paid last at the beginning of the value chain, and they're waiting for all these players to pay each other. So they could get paid, they have very little negotiating power. Flowers, by definition in the traditional supply chain spend a lot of time moving around and not in people's faces. So the wasted time the wasted life of the flowers and logistics, instead of being used in the home for beauty and for comfort. And so and then, you know, I went on and started shopping sites as I started talking about this, and I saw this 1999 ad and all of a sudden, I was being charged $75 at checkout, and I was like, yep, how did that how did we get to this place? This doesn't make any sense. And then I ordered pink and I got yellow and how does that happen? And it turns out that all of These things are related. And and they all boil down to the idea that that flowers are a complex thing to sell because there are dainty, alive, organic thing. And they're grown far away. They're grown primarily in Ecuador in Colombia. And so this, this whole industry, the whole supply chain grew up around that you have the farmers in South America, you have exporters, of importers in Miami, of customs of wholesalers, you have florists, and you have online retailers, that are all trying to work with this very, very dainty and very alive product, they have to treat in a very special way. It's not surprising that in all those steps, you lose things, it creates waste, it creates older flowers, you can't control exactly which flowers are when and where. So they're not exactly the same ones that you ordered. And so our whole idea was if we can put all those steps under one roof, the books roof, work directly with the farmer and only pick the best farmers that means quality of stems, variety, design and sustainability and how technology really Leave all that together, then we can give them the best of all worlds the best quality stuff at the best price. And that's really what we've been trying to do ever since.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 18:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And of course, the farmers would prefer to work directly with you then through all the other various outlets, right? Just because again, you get paid,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 18:15 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">paid better. In the beginning, it was tough because it was a different way for them to work, right. They're used to sending things into wholesale, which is big bins, doing something we call plop and chop, which is hacking the flowers and put them in a big bin. We were asking them to design bouquets based on the interface, ship them in individual small packages directly to a consumer ready for consumption. And if you ask a farmer what is a beautiful rose, they will say of like a natural rose being thorns and like all the natural pieces. That's not what consumers are looking for. So we were asking them to change the way they did things. There was a lot of resistance, but then we got a couple farms because my co founders farm and friends farm and as they saw the experience, it worked for them. They started talking to other farmers, the other Farmers started saying, Hey, can I get in on that? And all of a sudden, we started to grow naturally, we have to sell it anymore. People were coming to us saying, can we work with you too? And then that spread globally and that our network now is 140 Farms on three continents in like 18 different countries.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 19:15 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Wow. Now talk to me really quickly because you and I have a link there. So I worked at Disney when I was 11. I was part of the Mickey Mouse Club, really, for all seven of those seasons. So and I grew up in Orlando. Yeah. So that's how it was Joey Fatone. Well. That's That's exactly right. And now Yeah, but like my high school was, you know, Joey Fatone, Wayne Brady. Johnny Damon, who you know, is famous baseball player is amazing. We all just grew up together from like, second grade on right whereas now more people are trained see it in Orlando. We were there in kind of grew through that whole piece. But what did you What did you do with Disney?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 19:52 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I joined Disney after my MBA out of UCLA. My previous career to MBA was in strategy and marketing. Couple years at Bain and company and then doing some advertising Gerber baby was my client. I was like 25 year old trying to teach moms how to how to breastfeeding and I knew nothing about anything. But I digress. So, at Disney, I did sort of a combination of those two roles. I worked in a group called corporate brand management, which was a subdivision of corporate brand of corporate strategy. And so that was a group that we sat right directly below Bob Iger physically, and an org structure. And Kevin Mayer, who ran strategy up until he recently left to become the CEO of Tick Tock was ultimately our boss. And our job internally, the brand management team was a couple different sub teams. My team focus specifically on trends and technology, how that was changing consumers behaviors, and therefore what should we do with our brands, ABC, ESPN, Marvel and the Walt Disney at the time, Lucasfilm and the Star Wars acquisition was just just being worked on so it wasn't at the time. And so it was a super cool job because all we did was talk about Hey, when's over the top gonna happen? What's this new thing called an iPad? And how are kids going to use it? We were We were like sort of at the bleeding edge of entertainment technology and how it's gonna impact all. So we got to work with Imagineering and see like what was going to happen in the parks early with Apple, because Steve Jobs is on the board. And we had a special relationship with them. And so our job was essentially measure these things, how many people are using them? How often? How are they using them? And then work with different business units to figure out okay, and in theaters and film? How is this going to change your business and TV and radio and whatever the different businesses were? So we were essentially internal consultants around technology and how it impacted our brands. It was a super cool gig.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 21:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's very cool. And so was boots. What boots what your first entrepreneurial journey, though, tell me tell me about the ones that came before that.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 21:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So MOOCs is the one that works. There were lots of others that were tried, but none of them were really what I'd say careers they were more side hustles and projects. Right, so I had an actually, you'll find this now. I think it's called change up. I had a concept for Roundup, which was this idea of giving to charity with the pennies that are leftover. It's like the same thesis acorns has for investing. You know, if you have 80 cents leftover, it'll go to charity. I had a business plan for it, I had a team etc, etc. I couldn't raise any money for it for whatever reason, someone else was successful. I wasn't it became a another stack and the things that didn't work. I think my favorite story that I love to tell about something that I created that I didn't that didn't succeed is, is when I was 12 or 13. I invented the hybrid electric car. I remember we learned about friction. And I was like, Wait a second, the brakes get hot, that creates energy that can push that into a battery, which then make the car go forward. And I drew a diagram for it and stuff. No one pays me any royalties. Of course, that's the thing. Ideas are worth nothing. Ideas are worth literally nothing. I've had so many billion dollar ideas. Is, and I've done nothing with any of them. So they're worth nothing to me or to the world. execution is everything. And the hardest part of execution. And this is for the entrepreneurs out there that haven't really done it yet. It's just getting started. Like a key thing is, you just got to try them and be willing to fail. You know, I had movie concepts, TV concepts, as well as at Disney. I was writing scripts with people and like trying to get them pitched. And they didn't go anywhere. But you don't you literally nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 23:29 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. So I love because you I know what it takes to get a TV show on air. I know what it takes to go through concept and all that other stuff we had. I had a reality show that was very, very close to getting picked up and fell apart at the last minute we in fact, that Mickey Mouse Club by a group called the party and we were financing a comeback and we were gonna have a reality show around that and got very, very close and then then fell apart. But then you see like some of these other shows that just pop out. You're like, dude, how did they get funded? This is the dumbest I've ever seen in my entire life there's no script no plot, no character development, no nothing. Right reality or otherwise you're like, but it valley that but then he stopped watching it because you can't it's not enough. So I'm sure you felt a lot of that</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 24:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">well and even within boots and similar thing like there's things that I've as the founder and CEO at the time was trying to get done in my org and sometimes I didn't get them done why I didn't sell it well enough. It wasn't the right idea at the time, we didn't have the capability to execute on it. Talking about shows we were attached. I was an executive producer on a show around floral design for like four years. And we pitched everyone we got rejected by everyone. And then the last year to got picked up two devices that we have nothing to do with it picked up now. You'll actually see one of them will come out this fall and we are going to be a small part of it. But you know, this is what life is done. Everything works on everything goes our way. But it's the number of times you can get back up and keep swinging and can you learn from the rejection and as we talked about the beginning, you know, with with investing, it's just about taking risks. Right and you get better at life you get better at business, you get better at entrepreneurship with each rep that you take. At some point, if you only fail, and you never see any success, one has to question Is this the path for you? Sure, outside of that, which is really a self care thing, like, do I want to subject myself to any more of this pain is this really for me, and or practicality I need to pay the bills. It's really about that grit determination, that that that refusal to believe, refusal to accept that you're wrong, that your thesis is not going to play out.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 25:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Now, what's interesting, though, so you said it was 2014 when you err on on shirting, so the the social environmental conscious businesses at the time that they were just kind of getting off the ground, right, it's really more of an explosion 2016 2017 where, right millennials really just started to care about where's the money going? What are you doing with it, so you have the great bombas and you know, those types of stories, but you're really cutting edge on the social An economic kind of socially conscious side of the business as well.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 26:03 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, we were pretty early, almost a little bit too early. We kind of we kind of missed the right wave for when to launch. But you're right, I do the we saw in the millennial and the post millennial generations. You know, I think the long term sort of long term consumer will demand to know where where things come from, right. It's it's happening, it's not fully happened yet. But there was a time in which companies could just be like, I'm going to put whatever I put on the shelf and you will take it and that will be just what it is. So they had so much power, but with the internet and with e commerce and the sort of lower and lower barriers to entry, competition springs up and that competition will care about what consumers care about, which is going to force everyone do you think about this? 1520 years ago, we didn't talk about where our food came from. Maybe it came from the grocery store. I went right Giant Eagle out in Pittsburgh, and that's where I got my food, right? The eagle, so he called it and like, that's where I got my food. We didn't ask about where the lead is like which farm the lettuce came from how they farmed. But there's a level of information out there, which then therefore creates transparency that now requires it. And so we were pretty early on in Florida, we're very proud of that. You're seeing more and more brands and florals start to talk about it, which is exactly what our goal was. But there is an explosion across fashion, food, certainly, and just sort of transparency of where things come from, how its manufactured, what that impact is on the environment and what the impact is on the consumer where that's becoming now the expectation instead of the exception.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 27:34 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, is talking about being early. So I was an entrepreneurial consultant for Xerox, and I was there for the internet, boom, right? There's just right when the internet's coming online and all this stuff. And we had dreamed up this product called internet bill. Payment and presentment I VPP. And that was going into banks and stuff and going Why are you sending in printing statements? I can send that email. I remember sitting with CIOs going well, emails, not secure and I was like, dude, I can go to your mailbox and just open the door and get your bank statement. Like I don't understand that. But I've been on that, you know, and obviously now every single company does it, right. Everybody's got online statements, but we were pitching that like in 9798. You know, that kind of thing that we early early. So I've been a part of that. And we're gonna take another break right here. When we get back I want to talk about, you know, the elephant in the room, which is COVID and how that's impacting business. And honestly, and you also made a transition from being the CEO chairman. So I want to get into that when we when we come back from break. You're listening to Rick Morris and the work life balance. We'll be right back.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 28:39 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? 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Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 31:00 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">We're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon we're visiting and you know what your bio says co founder and CEO, but I think that that's out of date. Now you're you're not CEO books anymore. Is that correct?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 31:11 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's right. Yeah. As of May 15, I stepped out of the CEO seat and into the chairman seat</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 31:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">in perfect timing with COVID. And everything else going on. I'm sure there's no challenges around that. But what what really brought that on was it was a time just to move on to leadership. Where are you at?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 31:28 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, look, it was probably about two years ago when I looked at what the company needed long term. And what I want to do an upgrade at right and sort of my strengths are largely around storytelling, new business creation, ideation, etc. I'm not a traditional block and tackle executional guy right. All my jobs prior to books are not operational. They were strategic. It was strategy at The Walt Disney Company strategy, abating company, a long term 10 year plus planning and thinking almost No execution, what we produce for PowerPoint decks and ideas. And so you know, both between my personal sort of interests and what I really thought the company needed, we're getting to a scale and a size where we're, you know, we knew we could make this thing really big, but like, what skill sets, you need to do that. And so I actually went on sort of an exploration of what makes a great CEO for a business like this. And then I sort of, you know, did the Venn diagram with me, and there was some overlap. I was doing, I think, a fine job. But was it the best thing for the company? And then secondarily, was it the best thing for me? And I got to an answer. I was like, not really. I think there's somebody out there who will be better for this company in the CEO seat, and I think I will be better value add to this company by being in a different kind of role. And so went to the board and sort of pitch them on the idea and it was, it was a, you know, there's a lot of concern whenever a seven year CEO is coming and saying, Okay, I think maybe it's time for a change. But we got everybody on the same page and went out and did a search and we were so lucky. We hired an amazing awesome Operator, leader person and Alejandro bethlen, who's now our CEO, I guess that took over may 15. And it's been really fantastic. And you mentioned doing it in the middle of a pandemic. We've been 100% remote. So we've gone through a complete leadership change, all via zoom. And this is when you know you have an amazing company, an amazing culture is we did it with like, without a hiccup. I mean, it was a smoothest transition you could possibly imagine. And Alejandro and I are great friends now, and really great, you know, operating partners, and the company has really rallied behind him. And it's been a really great couple months since he took over.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 33:35 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, but you basically avoided the founders curse, right that founders curses I founded this company. I'm going to ride this sucker until it goes and not recognizing that change that's necessary not recognizing that, hey, it's time. I got us here. That's awesome. Right, but, but how do we how do we grow and sustain?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 33:53 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's right. It'd be super clear. I did consider and it is a path to say. I'm going to learn to become That, right? If I have that capability, then the question becomes, do you want that? And in my case, the answer was not necessarily. And then how long is it going to take? And how good are you going to be on the other side? And what what I had seen over my sort of progression as a CEO was I got better and better at it. But how long would it take me to get to be as good as an operator as a hunter who's been doing it for he did it for Amazon for eight years prior to that at Procter and Gamble for like, eight years, like, I'm not going to catch up, right? But then I can spend my time doing where I can add a lot of value, big strategic partnerships, long term thinking, international expansion, new concept development is things that I get up in the morning I can't wait to work on and therefore we're going to be one more fun for me, but it's going to have better outcomes for the company as well.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 34:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I think that's</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 34:52 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">one of the greatest signs of leadership. And again, you keep going up notches in my book to say, I can do this which right it's not a hit. Are you by any means, but to say that person is going to be better? Like it. JOHN Maxwell says, says, I'm sure he stole it from somebody else as well. But if, if you're sitting in the room and you're the smartest person in the room, then you need to change rooms. You need to surround yourself with people who are better than you. And then, you know, obviously you learn and grow through that. So I commend you for that decision. That's, that says, ego isn't in the way of prosperity. And that's, that's rare these days, the hardest battle on this whole thing was with myself. Sure, it became very, because startups especially as they scale, they become very intertwined with who you are as a human being. And it's really hard to rip that apart and think of it as a job. But once I was able to mentally flip this to, this is a job and and if I were to interview everyone in the world for this job, would I give myself the job? And if the answer isn't 1,000% Yes, well, then you got to start looking for somebody that you would absolutely give that job to. And so that was the hardest part was getting myself mentally Sort of it was almost I'm still in the company, I'm the chairman I'll be Chairman till I die or commit a felony, you know, whichever one comes first. But like, I'm still I'm still there. But it is an emotional moment where you think about changing that role because it becomes such a part of you. Once I was able to get through that part all the rest of it was really easy for me.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 36:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, we were talking on the break about professional speaking and in that industry and that kind of stuff, but that to me is a keynote I haven't heard on if I interviewed a ton of people what I get the job. I so if that's not a concept that you haven't been running with, that's that's the concept. I think that would land in a big way. Coming back to boobs for a second, though, because we looked at the website, you know, in this mastermind because they knew I was about to interview you, but did I see as a subscription service? Like, how do you how do you feel like everybody's getting in a subscription? Right? That's that's where it's at. It changed the music industry forever, for sure. How did you broach flowers in subscription like that's just not something I put together</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 37:00 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, we've we've actually had subscriptions since the beginning of the company. But it was always kind of a secondary on the side little thing. And therefore, it wasn't the focus of the business. And the way that people generally used it up until kind of more recently, is they use that as a really nice gift. Like instead of giving mom flowers on Mother's Day, once you give them to her once a month for a whole year, and that is a nice, that was a nice way to have the business. It was a good business. But my thesis on subscription the whole time was, this could be for anyone that buys flowers, because most people are going to buy flowers more than once a year. So the first thing is, how do you give them a tool that enables them to do so in a way that's better for them and keeps them with us as a subscriber. And so our current subscription model is anyone that comes to our site today will get 30% off and free delivery, which in dollars is roughly 50% off if you sign up for our subscription service, but the service is super flexible. So you get you can sign up for whatever frequency one once a week. Once every other week, once a month, once every other month, but then you can skip. So if you don't need flowers this month, you just go and hit the skip button, and then they're not going to ship. And you can change the address or the recipient, you can say, this month, I'm having stuff in my house giving to my wife. Next month, same thing, but then next month is my sister's birthday, I'm gonna change this is perfect. So now you're getting the subscription price, which again, is roughly 50% off. And so it makes it palatable for the customer to say, Oh, I was going to send flowers three, four times a year Anyway, I'll skip the other months, but now I get this price. And it allows us to have a consistent, persistent relationship with the customer, they get an understanding of our farming and how it matters. And so it really is the best of all worlds for both the company and for the customer. And so that's really been our our pitch around subscriptions.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 38:46 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So obviously, you're lowering the cost of acquisition to the customer number one, right so if we stay with you that kind of stuff, but but also being able to forecast a little bit right in a seasonal business. I can imagine you Have some pretty high forecasts, say around February 14, for whatever reason, maybe you know, around Mother's Day, like, like you said, but learning how to forecast appropriately and drive revenue in the non seasonal months, I think is probably a more critical tact, isn't it?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 39:17 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. And enables us because of the relationship with the customer to not be sort of forgotten in between those big, you know, like, you think about Mother's Day, and then next Valentine's Day, you're talking about more than half a year in between. So how do you create loyalty on just two days a year, it's really hard. Whereas if you're there for the birthdays, if you there for the anniversaries, if you're there when someone's sick, and then maybe someone wasn't gonna send flowers, but you have the subscription price, and they kind of like, Oh, it's only 36 bucks. Sure, I'm gonna use my monthly subscription for that event. You're keeping that persistent relationship with the customer. And that then leads to like you just like you said, downstream benefits for analytics for financial forecasting, for inventory planning, for shipping rates and understanding like what are Sort of based businesses and how that grows. And so it has, you know, subscription is not just a revenue generating idea, it has all these sort of downstream positive impacts to the way ecommerce companies work. And so</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 40:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">go ahead, No, go ahead. I'm sorry. I was</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 40:15 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">gonna say I encourage folks that run any business, but especially consumer facing businesses to think through, hey, in where in this in this equation can a subscription not just be good for us internally, but help the customer and the overlap of those two is where you'll find wins?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 40:29 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure, well, even I was thinking, where I was going, there was like, even like office buildings, you know, getting fresh flowers, you know, once a month, or every other week just to have in the lobby and academic stuff, you know, some aesthetic touches.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 40:44 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I could see where that comes through a ton of interest in it during COVID where you mentioned we're gonna talk about COVID because people are stuck at home, and they're not outdoors as much and they're not in nature as much. They're not in their offices, which have plants and flowers. And so we're seeing people subscribe so they can bring a little bit of that nature a little bit of beauty inside.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 41:00 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well I'm staying at this Airbnb here everything's plastic there's one of the things somebody brought up so you know freshen up your air Airbnb with a subscription. Right? Yeah. Add that that extra touch the have nice fresh flowers for your guests. When they walk in. I could, I can see that. I only take a small percentage of that royalty. So that's, that's great. I wish I could Yeah, I could see the Airbnb idea being huge. But still, I think that's the point is, is to constantly innovate constantly think constantly push a model. And again, some are going to work, some aren't. But those that do, should should pay up way more than those that don't.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 41:35 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">As soon as you have found what quote unquote, works, and you're comfortable, you're dead, right? innovate or die literally by all time all the time. And that's, you know, that's one of the reasons I wanted to start an early stage company one of the reasons I I left the Walt Disney Company to enter the startup world was I just wanted to build new stuff all the time. I wanted to come up with something new test it see what happens because what if like, what if we tried this or what if we tried that is the most fun way to me to go about life. Not just business, but just like how you're spending your time, because we only get one shot. And so we're not constantly learning and trying new things like what's the point? And so the startup world is perfect for that mindset.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 42:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. That creative side of it is exciting. So we're going to take our final break right here. 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R squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business, you'll find the experts here voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 44:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">We're back on the work life balance. I can't believe we're in the final segment already. Man this this is flown by we're gonna we're gonna have to bring you back and do another show. But</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 44:54 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">anytime. Anytime I have Dan here.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 44:56 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Again, you've got a fan for life right here, but We were talking, we talked to COVID a couple of times, but really what is what impact is that had on you on you guys? What have you had to innovate? In order to deal with it?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 45:10 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so you know, COVID. For us, we we went remote work a little bit earlier than most, we had an employee who thought they may have been exposed. And so we sort of shut everything down about two weeks before California shut down. And now we haven't been back since that was like March 8, or something, whatever it was, you know, when we thought about it, we thought about a couple things. You know, first was employee safety. Second was financial planning in the case of a downturn, and executional plans that go with that. Well, we actually found though was that because people aren't traveling as much, they're not going to birthdays and graduation parties etc, is that people are actually sending flowers more. And this is industry wide, and ecommerce generally has seen a rise as people have gone out less, which we didn't expect. And so for us, a lot of What we've been focused on because we're just very lucky we have a virtual business that is pretty easily run remotely, not perfectly easily. But like, we have 140 farms and they're in remote locations where there aren't a lot of cases of COVID it's easy to social distance on a farm because they're big and there's open space. A lot of people already wore masks because there's a lot of dust and debris. Sure, operationally we were kind of set up for this almost perfectly and luckily we had very few interruptions in our net and our network and it because our network so robust that there was an interruption here, our systems just said okay, then we'll do it over here. And so all of our distribution and inventory management was pretty seamless. And so then it became about how do we give back like what do we do differently because so many people are suffering and and our business isn't we felt great to be able to employ our people to keep them fully employed, etc, etc. But like, what do we do here in this in this moment, and a big focus for us then was looking at our frontline workers or health care workers or nurses As our doctors, our EMTs, or police, and asking people to nominate their favorite people, people they're seeing, they're doing an amazing job for free bouquets. And we called it 1000 thank yous and we gave away 1000 bouquets to nurses and doctors in the midst of really the peak in that time frame. And so we really tried to think about how can we use this platform, this product to help everyone get through it because we are a product that is by nature designed to help people feel happy, relieve stress, and show show love between individuals. And so that's really been our focus. You know, there have been things that have had to change. We're all working remotely 100% I think maybe once in a while one or two people go in the office with this beautiful office and Marina Del Rey that is completely empty every day. We've had to delay some things though. We we announced in January a $30 million fundraise with plans to expand into retail and into international specifically Japan. And as of March, we essentially put those both on hold kind of indefinitely. We're starting to look back into both of those now, as we're at least hoping to see some light at the end of the tunnel by the end of the year or early next year. But that's really been the biggest shift as we expected to go into those areas hard as growth areas. And instead, it's more of the planning and the sort of practicing getting ready for it instead of the execution.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 48:19 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, she looked at some of these larger companies as well, their profitability went through the roof. So of course, some of that is, again, some of the behaviors not going out online, you know, e commerce, that kind of stuff. But maybe there was some assumptions in our old model that we just made, in terms of this is the cost that we just have to eat. This is the cost of doing business, whatever that may be. COVID is really shaking up and as you look at some of your operational costs, the way he did business, the number of meetings yet, you know, those types of things. Are you seeing, you know, a challenge to that kind of status quo and something you think you'll take for?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 48:51 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, you know, I think there's I think that's happening and kind of every business right now and I was talking to a fellow entrepreneurs in fashion the other day, and she was talking about how fashion, there are these tried and true in quotes, practices that you have to do again in quotes. And it's about when you bring out your line, how you pitch it when you pitch it. And she's like in this world, none of this even makes any sense. Like, why like, why are we doing and I think there's some fundamental questions that are happening for people in the business world now around, I've always had to have in quotes this resource or this headcount or this process, and do I really need to do it? And I think it's a really great opportunity as business leaders to take a step back and say, This is the way we've done it for 25 years. Is this the way we have to do it going forward? We always thought that 100% remote work would never work. And here we are six months later, where everyone's kind of killing it. So does that mean we go 100% remote forever? I don't know. Probably not. But does that mean that people can do it successfully? Absolutely. And maybe now people can take a month and work in Europe and work remotely from there. Maybe people want to I've always wanted to live in a certain city, that they couldn't do it before and this I think there's flexibility that comes with out of times like this, because the old thinking is challenged on a day to day basis. And so my hope is that we as leaders, really stick a step back and reflect on it. You know, I think, with Alejandro joining us CEO, there was a natural inflection point of change that was going to happen anyway. Right? We're thinking about how can we change our organizational structure, what processes can change, but those are then changing even more because of COVID. And I'm sure we'll have lasting impact on the way we do business long term. Exactly what all those are yet I don't think we know because we're still in the midst of, of the pandemic. But I really do think that long term we're going to see a lot of consumer behaviors change because of COVID. I think subscriptions will stick around I think ecommerce will stick around but it won't be the same. It won't be 100% of the change you've already seen. It'll be some proportion thereof dependent on your business, your businesses, ecommerce, if your business is automotive, whatever. If the change is dramatic, or if a change is small, some proportion of that will stick And the question is just for an individual sector how much</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 51:02 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">so how do people get in touch with you?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 51:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I'm LinkedIn is probably the best. Search for john tab is ta B is I'm also at john G, Tavis, on Twitter and Instagram, although I'm not super active on either one. To be honest, this probably spend most of my time on LinkedIn. And you can also find that john tab is calm. For speaking for appearances for just you want to chitchat and talk about something that I said. And then for the company, we're at books calm like bouquet but shortened Bo u q. s calm. And you can find us at the Brooks co on any of the major, you know, social media platforms.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 51:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So finally, the question we asked every one of our guests what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 51:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So there's a couple things that my dad has told me in my life and my dad is definitely the place where I've always gotten the most impactful advice. But when I was about eight or nine, he took a and he would probably still do this today. By the way, even though Technology. He took a newspaper article, and he put white paper around all the words and he didn't want me to see any photocopying, just the words he wanted me to see. And I still have it on my desk. And all it says is be better today than you were yesterday. And that, and that, quote, has driven me sort of forever, because I'm a person that's impatient for change. Like when I was 10, I wanted to be a multimillionaire when I was 20. I wanted to run a company like all you know, and a lot of people are that way, especially in America where there's a lot of drive. But what keeps me grounded is this idea of, don't worry about running a marathon. Let's just get the first mile in, right, let's just go do the first mile. And then let's do the second and incremental change is so much easier to stick with and so much easier to understand and to be disciplined around because you're trying to go from a 10 minute mile to a nine minute mile. You know, if you went from 10 to 955 and the measurable results that have given me gratitude. And so I've tried to keep my mind although it likes to dream in big ways and sort of the outcomes on this more as an individual, as a business as a company, as a team as a family. How do we incrementally get better, and that's just easier to achieve. And then it allows you to stack success, right? If something becomes a habit, now you're running your nine minute mile every week, three times a week or whatever. Great, now you can move on to Goal number two, and get incrementally better in that area now created a habit. And so be better today than yesterday is the one that that I try to live by.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 53:34 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's fantastic. Well, john, listen, I I've been doing this show almost five years now. I've got 300 plus episodes. So you're easily in the in the top 10 interviews that I did. So I appreciate you coming on. And we hopefully, hopefully, we're starting to build a bond here because I'd love to have you back on the show. And I'd love to catch up with you and see what's going on and bring back obviously there's going to be a boat coming at some point. So we'll be here for the release of that. You know, your own podcast. We'll we'll be here for that. Whatever you need, man. We're an arm for you, buddy.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">John Tabis 54:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So appreciate it. Thanks to you and your whole team. And thanks so much for squeezing in amongst your travels. hope you really enjoy the conference and say hi to your fellow masterminds over there.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 54:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">We'll do we'll do so to everybody else. This concludes another episode of work life balance again, fantastic episode. Always hit me up at Rick A. Morris, you can find me at Rick at Rick A. Morris calm and we've got somebody else that's going to be here next week. We're actually booked out I think all the way through the end of the year now. So we've got phenomenal entrepreneurs and stories that are coming up, you know as future episodes for us, and we hope that you live your own work life balance and you have a fantastic Friday. We'll talk to you Same time, same place next week. You've been listening to Rick Morrison the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 54:50 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show. Thanks again for listening to The preceding program.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-20353646105026733152020-08-15T08:28:00.006-05:002020-08-15T08:28:57.777-05:00The Portfolio Management Dream: How to Stop it from Becoming a Nightmare!<p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/125204/the-portfolio-management-dream-how-to-stop-it-from-becoming-a-nightmare" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To download the mp3 file, click </span><a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris081420.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</span></span></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:04 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick Morris.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 0:26 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And welcome to another edition of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. So excited to have you guys along. And, you know, I've been very, very blessed with this radio show been blessed by you as an audience. And because of that, we're now booked out to the end of the year, which is really, really cool. It's the first time in the five years that I've done the show that we've been booked out that far in advance and that's a testament to you guys and a testament to the quality of people that are wanting to come on and talk to us about the work life balance. But having said all that it's been a little while since just I've been with you. So I thought I would take the opportunity today and just talk through some of the things that's happening here in our lives and then go through one of my, my newest content deliveries that we're talking about, which is called a portfolio management dream, and how to stop that from becoming a nightmare. So just, you know, on the personal front, there's there's a ton of activity that's been going on, you know, COVID has impacted us all. And being a serial entrepreneur and somebody who works from home. My consulting business, really just kind of went away, and so did the speaking business. And so I was faced, you know, in February in March of looking at my pipeline projections and just seeing them go down to nothing, almost. And so it's always time to pivot in I always say, these are the times that make the entrepreneur and these are the times that we really need to focus on what's important, but it's also not the time to take a break, I think The people that are working the hardest right now to reinvent and reinvigorate are the ones that are going to come out of COVID just fine. So to that end, we've started actually three different companies. Right now one super excited about we're calling milestone melodies. We're actually making custom songs. So we've got an entire group of Nashville Songwriters, musicians in really looking to create a unique, I hate to even say gift but a unique moment or so it could be, you know, wedding, anniversary, birthday, anything like that. And we're creating custom music fully produced. So there's a couple of other groups out there that do that, but they don't have the production level or certainly the talent that's available to us in Nashville. So super excited about that. There'll be probably a whole show, I'll bring the CO owners, which is Jennifer McGill, who's former Mickey Mouse Club, and Jeff bohannan is her Ben who does a lot of the production as well and we'll have them on and talk about their why and that business that's going to be really cool. We started a new organization as well called social RX which is spinning up which is more of a prescription for social media and how to do social media total Social Media Marketing Agency. And of course, you know, the pm tribe has been going on but the latest announcement is radio MMC, which you can go to radio MMC calm, but it is now a radio station that's internet based, that plays solely music of those artists and people that are connected to the 90s version of the Mickey Mouse Club. So that just launched this week. It actually launched August 12. So we're super excited about that. You can go to radio MMC comm and check that out. So let's get into today's topic. So in my consulting career and working with a lot of organizations, I've worked with almost 150 or so organizations now implementing what we call project portfolio management software. In the sole reason that most organizations buy this level of software in they can spend anywhere from, you know, 20,000 a year up to 200 $300,000 a year. So, I know several clients that have millions of dollars</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">invested in a platform like this, but they all buy it so that they can generally make better decisions when it comes to portfolio management. And so for those of my audience that may not fully understand what portfolio management really is, it is managing the entire project inventory for an organization in managing that to strategy as well as cost. And so the first question I always like to ask when we're doing any kind of portfolio management work is, are you picking projects based on what you can spend, or what your resources can realistically achieve? So let's explain that most organizations have some sort of capital budget planning process. Guess what they do? Is that the beat, you know, somewhere in September, October, they start a list and they essentially just say, hey, what are other projects that we need to complete next year? And this huge list? And they asked about how much is that going to cost? And then, of course, that list gets sent up somewhere, and, you know, goes through some magic formula, and essentially, they pick the project. And we've done a whole series on, you know, making sure that projects aligned to strategy and all those other things. So we won't get into that at this point. But my question is, is during that process? How do we ensure that when we pick all these projects, that we have a reasonable staff to be able to complete all those projects? And I would say between 90 and 95% of companies out there, have some sort of an idea. They'll say, you know, how many resources do you think you'll use? How many hours do you think this will be? Some kind of rough estimate? But it really doesn't timescale those estimates and show how the resources are being utilized whether or not they're gonna be overloaded or have enough time to actually complete the project work. So that's a huge question. And so as organizations start to become aware of this need, or really want to start to understand, and especially I think now in terms of COVID, you know, with reduced staffed and work at home and all those things, that it's forcing all these companies to challenge all their assumptions. And I wonder what that process is like if you don't have something that's automated, or something that can assist you in understanding that. And it's far too complex to keep this kind of information in your head or even via a spreadsheet. Because the moment you finish the spreadsheet, it's out of date. So essentially, an organization then has this dream, that they're going to buy some portfolio management software, and off they go. So what I want to do is talk through kind of three different Dreams. And then the nightmares that I see get created through those dreams. And then I'll finish this episode with some practical tips and tricks from a real world perspective. So that's what we're doing today. So the first dream is again, they buy a piece of software, it automatically somehow ranks projects through data, and then automatically communicate that information through the enterprise. So everybody knows the ranking of the projects and whether or not we have enough people to do them. And off we go. Now it's true. Most of the software on the market can do that. But here's how these things become nightmares very, very quickly. First and foremost, the first mistake most people do when they're looking at implementing a system like this any kind of automation system really, is they overcomplicate the software. When you start to see the potential of what software can automate, you start picking more and more and more processes to bring in and then essentially becomes this huge behemoth that takes forever to test for everything. Training is so disruptive to the enterprise. It's just too big. And so, by overcomplicate I can tell you I can't tell you how many times that when we we sold the software, we started working with the organization, we had something very simple like we want to do portfolio management. By the end, what you're arguing about is these 30 reports that nobody's going to read. And it's about colors and fonts and things, things like to me that I'm sure they matter to some people, but at the end of the day, those aren't decision making things. And those aren't things that really are driving those types of decisions. So becomes way over complicated. We're trying to do way too much and bite off more than we can chew. I think that second thing is that while this software does rank things, it has to have the data underneath to rank them. So for instance, if I want to know whether or not I have the resources available to do this project, and I have to have some sort of thought of what type of resources I need for how long and And how much of them that I need. So for instance, any 50% of a project manager for six months, and then that has to be compared with all the existing projects, and those have to have at least some sort of resource estimation.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Beyond that, a lot of people like to look at return on investment, net present value and, and total costs and things like that. But if we're not inputting that data consistently, in the system, then when it ranks the projects, it's ranking based on incomplete data. I think the third major thing that I see when people buy the software is that computers and software aren't going to replace human conversation. So for instance, one of the big ones is like, Okay, if I input my resources there, I want to be notified every time somebody updates a resource in the system. And I really see you know, do you do you really want to be notified because at some point, the These notifications is just going to clog your email box, and nobody's really going to want to look through them, and then it's going to lose its effectiveness and value anyway. So why would you want to be notified? And ultimately, the conversation comes down? Well, I don't want, you know, project manager or somebody going in there and messing up my resource forecast. So I get that. But even if they do, right, the system isn't going to prevent that or being notifying you isn't going to prevent that there's still got to be some sort of human conversation. There's still has to be talking that goes on and you know, jacking for the best resources for a project and no system, no matter how well automated or how well crafted is going to replace human conversation. And also the whole notification thing. Well, I see value in that being notified immediately. Whenever I'm talking to somebody in a meeting and they say something like that. I say, okay, hang on real quick. You just got notified. What are you going to do with it? Now that you've been notified, what's the next step? You're in a meeting You don't have the access to the data. So now it's just another email in your box that you got to get back to. So why couldn't we just create something like a weekly digest that says, you know, here's all the things you said you cared about, you know that, that if they were updated or changed in the system you wanted to know. But we give that to you in a consolidated format that says like, here's all the resource changes, here's all the project date changes, here's all the issue updates, you know, those types of things. But kind of a weekly digest instead of notifying you every time something like that happens. And most of my clients will take that option. But the point being is you lose the effectiveness of the software. If you overcomplicated, you don't have complete data. And you think that this system is going to replace the human conversations that are necessary to move business along. So that's how dream number one becomes nightmare. Number one. So we're going to go through a couple more of these. I've got two more dreams and nightmares to talk about and then we'll get into some practical tips but we're going to take a break right here. Are you listening to Rick Moore's on the work life balance?</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 12:05 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? Are you aware that businesses identified capturing time and costs against projects as their biggest project management challenge? Are you aware that 44% of project managers use no software? Even though Price Waterhouse Coopers found that the use of commercially available project management software increases performance and satisfaction? Now, imagine that you could have the ease of entry like a spreadsheet and a software tool set up and running within two to four weeks. Imagine within two weeks being able to see clearly where all of your resource conflicts are. Well, you don't have to imagine because PD ware has already created it. pd ware can give you real time access to KPIs easily updated views of what your teams are working on. And immediate feedback to some of project management's toughest questions like when can we start this project. What happens if we delay this project? Can we do this in time? How does this new project impact our current portfolio? Find us at PDX where calm at imagine not manually compiling endless reports again, are you getting the most out of your project management software. 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Visit r squared consulting.com today</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">from the boardroom to you voice America business network.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You want to tuned into the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 14:25 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're talking about the portfolio management dream and how to stop that from becoming a nightmare. So this really comes from years and years of experience doing portfolio management working with organizations. The first one that we covered was, you know, buying software that we think is going to solve all the problems and while software does accelerate a lot of the decisions and makes a lot of the decisions easier. Certainly we have the ability to mess up how we implement the software and thereby make the nightmare happen. So our second dream that I want to talk about is where people will convene a PMO. And ultimately a portfolio management committee. The dream is that we're going to get the executives in the room, we're going to give them some criteria, they're going to look at all of our projects, and rank them with only one number one.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Not like one, a, one, B, one C, one D, but truly have a number one project. You know, a lot of times when when I'm starting the consulting with an organization, I'll ask them, who do you think is making the strategic decisions of the company? And of course, you know, they say, well, we do, right. We're the Executive Council, we do, and I'll say, Okay, do you have a prioritized list of projects that's, that's actually accessible, and everybody understands where they fit? And if the answer's no, then I said, well, you're really not making the strategic decisions. And they asked me how that can be. And I said, because what you're doing is essentially by not having a prioritized list of projects. You're deferring the decision. And that decision will continue to get deferred until it has to be made, which is generally at the lowest level. So for instance, it's it's not you making the strategic decision. It's that database administrator who just got asked to do three different things. Whatever they choose to do first is now the number one priority, at least to them. And of course, if everybody's operating that way, then you've got 500 priorities being worked on, and no consolidated effort towards that major project. And so how you combat that is then how do you decide what's the number one project and most people will do that through a council. So that's the dream is that we're going to convene this council. They're going to make decisions. We're going to have a prioritized list of projects and how we go. Now the first qualifier I want to give before I get into the nightmares, those one of the biggest things that I look at from a maturity perspective of not only Portfolio Management Council, but the project management office, the PMO, I was asked how many projects did Did you kill in flight or cancel outright as part of this committee? And if the answer is that they haven't, then they're not a very mature committee. Because the committee is just now becoming a rubber stamp or roadmap through in order to, you know, greenlight the project. But if they're really not stopping projects, or looking at projects that are performing poorly in them from that point, then they're not really making these portfolio management type decisions. That's really the goal. The goal shouldn't be which project should we approve? It really should be which projects aren't worth our time are we not going to do so how these then councils become a nightmare is first, how do you actually come up with a ranking for a project. And so what they'll do is they'll design a formula to rank projects, right the but then the argument then becomes about the formula. So instead of deciding you This project should be higher than this project we're arguing about, you know what, that ROI should be five times the revenue coming in or, you know, the NPV should be two times as important as the overall cost, you know, things of that sort. And the reason that that that formula becomes an argument is because based on the ranking of using the formula, the projects that they felt were most important, weren't showing up. So the answer must be let's tweak the formula so that we can get the expected result versus taking a really hard look at the what, what the formulas doing. So that's one way it can become an absolute nightmare. The second one and this one, this one I see more often than anything is that the council itself breaks down. So the decisions are really hard to make, but then that's why it's part of an Executive Council. The executives are there to make really hard decisions, and a very hard decision is we're going to do this Project and not do that project. And so I was contracted for for a government agency. And they had eight divisions that were using a centralized it. And everybody was upset that it wasn't doing the projects fast enough and wasn't producing enough so on and so forth, because everybody had a number one, and it was just bogged down. And my my challenge to them was, Why does it have to make the decision because at the end of the day, it for the most part, for the most part, I know I'm being generous here. So please don't be offended. But for the most part, it doesn't care what project we're doing. What we care about is that we have enough time to do that project with quality and be able to to put out the best results possible. But whether we do project a or project B really doesn't matter because we're going to end up doing them both. It's just give us the time to complete project day before we move on to project beat. So I worked with the the eight divisions and I can to counsel with them. And one of the first things I had them do was I asked them to come up with a list of criteria they feel they would need to have answered, in order for them to make a decision as to which project was going to be number one versus number two. And so we worked for weeks on that all kinds of data points, they were saying, and all this other stuff. When we were done with this exercise, the first thing I asked them to do was let's go ahead and rank our existing projects against this criteria. So that, you know, we could just see how it works, right kind of a test case. And they couldn't answer. They didn't have enough information to answer all the things that they say we're required in order to get a project approved to their Council. And I remember saying, doesn't that scare you? It doesn't scare you as the slightest bit that you're saying this is the minimum information you need in order to be able to rank a project. You can't produce that information for projects that are running right now. How does like how does Does that make you guys feel? And so what ended up happening is that it was too hard to get the data that they wanted. So we suggested to pare down the form and they disagree. They're like, no, we're just gonna disband the council. So it was a perfect example for me. And I've seen many organizations do that, that the decisions are that difficult. And in light of making the difficult decision or showing some leadership and taking that on, the response was simply we're going to push the decision back down to it and then we're going to yell at them if they're not making the decision we want them to make and that's essentially what I see in a ton of organizations.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The third one is nightmares is kind of the same under the same thing, but you can never make a decision due to insufficient data. So really nightmare. Scenario number two in this dream is is where they just the decisions too hard to make they disband but The third one is insufficient data. What this one really is, is what I call the decision delay tactic. So this is when they say, okay, we do want this set of information, go get it, you provide that information. Of course, a lot of people are doing this in spreadsheets, and it takes a ton of time to compile the information. And then somebody else on the council will say, Well, I really need to understand this piece of data in order for us to make these decisions. So obviously, you can't make the decision in that meeting. So you send everybody off, they create the new data point, they load it all up, they bring it back into the organization and somebody who go you know, that's really good, but now that I'm seeing that I want to know this piece of information. And while they say they do want to know it, it takes a lot of maturity in in somebody who's running the process to go, that's great. We'll rearrange the projects when we have that information, but we need to rank these projects based on the information we have today. That way, you have that opportunity to go ahead and start making some of the key decisions that need to be made. And you're not pushing it off. Just because of a data point. When you start to feel that kind of happening, that's when you want to challenge the organization or the council itself, to start to really come to terms with this decision has to be made. And it has to be made for the betterment of our people. And we talked about that for just a second. You know, decision making is what I feel the executives are paid the amount that they're paid for that that's that is their job is to make decisions. And but if you look at it from a human nature perspective, human nature says we don't really like or want to make tough decisions and a tough decision means it's not a compromise. Generally, somebody wins, somebody loses. And so when you're trying to maintain relationships, and you're trying to You know, make everybody happy and lead an organization successfully, those decisions are really hard to make. And I am not undermining that by any mean. But at the same time, no decision means the decision becomes deferred to a lower level. And so that now falls to your middle management, middle management doesn't make it that it falls down to your people and your people end up making strategic decisions, just for the mere fact that nobody else would. And so I just want you to think through that. And think about just something simple. Like if you're, you're asking for a team to collaborate on, you know, some copy that was being written an email was going to go out or a newsletter or something of that sort of something as simple as that. You ever send that email out and says, Hey, you know, provide me feedback. And you just don't get any information. Then of course, once it's published, everybody has their feedback ready for you? Well, some of these decisions That that are being deferred could cost millions upon millions upon millions of dollars. I remember</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">working with a bank, and they had something that they call this security scan. And it was supposed to just scan to see if any ports were open and they would close them before you know this, this thing would go into production. And there was there was a couple of projects that went out where a port was open, and it left them vulnerable to some sort of attack or hacking or something of that sort. And the CIO just came down with fury just beat everybody up around them. And so, next thing you know, as a project manager, when you go to do a security scan, they say, well, the security scan teams really overloaded. We said why they said well, we require three security scans for every project. I was like, what does that mean? And they said well, we got to scan it when the it is done building the server, we have to scan it after the vendors installed. software and we have to scan it after user acceptance testing, so that we can confirm if any ports were open. And if the ports were open, who, who opened them. And so then it became 10 days to schedule a security scan 10 days to perform it and 10 days to get the results. So you're looking at 90 business days or four and a half months, just so that we could say whether or not ports were open and who was to blame. And that was the kind of key thing see the executive needed to know who and was blowing everybody up, not the fact that the ports were open, but who did it. And so the question became, who made the decision to do three security scans? Well, nobody did. So the security scan team did, because they didn't want to get yelled at because they didn't know who opened the port. And so the question becomes, well, what was more important than the fact that we caught a port and we closed it before it went live? Or is it more important to know Who opened the port so we can yell at him and blame him. And when when I finally challenged the executive with that information, the answer was clear that no, we just want to make sure the ports are closed. But my that was a perfect example of how every single project in that bank, for as long as those process were in play, we're getting delayed by up to two and a half to three months. For no logical business reason, other than we wanted to know who to blame. That's a perfect example of when an executive decides to blow something up or yell at somebody or not make the the decision, how it gets hand checked down, and other people will then make the decision in absence. So that's our dream number two convenient counsel and make decisions and how those become nightmares. We're going to come back with nightmare number three right after this break and listening to Rick Morris and the work life balance.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 27:57 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you frustrated with the overall productivity Have your project management processes Do you lack consistency and project delivery? Our squared consulting provides end to end services to assist companies of all sizes in realizing and improving the value of project management. Whether you want to build a project management office train project managers for learn how to bring the oversight and governance to your project processes, r squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com. At the work life balance, we like to ask simple questions to our executives and portfolio managers. Are you picking your projects based on what the organization can spend? Or is it based on what your resources can realistically achieve? This question is not answered properly can cause great strain on your staff limiting the return on investment. When creating project selection criteria. Does your organization attempt to understand the amount of resources needed to complete the work? Is this done in spreadsheets or in a while level. What if we told you there was a simple and easy solution that was built with resource planning in mind? We call it resource first from PD where resource first was built with resource planning as its foundation. We have years of experience that proves before a company fine tunes its project and portfolio management processes without a process for resource planning. The best processes and algorithms can fall flat resources should be first when deciding the strategy of taking an organization forward. Find out more at PD were calm. Put your people first with resource first from PD where join us at PDX were calm.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business,</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you'll find the experts here</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">voice America business network.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today. We'd love to have you call into the program at 186 64725790 Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 30:17 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon talking about the portfolio management dream, how to stop them from becoming a nightmare. So we've covered two dreams already. Let's get into the third one and then we're going to get into tips and tricks that I have several clients that pay big money to hear so that's that's what's coming. So hang on with us and we'll get into some tips and tricks on some practices that are surprisingly successful. So dream number three is to institute a gating process. So, gating process is a series of gates where you want to have some sort of check where a project goes from initiation into planning, planning and execution, execute In closing, so on so forth, the goal is to validate that the team itself is ready that all the due diligence has been done. And we really understand what we're getting ourselves involved with. It's also, though should be a key point in which we look at the project and decide whether or not to continue the project. So it's not just a rubber stamp. So a lot of organizations, again, state that they want that they state that they want some sort of gating process, they want some control. They want to make sure that everybody's thought through everything that they're supposed to do. But the reality of the situation is it becomes a process for the sake of process. And before I get into that, let me explain that like, for instance, for instance, one of the biggest process I think, is misused in project management is that of lessons learned. Not saying that lessons learned is invaluable. It's just that people haven't really thought through the process. So then it just becomes something that we do for the sake to say that we did add a checkbox for the PMO that says yes, we completed the lessons learned what I mean is most of the time lessons learned is handled with the project team. It's tracked in some sort of spreadsheet and then it goes out to like a SharePoint site. And then the intent is that all the project managers are supposed to read all of the lessons learned so that we can plan for that and avoid making the same mistake twice now in theory, phenomenal. But we do have a system of how do we take those lessons learned and actionable so that people can really learn? haven't thought through how to do that, then we're just doing a bunch of wasted effort. So again, it's it's not that lessons learned is invaluable. It's just the process in which we do it. If you want a great system of how you can actually turn lessons learned into a real risk assessment I suggest my book project management that works I have an entire chapter devoted to how you take the lessons learned turn that into a questionnaire that can that is in central English for Your project managers to be able to answer and then it tells you what to plan into the project based on how they answered that questionnaire. And it's all based on lessons learned. But coming back then to gating, right, a lot of people end up having gates, just for a process I had of Fortune 50 client I worked with. And when we calculated the cost of their gating process, it was $18 million. It cost them to run their gating process per year $18 million.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that became a great test case for the nightmares that we talked about. So nightmare number one is that gates become really complex and they use too much time. In this case, it would take 88 hours for a project manager to gather all of the data. And of course, then there's all these rules that come with it, right? So you got to fill out this massive PowerPoint, you get to go query all these different systems and you get all this information and You're supposed to have that done a week ahead of the meeting, so that the committee can review it. Well, of course, the committee is going to be reviewing like seven or eight projects, they did not look at all of those spreadsheets, they didn't read all that document beforehand, which is what they're supposed to do for the coming to the meeting. So when they get in the meeting, you end up just, you know, rattling off a bunch of information, and then you get a rubber stamp, and off you go. So we've got to make sure that when you're looking at a gating process, that it's not complex, it's super easy to kind of get through but you have the right amount of control within it. The second big nightmare that comes with the gating process comes around, again, decisions not being made. So you present it and then they defer decision in the gate because they want more information or they don't understand. And so therefore, the project essentially goes on hold until you can go through that next gate. Even more so. You know, when you when you have the council that's looking at the gating, a lot of times they'll say well You know, we're only going to meet every other Tuesday, something of that sort, which means if I'm ready to go through a gate, I've got to wait until a certain amount of time, so I can go present and get a rubber stamp and move forward. So that's another huge nightmare that we see when we're looking at the gating process. But the biggest one and my challenge to this fortune 50 client, my challenge to most of my clients is, once we understand what the total cost of the gating process is, then what is the value of doing that? Can we attribute the value? Did we cancel a project? Did we save a project that was gonna lose a ton of money? And, and, you know, revamp them? And when we start looking at processes like this, you know, some of these are very necessary. Some of these are regulatory, and that's fine. But the question becomes, is the value does the value outweigh the cost or is the cost tremendously outweighing the value? So in the case of that fortune 50 client, my question is, can we address Repeat like 35 to $40 million of gains from running this $18 million process. Because if not, then we need to kill the process and reinvent it. Right. And, and that's so I don't understand why it's so scary for organizations, but they're like, Oh, no, we got to do gating. Okay, but the gating hasn't produced any kind of results for your organization the way that you've chosen to do it. So why do it? Well, because, you know, we have to or because, you know, an audit finding or because, you know, our consultant said, so something of that sort, but making sure that we're getting twice the value out. If not, then everybody needs to be re diverted to revenue generating activities instead of these activities that are just clogging up the wheel and not producing results. So that that's how that becomes a nightmare. Number three, so let's get into some tips then for dreams instead of nightmares. So those are the things that can go wrong. Based on the assumptions that most organizations make,</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">so how do we how do we make these things, actual dreams? How do we make this stuff come true? So my first tip is that all of these things work gating works, project management software and how that work, you know, that works. Having a portfolio decision committee, it works, but they all have to start simple and then become built upon. So for instance, in the project management world, focus on each one of your roles kind of doing one thing, well, I call this the three rings of focus. So the three rings of focus is okay, I want portfolio, our project managers to write a good schedule. I want resource managers to give me utilization statistics, at the minimum Give me the percentage of resources used against the project over a length of time. And the team members just validate those assumptions. They can do that through time tracking or just validating the percentages that They're their resource manager put in. If each one of those roles just focuses on doing those things, well, then you have all of the pillars that you need to make great portfolio management decisions. We'll know how well the projects are trending, what percentage of resources are available to take on the next project. And we'll understand that the resources know where they're supposed to be and what they're supposed to be doing. And so if we do that, then it works. Once you have that down, then you can start to add onto some automation and some workflows and notifications and all those other things that a system can provide. But what I end up seeing happening more than anything, is when you overcomplicate it, then you stent, you start to doubt the tool and not the implementation of the tool or the configuration of the tool. And then it just becomes this large time tracking kind of database Whenever you try to use the data as a point of decision, people don't trust the data so they don't do it. That's, that's horrible. So, they are all of these things work, but they need to be kept simple and they need to be built upon. Under that same kind of tip though, I want you to have the concept of enter once use many. So I I see a lot of organizations who like one time tracking in their portfolio management tool resource management tool, but then they also have SAP or some other HR kind of tracking system in which they have to answer time so now it becomes duplicate entry of time. That's the biggest thing I always caution my my companies and clients to look at is to say, we need a time tracking system of record. And then whatever other system needs that information, we can feed it. So generally that means the portfolio management software is the best place to track time because it's generally at a lower level. When you're looking at like SAP and HR systems. They just kind of want time rolled up to the front project level, not necessarily at the task level. And then of course, you've got you know, just number of hours worked PTO time, that kind of stuff, you can roll that up and send that to other systems. In the same with like financials. So if you're running SAP financials, then let's not create a whole separate tracking spreadsheet in our portfolio management system. Let's find a way a way to feed the relevant information from the system of record into this, you know, into the system where you want to use the data but not have any kind of duplicate entry. All of the all of the systems now have open API's, they're super easy to start to integrate with. And there's ways that you can design that process so that you're entering once and using many. That's a huge tip. Think through the process. From your resource perspective, think through the process of the people that you're asking to do. You know, the so yes, you want the information to make better decisions. But if we make it cumbersome to enter it in or they're entering it in, twice, it's To lower the quality, then you're going to be into the nightmare of the data quality doesn't add up. So therefore we don't trust it. And now we're just doing again process for the sake of process. Very, very important that a well designed thought process of implementation of what's the system of record? What's the information do we need? What are we going to ask our people to do? And how are we going to utilize that data? That's how you prevent that from becoming a nightmare. So I've got four more tips that I'm going to share with you when we come back, but we're going to take our final break right here you're listening to Rick Morris and the work life balance.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 41:38 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? Are you aware that businesses identified capturing time and costs against projects as their biggest project management challenge? Are you aware that 44% of project managers use no software even though PricewaterhouseCoopers found that they use commercially available project management software increases performance and satisfaction. Now imagine that you could have the ease of entry like a spreadsheet and a software tool set up and running within two to four weeks. Imagine within two weeks being able to see clearly where all of your resource conflicts are. Well, you don't have to imagine because PD ware has already created PD where can give you real time access to KPIs easily updated views of what your teams are working on, and immediate feedback to some of project management's toughest questions. Like when can we start this project? What happens if we delay this project? Can we do this in time? How does this new project impact our current portfolio? Find us at PDX were calm and imagine not manually compiling endless reports again, Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? Do you lack consistency and project delivery? r squared consulting provides end to end services to assist companies of all sizes sizes and realizing and improving the value of project management. Whether you want to build a project management office, train project managers, or learn how to bring the oversight and governance to your project processes, r squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business, you'll find the</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">experts here voice America business network.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 44:00 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon, the final segment as we go through my tips now for how to keep your portfolio dream from becoming a nightmare. So we already talked about, you know, keeping things simple, the three rings of focus and enter once use many. Here's a very, very popular one we talked about earlier in the nightmare about how when you create a ranking algorithm to rank your projects, that a lot of the arguments become about the algorithm and not the projects themselves. So what I do is I find the five or six pieces of information that they're saying is important. So you know, ROI, NPV, total resource utilization, length of project, those types of things. And I rank all the projects by single statistic, each one so if there's five things I five separate lists and then I look for essentially the waterline or you know what we think we can do 30 projects, so which projects appear in the top 30 and all five of those categories. And generally there's about 10 to 12. In doing so, then we can say those 10 to 12 are in, regardless of who you know, if you think ROI is more important, or if you think total utilization is more important doesn't matter. That's it. And so now we're just we've made our decisions on the top 12 right out of the gate. And now we just start talking about the bottom 18. At that point, it moves things along a lot faster. And even if we come to a stalemate on the bottom 18 we still have ranked the top 12 and off we go. So that's a huge point in time saver for a lot of portfolio committees. probably my biggest tip that's utilized and in most of my most of my clients companies. The next one is what I call the 10% rule. This one, this one is is huge, especially when you start talking about lowering the amount of gates and things like that that you need. So essentially, the 10% rule works this way. So when you pitch a project and you have an initial budget, you automatically get 10% of that budget approved to go plan the project to really go plan out how much this thing is going to cost. And then if you're within 10%, plus or minus of your original estimate, you're automatically approved to go into execution. So the beauty of that is it's reducing the amount of gates that are just rubber stamp, and now gates just become about the outliers. But also it gives you the ability to move things along very, very quickly. So for an example, if it's a million dollar project, you get $100,000. To go plant it, you find out it's going to be a you know, 1,000,001 point 5 million, and then that means you you've got the green light to go into execution. So that's a very, very popular one as well. I've seen several organizations streamline their processes to where the only the gates that you're talking About are falling outside of that 10%. So therefore, there's real decisions starting to get made as to whether or not that project still valuable enough or whether it's still worth enough to go after.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And my next tip can go hand in hand with the 10% rule. And this is pmis term. It comes from the Pim Bock. And it's one that I remember kind of having a reaction when I first saw it, but once I saw one of these inaction, it's called a board. And that sounds horrible. But it essentially, is that the committee is convened to shoot down the project. And if you can, if you can then get the project through that committee, then it's a really good project to do. But otherwise, if it's a flimsy project, it's a pet project is one that's not really going to generate ROI, that kind of stuff. Those get cancelled and shut down in this committee. So the intent isn't to come to the committee to approve the intent is for the committee to come in and decline And make the sale of that project be so good, that it's irresistible. And we have to do this project. It's just it's a little bit of a flip of connotation, but it really is, is a powerful tool to say, you know, we understand we have limited resources, we understand we have limited budget, we're going to make sure that we're not going to waste any of those on projects that don't deserve, really to be considered by our staff. And my final tip, in this series is to talk about, again, value. If a process doesn't provide double the value, then it's time to redesign the process. And that really goes for any of our processes. It's amazing how much money that that I call low hanging fruit is available when I go into a consulting client. And all I have to do is looking at the processes that they're doing and question why do we have that process And I'll tell you that 90% of the time I'm talking 90% of the time, people will tell me Well, that's just the way it's always been done here. And that's that I hate that statement. Because that's not true. It's not the way it's always been done there. It was just the way that you were trained and you've never questioned or look to improve the process sense. And so when you're when you're looking at a process, I'll give you a perfect example something a question I asked a client that they'd never been asked before is that they, they deal with a lot of regulatory a lot of regulatory projects and regulatory generally means you have to do it, or there at least has some consequences for not doing it could be loss of reputation could be a financial fine in most times. It's a financial fine. But there was a new regulation came out everybody scrambling the project was gonna cost about $200,000 do and my question was, what's the fine? I go? What do you mean? I said, Well, we're doing this to avoid a fine, what's the fine, the fine was $10,000 For the first year, and I was like, Look, this is obviously a project we need to tackle, but it's going to be a nightmare to try to tackle it now. So why are we going to spend $200,000 to avoid 10? Where we'll just take the $10,000 lump. And now we don't have to do it as an emergency project, and it's gonna cost you no way less to do. And that's what we did. But nobody had ever really asked that question to the client before like, Alright, so that caused me and my portfolios when when I have a checkbox that says this is critical, or it's regulatory, like I want to see, like, Where's the regulation, I show me the document, show me the phrase, and show me the fine so that we understand that this is good business for us to do. So, if a process doesn't give you double that value, then it's time to absolutely redesign the process. So that's how we make portfolio management dreams. actually become dreams and avoid nightmares. If If you have any questions about any of those, you can reach me at r Morris at r squared consulting COMM The software that I recommend that you use right now, if you're looking at any kind of portfolio management type software is a company called PD where it is the first one that was built with resource planning in mind and makes the resource planning essentially the power of a project portfolio management tool with the ease of a spreadsheet, it's really really cool software, really inexpensive, and does a phenomenal job.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Coming up next week, we're going to start a series of entrepreneurs and real entrepreneurs. And we're going to have john tablets on who is the founder of books, which is Bo u q s and it is one of the fastest growing flower retailers out there, the largest company and one of the biggest successes ever to come out of shark tank and just a phenomenal entrepreneurial stories. So we're going to be visiting with john. Next week, and we've got tons of those coming up. We've got Wes, who actually was our reschedule. We missed an appointment before but he's a marketing guru got Travis Bell coming up. And just on and on Adam Mendler. Steve gave it tours. And then even if you missed last week, a fascinating conversation that we had with Doug vermeeren who's is considered the the modern day, Napoleon Hill. He's He's interviewed over 300 of the most successful people in the world, and is gleaned insights. And he talked to us about his movie, how thoughts become things so that was last week's episode. If you missed it, you definitely want to go back and catch that one. Otherwise, gang, we thank you so much for always being a part of the show, always the feedback that I get on social media and via email. I certainly appreciate it. So keep that coming. And until next Friday, we hope that you live here. Your own work life balance will talk to you that</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 53:06 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Transcribed by https://otter.ai</span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></span></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-40640857409093255602020-08-08T09:26:00.005-05:002020-08-08T09:26:59.638-05:00How Thoughts Become Things - Doug Vermeeren<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/125003/how-thoughts-become-things-doug-vermeeren" style="color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris080720.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris052920.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br />This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:04 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick Morris.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 0:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And Welcome to another Friday edition of the work life balance. So excited to have everyone along and I'm gonna just jump right in. There's times when we have guests. I think we're booked through December now, already and of course, you know, I'm always excited for any guests that comes on. But every once in a while, you kind of circle a guest and that's what I've done for this one. I was really really looking forward to this interview. And so I'm not going to waste a whole lot of time and we're just going to jump into it. This gentleman has personally interviewed business leaders and companies like Nike Reebok Fruit of the Loom, FedEx, American Airlines, Ugg boots. KFC, McDonald's, Disney, United Airlines, Ted Baker and others, so that they can share their success secrets with you ABC television and Fox Business referred to him as the modern day Napoleon Hill. And of course, all of you that are my longtime listeners, how many times have we discussed Napoleon Hill and thinking grow rich. He's also the producer and director of four out of the top 10 personal development movies ever made. And now, the new hit film, which is how thoughts become things. He's authored three books in the guerrilla marketing series, and he's a regular featured expert on Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CTV, CBC and others his training program share strategies of how to connect with the highest level achievers and expand your network to grow your business. His award winning entrepreneur training programs have been rated among the best in the world. Let's bring him on Doug vermeeren. Doug, how are you sir?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 1:52 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I am doing excellent. Thank you for having me.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 1:56 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">We're so excited to have you here and thank you for the I got it. Link to be able to see the movie. And so of course got a chance to watch the movie. It's fantastic.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 2:06 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, we had such a fun time making it too.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 2:08 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And you've got a powerhouse of people that that's on it. Go ahead and write. I'll just bring it with you. Yeah,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 2:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">sure. So we got Bob Proctor Denis waitley, Joe Vitale, john demartini, john Ostroff, Murray diamond, Bob Doyle. Like you name it. We've got some of the heavy hitters in there. And again, it was so much fun to make it because I could ask them any question I wanted. Right?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 2:28 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure. And beyond that, they're kind of your crew, right? I mean, they are.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 2:32 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, we're a posse. We we do a lot of stuff together, it seems.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 2:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, Jim Rohn, who actually is credited the five people around you, right? I've heard Jim Rohn credited. I've heard a couple other people credit, Max. Oh, yeah.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 2:45 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. And but you know what, here if we're talking about how thoughts become things, this is something I really hope people got from the film is that everybody talks about our programming from the past, right? You were a kid, your parents didn't treat you great. You know, you were a dysfunctional family. And now we use that as a And excuse to say why we're all so messed up. But the truth is, is most people don't realize that our programming is continually ongoing. And that idea of we become like the five people we spend, I love that word spend. It's it's current tense, not past tense, who we spend the most time with. And so yeah, I mean, that's the quickest way to shift your programming right now, if you feel like you got dealt a bad hand, just start leveling up that influence around you. And you'll see some things change in a hurry.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 3:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And I couldn't agree with you more. It's something that you know, I came to near bankruptcy in 2014. Really, really close right and just had to reevaluate everything. As when I joined the john Maxwell team and started to level up the game and some of the people we were talking kind of in pre show to some of the people we know in common. But once I started to advance around them, I really started to think and I'll tell you, the exciting thing for me, was really understanding the subconscious and how much that plays into not only Creating everything that that you hope to gain. But how to build that as a muscle you talk about that a little bit. Well,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 4:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">let me also share another thought that I think is really kind of cool that I teach in some of my training, you've heard, of course, the idea that your network becomes your net worth. We've all heard that idea. But what we don't really do is dissect that word net worth a little bit. And it's really two words net and worth. And everybody focuses on the money, that's important. Okay? We won't deny that but worth worthiness worthwhile values, right? If you think about who you hang out with also becomes your net values, right? And we rise to the standards of those that we surround ourselves with and the things that they value, right. So I think it's really important to recognize that when we are choosing to find out who is our immediate right, who's our favorite five, who's our team Supreme, the people that we're going to really learn from, we've got to recognize that it's not just about hey, I'm gonna hang out with money people I want to hang out with people who really value the same things as me and can To help me open the doors in the direction of the things that I value, one of the things that I also think was kind of cool just about this idea of value. When we were making movie, the treasure map, I was chatting with my buddy, john demartini. And he said something really kind of cool. And it stuck with me. He said, Everyone is wealthy, it just appears in the form that we value most. And so most of the time, like if you think about your day, like you give your priority to the things that you really find important that you value. And so if we start hanging around with people that have a powerful set of values that harmonize and fit with ours, we can start seeing kind of how all the activities as let's call it the ultimate mastermind, right, the way they think the way we think the way together we think if we really build strong value, then we start doing things at a different level.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 5:47 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Now I'm said it in a really positive manner, though, because you said rise to their standards, but there's also that potential then to lower those standards. If you're not surrounding yourself with the right vibe.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 5:56 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, yeah, it's kind of like what Bill Bartman told me. I don't know if you know, Bill, he was at one time that Fifth wealthiest guy in the United States. He says if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room. Yeah. Right. And so I know that's kind of funny. But the truth is, we don't look at it enough actually one of one of my favorite experiences in my entire life that shifted everything for me, right really shifted everything. As you can imagine interviewing 400 of the world's top achievers, you start seeing some success markers that are just clear, right? I mean, it's funny because I had a lawyer once Tell me if I had three witnesses for a court case, I'd be in pretty good shape. If I hadn't done I'd be awesome if I had 400 indisputable facts 100%. And so you know, maybe I'm a bit blessed, because the stuff that I've been able to learn, I haven't really seen a lot of personal development, people that have been able to have 400 resources like that, right. So as part of that, I'm sorry, this will be the first negative comment hopefully the last but I noticed a lot of coaches speakers and trainers that are out there aren't really always teaching what's really required for true success, because they've never really built like seven or eight figures in their life, right? So they're kind of reading someone else's book. They saw The secret to more their law of attraction coach or the go see Tony Robbins into more their life coach or business coach, whatever, right? But when I saw the top 400 achievers, I had some real experiences that shifted everything. So here's one that's really kind of cool for me. So I am had an idea for a business. I was 19. At the time, I was in the thick of these interviews with the top achievers. And so I decided I'm going to talk to one of these top achievers about my business. So I sat down with a guy named Ryan, who is worth about $300 million at the time. And as I was sitting with him, I said to him, Hey, I got this business idea. What should I do to find customers? What should I do to do the marketing? What should I do to, you know, find my demographics, what should I do to get the distribution here? What should I do to raise funds? And he just, you know, politely sat there and observe me for a minute. And then he said something that kind of hurt my feelings, but was really profound. He says, I can see you're gonna start a very small company. And I said, Well, that's not my goal. I don't want to start a small company. I want to start a big company. And he just kind of again, politely shook his head and said, No, you Start a small company. So it's okay. Tell me why, why? Because what's because you're asking selfish questions. And I said, What do you mean by that? Then he explained, he said, so many of these gurus say this idea if it's meant to be, it's up to me. So instead of asking, How can I, how should I, he said, shift your questions to ask this? Who, who, so in other words, who can help me find my customers who can do my marketing who can solve this problem? Who can do that? And the truth of the matter is, is we shouldn't to create success step out of our comfort zone to try and be a jack of all trades and Master of None, and try and do everything. his advice was that we step into our brilliance zone, the thing we are incredibly good at, then we go hire other people who can solve the problems with things that they're incredibly good at, and then we can't be stopped. And it kind of goes with what Steve Jobs once said. He said, We don't hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. I'm going to add to that we also hire smart people so they can actually go do it and make us the money right? That's the real method that we need to do is we need to start surrounding ourselves with really that dream team that team Supreme.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 9:07 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And I think I think when you get into that point, and I'll be honest with you recently, for me is when I really started to look at who could do it, right. So I feel like I'm the great connector, but I did everything on my own. And I always felt like, not if it was up to me, you know, it's meant to be but more so, to my standards versus right. And that was a big thing.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 9:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's an interesting thing. You say that too, because, um, one thing that you kind of didn't mention in the opening, but it's not really super important as Money Magazine just recently rated me as the number one passive income coach in the world. And the reason why is I'm doing about 14 million per year in passive income, no job attached. And the thing that I've had to learn the thing that every entrepreneur has to learn, the thing that you just mentioned, is to first of all recognize I'm not going to do it perfect either. So it's okay to also hire someone that's not going to do it perfect. And I'd rather and here's the definition of wealth. If you guys really want the true definition of rich, it must include Not just money, it must include time. So yes, I want the 14 million. But here's the deal is I'm done most days, I know it's gonna sound really kind of a bit smug. But my next book is called the six minute work day, 360 seconds. And I'm generally done everything I need to do. Why? Because I've learned a system and a system means either to delegate or automate, those are the only two choices you have. So when you understand the power of delegation and automation, it creates wealth, but not just because it creates money, but more so because it creates time. So when somebody else is off doing, let's just call it a mediocre job of something that I would also do a mediocre job with. I can actually be somewhere else either enjoying my family, which is a form of wealth to me, or I can be perfecting the systems while someone else is doing it. So I'm genuinely not working as Michael Gerber says, we're working on our business, not in our business. And most people they have no clue what that even means.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 10:58 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And it's it's a newer thing for me, as I've grown in, you know, I built a company up to about 40 people we we did well, But to your point, everything ran through me. I didn't delegate it not made to do anything. So, well, if</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 11:14 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you're not getting the wheel, if you're a cog in the wheel, you're the cog in the wheel. That's it. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 11:18 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">hit an absolute leadership lid, and it was time to start to look beyond that. And Funny enough, when you say step into your brilliance for me, I came up in project management and project management person, but my brilliance was in sales and selling the dream and influencing people into what the dream was not necessarily writing the project schedule and organizing the team to get there. Does that make sense? Well,</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 11:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you know what would be really cool? And this is just a thought for you to think about if your skill set of sales and by the way, I love sales too, because sales is the idea to get other the thought of getting other people to buy into your ideas. So my challenge to you would be you know, go and sell some of the top leaders and CEOs to be part of your journey. Sell Have them on why they need to step in. And people with big customer bases like here's the deal, there's a difference between networking at a $10 breakfast versus a million dollar area, right? You'll never do a million dollar deal in a $10 breakfast. And so at these higher levels, you know, it's different than the lower levels at the lower levels. People are looking for customers, that's what they come, they come to the networking event to sell people at the high level, we're looking for people that already have our customers, big groups. So this is my chance to go out and sell yourself and your idea to these people who already can move it to the next level.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 12:31 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Alright, so we're just going to go ahead and shut the show down right here and I'll take up</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">a report</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">back we'll see. I'm an action person. So we are going to take a break right here. We're going to be right back with Doug. You're listening to the work life balance with Rick Warren's.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 12:48 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with your company's business strategy? Are you aware that businesses identified capturing time and costs against projects as their biggest project management challenge. Are you aware that 44% of project managers use no software. Even though Price Waterhouse Coopers found that the use of commercially available project management software increases performance and satisfaction? Now, imagine that you could have the ease of entry like a spreadsheet and a software tool set up and running within two to four weeks. Imagine within two weeks being able to see clearly where all of your resource conflicts are. Well, you don't have to imagine because PD ware has already created it. pd ware can give you real time access to KPIs easily updated views of what your teams are working on, and immediate feedback to some of project management's toughest questions. Like when can we start this project? What happens if we delay this project? Can we do this in time? How does this new project impact our current portfolio? Find us at PD were calm and imagine not manually compiling endless reports again, are you getting the most out of your project management Software. In many cases, it is not the software that is failing, but the implementation limitations or processes surrounding the use of that software. r squared can analyze your current use and help improve your return on investment. r squared can also suggest the best software for your organization and goals and assists in the selection implementation and training. Allow r squared to ensure that you are getting the value of your investment visit r squared consulting.com today</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">from the boardroom to you, voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send it Email, Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 15:08 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're visiting with Doug vermeeren. Who is the producer of how thoughts become things. And when you were talking through that, Doug, the first time you you brought up the secret the movie The secret? How is your film different from the secret?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 15:26 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, you know what, I guess the thing that I think is important to recognize the film, The Secret really opened the doors for so much more. But it was also the beginning of a conversation right? There was so much more that we could get into. But how is it really different? Let's talk about that for a second. Then in the film Mike Dooley says thoughts become things you remember, he was all like dramatic with it. But he never he never really and I love that thoughts become things right like, but the truth is, is he never really talked about the how, right? And so that's kind of what got me thinking and the more that I looked at this question of how thoughts become Come things. There's such a big journey not just with the law of attraction, but even modern neuroscience and psychology and so much that we've kind of grown to understand about how our thoughts really are generated. And, and there's also a lot of misunderstandings, right? Like, if we look at this idea of thoughts become things. There's actually two words, even in our title that everyone neglects. Everyone's focused on our thoughts, how do I overcome negative thinking, How do I beat fear? How do I, etc, etc. And then they also focus on the things how do I get the Ferrari? How do I get the money? How do I get that, but they don't focus on actually, I think the two most important words, which is how having a bit of a process that we can follow and recognizing and creating awareness, but the become, which is really the change that we needed to make. While I was sitting with Bob Proctor when we were filming this and again, you know, this famous line that he did share in the secret. Everything vibrates at a frequency, right, like we talked about that again, and we talked about why is it that most people can't bring some of these things into their lives and whether you're thinking from sort of the New Age point of view or even just modern psychology, it's because they're not prepared to become They're not prepared to make the changes. They're not prepared to put in the work, right. I love what Jim Rohn said, You and I were talking about Jim a little bit before Jim said that if somebody wins the lottery and they want to keep it, they need to learn how to become a millionaire very quick, right. And I think that this is what we try to address in the film. And for me, I think there's a lot of really cool things that we share in the film that no one's really talked about, like, here's something that I think is really important. Everybody, I think, from watching the secret and maybe you know, a lot of the other seminars and tools that are out there. They always hear this idea that you got to think positive, you got to think these pristine, empowering thoughts proactive and that's the way you're going to get to where you're at. Well, you know, what truth is, is I've never been able to do that. And I know a lot of people who also struggle, and they think they're a failure, I'll never manifest everything and I'll just, you know, keep trying, but I'm, I'm failing. Well, the truth of the matter is his thoughts actually don't arrive positive or negative. They arrive both they have duality to them. And if you don't believe me, I know that we're talking about work home life here. Think about when you started maybe a business, right? The first thought is, is wow, I could do this. These are the positive thoughts, right? I could be profitable, I could be effective. I've got a background in this I can be successful. And right behind it is the doubt. I don't know, maybe I can maybe it's not for me, right. And so when the font arrives, it has a positive and a negative to it. But what happens is, is that positive and negative thought if you think of it kind of like landing in a nest, if you will, that nest is our support mechanisms, our programming our feelings about ourselves, it's like it's the jungle, it's the mess. It's the marketplace. It's all our interpretations and our perceptions of things. And if you've got a negative sort of outlook on things already and your support group is negative and your family's negative and your program is negative, all of a sudden that dual thought the negative side will receive more power. But if you've got you know, an awareness and a positive nature and even if you've got some negativity in there, but you've got enough of a belief in yourself To make a strong emotional commitment to this and your why is perfect if you find your white power, you find your willpower, right? And so if this if this positive and negative thought lands in that environment, all of a sudden the positive has more power. And I think it's really interesting just going again to the 400 top achievers that I interviewed. Um, you know, the thing that surprises me is how many of them actually came from a difficult background? Sure. And they made that awareness, that choice, right. And I think that that's one of the greatest powers that we have. But most of us neglect is that whenever a thought arrives with it's positive and negative, we have a choice. Most people, unfortunately are on autopilot, and they just sort of dismiss it because it seems like it just might be hard.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 19:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, we talked about Paul Martinelli, but I mean, he was a janitor, high school dropout stuttering problem was told he was stupid his whole life and now he's, you know, very, very successful gentlemen leading a huge tracker and</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 19:55 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I don't think I come from a great background either. In fact, you know, they call me the modern day Napoleon Hill, but what little To that the truth of the matter is, is we didn't have any personal development. My home, my father worked in construction. My mom babysat kids in the home. They understood the poverty pattern very well. In other words, paycheck to paycheck, working for a living, heavily entrenched in the rat race trading time for money. That's what they taught us work hard. And I believe that right, growing up, I believe working hard was the answer. And so when I was really getting quite discouraged, because it wasn't really producing any results for me, it was at about that time that a friend gave me thinking grow rich. And quite frankly, I'm, you know, for being vulnerable right now. I'm so glad he did. Because I was so depressed at the time that thoughts of suicide and failure and things of this nature were not uncommon for me. So it was, you know, it was a real big shift. But I think that this is kind of an interesting lesson that I think everybody in the audience needs to really understand who you were yesterday, who you even are today, it really doesn't matter. If you make a new choice. I'm not saying it's gonna be easy. By the way, I never preface that but I did say that We can get started wherever we are. In fact, one of the things that's kind of cool that I talked about in the movie that was really interesting. When I went out and I interviewed the top achievers, I also put in some people that were not who you think, right. So in other words, I didn't just interview the A listers, you know, the Richard Branson's and the mark Cuban's and the people everybody knows, I picked some people that I thought were also making a significant difference, specifically in the areas of change and transformation. And so I selected actually to interview a person that trains suicide hotline workers. Now, I thought that was interesting. If you think about it, we've got all these personal development people in the world who talk about I can make a change in a weekend and I can and they maybe can, and I'm not disputing that. But can you imagine a suicide hotline worker you have somebody calling in on their, you know, most despair moment of all these people, some of them have already been taken pills or they've got a gun sit on the bed by them or who knows what their plan is, right? And so if you're going to make a change for somebody, you better hustle, right? Like you don't have a lot of time and so I said to this lady, I said, um, so, you know, tell me what's like, what are sort of some of the rules of the game with this? And she says one of the only things we really can't say is don't kill yourself. And I said, well that like to me, that's a number one. I'm gonna say that first. Let's talk. Yeah, right. Don't kill yourself. And she said, No, the reason why is because most people when they are in that state of despair, feel like they already have all their choices taken away. And if you tell them what to do, you're just another part of that equation of telling them, they have no choice. Don't do it, don't do it. And she said, instead, we do it this way, which I thought was very clever. She said, we tell them they could kill themselves. Yes, that's a choice. But then we help them see the consequences. This is what it would look like if you chose to do that. But you could also call and get help. And that's what this looks like. And you could stick around and maybe get some counseling, and that's what this looks like. And we start helping them see their options. Then she said something really profound. She said that the more choices a person feels like they have the more power they have. Yeah. I also kind of equated that to this, you hear people say that happiness is a choice. I don't think that's entirely true. I think happiness is a choice, but being pleased with the consequences that follow, right? Because I think a lot of people make their choices based on immediate gratification. They make them based on emotion, sometimes even temporary emotions. In fact, one of the top achievers that I interviewed gave me this advice about money, but I think it applies to everything he says, never make big decisions when you're when you're in a state of high emotion. Right? Meaning if you're trying to make a decision out of anger or frustration, I mean, Heaven knows. I mean, everyone is like this, right? We've all said things to people that we love when we're in a state of high emotion that we definitely wish we could take back or we wish or would have said, and so I think that applies to everything. We've got to be really careful about, you know, recognizing consequences part of everything we do.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 23:54 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So when people start to go down that negative path, how do they How do they So, for instance, I've got a friend that every time something pops up, the first thing she thinks through is the four things that can go wrong. Yeah. In which, which I think, you know, we need we need people like that, to help us see race and overcome risk, but how do you start to, to free them and to make a change that's a little bit more permanent?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 24:22 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, yeah, you know, that's an interesting question, too. And I think what I've experienced, you know, as we've done, sort of, like our personal power mastery training around the world and stuff is that momentum is always more, more positive and more permanent and more effective than motivation. Because motivation, basically, we have to be in the mood, we've got to feel like it even if we've got a to do list on our desk and in there's things that I know I need to do. I'm going to procrastinate, if I don't feel like it right, I'm going to push it off, but momentum. If I can get myself into a form of habit and create some ritual tendencies, some things that I'll return to and I'll do it again and again, it becomes much easier but here's how habit is created. habit is created because at one point, we have received value from an activity that we did we, it's been in line with, with the things that we treasure the most. And so I think it comes back to that really way back. And it's funny way, way before Simon Sinek was talking about it in my first film, I talked about the power of why, and how do we really discover our y? What's the true essence of y? And the funny thing is, is it's not just having your y have meaning to you, you hear everybody say that we've got to dial into our own passion and purpose, right? Well, Warren Buffett says what you love about you is your hobby, what others love about you is your business. So it can't just be about your passion purpose. So my advice is, where does your passion and purpose overlap the passion and purpose of others and that's the sweet spot. So same thing with your y where your y overlaps the y of others. Now, not only is that going to be your most profitable place for business, but it's also going to be your strongest sense of validation. And so when you are experiencing negativity, if you can find a why It makes sense to you and those that you're serving, it'll be so much easier to be valuable to those people. And when you feel valuable you just keep going. That's a new habit. Right? We're gonna keep doing what makes us feel really, really good.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 26:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I love that momentum versus motivation. I think that's fantastic. Switch on it. So we're gonna take another break right here. We'll be back with Doug vermeeren. And you're listening to Rick Morrison the work life balance. We'll be right back after this.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 26:29 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? 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Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 28:49 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We are talking to the producer of how thoughts become things as well as several other movies out there. We've got Doug vermeeren here with us, Doug. He just said Did you write it wasn't in your bio, but you were just voted number one passive income coach by Money Magazine? Is that correct? That's right. So let's, let's talk passive income. I think there's a lot of misconceptions out there as to what passive income really means. You know, I think right now in the time of COVID, everybody's outputting, their online programs. And of course, as soon as you set it up and publish it, you know, of course, that money's just going to roll in or, oops, I just need Facebook ads, and then we're going to be just rolling in the dough. Talk to us about some of those misconceptions.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 29:31 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Wow. Well, a couple of things that I think are really important to just hit on right off the bat, is that the word passive and the phrase passive income are so misunderstood. In fact, if I had it if in my power if I was the Webster's dictionary guy that could rework some words there, what I would probably do is I'd shift the order and sequence of those words First of all, so it would come out as Active Passive, meaning that there is so much activity that needs to be put in properly and put in place before an income stream can become passive. And most people think a passive income means free money, it looks just like you said, put up this website and off to the races we go. And the other thing that's, I think, really important to just recognize is that passive income is a lot older than the internet. It just seems like everybody's talking about it now, right? Like, let's build a course and put it up. But the truth is, is passive income, which actually I prefer to call it leveraged income, because it utilizes systems has been around since the beginning of time. If you think about it, you know, even the first day that somebody rented a property or rented a physical object to someone else, that's a form of passive income, right? Or the first time somebody use the labors and efforts of someone else to produce income. It was leveraged, it was passive. And so I think, you know, the one thing that I think for the business owners that are listening is that we got to kind of get it into our mind that the goal with everything is to create more passive it, right, it's to create that leveraged income. We want other people To make the money for us, we want other people to give the customer support for us. We want other people to do our marketing we want to, it's really a game of delegation. And again, I'll repeat that any kind of system can either be delegated or automated. Those are the only two things that we're ever going to do. Now, how does a person do that? Because this is the question everybody at home is probably saying, Yeah, well, that's nice to say, but, you know, I've got so much stuff that needs to get done and I'll never be able to free myself from it right? Like I'm as passive as I'm ever going to be. I guess number one, first thing to understand is the passiveness comes in degrees. So it's kinda like a dimmer switch. Right? So it's gonna be varying degrees of you in or you're out. And the first step to really identifying the you out I think, you know, really kind of fun story. Again, when I was about, probably about 20 at this point, I met with another business owner, again a friend of mine who I'm still very, very close with and you know, he's he's almost just shy probably, you know, couple hundred thousand of being a millionaire right now. And by the way, that's COVID time, right? Okay, so very difficult to kind of keep and maintain those kind of monies. But he's doing it. So I met with him. And one of the things that was interesting was I brought a business plan of something I want to show him. And, you know, he sat me down and didn't even touch the paperwork, right? didn't even touch this business plan. But he asked me a question. He says, so what are the transactions? I'd actually never really heard that at 20. before. So I started to talk about Okay, so these are our customers how we're going to do it, he stopped me getting to know where the transactions and so again, I started talking about something else trying to hopefully, you know, show him I was smart, right? And so finally, after about three or four tries with this, he goes, No, no, no, stop. What are the transactions? He says, identify the clear, basic transaction you're trying to get people to do? You are going to give them either an asset service or information. Those are the only three things you can sell, and they are going to give you money. How does that happen? How does that occur? So when I finally understood that, you know, I can't scale anything, I can't know my marketing, I can't know my advertising, I can't even know my customers until I know what is the real call to action transaction that they're going to give me money for, for, again, either an asset service or information. So as soon as I identified that, then he did this neat little chart, like a circular chart with a happy face of me on one side on the on one, and a happy face of my customer on the other with the arrows kind of pointing from the customer to me, and then from me to the customer, showing that transaction money, asset service or information, then what he did was very interesting to me. He drew a series of lines between the two of us. And he said, so what needs to happen for this person to receive that asset servicer information? And he said, there's really generally three categories of what has to happen. There's the tell, how are they hearing about you? The marketing, right? The advertising, the messaging, the branding, right? The next is the sell. So how are they going to actually be convinced to do business with me? And how am I going to receive the cash in that sale, right? Maybe you've even got account for seeds. In that, and then he said, and the last one is what we call service? How are these people going to receive this? Right? So if we can identify the steps in those three areas in this transaction, this is where it begins to become passive. He says, under the area of tell, how can we delegate a few of those to someone else? So if you if it's marketing, how can you give that away to somebody. So your income stream now just became more passive by the degree of what you just gave away? Then he talks about sell. Right now, you told me earlier, you love sales. But if you had an army of like 10, guys, just like you that were solid and out there, you would become more passive to the degree that you got that support, and so on and so forth. So the object I think, and maybe this is the challenge I think the most business owners have, they don't really clearly know the steps that are that are involved in all the transactions they do. They just kind of know that another sale means a little bit of money, but they don't recognize all the elements of tell sell and service that goes into facilitating that transaction. And I think the more we can identify that few things happen. First of all, now we know our systems. So we can measure a lot better, we can see what's really happening in our business, we can see where the improvements need to be made. But we can also when it comes to hiring, we know who our superstars need to be. In other words, I'm trying to find a killer marketing guy for this, who will facilitate this kind of a transaction. Now I know specifically who I need to find, because let's be honest, I mean, not all marketers are created equal. And the same can be said about sales and service and everything else. But with more clarity, the more that we know, what is it that they say? When we say in personal power mastery, a goal that is specific and clear, becomes attainable in there. And that's the problem. Most people they, you know, lack of clarity, and that's why they're never making any money. In fact, it's so funny that as I look at all the top achievers that I ever interviewed that were not only the millionaire level, but more specifically the multi millionaires and the billionaires. They have such clarity on everything in terms of the numbers. And how the numbers are produced and their business. They really knew it. And you could like ask them almost any question. They know it off the top of their head. Or they would certainly just open up their phone and say this is kind of the numbers that we're doing in real time right now.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 36:13 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">What are some of your favorite questions that you've asked these high achievers? Not necessarily responses, I want to get into them, but some of your favorite questions that you'd like to get into?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 36:22 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, one of my favorite questions to always ask is what has been your biggest challenge? And how did you overcome it? Right? Because I want to know, because the truth is, is if they hit that wall somewhere, I'm gonna hit it. And it was interesting. I'll never forget, one of my favorite answers to that was with Howard Putnam, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines. He had also been the VP of customer service for United and also a brand of airlines. In fact, with Braniff, he was the only person in the history of the world to ever take an airline through chapter 11 and emerge without any government assistance, which was very cool. But um, you know, I think a couple of things that he said that were really kind of neat on a family level, he said, for a challenge he says, I always made sure That my family, including my children knew what was going on in my business life, that they understood what I was going through. So in fact, he used the phrase at the kitchen table, I would open the kimono. That's what he said, right? So that everybody kind of knew. And at the same token, they felt like they could share their life with him. And I think this is a really big thing for a lot of entrepreneurs is that many of us are severely out of balance, right? We're out of whack. And sure, and sometimes, you know, our spouse or our family members don't really know what we're going through. And so they assume that we're workaholics because we're trying to do what we believe is the right thing and everything else. They just don't understand sort of how our businesses is needing us at certain points. And by the way, I think because you can't explain it to others, you probably also can't teach someone else to put them in that position. Right? The more we understand, the more we can fill the position. So it's kind of a catch 22 one of my favorite questions also with Richard Branson was what was the biggest challenge that you had as an entrepreneur. And interestingly enough, we always see him Talking about how if you want your customers to be treated well treat your staff well. You've heard him say this right? how we treat our staff will reflect on how we treat our customers. But, you know, he said, my biggest problem is always been finding really good people. It really has been a big problem. So, you know, to me that says he's burned through a lot of people, right? And I'm not saying that that means that it's been intention, but he finds very quickly, who's not working. In fact, Howard Putnam also mentioned something similar like that, too. He says, in southwest, we actually always hired for attitudes rather than skills, because you can train the skills but you can't train the attitude. Like we talked about that. Something called the willingness factor to be successful. There's two things that anybody needs. They need a correct strategy, and they need a high level of willingness. And you can't teach willingness, right? If a person's not willing to do it, it doesn't really matter if they don't catch the vision. You can't help them. But you know, one of my favorite things actually, that I observed, I didn't ask this as a question. I just happen to be in the right place. place at the right time to see it. A gentleman that kind of became like a grandfather to me we talked about him on break was Howard arap was sorry, was Frank McGuire. Frank McGuire actually for those of you don't know him he started at ABC when was radio when it switched to TV he gave Alan Alda, Charles Osgood Ted Koppel, their first jobs he was the private philosophy teacher to Marilyn Monroe, a really good friend of Elvis Presley's. He worked in the White House under JFK and Lyndon B. Johnson. He actually used his skills and got JFK elected. He was part of the leadership team of that. He was also the VP of Marketing for all of American Airlines, and KFC and they took it to number one in the New York Stock Exchange. And he was one of the four founders of FedEx. So this guy became like a grandpa to me and I treasure he's passed away now but I treasure every moment that I had with him. And I'm so glad that I actually recorded audios with him about a lot of his life experiences just I listen to it and still learn from it now, but I miss him. So here's an experience we have that just blew me away. We were outside of a hotel, once we had just together done a speaking event. And as we went on to you know, get our baggage loaded into the vehicle. This kind of bellboy kid helped us put all our, you know, suitcases into the end of the vehicle. Then he kind of came around the car and Frank had a tip for him. You had a $5 bill and he held it out. And as he held it out, this kid grabbed it, but Frank didn't let go. Now the funny</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">thing is, is you have this older gentleman looking you dead in the eye, and he won't let go of your $5 tip. What do you do, right? So it kind of caught this kid off guard. So but Frank now had his attention like 100% Frank says to him, what did I give you? The kid not sure what to say looks kind of down. He's like, a $5 bill. And Frank said, what's it worth? And the young kid kind of shrugs and says, No five bucks. And Frank said, No, it all depends on what you do with it next. And to me, that was a massively profound lesson to really recognize that every dollar we have is a seed. And yeah, you could go in you know, buy yourself a Starbucks or go see a movie or whatever, and but then it's gone. Or You can make a different decision with that five bucks. And, you know, I'm not necessarily saying compounding interest and put it in the bank, and that's the, or in an investment. That's the only solution. No, I mean, you know, for me, I also look at every dollar that I invest in, maybe to use your example of Facebook ads. Right now with us running the movie, every dollar I invest can often turn into, you know, 50 or 100, or even more, depending on who clicks on that. Right? So we've got to recognize that the value of $1 and by the way, I don't just look at that with money. I look at that also with return on effort to every hour that I inject into something. What's the return? It's going to give me right because my time is a seat as well. And you know, I don't know it's kind of funny when one of my mentors once told me, he says on a regular Tuesday afternoon, you want to know where you can find the crappiest salespeople in the world. And I that question intrigued me I said where he goes go to the movie theater because they're the guys who are sloughing off taking the time off in the afternoon to catch a flick while everybody else is out there working these days. People don't believe in themselves. They exclude themselves from the you know, the whole program and they get themselves sitting in a movie theater somewhere. So he says you'll find the worst salespeople in the world at the movie theater. I just thought that was a clever idea. And so obviously since then, for me personally, yes, I get everything done very quickly in a day I do. But I also make sure that I'm not you know, taking an afternoon nap or I'm not sitting laying gummy drop or Tetris in the middle of an afternoon or whatever it is, right? So we've got understand that whether it's your business, your family, relationships, your personal connection to yourself, whatever it is, man, time is short. And we've got to really recognize that life is just a gift, right?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 42:41 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. So we're gonna take our final break right here. We'll be right back and I'm going to switch up our question that we normally ask every guest and I'm going to switch that up for him when we come back. You're listening to Rick Morris on the work life balance</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 42:59 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you At 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy. 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Whether you want to build a project management office, train project managers or learn how to bring the oversight and governance to your project processes. r squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When it comes to business, you'll find the experts here voice America business network.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today. We'd love to Have you call in to the program at 1-866-472-5790? Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 45:20 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the final segment of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon, Doug, we've been talking about the movie where can people go see it?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 45:27 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The easiest place is just simply how thoughts become things calm, the name of the movie. So www dot housing, how thoughts become things calm?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 45:37 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">how things become thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 45:40 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But you know what, if you just</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">type in how thoughts become things, you're also going to find it in Google but add the.com you'll get there a lot quicker. The cool thing is, is right now we actually have added a bunch of bonuses too. So you get a workbook, some audios and all kinds of other cool tools in that on that website. So it's a great time to do it. And those are limited time promotions. So I would definitely recommend it.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 46:02 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And then personally for you what what is your website? How do people find you?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 46:05 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I've got lots of free tools that are out there. So you can find me on YouTube. We've got a channel up there also on Instagram. But we've got something really cool that we're doing lately that I think is worth mentioning. A lot of people who are in business or entrepreneurs, they really want to know how can I become more passive? How can I create more income streams? How can I fix the income streams I have. So we've got a new program called the income stream challenge, you can go to income stream challenge.com. And actually, for only $9 a week, I actually bring on some of the top achievers I've been talking about today, some of these top entrepreneurs and business leaders, and we coach every week, like every single week on Wednesday, you can be part of this group coaching for only nine bucks and I think there's several thousand dollars worth of bonuses there. In fact, I just wrote an ebook that's in there called the truth about manifesting money, because I really believe a lot of these books on manifesting are missing a handful of really big elements and there's all kinds of tools Like, again, we'll show you exactly how I got to just over $14 million in passive income. And it's only nine bucks a week, come visit us, you'll have a blast.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 47:08 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So the question I normally ask at this point is what some of the best advice you've ever received, but talking to somebody who's interviewed as many people as you have what, what are two or three of your favorite nuggets that you've picked up from some of these top achievers?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 47:22 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, when we chatted in the break, I actually just wrote down three quick, really little thoughts, but have changed my life like dramatically changed my life. So the first thing is, is everybody's heard this saying, Have you want to become wealthy take a millionaire to lunch? Well, the truth of the matter is, is one lunch will get you started, but it won't keep you going. So rather than just going to lunch, I'm going to suggest you need to learn how to create and maintain high level relationships. So it needs to be an ongoing thing because not only is your network your net worth, but it's also your safety net. And it's going to be your safety net before it's going to be your net worth right. So it's going to increase the ability to solve problems. So you need have relationships with millionaires. The other thing I'm going to suggest is we all need to uplevel our network and you'll never do a million dollar deal at a $10 breakfast, we kind of talked about that. The other thing that I think is also important is this idea. We've heard it before you can be rich, or you can be right. The truth of the matter is, is the biggest challenge to any of your growth, whether it's financially in your life or in your personal life or whatever, it's going to be your ego. So you need to understand that students, people who are really genuinely curious, those are the people that are on their way to success. And the minute that you say, I've got this figured out is the minute you shut the door on any kind of possibilities. But the last one, I think is maybe the important one, it's that the return on nothing is always nothing. So you need to get started, you need to do something. So if you listen to this today, you know the most fragile word in the English language is the word now. Right? Even whisper it now and it's gone. Right? It's the most fragile word that there ever was. And the problem with most people is they never take advantage of now. And when we read that little poster that everybody puts up with the kitty cat on it, it says, Now if you do it now you'd spell backwards. You won, right? I think that's nice. But the truth is, it's not really a competition. So I like to take the letters now like n o w, and I say they stand for no other way. So that's the only thing that you have to work with is now. And so as you leave this show today with Rick and I, I'm telling you don't just say, Well, I was really nice. He said a few nice things. Hopefully, I, you know, I can make some life change where I sit down, if you say you're gonna do it, studies have shown that there's like an 80% chance to maybe do something. If you write it down, it bumps up to about 90. But if you actually schedule it, or you just simply get started, it rises to the high 98. Don't just talk about what you'll do. Put it in your schedule, say this is when I'm going to do it, get started. And again, start getting momentum rather than motivation. You'll find that the momentum will carry you to higher levels than motivation. everwell I love</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 49:59 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">the had no other way that just maybe flashed a burning desire, right? Oh, burn all the bridges behind you so that all you have is the desire to go forward.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 50:09 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, yeah. And by the way, I would also kind of share an interesting thought on that I had one of my top achievers, we, we talked about this idea of burning the bridges behind you. And you know what he said? He said, Be careful, you don't really want to burn them all behind you, because some of those people you're gonna invite to follow you across the bridge later. Right? So we've got to be careful when we do that. And that's the other thing too is this definition of toxic people. I know we're running really close on time. But let me share this that I think is really interesting that also a lot of the Guru's teach nowadays, they say get rid of toxic people. And I'm going to share that that's wrong, certainly to get rid of abusive people. But all the top achievers that I interviewed were problem solvers. They didn't run from problems, which basically means this. We don't look at someone who's making us feel uncomfortable. Remember, right or wrong, right. You can be right or you can be rich. So your ego if somebody rubs up against our ego, we don't dismiss them because they didn't see eye to eye with us, right? We're open to receiving people that sometimes are a little rough around the edges. In fact, there's really only two kinds of toxic people. One is a complainer. And the truth is, is unless you have clarity on who you really are, you know, a complainer will knock you off base every time you'll subscribe. The weather is bad. Yep, the weather is bad. If you know who you are a complainer doesn't matter. So the second kind is a critic. And the critic generally, to be honest, has something valuable to say sometimes they have facts, sometimes they can point out flaws. Sometimes they can help you improve. What do we say that sometimes the customer service department is the most valuable because they get the complaints and when now we know what to fix. But most people aren't prepared to listen to those kind of concerns. So here's the challenge. Next time you have a critic that comes, listen for the truth in it, and just recognize that they're not a great communicator. That's why it feels not so good, right? That's why it feels a little bit painful, because they're not saying it in a way that's easy to receive. But what they're saying there may be truth like, you know, if you look back to your high school days, when your mom said, Be careful of who you hang around with at lunchtime. Well, there's truth that some of those kids may not have been great, but the way Your mom said it shouldn't make you feel good, right? Sure. So we should look to embrace all people, you know, we need to expand. If you want to expand what you have, you have to expand who you are. And that means embracing problems not running from them. In fact, you're always compensated more if you can embrace and solve problems that you didn't create. So just keep that in mind as well.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 52:22 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, Doug, we've appreciated this. I've had a ball, and we'd love to have you back at some point as well. You're always welcome on the show.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doug Vermeeren 52:29 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 52:30 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so we're gonna be wrapping it up for this Friday afternoon. Next Friday, you're going to join me right here, we're going to be talking about the portfolio management dream in talking about a lot of those executives out there who are trying to understand, especially with COVID, and everything else, what they can accomplish, what they can accomplish. And in my favorite thing that we say in that as you're picking projects based on what you can spend or what your resources can realistically achieve. We're going to talk about how to stop the portfolio dream from becoming a nightmare. So that's next Friday, right here on The Voice America. Business Network. We will talk to you then. Otherwise, we hope that you live your own work life balance, and we'll talk to you soon.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 53:12 </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thanks again for listening to The preceding program brought to you on the voice America business channel. For more information about our network and to check out additional show hosts and topics of interest please visit voice America business</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Transcribed by https://otter.ai</span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></div>Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-45643613326981206512020-08-01T09:29:00.001-05:002020-08-01T09:29:21.575-05:00High Performance Cultures - Greg Spillane<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/124916/high-performance-cultures-greg-spillane" style="color: #6699cc; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">.</span></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br />To download the mp3 file, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris073120.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click <a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris052920.mp3" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br />This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 0:04 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick A. Morris,</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 0:26 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and welcome to another live edition of the work life balance. You have Rick Moore's here for you, cruising you through another Friday afternoon and today we're going to bring on a gentleman who has a unique combination of both hands on technical experience and a track record of large scale business development. his professional career began as a developer, almost like mine IT technician and moved into development but shortly afterward, he founded a technology company where he brought several cloud based products to market after they were acquired. He went on to lead business development with several the top global tech knology consulting firms in the world where he was directly responsible for generating over 200 and $50 million in revenue. In 2014. His passion for building high growth technology companies led him back to startups where he joined bump as their CEO. He spearheaded their eventual pivot to events calm and maintaining responsibility for all product development, sales, marketing and Client Services. He since led the successful turnaround of several other technology companies, and has built a reputation as a team builder who can identify market opportunities, design innovative offerings, and then effectively commercialize them to large market. So let's bring him on to the show. Greg splain. How you doing sir?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 1:39 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'm doing well. Rick, thank you for that. You should you should be my my PR person. Well, we'll do it. Yeah.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 1:45 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Look it out there. I'll be your hype. Man. That's That's right. But we've got a lot of similar so one of my first careers into project management, which is which is what I do was a project turnaround specialist for Xerox. So I would go into like the worst of the worst projects and not have to weeks to figure out, can we turn it around? Or how big is the check? We've got a right to get out of it. Right. So those turnarounds I mean, that's that's quite a bit and you also now Are you the the founder CEO of fancy Comm. Correct.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 2:14 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I am the co founder This is a another another turnaround situation, you know, fancy is a company was founded in 2010. You know, had a tremendous amount of success early on raised a lot of venture capital actually was valued at, you know, close to a billion dollars, you probably raised over 100 and $20 million of venture capital during that period of time and some really, really high profile individuals involved. I mean, even to this day, still involved. And, you know, the company has done a lot of amazing things. But, you know, as happens with a lot of organizations, you know, the founding team is really good at getting an organization to a certain point and then sometimes they can lose traction and And asked me was a little bit of the direction and so there was a restructuring of the company in late 2018 2019. I was I was brought in by the board of directors versus a consultant to do a little bit of what you just described at Xerox you know, come in with some some ideas and thoughts and, you know, ways that we could do things better and put together a proposal and a plan and the board you know, basically told me to put my money where my mouth is, so I was I was made the official CEO of fancy in July of 2018.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 3:31 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Wow, that's fantastic. And you and there was a little bit of a turnaround there for you as well correct?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 3:35 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, absolutely. Uh, it was a it was a pretty big turnaround and a lot of ways you know, what ended up happening with fancy and you know, we can dive more into this later is, you know, it started is like almost a Pinterest kind of product right where it was social network more than anything and and the core like, value proposition was a place to share and discover like the coolest In the world and it was very urban It was very chic It was a place where a lot of high net worth individuals celebrities, professional athletes, those types of people would come on and it was it was that kind of like hype type of product and the the evolution and a commerce happened. You know, we talk millions of users later as people would find these products and they were like, dude, these are amazing. We want to buy these how do we get these women find each and you know, any company any fare figure out a way to monetize traffic. We moved into commerce at that point. And did that really well. You know, we have a mobile app right now that's out in the marketplace. App marketplace got about 3 million live installs fancy comm receives almost a million visitors a month but with the company started to do is starting to branch off and go down different roads. opened up a brick and mortar store. So we had like the beautiful retail store and like you know Soho, New York. You're paying a gun goddess The amount of money for rent every month, we started to do promotions, we started to do pop ups, we actually went down this road, we started to license out our own proprietary software. So we had this like SAS, business arm. And what ended up ultimately happening is they kind of took their eye off of the core business, which was fancy as a marketplace as a destination and started to go down all these different roads, where they quite honestly didn't execute very well. So they were hemorrhaging money. And, you know, I mean, you know, you can only hemorrhage money for so long for for you know, you got to figure something out. So that that was really what I was brought in. The business wasn't broken, per se. They just lost their focus and were inefficient and made some changes and got us back on track.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 5:45 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So it's almost a founders curse, right? All right, this is up and running. What can I do next, right. And a lot of times you don't recognize that you are losing that focus or that you can't run that then or that's not even a business you're good at, but it sounded good on paper. Let's do it. So Wonder. It's almost like how many people died by saying, Hey, watch this. It's kind of the same in companies, right? Hey, let's try this. Yeah, see a lot of capital that that goes away. But you're a division one athlete as well. So talk to me about that for a second.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 6:16 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, no, I I come out of come out of an athletic background, right? I was a little bit of that sort of that dichotomy between growing up is a little bit of a nerd and, you know, computer guy and really into computers from a really young age, but also kind of the jock in high school, which which was unique. But yeah, it's an undergrad on athletic scholarship was a three year starter at San Diego State football, our San Diego State. And it was an unbelievable experience for me. I, I always talk about how, you know, the lessons I learned, you know, having to compete at that level, you know, especially as an undersized guy who's really able to get along with sort of like intelligence and cleverness and hard work versus just pure God given talent and You're traits that, you know, I think I've taken with me in the professional world, I still, you know, the fundamentals that that, you know, I was taught going through that, that that experience are many of the fundamentals that I try to bring into the companies, you know, when I do come in to help lead or or consult with him.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 7:19 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So, I played volleyball at Tennessee, and it was very same. I was a six foot one left outside hitter, right. And I'm going yeah, 6667 guys. So it was always about hitting where they weren't versus, you know, just being hit the ball straight down the same thing, but it's interesting with you being a CEO with that background. And I've read some research around this. But were you ever really close to like a championship game and lost or like on a better team that shouldn't have lost a game and did lose a game? Did you ever have that experience as an athlete?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 7:50 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, absolutely. And I've been on teams throughout the season that had tons of talent and we just completed under-achieved and then I've been on teams that weren't expected to do much and we're, we're scrappy, but because we were able to, you know, come together and sort of had a common belief and people liked each other and knew how to work with each other and sort of had that culture within the group. We overachieved and you know, great, and we might we want to watch championship, my junior in college, we were first saying escape football team, bowl game, and at the time was 20 years. And, you know, that was a team that, you know, I think on paper, nobody expected us to do much, but it was just a phenomenal group of guys that loved each other and believed in the common goal. The mission, the coach said, and, you know, we worked our tails off and we did some spectacular things.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 8:42 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So coming back to that, that being close to a championship and losing or something of that sort. The there's a large majority of executives out there who experienced that, and that turned into a work ethic than to never feel that way again, right. So So that disappointment of losing and I was, you know, we were we were number one in stage should have won a state championship and we didn't in that drive is what drove me to continue to work out and to get better for Tennessee. But did you? Do you think that that's true? Do you think that that research is relatively true just that that feeling of disappointment turns into that work ethic to say, you know what, I'm going to do everything I can to never feel that way again.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 9:25 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, right. I do. And I and I think it's more than just athletics. I think athletics is actually is obviously one component of it. But you know, I talk a lot about this with with my team, like, this concept of hiring people that have a chip on their shoulder, you know, people who have something approved or it had some kind of disappointment and an internal themselves. They're like, you know what, I'm, I'm not going down. Like I refuse to like not do the things that I want to do in life. But for whatever reason, maybe maybe life in general hasn't come easy to them. You know, maybe they come from a background that is inserted that silver spoon background or, you know, maybe come out of the best college, you know, now they got to feel like they got to prove themselves to the rest of the world. But it's ultimately that drive whether it's you know, failing in an athletic event being like, you know what I'm going to, I'm going to never have let this happen to me again, I'm going to work harder than everybody else. So it doesn't happen or it's just, you know, that feeling in life of like, you know, I refuse not to be special, I refuse not to be great. But at the end of the day, it's it's a drive that or a fire that builds inside of that person. And I think that that wouldn't be a lot of people who are successful in life and in their careers.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 10:36 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Completely agree with that. So what we're gonna do is take a break right here, when we come back, we're going to be with Greg's Fellini's, the CEO of fancy, we're going to talk about how athletics did transfer into the business world and then we'll start getting into how you approach some of these turnarounds and some of the key lessons learned from there so we'll be right back after break. 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Voice America business network.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today. We'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 13:19 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon we are visiting with Greg splain. He's the CEO of fancy calm, but also someone who has just done a tremendous amount of turnarounds. And so before we get into the turnaround stories, or what we've learned in the turnarounds, you said that you you leveraged a lot of your athletic background kind of with your teams and with your people. What, what specifically give us give us a little taste of what that means.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 13:44 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, you know, I just think that there were there were lessons that I learned in regards to what it takes to be successful that I really try to instill and get with my team and you know, you as an athlete, you'll probably appreciate something Like, you're one of the things that, you know, we talk a lot about is just being coachable. Right? People need to take basic feedback. I think a lot of people can be very defensive of that and don't like that. And, you know, for people who don't know, you know, a typical football game in the NFL, or college, you know, you play the game in the very next day, the very first thing you do is you get a room and you you watch the game with your coaches, and they go play by play by play by play, and it's like your Tom Brady, you know, greatest quarterback of all time, every single play, Bill Belichick or whoever the quarterback coaches is telling him something that he did wrong or something he could have done better. Right. And that's, that's just the way that works. And I think as a football player, you get very used to coaching or being an athlete, you get very used to coaching and then so, you know, I think that's something that's really helpful. It's like even as a CEO of a company, you know, I got to always be open to take criticism or you know, whether it's my employees or board or investors or you know, people like yourself, and I think that's really important, but it goes on and on. You know, everything from Being on time, you know, the importance of being on time, right? Like, show up, be on time. work ethic, right, like, athletics at any, you know, at that level, it's the ultimate meritocracy. Right. Like, you know, when you were playing volleyball, you know, at Tennessee, you know, you weren't going to get on the court because, you know, you knew somebody or you were there the longest and you're the senior, it's like, they're gonna play the best guy and there's a guy that's working harder than you are doing things better than you or, you know, whatever it is, he's the guy that's gonna be on the court and I think that all that ultimately translates to business. Well,</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 15:34 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I loved what you said earlier, too, about hiring people kind of with a chip on their shoulder and I kind of apply that to my personal life. So being an athlete, you know, obviously injuries came into play, I got lazy I I gained a tremendous amount of weight. And exercise has always been something that, you know, I haven't really made a priority and I finally found that formula, but it was back to competition. Like for me, so I go to orangetheory Fitness now. And there's an 80 year old lady on the rower next to me, just can't In it, you know what I mean? And I'm like dying over there. But I won't quit because I don't want to be the person that gives up and I need that level of accountability. And so it's been the same for me in business and I need I need a competitor, I need something to go after. I can't just, you know, dominate a certain sector because I'm not happy. I've got to see the 80 year old lady row and next to me to get that drive right here to keep coming in. Yeah. So you said you did a lot of turnarounds Tell me a couple of your favorite turnaround stories or even kind of the themes that started to evolve.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 16:34 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, you know, I I really, I got involved</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">in turnarounds and I guess on 2014 and, and it was completely unexpected. I, I had after I'd gotten out of my company, I sold my company I went on and work in the enterprise space. But you know, during that period, I went and got an MBA from the University of Southern California. And, you know, I met some amazing people in there and one of the people I Matt ended up becoming the CEO of this company was called bumping time. And you know, I was in the corporate world I was working you're probably someone a lot of what you're doing these big, you know, Systems Integration projects, you know it technology, you know, coming in, they're doing the consulting, business development and all sudden, ultimately the program managing men after it and any like the Walmarts of the world Sony's in the HPS those guys and it was great. It was cool. Company good paycheck, but you know, I just felt like a cog in a gigantic wheel. So I knew I wanted to get back into kind of the startup world and Business School colleague of mine reached out to me he was looking for a technology person with a little bit of a BD kind of marketing product background, and I left the big corporate world to join this company, and it was the founder, it wasn't a founder CEO, the founder was this guy. He had had it too. management of success, he started a company that that eventually went public for a billion dollars. visionary, super dynamic guy, not an operator at all. And he pulled these companies together. And it's almost like an incubator of some sorts are like five different acquisitions. And they came together and I was brought in to build the go to market strategy. And I was like, Greg, you know, the CEO time, like there is zero synergies between any of these companies This makes no sense, like, what are we even trying to do here, which goal is division and a lot of the stuff just quite frankly, didn't exist. So you know, we went through that process at that point and and really looked at the assets that we had in play. And you know, there was a business division that we ended up shutting down, there's a business division that we ended up spinning off tripling revenues and it was acquired in two years. And then we had this domain name, which was the events calm and we there was an opportunity in the market. So we you know, we really led the company through a pivot. We rebranded as events calm and built that platform from the ground up, raised a bunch of money and built this No company is still doing really well today even in spite of the current situation. So that was really kind of my first experience from a turnaround situation perspective. And then what ended up happening is the CEO of the time, decided to get back into the finance world and he became a VC himself. And he started to invest in companies and then at that point, I became kind of his go to guy invest in a distressed company. And it was like hey, Greg, these guys got some great here we just invested it I'm coming here and tell me what you can do. And and you know, that's ultimately it's been kind of a stepping stone process until fancy and ultimately that's how I was introduced to the team here at fancy and eventually asked to run the company.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 19:42 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, my my ultimate dream, my ultimate vision and goal of where I go is is you know, being paid by Marcus lemonis. Yeah, what he does I love how he does it. I love you see, right if you're if you're a portfolio guy, program guy, you see it, but when, as soon as he acquires a company, I already know the alette the other 11 companies he's going to leverage with it, you know what I mean? It's a brilliant strategy, but he's saving small business along the way. So when you started to do the these turnarounds, and we start talking about themes, in fact, I'll just, I'll set you up with a softball question. We'll see what we'll see how far you hit it out of the park. But in all those areas, what is the number one asset of any company period?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 20:20 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, you know, we were talking about this and our similarities and our belief on this, but it's 100% of people. It's, it's not even close. And, you know, just you know, quite honestly, it's not something that I intuitively knew when I first started this process, you know, coming out of business school. And you know, and the way business school works is it's kind of based on this like case case study mentality where they will lay out a situation or an analysis of a business and then they want you to basically tell you what the business should do you know, where should they grow which they invest which best what's the strategy, why would this work etc, and You know, quite frankly, even a bump, I took a little bit of a business case mentality, you know, it was easy to come in here and see these five different companies. And understand that some of these didn't make sense. And there isn't a strategic rationale. And you know, we should divest this and we should cut costs here. But you don't always realize that, you know, number one, that there's real people behind this and these decisions that look great on a spreadsheet, or, you know, whatever it is, I know, that's, that's really me kind of plagiarizing your quote, in practice, can have a disastrous impact on the morale of your team. And it doesn't matter how good your ideas or how good your strategy is, if your people don't believe in you, and they don't trust you and they don't feel like they're aligned to the mission of the company and the company is really looking out for your best interest. You know, you're going to lose them. And, you know, it's not just you're gonna lose them because they'll find another job. You're just you're they're not gonna trust you and they're not going to want to follow you and that's something that over time, I believe I've gotten a lot better honestly. made that realization. But you know, I, I have some scars from that I made some mistakes and I did lose some people and I had some issues with some really great employees who, you know, didn't necessarily trust me like they needed to and and and rightfully so. And and since then I think I've really evolved.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 22:19 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, but that still keeps you up at night at time. So to be fair, right, he will still think back to that it does me. You know, I stumbled across that again, much like you by accident, but it was during the Xerox turnaround times again, I only had two weeks, so I couldn't really bond with the team. I couldn't really find out, you know, what was going on. And I started to really invest for files and understanding disc profiles and that kind of stuff. And so I would walk into to do a turnaround disc profile, the whole team and I'd grab my CDs, and I'd take them in we go talk and literally, I could probably say out of, you know, 25 to 30 projects I was looking at a year easily 38 them, I had the answer in day one, by talking to the right people. And that's what started to fascinate me. I was like, how is this possible? How do they have the answer, but the executives are flying me in to solve this. And that was all breakdown. And it was all true. It even your high C and for those that you don't know your high C or your conscientious people, their facts, their figures that there's sometimes really quiet, but they're the easiest ones to shut down. So if you tell them, you know, that's a dumb idea, or you, they'll just stop offering. And that's what was happening. And it was a tremendous learning grab wish, every CEO and executive could experience some of those turnaround type opportunities. So that they get that because I feel like we're still lacking. And in fact, I'll ask you a question too. One of my favorite questions to ask is do you pick your projects based on what you can spend meaning in your capital project ground? Or do you pick your projects based on what your resources can realistically achieve?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 23:58 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it's it's Louder. For me, I, you know, that's, we had a conversation about that today with my team. And we're actively transforming Vinci, and we're constantly working on things. And, you know, I used to have this quote that was behind my desk, and it said, there's always, there's always more great ideas than there is capacity to execute. And, and I think that that's, that's, that's a really key thought is like, we all have great ideas. And this would be this would be awesome, this could be great. And you should do this. And we should transform this restructure this market or whatever it is. But like, you got to really be honest with yourself, and you got to ask yourself, like, can you execute on this? Do you have the bandwidth execute on this? And, and if you start to try to execute on it, well, you know, what, what happens to the other stuff that people are working on? Is it a distraction, you know, and, you know, it's hard. I and, you know, going back to you know, your point of that, that kind of Curse of the founder. I think a lot of founders have that issue, right? innately, they're these like dreamers and these these are these options. to people who kind of like see opportunities and then they go after them. But we used to always call it the shiny object syndrome right? It's so easy to see the shiny object and get distracted and then all of a sudden you lose you lose course what you're trying to accomplish.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 25:13 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Squirrel are hates. So we're gonna take another break right here. We'll be right back with Greg explain you're listening to right Morris on the work life balance.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 25:27 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? 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When it comes to business, you'll find the experts here voice America business network.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 27:47 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon visiting with Greg splain, who is the CEO of fancy calm and turnaround extraordinare specialist. Lots of talk about like we're even filling up the breakdown There's there's no awkward silence. Yeah, I'm digging it, bro. So what would you say that you? Yeah, I'm big into leadership as well. In fact, one of the big things I wanted to do is I realized I was a very descriptive leader, a prescriptive leader in the sense that I was I was not empowering my team because I was given him the answers and I started to seek a better way and found my way on to the john Maxwell team and part of his President's Advisory Council now. But what would you say that you've learned over time that has made you a better leader?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 28:35 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, yeah. No, that's that's a really that's a really good question. Um,</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you know, having your my unique situation and coming in and a lot of cases having to make change and elicit change. You know, one of the things that's made me better leaders kind of the improvement of my EQ in general and specifically a respect to The work people have put in already, and the efforts that people have made, I think the easiest thing in the entire world to do is criticize, it is so easy to be a critic. And when you come in from the outside of a company, and you know, a company has been having issues. Like you have to, like avoid your internal habit of going, why are you doing this? Or whose idea was this? Or this doesn't make any sense? Or like, how did nobody See this? or How did nobody stop this right like, and there's probably a reason and rationale for why every one of these decisions was made and you weren't in that situation, you you didn't have the external pressures or you know, whatever was going on in the world at the time when that decision was made. So to come in after the fact and criticize things criticize people's work, you just shut people down, in my opinion. So, you know, I think as I've become a better leader, you know, a it's really just and I know we're being repetitive here, but it really is about the people</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">is a it's like an appreciation for the work and the effort that people have made, first of all, but then I'll go ahead.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 30:08 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">No, I was just going to say I didn't want to glance over that because, you know, many leaders is it was many projects is I've been a part of companies I've been a part of and leaders that I've worked with, I've never heard anybody put that so eloquently in the sense of when you come in regardless, there was a lot of blood sweat and tears to whatever however the state is there. So really respecting the work that has been done that's you need to run with that statement it I've never heard anybody say it that way. And that that that that could turn into your your primary keynote speech. I'm telling you that that was that was awesome. That that's worth that's worth the Listen to me, but and I'll let the listeners tweet me or hit me up on what they think about that. But that was that was beautifully said. I just didn't want to glance over that but go ahead.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 30:59 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, no, look, I I really appreciate that. And, you know, as we were talking about offline, you know, I guess I, you know, experiences a lot to do with things and, you know, like, I have a lot of scars from that, you know, and, you know, I've I've been able to will myself and we've been able to have a lot of success, but I think I've broken a lot of glass along the way. You know, I was something I was definitely doing earlier in my career was breaking a little glass breaking too much class time. So I think as I've matured, and I've gotten, become a better leader, it really is, you know, those types of things and just having more EQ, having more respect for your people, you know, those types of things. And then, you know, this This one sounds simple, but it's, it's the Absolute Truth. I mean, that that stuff's all great when you kind of come in, but eventually you got to move forward. And the key to moving forward and I think the number one thing with any leadership is you got to be clear on direction, right? Like, I mean, everybody needs to know where they're going. There can't be a bunch of ambiguity you got to get, you know, sort of all your horses. Calling in the right direction. So, you know, it's got to be simple. You got to kind of have a Northstar you gotta have a strategy that have core values and you really are, you know, doing everything you can to make sure that everybody is clear on what they need to be doing on a daily basis what the goals of the company are, who we want to be and and then you know, manage make sure that people that are in place you know, underneath you that have their own teams there are aligned with you and it goes all the way down.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 32:25 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Did you have a trait or no, it will say a trait personality trait is something that you really had to overcome that was leading to those kind of career limiting moves. Right going back into the day where Yeah, some of those scars what were some of those traits that you felt like you had overcome?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 32:40 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And it's a great question. I don't know if I've ever really thought this through but as you say that what popped into my mind is that athletic background right I'm, I'm I you know growing up in athletics, I was used to the coach coming up to me and grabbing me by the facemask, you know, so to speak and shaking Me yelling at me and telling me to pull my head out of my unify. And, you know, if I don't want to get my ass kicked on a daily basis, you better pick it up because you know this. And it was like that just direct, like, you know, blunt. Hey, like, like, I'm not I'm not worried about your feelings, I'm going to tell you what you need to do to win. Right. And that worked well for me and I think it works for football players, but it doesn't always work for an engineer. Yeah.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 33:29 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And when he said that I just had in my head Lou Holtz, I used to love watching was he 90 pounds soaking wet, grab one of those 375 pound guys and just eat them up. Good. So mine was mine was temper and the other thing was, is I was generally and again, it's not a bright, you, you should feel this way too. But generally when we walk in a room, we're some of the smartest people in the room just in the sense of experience and we've seen things and that kind of stuff. But that invaded my ego. And I then started to assume at all times that I was the smartest person in the room. And that led to a lot of my career limiting moves and something I really I overcame through servant leadership through just finding ways to serve other people regardless of what the task was. But that's how that that was like the key trait. If I were to go back and look at my career stops, and what stopped me from going to the next thing, it was ego from assuming that I was the smartest person in the room.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 34:26 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So how did you? When did that realization happen? Was there an event or was it just sort of evolution over</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 34:31 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">time? No, there was there was a key event and it was I had accelerated very, very quickly in Xerox and because of the turnaround again, what's great about a turnaround if we look at it is if we turn it around where hero but if we couldn't turn it around, it was too far gone before we got there. I mean, it's Come on, but it's so you know, I was getting a lot of hype and I was given a project way out of my depth. And I wasn't validating anything and I do a whole thing on the depth. They should have done because of this project. But I was told that they were done. I cleared the executives calendars. I flew them in, we were ahead of schedule, you know, I'm thinking I'm a rock star, and go to my developer and I was like, Hey, you need to go show them a demo. And he goes, show him what? It's like, you know, you said, you were done. He goes, Yeah, Rick, the code compiled but I don't have any UI or I, there's nothing to shutter. And so now I got a roomful of executives I'm about to walk into. And of course, now that I've cleared their calendars, I get all the questions like, didn't you validate? Did you look at it? Did you do any kind of? And the answer to it was just no, no, no. And that was the most brutal day in my life. And that's, I can pinpoint that's where I started to change. It was a long, you know, it takes time, but that was that was the feeling I never wanted to feel again. Yeah,</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 35:48 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, man, I've I know that that feeling and nothing worse than when you're when you are in a room with a lot of really smart executives that know how to ask the right questions, how they can just poke so many holes. So</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">small,</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 36:03 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">it's your own firing line is exactly as they could get leading you to lead to getting fired. How do you find? How do you find great talent? How do you recruit great talent out there in these these organizations? And in this day and age?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 36:16 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I tell it's tough man.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, I gotta have a certain type of person that I look to hire. And, you know, for me, it's, you know, it's who you mentioned about it's like that person who's got a little bit of a chip, I like to see someone who, you know, in their career has done things where you're like, Okay, this guy's ambitious, right? Like, you know, someone who goes off in their own starts a company, even if it's a failed entrepreneur, like I don't fault somebody for that, right? I mean, he obviously within reason, right, like, there's a certain drive that it takes to go out on your own and start something or you know, that type of thing. So, I like someone who they that is excited because you're typically I'm in these early startup companies, small Organizations, they have these big aspirations, like, I want someone that that wants to be here and is willing to run through a wall to make this company successful. And and I tell everybody in the interview process, you know, I mean, kind of my typical interview processes, you know, we'll go through the process, we'll have their talks. And before we put an offer out, I'll have a final interview and the final interviews, usually, when we've already made a decision that we want to move forward with you, but I'm going to talk you out of the job. That's my job. I want to make sure that you come in here wanting to be here. And and it's one of the very first things I really go through with it. It's like, Listen, if you're looking for, you know, a cushy nine to five lifestyle job where you get a steady paycheck, and people tell you exactly what you need to do, and you can leave work and everything about it. Like don't come work. There's a ton of big companies. Yeah, love people like that. You can get a job like that all day long. But like, if you want to come in here because you don't want to be a cog in a big wheel, and you want to feel like you can build something and you want to build a culture and you want to have Be able to call up the CEO and have a conversation and change doesn't have major bureaucracy and you know, all those types of things, but understand that there's going to be tough times and you know, it's it's, it's going to be chaotic at times, etc, etc, then this is the right role. And it's the people that get jazzed up and want to be part of that you can just seem frothing at the mouth, like, Oh my god, so excited, can't wait to get in here and like, be part of this company and his team and build it like, those are the type of people</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 38:27 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">it's an Napoleon Hill, one of my favorite books of all time thinking Grow Rich talks about that his burning desire, and where you're willing to cut all ties and bridges and exit points to where the only path forward is forward, right? There's just no, you cannot retreat. And that's the burning desire that it takes to truly That's right, Think and Grow Rich. So I love that piece. So we're going to go ahead and take our final break right here and come back spend a little time. When we come back, though, I want to talk a little bit about the crowdfunding that you've done, and then we're going to get your question that I asked everybody, which is what some of the The best advice you've ever received, so we'll do that right after the break. Listen to the work life balance with workforce.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 39:09 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? 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Find us at PD were calm and imagine not manually compiling endless reports again. Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? Do you lack consistency and project delivery? Our squared consulting provides end to end services to assist companies of all sizes and realizing and improving the value of project management. Whether you want to build a project management office trained project managers or learn how to bring the oversight and governance to your project processes. r squared has tailored best practices to help you in all areas of project management, visit r squared consulting.com. When it comes to business, you'll find the experts here voice America Business Network.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 41:32 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Balance on this Friday afternoon final segment here with Greg splain, who's the CEO of fancy calm and you know one thing you know, you guys, I know that you guys raised a ton of money early on, as you were saying there was a lot of investors a lot of hype a lot of celebrities. But now you're going to crowdfunding. And so what yeah, that's that. That's generally like, hey, the common person can jump in on a crowdfunding. So why did you decide to do that?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 41:58 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, no, it's a it's a it's a fairly Question. You know, when I came in it was after your recapitalization of the company at a significantly lower valuation, right, this company was they raise money, I think it was $600 million valuation at its peak, like American Express, actually, that they're around a $30 million rounds. And you know, like I said, they were they were hemorrhaging money and they had insolvency moments. And, you know, company never went bankrupt, but there was a recap at that valuation. It's almost laughable, really. And, you know, they put in a little bit of money, the Board of Directors, and there's still two billionaires on our board and our cap table and co owners the Boston Celtics and Francoise Pino who owns caring group it's I think his net worth close to $40 billion, right so there was not a money issue wasn't a capital issue. And you know, we've been working to get as close towards profitability as we could. But you know, we needed to raise a little bit of money. So we we opened up two and a half million dollar round $12 million valuation, which is very attractive considering where we are at with a revenue and the domain name and technology platform and just the data that we sit on in general. And what happened is I had no idea what this type of crowdfunding was I thought of crowdfunding was like, Kickstarter. Right? Right. Hey, you know, give me 100 bucks. And we're going to build these, these phone cases. And once we build them, we'll send you a phone case, right? But this is this is different sec a couple years ago changed the rules. And they they now allow for unaccredited investors to invest in private Leone companies, which didn't used to be the case, right? You couldn't invest in a pre IPO company is just a normal person if you weren't accredited. So there's a couple platforms out there we funder being one of them and the chairman of our board, who as I mentioned is billionaire or the Celtics is a large investor in the company. He came to me and he's like, Hey, listen, Greg, like, will you want to support this company. So ultimately, you know, committed, you know, close to a million and a half of the two and a two and a half million, but you can raise up to a million dollars through crowdfunding. And what it got me thinking of is, it's great to have a great, loyal customer because you gave them an amazing experience. But if we can give an opportunity to all those loyal customers to own part of our company, they're going to be beyond loyal right now you start to create this this army of, of evangelists and advocates and people that are going to talk about you and share it out with your friends. And not just because we have a cool product or you find some interesting stuff in there, like user experience, but now they actually feel part of this company. So that was the decision behind it. So we did launch this crowdsource funding campaign. It's equity funding, I'm buying stock shares into our company at the valuation I mentioned. And, you know, the goal of this thing is In order to grow at 10 X and have a nice, you know, sale or a liquidity event of some sort, where we provide these people with a huge return on their investment. So that's, that's why they get it and that's where we're at. So still active on it is it is we just recently launched it, anybody that's interested go to we funder.com forward slash fancy, and there's everything you want to know about our companies there and you'll learn a lot about the opportunity and lowest investments are 250 bucks. And you know, you get you get some perks with that and a lifetime discount codes and kind of goes from there.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 45:37 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But huge fan of we funder just yeah, I can see some of the up and comers by probably, I don't know, have invested into 1516 different companies through this great so you just probably got another investor that way so we'll check that out right after the show. Yeah,</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 45:52 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'll tell you what, I was not you know, I I've raised all this money, you know, through these through these different company. And it has been the traditional route of going to accredited investors family offices high net worth venture capital and and I just never even realized that there isn't this this sort of refund or crowdfunding world and it's so cool there's so many amazing companies it can</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 46:16 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">be kind of addicting it's a really addicting it's bad. That's That's why I didn't know fancy was out there because I had to cut myself off about a month ago. I got to give myself a little bit of a break. So what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 46:33 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, man, you know, there's just been so much advice. I mean, I could I could be crass and go back to some my early college days where I had coaches that told me to basically not be in a hole and like do things right and be right. But I think most recently, the best advice I've received was from a mentor mind someone who's had amazing careers knowing for a really long time and he knew I was the kind of guy who I came up as an operator. And even you know, when I got back in the startup world, I was I was a CFO and read it earlier, I managed the sales team and the marketing team and the product development team and engineering and, and, and I love to get in the weeds. I just loved it, I enjoyed it was fun, right. And, you know, as I as I started to move higher up the chain and an executive management device I got is you got to let go. You got to get out of people's way. You know, your job is as a CEO is not to be in every product development meeting and not to be in every market and not to drive every single decision on your own. Like you got to trust your people. You know, set the vision at the company let people know what they need to do let them know how we're going to measure things and when you know ultimately what what they're you know the the key results that are being tracked are but get out, go out do these types of things. Talk to people like yourself like being evangelist, the company and Investor Relations, you know, handle large scale BD things, but you know, as much as you love to get weeds you got to step away unless people do it.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 48:03 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so yeah. But it's hard. It's hard because that's how we got there. Right. That's how we got successful. That's how we got to the places that we get. But so you still dabble that. Okay, you can't follow me. You still dabble you still pop into a meeting here and there and like, you roll the sleeves up. Okay. All right. It's just making sure it's not just me. So what about some final thoughts for the audience out there just as we wrap up this incredible interview with you Just what would what would you like to leave the audience with?</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 48:39 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, look, I know you got a really eclectic audience base and you know, obviously people who are out there and are listening or you know, are interested in these types of things are interested in better themselves and interested in growing I know you are. I think that that's probably a trait I have. Honestly, as cliche as it sounds is like just just show up and do it man. You know, it's, you know, I always say like, you know, it's like the old proverb, right? How do you eat an elephant? And the answer is one bite at a time. And if you sit back and you try to, you know, have this goal or this aspiration and his dream for yourself, and you just think about, like, Oh my god, how am I going to get there? You can get overwhelmed. And you get into this paralysis by analysis where you don't even you don't end up doing anything. And you know, my advice is, is just start to start anywhere. Just Just do it. do a Google search, you want to start a company, thinking about being an entrepreneur, just starving. Go go on Google just do a search and things will spiral and things will happen and but you know, if you just sit around and you dream, it will never happen.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 49:45 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I totally agree. Totally agree. We say jump and catch your wings on the on the fall. Yeah, yeah, we'll build the wings on the way down. That's that's how it's gonna go. But we're gonna go ahead and jump in and see what's happening. And I've been I've been probably I don't know, that's the best advice because it's gone back and forth for me, but every time I get an opportunity, we're gonna jump and we're gonna get at it. It's been great. We certainly appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us and being vulnerable with the audience and looking forward to see what happens at fancy calm as well as whatever else happens in your career. Whatever's next.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Greg Spillane 50:19 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, Rick, I really enjoyed it. Amazing conversation. It was really fun. And</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 50:25 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thanks, I appreciate you. So next week, we're gonna have next week, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm skeptical and I'm pumped at the same time. So we've got Doug Vermereen coming on. But I even referenced it here. One of the greatest books that I've ever read. One of the greatest impacts in my life was thinking Grow Rich, I use it on stage. I've got my mantra taped to my monitor right here what my next step is, and this gentleman is calling himself the modern day Napoleon Hill. So I'm dying to dig in to find out what this conversation is going to be about and in me being A true disciple of Napoleon Hill's work. I'm excited to hear where he's taken this. So that's what we're going to be doing next Friday. That's going to be August 7. And of course, we're always here at 2pm Pacific 4pm Central 5pm. Eastern on the work life balance. Please stay tuned to the voice America business network as they have another fantastic program for you right after this. And we will talk to you all next Friday.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">VoiceAmerica 51:25 </span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-601756849741398508" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Transcribed by https://otter.ai</span></font></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></div>Rick A. 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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Welcome to another edition of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. I'm back live again sorry for the replay last week but we had we had some guest issues and things like that, so we just ducked out to a replay. And then I went to Nashville and got a chance to visit some friends. So I'm recharged finally got to get out of the house a little bit. Had a had an event that was planned that got canceled the last second we were supposed to go see john Maxwell and Steve Harvey work together. But no no harm, no foul. They're also A lot of you were on the virtual resource planning summit with us yesterday, that was a fantastic event. But I'm still kind of, ie if I use the word hangover, it's not the hangover that you're thinking of. It's the hangover from when you speak all day and then do an eight hour event the next day. You're not talking so much. So, but fantastic event, a lot of great stuff. We had Barb stegman, on who's been on the show a couple of times a founder of seven virtues, perfume, just an incredible story. If you haven't had a chance to go see a documentary called perfume wars. You need to go check it out. It's the story of Barb, how she started the company. It was really started with a powerful friendship and essentially, they sourced materials directly from farmers in war torn countries. So Afghanistan, Somalia, just a phenomenally social conscious business that she's just an amazing person. So she was on with us. We had our boy Darryl rivers who was on with us who just did that incredible conversation with us on this show about about race, and a host of other people. But anyway, let's get into today's show really excited because we're going to focus you know, we talked about work life balance. I've done a few episodes on work now it's time to start talking about life and that balance of life. And so our person now is an empowerment coach and author, speaker, and she brings motivated women from around the world from power less to powerful and every single aspect of life. Advice can be found in Forbes cosmopolitan insider and thrive global and their YouTube channel provides a wealth of knowledge around love and empowerment. And her new book power love dating a woman's real word. Good gracious, love dating. A woman's real world guide to empowered love is now available on Amazon. She's got a master's degree in counseling psychology, and a professional background in psychotherapy in mind body healing and was formerly a personal development manager and program leader with landmark worldwide. The magic ingredient to all of her work is power, love, we lives in between the extremes we too often find ourselves in where powerful and loving overlap. So let's bring her on to the show Michelle, back. So how are you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Hi, I'm great. So good to be here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so this new book, right, so power, love dating, I got a chance to read it, but just talk about that for a moment. How did how did you come to that? And I also like to hear about the writing process, like, not as simple as we can read a book. Okay. But talk about that whole process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. Okay. Well, so my process writing this book was totally different than what I had envisioned writing a book looks like. So for a long time, I had done what many of us do, which is, you know, you sit down and you maybe write a table of contents and start writing or you go to a cabin and lock yourself in there and you write this long book, and that was not happening for me at all. What I do is I speak I coach, I share I talk some more, I think some more and that's my process. And I realized that over Gosh, a number of years working intensively With specifically women on their journey of finding love, that was a focus I did for a period of time. That combined with sharing a lot of my own journey, my own journey, which went from being a wreck in the love department, you wouldn't have known it if you knew me unless I told you about it, but my gosh, was it ever a wreck and finding my way to lasting love without actually empowering, healthy, hopefully lasting relationship? Right so so taking all of that in and realizing oh my gosh, I've been writing my book for years actually. And it's in all these different places. It's in my in my stories in my pot or in my podcasts that I've been on, it's in my my blogs, it's in my all kinds of places, my YouTube channel and really there's all of these things and I started actually taking that compiling it and then from there, wrote my book and and filled in all of the gaps and made it a lot more Made it made sense to a reader so totally different than I think what a lot of people expect but writing should look like.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I've got you pegged as a high personality then right is what sorry. Hi I personality and the disc profile.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh me I'm so high empath high is we we can be in front of anybody, but we're profoundly very tough on ourselves internally. A lot of people think we have an ego because we can talk to anybody but really, there's lots of insecurities under the under the scenes, and I need people to recharge but we also need to have that time to ourselves to recharge so you love the big idea, but hate kind of the nitty gritty and details is that</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that sounds exactly like me. Yeah, you got me pegged, right? Yeah,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Bs because I'm the same person. I'm in writing my book. I also am an auditory thinker. So a lot of times I'll make connections on stage that never have been made before. Right? It's just something will come out of my mouth. And I just right then I'm like, remember that remember? Go right. And so I ended up walking around my office and dictating to myself my book. Yeah, and sitting down to write it, but basically tried to describe what I was trying to say to me, so that I could sit down and find the words I wanted to in the book. So that's why I pegged you that way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Now, it's so good. I'll even do it now. So one of the ways with my with my VIP clients, I voxer with them, which is voice recording back and forth for anyone who's not familiar. And and same thing I'm writing my second book power love woman. And, and anytime there's a real Golden Nugget, I'm like, download that transcribe that. Okay, come on. I don't know where that came around. I was good. Because I do think there's something about and this this will lead very nicely, I think into what we're talking about today. So much gold so much wisdom comes from the interaction it comes it's not, you know, they're you know, it's not just from you know, my brain knowing things and yes, I have a lot of experience and sure there's all of that But, but really it, it comes as much from the other as it does from me and I and so my working with clients and people in general and being connected and in these relationships is a huge part of being able to, you know, give what I have to give to the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">In fact, I have a measure of when I feel like I've made it when it's a john Maxwell is one of my mentors and I get a chance to watch him do his thing often. But he's got Aaron and Aaron is probably one of the most important people in his life because it he'll literally stop himself on stage and look at Aaron and Aaron will give a little high sign going. Yes, I heard you. Yes, it was awesome. And I already wrote it down for you. So just follows him around, as in all the conversations and onstage and I remember one time he was talking to kind of an inner circle. So he literally just stopped and he's like no, no Eric just kept just write with me for a second catch this. And he started a poll full idea out Yeah, and we watched him get a chance to grow If that and I was like that's when I know I've made it is if I can have an errand Yeah. Let's talk about power love what what a greatness or love is just gives you kind of that that feeling what how did you come up with that? And where is that? Yeah,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I can definitely tell you so when I was so when I went from so my background is as a psychotherapist left that to work extensively with the personal development company and then left that to go back to building something on my own but I wanted to be online virtual I just didn't want that office. I didn't want to be constricted in an office, basically. Right? And so that's how I got into online you know, coaching and in the work that I do and so when I was doing that I wanted to pick to pick a particular area that I could focus on really smart way to start an online business is you pick a particular niche so to speak, right? And someone very wise said to me, Well, what's your because I've worked with people in all kinds of different areas. So they said look for your first program for your first sort of message. To the world, and difference that you want to make what's your favorite personal transformation? And for me, I there's been a lot that I had, you know, I'm surrounded by incredible coaches and thought leaders and a lot of things that I had transformed in my life. But the one that took me the longest was my love life. But when I so so that was why I decided to focus on that for a few years and that is what I had done. I do I'm back to serving all kinds of different things, but and so when I was doing it, what I was dealing with in myself was Oh, but I'm not a dating coach. I'm not that person that's going to say this is how you should do your hair or this is the best way to text someone or this is the um, that's not me</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, and I shouldn't I want to say though, disclaimer, there's something I know some incredible people that call themselves a dating coach. But really what they do is so much deeper than that. There are people like that and I could call him</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">off I can name there's probably some some phenomenal dating coaches hold on a hole if you're gonna pay the other</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">but what bugged me I was like, Oh, I can't and so I had called myself a love coach for a long time that I could wrap my head around because there was there's like so much including love for yourself love for life. Love for like, what I really stand for is, you know, as people being able to live, like live a life they love while loving themselves and the people around them. I mean, what else is there to life really right so that I could stand by and I knew the work that I wanted to do was deeper. But what I dealt with in my personal journey was feeling having this experience, like the more self aware I become, the more what I felt emotionally mature I became the harder it seemed to find a partner that it would work with. I didn't want what not not to judge what other people had, but I didn't necessarily want what a lot of people that I knew had. It wasn't Like I just wanted someone to, to share a life with and build that, you know, nuclear family with or whatever it was. That that's, that wasn't me something very important to me as I, you know, grew and grew as a human being was this sense of empowerment, this sense of personal power, knowing who I am and being able to express that in my life confidently, that became very important to me. But it seemed like it was at the expense of love, and this kind of relationship, I could have lovers. I could have all you know, and say, Yeah, no, I'm good. I have my career and I have these, you know, a track, you know, I can have a lover on the side. And that sort of felt empowering, but it wasn't actually what I really wanted. What I really wanted was to be that whole human being that I had finally discovered myself to be and have a true partner to co create and to continually create a life with and so That is how and so for me, I was like, well, I want power and love, power love. That's how it first came to be, then it's evolved into being a more than just about relationship like how we can power love ourselves. Power, love with money, power love in our career like so really, it's turned into a paradigm for that overlap that you mentioned earlier, where pathwork work being powerful and loving overlap.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so, I want to dive into the word empowerment for a second because I feel like it's something I think it's gotten used so poorly for so long that now It almost has a negative context. Like, almost every coach says, I'm going to empower you. I saw a software company that was using you know, empower your team, by using our and the software had nothing to do with empowering the team. It was about the team giving me information so I can make decisions. I would like that really poor choice of words on that. How do we I mean, what is your take on that? You use the word it's often in the book and in your materials. Yeah, talk to me about what you can do to help change the perception of the word.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Uh, well, here's what I can tell you. It is your I agree with you, a lot of people are using it and it's not empowerment at all. In fact, one of the things that makes me so angry about the online coaching industry and sometimes even personal development as a whole, but again, I want to say that because not everybody's doing this, but is where we're where, and this is because it's what sells what sells is the answer. What sells is here is a pathway to go from here to here. I'm going to tell you exactly how to run a business. I'm going to tell you exactly how to be confident if you follow these steps you will guaranteed have this result right and that is feeding into a very disadvantageous part of the human condition where we just want the answer that we can default into. So that we can take our hands off the wheel for a while and and and not worry about the result that we want, right? So So I've still very even even when I was focused on supporting what people would love, it's like, okay, there is work to be done. But I am not going to stand here and be in charge of your life. I'm not I'm not going to do that. It's one, it's, no, I just don't believe in it. And two, it doesn't serve the other person. So to me empowerment is actually discovering how powerful you really are and how and like what it really means to navigate the realities of yourself and the realities of the circumstances around you so that you can one be way more likely to achieve the things that you want and do it yourself and to so that you're not waiting for that result to be happy that you can actually feel good. When you're climbing that frickin mountain maybe not, you know, like the kind of good where you feel good about it not necessarily that like it feels good, right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Right. Good that you just wouldn't worked out and yeah, tired, you're exhausted but it's a great feeling</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">is like someone tell me what pill I can take so that I can eat whatever I want.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know? And there's a lot of the versions of that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, yeah, multi billion dollar industry right there. Oh, pill, the quick pill. And none of none of them work because I tried them all. And I was like, wait a minute, maybe if I just eat better and exercise, I lose weight. If I</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">take responsibility for my life. I honor myself you get it right. But it's like and that's sometimes more obvious with weight less obvious when it comes to things like like our businesses like our like relationships, like our marriage, like parenting, and I'm not saying not to use experts. There's a lot of wisdom. We should never give away that power to somebody. Though,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">so that one of the most impactful things for me, in coaching, I never really wanted to be a coach. And through the john Maxwell program, you become a speaker, a coach and a trainer. And so you have to kind of attend these these different sessions. I go to this coaching session, and I have a really poor understanding what a coach does. I'm very, I'm like, dude, I, I'm going because I have to, I have no interest in this. Kristin Simpson, who's now one of my coaches, got on stage and he did a quick thing to me. He said, I want to work with a partner and you guys gonna juggle, and of course me and my partner, we'd never juggled and we start figuring it out. And he was watching our behavior. And I was trying to tell the guy how to juggle like, I'm some circus clown. And he hits us with the line that changed my life forever. He said, when you give somebody the answer, you robbed them of a lifetime of learning. And that was so and I realized what a directive leader I had been. I would be upset because I couldn't go into Because that right? And it was it was that fact that I wasn't really and again, I'm going to use the word empowering my team to make decisions I was training them to ask me. Alright, so we're going to take a break right there, we're going to come back, get more into power, love and I really want to start getting into some some things in relationships. Specifically, let's talk about fear. Fear of leaving fear of standing up for yourself, or fear of change is even a better way to say it. So we'll do that right on the other side of the break, you're listening to Rick A. Morris and the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're visiting with Michelle back So Michelle, you know, we didn't say your company though what? you own your own firm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I own my own my own business. So power love woman is, is the is the name of the game over here but yeah,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, perfect. And so and we're talking about power love and and so let's get into some of the particulars and I'm doing this purely of a selfish nature since I just left a a 24 year marriage earlier this year right before COVID, which was fantastic timing if I could just throw that out. But it's but still there. You know, for me, I haven't really looked back, but I feel like I probably stayed five years too late. I had kids involved, that kind of thing. But I think the biggest thing was the fear of the reaction. Right? So I think when we get into a partnership that long, we start the way other people perceive us becomes our truth versus wrecking and when you have somebody who can be very manipulative or very tough toxic to that pays rate shoots down any of your ideas doesn't really want to see you succeed in anything. Talk about that fear in what you kind of have to what's the best way to approach I'm gonna leave it open and yeah</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">well and it's interesting what you were talking about there the the idea is okay I'm gonna make it seem a little bit trivial for a second but we're gonna get deeper into it but a lot of the times anticipation is is where the fear and suffering lives so if we relate to it even like going to the gym usually once we're at or any class or anything like once we're there we get into it it's great we feel good afterwards right but you know that time when you're like should I should I you know after dinner am this feeling heavy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">do I want to it's it's it's the back and forth. It's the it's the anticipation, the questioning the wavering that is where not like just fear but to suffer a lot of suffering lives. You know, I was sharing about this with one of my clients recently to around a million years ago I was a smoker it's hard to even believe that that was who I was because it's because it was another life ago. And I had had quit many times started up again quit started up again, the easiest and most effective way I ever quit, was saying, I am never going to put a cigarette to my mouth ever again for the rest of my life. And that kind of certainty gave me so much power in dealing with cravings. Now I'm sharing that because you're talking about fear around leaving a relationship for example, right, like an unhealthy or just unworkable relationship. And you know, I'm the last person that will ever say yeah, if it's not comfortable cut and run. I think for for any of us, you know, particularly if you've made a you know, true commitment to somebody. The honorable thing to do is to give it an honest go right? And so then there's different ways to do that. I think we all know what that is those things are. And it's for each person to decide, you know, when that, that comes to mind when when enough's enough, right, when it's really not going to change when it really just doesn't work. And when we've made that decision, that's where we need to be really clear with ourselves. Because I think part of what we're afraid Yeah, is the reaction which the anticipation, the unknown, what is it? What am I going to have to deal with? There's that, but then there's also this fear of, is it going to cause me to waver? What if I don't actually go What if I get manipulated to stay? What if I sell out on what on myself in these interactions and don't follow through and then now I'm living and married with someone who knows I wanted to leave. That's like the worst kind of scenario, right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">For sure. Yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead. Go ahead and finish this up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I don't know. I mean, I you know, you know me, so So far that I could probably just keep talking forever. So to interrupt me anytime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. But then I think the anticipation like you were saying, in that fear of reaction, but then so many people because they're afraid, not that they kind of resolute You know, one of the things I heard a long time ago was talking about the three R's, essentially when you start to keep score. So first there's retaliation, meaning, you're going to start, you know, withholding certain things or not, and then it gets to revenge, right? So now you want them to make you want to make them feel the way that you make you feel, and then it gets to resentment. And kind of once you get to that resentment, there's there's really no way out. And I know several people in that resentment stage. But when you say, well, then why isn't it time for you to move on? They're like, Yeah, but I, you know, she might be crazy or she, he might, he might overreact and I'm like, but You're going to be in the same spot anyway, so he overreacts. Now, he overreacts already. So of course, he's going to overreact. Like, you know, he is. But the difference is, is he gets to overreact by himself and his own house. So you get to be away. But like, how, what have you seen? And I'm sure it's different for everybody, but some of those key breakthroughs in that moment?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, part of it is, is being able to see beyond that incident that you're afraid of. So yeah, there's the reaction or that conversation? Or and sometimes it's not just that it's like, oh, like actually having to deal with telling the kids or, or getting my own place. I have a client right now where she's like, Oh my gosh, and now I'm looking to get my own place. She's lived on her own and</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Tell her it's a ball.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Michelle Baxo 25:52 </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But she's, you know, but right now, I mean, she's in the air Airbnb and so having a taste event, but she's not she's feeling lonely. She's not used to be She's not used to it and there's so you know, a lot. So, you know, one of the things that we're working on is like really getting clear on who she really wants to be for herself in her life and what she wants to have her life be like, because we know and she really gave it a frickin go like they both did over and over and over again and it's just not working. And and there just isn't love there anymore. Unfortunately, you know, like sometimes that's just the way things the way things go. And and so for her the work she's doing and tell you right now that's making a really big difference is rather than being caught in the weeds because the weeds have the emotions of like, what I'm dealing with the fear of dealing with maybe the discomfort of what I'm dealing with. All of that is the weeds but if you can kind of be the the bird over the swamp and see the horizon of what you want your life to look like. I think we just forget like this is our one sweet life like this is your life. This is it and it sucks right now but what is it that you really want and we have to do hard things sometimes to get to you know a certain outcome or whatever it is a certain milestone in our lives and no one else is no one else's job no one else's job to have you live the life you want to live and and I think that's the kind of self talk we need to start having with ourselves to get us through some of these tough tough sticky spots. The greatest work is done on the edge of uncomfortable right i mean that's that's where your best work and your your best opportunity to change and it's not comfortable. Well yeah, because we're not in cruise control. We're not in cruise control when we're uncomfortable we actually have to pay attention we have to make decisions we have to look face our Dean our shadows or our demons like there's we are up on edge awake in life, when we are in our in our in our zone of discomfort, so to speak.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I think one of the most powerful chapters in your book That I read through was when you started to say, you know, you can't really change the other person. Yeah. And I think I think that that's what so many people go well if he would just change this, or if he would just and I really am like so what if he did it, there's a deeper thing there, then that one action or that one activity. I've I've a friend right now that when they've they fight and she tells him something, then he's got like a checklist that he just runs. So it was like, he literally physically fixes the four things that she says but that's not the underlying problem. So you came to that realization either through your training or kind of on your own or both. Talk to me about that transformation from from your perspective of when you really started to go You know what, I really have to be I have to love me first before I can really love anybody else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I'll start with from my own from my own experience, and then we can talk about how it often plays out in with other people as well. But for me, I would say you know, where I discovered this a month is when I was in love. I was in love with an alcoholic which I know you can relate with. And, and we, we were almost married and, you know having those, you know those conversations those plants we lived together we had a dog. It was you know, I had a really great at the time my first career was actually as a school teacher. I was a great school teacher. And and it was like here I was building my life here. I was totally in love with someone who was so in love with me like I was the bee's knees as far as he was concerned. But if only he just didn't have that drinking problem you know if only you didn't have this drinking problem we like we had our own like little fake band like not for performing we would you know we had the whole thing I would sing and play guitar he would sing and play guitar we would have like just so so much fun and go rap. There's so many great things but Gosh, if only he didn't have this drinking problem, and you know, someone very wise said to me Well, Michelle, he doesn't have a drinking problem. You have a problem with his drinking. Oh, wow. And that was like, holy cow, because I was like, he's If only he would stop doing what's wrong, I suppose, like, you know, like he has this problem that needs to be fixed. And when I got that, it actually it stopped. It just changed the whole game for me. So I was like, I need to actually make a decision here. I it's okay, that I have a problem with his drinking. So I'm either going to accept the way he chooses to live his life or I am not going to accept the way he chooses to live his life. He is a grown man, and there and there are other people that would be more than happy to build a life with him. In fact, after me he did find someone and they're married with children and seemed very happy. I don't know I'm not really in their lives, but</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, but but I had a problem with it. There. were certain things that I had a problem with. And, and, and that was really, that was actually really important with me making the choice to leave. Now, that being said, I was very open about it. I said, Listen, you know, I have a problem with this, this isn't the life that I can choose. He gave it a go quitting drinking, and it slowly came back and you know, blah, you know, all the power to him for giving it a go, he really cared. He really tried and it's just not what he's committed to the way I'm committed. He's committed to a different kind of life than what I'm committed to. And I think one of the things that happens a lot I see this all the time when people are on their journey, whether they're in a relationship or looking for love, is they'll be these particular attributes that we're so delighted to finally see in another person who likes us, that it overshadows it blinds us from some really fundamental things that are required for you to Have a healthy relationship. Great things like him, adoring me as having like lots of fun together as playing music together. It was like somehow it caught the way I write it's like rationalized it compensated for the for something that at the end of the day I didn't want to raise a family with I didn't want to share a life with wasn't my life wasn't the life I wanted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The honeymoon period essentially was over, right. I mean, that honeymoon period is so powerful where nobody can do anything wrong. If you've read Bruce Lipton in his talking, he says it's two years. I think it's until you have your first major fight. said to me, it's like six months to two years. But but but honestly, in the psyche, and I found it really fascinating. He's talking about, you know, early on, it's all lovey dovey and that kind of stuff. And it's the first time where life takes over, you know, he's working on the car and you come out and he doesn't give you that exact same response that you've been used to For now six months, so then you start getting into your head like, you know, Is he mad at me what's going on? Right? And it just filters out and in that honeymoon periods over and well,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">okay, here's what I call that. And I think this actually is part of what has us be afraid after enough relationships fail we start becoming afraid at this point to which as I call it, when we start treating each other like family, and because if you really think like what were you like in your house growing up? Probably a bit of a douche, right? Like</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">know I was abroad. I was a bit of a bitch. You know, like there's not that you know, there's other good things too. But the whole picture of who we are really does show up because we're not performing for anyone we're not and at some point in the relationship, we we stopped performing. We stopped trying we be that, like that whole I mean, it. I'm not saying there isn't something to be responsible for there. And I'm not saying It's cool if we're all just assholes. So I'm sorry, I</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">keep it rolling. Yeah. Okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">but like, so that I mean, so I bring that up for two reasons. One is it it's often when relationships start falling apart when we can't keep up that best version of myself act, right, which is great that we do and should we Yes. Should we be striving to be decent human beings with each other? Absolutely, including with our families? Do we do that all the time? Absolutely not. Right. So so at that point in a relationship, I think it becomes really challenging and it is when we when as you know, as an individual, or as a couple, we need to start deciding, like what's really here, can we have this work? Are we willing to have this work and what does it take to have that work right? And then I bring that up also because it can be very fuel or fearful as we're going into This journey looking at like, there's a like, I I'm not sure if it's, I think it is the same format. I don't work with men as much as I do with women. I do think it's the same for men, but for sure for women after, I would say after up to into your 30s so and so before I think 20s and younger, it's all just fun and games. Yeah, after that we're actually looking at something real and lasting and like and we value ourselves enough to not just want anyone into our lives, right? So we start valuing life and our own experience a little bit more. If we're single and looking for something new if you're if you're already in something it gets a little more hairy, but, um, and I think part of what people are afraid of when when looking to see do I even First of all, do I even want another relationship? Do I want to live with someone again? Do I want to deal with another human beings stuff when I can hardly handle my own? You know, or do I do I want someone else to see my stuff. Because I see how I am sometimes, right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Those are, we often don't</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">realize how much that fear is in the way of a committed relationship</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">for sure. We're gonna take a break right here, then we'll be right back with Michelle back. So you're listening to Rick Morris on the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. Our final segment before it's beer time over here, ready to go. But So Michelle, you said something that I wanted to pick up on You were talking about acting or or that we're not performing, we're not acting. And one of the things that I noticed is when there is, you know, a fight, and things get better, many times I see they're acting and I know it's not going to last because it isn't who they are their forcibly work you like you can see the work that they're putting into it, but it's not part of their their psyche, your personality, how do you start to make some of those long lasting changes personally, especially if there's something that really bothers you? And I'll give you an example. So early 20s I didn't get into fights and that kind of stuff. I have a bit of wicked wit. And I was I would just get really angry and I would just destroy people. Right? It was and that took a long time for me to overcome. It took me a long time for me to learn to count to 10 and even decide whether or not that was a hill I was going to die on right. So So what Some of those tips to that long lasting change whatever that may be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah so while counting to 10 is a really great is a great strategy like for in the moment something like that right stepping outside of the reaction and getting your kind of your head to match the feelings instead of the feelings driving the driving at all. I would I would say for lasting like for long lasting changes what we really need to face is the paradigm we're living in the way we actually view we we all over time develop and sometimes it changes and there's some that are overshadowing but we have these views like views about me versus the world for instance. So it might be like the world is like the world is unsafe is one that many people live in. And so often just as an Adela people who are angry on edge kind of always skeptical, looking for like by who's screwing me over what are you really Like that whole you know squinty eye way of looking at the world or or someone that gets like angry and as a short fuse often their their perception of the world on a very deep core level is that the world is a dangerous place so we need to be on the offense all the time. And and like if I don't fight then then I'm at risk like some sort of version of that and when we can start getting to know and it's so I'm not safe Is it one example I can't win is another one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's mine. My I can't wait no matter what I do. I can't win. You know, and if I'm in that so when so once we can start identifying these different you know, I'm not good enough is it almost everyone has some version of I'm not good enough or I'm not lovable. But when we can see how But begin to bring that to consciousness, then we can start being responsible for it. It doesn't mean that it doesn't show up. But it means that when we can be consciously aware of it, then we're at choice then we can go Okay, do I want so I have that, you know, so for me if I'm in I can't win, like, I've just gotten to know it's so well, there's a certain feeling in my head. It's almost like I can't think straight it's fuzzy in there. Like it's like you know, I get I get edgy agitated you could you give me a suggestion, I'm going to shoot it down before even thinking about I'm going to tell you why it won't work like this These kinds of I'm very aware of when I'm in that space. And so the more you get to know it, the more you can recognize it and then I can go Okay, well, I know I've seen and I have tracked where that brings me and I know that doesn't bring me forward in the things that are important to me. So the other thing you always want to bring to To the to the consciousness is like what is actually important to you in life? It's probably not this exact outcome or winning this exact argument or, like there's something a little deeper that you're committed to, like, maybe it's love and connection as cheesy as that sounds, or maybe it's peace. Maybe it's just peace, you know? So, you know, because sometimes we get really angry because people are adding to our anxiety, for example, right, making us feel anxious, right? That's that whole safe thing and then react with anger, which is funny because if what you really if you're anxious, what you really want probably is peace, but that anger is for sure not giving you peace. So it's so sort of that that analogy I gave you earlier of going from being in the weeds to being the bird hovering over the swamp. When the more we become aware of our own human condition, our own paradigm, our own patterns and what that's really about the more we can look at them and go Okay, I get you, I hear ya. But, like, let's make sure that the next thing that comes out of my mouth is consistent with what I actually want. As opposed to this automatic response that's about to come out of me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">My buddy, I've got a great friend Darrell rivers. He's actually a police de escalation trainer. He said something yesterday, I've never heard anybody put it this way. But he said, You need to interview that emotion to find out whether or not you want to give it a job in your world. I was just like, Okay. Oh, I was like, dude, he was one of those in he and I've been friends for years. I've never heard him say that. I was like, yeah, gold. Yeah. How's that anger working out for you? Yeah, interview the job to see where it takes you whether or not you want to give them a spot on your roster.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's so great. And you know, it's funny. So something similar as in a conversation with someone yesterday and it's a kind of a different spin on a similar message, but it's where and we'll actually so what she this was a post I had done and my post was, I can't remember what it was now, but her Her response was, I'm realizing, oh, it was about boundaries as it were you struggling with boundaries. And she said, boundaries with my with my job actually, because I'm realizing that just because I'm excited about something doesn't mean I should do it. And and so what I was saying to her was oh actually so it sounds like also you're having a trouble with boundaries with your feelings, because you don't want your feelings to be the boss of you. And then she goes, feelings aren't my boss and she was</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">can be your boss. This doesn't mean ignore our feelings. It doesn't mean push them down. It doesn't mean be mad at them. But do they need to be the boss of your life? Or you know, they're the one you know, delegating all the actions probably not right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So when you were talking about that the quote that hit me was a good Carl Jung quote, right? So unless you make the unconscious conscious, it'll rule your life and you will call it fate. Yeah, which I just love that. But speaking of that adjective I feel it as well. Like I can feel the anger coming and I can see, but I feel like I'm about to crawl out of my skin almost like it's just like, I've gotta snap, I got to react or whatever. But there's just there's a lot of decision making this going on a perfect example. In something I was trying to teach my wife but when my wife feels disrespected in any way or form, that's that that's the trigger. And so some lady ran into her with her shopping cart and then looked at her as if my wife was the problem. Yeah, from ran. That bothered her for like a week and she kept asking me, what would you do? And I was like, are you ever going to see her again? She's like, probably not as like, then why are you giving this lady so much power like that, like, you're literally been upset for a week over a random encounter? somebody that doesn't even matter to us. Even if she hates you, who cares, right? You don't even know her name. So with that being said, Do you have a couple of those kind of tips that you not only just the counting to 10 but Use some things to help you recognize those feelings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, so Well, yeah. So to recognize the feelings, I do think getting to know what your body what your thoughts and your body sensations are, is very useful. Like you were saying, like when you're starting to get angry, you know what it starts feeling like in your body. So when we can get to know and there'll be specific body sensations and there'll be specific repetitive thoughts that come into your, into your mind, it's very useful to know what that thought is right? Sometimes it has swear words in its in it, but they're very, it's like the same little cluster of phrasings that our thoughts will say. So that's one that's definitely one thing that can help you out and then you can again, you can then be a choice. You know, the other thing I think to realize is when we're having something like that, like that example about your ex wife, that's not actually about her. About that other woman. It's about it's about something to do with something your your ex wife is grappling about, around her relationship with either herself or with the world as a whole, and that so now this person, it's kind of like dreams. You know, when we have a dream, if you have a dream about making out with your fish, it's not that you actually have a crush</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">way, your side comments have just been gold this whole episode, just so you know. Don't even think about making it with a face. But now</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">when you get what I'm saying, life is really like that to where we think we're so mad about something and it's that person, it's that partner. It's that and yes, there are external factors. You know, that's not a blanket statement to say that it's never about the other person or the other thing but when it's when it's boiling inside of us when it's or like taking a hold of us in a certain way. Really the only thing to do is to look inwards. And you know, much like you did wreck when you eventually decided to leave your relationship you know That was that what that must have come through you looking inwards bright and making a toy? Yeah. I actually</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">started for me by serving others I, I went to an event and watch these people just serve relentlessly. And I said, You know, I want to be like them. I want to figure that out. I just started volunteering and serving at the event. And through that these, these incredible people came into my life that started to speak into me. And it challenged me to say I'm not the person I know I can be, I guess was the right. Not even like I'm not happy with my I'm just not fulfilling the purpose. I know it can be. We're getting close to the to the end here. So there's a couple of questions I want to ask before we wrap up here first, what some of the best advice you've ever received.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So this was actually around a relation like leaving a relationship. Funny enough, that same one and it was the same woman who had Maybe alcohol is not your problem, or maybe you have a problem with his drinking. Another thing that this woman had said to me was Oh, no, now it just, I just got Greg. Oh, no, the pressure was, um, I can't I can't remember right now, so I won't go with that one. You know, I don't know, I honestly think I've done I've just had so many incredible people contribute to my life and I think everything has been, you know, collective to me really taking responsibility for my life, whether I'm single in a relationship, a mom, all of these things, anytime I'm suffering. I mean, within reason, anytime I'm suffering, almost always what's missing is me being accountable for my life and my experience of it. And we always have choices. We have choices. Inside of when we stay within something. We have choices to learn. Leave like just actually embracing the amount of freedom we actually have and and embracing actually I'd say the other really great piece of advice too is</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I know we have to go Don't we? I could talk No no, no, I</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">just talk with my hands as well as make me smile.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Okay, yeah. Um, so I don't I don't know I think just yeah, I think taking taking full responsibility for life and using the the gifts that are around us. I mean, I I always have at least two coaches I love I love hiring experts. I love reading books I'm I'm a huge I'm a self help junkie, so to speak, right? But never ever at the expense anymore of my accountability for my own life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And you just pass my coach test because my number one question if anybody ever tries to coach me, I asked them who their coaches. Oh, yeah. And if they go if I don't have one, then you don't believe in the process or don't recognize the power of the process. And now how do people find you book you and buy your books?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so My book so my book power love datings on Amazon. So anywhere in the world, Amazon, that's where you'll find it. I would say the best place is particularly for women who are interested, it's actually called empowered women that a place for people who give a shit about being empowered. So if that's if that's any of your listeners, they should come find me in my facebook group. But Facebook is honestly the best place to find me in general. And I have a YouTube channel as well. But yeah, Facebook and my facebook group specifically is a great place for people to find me and, and get it and you know, get some real value of empowerment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, Michelle, we had a fantastic time with you. We'd love to have you back. I feel like we just started scratching the surface. I know.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">We had a great time with you. And so next week, we've got Greg splain is going to be joining us the week after that. We've got Doug overmarine, who actually calls himself the modern day Napoleon Hill. So we're thinking Grow Rich been such a powerful influence in my life. I can't really wait to talk to him as well. So we've got some great guests coming up. Stay right here with us. We'll talk to you next Friday here on the work life balance and stay tuned to the voice America Business Network for our next fantastic show. Talk to you next week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And welcome everybody to another Friday edition of the work life balance. We're back live we were off last week for the July 4 holiday but hopefully you enjoyed the replay. And we're back live with you today. We've got a great guest today is a USA Today best selling author and publisher at wannabe press. He's written comic books like Katrina hates the dead Ichabod Jones Monster Hunter, and pixie dust along with more than a dozen novels, including his Gods first Chronicles. He also has a very entertaining newsletter which you can join it will actually give you the link but the link into our show notes but it's Russell nulty dot com slash mail and that space spelled no h e l t y for naughty and you can get a few of his books for free there lives in Los Angeles with his wife and dogs. Let's bring him on to the show. Russell, how you doing, brother? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me, man. It just joining the show and lending some of this productivity talk to us. So I'm a project manager by trade, my job is to help companies become more efficient. So in reading kind of the description that we wanted to talk about, in one of the big things you were talking about is productivity and work life balance. Let's start with saying you've got three businesses. You said you've written 19 novels, hosted a podcast with over 175 episodes and you do that all within an eight hour day. What are what are some of the businesses that you that you run?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Right, so I run a publishing company you talked about one of the press. I own a Verizon dealership that does b2b work, and I am a as well as a training academy called the complete creative marketing agency that is part of the complete creative and then I am myself an author, I write four books a year, at least usually it's more like six or eight books a year, one year was 18 bucks a year as the well as I was going from show to show for many years. So I would spend about 20 or 20 weeks on the road. And I still able to do most of my work within that eight hour day, and really most of the work that I needed to get done within five hours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I've written two nonfiction novels, the how to build your creative career, and then how to become a successful author, as well as little over 400 blog posts on my website, that complete creative, but most of what I do is fiction work and most of that within fantasy and most of that within mythological fantasy and fairy tales.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So when we start to talk about, you know, productivity, I think time is the great equalizer. The one thing everybody has the same The same 24 hours in a day. It's how we utilize and how we prioritize those hours, you know, each day that really can drive somebody from being successful or unsuccessful. So what is one of the biggest things that people get wrong about productivity,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that doing more things means that you are going to be moving closer and closer to your goal. So the absolute biggest mistake that people make is saying that they're busy, which means they're productive 99.9% of the time, that is inaccurate, you can do more with I can do more with one hour a day than most people can with 12</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. I mean, the problem is that when you're doing all sorts of stuff, maybe I should step back for a second and tell you a story about my own success as a creator. So I started working full time as a creator in 2015 after I left my job in June, And I did not expect to leave my job in June. So I was working really, really, really hard. I was doing conventions. I was doing appearances. I was like basically, burning the candle at both ends working 18 hours a day, and I was getting nowhere fast. And so November came, and suddenly all of the companies that I worked for shut down conventions don't really happen in December. Kickstarter doesn't happen in December, which are my two biggest drivers. businesses tend to not switch to Verizon in December. They they're like kind of like off for six weeks. I also work in movies and TV, they're off of that time. So kind of everything came to a screeching halt at once. And I thought it was horrible. I thought it was like the worst thing that could possibly happen. But not having the ability to do work made me realize How unproductive I was. And I started looking back at the last five months of my life and being like, wow, I was doing a lot of stuff that did not actually move me forward, I was promoting a lot of books that weren't actually making a good return for me, I was going to a lot of conventions that weren't doing or giving me a good return. I was just, I was doing so many things that felt productive, but were actually quite unproductive,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so being able to cut all those things out, just like and free focus on the few things that really worked and double down on that made me so much more productive to follow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So there's a parallel with what's going on right now in terms of COVID and the shutdowns and, you know, I think it's a great time for a lot of people to start to recognize the distractions that they do allow in their life. I mean, you've especially if you've got, you know, children and parents and there's ballgames and There's all these after school activities that you're shuttling back and forth to. And all of these distractions kind of went away. Right? And people are now kind of forced to be, you can only look at Facebook for so long before you you start to go, Wait a minute, I've got to get up and get something done. So what how do you take that personal inventory and start to decide what is the more productive? Do you have a formula that you use for that or</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I wouldn't say a formula, but I definitely have a process that I use. So productivity is sort of Do you know the one thing by Gary Keller and Ts, okay, so I live by the one thing kind of not the whole book, but just the concept of like, there's one guiding light at the top of this, of this pyramid of where I'm trying to get to, and it is the 20 foot Domino. So he uses the word the big Domino in the book and a lot of the training so if you don't know the big if you go on YouTube and you look up, like 10 foot Domino falling over, you will see this video of A 10 foot Domino followed by a five foot Domino followed by a two foot Domino. And all the way back to this. It's like a tiny, tiny one inch Domino, and they tip it over, and the one inch Domino tips over the two inch and four inch and eight inch. And eventually this one inch Domino pushes over this 10 foot massive Domino. And in the same way, that's how I think of being productive. So, so there's a guiding light at the top, which is that one big Domino, and then underneath it, there is all of these little things that you have to do to push that boulder over and to push the one inch, one inch Domino, and then the two inch Domino and the three inch Domino and each of these stages sort of form a pyramid underneath each other. So there's tons of these little things that have to tip over for you to be able to move to the to two inch stage and then the four inch stage and the eight inch stage and each stage gets progressively harder and harder and harder and harder. And maybe you don't even know everything that needs to happen for each stage. But you have to This sort of way to say this is the big Guiding Light. And these are all of the pieces underneath it. And so step one is really taking inventory of what you want that one Domino to be. Now, it doesn't have to be success in your career, it could be losing weight, could be running a marathon, running a marathon is a really good one, like giving it as an example, because we all can imagine all of the things that have to do with each stage, right? If you have a marathon, you've got to probably run a half marathon. And then you've got to run like a five K. And then you've got to run maybe a 10 k in there. And then you've got to like be able to run a mile, you've got to be able to run around your block. But before any of that can happen. You have to buy shoes, you have to buy like good shoes, you have to train your knees and you have to like probably do some strength training help you have to just get back to the gym and like you have to like run just step on a treadmill one time and you've got to maybe walk for some time before then and you've got to get time to run. Or maybe you have to change your whole daily schedule to like, be able to get up at 5am instead of 8am. There are all these things that go into running a marathon. And the nice thing about planning out all of these little steps is you can celebrate each step along the way. Every single time you hit one of these goals, it's not just this one thing, it's all these other littler dominoes as well. So step one is kind of figuring out what this one thing is. Step two is spending the next week taking inventory of every single thing that you do. And then when you have that, you want to do two things. You want to rank it on a one to five scale of what I've how of how important it is right now to your life. So for instance, if you're if you have a baby, breastfeeding is pretty important right now or like making sure that kid that kid like has food is real immortal. right now. But then you also want to say how important it is to your goal at the end of the day. And you're going to find some things that like, Look, feeding your kid may not be as important to running a marathon. But it's really important to just being alive. So there's going to be things that are fives and things that are ones like that, then then it's going to be things that are fives and fives. But there's going to be a lot of things that are unimportant to your life now, and unimportant to your goal. And knowing all of those things are how you start to become more productive because those things that are like, this is really not important. And this is not important to my goal are going to be the first things that you have to jettison.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I love the big Domino illustration. But when you when you lost your job in June and you said you weren't expecting that. Did you know what the big Domino was then?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">For me that big Domino became making this clear. Company work so I never have to have another job again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You You knew that at that point when when. So you already had want to be started. Right and you lost your job in June.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I was about 18 months before I thought it would actually get to the place where I could do it successfully. Interestingly, it took me about 18 months later, almost to the day,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I had had my breakthrough time, but I did have that big Domino before I left, but I was not ready to leave when I left. Sure sure the timing gap you're always like, if I have X amount in the bank, I'm ready to go and those types of things. But fortunately, the same same thing for me is I was running a company was president of a company they actually just unexpectedly went bankrupt the the numbers that I had the numbers he had, were not the same. So you spending money out of the backside and literally left on a Friday opened up my own consulting shop on a Monday. Sometimes I feel like you need that push in order to really kind of double down and get focused so help What would you advice would you give to people then who don't know what the big Domino is yet? Or is playing that same timing gap? They're they're dabbling here dabbling, they're saying that they want to leave this job or have their own thing, but not quite getting there yet. Do you have advice for them?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yes. So most of I think most of us are better than most consultants give us credit for them credit for at knowing the pain point, like knowing like what they want to do, and knowing like where they're struggling. And so I think they need to lean into that. My first, my first thing I tell them is they need to take a day off just the need to take a day to really think about what that Domino is like, what they think is possible, and what they really, really, really want. And really envision it and think about actually having it and what it would mean to them to have it and then spend the next week as we talked about getting really specific on to the What things are really driving them forward to that goal now, and what lights them up, which of the things that they really, really are putting fives on are the things that light them up, and then turning them towards that and not telling them to leave their job just like try and do a little bit more of that every single day and see how you feel doing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so one big piece of advice I give in that same scenario is it's not always, when you ask people what they want, the first thing they do is list all the things they don't want to do is make sure that we're focusing on what you want to do not. I don't want to have to worry about bills. I don't want to work at this job anymore. I don't want to answer to it. But okay, those are the things you don't want. What is it that you want in order to be able to focus on that? So we're going to take a break right here, we'll come back we're meeting with Russell nulty and talking about productivity and you're listening to the work life balance requires</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back on this Friday edition of the work life balance we're visiting with Russell nulty and Russell is a Oh do you own it? Do you don't want to be presser do? I do? Yeah. So we were just talking before the break about identifying that one. thing we talked about Domino's. But you said during the Domino's though that we've got to identify all these little things and figure out what we need to tip over. Do you have advice in how do you get started in that activity?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure. So it's, it's quite hard to know all of the little things that you do and all of the little pieces that you do. So I like to break it up into three sections. So I'm going to take work for instance, like we can, you can, there's analogs and home, but like I'm going to what's the easiest to think of this is like in work. So I like to think of admin tasks that you do what work as being worth $5. So when I say $5, I mean, you could outsource it to a place in another country or even in America. And this could be done by very many people entry level work. Or you could get an intern to like do your data entry, all of these things. These are the things that are the biggest ones. weigh the biggest part of weighing down your productivity. Because you're doing these tasks, they tend to take a long time and be kind of mindless, and you don't usually mind doing them. So you just continue to do them. But it's important to note that like, anybody can do these tasks in order to be more productive. And in order to like, even if you just want to move to the next level of your career in your, in your company, you need to get out of doing these tasks as quickly as humanly possible because they are actually not valuable to you, they may be very valuable to the company. You know, doing data spreadsheets and X, Y and Z other things are very important for a company to function, but they are not important for you specifically to do. Does that make sense? Right, absolutely. Okay, so the next part of this is $50 tasks. The $50 task is you as a technician in your company in your zone of genius. So for me that's writing that might be it It might be doing plumbing, it might be a whole, a whole host of other things, but it is you, whatever your job is, it's like you being the technician and really being able to like, show your experience. And then there's $500 counts, then technically 5005 50,500 thousand $5 million an hour tasks, they goes way up. But the three that are really the most important 550 and $500 $500 an hour cast are the strategic things that you're doing to leap forward in your industry. So this might be strategic partnerships that you're making. This might be initiatives that you're launching new projects that you're that you're putting together, things that you're like, like products that you found that you're going to start that you're going to start working on. All sorts of things that are not technician level pieces, they're sort of strategic partnership pieces that are actually going to move you to the next level. Because the thing is generally technician parts of, of the world. They're not marketing, there's no marketing behind them, it's just you doing the work. So this is sort of the marketing and strategic planning, and things that are going to pull you to be known by more people to be a powerhouse in your industry to be a thought leader in the industry to be to be put on conferences to be put in, to be put on on panels, to be able to go on podcasts to be able to, like, increase the reach of what the kind of people that you that, that you go, that that you that you're reaching out to. And it's important to note that you can do this on a on a on a country level. You can do this on a state level. You can do this on a city level. You can do this even in your neighborhood level like these can be done by local shops. This can be done by people that work at any level of this. It's just the strategic partners. This is the part that you really want to get to because this is how you get to The next level of your career because more people are going to know you like you trust you, and then work with you and allows you that technician work more till I would charge more for that technician work, and maybe even get you out of the technician work and you can hire someone out for that other work. But those are how I sort of think about those tasks are, these are the ones that I can outsource easily. These are the ones I'm known for. These are how I've been, these are how I'm positioning myself and my company to move to the next level.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so then once you've got those identified, how do you build a plan of attack to execute him?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Alright, so it's really important that so you have the list now of things that are really important, like the five level tasks that you're doing now and how important they are to your goal. So you have ones and ones. Obviously there's going to be twos and threes and fours as well. But we're just going to take the extremes. There's going to be things that are really Important now, and really important to and and really important to you moving forward. Those are the ones who keep doing easily just keep those are the ones that are the better the things that like go on your list of tasks I'm going to accomplish, then there are ones and ones, those are the ones who literally can pretty much stop doing and nobody would notice. Those are the really heartbreaking ones because you're going to find a lot of stuff in that list, which is stuff you are saddled with that do not matter. And they are things that you either have to go to your boss if you have a boss or you have to just literally cut out it's not even worth outsourcing them because like you're not going to get any return on it. Then they're going to be ones that are one one importance now and five importance later. So and then flipped five importance now and one importance later. So five importance now and one importance later are one You want to outsource? Because they're unimportant for you to do, like they are important now, but you're, but you're not getting a good return on them. And the ones that are ones now and fives later, are the ones you want to start doing more of as well. So anything that's a five, on on the on the on where you rank where it's where you're going in your career are important to keep going. They're important to do, it's really where they fall right now. So one between one and five, and whether you actually hire someone to outsource them, which is there, whether they're a one to five in the future for where you're going. So it makes sense.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It does. But how do I then build a plan of attack? Even if I identified those, I've got the five that 50 to 500 I know what the fives and fives are. Do you have advice around how I structure my day or go after those</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">shores? So So let's say you've cut off everything out. And now you're looking at your week and being like, how do i do i do I plan to do these tasks, these like these these like really important tasks and make sure I have time for them. So all of us have times in our day where we are more productive than others. And I think if you push anybody, they would tell you for mine, it's 922922 is the time that I am absolutely the most productive more than any other time. I can do work at other times. But that five hour block is when I do the absolute best work that I that I can do in the shortest amount of time. Do you have a time like that wreck your day?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Actually, yeah, and Dan pink. I was trying to pull up the title of the book, I watched Dan, do a presentation and event we call live delete. But he actually pulled together it's called win. But there's a study based on how you go to sleep and when you wake up and whether you're a night owl or alive. And when everybody has a peak time than a trough, and then recovery, and so depending on your kind of sleep schedule, your peak time is either should be creative, or your in your, your recovery should be more administrative activities. So he said when when people schedule meetings, they never really take into account where they are in that. So you know, nine to two is productive. So if it's going to be creative meeting or strategy meeting, boom, that's going to be nine to two, this is a meeting about a new timecard system or you know, something, something that you need to be there, but you don't need to be all there, then that's two to five. Right? So a great book about that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. And so you made the perfect I actually don't do any meetings from nine to like today is a is a specific difference. Because it's a it's a promotion day. So a couple of tips is I have multiple different kinds of day. So I have a launch day, I have a writing I have a promotion day. And I have a couple of other kinds of days and like so, at the beginning of a week, I look out and I say, okay, Friday, I have two podcast interviews. So that's going to be a promotion day. Let me see if I can get three or four more podcasts that day to really make that date, like, like worth it to spend as a promotion day. And then I have days that I know I'm launching a product and like, that's a launch day, I'm not going to get any writing done on launch day. So I had to like that that is this specific day, and I have now blocked those off. And then most of the other days are writing days. And how a writing day works is from nine to two I'm writing I have to get 1000 words done every single hour, so I get 5000 words done. If I get more than if I finish that in three hours, I get two hours to just do get a break. If I I can keep going if I want but I'm only required to get 5000 words done in those days, I'm required to get 5000 words done. So if that means has to go from nine to five, then it has to go from nine to five that day green time, which is what this is. The first time and most important time is the productive time. I am relentless at guarding my productive time. I do not take meetings. I do not answer emails, I don't do anything. But really I write during that time. And I know that the most productive time in my day is nine to two and so I know that if I can just sit down for five hours every day from nine to two I will get x done. Then I wake up at six and from six to nine is administrative time. I answer emails sometimes again on calls. I do a lot of the you know when you have to do a podcast and they want you to come in beforehand and like do a little like 15 minute interview beforehand. I could do those during that those timeframes and add between set five and seven. I also do that. You mentioned the law, my law firm comes from doing about two and five. And so I take a nap or I go on a walk or I work out or I do something in that breed, I do something in that time to like re energize me so that from five to seven, I can get the administrative work done. Now, between nine and two green time, green time can invade the administrative time, which is ad which is yellow time. And it can invade read time. So read time is time I'm not doing anything productive when it relates to work. Yellow time can invade, read time, right time can invade nothing. And that's how I schedule my day, every single day, depending on what the major task is. And because I can do that very effectively, I end up being quite productive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Outstanding, so we're going to take a break right there and come back when we come back though I want to get into I find that every entrepreneurs journey has speed bumps. So I'd love to feel You're out what were some of those things that you had to overcome? In order to continue your entrepreneurial path? We're going to do that right after the break. You're listening to Rick A. Morris and the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon meeting with Russell nullities, the owner of want to be press. And so right before we went to break, Russell, we were talking about your time zones essentially of green time, yellow time, red time. How did you discover those times were good for you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, you know, I used to work in sales. My last jobs before I started entrepreneurship were sales and sales management roles. And I found, you know, from working with hundreds of salesmen, that if they hit certain numbers across a long enough period of time, you could predict their sales down to like, a few hundred dollars. If they made 100. For instance, if they made 100 calls a day, for a month, and really like three months at the beginning, you got to like ramp this up because what you do today is of eight weeks from now, which is a really good thing to remember.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">What you do today is predictive of eight weeks from now. This is one of the hardest parts of productivity and the hardest parts of success is. You don't see like, when you're having a bad month. It is not what you're doing now. It's what you did two months ago, when you're having a great month now. It's what you're doing two months ago. And so this all builds up. And the hardest part of sales is that when you're having a great month, when a salesman is having a great month, what did they do? They didn't take take the foot off the gas. Yep. What and then two months later, they have a terrible month. And then what do they do? They accelerate, they call call, call call call. And two months later, they have a great month. And it is, I mean, I've seen this hundreds of times and me and the bosses that I've always had have like, are like don't understand why you can't just have if you just go consistently but less like if you just go 45 every day instead of 60 and then to your Get way further, just by being like the tortoise. Now you can't be as slow as the tortoise, you have to do a minimal amount of work. So we were like, okay, 100 calls a day, which sounds like a lot, but that's over an eight hour day, like 15 calls an hour. Most of those calls are hang ups or, or not really good calls. So you have, like, pretty much 30 minutes of every hour that you're on the phone, and 30 minutes that you can do admin work or, or like place orders or whatever you had to do. And that's usually, if you've got a few over eight hours can be on the phone for three hours of that day, or maybe over four hours, even better. You then would have a killer month in two months, every single time that that ever happened, unless there was like a really big problem with how they were talking. But even then just being on the phone for like a couple of months, consistently. Almost all of them would like have great pitches. They were just Be consistent, they'd be ready to go. And they weren't working that hard. They weren't working nearly as hard as the people who were like struggling and then succeeding and struggling and then succeeding. And they probably they didn't never had like a $50,000 month. But they all were making more money than the people that were not doing like anything for a couple of months and then killing it for one month. And so, and it was like, from you get you get into the morning and you get sort of your coffee ready, and by like, 9am, you're ready to make your first phone call. And just like, you hit it 20 calls an hour for three hours, four hours, and then you take a break for lunch, you come back and you do it again. And every single time that that happened, I wouldn't make a lot of money. And every time that didn't happen, I would make no money. And so I was it was drilled into me that if you do if you if you can do enough and enough work every day, when that's different From every industry but if you can do enough for every day over a long enough period of time your career started sort of looks like a bell curve. And then you can predict that like, you will have x success and the reason is because if you make 100 calls your first three might go well and your last 97 Miko horrible, or your firt last three of my go well in your first 97 Miko horrible, or you might be able to like you may get like one every 20 calls that is going great and every hundred calls is different. But in order to predict how much you were going to make and how many clients you're going to have, you had to make a minimum amount of calls. And every time someone made 60 calls or 50 calls or 10 calls an hour. We were like I can't do anything with you. I cannot do I cannot work with you because I don't know what is happening. I have to have enough data to be able to put into a system to be able to get a random distribution bell curve, so that I I can predict what's going wrong and where you're going wrong. But if you're not doing enough work, I have no basis of data. And so from there, that's when I moved into what I'm doing now. And, and and I can tell I don't do the most amount of work any day, but I do enough work that I can be happy with it, and that I can end the day relaxed with enough spoons to carry over to the next day. This was another thing that I found is those people who were working really hard, they would burn out that month or like two weeks like they would they would be stealing like energy from the next day, they'd be drinking cups of coffee and then they said they would work really hard that close that big deal and then they would sleep for two weeks. And they then then they would be like out of the zone and it would take them two weeks to get back into the zone and then like it would take them two more weeks to get to get like back onto the onto the ramp and so I realized I am a person that has several disorders that are chronic autoimmune disorders. And so I realized that like in order to be able to play with the big boys, I had to find a way to work that would not deplete all of my energy every day. And so by not depleting my energy any single day, and always leaving with something left in the tank, and then working to rebuild that tank. I always the next day, or maybe 90% of the time, the next day had plenty of energy to get through that to the end of that day because I was never pushing myself, but I was always getting way more done than a person who was on that cycle of like, boom, bust.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Okay. But you're you're so I hear that and i think that's that's fantastic. But when we start talking about I get into this conversation often when I'm dealing with productivity in organizations, a metric like hundred calls a day. So if you only get 60 or 70, and it's not always necessarily the the it's not necessarily a predictor of a poor month, right? Because it's also quality. But what we ended up doing there, what I end up seeing is people so focused on making 100 calls a day that they're not focusing on the call itself. Does that make sense? Absolutely. So how do you how do you get metrics like that, where you can say, this is a good barometer of success, but isn't the only barometer How do you coach people in that in that scenario?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So you're saying people that like had a lot of calls, but they're not having success still</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">now? Or it's it's the fact that the only thing they're worried about is making 100 calls? Right? It's about all about hitting the metric not necessarily accomplishing the job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So there's a great, there's a great parable. Have you heard the parable, the balls like that, there's a there's a there's a Teacher and he assigns half of his class to make as many balls as possible. That's how they get an A, the more balls they make, the better their grades gonna be. And then he, he tells the other half of the class that all they have to do is make one perfect ball. And they spend all of their month making one bowl. And what he found at the end of the month was the people that were tasked with making many bowls, a ton of balls, they ended up with way better balls. And they're that then the person that only made one bowl. And so for me, how we would train it was we couldn't, we needed you to get to the hundred calls. Like, it didn't matter to me if you had good calls at the beginning. What mattered to me is that you had the reps, and once you have the reps, you can move to the next level. And you can make better work, but it's really hard to it's very easy to train someone who does the work to be a better salesperson because now you're listening to their calls and you're like, are you need to do this or like you need to do that you literally can just sit on the phone with them and be like, you're doing the work. Now, let's make you better. It's very hard to get someone who's an amazing salesperson, but doesn't make enough calls to be successful. And so for us, it was about and for me, it's really about like, hey, if you suck at like writing a book, or like you suck at like doing the job, like, let's get you to a place that you can do the reps. And once you can do the reps, you're going to naturally get better on the phone, and then I can help you get better faster. But what I can't do is train you. I don't want to train you to be a great salesperson with like all of these sales sheets, because we would have read all the scripts like you know, you work in sales with people like we all have, like the scripts, but the thing that makes a great salesman is being on the phone and being able to move the conversation before the conversation needs to be moved. That you can be like I've heard this before, and I know how to preach Pre handle this objection. And so yeah, for us, it was a lot more about getting people on the phone. And then once we were on the phone, we could listen to them. And then be like, you see, like that is the call like, like this is when you say that, and then they go, Whoa. And eventually, eventually they tended to break through.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, and so we do things. Similar when we're training salespeople, if the fear is getting a know that I want them to get 100 nose, right, that's, that's one of my standard tactics, because in the hundred nose, they're going to learn the objection. So the rep is about understanding and overcoming what's not on the script versus actually doing this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Now, there is something that they do like, there are cheaters and cheaters are like that, they will they will get a list of like 500 fake numbers or like numbers that they know are like don't work. And they'll just be like, Oh, my numbers are down for the day. I'm just going to call all of these numbers so it shows up on my sheet that I called them, but like it's not helpful and for those People, it's very easy because you can see it's like a seven second call seven second call seven second call for like four hours. And they only have like an hour and a half on the phone even though they made 100 calls. So yes, you do have those people who game the system. And those people usually wash themselves out. Because if they didn't wash themselves out, they learned very quickly that like, because I would just give them a new sheet every day and be like now all I want you to do is call these numbers and they'd be like, oh, but I haven't listened. I'm like, here's a new list. You call these numbers and suddenly like it would break them out of their spell. But there are some cheaters and you do have to just kind of flush them out at some point. Some people just don't want to do the work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I totally agree with that. But it comes back to quality of work to right activity versus achievement. So we're going to take our final break right here. We'll be right back with Russell Knowlton. And when we come back, we'll get to your overcoming story. And then I always ask the question of what's some of the best advice you've ever received. So we'll do that on the backside of this break it listen to the work more on the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. Just quick shout out to to everyone that continues to text questions. And check in with us on social media as we're doing the show, I'm always watching. I appreciate it. We always try to get all those questions in. So coming back, Russell, one of the big things, one of my favorite quotes to john Maxwell says is, it took him 25 years to become an overnight success, if you, you know, he's written hundreds of leadership books, he's sold millions of millions of copies. But if you see like it, you know, it was I think it was five years between book one and book two. And it really was around book 15 or 16, that he actually started his that's when he came up with developing the leader within you, and that's when things took off. So every entrepreneur that's really successful had to overcome a tremendous amount of failure. What's one of those failures or bumps that you really felt you had to overcome in order to be successful at want to be?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so I, I failed three companies before I was 20. Before I was 30. I mean, I say fail because they didn't quite go bankrupt because like they didn't make any money. So Like it's not like money to lose like lose that like they were negative money but like it's not like I went in I went when BK or like I did anything official they just like absolutely failed like look, you fail one company that could be a fluke fail two companies maybe that's like your partner's fail three companies and like it's a huge problem like it's a huge problem I mean like one failure is a huge problem but like when you fail three it's a really a you problem so I really had to look at myself and be like, okay, like what is the common theme besides just me and ended up being that like, I thought like every other creative I've ever met that like if I made work, it was just going to be so good that people would come. I have no sales experience. I had no marketing experience. I mean, you talk to me now where I can like rattle off all of these sales things and like do Facebook ads and all this stuff and I was when I was 29 I thought my I thought I rode on on air. And that's happened a couple of other times in my career, but I, you know, I, I really, I believe that in your 20s, you should be able to stick around and do whatever you want, as long as you're not hurting yourself hurting someone else, and you can make some money. Like, you're not like going into like, massive debt to do it, even though I did that also. But once you hit 30, you kind of gotta like, get your act together, and like, you know, start doing something that, you know, makes makes your money. And unfortunate when I was 30, though, if that made real money that I could do that someone hired me for his sales, because like they will, everyone's always looking for a salesman and like experiences kind of irrelevant, especially at entry level sales positions. So I, I sort of ate Crow and I did not really want to do sales, but I knew that the only way that I could get to the place that I wanted to do was to figure out how to sell the work that I had put out and how to make better products and how to like sell those products. So I worked at Aflac. If you know anything about Aflac they'll hire anyone. I worked at a card guy selling ads to car dealerships. Finally I worked at a sprint reseller. And like in all that time I like was getting marginally better. But it wasn't until I worked at that sprint reseller that like something finally clicked, like, I finally clicked after months upon months upon months, and one of the reasons we talked about like, not being so held up on sales at the beginning was like, I stunk the first few months, like I, like was barely making a sale. Like I would like be doing everything I could and like I was just like, I was hustling and hustling and hustling and hustling. But it just was not coming together. And I was so freaked out by like these sales numbers that I would often do the thing that you said and just like call a bunch of people to be like I at least I got my, my number my quarter because like I gotta, I gotta like hit these sales numbers. And, you know, eventually after like, like, I was on like probation for three months, and then I think But just barely skated past there. And then like, I just barely made it through my quota the next couple of months. And then like six months into it, something finally clicked and suddenly all like made sense. You know? I don't know, if you like football, but like football, and, you know, they talked about game speed, right? And like, a college, a college quarterback coming in and like, and like getting sacked a bunch of because they've never seen anything as fast as the NFL before. And then like, if you if you if you if you make it to the next level, like they say the game slows down, right? And like, suddenly I was six months in and like the game slowed down and I suddenly could hear what they were going to say before they even said it and I suddenly could redirect the conversations. I could suddenly just all of the things that my bosses were telling me just, like, started to work in ways that they didn't work before they just like It Wasn't I was saying I felt like the same words but they were suddenly like landing because of the order that I was saying them in. And it was suddenly the dominoes were in the right order. And so, yeah, I would say that if it was like one of the big that was the biggest hump I've ever come over was to sort of be able to eat Crow and say, I love creativity. And if I want to run a creative business, I have to know how to say these sales and marketing, because they say, like, what are the two things you have to know to be successful? You got to know the thing that you know, and you got to know marketing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, in fact, I've got several books on the market. And I remember that when I put my first proposal together, it's you know, you just think, Wow, once I write this, it's gonna fly off the shelves. It's amazing. But it doesn't work that way. And as a matter of fact, the proposals more about what are you going to do to hustle and market and sell the book than more? So what the books about right I mean, they really want to know that you're going to be somebody who's invested is going to push is going to get the word out and not expect them to do all the work. It's a it's a partnership. So what's up But the best advice you've ever received that</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I was listening to James Wedmore podcast, I think it was James Wedmore. I keep attributing it to him. So I sure hope it was him. And he was at the end of the year. As you know, as I mentioned, I kicked all of December off. So I listen to a lot of podcasts, take a lot of courses, like, I just kind of like, do whatever, I wake up whenever I want and do whatever thing I want that day. And it's like wonderful. And I'm very blessed to have that ability to do that. Although probably I'm not going to do it this year, because like, I just had three months off. And he said, Where do you want to be in 10 years? And he's like, think about it really hard for like, the next two minutes or something. And then he said, what would it take to get there in one year, and that changed my life, because that's how I've lived every year since then. There is, how do I do 10 years of work in one year? How do I do? How do I get to the next level in X amount of time? And like what is the minimum amount of between that and the minimum amount of information that I need to make a good decision? That could be like 100 podcast episodes, it could be being a guest on 100 shows could be, you know, being doing 100 shows of like, just like at conventions, whatever it is, like, what is the minimum amount of stuff that I need in order to make a good decision? And then how can I get there in a month instead of a year? How can I get there in a year instead of 10 years, and I've used that to leap past so many humans who started at the same level as I did. And then the the other piece of advice that I got very early on was that when you're starting, it looks like everybody is going to be competition to you. It looks like there's no way they're just off flood everybody out there. But as you finish a book, or you move down the path, you move down the path further and further and further, you start looking back and you notice that nobody's there, like what happened to all the people. You know, one in every two people wants to write a book, but one and only 100 people writes a book, and then one and only 1000 people writes like two books, and then 1 billion people writes like, 10 books and, and so you start looking back, and separating yourself from the pack, and all of those, and then those people who were in competition with you at the beginning, suddenly they become your peers, because you realize that it's not about competition, it's about it's about cooperation. And then all of those people who are crazy enough to do the thing that you did and get to the place you are like your companions, they're like people who resonate on the same level of crazy as you and so but yeah, looking. I cannot tell you how many People that I was in high school with, that, like wanted to be some creative human that wanted to do something creative, and to look back at, like, kind of maybe two or three people actually got there. And the same thing out of college No, so many people wanted to like become writers become directors or become somebody and I don't know, like, I'm not saying I know my entire college class, but like, it's a very few amount of people who've gotten to the level that I am. And so knowing that you're where you are, is, is is is at the beginning is daunting. But the more you could do to separate yourself, the less competition you'll have and the more of a place you'll have in the world that you want to inhabit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well Russell we appreciate you being on the show. And you can find Russell at Russell Knowlton calm and then that is no h lty.com. They can find also want to be press</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">is want to be pressed and for complete creative.com as well, I will just say it is two s's in two L's that second l trips. A lot of people</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">for Russell. Absolutely. But we appreciate you being on and we'd love to have you back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Outstanding. So next week gang we're gonna have Shawn wolf on Sean is the founder of biz talks, which is a live conference that hosts several speakers who speak in front of hundreds of young business professionals. We're excited to have Sean on the show. As always, you can find me on Twitter at Rick A., Morris, Facebook, LinkedIn, anything else that you'd like to find us on. And we always enjoy and appreciate the fact that you guys are out there. keep giving us the feedback. We love you for it. And we will be here live next Friday right here on the work life balance. You've been listening to Rick Morris.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here. It's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on Our next show</span></span></div>
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Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-74508450950558019432020-06-27T08:36:00.001-05:002020-06-27T08:36:04.143-05:00Entertainment Events in the Future - Ed Vincent<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and welcome to another edition of the work life balance. So excited to have everybody along. We've got a very topical show today. I'm really excited about it. First want to give a shout out. You know, we did some really cool things. A couple of weeks ago, I'm getting a ton of social media love from you guys on that. We just wanted to have an honest conversation got some of my friends together and started one. But I appreciate all the feedback I've been getting on that show and love you guys for that. But let's jump into our guest. today. Our guest is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of business technology and managing Been experience. And I'm excited for the show because it's a blend of kind of my two paths my two careers which is technology and project management, mixed with that entertainment background that we've had. So this gentleman has started and exited several companies in that time. some highlights include the launch of film festivals in multiple locations and creating the concept for a maximum branded Hotel in the Caribbean. And most recently, he's led a platform and consultancy in the entertainment space with clients like ad networks, AMC network, screen vision, movie tickets calm, and he started something new called a festival pass. But before he started that he was brought into movie pass as an interim head of debt data. Let's bring him on Ed Vinson, how you doing it? Good. Rick, how are you? doing? Fantastic. It's it's awesome just to I feel like we've got similar backgrounds and the fact that if you're head of data, your database guy, you love analytics, you love metrics, all of those things, but blending that in the entertainment space has largely been difficult, hasn't it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It has it has so so I've been For a while now and you know, depending upon what aspect you look at the director, the director, consumer data. Link has been difficult for many years and started back in the TV days when analog TV displays the ability to have direct consumer interaction. So the cable companies knew exactly who was there, but the TV companies did not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Wow. And so and that's where Nielsen comes from, and all those different rankings and really, that's, that's more algorithm driven than really knowing what people are watching. Is that fair?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, the beauty of digital is you actually have a one to one relationship. All the Nielsen panels and all the other things you refer to was just a group of sample size of 10,000 people and they represented the entire country.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's incredible. Yeah, so with digital Netflix and Hulu, all of those things coming aboard you really know what people are tuning into what what they really like and you can definitely see a turn towards programming but You started, you started this thing called festival pass. And wow, what a great time to be having a live music venue. Nobody saw, you know, COVID coming the way it has. But let's talk about, first of all your idea how you came up with it. And then we can talk about the impacts of what's occurring to the business. I know a lot of people out there ready to, to start hearing some of their favorite bands and get back out there on the on the concert track. But let's first start with how you had the idea for festival pass.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure, sure. So context is king and been an entrepreneur for over 20 years. I've touched many different paths and businesses throughout my life that kind of culminated into why this happened. So you know, starting back in the early days of understanding ecommerce as an e commerce company I built and sold and then for about eight years, I had an agency that was an experiential agency and during that time, you referenced a few things, but we were activating a lot of big brands big major events. really drove my love for the community and the feeling people get when they're actually attending events. And it can be a music festival. We did a lot in the film festival world, the whole food and wine world. You know, you see people go into Comic Cons and all these other events that just bring communities together. And I really enjoyed that. Fast forward. You know, many years, I spent a lot more time in digital in the SAS space in the data space. And then when I when I was working at movie pass as a as their chief data officer, kind of the light bulb went off in how can you build a business model that is a data driven business model in a way that engages people to do more of what they want to do, and still find a way to do that profitably. And when I when I finally started looking at the live events business, it's a $200 billion dollar a year business globally 20 times the size of you know, the US film box office. So it's a massive industry and fundamentals just made a lot of sense. It's a very disparate industry with thousands upon thousands of players. And as an entrepreneur, when you look at businesses like that, that's that's an ideal situation for a marketplace to emerge. That's what happened with Uber in the ride sharing space. It's what happened with Airbnb, in the, you know, renting out your, your room space. Those marketplaces really bring disparate supply chains together with a consumer doing something in a more efficient, frictionless way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so it's it's interesting, because quite frankly, the music business itself has changed dramatically in the last 20 years with the with the advent of technology to the point where there's really no money in the music anymore. All of the money really comes from touring. And so now that, you know, we're limiting tours, it's really inhibiting the ability for a lot of these artists to generate the revenue that there used to. So let's talk about what's the structure of festival pass, walk me through How do I, as a user, or consumer interact with that? What do I get out of the platform?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure, sure. So it's a subscription platform, you know, in other words to say is a membership. So as a consumer, what happens is you sign up to be a member of festival pass, and you can pay as little as $9 a month or as much as $99 a month. And when you commit to, you know, we call it living in an experiential life, meaning you commit to the fact that you are going to go to events. And we have thousands of different types of events on the platform. So it's not just going to a music concert. When you can make that commitment you get, you get credits. So if you're committing to $9 a month, you get a certain amount of credits. If you commit to $99 a month, you get a lot more credits, and the credit, the per credit price is much cheaper, the more you commit to. So then what happens is you can redeem those credits for many, many of the thousands of events that exists that I always liken it to, you know, for the the older folks that have Might be listening to when I say older, I mean, kind of kids of the 80s and 90s is arcades, you when you go to an arcade and you put $10 in the token machine, you get a bunch of tokens, and the pinball machine might cost one token, but the really cool driving game might cost for using credits, or tokens is a great way to keep a budgeted monthly subscription price, but still enable people to choose how to spend that in whatever way they want to spend it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so do they have the opportunity to choose their own seats or things of that sort? Or is it is it more</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It depends, right so in a concert venue where there are seating they will be able to choose their seats just like you would on any other ticketing platform. In the from the festival world and we are all events, not just festivals, but just from a go to market brand perspective is most festivals our general mission as they are anyway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so then from a revenue perspective or back end perspective, you look at how many people are going to generate these credits and then go get the tickets yourself. You've got an inside. How does that? How does that how do you ensure that you have enough tickets to satisfy the demand?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Good question. So so that's exactly how a marketplace works, right? So there are two sides to the marketplace. So we need to build the supply, which are the tickets, and then we need to build the demand, which are the consumers. And without getting too technical or too deep into what how marketplaces work, there's things that are route density versus global density. So for example, can a marketplace exist just in a local environment? So if you're only in New York City, and you have enough people that want to go to events, you obviously need enough events in New York City to satisfy those consumers? So the answer is, is we're partnering with hundreds of these providers of whether it's the venue themselves, whether it's the rights holder that owns the right to hold that event, or in some cases we're aggregating ticket inventory from other suppliers</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">because that could be MX, that is even changed. I remember, in the really early 90s Generally, the first two or three rows were always reserved for friends and family. I mean, they that those were just free seats that you kind of gave and you know, people always hit you up. But there would be certain people that would come through town and I'd have to take my phone off the hook because everybody wants to tickets, right? But but they even got smarter than that with this whole friends and family plan that they do, where essentially they set aside there's still good seats, but it's generally like the first two rows of the first deck to stage left or something of that sort. And they're, they're fixed price there, but they're still you know, 30 bucks, 40 bucks way below what most people pay. But you have to like send your your buddy, the friend that you know has to send your name and you have to commit to four tickets and send cash and then you get your tickets. But I thought that was brilliant in the sense of how much revenue they were losing in those front rows, right to artists pass and management pass. So there's there's tons of things I think that people don't think through when you're putting on you know, a festival or events or even trying to build a ticketing agency. So I think, yeah, I really want to start to dive into that stuff. But I think we're going to take a break at this moment come back, I want to talk about what the impact has been on your business and how you see us coming through COVID. And where you were like, what are some of the indicators you're catching, whether it be data or just the market itself, and get into that portion? And then I just want to hear a lot more about festival pass. So we're going to take a break right here. You're listening to Rick Morris, I'm interviewing Ed vincit. We'll be right back on the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back on the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. we're interviewing Ed Vinson, Ed is founded, festival pass, and we'll be talking through that piece. So Ed, let's, let's get the big elephant, as you said, the big elephant in the room as you were saying it when we were just talking COVID right, life is changing dramatically at this point with COVID. And life is going to be different at some point with social distancing. But you know, filling these arenas the way we used to right pet packing people in in the standing room or even festivals you look at Bonnaroo or some of these others. How has that impacted the business and what do you See us? Or how do you see is starting to come out of that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure, sure. So so you're right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Obviously, nobody anticipated COVID to be as impactful as it has been, and as, you know, challenging for everybody, for every industry, but especially in the live events industry, you know, really just came to a halt. So, the interesting thing is that it is changing a lot of what live events are. And when I say changing it, it's there'll be a short term kind of world of how we come back and how we slowly come back. And there'll be, you know, the, the path to what happens in a year from now. And can you go to a 70,000 person show in a big arena. So what, uh, what I am seeing is that people are being very innovative. And one of the things that, you know, just to kind of reiterate from some of the things we said earlier is, I believe that live events will come back and they'll come back very Strong. And they'll probably even come back more strongly than they were prior to COVID. Because there's this, there's this connection that everybody has been missing over over the time of COVID. And the realization that community is super important.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, no, I mean, I think it's a good point. I like music to me is it's an nlb Oh, I mean, I love the life experience. I, I have several artists, friends that I feel like, you know, I listen to their music on Spotify, it's great. But when I hear them live, it's just spectacular. You know, it's just such a seeing people like at Red Rocks, or, you know, some of these venues that are just incredible. But I agree with the pent up demand as well. But then I fear like everybody's going to there's going to be a lot more fear. And so what are some of those innovative ways that you've seen where people are starting to try to come back at the moment to do that stop gap before we get back to 2021?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so I think it's two things right? Outdoor is is the first right so anything that is not inside an arena, I think has given consumers some level of confidence that as long as they're socially distance in an outdoor environment, that's going to be the first days we're seeing that now with some of the big groups putting on Drive in concerts. You know, Who would have ever thought the drive in movie would be the most popular you know, thing going on after it's been phased out over decades. We had one just go out of business just prior to COVID.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And you I talked about just missing the boat, right cuz everybody's dying to go to the theaters. But so how does the drive it? I've heard the driving concert. We talked about Garth Brooks. And I've heard several others announcing these tours. How does that work? Do you have any insight in that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. So on the on the big tours, the ones that are really driven by the live nations of the world. What they're doing is they're taking some of the arenas that they typically would use the inside of the arena for people Answer. And what they're doing is they're repurposing the parking lot. So they're putting a large stage outside, they're putting large screens up. And they're using the parking lot in itself to manage rows of cars. And then even in some circumstances, they're creating pretty interesting experiences. I think, if I remember correctly, I think hard rocks down in Miami. The Hard Rock Rena is doing this, where not only can some VIPs drive in their car, but then they set up a couch at a table outside of your car in the spot that you're in socially distance from everybody else. So you actually have a comfortable setting to actually be able to watch the show.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's interesting. I'd have to see one to come through. But I think also with the advent of technology, like there was some really cool things starting to happen in terms of fan interaction. A couple of things that came to mind. There was a avatar show that went around that actually utilized everybody's cell phones to do lighting and special effects. So when you got into the show, you logged on to the app, you put your seat number, and then it would tell you to hold your phone up. And they were doing all background mining very, very cool. So a lot with the wristbands to and the colors, you know, being able to control that within the arena. What What is some of that other emerging technology that you're seeing that that just really is driving that customer experience or listener experience?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so there's there's two levels. One is the the pivot lot of people made to live streaming, which, in my opinion, is a great, complimentary aspect to the to live entertainment. So you know, obviously during COVID, a lot of big artists didn't have the capacity tour to be engaged with their fans. So in order to keep that engagement, you know, they were streaming live from their living room, sometimes on Instagram, live Facebook, live Twitch. But the hard part with those scenarios is there's not really a long term business model. It's difficult to make money doing that. And I'm already saying Some fatigue in that, you know, if people are on their computers after their eighth zoom meeting of the day, the last thing they want to do is log on at night and watch a live stream concert. Not to say there's not a place for that because I think once we normalize, you know, in the next six to 12 months, it will be a great complimentary aspect. I think people will want to see a live stream of a show at Red Rocks when they just can't make it Why not spend 510 $20 to see something that might cost 100 Live,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">right? Indeed, I have a condition now I call zoom ears, right because I wear these big headphones so you can hear everything properly. By the end of the day. They're just they like stick to my ears. But with that being said, the the streaming put like I've seen platforms like stage it come out which you know, we utilize so we were recording a album a group called the party that I own was recording an album. We used to sell access to backstage of that. So essentially do a 30 Live Show whoever tip the most got to spend another 30 minutes with the artists while we're in the recording studio playing music that's never been heard before. So I think the access to these artists have grown so much. So I'm interested to see how they start to try to blend those two experiences, especially if there's only so many driving concerts you can do like, I can imagine some complaints coming around from outside businesses and things like that when they when they set these things up. Because a lot of times you got hotels and all this other stuff surrounding that may not like having that live concert outside. There may not be a group that they want to listen to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure, no, agreed and I just think it's an evolution right. So it's a something that is happening and I'm glad it is because it means the industry is putting people back to work. It's it's fans are being able to reengage and what I have also heard with a lot of our relationships is a lot of artists call them kind of mid tier artists that might traditionally play on a 30 40,000 person arena. Less times during the year, they're just going to have to tour more. They're going to have to do multiple 5000 person, arenas, some maybe outdoor amphitheaters, but they're already being prepared that their, their business model is changing. And they might the artists themselves might have to just do more shows less people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So it'll be interesting the what we see evolve out of that the some of the things that we take is standard. So I was actually talking to a dear friend of mine today, and they were saying that somebody, somebody was sending a bunch of documents on CD and she was like, CD, she's like, like, my computer doesn't even have a CD player anymore, right? But that just, what, 10 years ago, 15 years ago for us that was like this evolution of music, and it's just amazing to watch how we continue to do that. So I'm interested to see then what you're seeing or what you think's gonna happen on the festival side, like, I mean, part of the festivals is that fan experience of being smushed together, camping out at the same place, having four or five days of just, you know, hanging out with each other. Do you see that changing?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so there's a couple of things. One, the smaller ones will come back first. You know, I already know for a fact there's numerous festivals still planned to go off in September, October, mostly in states, you know what we'll see if the new information or the day in terms of some resurgence of Corona in the southern states, but I know there's been a few scheduled to go in Texas and Ken, Kansas City and a bunch of others. But most of those are 10 to 20,000 person outdoor shows. And I think the idea really is just to create more social distancing opportunities, but those will be the first ones that come back, and then call me an eternal optimist or an entrepreneur. Usually, it's one in the same one in the same it's, it's part of disease in itself. But um, but I just have faith in the fact that as we turn the corner, the 2021, we will have some form of additional therapeutic sessions. treatment will be on the verge of of a of a,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">will be on the verge of the vaccine. And most of it ends up being some consumer confidence, right? So when people feel more comfortable about going out, knowing that there's a vaccine around the corner, knowing that there are some therapeutics, I believe that confidence will lead to more and more things coming back online.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, and so a large part of my revenue stream being an entrepreneur, but being a professional speaker. And so, you know, I saw a dramatic decrease in revenue, obviously, is is several, but I was booked out, you know, really for the rest of the year, and all those went away. And so the in some of those are, you know, 2000 3000 person events, and some of those are, you know, 50 people events, and but I'm waiting to see that confidence returned, what's been the attrition rate then on your platform because of that, as you see a lot of people kind of being more cautious with joining festival paths, or is there enough opportunity there that really satisfies</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it's a good question. So So obviously, when there are no events happening there is we're not signing up as many people from a paid subscription perspective. However, what we have and something that we, you know, want people to understand is that our credits when you sign up and you get credits, you bank those, so they don't they don't go away for a month a month. So if you have a plan that gets you 18 credits a month, if you don't go in one month, the next month, you have double the amount. So I was I likened it to say that because signing up gets you the ability to use your credits to attend future events at a lower cost than if you were to buy the ticket. It's a good investment Sanja professors will pass actually will earn you more than put that money in the bank.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">As an engineer, so do I have to be a paid member though to use credits so let's say I have 200 credits banked but I want to cancel this subscription, those 200 then go away. That's the point that they that they leave.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, but what we do is we have ability to people can go on hiatus for a little while, and we allow them to move down to a lower tier. So for example, currently, the way it works now is for $9 a month, you get six credits, and for $99 a month, you get 100 credits. As long as somebody continues to be a paying member, so you only have to be a $9 a month member, you'll maintain all your credits, we likely will, in the near future, even have a lower tier, which is kind of a maintenance tier, which you'll get zero credits a month, but you'll pay a couple dollars a month just to maintain</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">to extend the credits. Yeah. Especially especially when things are going on. So how many events so we got about two minutes to break, but how many events right now are on the platform just interested?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so so a lot of those events aren't happening, but we have listings of thousands upon thousands of events. So eight to 10,000 events are listed on our platform. A couple thousand of those are partners of ours through some sources, whether the director ticket aggregators or other but because a lot of Didn't happen. They'll happen again next year or they'll happen again, once they postpone and go live. So any consumer will have access to thousands of events.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">How many of them do you see going off in the next month? Would you say?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Not that many, we've been beginning to bring in some more virtual events just because of the simple fact that, you know, events actually aren't happening. But yeah, in the next month, not that many are physical live events. But as I was saying earlier, I see a lot of that changing as August, September, October comes, I already see a lot of events booked that are planning to go live in September, October.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so as we let's talk about the app itself, though, it's it's basically everything's virtual on on an app, there's no person to person contact or anything like that whatsoever to be able to engage with the platform. Is that true?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's correct. Yes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Okay. And so it is that tell me really quickly The difference between like a StubHub, right so StubHub is the repurchase of a ticket, right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yep. Yeah. So you look at ticketing in this way. There's primary ticketing, use Ticketmaster as an example, there's many other ticketing firms, and then StubHub as a secondary market. So on the primary market, you know, what we're building is a frictionless way to attend events at a better value, and not be stuck with ticketing fees. So, you know, not not putting down Ticketmaster in any way. They're an amazing company on by Live Nation, I think it's great. But how many consumers you know, that went and spent $100 on a ticket, and was super happy to get bang? 20 bucks on the way out? Right? We're thinking so so what we do is by pre committing to that base, and giving us the insight to subscription revenue going forward, so we have insight to certainty of recurring revenue, we're able to eliminate that ticketing fee and take that against our margin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, that's interesting. We're gonna take a pause right there. We'll come right back. We're talking with that density. You're listening to Rick Morris and the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon talking with Ed Vincent who founded festival path And I want to dedicate this segment to the technology geeks out there like myself, and I think you are as well. I love to kind of get into some of the infrastructure and things. So we have a lot of people online. And there's this boom now of online products and everybody going to subscription. Right. And, in fact, there's a whole industry Tony Robbins Russell Brunson, those guys have started this whole industry of, you know, you yourself can be a digital CEO, and you know, all these different things. So, a lot of people are starting to understand what the cost of an acquisition of a customer is where the advertising goes, What click through rates are all of those different things. I'm seeing a lot of people get better educated. So walk me through some of the theories though. How are you acquiring customers right now? How are you advertising?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure, sure. So we have different media partners that are in our network that are investors as well as just pure media partners. I think I was mentioning a little bit is one of the largest radio networks in the country, third largest called town Where media is a partner, you know, we have millions of dollars of media across their portfolio of media sites that we've been leveraging to, to push consumers or make consumers aware of the site. You know, back to flip back to the COVID thing for one moment is just on April. One is when we were going to go heavy on adspend related to kind of the spring season of live events. And, you know, we had hundreds of thousands of dollars a month planned out to spend to drive consumers to our site, but we obviously paired that back so it's kind of a silver lining in a lot of entrepreneurial worlds as a data guy and an infrastructure guy. I've been given kind of the opportunity now to to set up the infrastructure correctly for scale. And as a data guy, I really want to see every single click every single impression and what that turns into from a click and from a click to a free signup and from a free signup to a Paid signup. That sales funnel is super important to me, and having a little bit of time, you know, so we've been spending 10s of thousands instead of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last couple months getting it right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think he brought up something really interesting in I think it's that entrepreneurial spirit. But I always felt, you know, everyone was kind of saying, I don't know what to do with Kobe, a lot of people that, that work for other companies or work for, you know, a boss, essentially. But this was like the time this is theirs. As an entrepreneur, there's so many things that we put up because we don't have time. And it was like, Hello, time. It's like, all of a sudden, you actually put a pause where I won't get in trouble because sales are dropping where I can really focus on the backend infrastructure. So you felt like you take great advantage of that time? Yeah,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, very much so and part of it is putting those analytics and infrastructure in place, so that when we flip back to spending hundreds of thousands of dollars every month, we know exactly how to track it. You know exactly where to move the needles and And the dials, but also just on the pure infrastructure of the site itself and collecting data and building a recommendation engine or building out partner dashboards. So all of our festival and event partners have a place to log into and see what their consumers look like.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So blending your experience, you know, you said in your bio that you'd built some data platforms and consultancy, like with a&e networks, AMC Networks, what were some of those key lessons that you picked up from your time there that you're applying at festival pass?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That could be a show in and of itself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But I'll try and</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">give the the high level so</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">there is a lot to understand, especially digitally about consumers and how they interact. So a couple of the key takeaways and the things we're building from day one is the reason why we are an app. And the reason why a mobile app is the way that people are We'll be able to show their ticket when they go to an event that gets scanned is everybody, we have a one to one relationship with the consumer. So everybody that downloads the app, we have their email, everybody that uses that goes, we're able to actually know who they are and build a profile about them. So we have a deterministic one to one relationship with each consumer. So when they actually do things, we can then predict other things that they might like to do. We talked about it, I think earlier with Netflix, you know, we're effectively building the the Netflix of live events in that capacity where once you're on the platform and going and seeing things, the art of discovery is so fun, right? So when you're logged into festival paths, you're immediately going to say you're currently today you say what are the festivals that are near you? What are the festivals in the genre that you've already said or self selected to say that you'd like to do? And then what are the festivals or events that we recommend you might like because we know other people like you happen to like them as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And that certainly can be can become something from a data perspective that you could mark it to. Not only it would grow festival pass, but market that of why people should join festival passes that you can direct people that are going to like that, right? It's it's analytics on both sides.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It is. And we also have a partnership with another data company. And again, I don't want to get too granular. But if you're tech geeks appreciate it is there was a data management platform that sold the Salesforce for $800 million, a few years back and that same team, the band got back together, and they created a new platform, which they call a data operating system that we've overlaid onto our platform. And what it enables us to do is whenever somebody comes onto our site, whether they've logged in with an email or just even kind of, you know, traditionally the cookie based world were able to kind of Look at who that visitor is. And then look across the data graph of 200,000,250 million US consumers and get more insights about the type of person they are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think that's what most people didn't understand by social media platforms like Facebook, and they get mad now is like, but you've, you've I mean, you put your kids on there, you told them everything you like, when you like something that goes, you know, that's a data point. It is crazy. Now, to me, a friend of mine just made this post but, you know, I could be talking on the phone to a friend go to Facebook, and you know, all of a sudden, there's an ad for something where I was talking about, like horse farms in Chattanooga, like, I've never owned a horse farm north. And I lived in Chattanooga, one point, but literally was showing me an advertisement for real estate of horse farms in Chattanooga. And I was like, wow, that's, that's incredible, right? But that's the point of data mining and data learning in the organizations and advertisers that are very, very good at understanding what that consumer wants then drives behavior, right? They don't want to think they just want to click a button and say, Yep, that's perfect. That's exactly what I thought I wanted to do. Right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Right. And I think it becomes a larger discussion on privacy versus non privacy. But at the end of the day, if you're a good caretaker of the data that is interested in you, and you provide a better experience from it, and you're not just out, you know, selling it off to the highest bidder, you can build trust in your consumer base in the relationship. And, you know, for us, it's really just about making the experience better for the consumer and making the experience, you know, easier to manage for the partners.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's, that's interesting. So where do you see the future of festival paths going? what's what's the five year vision you see,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">in short, so we want to, you know, have millions of subscribers here in the US and because it is a read density and global density marketplace, it's relatively easy to open in other countries. So we're looking at Europe and Australia and Latin America because you can replicate that ecosystem with the same technology and the same infrastructure. And it doesn't have to, you know, rely on US consumers to drive a European market. So that's one. The other is, is we're building out a, an advertising mechanism. So the same way you think of Google. There's so many, so many analogies I can give. But, you know, when, when you're on Google, or you're buying AdWords for Google, you end up buying a slot that is above an organic search. So a lot of our partners will be thousands of partners. And there's a couple things of course, they want to increase the ability for our consumers to want to go to their events, but they also want to learn about, you know who, what other consumers might directly go buy a one off ticket, right? Because we're we're a membership program. So you can only get the price that we offer through our credits if you're a member, but they also sometimes want to sell one off tickets. So because we'll have so much data, we'll enable them right in the partner dashboard. To, to use our data for free to then go buy advertising across other platforms, whether it's social platforms, but more likely platforms like radio networks. You know, we're talking to XM, satellite radio and Pandora and I arts of the world, and the ability for them to buy ads directly to their consumers using our data as just a service of being a partner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So other than COVID, what's one of the biggest challenges you've had to overcome and standing up festival? I know there's tons but what would you say is the biggest challenge?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's the initial aggregation of the inventory, because it's a chicken or egg, right? It's a, you know, it's if without the inventory, people don't want to sign up. But without the people, the people that have the inventory, don't believe we're going to drive enough volume. So it's the seesaw of you know, we need we need some inventory. Then we get some users then we get more inventory. Then we get more users and it just keeps going back and forth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So how did you how did you overcome that first kind of that big win?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, a couple ways. First is just get a few, you know, known entities on the platform. The second is work with some ticket aggregators. So we have one relationship where just the one relationship itself brings thousands of events onto the platform. So through an API, we're getting their inventory and just reselling their inventory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, that's interesting. So what's it? I mean, what's it basically built in then?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Technology wise? Yeah. Yes. happy to share. So we're based on react React Native. I don't know if you know that codebase. So for me, it was super important coming out of movie pass. We had an iOS development team and Android development team, a web app development team, you know, about 4040 developers all working across the board, and it took forever to get anything done. Whereas with the React Native platform, it's the same codebase Across iOS, Android and web, yes, there's some differences. And yes, there's some tweaks across the different platforms. But that was the first piece. I tell me if this gets too techie or to love it, you know, fine. The second thing is the problem with react is it is hard to be SEO friendly with react, because react is a component based system. And it doesn't render pages that are trackable, or scannable for Google. But of course, whenever you have really cool technologies that have problems, people figure out the problems. So there's a there's a great product called gets he gets out and gets beat rerender the React pages so they're crawlable by Google.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's it. I love watching how things build like that. And you know, one problem is, again, one one major technical problem becomes a whole industry, your whole company for somebody. And, by the way, failed as well. Right? So movie pass is no longer around. Is that correct?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That is correct. Yeah, that's uh, I was, you know, joking that there's a book out that john bolton recently called, room where it happened. room where it happened I was in the room where it happened and for for movie pass, it was a get it getting that chance to sit and watch so many great decisions they made and a few very distinct wrong ones. That that effectively brought it to, to, to what the eventual story tells. So that was it was a great company that you know, at its height had three and a half million subscribers 500 million in revenue and it was a it was theirs to lose in some strategic decisions. lost it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it was a great idea. But I think I think things like that end up inevitably shaking consumer confidence as well. So certainly things overcome. We're going to take a break right here we'll come back with our final segment that you're listening to Rick more on the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back in the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. final segment as we're rounding the bases coming on home but Ed, we were kind of teasing that on the on the the end of the last segment they're talking about movies And that you were in the room where it happened. So obviously, there's got to be some big lessons that you took from movie pass to apply to festival pass. What are one of the two of those?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure, sure. So you're right. There's many, and there's different pieces, but there's some that are more impactful than others. I think the core of it is the type of business model. I made a distinct promise to myself that I would never start a business that when I asked a consumer to do more of what I'm asking them to do, and they do it, then I lose money. So meaning that I want people to engage more, not engage less. And the basic core of the movie pass model was you pay a certain month fee per month and you can go to unlimited movies. But the problem is that only that works in software where your incremental cost of goods sold isn't isn't much for every additional consumer. In movie passes, well, they didn't know the inventory and festival pass. We don't know the inventory either. So you can't build The model where you have to keep paying the cost of goods sold when you're not getting incremental revenue from an actual transaction. So the way we've done it, you're gonna say something.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">No, I just is so that the intent was like 1999 subscription. But I could go to 40 movies a month if I wanted to, right. That's essentially what you're saying. So,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, that the model in that world is, you know, 70% of the people don't go and 30% of the people do go and they overuse it. And somehow in the middle, you end up with a profit margin. But the problem is, is when it's priced too low, you can't you can't generate a gross margin. You know, in over time, I think they thought with scale, they would have more pricing power to get bigger discounts for the movie theaters, and others, but it just didn't work out. But with festival pass, and that's why we have the credit based model. We learned a lot from a company called class pass. I don't know if you're familiar with them. I've heard of it. It's a class pass. You know, they kind of paint In this credit based model in the way it works today, they also had all the same problems movie past did up until about four years ago. And they switched over to a credit based model. And all it does is it enables. Every time a transaction happens, there's a gross margin. So if somebody goes to a concert or an event or a festival on festival pass, we will make some money. You know, we have a target margin that we want to get we get that with, on average across the board. But we might make less of a margin on a really popular festival that we might make more of a margin on one that needs to send bodies to it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">makes total sense. So outside of all of the different experiences, what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, wow, that's a it's a big question.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I don't know if it'd be advice but learnings over time, and I think it's really integrity over speed. And I saw that a little bit and I'm not here to pay a movie pass, but I saw their desire to grow fast, kind of put some kinks into building some infrastructure. And I have learned lessons from other entrepreneurs, I highly respect that. I've always said, you know, hold true to your core, your core mission and your core company values, and make sure that filter is looked at on every decision. Even if there's some pot of gold that looks like you can get to quicker if you go down the path, it often leads to the amount of the wrong pot of gold, for sure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Sure, so so anybody that's ever wanted to experience, you know, community and live events in any capacity, whether it's a concert, a film, where we will have movies, actually In the app at some point, theater, sports, all the above, even just a whiskey tasting or a wine tasting, there's really something for everybody. And the first thing, you can just go ahead and join festival pass comm for free. You become a free member. And eventually, when you want to upgrade to get credits to go to something, you just can upgrade to one of the paid plans. But you'll never pay more than you would if you went direct, and you'll never pay technically.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's awesome. And so final comments, final thoughts for the audience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I just keep optimistic events and life will come back to quote unquote normal, the new normal I think we should say. So, you know, I think all of us just need to hold steadfast in our pursuit of kindness and happiness and joy and we'll eventually get to the other side.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So you bought and sold or you've created and sold how many companies so far,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I would say two real exits, one Marshall exit. So they are coming during different times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So what's been kind of your prevailing theme throughout all those different exits each time you create a company? What? What's part of that culture that comes with that Vincent that says this is this is the way my company is going to work?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I think over time that that evolves, right, so, so technology is an underpinning data is an underpinning. So, you know, when I started this company, it was the core, it had to be a data driven organization. And it had to be something that was passionate, gross margin positive and people culturally lead with kindness and gratitude.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And that's been kind of the prevailing theme. And what are some of the other companies if you can say, some of the other companies that you created an accident?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so the first one was called city stuff. It was 1999. I sold it in 2001. It was a it was a we sold things that made cities famous it was before Google existed. So a lot of these Junior's cheesecake from Brooklyn, New York shipped overnight in New York City pizza shipped overnight. You know, Vinay is from New Orleans shipped overnight. So it became a logistics company before everybody actually had their own website. So that was back then then had my agency all that throughout the 2000s. that that wasn't necessarily sold. But that, you know, back in when 2008 came about, you know, we had about 70 people in the agency and people stopped spending money, so I had to kind of evolve that company. But it evolved to a software as a service business. In the franchise multi unit space, we basically had one platform that would feed into social into a website into other messaging aspects. And we sold that in 2014. And then I had the consultancy, it still exists today. I'm still a partner in a consultancy called predictive analytics. It just was only at once festival pass started. I went full time the festival pass and held on to some equity in predicting And actually, I did give some of it back to some of the current partner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so the the Is there a website though to go see, obviously, there's an app festival pass but if people are trying to find more information, how do they do that is exactly that festival pass calm. Outstanding. Well, again, thank you so much for joining us today. And you know, I'm gonna go take a look at the platform when we're done. We'll go see watch for the sign up. You say it's coming through. Outstanding. So next week, we're going to have Tyler dicker who Fano it does a really talks about impact driven leadership, so growth and leadership skills development site, and really works with people to try to drive a bigger impact in their leadership style. So super excited to have Tyler on with us. That's next week. As always, you can hit me on social media. You can find me on Twitter. LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, it's always Rick A. Morris, you can reach out to me at Rick at Rick A. Morris calm if you know somebody that you think would make a great guest in the work life balance or you just want to reach out and talk to us about what you heard from Ed or a takeaway from AD we'd love to hear from you. And otherwise, always on all the different podcast networks. We appreciate you guys tuning in every Friday, or wherever you listen to this program. And until next Friday. We'll talk actually next Friday being next Friday. We do have a show then. July 3 is a replay. But looking forward to having everybody with us very soon. And we'll talk to you guys next week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And welcome to another edition of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're really, really, really excited about this episode. And I'm going to skip all of my normal stuff that I do prior because we've only got an hour and there's not enough time. But I do want to give just a little bit of a lead in here. First of all, we're going to ask for your open and honest listening. And we're also going to ask that you just stay with us. So I have brought on today some of my key confidence people that I reach out to people I look up to and so I'll introduce them really quickly. We've got Mr. Damon Pampolina in the house, who's who's a dear friend of mine, and I produce his podcast we've got my executive producer of the show for four plus years Mr. Winston Price in the house. And of course my brother, Darryl Rivers. And you know, Darryl is is not only an ex police officer, but he's one of the top five de escalation trainers in the world, bar none. And as I talked with these gentlemen throughout the last couple of weeks, and it's been a very difficult couple of weeks for a lot of people to figure out what's going on and and you know, I I've asked, and I've listened and I've heard a lot in the biggest thing that I keep hearing is, you know, you start with your home, right, you start with your home, when you want to have any kind of conversation about race about anything that's going on with George Floyd or the protests or anything, you need to start with your home but like, how do I start at home? And so these are the people that I reach out to and start to talk to and to make sure that I am Understand what what's happening out there. And in the whole time I was getting counsel from them, I was like, man, we we've got to do this in a broader context. This is a conversation that needs to be a lot more public. So I'm going to bring everybody in right now. And I'm going to start just to try to round it out there. I'll just say hello real quick and tell everybody who you are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Hey, my name is Darryl Rivers, as my brother Rick says, My brother from another mother. I'm just a simple guy born and raised Detroit, Michigan, right out of high school, joined the military. After that I joined a police department in Detroit, transferred out in Arizona and retired from there. I was a hostage negotiator and things of that nature and the current state that I'm in right now. I do de escalation training all across the nation. for local law enforcement. Best my primary thing I'll say 80% of my clients are law enforcement and or government entities. And we're in a interesting position right now, to be able to talk about our experiences and Things of that nature. So demand on law enforcement training as it pertains to things about race about police profiling, brutality and things of that nature. It's definitely change from what I've experienced in the past five or six years. So this should be interesting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And then of course, Winston jump in. Again, my my executive producer, but you and I've had many, many conversations on this subject.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, goodness. First off, I want to say hi to Darryl because I grew up in Inkster, Michigan. I went to school in Romulus people's community Baptist Church was my church in Westland and actually live in Arizona right now. No way. So yeah, Weston Price senior executive producer voice America talk radio network. That's all you need to</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">know. I want to get to it. Absolutely. And then, of course, most of you who follow me who know me know this next gentleman Damon Pampolina is in the house. Hey, what's up, Damon?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">How are you, sir? honor to be on with these other two gentlemen today, Rick, and thank you, man for giving me this. opportunity to talk about the subject matter today. We appreciate it. And so</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Damon you and I had a conversation last week as well in so again, forgive me for my sense of maybe being sensitive or not sensitive at this point. But one of the biggest things that plagues me and I've told you this Winston in Darryl as well, and I'm gonna frame it in a business context first as a consultant when I go into a company The one thing I hate is when people run their resume for me right to tell me how important they are whatever work they've done doesn't matter to me, right? Let's just get to work. Let's get going. But they've got to like, have an ego about that piece. And one of the biggest things that plagues me is is I feel like I've grown up pretty progressive but how do I night How do I start a conversation Darryl with you without whitesplaining or having to run down the fact that you know, you know, I have black friends like how do you not sound racist when you go I'm not racist. I got black friends or I know I grew up around black people so I totally understand in all of that is is what you hear most often. When we start to talk about race, what's the proper way to start that conversation?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And you know what? That's a perfect question. Because us as as African American people of color, we hear that all the time. Oh, I, you know, I got black friends. It's just like saying, Yeah, I always get pebbles in my shoes, man. I absolutely love it. I mean, like, you know, I get it all the time. Like, you know, I got my shoe right now, and it's awesome. No, you don't frickin like it just because you have it doesn't mean like it. Um, what I would say is what our preference is. Let's just say I am a white male in America. And you know what? I love all of my brothers and sisters, no matter what their race color creed is for whatever. Rick, what I will say is, you know, somebody dears people in my life, some of my best friends, some of my closest circle of friends. They don't look like me. They don't share the same pigmentation as I do. You know, so it doesn't matter if they're quality individually a quality individual. I don't you know, of course we all see color. Unless you're blind, literally.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, let's take that one though. You hear that all the time. I'm not ready. I don't see color. You see color. You see color? Or you say that to me?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, as for crappy eyes, I've always felt it should be the opposite. You do see color, you recognize it and you're respected. And that's what makes us so great. That's what makes the human race so great is all our different shades. So I agree with you guys on that I that comment drives me crazy. You know, I don't you know?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so what I've come to find is that you have people with good intentions, and you have people with bad intentions. I used to do some martial arts training, self defense training at Indiana University out in Bloomington. And we would say that people with the best intentions, sometimes give the worst advice and say the worst things. Okay, so I have people tell me that you know, I don't see color and what they're saying is, is I respect you. They're not saying I don't see color. They're saying no matter who you are, I respect you. And they don't understand what they're saying is actually offensive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, it's beautifully said, and let's let you know what I'm, we're gonna be peeling this onion, we're gonna get into some junk gang. And we've got a ton of people out there on Facebook Live phone us right now and they're going to join in the conversation and for those of you that are on Facebook live, you certainly can pop in a question there. We'll see if we can get it answered. But let's I want to be just completely honest and transparent. I've had a not a, I've had a bias, not an intended bias. But I've had a bias before. And I do not consider myself I consider myself a valuer of all people. Right. But I've had that that time where I'm walking somewhere and I've seen a group of white women before I've seen a group black men before but I've instantly had a internal bias that made me react in a certain way. How do we start to realize Understand what our internal biases are and how we can start to work with those. Does that make sense there?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It makes perfect sense. I think the main thing is understanding how we have internal biases really realizing that what we're exposed to and how our brain processes it. So you know, me, the whole human behavior, cognitive function kind of thing. You know, there's certain parts of our brain that that does things before we even recognize that something has been done. So it's three things that our brains do immediately upon seeing any person whatsoever number one, we say, is that person a threat or not? That's the number one thing that our brain does is involuntary. It happens it's a survival mechanism. Number two, in this particular brain system is, is that person sexually compatible with me? That's why when you see someone you like, is that a guy or a girl? You don't even think about it pops up in your head, dude, is that a dude or a chick? It's like Pat from Saturday Night Live. You don't know what it is right? You're like, you know, you don't know. Right? And then the third thing is do I like this? person and then that subconscious part it takes place and then we logically try to make sense of it. Now, with that being said, if I'm constantly program, that certain people are dangerous, whether it's through Hollywood, whether it's through the news media, whether it's through, you know what, hey, when these people are doing it as a protest, when these people are doing it, they're thugs, whatever that programming may be, that part of our brain and our limbic system called the thalamus. It doesn't differentiate between Fact or Fiction. Okay, that it's in there in the moment I intake that information thalamus says up, that's a threat because that's what we've been exposed to. So then you say, well, it's a guy and I don't think I like them. So now all of a sudden you be trying to you try to make logic of why you feel the way that you feel. And then you say, well, maybe they're this or maybe that and then we begin to assume, and it's not like you're actively trying to not like someone it's Just an environment in a systematic exposure that we've been conditioned to, to function in. So sometimes we have what's called an implicit bias without our own knowing without our own doing. And that's just the way that our society is made up right now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Winston, you wanna, you want to join in on</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, I'm happy that you brought up the thalamus because a lot of people don't understand their hormones yet, so they don't understand what a hormone cascade is. There's a difference from your sympathetic nervous system. And then the hormone cascade when you step on attack, okay, it's over. When you get frightened at a hormone cascade starts that can be with you for weeks. Yep. Yep,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">absolutely. So guys, we're gonna be taking some breaks here, but when we when we come back, I know that Damon jump in with a question and then I urge you guys though while we're on break, on radio or even Facebook to go find Darryl rivers. Facebook page DeRose DeRose video that he posted it was just a couple of days ago, right? It was two days ago. It's already got 5000 6000 views. It's crazy. But it comes from the heart of somebody who is and was and still believes in police officers, but is still dealing with what's what's happening. And I'm gonna get you to tap into that a little bit here on the show, but we're gonna take a quick break right here. We'll be right back and listen to the work life balance with a whole crew of people this time. Thank you, right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today. We'd love to have Call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back on this Friday afternoon to the work life balance. Thank you so much for hanging along. We've got a big crew today we've got my man Daryl rivers, my executive producer Winston price, and my boy Damon Pam Polina on the line. And Damon, I'm gonna throw throw it to you for our next question.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, Rick, we talked the other day about this. And, you know, we're sharing it say quite a bit. That racism is something that is taught or it's taught in the homes. It's not something that you're born with. One of the main objectives I think should be from from Mr. Floyd's passing, and unfortunately, it took an innocent man passing to get us to this point, but it should be the best way way to handle our young ones, a little boy's chin. And to go about teaching that that common respect, lack of racism within the home, all that stuff. That would be probably my biggest question, as we want to break this cycle, you know?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And I don't know who would want to jump on that question, but man, I would, I would love to hear it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So, the first thing I would say that any best approach is going to be a multi dimensional approach. There is not just one thing, and it is something that is going to be done as a parent until the day you die. It's not going to be a one day, a one hour a one week thing. First and foremost, the parent needs to lead by example. First and foremost, because that's what that's how all children learn. They learn from their examples and the parent is the first teacher. The parent is the first coach. The parent is the first mentor. So whatever they see there Do that's what they're going to do also inlay other dimensions throughout time take them to different war memorials, take them to different slave memorials. Let them know who is what, teach them, yourself, show them you have an interest and</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I can add anything to that. And I really you know, I like that listen when you say go take them to the warm waters give them that history lesson from your perspective. You know, I would think another thing that would be really, really beneficial is really like exposure and producing to your friends. Let them see you interact personally not from a textbook thing. You know, sample say, hey, look, these are, this is my circle. This These are the people that I trust. These are the people that I talk to because they see the people you talk to, those are going to be the kind of people they talk to you know when I always used to say about my daughters is that, you know, I recognize that I'm going to be the first man that they ever love. You know, I mean, really think about it, right? So so I have to give them that perspective of you know what you win when you see your dad and you know, and who you're going to choose in the future. You know, you should see how versatile and diverse Your dad is so that you do not split second select someone that's very myopic or self centered or stuck on what it is that they what they view like to be that that's not a good view. So you know, it's just the exposure to your world, and how you function with diversity and communicate and actually have genuine love for people who don't look like you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's beautiful, beautiful, guys, I'm loving this conversation. Let's keep it rockin let's and let's continue to touch tender subjects here. A lot of stuff about defund the police right now a lot of stuff about police brutality, a lot of stuff about what We should be doing to change in what change can come from. And again, I have no authority to speak on that. So what I do is I go to my man, Darryl here, who has a lifetime of service, not only to the nation, but to the police officers. Where does change come from? How does that how does that even worked out?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I can tell you what defunding police is not going to fix the problem. It's going to create a whole nother problem. I just thought about this this morning, I was having a conversation with a radio personality. Actually a former news anchor. And a question rose, as far as you know, what is the one thing that you would advise citizens to do to change particular things? say well, if you're a good person, and you know, you, you, you have good moral standards and great core values. Join the police department. Because if you want to have really changed the police department become a cop man. You know, I mean, literally, this is probably and I look at law enforcement professionals and everything like that this should be the high time for recruitment and say, Look, we have problems. We need people who want to make change to join our agencies, and bring the change Be the change that you want to see. That's number one. Secondly, you know, we talked about this as far as the I want actions. And that is, is an acronym for I want is if we are not them. And what kind of actions do we produce? If we're not building? What we see the craziness, if we don't represent that, if they don't represent us, if we're not them? What do we do? So number one, number two thing I would say for law enforcement is to speak out, you know, say, hey, look, you know what, there's a small percentage of us that wear this badge. shouldn't wear it and we do not support them. And what ends up happening is that in that area, you begin to gain moral authority, as opposed to just your position, police officers position authority hasn't gone anywhere. But how far is positional authority controlling those riots? It's not. And the reason why those riots and protests are going on right now because moral authority has went in the tank. And in order to gain that moral authority back is to not defend Hey, we're good cops is to say, hey, look, I don't support that. I'm with you. I feel you I'd be upset to manufac I am upset and we don't support that. Those i think i think are two highlights on how change truly begins.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I love the I love the conversation about moral authority because if we look at if we parallel this to another universe, right if we look at the the Catholic Church and the the scandals that were going on, they're not all priests or do bad things to get right now, and they have a moral high ground as they should right what they're teaching is the right things just like please Officers are to keep the peace that's what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to protect us keep the peace. But now there's this thing of all priests do bad things to kids all cops are bad. How do we how do we start to really get around, in educate in and promote the 98% that are doing great things?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, that's huge, huge Rick.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So, sorry, yes. So for me, it is you need to you as an all of us, you as an everybody, we need to stop taking particular people and saying that those people represent the mass of all the others and do that with every single type of person. Because what happens is okay, here Look, the most racist thing anybody can ever say right now is black on black crime. And people don't understand how that term is racist. It's racist because you don't have people quoting white on white crime. Statistics, you don't have people quoting Asian or Asian crime statistics. So what we do is for the black and I'm saying black people, specifically not all people of color for black people, specifically what we do is we say, for these people, we can say that these few are the representation of everybody. So all of them are going to be bad. But for everybody else, let's not do that. So you have to do it across the board. And that's going to be tough for a lot of people because they have been institutionalized. There is an institution of European colonialism that has been going on for 700 years. And and this whole European colonialism has all been under the guise of God told us, this land is ours. And so to actually get to the root of it, we have to get to, yes, there are individual things that we need to do. There are group things that we need to do and we need to realize that when people We're talking about racism, they're talking about the individual racism and institutional racism. So you need to watch your mouth. Everybody needs to watch their mouth and see what they're saying and how they're saying it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 22:14 </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So that's one point a second. Okay, go ahead. You have another point.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I want to get back to the defund the police. And this is another one of those sounds good. Might not be totally good from good intentioned people. You need to hear who's saying it is the poor people who get their doors knocked in, who get their families killed, with police that have guns that look like they're from some sci fi film, you know, and when they're saying defund the police. We also say, we've been defunding education for decades and screamed yet. Right and screamed a word about defunding education. But as soon as you say defund the police, oh, then it's on. And when we say defund the police, we're not What I'm saying when I, when I say defund the police, as I say some of those funds need to go to counselors and mentors that ride along with the police to give them an extra help. What I say when I say we need to defund the police, is they need to have better training, take those funds from they put on the guns and put it in their minds, put it in their pockets, so that so so so that the cops aren't hungry, pay him better. Make sure that when a police comes in, they've got a four year degree first, before they go into their six months into the academy and one and a half years. Make sure that within that four year degree, that they're getting sociology training, that they're getting a psychology training, that they're getting political science training, so defund the police for me doesn't mean take the money away from the police. It means reallocated so that the police can be more and better, efficient. I'll be quiet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And I'll let Darryl come into that strong man. That's awesome. As a police officer here,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I can tell you right here now that this is, as a law enforcement officer and you go through a lot of different things, I believe the one thing that I have, I can say I'm going to invest money into the American police officer to build that person up in one particular area. I would say it has to be that person's mental well being. I truly believe that 90 plus percent of all officers enter into this particular profession with intention of saving the world at least I know I did. Okay. And my first four months I got into my first shoot out two months after that, I got my second shoot out. That changes a young man at 23 years old. Okay, you know, and and the thing is that I can't tell you how many in Detroit how many days bodies I've seen just driving down the street. Oh, here's a body. I can't tell you how many people I've talked to as they were taking their last breath and they died right there holding on to my pants leg saying where's the ambulance? I don't know how many there were. But I know one thing that did happen is that in my mind was began to be built. So that that doesn't drive me freakin insane. So what ends up happening is that the empathy of the American officer begins to dissipate with all of the craziness and chaos that he's constantly being exposed to. So now when another officer is thumping on someone, that empathy isn't there, because I've spent years seeing horrible crap that I built walls up around my heart and my so I can actually go home and hug my kids. So I can actually go home and have a normal relationship with my friends. And I think that the human race is 100% crap. Because no one calls 911 when they're having a good day. They say I'm having a worst day, I'm a life coach, I need you to come deal with it. And you're going after you're meeting people every single day, worst day, they're like, worst day they're like worse. They're like worse. They're like, and then you get people who want to fight you, then you get people who run from you. And you get people say, Hey, I got nothing to do with that. But you can help me solve this problem. So you're dealing with all of these problems. So if there's one thing that I can say will be totally beneficial, is investing in a person's emotional well being now I've been into unfortunately, I've had to discharge my firearm in the line of duty. And afterwards, what they do is you go see a psychologist, and they want to know of you. They just want to know if you're fit to go back out on the street, do they give you three days off, and they want to make sure that you're not PTSD. And that's it. That's it. That is the problem. We get desensitized, we become cynical and empathy goes out of the window, and that needs to change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're gonna stop right there for a break, but I do have to make a side comment here, Darryl, knowing what you've been through and all that stuff. You are one of my favorite people on the planet. There's not a single time that you and I have a conversation that we don't laugh, when I have a good time when you support each other, and to know that you've come through that to be the person that you are. I have the most tremendous respect and love for you rather just none other. You're just an amazing person. We're going to take a break right here we'll be right back with the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today. We'd love to have Call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back on this Friday edition very special edition of the work life balance is we're having an honest conversation about what's going on right now. And about race and how to talk to each other. How to come through it, and I'm going to give the next question to Damon, go ahead.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. As a citizen, you know, you see the situation and hindsight 2020 there were spectators that witnessed Mr. George Floyd George Floyd's passing and maybe it's it's tough man, but maybe it's someone was more busy calling 911 or screaming for help. Is something of this nature instead of just filming it? This, maybe this man could still be alive. Daryl, I'll give it to you, man. What do you think as far as a citizen, if you know that we just, God forbid, happens again? All of our citizens out there listening, what could they maybe do? You know, you listen, you got to give the authority to the cops. So they couldn't probably bum rush them or get on top of the officer that was doing that. But what could maybe have been done?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Right on? Great question. Number one, I want to say is, do you want to make a point or do you want to save someone's life? And I think sometimes, you know, when the yelling and the screaming and everything, let me tell you something, it's been many times to where it's I've been at a scene and I get people yelling, screaming, leave him alone. He didn't do anything. You know what that does, to me. That brings my vigilance all the way up to one right, because now I don't only have to deal with the person I'm dealing with. I mean, I got a mob of people out here that I might have to deal with as well. Okay, and let me tell you Something one thing that just about every law enforcement officer thinks that they're right. Honestly, when they're doing what they're doing, they feel like they're right. And when you got everyone else surrounding you and yelling and screaming at you, it's gonna cause your bills, your vigilance to shoot to the top. So one thing I would say is, yeah, if you have the opportunity to record record because now you you, you can put that out to the world. But your number one thing that you do need to do is turn it from officer problem to a is turning from a police officer problem to a police department problem. And when I say that when when an individual is fighting someone or something like that, that's a one on one police officer problem. But when you call 911, it says, Hey, I am witnessing a police officer being you know, overly aggressive with the handcuffed individual. Now, that's a police department problem. Now is that police department's responsibility to send someone else out there so that cooler heads can prevail. And you You need to go ahead and stop the recording to make that call. You want to save that person's life? Now, a lot of times you say, oh, we'll just jumped on them and stop them, you would have been shot. Because that, you know, you would have been shot. You know, just honestly, you know, if I'm arresting someone and I get a mob of people jumping on me, number one knows that people want to go home. You know, so call 911 have have other officers get there because of the police officers who are there aren't doing their job, as far as handling the situation appropriately called call someone else that probably will, because I'm gonna take that department, is it full of people that think like that? So Darryl,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">well, and on that note, go ahead, do a</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">quick quick, quick question, Darrell. It may be and I know this would be a very rough estimate for you, but it would be great to hear from someone in your position. All of our listeners out there. What do you think two percentages of corrupt cops, you know, so that they can understand that yeah, that this is such a minute part of the department and we don't want to Start this outrage of hating all these cops. Like you said, there's so many great ones out there that love their jobs. What are we 2%? What do we said, you know, Rick keeps talking about the 98%. Does that sound fair?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It sounds fair. So Damon, let me let me let me provide a couple of quick divisions here, okay. 2% are probably corrupt. 10% shouldn't be cops. So just because you shouldn't be a cop doesn't mean that you're corrupt. God, you know, so so when I look at corruption, I'm thinking of criminals. You know, a certain people who are okay. do certain people shouldn't be cops, they should have never been hired, period. You know, they're not going to do a good job. They're not going to you know, they're not going to fulfill the duties of a law enforcement professional period. You know, some people have no empathy whatsoever. Some people are so nonchalant. You know, they're like, Hey, I get a police call about people fighting. Like, I'm just going to take my time. By the time I get there, they'll be tired and I don't have to fight people. They are not corrupt, but that person shouldn't be a cop. And then you get the person who's zero. They're to say, Oh hell yeah, I get to fight someone today. Well, yeah, I want you to zoom there, but I don't want you to have that intention. That person shouldn't be a cop. So it's a higher percentage of people who shouldn't be cops. But as far as corrupt, I will say about 2% I think that you and Rick are correct on a 98% of cops are inherently good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I want to I want to bring two comments kind together. In our boy Wayne Brady in Wayne, is his you know, dear friend somebody I look up to as well he did an hour and 45 minute Instagram a couple of weeks ago or last week I believe that my daughter actually shared with me as well and he said something was really profound for me so Winston, I'm gonna dovetail your comment here and ask for it but you know, you were talking about black I'm saying black on black crime, very racist thing to say. But it is a go to when somebody says Black Lives Matter, right. So when somebody goes a black lives matter, the first thing they want to go as well. What about black on black crime and they start quoting statistics about, you know, all that other kind of stuff in Wayne actually said the way he said it he said, You know what? I'm not going to discuss that not that it's not an issue or something that we should discuss he goes, but the police are the people we call when we need help. And I thought that was a really, really profound way to to belay that argument, which is a standard mainstream kind of argument, but I wanted you to kind of comment on that with with the understanding of the of the police side.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that's the thing. They don't help me. You know, when I'm thinking about the people of the community, the police don't help me. They only come around when they want to fill their quota. You know, so where I grew up in Indianapolis brightwood for six to one eight. Across the street from me was the crack house. You know, you talk about you know, driving by and seeing the body on the on the ground. I literally went to go take the trash And one of my best friends was in his trunk with his hands cut off. The police don't help me. I don't call the police When I need help. I don't call the police. And so there's this idea that's that some people have, once again been institutionalized that the police are helpful to all they aren't. They take 10 to 20 minutes to get to someplace. So if my daughter's being raped, the police ain't gonna help me. My daughter needs to help herself. If I'm getting robbed in my store, I'm gonna be robbed before the police get there. And so there's this romanticized idealism of the police. People just need to wipe out and police need to wipe that out of their heads to you're not the Savior. You're not the court. The police are not the court. The police are not the court one more time, the police are not the court. And when the police go out there, and they start to make people guilty before they're innocent. That's the other problem. So for me, for a person that the police don't help. I'm not sure what else to say to that, to that point, because the police don't help me. And that's how a lot of people feel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely. Um, when it comes to that, when people say, Oh, well, you know, Black Lives Matter, but what about black on black crime? Well, the law doesn't dictate that I gotta submit, or provide authority to my neighbor. It's as simple as that, you know, the law says, I have to submit to law enforcement, you tell me I got to submit to this person. You know, they stop, I have to stop. But they, you know, whatever is certain laws that are afforded to law enforcement that aren't afforded to the regular citizen. So people can say, Oh, well, yeah, black on black crime if black lives don't matter, because look at Black on Black crime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that is, like I said, it's a very invalid statement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I don't have laws that stay when an individual in my neighborhood or whatever the case may be is requesting information from me or are they pull up their car behind me? And you know, they have lights on. I don't have to submit I don't have to stop. But of law enforcement do it. I have to do this you heat there have been empowered with certain authorities that regular citizens have not been. And I don't think the question is about the black on black crime or anything like that. The real question is, okay, who are you empowering? You know, and that's the main theme that I believe when people go there with the whole you know, what about black on black crime and then the rebuttal is, you know, like you said, You know, I don't feel like a please help me or, you know, because I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. I've talked to people People who straight up say I can't stand the police. And you know, my normal response is do it sometime. I can't either. I still need your driver's license. To do sometimes I can't either. But if you cooperate with me, I promise you, I will call any more of them here. And we're both of you in a better place. You know, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, and that's kind of my issue with this question situation, it's not actually focusing on the actual problem. The actual problem is, is the person saying black on black is trying to take away from the situation and get us removed from what's going on, and they're using the black on black to also state, that person should have been murdered. They're trying to give examples of why this person should have been murdered and why these things happen. They're not trying to actually help anything. Anytime somebody says well, black on black, you are a part of the European colonial white supremacist institution because you are doing extracting from the problem. You're trying to keep the institution</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">the way it is. It's a deflection for sure. And so we're going to go to our final break here, but just try to swing us up into a more positive mood. And then I've got a doozy of a question for you at this. But Michael J, the way he says it, I don't know if anybody has caught his routine. But when you hear pushback on Black Lives Matter, he goes, the words matter. He goes, it's we matter. I don't think we're having this really big. Because we haven't we started too low with the word itself. It wasn't Black Lives are Supreme, it's just that they matter. I thought that was a really, really, really good take, especially to do that. So we're gonna continue this conversation. We're gonna take our final break right here you're listening to the work life balance with Rick Morris.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back with our final segment of the work life balance really really diving in on honest conversation. I feel like we could have done a six hour show and not run out of material. There's so much to talk about here but one of the things I've noticed quite a bit. Is is the not only you know one of the big things we We should be doing is acknowledging white privilege and talking about white privilege. But there's a lot of people apologizing specifically to black people apologizing for their white privilege. And I wanted to see Winston, we'll start with you. Have you had that experience? And what? Tell me about that tell me if that was how that makes you feel, and does that even work?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So, in my experience, the intent has moved me to tears. Again, really, really good intentions. These are people who are for them empathizing. Now also I say, I don't want your guilt. That is a negative thing. You know, it's nice that you feel this way. Take all that energy you have with all that guilt, and then give me some internal actions. Show me what you're doing. So, again, it has moved me to tears. I have Facebook posts from inboxes that I've had of people just like once now, you've you shone a light on things, you know, and it's warm and it makes me feel so good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Take that energy, internalize it, and then do something with it. I'll leave it there. Darryl.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Right on. You say basically, how does it feel? Um, I've had people say, hey, well, you know, uh, you know, you're my brother. And you know, and I know that and the people who I talked to, I have no doubt in my mind that that's what their position is. But I think in general, when that statement is said, I'm apologizing for white privilege or something to that effect. I believe that it's well known that that people of color African Americans in the United States cannot fix the problem. We can't fix the problem. And just like any country, that that may fall under attack or anything like that, they look for allies. And no one's going to invade certain countries who has strong allies. And when when individuals who are being, you know, I would say targeted or discriminated against or no press, when they begin to build powerful allies, the or press soars think twice about attempting to oppress. So when I hear the I apologize for white privilege, what I'm actually hearing is, I'm sorry, I wasn't a better ally. And I didn't speak out as I didn't use my platform, or I didn't say, Hey, you know what, that's not cool. You know, I need to speak out about this on a bigger scale. That's what I hear. You know, and as Winston said, yeah, it's heartfelt, you know, because they really mean it. I know it 100% so yeah, that's just my outlook on that. That's how I view it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, what I'm getting From Winston and Darryl, it's funny because no matter what the subject matter is, it usually always gets down to the fundamentals. And the fundamentals on this subject, like a lot of things in life is walk the walk, talk the talk. I personally, you know, you brought up in the beginning of the episode about coming up and making the statement, you know, I have black friends and you know, I'm cool with that. It's like, it doesn't even need to be said if it's, if it's a genuine feeling. You don't even need to say it right, like your actions, your respect what you do. So, just walk the walk. Like you're saying, that's, that's what I've got from, from this episode today that the main thing is, man, show it, prove it. And everything else is kind of irrelevant. And then the words are kind of irrelevant, you know? So, yeah, you just just just, if it's pure, and you are that individual, it will resonate. People will see it and then that's it. You know, every else does it really is kind of irrelevant. But boy Have I got a great education today, Rick, this was awesome. Man. I just really appreciate you having me on with these two other gentlemen, this was great. Well, again, you guys,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you guys have been trusted confidant of mine for years. People I look up to, you know when when difficult things happen we seek counsel, but I also want to make sure that the counsel I'm getting are from people that I look up to, not to people that look up to me if that makes sense in so you guys all fit that bill. And we've just got a few minutes left. Before this is is wrapped up. But what I want to do is just kind of give it a roundtable so we'll go Daryl Winston and Damon and I'll wrap it up. But let's just each kind of take a minute and whatever message you want to send whatever's on your heart, however we feel like we can wrap up this conversation. And for anybody who's listening, what's advice that you would would give them so Darryl, we'll start with you partner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Right on man number one. I appreciate you man. Love you much, brother. And thanks for having me. On with, you know, with a such a great panel of individuals. My number one thing is man, don't expect you from everyone else. You know, we're acting like hey, well, why isn't this person speaking up and why isn't that person speaking up? They are speaking up by maintaining their silence they tell you where they stand. And we have to call them right differentiation saying that's not us. We are not them that stuff is going on here we are not they may have actions to prove it. So number one that I will say and I say this all the time. I don't have to tell you your car is dirty and filthy. I just got to shine the hell out of mind and park right next to you people that get the point. So when you actually are here walking the walk and you're doing your theme, those who are in folly will be recognized and leave it at that often.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">right. So just like Darryl said, just like we're saying, live it every day. It's not a it's not a one day thing. It's for its for the rest of your life until you die. When I walk out of this house, I need to be aware of what every woman thinks about me because of what every woman has gone through in her life. And I need to empathize with that every day of my life. When I walk out, and I see elder people, I need to realize that they've been through a lot of a lot of things in their lives with elder abuse and elder care issues. So I need to realize that there are so many different bad things going on for so many different people. I need to go out and shine my car. I need to be that bright light, as Darryl says, so that other people can see the light. I'll be quiet. My brother.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, and I can't thank all of you enough. This actually kind of all happened at the last minute. So you know, I started reaching out, people jumped in Winston and I had a conversation last week that that really started this and so just individually Really quickly, I already said what I feel about you, Darryl, earlier, Winston is when when I was approached to do this radio show almost five years ago now. I was kind of blown it off at first and I was supposed to have like a 20 minute conversation with Winston, I think we were on the phone for three and a half, four hours. And I've been friends ever since. And I appreciate and love you and Damon you and I go way back, as well and love your energy that that that you can bring to any situation. So I appreciate that. I think my final words here is you know, this was my platform. This is my opportunity to try to start a conversation which is all I was asking to do. What I asked for everybody out there is to be able to have a pure conversation to be to be unafraid to call you know, I was unafraid to call Darryland say Darryl, this is what I'm feeling helped me understand why I'm feeling this way. Is it okay. You know, Darryl and I talked briefly I had a very brief incident where I was almost jumped just solely for the the Color My Skin I've walked through the wrong place. And I said, you know, that was one instance one feeling that I can hold on to what I remember that fear, which is something that you know is probably a 1,000th of the times that Darryl or Winston has felt that way. And so I can I understand that feeling but I still don't feel like I can empathize. And I think that that's a really important part for us to understand is we honestly can never know. I can honestly never know Darryl and Winston what you feel what you've gone through. All I can do is listen and be your friend. When you need me and Daryl I will tell you this. You have an ally in me every day of the week for for eternity brother. I'm with you. Winston the same Damon the same. Again, gang. Thank you so much for allowing us to have this conversation and gracing this platform. All the people on Facebook Live all the people listening all the people that will hear this on a podcast. We thank you and you can always Tune in next week. For the work life balance, thank you so much. Have a great week. Brother.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Welcome to another edition of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. So glad everybody's joining us and look forward to a fantastic show. Next week just to forewarn you, I am going to go to a replay next week and finally take a break. I'm going to actually do a little travel so a little bit of the United States get in my car, get out of this house. I think everybody's ready to start to open up a little bit here. So I'm going to do that next week. But stay tuned though because We've got we're actually booked up all the way through the end of September now and just some phenomenal guests, we got some great surprises that are coming. And speaking of phenomenal guests, let's get to our guest this week. She's the founder and CEO of nourishment vitality, and has been involved with the health and wellness space for over 20 years. She's an internationally trained and certified Mind Body nutrition and wellness practitioner, and also an expert in stress relief management and conscious relationships. She's a graduate of multiple programs and courses and we can't wait to have her on let's welcome Cheryl Peterman to the show. How are you Cheryl?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Hey, how are you? It's lovely to be here with you all this evening. And I hope everybody is well and healthy. And I'm speaking to you here from Israel and my evening talk.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's so relevant in today's current times. Absolutely. So Rick, you know, I've actually been studying metaphysical sciences since my teenage years, and the healing sciences ever since my teenage years, this has always been my passion. I also studied beauty and Cosmetology and skin and body k therapies. And I had my own business running for many years. And it was actually my own life, adversities. My family and I are survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami. And it was this traumatic life changing event. For me that was the leading catalyst that led me to my studies on the science of stress, the healing power of breath and later on this continued nutritional psychology and the fascinating connection between mind and body which I've always been fascinated with. So this was actually the background of why I do what I do and why I founded nourishment vitality coaching, where our mission is to help so many people overcome their life stressors, they fatigue and also bed eating habits and weight management all very relevant today. And that nourishment vitality, we actually offer online, online courses which you can do in the comfort of your own home. And it's so appropriate now with everything that's going on in terms of our new social distancing protocols, as well as corporate workshops and personal coaching background and, and programs as well. But I've learned in my life as well that the more one actually teaches themselves to relax into life's experiences and into life's uncertainties. The easier things become because as we all know, right now, with so many people having to face uncertainty, with the, with their life, with their career with their relationship, this brings up a lot of emotions and a lot of stress for so many people. And a lot of people have just had the emotions all over the show right now. And it makes perfect sense, considering what's going on in the world today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And it's a fascinating study, I've been on a personal development journey over the last, you know, eight to 10 years really, and but what's been fascinating to me is really the power of the mind and how the body works. I had the pleasure of spending time with Dr. Daniel, amen. who's one of the leading people in the United States around brain health and understanding not only just how your brain functions and how to cure your brain, but what you take in the food that you take in and how you treat your brain and those types of things. And so it's fascinating to me, especially as we start to look at mental health. That's That's definitely the the conversations been around a long time. I think I think with the forced confinement that everybody's in, it's becoming an even larger issue that people are discussing. Just mental health itself current circumstances how that how that stress really hits you. So these emotions that people are feelings being cooped up, ready to get out, I'm feeling it. I'm ready to get on the road and at least get some windshield diamond. But people end up feeling pretty vulnerable and uncertain. So what is your take on that situation?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, again, you know many of us have had our emotions all over the show one day, we may be feeling okay about it the next day really low. So it's really one has sparks and lows with all of this happening right now, especially due to the fact that we all face so much major stress and uncertainty about the future right now. You know, many of us have had to suddenly pervert to change our previous plans and to do so without any guarantees, which brings to the surface many emotions. And a lot of fears for a lot of people. And at the end of the day, and you know myself having experienced challenges with uncertainty for so many years, because of the the experience that I had with the tsunami, I was actually always looking to the future, always wanting to know what the next moment is going to bring, because I face my most dangerous moment on holiday. And that's just not how life works. We are uncertainty is not a new concept for us as human beings. But every decision that we make with a bit whether it's in life, whether it's in business is going to be made with some degree of uncertainty. There are no guarantees in life. And that because of everything that's happening right now, and so much uncertainty, the level of fear has escalated tremendously around this topic. And, you know, I believe so much that so often in life, we live And more in our fears than actually in our lives and in actual fact we living in, in response to what we are essentially afraid of. And fear is often dictating how our lives unfold. It can be fear of failure, fear of the future fear of not being good enough fear of not achieving, but how you internalize this fear and either run from it or hide from it or learn from it can really have a significant effect on how your life can unfold. And so our relationship with uncertainty is more challenge now than ever. And I believe that, that our mindset towards uncertainty needs to heal and the more we improve our mindset towards uncertainty, the more we can actually take healthy risks and make these decisions even with this degree of uncertainty and failure that may present itself because it's really hard to make to take healthy risks in decisions when fear is driving your decision making. so relaxing into life circumstances no matter what that all is going to help you face the next step with more confidence and competence. And, and things become easier than when you face things with a more relaxed state of mind. not always easy, but definitely necessary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">If it's the case in Israel, but yeah, I can talk to the United States here. Fear I get is certainly a driver, right? Fear is certainly something that's, that's there. And so generally in fear, I know what I what I try to do is educate when I'm fearful when when I don't know something, I'm going to go get educated and find the truth. Unfortunately, you know, we have a political system in the United States as well as a media in the United States that thrives on fear. In fact, you know, I feel like most of the time they're telling every American what to fear and how to fear it, versus, you know, what's coming down the path and I was just wanting If you're if you kind of experience the same things, certainly around COVID and a lot of these things, to me, it's hard for me to separate fact and fiction and get to the truth because everybody's just telling me I should be scared about it. I should be right. What do you what do you do when dealing with with those types of fears? How do you go about kind of handling those fears?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think that that facts always call my dad and it's very necessary especially times that we will be in right now, to understand the facts and to know the facts and to take the necessary precautions. I think, though that there needs to be a healthy level of how much social media harm how much you actually take in so that you can actually self regulate and self soothe your own nervous system because when we go into total fear and total panic, what happens is, we our nervous systems are working on overdrive and we cannot think think rationally and we cannot make rational decisions. We need to calm ourselves down and the Way to calm oneself down is sometimes to learn how to step back just that a little bit, so that you can self soothe self regulate. And then you can take a step forward and understand and actually see the effects for what they are. Because when we so driven by fear, we our fears are often exaggerated. And they become even more so exaggerated when we obsess over them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So take a step back and breathe essentially or how, how do you set that that healthy limit in social media? How do you know?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">How do you know you know by becoming a way of of stress, the first thing of anything is to become aware, right? So you have to become aware of how your how your body feels and how you react and were you feeling more panicked, more shutdown, and how stress is actually affecting the body because emotional field things affect our physical well being, as well. So the emotional passes into the physical. So what happens is that when the body goes into a stress response, so much happens in the body and and not only does your digestion suffer and your metabolism shuts down, you can think clearly you get more headaches, you get brain fog, etc. So to become super aware of how stress is affecting your body, so that you can then take actionable steps about what to do. In other words, become aware of it, validate your emotions without becoming lost in it. When you become more self aware. You become the authority in your life. You become your best advocate, you get to control your emotions before your emotions control you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think we're in a really good time with COVID because there's been a forced reduction of distraction in the sense that you know, if you look at a normal busy life and work life balance. If you got kids, there's, you know, sports and in school and there's all the things that you end up occupying yourself with. And now, with all of that taken away, you're kind of forced to deal with yourself. So we've got about two minutes break. And what I want to make sure that people understand is what we can do about that. So to kind of tease what we're heading, where we're heading. In the next segment, I really want to get into what's the relationship between stress and nutrition and well being and give some real big tips to to the audience there. But is there a quick tip or first thing that kind of comes to your mind now that you're we've limited some of these distractions, to what somebody can do very quickly to start to center themselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The first thing that anybody can do and the most accessible thing to any human being, is to tap into our breathing. Breathing is the cornerstone of stress management. And, and it's accessible to every human being. It's free, so To become really aware of the way one is breathing and to practice deep conscious breathing, that will always relax the body in seconds and minutes and you can actually read day calm, just through counting your breath. So simply to inhale, count to four, and Excel is gonna help tremendously</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and thank you for that tip. So when we come back, we're gonna really dive in though into that relationship between stress nutrition and well being and we're gonna do that with Cheryl Peterman, you're listening to Rick Morris and the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're visiting with Cheryl Peterman, Cheryl is the CEO of nourishment vitality, and we're talking about now we're gonna get into the relationship between stress nutrition and well being so Cheryl, can you give us some insights on how to manage the stress and the relationship with our eating habits and, and I'm definitely leaning in on this part.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely, Rick. Looking forward to speaking about this. I'm very passionate about this topic. You know how we eat more than just what we eat can often relate Like what's going on with us in our lives food can affect our mood in a very big way. So what do nutrition what is stress? What are our personal well being showing up as our as our best selves have to actually do with one another? I just want to dive a little deeper yet into the connection between Mind Body nutrition, which is really exploring how we digest how we assimilate and calorie burn and all the nutritive functions of the body, how those are impacted by our mind by emotions and by lifestyle. So basically with Mind Body nutrition, it's the psycho physiology of how our thoughts our feelings, our beliefs, stress, relaxation, pleasure awareness, and and, of course, so much more directly influenced the way we metabolize a meal. It also directly influences the way we calorie burn. So in other words, what we eat is only half the story of good nutrition the The half is who we are as eaters. And more often and most often, what we see with new diets and nutritional systems, they focus on rearranging the foods on our plate. We told eat more of this ecosystem, less of that include this, take this away, take more supplements, etc. But our emotions, our emotions always affect our physical. And there's always a good reason they start on in psychology or in biology, on our patterns and behaviors. So generally speaking, you know, there could be a number of challenges that people may be facing right now, whether it's with stress, whether it's with with fatigue, whether it's with bad eating habits, whether it's with weight management, whatever it is, at the end of the day, what's really important is that we get to the root cause of the problem. So that one can truly course correct and have that sustainable change. Now during a time of tremendous stress like this, what I see so many of my clients You know, turning to me for help, and so many people reaching out to me, and saying to me, you know, their comfort eating now, more than ever, they're turning to food for comfort now, more than ever, and they stress eating. And stress eating, we know is often also referred to emotional eating. Of course, this is triggered by stress, it's a coping mechanism. And it actually makes perfect sense that you no one would would turn to something that they've internalized as a form of comfort over and over again, it's become a habit, and in order to comfort and self soothe oneself. And the problem is that when it comes to eating habits right now, so many people just wish that if only I had more willpower, if only I had more willpower, I could stick with this new diet. If only I had more willpower. I could follow this healthy eating plan. It's very common and in fact willpower has very little to do with why you eat, the way you eat, why you behave the way you behave. In fact, the willpower myth is a very interesting topic. It's a, it's a big topic. But emotional eating can be triggered to cope with our stresses without big changes, or again, to simply satisfy emotional needs. But what's the first step? The same as with our stress? The first step is to become aware of your thoughts to ask yourself, okay, if you finding that you're going to the fridge after you've actually just eaten a proper big meal, and you're still going to the fridge A few minutes later or half an hour later, and you're going for that type of asking all that junk food. Simply ask yourself, what's going on with me? What am I truly craving? What am I really hungry for? Is this a physical hunger? Or is it an emotional hunger? All you need to do right now at this point is simply notice now this is This This actually requires that you tap into your inner observer. But anything whether it's stress, whether it's with a self sabotaging behavior, be it with food or anything else, validate the way you feel in our first step is to validate our emotions, become aware and validate our emotions. And when you feeling sad, or stressed, or anxious, or lonely process that emotion, what we tend to do in this society that we live in today, which is rushed for the most part, which is pushing us for the most part, we we tend to not listen to our emotions to, to push down on negative emotions and to suppress it. So instead of trying to hide emotions, rather, I suggest to everybody to recognize it emotions, to process them, think about them. And actually, just simply, in your mind, create a checklist of what's going on with me is a connection that I'm praying is a touch? Is it that I'm simply zoned out? Or is it that I'm actually physically hungry, because sometimes maybe you haven't had enough calories earlier on in the day. And this can cause one to binge eat or stress eat later on. So simply create that checklist of what's going on for you. But if you find that you're actually craving connection, and you keep going to the top of ice cream, for that, for that connection, and you're not doing anything about it, in other words, you're not calling a friend, even in this time of social distancing, you can pick up the phone and call or, you know, so many times we so busy on our telephone, so if you don't actually have eye contact with, with the people that were sitting across the table from, and we can feel lonely, so notice and understand what's going on so that you can take those steps to course correct, and then answer that question. What is it Is that I'm really craving for. And that simple exercise can help you uncover the deeper underlying message and wisdom behind your emotions because our food story really matters. And there's so much wisdom simply in our food story, as well. And one of the points I always emphasize is that no matter what's going on with your eating habits, or your self sabotaging behaviors is that we should always lean in with a conscious curiosity, and very importantly, compassion for where you act. So lean in so that you can relax into the experience instead of stressing into where you act. What I find so often is that we try to shame ourselves into transformation. But at the end of the day, we need to embrace the bodies that we have in order to have the bodies that we want. So in order to have the bodies that you want, you have to want the body that You've got, you've got to start where you're at, wherever you act, lean in with a conscious curiosity and compassion, start there and begin to embrace where you're at. and love yourself into the transformation, instead of hating yourself into the transformation or shaming yourself into the transformation, because that way, you get there in a way that actually can create that sustainable change. Because too often we, we, we try to restrict ourselves too much, and we get back to square one, that strategy would have worked, it would have worked already.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">eating rhythms and can affect our bingeing patterns. Absolutely. So our circadian rhythms for sure. So as far as how can that affect your sleep, I think it's really important that people become aware of how late it is that they're having that last meal and especially if that nail is is has got sugars in all caffeine in it to really not have that later on in the evening, if possible. Because this can affect your sleep. If you eat a meal too late, you know, sometimes we we eat our meals very late, but it can actually affect the quality of one's sleep. So I would say that at least one or two hours before sleep, not to have a heavy meal. But if you do feel that you need some kind think something to kind of satiate yourself or you're feeling hungry, to go for a lighter meal to just feel that that comfort that you need to calm yourself down and to fall in To your into a deeper sleep, but not to have anything that's too full of sugar because that's going to affect your your quality of sleep. And also very importantly is to not scroll through the phone before you go to sleep as well. People do this without realizing that that they're doing that watching TV too much before you go to sleep to keep the star to turn off the lights early on. And as I mentioned earlier on to practice deep conscious breathing can really help one to simply when you lie down, do a body scan. In other words, what does it mean to do a body scan from the top of your head to the tips of your toes, go through each body part your your forehead, your eyes, your nose, your shoulders, and just relax each body part as you consciously Take an inhale and then exhale and you'll be surprised how that just deeply relaxes the body and helps you to fall asleep and have a good night's sleep.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Even that relaxation affects the way that we learn and I got a chance to go through something with Dr. Paul Sheley where it was photo reading, it's really working on the subconscious and conscious brain work together. But in order to absorb what it is that we're about to do, we need to get into a state so he does a number walk back, right so envisioning and, and attaching emotions and feelings and everything to not only a visual place in our brain, but to a number so that we actually when we're laying down or trying to relax, I can go to three, two and one. And that one is my super safe space. And that's when I'm ready. And it's amazing how much that works when when you really do. A lot of people will look at that and go that's just who we are. Whatever, right but, but when you really invest and understand how the brain works and how you can visualize that then then it does phenomenal work and calming you down. We're going to take another quick break right here and we'll be back with Cheryl pure men. You're listening To record from the work life balance</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1866472 5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon we're talking with Cheryl pewter man who's the founder and CEO of nourishment vitality. last segment, we got an opportunity to understand the relationship between stress nutrition and well being. But let's, let's turn this just a little bit and start talking about, you know, obviously the world has changed for a lot of people. For me, I've been working for home from home since 2005. So when all this went and everybody's going home, as is really no different no change for me. But so many people now are working from home and it's the first time they're dealing with that. Not only that, but the kids are home generally and you're having to homeschool them and you know everybody's around. So how would you describe a healthy work life balance and cultivating healthier habits into one's day especially in this new normal that we have</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, it's a great question and a very necessary question right now with work life balance with so much change, and so many more people now working from home, one must take a work life balance very seriously. You know, certainly, as you mentioned, we're at home, we are there alone with our partners with our families, and that has and will continue to change and define the way we communicate, and our relationships with each other. So for a lot of us, we will need to adapt to this new reality in our lives. You've been working at home since 2005. So you stood, but for a lot of people, they will have to adapt to this new reality in their lives. And we need to keep ourselves in balance both mentally and physically and continue work or develop healthy habits intentionally. I've mentioned the word intentionally because it's very important that we understand that we need to be intentional about actually developing these healthy habits that will increase our personal and I work productivity, there has to be also having said that at the end of the day a balance between what you do and feeling fulfilled, which means finding the balance, even within your work, so that you can focus and make the most of your time. And not only that really feel good and feel happy about the work that you're doing in this world. And if you're lucky enough to be fulfilling your passions, that's great. It's not a given that we do work in last that we land up fulfilling our passions, but at least that one can actually feel good about the work that they doing in the world to find that balance because in that way, you will succeed both at the end of the day, on a monetary level as well as on a personal level of success and even on the level of spiritual success. And I always like to explain keeping a balance in our lives by using an analogy of managing a balanced bank accounts. Say for example, you can make enough deposits to prevent from becoming overdrawn, the penalty for being overdrawn will be stress, anxiety, uncertainty, worry, less focus and less efficiency overall. But the more deposits you make, from being aligned with yourself and your innate needs, such as sleep, eating healthy foods, exercise, and rest, to replenish and rejuvenate one's mind and body, that's when you're going to find more balance, because it's all about the balance at the end of the day. And yeah, Rick what I've learned over time, that the most balanced approach to living a more stress free life is moderation. moderation, meaning not to overindulge, and not to over restrict not to not to be too extreme in one's mindset, either. We need to be more moderate. And I think it's really important to establish these boundaries for work life balance, perhaps you get stressed out if don't check your work email throughout the evening and on weekends. And then perhaps you do get stressed out when you when you do check that as well. So if that's the case, establishing boundaries will help you create that balance and, and and make your and create more healthy lifestyle for yourself leading to a healthier state of mind. So how would that actually look? How would you create these healthier boundaries and establish these boundaries example make it a rule say not to look at your emails past 8pm on weeknights, not to look at your emails at all, for example, on one day of the weekend or simply don't you know commit that you're not going to answer the phone during dinner time. How many times when during dinner? are we sitting and be scrolling through our phone? Are we answering our phone when you eat sit down and just eat or spend that time with your family. So I think it's really important to try out these different options and then find out what works Were you creating that healthy work life balance because whether we like it or not, it's our health. It's our well being that's going to enable us to continue to thrive and hit that, that next level. And if we don't take care of that, at the end of the day, in essence, we leaving money on the table, eventually we'll hit a wall. So we need to be able to deal with that and be intentional in creating a work life balance that works. And this is individual for each person testing and trying out what actually works for them and what doesn't. And but I think it's really important to be intentional about creating work life balance, it's very important.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And there's two things that I kind of want to recap on what you said there. Number one. I work with a lot of coaches and a lot of people that that help other people, but we can't give what we don't have a lot of times we allow ourselves to pleat so fully that that we're depleting ourselves. And so the analogy for me is the cup runneth over on that one. You Don't allow people to drink from your cup your cup needs to be full but what you need to be is so full that the waters over running and they can drink from that. Right? It's it's making sure that we're not depleting ourselves. But what was interesting about boundaries is the The other thing that's been coming up quite a bit in a lot of the conversations is that people feel like they're working more because they're working from home, because the boundary of the office the nine to five, or whatever, you know, times that you go in there, because those boundaries are gone, and anybody can reach you now at the house. And in there, they're used to doing that, that nine to five is kind of blending into time to the point of dinner time and family time and those types of things. So, do you have like a quick technique from a boundary setting perspective of being able to handle maybe a conversation with somebody at work to say, Hey, listen, I know I'm at home but I'm still a nine to five here. You know, I am separating and walking away and being able to set a boundary that you can follow through</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Absolutely, firstly, as you said, with the cactus, as you know, making sure that they do fall first so that you can give to other people. That's where it's really important to be able to create that boundary to raise to replenish to restore your own energy, having that conversation with somebody else. And I always like to start with something positive to say to somebody, you know, I really appreciate your enthusiasm or you're wanting to get a hold of me right now. But I think it's really important that that I also have this time for myself to draw back to rest and replenish that I can think about this more clearly. And these are my guidelines right now that I've created. I'm only going to be working until such a such a time and to really create that work culture within your team, even though even though we all working from home right now, but to keep to that, that healthy work culture that doesn't overstep one's boundaries because people can't make those very important decisions if they can't focus and if they stressed if they stress they can't focus. So it's becoming aware of how you focus best at certain times of the day. There are some people that do focus better in the evening times. So if you know that that works for you then create that within your within your day. But if you feel that that doesn't work for you, then you need to have that conversation be okay with putting down those boundaries and but saying no, in a healthy way to certain things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so speaking of that, in terms of times of focus, and that kind of stuff, and I was actually just trying to remember the name of this book, but Dan pink, yeah, when the scientific secrets of perfect timing, have you have you heard any of that so basically, based on your sleep pattern when you go to bed in and when you wake up Whatever that median time is, puts you into a category of either a lark or a night owl. And it talks about when you're better analytically in your brain, versus when you're more creative in your brain and how those so basically, there's a peak, there's a trough and then a recovery. And based on how your individual body does that peak, you know, in trough and recovery, learning how to the one thing that most people don't think through is their calendars. So it's it's somebody calls and says, I need time and you go Yeah, I got three o'clock on Friday open Let's go. But But what we don't ever ask is like, what kind of bring Do I need to be bringing? Is this administrative or I'm making quick decisions is this creative where I'm really doing some deep thought and need to tap into that creativity level? and learning how to schedule kind of the right meeting at the right time? Have you done any kind of studies with that or seen any, any work around that type of thought pattern?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">is that Again, when you know through certain patterns and techniques, you can bring in that self awareness when you are aware of how it is that you're showing up at different times of the day, then you can start to take those steps become a way simply notice become aware of when you are more alert during the day. And I always say to people, to not only when they figuring out the calendars and everything put in do this, do this do that also start to focus on a stop doing list. There's so many things that we do that are unnecessary, that are taking our focus away. And we're not even aware of that it's often unconscious. So we have to bring our consciousness into ourselves and into our habits and into the things that we do. I believe it's very closely connected to our habits and into our unconscious habits and becoming super aware of who we are and the way we is that we showing up at throughout the day and when we are more creative when we are more strategic are, for example, my most creative time is in the morning, I do some breathing techniques, a little bit of meditation. And that's when I take paper to pen and I tap into my most creative self. And later on in the daytime, I feel I'm a little bit duller. And so I don't book, major meetings for that time of the day. So that's becoming really aware. And this is also through trial and error. And you're going to, you know, people will see a pattern that forms over time. And one can track that pattern and then figure out a way of what works for them because each person is an our bodies and our minds. We all work individually different.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But I agree it starts with awareness. I mean, awareness is where all of you have to be open to a new idea to also be aware to a new idea to try something right. So if somebody says, Oh, this is what I do, and you immediately close your brain, right, you're not ready for change. You're not thinking of change you're not thinking of or being aware of have whatever that is that you're trying to change, whether it's eating habit, whether it's how you treat people at work or those kinds of things. It's really an awakening I see and I get to see it with a lot of people and I went through it myself, there was things that I did on a daily basis that I was completely unaware what that I was doing until I was able to sit with myself and become aware. So we I definitely agree with that. We're going to take our final break right here. We'll be back with our final segment with Cheryl Peterman. And you're listening to Rick Morris on the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and welcome back to our final segment of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon visiting with Cheryl Peterman. And Cheryl you. First of all, how do people get in touch with you and I believe you have an online course that you can tell people about let us know about that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">People can get in touch with me through my website that at WWW dot Cheryl puts them in.com that Cheryl with an s Sh er y el PU t er ma n Cheryl put some calm and I have an online course out there and on stress eating binge eating over eating. And right now we are actually launching because of the crisis a special on the for the score. So if anybody is interested in that they can go to the website and find out about that. And the course is how to overcome stress eating, overeating, binge eating through a seven phase system using my PCP approach, and it's a carefully curated system that actually takes you through this step by step so that you can actually create that sustainable change that one is looking for at the end of the day because he has to deal with stress eating the deeper underlying reasons driving the desire to eat even when your body isn't isn't hungry, overrides your cognitive part of the brain does create a powerful behavioral cycle. And there is a logical reason why the brain does this to us. is something that you can change. Once you become more aware of the reason why you personally experiencing the struggle with self sabotaging behaviors with unhealthy choices. So when you learn those key phases, which we deal with in the course, to break the cycle from understanding your triggers, living in the moment developing the sport awareness, you're then ready to finally stop these stress patterns in its tracks and experience these long lasting results. I mean, I truly believe that it's time for a smarter approach with our nutritional habits and a smarter approach on how to stop the stress eating. And I just want to mention that there's a lot of jokes online right now through the pandemic about people gaining weight and it's actually might be well intended, but okay, it's actually causing and I've seen with people speaking to me about this, a lot of shame with people about their behaviors and So just be aware of that as well. Because you know, at the end of the day despite a $500 billion global diet industry, interestingly enough, the world is still gaining weight and people are living unhealthy and unbalanced lives. So it is definitely time for a smarter approach. And definitely my wife. This was a struggle of mine as well. I developed this online course which, you know, it's consists of micro learning video modules, and audios and PDF worksheets and exercises and transcripts so that people can make the notes and create that real change that they need to go through that sustainable change and lasting results. In the long run, to truly transform and heal the relationship, not only with food but with body and with themselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And can you describe or just say what the words a PCP means because in the United States, that's a powerful hallucinogenic drug. So Wow. It's kind of a slang term. But you're not suggesting people go to hallucinate. So what is PCP?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's pride. First, you take pride in who you are as a human being, compassion. We bring a lot of compassion into our practices all the time. I teach this all the time, I teach a kind mindfulness. And it is making that promise, that commitment, that it's making that promise to yourself, committing to yourself, to follow through what you intend to do. And all the way you have an accountability partner, and private groups where you can actually speak through these challenges. That one goes through and take that deeper dive, diving into the heart of the matter so that you can truly course correct, said pride, compassion and that promise to yourself, no, no, no drugs involved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But I do love that you have an accountability partner. I mean, studies show that if you have an accountability partner, and you're making Public and voluntary commitments to them that are personal, that you have more chance of falling through when you tell somebody you have somebody holding you accountable than if you're just telling yourself so I think that's fantastic. Um, what some of the best advice you've ever received.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The best advice I've ever received is that the biggest antidote for feeling love and feeling depressed is to go out and do some sort of service, some sort of service for somebody else. When you show empathy and you helping somebody else you in essence, also helping yourself. So I've experienced in my life and I'm sure many people that are listening have experienced in this as well that when you give from the heart you truly get for the heart. So always giving with 100% of all of you You asked to receive in return.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's fantastic. And what about just some final words of advice to our audience?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">final words of advice is show up Get up during this time. And when one is stuck at home a lot, sometimes we spend time, more often than not watching too much television, what have you get up every day, show up, get dressed, committed to yourself. And even if you're not used to working from home, get dressed to show up. And if you are creating a new way of life for yourself, start to take those actionable steps you can there's so much that one can do right now. And whether it's learn a new skill, whether it's create some more organization in your home, so whatever it is that you're doing, start to get it done because knowing is one part of the equation doing is the other so start to do so that you can actually take those steps to getting things done and getting things moving.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, Cheryl, we thank you so much for joining us today and staying up late, right it's it's now almost 1am there. So</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">writing, and talking about having those healthy boundaries and work life and then you're staying up at midnight to hang out with us. So we certainly appreciate your time and your knowledge, and we'd love to have you back at some point.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you. I really enjoyed that. It was lovely. Thank you, Rick.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you and for the rest of the audience. Just a couple of other quick announcements for you if you have not joined us on the pm tribe. I'm super excited about this new service for my project management, audience out there, change management, portfolio management. It's literally six world class speakers that have come together to build a foundation to be able to not only do one on one mentoring, but to really create new thought patterns and utilize a community. We realized that in a lot of our communities, and PMI and in some of these other services, that sometimes it's still not a safe space to talk. We wanted to be able to create a community where you could come in and simply say, I'm having this issue at work. I'm having this issue with the stakeholder, whatever that may be, and being To talk to people that have been there, done that, and certainly will not judge and it's certainly a safe space. So you can check us out. We're at the pm tribe calm. And we have a huge announcement that we just made yesterday for the pm tribe live, where all six of us will be live on June 30. Presenting brand new material that none of us have ever done before. So it's fresh material and excited about that. So you can join us at the pm tribe live. And you can find that by going to live dot the Pm tribe.com. Otherwise, again next week, I'm going to be taking a little bit of a breather, we're gonna do a replay and after that, we'll have Travis Bell coming up on June the 12th as well as Vlad Edelman coming up on June the 19th. So we're really excited about these guests. We've got a lot of fantastic information we love you guys for hanging on reach out to me via social media at Rick A. Morris on Twitter or Rick A. Morris on Facebook or LinkedIn love getting your questions and comments and appreciate you guys so much for really staying here and staying with us really for the past almost five years now, believe it or not, but after that we'll go ahead and close out this Friday edition of the work life balance. We love all of you keep trucking and we hope that you live your own work life balance will talk to you again in two weeks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div>
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Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-53778505589496510092020-05-23T09:09:00.000-05:002020-05-23T09:09:19.758-05:00Thirty Minute Mentors - Adam Mendler<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now here's your host Rick Morris</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and welcome to another edition of the work life balance so excited to have you guys on and you know if you guys know anything about me, you know that that that my world is chaos that you know I deal with significant amount of change. I've developed a new condition today called zoom ears because I like to have my headphones on and my microphone to you know, cut out the distractions and the double talk and all that stuff and and literally been on zoom calls all day and I was expecting someone to join us today in his life has it things happen But life is his as such as project managers we're going to roll on and I'm actually going to pivot so if you're expecting or if you happen to see any card coming actually, we're we're right here we're gonna grab him I think and just make sure he's good. Lem, come on Adam, you there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">about to pivot. We're live you're on so there's trial by fire but but so glad to have you aboard here. I'm excited to be here. How are you? I'm doing fantastic. So let me do a I'm switching gears yet again. But let me do a proper introduction. So the gentleman I have today is the chief executive officer of the in do you say bylaws via bl o z. It's the bellows group, the bellows group. And he is co founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries including Beverly Hills chairs, which is a leading office furniture he tailor custom tobacco which is a one of a kind cigar customization ecommerce platform. della solutions, technology consulting and software development practice, he remains active in each one of these companies provide strategic guidance and support. And he also provides business thought leadership as a speaker to businesses, universities, nonprofit organizations, as the host of the leadership and personal professional development podcasts, 30 minute mentors and that's what we're going to be talking about today. Let's welcome to the show Adam in there. How you doing, Adam? I'm great, Rick, how are you? doing? Fantastic. So talk to me a little bit about the inspiration for you know, I love the title 30 minute mentors. Talk to me what what inspired you to do that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">speak for you. But I've certainly been the beneficiary of mentorship in every phase of my life. From the time I was growing up, all the way through today. I've had mentors who have been instrumental in my personal and professional development and without mentors, who knows where I would be in my life. I'm also a big believer in a concept that I call mini mentors, in contrast to a traditional mentor who plays a more impactful and longer term role in your life, mini mentors are people who you might see once you might communicate with once, maybe you communicate with them once a year, or once every now and then. But that communication can be unbelievably impactful. And what I wanted to do with 30 minute mentors, was bring this concept of mini mentors to as broad an audience as possible, to essentially bring the best network of mentors, the most successful people in the country. founders and CEOs of household name companies, celebrities and athletes, generals and admirals, every week, I'm going one on one for 30 minutes with someone who has no made it to the top in whatever they have done, and they've done something highly significant. And, more importantly, their best advice for listeners on how they can get to the top as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that's really what inspired me to launch the show. I'm about 20 episodes in and it's just been an awesome experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's a it's it's a crazy experience, though, right? putting that out there on paper getting that stuff, not paper, but, but laying down the audio itself. And a lot of people though, you know, I think it's one of the things I hear often is, oh, I want to start a podcast and to me, I think I want to start a podcast is the new I want to read a book. You follow me out there is like, everybody, I want to read the book. Yeah, right. And now everybody just wants to jump right into the podcast. But how do you keep that content fresh? And how are you attracting these these guests, these wonderful mentors to your show? Yeah, Rick,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">to your point. From what I last saw, we're either at the million podcast marker club to it. So I think it's important that if you do have a podcast, it's, in my view, no different than if you have a business, you need to be unique, you need to be fresh and you need to have good content. If you have a business, you need to have a good product or a good service. So, in my case, what I've tried to do from the get go and in anything that I've done, whether it's one of my companies or whether it's this podcast, 30 minute mentors, I've really believed in the importance of trying to build something that people want to be a part of, with my company, the bellows group. We started the company out of thin air, it was my brother and I and idea and we started out in my apartment in 2012. And when we started it, no one ever heard of it, but we had this vision for it and we wanted to create something that people wanted to be a part of. Within a couple of weeks, we were recruiting the best Students in the country, kids from literally top five colleges to come and work for us for free. And the reason why was because we were able to create something that people wanted to spend their time spend their summers being a part of. With 30 minute mentors, what I've been trying to do is create a platform, create a show, create a movement, really, that the most successful people in the country will want to be a part of. And why is that? Because what am I doing? What are these shows all about? They're really all about providing listeners with the best advice possible to excel in their lives. And if you're someone who's made it to the top, what do you really care about at this phase in your life, you largely care about giving back you largely care about helping share the lessons learned, that you can share that can help the people around you become better and Our lives, and the people who have come on my show really have that mantra, they believe very deeply in paying it forward. They believe very deeply in doing whatever they can to help the people around them. And it's been a great way for me to help amplify this message and help people tune in become their best selves by getting great advice from people who've made it to the top.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And it's interesting that you talked about, you know, we're getting to the million podcast mark. So if you dive into those statistics, right, there's there's something that's very prevalent in this industry called pod fade. And so that's, you know, many podcasters don't make it past their seventh episode without experience some sort of decrease in motivation, either they thought, you know, the audience was going to explode or that they're running out of topics and they really don't have as much to say as they thought they did in so statistics aren't really easy to come by. Because a lot of podcasts just fade away, they just stopped producing new content in by best figures we get gather is about 75% of those million podcasts out there are really no longer in production. So really, you know, there's there's only a couple hundred thousand that are actually active podcasts that are producing new content and doing so consistently. So my question to you is, you say you're 20 episodes in? Did you? Did you feel that pod failed at any point? And what were some of your driving factors to, to keep the pedal down?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">On the contrary, Rick, I've been fired up from day one, as fired up today as I was when I was starting this endeavor. For me, the biggest challenge was getting myself to a place where I said, I'm just going to do this. I had this idea, stewing in my mind for a long time. And it was something that I really wanted to do. But as an entrepreneur as someone who does a lot writing and speaking and anyone who's taken a look at my bio knows that I have a lot of things on my plate. It was a bit of a challenge for me to say, Okay, I'm just gonna go and do it. And what I did was I set a deadline for myself. And I essentially said by January of 2020, this show is going to be launched, no matter what, by January 2020.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to figure out how it's gonna happen. And there were plenty of obstacles along the way. But if you're, if you're dedicated to making it happen, you're gonna make it happen. And pretty much from the point, the show launch until today, I've just been fired up and I have not experienced the pie fade. On the contrary, Rick, I am walking into every episode fired up and excited to engage with whoever it is that I'm interviewing and why wouldn't I be? I have that. opportunity to learn from unbelievably successful people, and to give my listeners the opportunity to learn from the most successful people out there. So I viewed as a privilege, and it's something that I'm really excited to do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When I love that you said that. So I really think that becomes the key. We're doing this for an audience. We're not doing for ourselves. Some of the council I've always, you know, said when when somebody says I want to write a book is say, well, who are you doing it for? Right, because it? Well, I just think I have a story to tell is great. We all have stories to tell. Right? But if you're writing it from the perspective of I have a great story, it's really not readable for the audience. What is it for them that you're going to do and the same goes for podcasts. The other thing I hear all the time, too, is is, well, somebody already said it, or somebody's already done a show like that, or there's something similar out there. But that doesn't mean you know, your audience is still waiting. Your audience still wants to hear from you. Just because a concept or topic or an idea has been covered before doesn't mean you can't cover it. I mean, there's that Thousands of motivational speakers and I'm close and follow, you know, one of the greatest communicators of all time and john Maxwell. And he's got hundreds of books spoken to millions of people, yet I still, you know, 75% of the people I meet on a daily basis don't know who he is. And so I think it's really important for us to focus on not only delivering something for the audience, but not being what you say things in our own authentic way. So what I want to do with this Adam, we're right up against a break, but I'd love to hear some of your favorite stories and moments so far within the podcast and just in general, you know, you're you're obviously all over national media, you've done a ton of writing a ton of speaking. So what are some of those favorite stories that that you go to or that you can tell from from your own endeavors? We're going to get to that right after this break and listening to Rick Morris on the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back on this Friday afternoon with the work life balance. Thanks for riding along with us. And thanks for always, always understanding how we do the show. When we do the show and what we're doing the show about. You guys have been phenomenal in your feedback to us and please keep that coming. Keep reaching out to us. We'd love to hear from you. So we're on with Adam Mendler and Adam. Just before we went into break, I was going to ask that question. have, you know, through your interviews and through all of your topics? What are some of your favorite stories, people that you've interviewed or things that they've said to you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick, that's a great question. And I know that we have an hour blocked out today. I feel like we could probably spend 10 hours going through it because every guest has so many incredible stories. And it's hard to really just pick one or two. But if you</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And this week, I did an interview with Victor Rojas, who is the play by play announcer for the angels. I'm a huge angels fan. I'm not sure if we have a lot of sports fans in your audience or baseball fans. But one of the things that Victor told me that was really interesting is when Victor broke into baseball, he played for Joe Maddon, who is one of the top managers in baseball today, but john madden was The coach for the angels and the angels minor league system when Victor first broke into baseball, and Victor was a kid right out of school. And Joe mad I asked Victor, what are what were some of the experiences you learned playing minor league baseball, playing for Joe Maddon, and something that was interesting that he said to me was john madden had all of this wisdom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And he had all these unbelievable lessons. And it didn't really get through to me. I didn't really fully grasp what he was teaching me. At that age. I didn't really last that long in the minor leagues. And now that I'm in my 50s, I kind of get what he was saying. those lessons resonate a lot more with me now than they did then. And he shared some of those lessons and he was talking about the power of communication and how Joe Maddon was able to to really connect with everyone in the room, how we treated the star players the same way that he treated the bench players and there was a lot of lessons there for me to unpack as someone who was on the other side of the conversation, one of them being that I can tell you in my life, I've had experiences that I wish, in my first job out of college, I had more wisdom going into that experience. I think we all wish that there are moments in our lives that we would have had more wisdom, but we can't live life that way. All we can do is look back on the experiences that we've had and learn from them. And the great thing about the show is that we have great leaders who are sharing experiences that they have, that listeners can learn from. Another one I did recently was with retired general general Reynold Hoover who will was talking about his experience in Fort Hood. He was leading battalion that was set to deploy to Afghanistan and he was in Fort Hood the day that the Fort Hood shooter went off and just hearing him talk about that was incredibly moving. I had Gary Michaelson on my show, Gary Michelson is a self made billionaire, not too many self made billionaires out there. There are people out there who have inherited a lot of money and say that they're billionaires. But Gary grew up without any money, put himself through school by working two jobs. And he shared the story of when he was in medical school, and was pretty close to graduating, was faced with having to do this series of medical procedures that he deemed unethical and The medical school administration essentially told him, Well, we don't care, you've got to do them. This is what everyone does. And he refused to do it. And they said, well, we're gonna kick you out. And it was a game of chicken between the medical school that he went to, and this was a guy with no money. And they had all the leverage. He had no leverage. But he stood by his guns and ultimately, the medical school backed down, and he didn't have to do the procedures. And they years later changed the procedures. And that was a pivotal moment in his life and in his career and help shape who he became. So with every guest, you hear lots of interesting stories you hear lots of not only interesting anecdotes, that as a listener, you take a step back and say, Wow, that's a great story. But each of these stories brings out a much broader point. In the case of Gary's story, the point was just how important It is to have a strong ethical foundation in how you shape the way that you act in your leadership. In the case of Victor, it was really the importance</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Has there been some prevailing themes, though, that, you know, one of the things that I've noticed some themes as I, as I interview a lot of these people that have overcome, you know, adversity, and they've had tons of failure, are you noticing those types of themes in meeting with these great leaders?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Definitely themes absolutely emerge. If you listen to a few episodes, you'll you'll hear some consistent themes. One thing that I always like to share with audiences when I'm asked this question</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">something that I've come to learn from interviewing hundreds of America's top leaders first through my interview series and thrive global. And now by doing this podcast</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">just how applicable the core principles of leadership are. So one thing that you can really take away is,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">great leaders follow the same core fundamental principles. It is about you It is not about me. It's about taking one plus one and turning it into three. It is about caring for the people around you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">There are when we can go on and on about What it takes to be a great leader, but what it takes to be a great leader in the military, and what it takes to be a great leader of a baseball team and what it takes to be a great leader of a startup company and what it takes to be a great leader of Fortune 500 business aren't all that different. At the end of the day, you need to have those same set values, those same set of skills, those same set of principles. That's one big takeaway. Another thing that's interesting, Rick, that I, that I've come to learn, that I also really enjoy sharing is having interviewed so many of these unbelievably successful people. I'm continually blown away by how important great leaders believe in the value of learning, continually learning, no matter where You are on your leadership journey. And I have had guests come on my show who have impressed this point upon me in two ways. Number one is they'll talk about how important continual learning is to leadership. I just had General Martin Dempsey, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was the highest ranking military officer in America on my show a couple weeks ago. And one of the things that he said, you know, was just how important it is for leaders not to be set in their ways not to get to a point where they don't feel like they need to learn anymore. But in addition to that, what I found that incredible is when I have guests who tell me, you know, I had no idea how much I had in common with some of these other guests on your show, but listening to your content and hearing from this CEO of Gold's Gym are hearing from</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, leaders or readers is one of the things that we quote often. So in prevailing these themes, though, have there ever been, what about themes of the success? Meaning, you know, how many of them and I kind of know the answer this, but I think it's important for a lot of the entrepreneurs that are the audience now, how many of them were successful with their first idea?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, that's a that's a good one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Not many. I think that, you know, something to clarify is, my show isn't specific to entrepreneurs. So I would say that a A subset of the people who I interview are entrepreneurs. I interview a lot of CEOs I interview, some celebrities, I interview some athletes, of the entrepreneurs that I've interviewed. And I've interviewed a lot of entrepreneurs outside of my podcast of the entrepreneurs who I've interviewed, very few have the home run off of their first play to parents, let alone their first swing. It takes failure after failure to find that success. And if you open up a question, beyond entrepreneurs and beyond ideas, I'm a huge believer in failure as a gateway to success. You have to fail in order to succeed. You're never going to make it without learning the hard lessons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But that's the that's the same thing. Though for those CEOs for those athletes for years, right, it's it's a lifetime of failure for the rare success. One of the misuse terms that I hear often is overnight success. Right. And I know I know many people that have worked for 20 years to get that overnight success, right? Been trial and error and push and pull in all of the different things. What's one of it? We've got about three minutes to break here. So give me an easy one. What's one of your your most favorite articles you ever wrote?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's a good one. That's a good question.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's actually a harder question than than you would think because of, I've written quite a few and I've enjoyed so many of them. But I will give you one, which is the first article that I wrote that got published, which was an article that I wrote that was renamed let's put it that way. So I the article that I submit Got watered down a little bit. So the article that I submit was called why I fired a Harvard Graduate after two weeks. And it got changed in after editorial kind of did their, we'll call it magic to it. It was turned into what I learned about my company culture from firing an employee. But the story was really about why I fired a Harvard Graduate after two weeks. And I enjoyed that article because I thought it was a really important message for readers and really important message for leaders, entrepreneurs and for employees, for anyone who's who's in any part of the process. And what the article was all about was we had someone who worked for us, who was great on paper. She went to the best school in the country. She had a great resume. But when she showed up, everything went wrong and I won't bore your, your listeners that I was gonna say the readers, but your listeners can read the article if they want to know, all of the nightmares that took place. But needless to say, he didn't work out. And what was really important, what were the lessons that that I learned from that experience? The importance of not looking so much at the traditional markers of one's pedigree. When you're hiring an employee, don't look at did they go to Harvard? Did they go to Yale? Did they go to Princeton? Does it really matter if they were 4.0? Does that stuff really count in life? What does matter? Your work ethic matters, your attitude matters. How do you approach problem solving? Are you comfortable? working outside of your comfort zone? Are you a team player? Are you the kind of person who has a can do attitude? These are the kinds of things that at the end of the day will determine whether you're going to be a winner in my culture and in virtually any other culture. So that that was a great article and I would encourage anyone who's interested in the topic to take a read and if not to at least, embody and really incorporate those core principles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And as a as an alumni of the University of Tennessee one could argue that Harvard is the best school. But we're gonna go ahead and take a break right here. We'll be right back without a Mendler you're listening to Rick Morris and the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon talking with Adam Mendler. In Adam. As we discussed podcast, I'm gonna pull up Maxwell on one of my favorite things I learned from john is the question you know, who do you know that I should know? And so having said that with your podcast who's somebody that you You're really hoping to be able to book on this podcast and why.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I'll tell you I actually sent out an email to Joe Biden's team last weekend. I don't know if they're going to respond, but he'll be someone I would love to have on the podcast. I would love to have President Obama on the podcast. The reason why I sent out an email to Joe Biden's team was, because why not? I'm interested in having interesting people with interesting perspectives. People have made it to the top. And President Obama will be a great guest too. So those are two people who I would love to have on. And so we're back in so Rick, I don't know if you can help make the connection. But</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, I don't know. Okay. But you know what, that's how it works, right? It's Yeah, how you do that. And also just your microphone volume. If there's a way that you can turn that up just a little bit after the reset there. So, some of you, we've talked about kind of your favorite topics, the prevailing themes, one of your articles, what's one of the questions I'm missing from you right now?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Is my volume better now?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Go ahead and talk and we'll pick it up from there. Okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So can you hear me a little bit better now? Yeah, go ahead. Okay. So can you can you repeat that question?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">What what's a question? I'm missing? What's in all of this, in trying to dive further into your podcast and your publications? What's the question? I should be asking you right now that I haven't.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I don't want to go into a topic that's too sensitive. But we could always talk college football. You mentioned that you're a Tennessee fan. I went to USC. And we can always discuss Lane Kiffin and Oh, yeah, yeah, that's I don't know if that's a topic that we're allowed to discuss. But this is my little talk. There's gonna be a lot of commonality if you and I talked about Lane Kiffin because he didn't do all too well in either of our programs. So</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah, for sure, for sure. Well, he left ours in the middle of the night in a campfire and didn't even tell if you've heard the story. He didn't even tell his brother in law. When he left. His brother in law found out that that he left on the news. And he's like, so I guess I'm not on that plane.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">but I think that dovetails nicely, because if really, we weren't as excited about laying as we were about Monty. Sure. Right. And that became that that package deal but from a leadership perspective here, you've got Rising Star who,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">by the way, underly understandably because Monty was a great defensive coordinator, he was the man with the bucks. And talk about mentorship. I know that that was what we opened up the show with and obviously the theme of my podcast. Monty was Pete Carroll's mentor. So it really does go full circle. And it's a really good, valuable lesson to listeners, Monte Kiffin for listeners who aren't aware Monte Kiffin was the longtime defensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And Pete Carroll was a protege of Monte Kiffin. So when Pete Carroll took the job at USC, one of his first hires was Lincoln, as an assistant coach, as sort of a way of paying it forward to Monte Kiffin and that's what started Lane Kiffin his coaching career. So really just goes to show that value of relationships the value of mentoring and Look at Pete Carroll's coaching tree and not everyone's been the greatest, most successful head coach. But he's had a lot of coaches out there. He's he's had, I would say as productive a tree in terms of guys who have become head coaches as anyone I mean, it's almost like the modern day go wash tree in terms of guys who have gotten head coding jobs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And but if you look at that, I think Lane's an interesting story. I mean, obviously, we were saying that and just to get going, but here's, here's somebody who has the benefit of that mentorship, and has early incredible success, and we're so ready to raise his arm to say he's successful, and he's the Second Coming. He's the next person. And then, you know, he gets programs like Tennessee and USC, and arguably, I mean, Tennessee, it was on the rebound, but arguably those are your top 10 coaching jobs. In the nation in terms of support and fan base and everything else that comes with it. And so they were so ready to grant him that access that that he failed miserably. I mean, he just went to all mess, right, coming out of FAA. Yeah. But, but still, I think that that success that you haven't earned or the I don't think he had the sweat equity, to be honest with you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I can't argue I can't argue that Rick, I do think another lesson, perhaps a more uplifting lesson, which I totally get where you're coming from, and I can't truly can't argue that. But lane has had a lot of second chances. More second chances, then you can even call them second chances. And I think it's important lesson for listeners that when you fail, and we were talking about this before the break, when you fail, life's not over. When you fail, you can get back up and If anything, Layne has been failing up throughout his career, and there are a lot of examples of, of other coaches and other people in life who have failed up. And my guest actually this upcoming week talks a lot about failing up if anyone is interested tuning into the podcast. And Layne is back in the sec as a head coach. He was fired by USC and what did he do? He didn't sulk, he got back up and took a job coaching at Alabama and did well there he you know, by all measures performed well, as an assistant coach under Nick Saban, he went to a small school in Florida did fairly well there and now is back in the game. So if anyone is listening to this, and I know we're kind of teasing a little bit, but anyone who's listening to this there is a bit of an inspirational story. Lane Kiffin in that. Even if you had your dream job which he had, as the coach of USC, and it's taken away from you life's not over, you can bounce back and still live a great life. I'm sure Lane Kiffin is happier and doing a lot better than many, many other people out there and a lot of people out there who would be really happy to be a head coach of a college football program at an SEC school. So no matter how hard you failed, you get back up. I</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">totally agree. Totally agree. I you know, I think it's another dovetail on that around corporate culture, and in some people learn leadership through mentoring of other people but failed to develop their authenticity of that and become that authentic leader of themselves. And I think that's what he had to learn when he came to Tennessee. He brought a lot of USC traditions, including like when you went to Field House, it was Rolling tapes of like Matt minor and Reggie Bush and he would point up and say those are champions. And, quite frankly, as a proud program, they had their own champions. And we had our own traditions that as a new coach, you need to learn to adopt and understand the culture of an organization and then change the culture to where you want it to be. You don't come in and tell them a culture is bad. And that was one of the things I took away as a leadership lesson, and watching how he kind of came in. And and clearly just trying to replicate the success that he that he felt underpaid, and thinking that that was going to work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick, I think that's a great point. And I think that an adjacent point is the importance of listening, the importance of taking the time, and having the humility to absorb the perspectives of those around you. I mentioned that I had General Dempsey on my podcast a couple weeks ago. And one of the things that he said that was particularly interesting to me was when he was talking about his experience in advising President Obama. And it he was talking about, he said, getting a lot of really interesting things in there. One of the things he said was that when he briefed President Obama, he President Obama would say, Don't tell me. What's in the briefing books. I've already read the briefing books. Surprise me, tell me something new Give me something that's not already on paper. So I thought that was interesting. But what he also said is, President Obama made it a point to listen and allow those around him to voice their perspectives, even when they were perspectives that President Obama was not going to agree with was not going to go with to build trust in general Dempsey's words and I think that this is incredibly valuable for anyone listening. To build trust. You need to allow those around you to talk. You need to allow those around you to have their day. have their voices be heard. Even if you're not gonna go with what they say even if you're not gonna take their advice and act on it, let them be heard and let them talk and as and as a as a great leader you should listen doesn't necessarily mean that you should act on their advice that you should follow your gut you should follow what makes sense you should follow ultimately, the most sound judgment possible. But to get to that most sound judgment possible. It requires having great people around you and incorporating all data points including the data points. Have your most trusted advisors and going back to lane, walking into a situation that you've never been in before walking into a program that you've never worked out before walking into a culture that you've never been a part of before. And failing to listen, failing to bring in the stakeholders who need to be brought in who need to feel like they're a part of it is setting yourself up for failure before you even get started.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, at the end of the day, you've got to value people. And so I think that's that's an important leadership lesson for most people. So we're going to take our final break right here. We'll be right back with Adam for our final segment where we hit him with a question we ask all of our guests, and we'll do some final wrap up so come back for the last segment. You're listening to the work life balance with Rick Moore's</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the final segment of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon visiting with Adam and learn Adam, you've done so much you've written you've, you've got this podcast. Can you tell people where to find the podcast and maybe some of your favorite articles as well?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Rick. I really appreciate that. And thanks again for having me. This was a lot of fun. enjoyed all the things we've been talking about. I tried to make it really easy for anyone interested. So my podcast 30 minute mentors, you could find that 30 minute mentors calm. You could also find it on your favorite podcasting app. So whether it's iTunes or Spotify or Google Play or Stitcher and to learn More about me to find any of my articles, you can just go to my website, Adam Mendler, calm. And all of my content is on there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So Adam, we ask every one of our guests is, what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">It's a great question. I love it. And</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I had great advice from my mom. Actually, not what what do I say Actually, we all get great advice from our parents. But advice I got from my mom was Don't try to please, other people. Don't try to please your parents. Don't try to please, people around you. You have one person who you have to please and that's yourself. And life is hard enough as it is. It's all that much harder when you're trying to live life for other people. So if you take that advice and take it to its natural extension, I think it's really important for anyone Listening, to follow your passion to do what you love, and not to be inhibited by the expectations around you. And just go with it. Go with your heart, follow your passion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So to be fair and be well rounded in our college football discussion, we discussed a lot about about lane. And but there was somebody who followed lane in a lot of these things who's actually broken out on his own and you wrote an article about three lessons that that entrepreneurs can learn from coach at OSHA route, you want to share any of those?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so Coco is a great leader. And we spoke a little bit about Glenn's journey and the ups and downs that he had. And Coco is a beautiful illustration of a coach who was written off for dead and seemingly came out of nowhere. To become the most successful coach in college football. When I was a college student, I went to USC, my freshman year of college. All these guys were there. Pete Carroll was the head coach. It was his first year as the coach at USC. Lane. Kiffin was the wide receiver coach. Coach Oh was the defensive line coach. Sark was there. He was actually the quarterback coach, the Kennedy Polo was that he was an all star lineup of characters on that coaching staff. And when you study coach OHS journey, it's a great illustration of the fact that no matter where you are, you can always make it to the top. If you believe in yourself, if you persevere and if you don't give up and in the case of code Joe, it took some lucky he coached at Mississippi, he had to learn from that experience. It wasn't. We talked about how how in lane Kevin's first job. He didn't necessarily walk in having. Having had the experience needed to succeed as a head coach, with Coach Oh, it was those early failures that positioned him to succeed as the coach at LSU. And as an entrepreneur, bring it back. It's very hard to succeed right away. If you haven't failed, it takes failing. It takes making mistakes, to be able to learn the necessary lessons to ultimately succeed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And it's interesting because I have I have kind of the same story about an ad that I did is lane so I'm still very involved with with the programs there too. See and get it get a lot of chances to see some of these insights stuff. And one of the big gripes from the players and I think, above all else, you know, Ed's a player's coach, a lot of people don't understand them, or some people don't like certain ways that he approaches, you know, media, but I love how he always you know, you know, finishes with Go Tigers are very consistent at the end of every one of his interviews. But when he came to Tennessee from USC, you know, he was known for like getting into the locker room and rallying up people ripping his shirt off and doing that kind of stuff. But again, it lacked authenticity to our players. And so that was kind of a complaint of like, what, and they're already under this cloud of why you bring in all this USC stuff here. We're Tennessee and you know, we've got our own traditions. And I watched him learn from that. So he's adapted that as he goes, but I watched him feel that kind of that non connection or that lack of authenticity, and in derive that into just being authentically who he is and everything That has a tremendous impact on your players and to your success. Right at the end of the day, you can't copy something else, you have to be authentic to you. I</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">couldn't agree with you more, Rick on the point that to be a great leader, you need to be comfortable in your own skin. The first step of the leadership journey is really understanding who you are as a person. Before you can effectively lead others. You need to be able to lead your own life. You need to understand your strengths. You need to understand your weaknesses. And it's very hard to be this is kind of goes back to the theme of a lot of what we were talking about. As to why it's so hard to reach the mountaintop overnight. Why are people taking 20 years to become overnight successes, because it takes time to learn these lessons and you can read books you can listen to public caste, and you can understand things. But oftentimes, you have to go through the journey yourself to really internalize it. And Coco is a great example of that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, Adam, we certainly appreciate you being a part of the show. Is there any final words you'd like to leave the audience with?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick, just want to thank you again for having me on to your listeners. Thanks for taking the time to tune in. If anyone's interested in connecting, encourage you to tune in to the podcast or to check out my site out of Mendler comm You can also find me on social media at Adam Mendler on Instagram at Adam Mendler on Twitter, and wish everyone a great weekend and thanks again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you so much, and we'd love to have you back on and I think you and I could just have a few college football episodes. I think that would be fantastic. I would love it and we could if you Rick, we didn't even get to other sports. Do you want to talk baseball, basketball, all NFL? I'm all about it. All of them. I mean, I'm in it in Unfortunately with with the the COVID going on I find myself watching I think ultimate tag was on just if whatever whatever I can do to fill the gap I think thank goodness for documentaries like the last day last dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">fantastic but so next week we're gonna have Sheryl Puterman on she talks about how nutrition and stress and all of that really affects your well beings I think it's a fantastic show to have on we're going to have her on next Friday. And as always, we're going to be here for you for the work life balance every Friday for central five Eastern to Pacific right here on voice America business network. Please stay tuned to the network for another fantastic show and until next week, we hope that you live your own work life balance this has been recorded.</span></span></div>
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Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-6017568497413985082020-05-09T07:45:00.001-05:002020-05-09T07:45:50.591-05:00The Inevitable Collapse of Agile - David Stackleather<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To get to the web page of the radio show, click </span><a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/123379/the-inevitable-collapse-of-agile-david-stackleather" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To download the mp3 file, click </span><a href="https://pdcn.co/e/cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011615/morris050820.mp3" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-life-balance/id1068570357?mt=2" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick Morris.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And welcome to another edition of the work life balance. Very excited to have everybody along. You know, I think it's still just really, really crazy times. I know a lot of the states in the United States are starting to kind of think about reopening and reintegration and you know, it's it's just been a crazy moment, but I had a moment of reflection this morning. I had a chance to join a mastermind with several of the john Maxwell team members. And really, you know, I think the the entire part of us being quarantine for that matter is that we really It's allowed me to focus more on connection versus distraction. Right, this is kind of the key thing that came out, I think, because I was traveling so much and because I was going all over the world and, and literally would lose two days a week to travel, there was just tons of distraction that I wouldn't allow that connection piece to always go and now that I'm kind of forced to stay in one spot, it's really been something to focus more on connection with people and so I challenge you to reach out and connect call three or four people today and just you know, maybe past clients or people that you haven't gotten, gotten in touch with recently and just have an opportunity to reach out to them. You know, I've got some some very special people in my life that that provides that connection that really just amplifies my energy and so I urge you to find the same. We also want to announce if you haven't had a chance to come join us at the pm tribe calm please do as for my project managers that are listening out there my agile lists that are listening out there. We wanted to create a community that did more than just deliver content, we wanted to deliver direct mentorship. So it's led by six of the brightest minds that we know in project management and agile and each one of us have lanes in which we have calls every week, the calls are recorded, but you have the ability to call into to the mentor and ask anything you want to ask and deal with any issue that you want to deal with. And we've got some phenomenal mentors, john Steinbeck, Colin Ellis, Peter Taylor, Elizabeth Heron, Elena Hill, and myself. And so it's just a great community of people that are really driven to watch you grow in and master your influence to be able to really do the job that we were intended to do. So that's at the pm tribe calm come join us over there. So we're going to get to our guests today. Our guest is is I'm really excited about this. He's an independent management consultant. And he's focused on unraveling track troubled large scale projects and helping organizations transformation into high performing and adaptable companies. In short, his mission is to help teams and organizations become better, better in the sense of increased teamwork, increased flow, increased learning and increased passion about their mission. Most companies today are run based on flawed and outdated assumptions about how people work their best. These assumptions around the structure work methods and management got us far during the Industrial Revolution. But those same approaches no longer work. The good news is we know what works now. And the challenge is that it's not easy or intuitive to get there and so we're going to talk to this gentleman who brings us this this great knowledge His name's David stack leather, David, how you doing, sir?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doing fantastic. And you know, when I asked for a topic for the show, you know, the inevitable collapse of agile and so boy already I can feel the Agile is just, you know, just breathing heavy. Like, don't don't mess with my method. Don't you touch my standup right. Don't mess with my sprint. But let's talk about that. Right agile is is such a big buzzword and It's It's, you know something I looking at you on the screen here. I'm not going to guess age or judge age. But we've been through the ITIL. We've been through the Six Sigma craze. We've been through all the latest fads and things and, and so when when I first heard of agile, I thought it was a fad. I was like, man, they may even be around in two years, but right, it's hanging on. So talk to me. But why did you come up with that as a title? Why do you see it as an inevitable collapse of Agile?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I, my early career, my first professional job was in when TQM was coming into the</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, and process reengineering. And Mike hammer. And there was an executive at the company I worked for who was big into process reengineering. And I was kind of picked from the bowels of the organization as maybe I had an interest in that skill there. And so those things I was really passionate about that did a lot of work within the company I worked for with our clients, kind of an internal consulting company learned a lot traveled the world. And I still believe in all that stuff. I still believe in TPM. And I still believe in process reengineering in the in the right context. But it became clearer and clearer to me that there's a more fundamental issue that even if you have the recipe, even if you have the quote unquote, solution, there's a bigger issue and trying to accomplish that in larger organizations. And my most recent experience in a large scale agile transformation, were a very old school organization in the insurance space, which is famous for not wanting to change for some good reasons and some bad and looking at even an organization that wanted to go through the transformation and needed to go through a transformation. How much kind of nonsense there was within that structure and nonsense internally generated but a lot of nonsense externally generated from consulting firms. A lot of people who really had no idea really what they were talking about, but they had a certification over weekend and suddenly they felt they could suggest how an organization that is a multi billion dollar, billion dollar organization is going to operate and appreciating the complexities of that, you know, because it's not a machine that we're dealing with. And I've dealt in manufacturing environments, and those are also extremely complicated. But when you get humans involved in the situation, it's really complicated and the context is key. And so the more that I look at specifically agile, which I'm a big believer in the foundational principles of agile, I think this is the right direction, but the industry around it and what's being sold is is doesn't kind of hue to those standards. I don't believe and just like frankly, if we're speaking, you know, honestly, the T QM days, the process reengineering days, the Six Sigma days, whatever fad, you can mention the outcomes, I think we're generally disappointing to the various Businesses that implemented them not that there weren't successes. And I think we're seeing that now in the Agile space as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, so let's back that up and deconstruct it a little bit first, whether it's t qm ITIL, agile, Six Sigma, it's all plan, do check act. I mean, Pim Bach is doing that, is doing that. I mean, it's, it's all we're gonna plan, we're going to do it, then we've got a measure, and then we're going to act upon those measurements and deviations right there. Right? Plan, do check act. So that's why I always considered a fad. But I think my biggest determining factor of whether or not I really believe in what's going on, is whether is the first step that suggested and if the first step is suggested is we got to train everybody in the organization in new in new words and a new lingo. Right, then you're selling training, you're not selling a product because honestly, if you do it well, you don't really have to put anybody through training. It's just you just change the underlying structure and say, This is the way it's going to be done here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Is that fair to say? No, I think the way that I I look at these I question, especially with the Large scale frameworks and I use safe as an example not because I have any particular issue with safe, but that's the most popular one. And I asked myself, what's being sold there? What's the business model and the business model is a certification business model. And it's a consulting, business model implementation business model, but really from the the large scale frameworks being sold. It's really the revenue stream is certification, which is why you pick just about any of the frameworks, or any of the organizations providing certification. And when I first got involved in the Agile space, there were a couple you know, you had your product owner and your Scrum Master certification, you know, there was a handful. Now, there's a dozen or more for most of these. Yeah, I mean, it's just it which is is kind of crazy in a lot of ways. And so just like any other business, they're coming out with new models all the time because they want to create new features and new models they can sell and that's really exciting. It's not fundamentally about improving an organization, it's about selling the training and all the kind of add on processes. And I think you're right in the executive or a leader will see that as you know, I call it installing the agile, you know, I want to buy the agile and install the Agile as if they're buying a printer or something. Right. And because of the way it's structured and sold, it kind of looks like that. And it seems very scientific, and it seems very official, and it's very expensive, and very time consuming. And by the time you get through all this certification and relabeling and all this process, a couple of things happen either it fizzles out, and people just still use the same terms but they're not really acting in that way. or an organization will try to fool itself because once you've spent millions of dollars implementing something, you can't really admit that it didn't. It didn't work. And so now you're you're, you're kind of forced to set to say that it did work or move on and Forget about it because you don't want to admit that you spent a huge amount of money doing something that didn't work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Now Dean leffingwell is is a friend of the show and he's endorsed books that we've done. We wrote a book called agile Almanac, which was scaling all the different types of agile methodologies to the to the bigger scale. he endorsed that book, wonderful person, but the certifications coming out too fast. I mean, I was certified I think in four Dotto, and it's already up to five. And that was just a few years right and your certifications no longer valid because I decided I wanted to change the model. And the reason why I changed the model is because I'm getting feedback that it doesn't work right. So it's it's, it's this constant thing, but to be fair, one of the things that you said was was Tiki and and all these things were six sigma t qm, although they seem not to work in what I think happens is I think they do work I think, I think in their purest form when when, you know, the Toyota way, right, that was the big thing. Everybody wouldn't read that book and try to implement it like Toyota did. But it did work for Toyota. It was it was amazing what they did, but I love the way that you said the install methodology. So just go get me that no, that was a whole culture built and we've got a top down and everybody was no knowing what was happening. And so I want to get some of your feedback we're about to go to break here and I want to start talking about what you call the Agile industrial complex but to leave the listeners with something here as well as one of the biggest things that I see in failures of Agile is that we don't change the methodology the executives and I see this I have a lot of coaches on the line as well that a lot of john Maxwell team coaches and when when you approach an executive they go Okay, yeah, my team needs coaching. They're like no, no, we're starting with you. Oh, no, I'm fine. I'm good. I'd you know that my team needs that I'm you don't have to talk to me. And so I'm watching you know, a team base agile get started, but still being requested waterfall reports. So when is it going to be done? how much it's going to cost, which means the organization hasn't bought in, right? And so now you've spent all this money on training, you've got this agile team running and now when you're trying to then quantify it back up to the executives They don't, they don't that coach has never done it in a large scale like that insurance company there's the person that got sort of certification hasn't led anything on a large scale where the less transform a business right So, lots to talk about lots to unpack we'll get into the Agile industrial complex you're listening to David stack leather and Rick Moore's and the work life balance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon visiting with David stack leather. David is talking about the inevitable collapse of agile. So that obviously piqued my interest. And I'm excited to have you aboard the show. One of the things that you brought up in in some of the pre interviews is you talked about the Agile industrial complex, can you can you describe what that is and what you're talking about there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So this is the most visible aspect of this are the certification organizations, you know, the scrum.org and the scrum Alliance, and then some of the framework vendors safe and less than those kind of things. And that's even in the past couple of years that's kind of exploded. Even from a framework perspective. We have Nexus and others that have popped up and you know, I think as we talked about Before the break, a lot of this stuff is based on the same set of principles. It's just kind of a re mixing of it doesn't really bring anything new. And so this creates this process where there's an industry that's selling something to people. And there are multiple customers in the industry, which is kind of the complexity of it. The certification is one component of it. And those customers are employees, and folks who want to get into a job or a career. And the certification is just like in you know, the project management space, you had PMP certification, this is like that, but just worse than that, there's so many more. And the employees and the workers feel they have to become certified so you have a ready made audience. Hiring managers are part of this as a customer of this complex because hiring managers are looking to hire a fairly complicated skill set and a lot of these roles are Scrum masters and amazingly complicated skill set to hire for. And so as a hiring manager, it's much easier for me to simply Do you have a CSM and then I'll hire a CSM. And then, you know, just like in the old days where nobody got fired for buying IBM, you could say, well, nobody gets fired because you hired a CSM, they were certified, but nobody knows really what that means being certified. And you have executives who are for various reasons, some of them real, the performance of their organization isn't where it should be. And they're looking to change or they just want to be in on the latest fad to tell their friends that, hey, I'm an agile organization now. And so they want something to buy and install. And a lot of these large frameworks that come along with the certifications is something they can buy and feel that they can install. And what's what's fascinating, you said something before the break about, you know, it does work in certain contexts and stuff. And you mentioned Toyota and I totally agree. Now, the interesting thing is there's only one Toyota in the universe, right? And so the you know, the context is key there and in Toyota the, you know, executives were really bought in and continue to be really bought into the concepts and the philosophy behind it and the culture and that organization has built up over time. But you can't simply say to a, you know, a financial services firm be like Toyota, that just doesn't really work. And so a lot of this, this industrial complex is really about selling pieces of this to different customers. But it's not about fundamental transformation, because you can't, you can't just buy that in a box and install it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">there sold this as a bot and the more you know, kind of the more complicated it looks, the more pieces the more titles, all that stuff, the more it kind of makes sense to the existing narrative, which is really a false narrative, but they you know, they think there's just some tweak and it from an executive standpoint, they're really saying I want somebody else to change, I'm not going to change so give me something that I can install that will have these other people change. I think there's also something that's happened recently, a couple things that's happened recently. And by recently, maybe in the last decade. One is that you have a lot of executives and organizations that have found themselves in a position where they have to understand technology. Because their business, everybody relies on technology. You know, when I was in the financial services space, you would have executives talk about, I don't really care what happens in the technology department. And you know, I tried to tell them, if the technology stops working, this organization dies in 24 hours, right. And so there's no distinction between the business and the technology nowadays, but you have a lot of executives who this is new for them, and a lot of them don't really want to be involved in to the degree that they need to be. And so this this kind of scratches an itch to say I can, instead of understanding really what's going on there and be a part of that solution in the context of my organization and change myself and change how my my leadership team operates. I'll just buy this box of gizmos and have you guys install it. And it'll just it'll change the organization. But it fundamentally is an impossible ask. The other thing that's happened, you know, in the past maybe three or four years, I would guess is the very large consulting houses have come into this, they see this, the buzz generate, and large organizations, you know, on the kind of late adopters. And so that's an opportunity for them to just kind of, here's all the people, we're going to sell you thousands of hours of very expensive consulting folks to go in and transform your organization. And all they're doing is implementing the box of gizmos that you buy from the framework, implementing it without context within the organization. And they'll spend several years doing that. But fundamentally, your organization won't change because the culture didn't change the way the leadership operated, didn't change. And unfortunately, eventually all the employees will figure that out much quicker than the leadership And they'll become kind of upset that this is another fake change, which is probably one in a long series of fake changes within most organizations not all I mean, I want to be careful that there are there are definitely organizations out there that are trying to change and leaders that are trying to change but if you look at a percentage of organizations, I think that's a pretty small percentage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so so it's some it's important for us then to focus on the why of the change the one of the big things and misconceptions of Agile is if I install it will be faster. It's just it's it's, it's no different than saying I'm going to hire a personal trainers so that I can run faster, or that the day that you hire the trainer, you're running faster, right? That's Yeah, months of hard work and months of transformation in changing. And so I think the other thing is, is if if you're going to agile because you're having delivery problems and a lack of trust in the team and a lack of leadership, agile is only going to exacerbate that it's only going to make it worse because It requires more trust and more cohesive team units and stuff to be really effective. Right. But I recently had a client that that was sold the safe bill of goods essentially they wouldn't say but almost every single one of their projects is commercial off the shelf installations. Hmm. So now you're at the mercy of the vendor, and they're trying to be agile, and they're trying to do pies and it wasn't working for them. And I always said, so just don't do that ceremony. Right? Oh, well, you know, it's prescribed is what moves. But we have to recognize that these are just like the Pim Bock if you look at PMI in the pen back then that was a methodology but that doesn't mean I do every single one of those processes for every single project methodology. This isn't a doctor prescribing a treatment. If you don't do the treatment, you're gonna die. Right? This is this is somebody going you know, you may want to eat a couple less potatoes a rake, just gotta lay off the potatoes like a little bit there. Right? That's more of what it is. So So why, why is that difficult though for executive To just comprehend why we see it because we've been through it all. Yeah. Why? Why are these executives just buying it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I think part of it is that, especially in large organizations with a big hierarchy, most executives don't interact with the people who are at the interface to their customers. So I read somewhere, I wish I knew who had written it. But they said, there's a developer, a programmer has more in common with this with the CEO than any kind of mid manager does, right? Because they both just want to get something done at the end of the day. But most CEOs don't talk with the developers who are writing the software for their customers. And don't sit down and listen to what their problems are. And therefore, they have all this middle layer, this information that's being kind of squeezed the value before it gets into a PowerPoint and it gets into the boardroom. And the middle layers that are squeezing that information out are not doing it maliciously. They're been trained through the culture to do that. To what to expect, how to communicate. The one that I always kind of laugh at is I'm always admonished for providing too much detail to executives. You know, they don't want to go into that detail and say, Well, I understand they don't want to have a five hour long, you know, speech about something. But these are smart people. I mean, these are these are not dummies, why are we dumbing down everything? Why don't we have real conversations about real problems at the interface of the customers, which is the only relevant interface in an organization. And so I think that, because the executives and leaders have separated themselves, they don't go and sit down with developers and customer service people and the guy at the dock, unloading the boxes. All these folks know exactly where the problems are. And they'll tell you now, they may not tell you in the you know, most flowery language, they may not be polite about it, but they'll tell you what the issue is and you should be thankful if that's the case, but too many executive Don't do that. And I've seen in my career, a couple who are really good at that, and would know what was going on and could could interface with the organization at all levels in a way that made sense. But most are just kind of trapped in their daily meeting structure and PowerPoint decks, which there's no info. There's no valid information coming from that process.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yet. Carly Fiorina actually attributes a lot of her success, who first female CEO of a tech giant HP, to the fact that she would, she talked to everybody, she'd sit down with anybody and hear them out and got her best ideas from the lower level. There's the thing that I've done, I've dubbed it the fuzzy middle layer, you're talking about the middle layers, I call them fuzzy because that's where stuff just gets fuzzy. Right? But it's interesting, I was part of a project at at CAA, where we were developing an application on top of clarity ppm. So your total project portfolio management's got all of your statuses. And we built an app for an iPad, where you could do your strategy, but then you could tie your Strategy directly to the project. So you could see in a dashboard, how it was beautiful, but it bombed because it bypassed the middle layer, because it was getting the project managers were inputting data directly into the system. And that was feeding right up to the strategic plan, right. And there was no context being given by the fuzzy middle layer. And so it caused a lot of concern. Right. And so the project managers loved it. The executives loved it. The fuzzy middle layer, hated it. Really interesting to watch. Yeah, but why do we Why do we think executives stay so far removed? I've met with CIOs that literally just they're like, they like us. They like us, these consultants who will give them that level of data because we're the only people giving them real actionable data in the system. How do you How can they not see that culture getting for?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">David Stackleather 25:52 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, they, you know, a part of it and happens over time. And so it's it's the old boiling frog problem. It's not a quick thing these cultures are generated over time. And it makes sense. It's logical that as, especially as an organization grows, you're like, Well, when I have, you know, 10 people in a room, and we're a little 10 person company, we don't have a lot of hierarchy. We're just in a room, we're talking, everything's flowing. If we have 1000 people in the organization, as the leader of the organization, I think, well, just mathematically, I can't deal with 2000 people. So it makes sense for me to create a hierarchy, rather than creating kind of a network process, which is a structure that you might want to look at, rather than a hierarchy. But the default is, well, I have a problem. So I need to hire a role. I need to have somebody to manage these people. And before long, you have all these structures. And there are a couple of things that happen, I think, to most executives, one is they get into a cadence, it's the you know, the old maker versus manager proc process where you know, managers can split their time in half hour increments, but if you actually build anything for a living, that's not possible you need to have long periods of time, financially. interrupted, you know, programmers don't develop software and half hour increments, right. And so they get into this cadence where it kind of makes sense you're having these meetings, you're think you're getting the information, it's very quick to fool yourself, that you have some line on what's really happening because that data is all being translated based on what the middle layer thinks you want to hear. And that middle layer is watching the executives reaction really, really closely. And so I think what a lot of executives don't realize is when they have a reaction, that's maybe a poor reaction, or they push back against something or they complain about something that that almost has a 10 x effect on the reaction of the middle layer, and it just makes the situation worse. And I've seen that time and time again, with like executive reaction in a meeting where somebody's presenting some data, which is valid and it's not good data. It's not good information. We'd rather not to be that way. And the executive reacts and I don't like this And the reaction is kind of a 10 x effect to the middle managers, and therefore the next meeting is even more watered down. For sure. And, you know, one of the things that has amazed me, especially in large, very large, like financial services organizations is the disconnect in, in opinion between the executives on what they think the worker level in the organization is, how good they are, versus how good they really are. And so they have an opinion that will our programmers aren't very good. That's why our software kind of goes down or whatever. And if you sit down and talk to the developers, you know, you're like, these are really smart people. These guys know what's going on. And you're lucky to have this kind of staff but the executives have never really talked to them and interacted with them and understand how many of their decisions which they don't even understand the impact of their decisions, kind of causes problems within the systems of the organization. They kind of they kind of lay the groundwork for their own torture in the future, but they just don't realize it. Because fundamentally, they're talking to people because they think that as an executive, my job is to sit in meetings and listen to PowerPoints and issue directives and that sort of thing rather than get lazy, right? You get lazy and you get used to that process. You know, we're all human. We get used to that this is kind of nice coming into the office, having my coffee, having somebody come and you know, give me a PowerPoint deck me making some kind of pontificating on it. The other thing that's dangerous let's let's pause right there because what I'd like to do is give some tips and tricks around kind of preventing this happen, but we do need to get to a break really quickly and we'll get it right on the other side of these commercials listening to Rick Morrison the work life balance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. Afternoon. We're visiting with David stack leather and talking about agile and how you what we may see as the inevitable collapse of agile and right before break. We were talking about 10 executives being removed. And you made a really good point, Dave, in talking saying that. There's opinions that are that are different in the opinion of the developers, the executives are is really based on that fuzzy middle layer that we're talking about. I always like that as executives when I go When I say well, who's who do you think makes the strategic decisions of this company? And you know, of course, well, I do, you know, this is what I get paid for, and I go, so do you have a prioritized list of projects? And are you resourced against those? And they go, No, I go, well, then you're not making the strategic, you may make the strategic direction, you're not making the strategic decisions, because the person that is that DBA in the corner that just got asked for things to do. And because there's no clear direction on what I should do, first, they're making the strategic decisions of what they're doing. And I've got 884 different strategic decisions being made a day. So that's, that's, it's an interesting concept, but how do we what are some tips and tricks to kind of help that or how do you deal with those opinions?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So So one, and you know, agile really helps in this way, which if if executives and leaders would accept this is the idea that if you operate off a prioritized backlog of things that you're working and whatever the granularity of the backlog is, you know, But certainly at a higher level about what the outcomes are you need for your business. And the idea of forcing that prioritization. So you don't have 10 number ones, which is usually in large enterprise, everything is important, we need to have 10 number ones. And, you know, the way that I describe it to them is Look, when you when you come into work in the morning, you have to get dressed, and you have to get your your set appearance to show up at work. All that stuff's important, your pants are important, your shirts important, everything's important, but you have to have a priority to get it done. You can't do it all at the same time. And so that's fundamentally the same way that we have to operate in these these projects on these efforts. One is to to the one decision is what is the most important thing at this moment in time and if you can, as a leader make that decision, then you need to figure out what information who do I need to talk to, because I think a lot of organizations kind of outsource that work just like you're describing to the to the layers the programmers and the DBAs in the to mid level managers to make those decisions, and there's 1000 decisions happening. And probably with most organizations 60% of the work is not really relevant to the success of the organization. It's kind of busy work, it'll be thrown away, or it doesn't really matter at the end of the day, but leaders are not making those decisions, because they're not having a hard discussion about prioritization, which is hard. I mean, I admit it, you have to make decisions about what you won't do, and what you will do. And that list should be fairly small, and it can change over time. But too many love to pass that</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Right? But that's the you know, as you just described, that somebody is making a decision. And they're making that decision for you. And you've just outsourced that decision to somebody you don't know. And you don't know why they're making that decision. And most likely, the decisions are not going to be consistent for delivery of some value that the organization needs, which is why you have so many organizations spending what seems like more and more money. Especially on technology efforts, but they see what they get more or less and less value out of the other end. And there's lots of reasons for that. But one, I think, is because of this lack of really, if you're an executive, the one thing you need to do is prioritize what's important to the organization, what what really needs to happen? And what are the goals of the organization and have a feedback loop to understand if you've if you need to change your decision, and very, very few leaders have that process. But the Agile kind of guides the way if you if you just take the kind of baseline agile of a prioritized backlog that concept and approach can help quite a bit, but too many don't want to have those difficult discussions because it is difficult. But let's Yeah,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">let's talk about that first and prioritize backlog and I'll give you an example working with an executive recently. It first of all, the term agile coach, I hate that it's so why because I am an agile coach. But I don't, I don't install teams and I don't do whatever do is I work with executives to teach them how to think in an agile format? So for instance, you build me a data warehouse. Okay, well, that's fine. But what are we going to do with it? Well, you know, I don't know, I just need all my data in one place. And I'll tell you, no, that's not what we're going to build. And so I was doing this with an organization. And it's like, so what are we trying to get at? Well, we feel like we need to do local market plans. Okay, great. So how's the local market plan work? Well, we get our 50 accounts, and we get information. So great, let's, let's take six people, we'll do 300 accounts, we'll clean them up. We'll do this all manually to see if we're going to get a benefit. Before we go by Big Data Warehouse. I just kept asking questions. So I was like, so why can't we just take the 50 accounts and finally got the executive to go, Well, how do I know those are the best 50 accounts? And I was like, there's your first agile question, right? How do we know? And what are we going to use? So what are we going to use to determine it comes back? I don't know. That's why I needed their data warehouse to give me all the data and I was like, even if you have all the data, you're not going to know so Let's start here. And that's what an agile coach should really do is really force you to the value conversation and asking really good questions to be answered versus, well, I want to build a data warehouse and we're agile, so I should get it in six months instead of a year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Right? Yeah. And I think it's, it's interesting, because as you're describing that, you know, if you take, take it out of the Agile coach or an external party, like yourself having that conversation and put an employee in that chair, they wouldn't get past the third question, right? What you know, they would just kind of be like, Okay, I'm done talking about this, just do what I told you to do. I have another meeting to go to. And so, you know, I think too many. I give you an example, a personal example, I've had somebody who's worked for me three companies over my career. And this individual will tell me when he thinks I'm going loopy, in a nanosecond, a very straightforward and sometimes it can be a frustrating conversation. You know, it's like he keeps pushing, pushing, pushing I've always valued that you have to have have to have people in the organization or people that you trust to be able to push back on the process or ask the 20 questions until you get to something that makes sense. And too often, executives or even mid level managers don't want to allow that. They have a very short fuse for that. And I think because it's part of it is because of the internal PR machine in your head that a lot of managers have when they're not involved in the day to day, and occasionally they'll come up on a situation. And they'll say, they'll make a comment, oh, you should do it this way. Or have you thought about that? And they're right, and the employee says, Oh, we didn't think about that. Sorry. And what people don't realize is the manager or the executive in their head, the PR machine in their head is saying, oh, you're a genius. Look, you just figured something out. You're a genius. You're a genius. And it plays in their head continuously and then they they end up believing their own internal PR when it's not just because you don't not involved and you just showed up and you saw it from a different angle and you made it statement and it seemed like you're a genius, but it's just the context of where you're coming from. It's not that you have any greater knowledge than your employees. And so I think they train, you know, and we all do this get trained over time, if we're not actively pushing back against this process, where we're shutting down the conversation that is so critical. But But oddly enough, we'll let an external party do it. If you bring in an external consultant, you'll let them get away with all kinds of stuff. Not always. There's always Oh,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I mean, you have to kind of judge the context. But you can get away with a lot more as an external party and ask more uncomfortable questions and just about any employee in the organization, and that shouldn't be that way. Right? I mean, from because there's a lot of good knowledge in organizations that they're missing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So we've got a couple of minutes left about two to three minutes left in this segment, what should executives really be focused on if agile is not going to work? What What should work what should they be? focused on.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I think they shouldn't be focused on, you know, implementing a framework or having everybody get certified. They need to not that these things are not useful. These components of what we call agile are very useful. But executives to understand what's the context of their organization? What's the culture of their organization? What is the the goal, the optimizing goal of the structure of the organization? What do they need? What problem do they need to solve in the next several years, five years, and look at maybe tactics or structures that they can implement and test and have a feedback process but not to buy something that they're going to install? A large framework, starting to change titles, get people certified, really until you as a leader say, what are we trying to accomplish? And how should we change our work and there's a lot in Agile that'll inform on that and it's very valuable, but you shouldn't be your first step should not be to call up a consulting firm and say I want to buy the agile and to install the agile, because that's all that's inevitably going to fail. And most organizations, that's what they're doing. But the hard work is to understand your organization, go talk to the developers, figure out really what you really want to accomplish as an organization, maybe you don't have a problem as an organization, frankly, you might be working just fine. And agile is not the right thing to implement. And so that's the real process is to have those discussions and questions at all levels, not just in the boardroom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think I think one of my biggest suggestions I gave when we start talking about agile as if we're going to deploy agile, you need to start deploying agile yourself as an executive even in the way that you're bringing in people. So what's the value that you're going to negotiate in versus, you know, and that's my frustration with some of the big firms and in Look, they some of the big firms do a lot of great work. They do, to be fair, but then, you know, we have our run ins as consultants. I you know, I was an expert of this software for 20 years I was there when it was built. And I'm working with the lady that actually wrote the financial calculation portion. We're trying to solve something for a client and it's not working the way we want. And this guy comes in, sits down with the software for two minutes, and it gets a meeting with the CIO. And now I'm having to sit with the CIO, because this guy thinks he solved the problem. It's taking a Nic. Again, this is not I wouldn't suggest this. But again, I was an external consultant was frustrated. Plus, I'm Italian. I said, Look, I read all about your business on Wikipedia last night, I know how to solve all your problems. And the guy goes, What are you talking about? I said, that's what this joker just did here. I mean, you've got the people who wrote the software in the building. Let us finish this out. Right. He has no idea what he's talking about. But unfortunately, that's what we deal with in the consultant game. Right?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So we're going to go ahead and take our final break right here. We're going to come back with David's deck later, we're going to find out how to get in touch with them, as well as what are some of the best advice he's ever received. Stay tuned right here. You're listening to Rick Morris and the work life balance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance our final segment this Friday afternoon still visiting with David stack leather David what company did your own consultant you have your own firm Yeah, I have my own, you know, one man operation called scale frameworks kind of as a joke about the Agile frameworks. Well done. I like that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">right out of people get in touch with you, how do they find you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So the easiest way to get in touch with me is either at David at scaled framework comm if you want to shoot me an email or I'm on LinkedIn, at LinkedIn slash stack leather linkedin.com slash stack leather. I'm only one of two David stack leather so you'll quickly find out which one it is the other ones my dad, he works for the federal government, that's not me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, what would you say is your your ideal client?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">My ideal client is someone, a leader in an organization who really wants to make change. Who sees that the situation is changing maybe in their industry, they're not delivering as they they used to. They're not satisfying their customers. They don't really know What the what the gears are how the thing needs to change, but are open to anything and open to dealing directly with people who do the work open to changing hope and open to being in very uncomfortable situations. And those are the best, like if we can just have a real conversation and maybe it gets a little heated but we're okay at the end of the day, we're moving forward and trying to do the best thing for the organization and and the folks that rely on that organization, both employees and customers. That's the best situation I really get energized by those kind of situations. I'm not really big on politics and hierarchy and let's talk about the org charts and that sort of thing. That's, that's not really something that I was interested in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So what some of the best advice you've ever received.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So probably the you know, as similar to the kind of the internal PR machine I as I mentioned before the break I had an executive that I worked for for quite some time and he Told me during a dinner or something, always remember, you're not a genius, which is shocking to have somebody about seven rungs above you on the org chart. And we talked quite a bit about that. And what he had said was that there's so much information there's the world is so complicated in a lot of ways you can't possibly know everything, you have to rely on other people. You have to be open to new information. And no matter how smart you are, how smart you think you are, you have to know and believe that you're not a genius. And you're not always going to have the answer. And for two reasons, one is because you're not always going to have the answer. The second is even if you have the answer, other people have an ability to kind of mess that up for you. And so you have to make sure that everybody's on board and nobody likes to work or deal with somebody who thinks they're a genius. It's annoying. And so I think I'm very smart. I have an ego like anyone else, but I try to actively tamp that down. I think it's important especially the highest You are up in a hierarchy, the more kind of good luck you've had in your life about moving into a position, having the right education, having the right parents, whatever the situation is, is having a little humility and understanding that the world is very complex. And you don't have all the answers. But if you get enough people together and have a good conversation, you can probably find a good solution. And that's the best advice. And I've tried to increasingly improve on that over the years, this probably was 20 years ago when I heard this message. And that's, you know, led me down a good path. I think over time, where I can I can at least be proud of what I've done. And I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done in my my career.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Do you have any final thoughts or things that you'd like to share with the audience?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I would just say that especially if you're involved in an agile transformation, if you've got your CSM, if you're in an organization that uses is kind of struggling is to kind of throw away the idea about the certifications and go back to the the actual underlying data. And what I mean by the underlying data or the underlying information is the the old stuff like Deming, the number of times that I'm in a room of executives and ask them if anybody know who Edwards Deming is. And I get maybe one hand at a 40 cola. You know, it makes me really sad. And this is what I mean about this. We know what to do in these organizations. We know how people work we know how leaders and people on the factory floor or the call center floor ideas that really operate but we need to go back to this information so kind of throw away the new website stuff and go back to the lemmings and McGregor it's not hard to find all these people. And and you'll be surprised when you read the kind of the old knowledge that we've known about this for quite some time. We have a lot of ideas, but I think focus needs to really go back and read that stuff and understand it the intent behind it, rather than kind of taking a, you know, pre written, pre installed framework or set of tactics, and try to shove them in the context of your organization, because it's just, it's just going to be frustrating. All the way around.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, and, again, there's gonna be something else that comes behind agile, it's gonna be the, in fact, I already heard of one friend of mine just went to Rome to get certified in this thing. And but essentially, when he described it to me, I was like, so tell me how that's different from my toe. Right? Well, this one's different because you're, there's chargebacks they're really trying to use a cost center. And I was like, right, that's exactly what I was doing. And everybody, everybody froze at the time that you were trying to do that configuration to the CMDB. Right. There was always the, the one piece of thing and there always seems to be one piece of thing and in this case, it's it's agile is the right level development of when you throw something into poi. That's always the one thing that people seem to miss. That's And strategy over versus functionality or requests or business questions, right? In this one, right, it was a CMDB. So now they've tried to figure out how to do it without a CMDB. And therefore, it's Yeah, it's it's frustrating.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, well, that goes to it's, it's a business model, and they're not realize this, they're constructing a product to sell, which means you have to change something, and you've got to have something to sell. And now you're just re, for the most part, you're rehashing old stuff in a new format with new fonts and, you know, fancy website, but fundamentally, you're not really selling anything new. And fundamentally, people can't buy something and install it and change their organizations and that that deep giveaway just is not really possible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So I've had to I've had to learn how to develop analogies that I do a lot of stuff on resource management, understanding the utilization of our people and it doesn't have to be hard takes five minutes a week per person, you know, per manager really to do. But I always love We don't have time to do resource management. I'm like, well, that's like saying you're too fat to diet. It just there's nothing there. That makes sense. It's Yeah, it is what it is. Right? Well, David, I've appreciated your time partner, I appreciate you coming on the show and sharing your expertise with us. And we wish you luck in the future. Thank you very much. I've enjoyed it. And so for everybody else hanging on, we're going to have West bush on the show next week. Wes is a best selling author of product lead growth, these renowned product lead growth pioneer, it says in his bio, he's ridiculously tall, so we're gonna have to figure out what that means. But looking forward to have Wes on the show. We've got some great guests lined up. We're actually I think, booked out into July now for the show. So we've got a lot of great information coming up. We'd love for you guys to give us feedback. You can do so at Rick A. Morris on Twitter. You can find me on LinkedIn and Facebook at Rick A. Morris, and you can always send an email to our Morris at r squared consulting comm or Rick at Rick A. Morris calm and until next Friday. We hope that you live your own work life balance and stay tuned right here to voice them. America business for our next fantastic show.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host, Rick A. Morris,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">and welcome to a new edition of the work life balance. So excited to have everybody along. We've got everything all set up. And I've actually got a fantastic guest. It's a repeat guest. It's a it's a dear friend of mine from the john Maxwell team. And I think she and I both are kind of caged animals right now in the sense that we're used to traveling and visiting with people and inspiring audiences and being on stage and in now stuck, you know, 50 plus days in our homes. I think we're going a little I'll be honest, we're just gonna go batshit crazy, I think is what we're doing at the end of the day, but But let's bring her on the show. No need to introduce her to the rest of the audience. We got tons of stuff on there from before but let's bring Ingo rock on how you doing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Hi Rick. Very well How about yourself?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">doing fantastic. You know the first time we met I think you were dancing on stage leading leading the original dance crew for the for the john Maxwell team.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. When did you join the team?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So your founding member?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I think the second group,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">second group, Okay, fair enough. It's close enough. Right? Well,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think the years Frankly,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I have to count the coins. You know, when they asked me how many MCs you've been through. I have to count the coins. I'd have no idea.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">heartbroken when we when we canceled due to COVID this last piece yet. But anyway, we're here to discuss you. You've got a new book, right? How exciting. You've got a new book. Good and tell him what the title is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yes, the title is turn your life around.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">been released in Belgium in Dutch, which is my primary language and last December, and now we're launching the English version</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">outstanding. And you're also starting to come stateside a little bit more as well talk about,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">expect that. Well, you know, everything we did over the last 13 years grew organically. You know, people were just pulling my sleeve and saying, hey, when can I join your team? When can I work with you? When can you help me grow my business, etc. And so we brought people in from the states from the UK from Curacao, which is convenient because they also speak Dutch. from everywhere, actually. And so the team is growing, and I'm really looking forward to hop over as soon as we can, and start doing seminars in the States. Yes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, yeah, that that's what we're all waiting for. We're kind of ready to jump ready to go. But talk to me a little bit about this. I mean, when did you know and what inspired you really to a write the book but what what's kind of the story of turning your life around?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">My story started about 15 years ago, when my life collapsed, just you know, complete turmoil. I lost everything. Once my marriage lost my business, my self confidence state with 1 million euro of debt, which was crazy. And I remember then one morning it was very cold, freezing snow. And there was nothing much to do and I was thinking this is this it? Is there something more. So somewhere in my soul, something was stirring, but I had no clue. So I came into a bookstore and I found the legendary book, you can heal your life by Louise Eliot. I bought the book and I remember I was thinking, well, if this is any good, like fire with it today. And that was a start. That was the turning point. And now I wrote the book in Dutch It is my second book in English is my second. But I wrote it because I see so many people being stuck and wondering, Is this it? Or is there something more? And if there's something more, how do I find it? How do I connect with what's truly there for me? So that is the purpose of the book to bring answers to that and inspire people to actually,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think there's really kind of two levels to that, right. There's the people that are kind of, I'm stuck, but I'm unaware that I'm stuck, essentially. Right. Or that I'm stuck. And I'm aware that I'm stuck, but I don't know what to do to kind of get out of that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. So you have practical advice for that in the book? Absolutely. Yes. We look at different angles. And I Well, every book, I write is a self help book, but also workbook. I'm a coach, I ask questions, right? So I cannot write a book without asking questions and people and giving people assignments so they can become aware of what they truly want, and what is the voice inside of them that is still like locked up? And how do I gain more and more clarity? You know, before they make the turn, of course, and yes, there are also people, you know, who have been knocked down like I was 15 years ago, actually, I knew already for four years that I had to change my life around. But you know, I was stuck in the comfort zone and afraid to change, afraid, you know, to lose what I had and eventually lost everything. And I realized that that was four years too late. So it doesn't have to be painful. As soon as you come become aware of it, and you realize that, you know, you become emotional, emotional and you're not satisfied that maybe you cannot put your finger on it. That's the time that you start to think. And and yeah, I think there is no way back then.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And I think there's something that I'm hearing more and more to is, you know, I feel nothing. So it's not not stuck in unaware it's not stuck and aware. It's it's assessing the current relationship and saying that there's literally I feel nothing in this relationship. There's no emotion whatsoever. It's just kind of going through the motions. So when Do people really begin to realize it's time to change?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">People start to realize, actually, this is a good time. You know, there's lots of this with COVID-19 is people are stuck. Many people don't have a job, you know, are locked up in their homes just like I am now. 50 plus things and a lot of people ask themselves questions because regular life stops. But as soon as you know you're, most of the time you're in a place by yourself can be sitting on the restroom, I mean, or living in bath or whatever. And then that little voice comes and says What are you doing? Why are you doing this? Who are you doing this for? You know, these are the subtle questions that come forward and make you think like, Okay, I gotta do this for the rest of my life Am I gonna stay in this relationship are no less of my life and that I'm going to live here for the rest of my life. Because it's in many areas. It's not only career or business can be relationships can be the place where you live, there's so many elements, and even stuck in your own body. It can be like, I'm going to live like this for the rest of my life. And it doesn't have to be midlife crisis. I think You've had many different levels. But when the questions come forward, you've had to pay attention to it and you sit and, you know, just let come whatever comes allow the voice to come forward. I think that's important.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And I think you said it earlier. I think you're right in the sense of with COVID-19, we've cleared out the distractions and a lot of people are forced. One of my favorite sayings is AI, activity doesn't equal achievement, right? We can be really busy doing a bunch of stuff that means nothing. And when you there's people that convince themselves that they're super happy, because they're the ones doing the bake sale, and they're taking all the kids to sports, and they're, they're immersed in activity to prove to them and now that you've stripped all that away, you're just kind of left with you at the core. And I think this is a really interesting time. I love the fact that you said it's a perfect time to start looking introspectively I think it's the time where people start realize, Oh no, like, What do I do? Like? Who am I? The day, right?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yes, because we copy and paste our dates. We copy paste the day of today towards tomorrow. And it goes on and on and on. And eventually years passed by and people look back and saying, Oh my gosh, what did I do for the last 567 10 years, and now it all stops, you know, and we cannot copy paste our life like, you know, we are creatures of habit, when habits stop, we get challenged. And then if the regular job is not there, and you know, as you say, taking the kids to sports, etc, everything stops. So now we have to time into space and think which is very confronting for many, many people, by the way. But on one hand, I think at least there is a space there's a void that we can start to fill with something That is way more interesting and way more fulfilling. I think that's important too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And I think the most successful people right now, too are actually using this time to set up. Yeah, I talked about emergence. That's a big thing. Mm hmm. We're gonna come out of this, we're going to pop out of this COVID cocoon and life is going to get back together. But the people that are planning for emergence now versus just planning, you know, what am I going to do? What am I going to stream on Netflix tomorrow? Right? I think those are the people that are really gonna have an opportunity to explode coming out of this.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yes, of course, because you see, also for instance, in this course, people are still numbing themselves with baking cookies and drinking to lunch and sporting too much, etc, running away from themselves. But then there are people just like you and me and we take time to evaluate and, and to really ask ourselves, how can we add more value? I think that's a big thing. In my book, I didn't I speak a lot about ambition and significance. You know, our good friend says once you've tasted significant significant success will never be enough by Yeah, exactly. So yeah, I, for instance, one of my dear clients is CEO of a very large public publicity company. He called me last week and he said, I'm not going back. I just can't, I just can't I I'd be lying to myself. I have four sports car but I have no time to drive them. You know? And okay, maybe that is one example and for everybody of us is going to emerge in a different way. But I think it's very natural and very healthy when it comes for.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">He said, You know, people like you and me, but I do have to make a confession. I've been cooking my tail off 80 pounds on this, but I, I loved to cook and just at the time to do it. And now you know, I've changed some Circumstances and I'm cooking every night and it's a good time. Maybe not cookies, but we're cooking. Speaking of cooking, we're gonna continue with English.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yes, exactly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Exactly. I love it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 186647257 At nine zero, if you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the work life balance on this Friday afternoon visiting with my good friend in Iraq all the way in Belgium thank goodness for zoom and connection and all those things that we've been talking about the her latest book, which has turned your life around, but just in general, talking about what Inka does, and you know, a lot of people, I'm gonna speak for the United States as much as I can not that I can accompany the whole, you know, 350 million people. But I find it very difficult for people to accept or understand that there's not a negative stigma with coaching. Like people think that when I when I talk to clients, about coaching, they go, Oh, all of my people need that. But I'm good. Like I don't, I'm awesome. I'm good. I don't need it in I'm wondering what your experience is like that in different countries. And then also, are there some cultural influences on that? For instance, you know, Pura vida, we were talking about that in Costa Rica was life changing for me, but I've never culturally met. Again, just consistently, those people were so hungry, to hear about leadership to hear about values to hear about how they could personally take accountability for growth. And then I came back to the United States and it I mean, it's almost like I don't need this. So tell me a little bit about why is it so hard for people to change and why do they have that negative stigma against coaching?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, you know, coaching started from the world of sports years ago, and that is obvious. We all know that. You know, football players have coaches and runners have coaches so obvious and it's normal. But once coaching entered into the mainstream, people were afraid because you know, and I know there's also a big cultural difference between America and Central Europe or I come from, like, when I watch movies, everybody has a goal, not in your, you know, you must be really out of your mind when you need to shrink and for, you know, the us when we see that in movies, and that's all that I can relate to, of course, it's like it's so normal. But you know, we're still like in a niche of the market, I think, I believe I strongly believe and I watch a couple of very influential people around the world in different in different areas. And I believe people are waking up all around the globe now. And I think this COVID-19 periods really, you know, empowered that in some way. And I believe that there will never be a time like before COVID-19 and then there will be after COVID-19 i think it's it's really going to be a difference. I think Don't think we go back to normal? I don't think so. So since the world is speeding up, and we only have 24 hours in a day, and we all have our minds, and we all these impressions, you know, like 10 years ago, we had like, 1000 1500 impressions a day. Now we have 15,000. How do you cope with that? How do you deal with that? We see burnout figures going up global, you know, and yes, there are corners in the world when that doesn't count, because they don't have the Western culture like we have. But whenever I travel, and of course, I speak in in western countries. Yes, there are cultural differences. But in general, it's all the same, a lot of stress and a lot of burdens because we don't have the coping mechanism and the resilient mindset to deal with it. So I believe that you know, the the paradigms around coaching and a fear around coaching is going to be lifted somehow. But I also think it still will need some time. But I somehow I think it will become more mainstream in general in general no 17% of people worldwide and then of course, we're talking again, us. I think the big five and Europe 70% of people are using coaching in some way. Um, do I still see cultural differences? Sure. But it is more in the, you know, in the personality of the people like when I come to Poland, oh my god, there's so intense. You know, the audience all the time when I'm speaking, the audience is super quiet until the conference is over. And then they jump around my neck and they kiss me and hug me and they want 10,000 pictures and then my clothes need to Go to the dry clean car ride Foundation, the lipstick and, you know, yes, there are, of course, these kind of cultural differences. I'm married to a crow that so that kids do and I come in Croatia, it's the same kind of, you know, the same kind of vibe. But when it comes to personal growth and coaching and personal development, I see I see the same kind of things happening. And you know, Rick, when I come to the IMC and I'm sitting with people at the table from all over the globe, they all say the same. I country need this country need this and then I smile because I know. And probably every country needs it in a little bit in a different way. That awareness is awareness. You know, I believe that the whole world is waking up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I asked this question to a guest of mine previously, the answer was my Job's not to convince you you need coaching is to inspire you. Oh, I loved I love that line. But it's, I think a lot of it comes from fear. Oh, yeah. And so, I know that when I really, really started to invest in my personal growth journey, very similar story in the sense that writing hi just, you know, did like 1.9 or 2.1 million in profit for the year my biggest year ever, but I came out depressed, burned out. questioning if this was what I was going to do, and I almost lost everything. I literally had negotiate my house. And that's when I started my personal growth journey. I hit my leadership lit This is essentially what happened I hit the lid. I don't think I hit it. I think I crushed through it. It broke me in all different things. I mean, it was really hard lid. And so I started the personal growth journey and I've noticed my relationship changing in in terms of there's people who refuse to grow And who don't like the fact that I'm growing? And I think that there's a fear that I don't know if it's like stems from like the 70s, you know, the 70s, when all the self help really started to come out, and it has kind of a negative connotation that this album was like, and so we're promoting that it's very much self help, right. But it, it's just we've got to change and overcome that stigma, to get people to understand that, and we don't have the answers. Our job is to get the answers out of you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, absolutely. You know, what, what is really typical, and then I'm speaking for Europe. Religions collapsed. Yeah. You see that, you know, 10 years ago, the whole Catholic Church collapsed somehow and people are searching, you know, the inner voice is still there. People are searching for, you know, what's the purpose of life? What am I doing here? And also communities. That's what I love so much about them. Back to state, your communities are so strong and that is something that we Europeans can learn a lot from. Because we need each other, you know, we need each other, we need to help each other, empower each other. Because the world is negative enough by itself. If you look at the masses, the masses are still you know, angry at the world and add themselves and so these are people that maybe we don't retrain them yet, but somehow I believe that yeah, if we can get beyond the resistance, I think it's, it's a lot of resistance. And of course, resistance is a form of fever once with people and that's why I do you know, so many free stuff also like like webinars and and free seminars, because I want to touch people, people's heart, I want to, you know, speaking to their souls, so they see that there is nothing strange or weird about it, and usually About the 70s I think we go 400 years back in Europe. We go, if we go back to Newtonian physics and Darwinian physics was, like 200 years ago, we were always that the smart, the rich, you know, the powerful, the influential, they can make their life. But if you're not the smartest kid in the class, too bad, you know, you're not gonna make it, you're just gonna be average. And honestly, that's what I thought. I wasn't the best student in school. I was just average. So I thought, you know what, my life is going to be average. And that is a huge paradigm. Global paradigm because I hear the same wherever I come in. It comes time that we move to quantum physics instead of Newtonian physics. But in order to move and to make that transition Lot of paradigms have to fall have to collapse. And people need tons of education to understand who they are and who they are. Not only from a religious point of view because I see that people who have faith, find a lot of power there and a lot of conference which is awesome. But I see so many people here around me without feet. So, you know, they start searching and they start reading in somehow, you know, they will find the connection to a higher self to a higher purpose, I'm sure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 24:35 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. When I first really heard of Koba, you know what, I'll just, again, bear directly to john Maxwell team. When I first came to training. I was super excited to hear from karate, super excited, you know, to hear from Paul and of course of john. You know, Ed was there at the time. I felt like going into the session. I was like, I am here because I have to be here. With Kristian Simpson, okay and he rocked my world I mean he brought me to tears and so I think the coaching process is something every leader needs to at least go through whether they're trying to be coached or not. Because that that you know if you give somebody the answer you robbed them of a lifetime of learning when when Kristin hit me with that, everything just kind of crystallized clear to me. And so it was funny I've told Kristen this and you know, he's become a dear friend since he and I were scraping paint together in Costa Rica. But it's that I went in with this mentality that I was going to get the least value and then I found the most value just because I had the bar set so low, you know, it said so low and Christian, so amazing. But the juggling thing was just so crystal clear to me of what and I love the fact in to clue people in, don't want to give away the exercise, but they asked us to do something in this case juggling that we we all regularly Don't do and some of us can do some they can't. But they have as coach the other person. And what's hilarious is me. Again, I'll speak personally, I could not juggle. And here I am telling this person how to juggle, like I'm some famous circus clown that knows how to do it. That to me was brilliant. So, I'm running up against a blank break here. But what I want to get into when we come back is that coaching process itself, why we think every leader really needs to go through it. And then how does a person really kind of start to lose some of those paradigms that you were talking about? false beliefs? Yeah, they believe in and I think that's really kind of the key is, is we keep telling ourselves lies and believing them all the time. We're gonna get into that right after the break. We're here with Ingo rock you're listening to Rick Morris and the work life balance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the third segment of the work life balance this Friday afternoon visiting with my dear friend Inga rock. First of all, could you have a cooler name to be a coach and to be I mean, there's so much Inga rocks the house in garages world There's so many things we can do within Iraq, but we gave us a really long lead. And so just to recap, let's get right to the question. What are those false beliefs that you really kind of hold us back? And what do people how do they identify and start to work with those false beliefs?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Inge Rock 29:17 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, first of all, it's very easy to believe. Right? You think it's Santa Claus.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">By the way, I, I did that line at a graduation and I turn over and there's a whole parent section has a bunch of five, six and seven year olds. furious with me, but anyway, know your audience really know your audience go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Inge Rock 29:38 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, yes, exactly. And I know it's it's already 11:30pm in Belgium, but it's not that late.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So yeah, it's so easy to believe why. And the reason why that is, is because we've all been programmed between and that's it. Typically prove, between the last month of pregnancy and age seven, eight. Because when we when we are born, you know, we have no cells of recognition, there is no programming, we can just eat, and sleep and cry, and some other basic stuff. But that's it. So if anything needs to be learned think of language, you know how hard it is to learn how to speak, to walk to eat properly, dress yourself, whatever. So these fours this first seven, eight years are very crucial because the child gets completely programmed and so good we, you know, we become our environment. So I spoke Dutch and I had to learn English later on, I had to learn French and learn German. And it was hard because now you have to do it consciously. When you learn something subconsciously, which is in the first seven, eight years of your life. It comes naturally You know, you don't have to think about it. Now, the rub is you, once programmed, it stays there. And most adults don't grow beyond 35 years old, they just remain the same person, and they copy pasted their daily life over and over and over again. So since the activity of the subconscious mind is 14,000 times bigger than the conscious mind, you can imagine what a storehouse that is, you know, limiting beliefs but also habits. You know, every meal that you ate every phase that you saw every word that you spoke, every place that you visited, it's in your subconscious, but ask you think back off last vacation last summer. There we are. It's so easy, you know, to get into the subconscious mind and pop up some ideas. But changing the belief system is hard work, because it is still in the subconscious mind and that's where it goes comes into place because of coach asks you the questions that you cannot ask yourself. And the first time I heard that from Christians, I was mesmerised myself like, What do you mean? I can ask questions to myself? No, you can because when you're in the frame, you don't see the picture. And I couldn't see my own picture. So it is so easy to fight or what we believe. But it's not always the best thing for us. What do we do?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And when those beliefs then become challenged, right, do you have that natural reaction to defend them? So what's what is a technique that you use? Or how do you start to get people to identify what those false beliefs are, but then how to start reprogramming how they feel about that belief?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, there are a few techniques that I use. The first thing I use is a self coaching model. In my programs, people go first to self coaching and then They can move on to coaching. Because I strongly believe that if you can coach yourself, you know, you become more aware you'll become stronger. And you can use more to give to other people, then if you only learn the technique to coach other people, and I changed that over the years, honestly, because I saw the power, and you know what to reach very funny. I never had a coach from the very first because, you know, I go forward from before the time of the GMT. You know, I never had a coach, when I got my certification, came back to the team came to Belgium. And I started to map out my thoughts, my feelings, my habits, my behavior, my circumstances, my results, my situations, my problems, and I made my own self coaching model where I learned now people to do for themselves, where they map out everything they feel, they think, no day, they experience the whole mumbo jumbo. The problem is, when you experience life, it is it's just amaze. It's a maze of thoughts. It's amazing feelings. It is, you know, everything's connected, especially with women is very complicated because we talk and we talk and we talk to get clarity in the knees, and then men react differently. But the bottom line is, we need to understand how we operate. So that is one thing. And the second thing is meditation. You know, I was the girl that said, Nope, not gonna do that. I'm not gonna sit on my ass and close my eyes, you know, for an hour and see, oh, we're not going to do that. And there's a form of resistance, right? I was so resistant to meditation because like, you know, the best Excuse was no I have too much energy for that, I cannot sit still, oh my gosh, what a limiting belief and then I started five minutes and 15 minutes. So, once you can go beyond the analytical mind and the other analytical mind is actually the layer between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. So, once you get beyond the analytical mind what you do in meditation, you get access to the subconscious mind. And that is where you change those beliefs. So, first of all, I use the self coaching model so people can become aware of what they want to change about themselves. And then of course, we extract that, then we go into the meditation and we change it in the subconscious mind, but we do it ourselves right? In the meditation, I can change my subconscious mind. Doesn't mean that everything changes overnight. No, but you know what? happens, you become aware of when that limiting belief pops up the next day, during the day somehow, it's like you meet an old friend, and you say, I know you before, not this time, I'm not going to give you any attention. And then, you know, didn't your logical wires in our brain pruned away, because we don't give it an attention anymore. And that is how it changed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And it's hard It takes it takes. It's the power of well, right, the willpower to continue to focus. You know, one of the things that you just said, which I found really interesting is that you didn't have a coach and I was the same way I remember going into a coaching session that was like pre paid by some program that I was doing. I was like, This is gonna be one session with a guy he was amazing. He's amazing. And so what I what I tell people now when they when they asked me about coaching or how to find coaches, that kind of stuff I said, You asked me One question. So it's nice to ask who their coaches? Oh, because if you believe in the process, then you're gonna go get a coach. So you didn't have a coach, but you have one now I'm gonna I'm gonna Oh, yeah. How many do you have now? Two, you have two. Business one per person. There it is. Yeah, I have different phases, the same thing but one's financial. one's personal one's professional. Yeah. But I think it's a great question to ask, because if they go, What do you mean? Well, who's coaching you because if you truly understand the process of coaching, then that doesn't, once you become a coach doesn't mean you don't need one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, it just occurs to me. I believe that people get a coach to value themselves enough to evolve quickly, because they understand they have no time to lose. And they want to grow to the next level because they have more to give and you know, more value to put out there in the world. So, coaching is the shortcut. I mean, why would you say, hey, and wait until the light goes, the light bulb goes off? I mean, know when I get stuck one text? Yeah. Oh, I'm stuck, get me home to beer. And that is what I love so much.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So how do people then figure out what's possible for them? Right? We started talking about we want something more we want something better we want to grow. Maybe they've started to mess around a little bit and start to create this new awareness. How do they determine what really is possible for them in the long run?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Inge Rock 38:45 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so first of all, there's an overall definition that is when you become aware of an idea or a concept or a wish or want a dream and it feels good. It means You can do it. Okay. So people always ask me Yeah, but what if tomorrow I want to be a prima ballerina? And you know, I'm in my late 50s. And I'm thinking, why would you get that idea? Right? It just doesn't make any sense. Now I give my audience always couple of exercises that they can do to become more and more aware of one day really want because 80% of the audience's I don't know, when I really don't know what I want. And, you know, again, that's so limiting belief. First of all, people are not aware of what they want. The subconscious mind knows already. But it's somewhere you know, somewhere in the layers. So a couple of things that you can do is first of all, go back to your childhood. What did you love so much? Did you like to climb trees dance on the tables make fencing the woods were used as a kit. go and explore that and see what's in there. Okay, write it down in a notebook and start journaling and collecting ideas from the past. Ask your brothers, your sisters, maybe your parents still around so you can become more and more aware of who you really were as a kid because you were closer to source when you were young, right? I love to play catwalks. I love to sing to dance. I made those tents free. And I love to sell. I love to sell, you know, to tumble up tickets for school and stuff like that. And then the second thing you can do is connect the dots. And you know, the legendary Stanford University speech of Steve Jobs where he says it's only when I connected the dots in my life that you know, a pattern became clear and I understood who I was in those dogs. Are landmarks, you know, times in our life that you find this good or bad, you know, turning points that made us challenge and we outgrew them. Like he's giving the example of his own when he got fired for Apple. And also, you know, the beautiful turning points did the accomplishments, the successes, and I don't know if you remember, when I was a kid, you know, we had these drawing cards with numbers 123. And we had to go from number one, number two, number three, number four, and then all of a sudden we had Mickey Mouse. You know, and that is that exercise. When you go back and you look at the major turning points in your life and you start connecting those dots. You see a pattern that talk that you know, that tells a lot of information about who you are, and what's in your personality. And I always say you know, your biggest talent, and your biggest Power is on the other side of your biggest fake pain and your your biggest setback. And when you say that people go like, oh, wow, yeah, I had some, some kicks in the book, you know, I had some turning points. And now we can look at in a different way. And I think that's really very powerful.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think so too. And I think it's a good place for us to stop right here. We're going to come back with one more segment with Iraq, where we'll ask the question we ask all of our guests. And for her, we're going to go back and check what her first answer was at some point, but we'll do that right after the break. You're listening to Rick Morris in the work life balance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790. If you'd rather send an email, Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to the final segment of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon Incas. How can people get in touch with you? How do they find you on the web? How do they get ahold of you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, it's very easy. My website is in ingerock.com. That's ingerock.com. But Rick, I have a present for everyone. I'd love to give a copy of my book in a version to all the participants today and they can go to ingerockbook.com, and they can have their free copy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Nice. Well, thank you very much. I think that's a first I don't think I don't think we've had it to where somebody is given a gift everybody in the audience, so we appreciate that. So what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yes. The first thing, probably 10s you know, so many, you know, over the years, but the first one that comes to my mind is lick your wounds. Come get like, blessings move on. That was so powerful when, you know when my life collapsed. And I find my way into personal growth and development. And then Paul became, of course, my first mentor. And we were talking one day and was called beach and you know about the things that were still accurate in my life. I mean, I made a transition, but you know, was still messy. It was complete turtle and he said, lick your wounds, Count your blessings. Move on. Like, this is not the last one. You are going to have more problems, more setbacks, but you are going to grow stronger. And just you know, the faster you can move through the term. You know, the easier you can find your way back and I will never forget that. And then later on, I think five years later, I had a huge problem with with a business partner. And I remember me sitting on the stairs close to my room with Paul Martinelli on the phone and he said, unit remember a girl lick your lick your words, Count your blessings move on. Yeah, no, just give me a one more day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Can I just look a little longer? One more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Give me sometimes we need time to digest, you know, but I think that is that's priceless. Yeah.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think that's probably one of the biggest things over My last five years of growth is the awareness of my seasons. So, you're the, if you look at me six, seven years ago, if I was trying to write the book, if I was trying to do something creative, and I wasn't in a creative mood, I'd force it. Oh, yeah, then I, you know, something that should take me an hour would take three hours, and I've ended up throwing it all away anyway. In doing so, just embracing the season. And there's days where I just, I'm just not there. And, and you know, that lick your wounds. I love it, because I'm like, Alright, well, today is gonna suck, and I'm just gonna ride the suck meter all the way. And then tomorrow, it's a new day. I'll be fresh. Off we go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">absolutely. Anything else you'd like to share with the audience before we wrap up today?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, I'd love to encourage people you know, and say, we all have returns in life. And you know, the title of the book is not by coincidence, turn your life around. I'm not going to say that everybody has To turn, you're happy and everything's going great. Right on, keep them going.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But I think the major advice is listen to your heart.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, we always think that the mind is the strongest power and it is, but by far the strongest creative power, but it is the heart that is the best GPS. You know. So first, always listen to your heart. And I know that is not the easiest part to do. I teach my audience by the way for all the people who are going to get the download of the book. In the end page are three meditations and the first meditation is breathing heart coherence exercise, just six minutes to start with, to, you know, to make the bridge between the brain and the heart into open the heart again, because we've become thinkers, you know, a lot of a lot of titles is think and think and and I also wrote books that start with think end. And there's a lot of power there. But don't forget that we are heart centered people, and that we need to move to a time where we can, you know, make the Connect to heart connection again, and, and create an environment. That's why I love our community so much where it's safe to open your heart because then, of course, you you reconnect with source you reconnect with the grand overall designer. And that is just that is what life is all about. And all the hints that you get from them all the feelings, just priceless grow beyond the struggle, grow beyond force or survival, like you just said, and learn to trust again from the heart. I think that's the biggest advice I can get</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">in and I appreciate I think it's something. I'm a feeler, I do a lot of things by my gut feel, which is following the heart, right? Somebody? How do you know that's gonna work? I don't know, I'll figure I'll let the market decide. But right now that feels good. That's what we want to do it so, you know, people get frustrated with me because they'll give me ideas think of what do you think and I think it's great idea because you always say that because it's your idea. Let the market prove you wrong. Don't let me prove like, I'm not gonna be the one that gave you that. Yeah, I'm not gonna prove you wrong. But follow your heart. If that's the accent. I loved what you said in an earlier segment to I mean, that idea is that divine inspiration. It's, it's basically when when people believe in different things, we'll say grand overall design, but that's when they're answering back. Right? Yeah, right. That's so you're, you're praying giving a wish that idea that comes to your subconscious and all of a sudden in your brain is the answer that yes, we'll save it. That person spoke to me that's what they're talking about.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah. love the ocean adlet quote where he says I'm grateful for the idea that has used me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Inge Rock 51:08 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">As the other way around and</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 51:11 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I think my favorite though is rowdy where he's persons praying for the parking space. Please guys, let me find the parking space but nevermind, gotta got one thanks.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Inge Rock 51:21 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Most quickly when you get out of the way, it moves quickly. I had</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 51:26 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">a big realization while you were talking about a midlife crisis. So you could kind of call it mine. But I bought a very expensive car for the for one of the first times but it was because it was on my dream board for 25 years. Wow. Put a picture of this car on my dream board when I mean I was like waiting tables. There's no way I could I couldn't afford a car at that point, very last black car. In May. The realization was like last year I was like, You know what? I'm doing it. It's been there. The energy's been there. It's time to pull the trigger. And I'm happy I did but I think that that's when we when you were talking about what's possible. I think it may not be possible today, doesn't mean it's not going to took me 25 years to realize that dream and even realize that I could, I could close on that. But the point being is, I if I wasn't aiming for anything, I would have never gotten that satisfaction in the first place.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Inge Rock 52:23 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, absolutely. And we have to grow into the person who is worthy of that dream. That's right. So it takes time, you know, the law of gestation and incubation is there and you know, the only reason why we need dreams to grow into them, and then to create in your dream,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 52:42 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">because that's what I'm all about. And thank you so much for taking the time and coming back on with us again, and you're always welcome on the show.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Inge Rock 52:50 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you so much. It was really great honor to be here. Thank you so much week, and have a really crazy day. People</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick A. Morris 53:01 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you as well. And next week we're going to have David stack leather on David is an agile is like me. And when I was reading his bio and what he's about he and I have some of the very same beliefs about organizations and companies that are using these buzzwords and fads thinking that they're new ideas. And he actually has a similar background to mine and being a project turnaround specialist. So I'm super excited to have him on. We'll have him on next week. That's David Steckler, that's going to be the May 8 show and we've got tons of guests. We're actually booked with guests all the way till the end of July now. So we've got a ton of good stuff coming your way here on the work life balance. We hope you continue to join in every Friday with us and until next week, we hope you live your own work life balance. We'll talk to you soon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America A business channel. Now that the weekend is here. It's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span><br />
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<br />Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-72617224216146248862020-04-29T08:28:00.001-05:002020-04-29T08:30:24.477-05:00Tips from a Podcaster: My Complete ToolkitI have been getting a tremendous amount of questions lately
about my podcast, how I set it up, the software that I use, and how I find
guests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amid answering these, I thought
I would put together a blog post to discuss it all!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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First, a little background.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I grew up in the entertainment industry and was an audio/video
technician at Disney early in my career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I studied Radio and Television Broadcasting at the University of Tennessee
and have been around media production most of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first podcast is a live radio show done every
Friday called <a href="https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/2515/the-worklife-balance">The
Work/Life Balance</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of this post,
I have 186 episodes airing weekly since December 11, 2015. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also the Chief Interviewer and guest host
of the <a href="https://johnmaxwellteam.com/podcast/">Transformational Leader
Podcast</a> sponsored by <a href="https://johnmaxwellteam.com/podcast/">The John
Maxwell Team</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have 61 episodes
since March 7, 2019 and I have been blessed by some incredible guests such as
Ivan Misner, Barb Stegemann, Dr. Daniel Amen, and many more!<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I first started podcasting, I did not do much post-production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I continued to learn the industry, I began
to develop and launch podcasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance,
we just launched <a href="https://pod.co/tonguelashing">A Tongue Lashing with
Damon Pampolina</a> in March of this year and have several others in the works.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One thing is for certain, podcasting has blown up as an
industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Podcast Insights,
there are over 850,000 podcasts and over 30 million podcast episodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over 350,000 podcasts have been created in
the last two years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>70% of the
population are aware of what a podcast is and more than half of all US
consumers above the age of 12 listen to podcasts (Statista, 2019) which means
roughly 155 million people have listened to podcasts in the United States alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three out of every four podcast listeners in
the US say they tune in to learn new things and 32% listen to podcasts at least
once a month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a tremendous
audience out there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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too much noise for me to start a podcast?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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There are four things that I share with people when I get
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<li>The statistics show growth year over
year, but it is difficult to categorize what is called podfade. Many podcasters do not make it past their 7<sup>th</sup>
episode without experiencing a decrease in motivation. Statistics are not easy to come by for podfade,
but in 2018 a statistic by Amplifimedia says that 75% of podcasts are no longer
in production. If we impute this
statistic then, it will mean that there are only 212,500 podcasts producing new
content.</li>
<li>Just because a concept, topic, or
idea has been covered before does not mean that you cannot cover it. There are thousands of motivational speakers. Personally, I get to work with one of the
greatest communicators of our time in John Maxwell. He has hundreds of books and has spoken to
millions of people. However, as famous
as he is, I still meet many people each day who have never heard of him. This means YOUR audience is out there. People are waiting for how YOU address the
content. It may have been said or dealt
with before, however, your audience is waiting to hear from you!</li>
<li>Make sure you are doing the
podcast FOR your audience. Really
understand the why of what you are doing.
Podcasting is becoming the new book.
I hear people often say that they will write a book because they have a
great story to tell. The question is,
who will read it? That is not meant to be
mean, it is meant to make sure you are writing the book, or in this case
recording your podcast, to satisfy your listeners.</li>
<li>Plan out at least 10 episodes. If you are unable to come up with 10 episodes
of content and material, then you might be one of the many that experience podfade.</li>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For recording my podcasts, I first started with the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Yeti-USB-Microphone-Space/dp/B0170NWLWY/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=blue+yeti&qid=1588104466&sr=8-1">Blue
Yeti</a> microphone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a great
microphone to get started on, but as I appeared on many podcasts and my own,
there was great inconsistency in the levels of the microphone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After some time, I upgraded my setup for
consistency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Microphone:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rode-Procaster-Broadcast-Dynamic-Microphone/dp/B001IPUJJI/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=rode+procaster&qid=1588101590&sr=8-1">Rode
Procaster Dynamic Microphone</a> – This microphone features a tight polar
pattern and is tailored for voice frequency response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">It
also features an internal pop filter to minimize plosive sounds that can
overload the microphone capsule and distort the audio. Its high output dynamic
capsule and balanced low impedance output make it an ideal broadcast and voice
over microphone.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Boom Arm:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"> - <a href="https://www.amazon.com/PSA-Swivel-Mount-Studio-Microphone/dp/B001D7UYBO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=rode+psa1&qid=1588101634&sr=8-1">Rode
PSA 1 Swivel Mount</a> – This is the best mount that I have ever used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It features 360-degree rotation and has the
best desk mount that I have seen (without drilling a hole in your desk).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It stays in place without tightening screws
and swivels on two axis points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can easily
pull the microphone to the perfect position and push it away when I am done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Pre-Amp: </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Focusrite-Scarlett-Audio-Interface-Tools/dp/B07QR6Z1JB/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_img_11?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=E747HSXSA7160BM9ZG1C">Focusrite
Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface</a> – ProTools comes with the purchase of
this device that helps set the levels to give your recordings a brighter and
more open sound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Editing:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use <a href="https://www.audacityteam.org/">Audacity</a> to edit my podcasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many good tools out there, it is
just easier for me to use this one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Publishing:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, there are
several options to publish your podcast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The platform that I use is called <a href="http://podcastco.refr.cc/rmorris">Podcast.co</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very straight forward and easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biggest benefit is that it centralizes
your distribution and automatically submits the podcast to all the major platforms
(Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, etc.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Understanding where your listeners are and how they are listening is key
to growing your audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to
consolidation, it is easier to gather metrics of listeners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has been a fantastic platform.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Product Sales Platform:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://onefunnelaway.com/challenge?cf_affiliate_id=988375&affiliate_id=988375">ClickFunnels</a>
is an all in one platform that allows you to promote your podcasts, products,
and create sales and marketing funnels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you are looking to monetize your podcast or sell books and products,
the easy creation and tons of training can help you monetize in no time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Blog:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a> for my blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, I look for a simple and easy to use
platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can customize your domain
and integrate it with Google Ads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blogs
are still a fantastic vehicle to advertise and promote content to grow your
audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Lead Magnet:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lead magnets are
great for building audiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://r2llc--page1.thrivecart.com/designrr-special-offer-2019/">Designrr</a>
is a great tool to design and publish an e-book for easy lead magnets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has a unique cover creator to add some weight
to the publication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can also import
from several sources including a blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
converted my highest viewed blog posts into an e-book lead magnet and built my
audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Transcription:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another great way to
get the word out about your show is using a transcription service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This converts your audio into text for video
or show notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use <a href="https://otter.ai/referrals/ZSXPHLS5">Otter</a> to create my transcriptions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is low cost and accurate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also easy to edit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the key time savers is that Otter can
remember voices and match speakers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
saves a tremendous amount of time against many of the other tools on the
market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other great thing about
transcription is that it helps with Search Engine Optimization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The words that you have spoken during the
podcast can be searched through the Internet and listeners looking for
something relevant to you can find you in browser searches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Social Media Automation:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my favorite
new tools that I employ is called <a href="https://lttr.ai/P7cO">MissingLettr</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This tool will read a web page or blog and automatically
create social media posts to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you found this post from one of those
social media platforms, then this tool really works!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can do 2-week, 2-month, or 6-month campaigns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are still some light edits that you must
do, but it creates several pieces of content for each post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also publishes your post to Medium which
is another avenue for you to monetize your content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Graphics:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like <a href="https://getstencil.com/?tap_a=9103-1801f8&tap_s=874578-38a6a9">Stencil</a>
for creating graphics on social media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is inexpensive and has many stock photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also allows you to post directly to social
media or to download the graphic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
stock photos are searchable which allows for fast creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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market is <a href="https://make.headliner.app/referral/rmorris_lpGlax">Headliner</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can find your podcast for you or you can
upload it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This creates a nice visual
element for social media posts of your content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I use it for snippets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I edit
about 4-5 minutes of good content from my podcast and post that as a teaser for
social media with links to the blog that links to the audio file.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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making it easier to find great guests is called <a href="https://app.matchmaker.fm/home">MatchMaker</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They call themselves the Tinder of
podcasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of this post, it
is completely free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can sign up and list
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</span>You can request to be a guest on other podcasts and the app allows
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time savers that I found was <a href="http://www.calendly.com/">Calendly</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It integrates directly to my calendar and
allows guests to choose the best time and day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is real-time and sees when you are booked doing other things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This cuts down on all the scheduling
e-mails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can also customize the
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or text of the summary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also
searchable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are looking to get
educated about a topic prior to interviewing a guest or just want to stay on
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discussed there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can feel overwhelming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To help, here is the process that I use to
incorporate all these tools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It usually
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<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Find my guests through <a href="https://app.matchmaker.fm/home">Matchmaker</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Send my <a href="http://www.calendly.com/">Calendly</a> link to schedule the podcast.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Find relevant material and articles
on the Internet or through <a href="https://readitfor.me/89314">Readitfor.me.</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Use <a href="https://www.audacityteam.org/">Audacity</a> to edit the show and create a
4-5 minute snippet.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Upload and schedule the show to air
in <a href="http://podcastco.refr.cc/rmorris">Podcast.co</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Upload the show and the snippet to <a href="https://otter.ai/referrals/ZSXPHLS5">Otter</a> to transcribe.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Upload the snippet to <a href="https://make.headliner.app/referral/rmorris_lpGlax">Headliner</a> to
create the video.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Download the transcriptions from <a href="https://otter.ai/referrals/ZSXPHLS5">Otter</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Post the long form transcription to
my <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">blog</a> (with links to my podcast page).</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Go to <a href="https://lttr.ai/P7cO">MissingLettr</a>
and input the blog page.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Use <a href="https://getstencil.com/?tap_a=9103-1801f8&tap_s=874578-38a6a9">Stencil</a>
to create graphics for social media posts.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Upload the snippets and the
transcriptions (SRT files) to social media.</span></li>
<li><span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Edit <a href="https://lttr.ai/P7cO">MissingLettr</a>
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<br />Rick A. Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794385901795473683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979030410676894124.post-22048259907264043332020-04-25T11:04:00.000-05:002020-04-25T11:04:14.083-05:00My Life My Power - Jennifer Kramer and Daniel Puder<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1301809433443599615" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 898px;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life. Do you find that one seems to keep getting in the way of the other? This is the work life balance with Rick Morris. Even if you're not involved in the business world, you'll have a lot to gain by tuning into today's show. Now, here's your host,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Rick Morris. And welcome to another edition of the work life balance on this Friday afternoon got a really really good episode for you got multiple guests so I'm gonna forego my normal comments as we start to jump into the show and get right to them because there's a ton of information I want them to share. Our first guest is Daniel pewter. He's a former undefeated MMA fighter he won the $1 billion tough enough champion for the WWE a deputy sheriff and the founder of the my life by my power, which is ml MP. And he's also the co founder and serves as president of the ML MPI which is my life, my powers Institute prep Academy. He is an advocate for public education believes that his purpose in life is to inspire youth of all ages to lead significant and purpose driven lives. And his partner is Jennifer Kramer, who has been an educator for over 21 years and has served as an assistant principal and FCL, curriculum developer athletic director, teacher coach and educational lobbyists. Currently, she is co founder as well and serves as the superintendent and chief academic and accreditation officer for my life, my power international prep Academy. And let's welcome them both to the show. Jennifer Daniel, how you both doing</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">thank you so much. We got a chance to meet out at La a lot of a lot of my listeners follow a lot of our travels and wherever we went. So, you know, they knew about the Mickey Mouse Club reunion. They knew that I was coming out for city summit in city gala in LA. That's where we got a chance to meet Jennifer you're actually one of the partners and kind of organizers to city summit city Gala. And then I got a chance to meet you there. Daniel is And watch you rock the stage. And that's where this this started as well as our mutual friend Dr. Ayman right. But that's how Talk to us a little bit people about my life, my power, what it means and how you guys started it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Well, when people brand, the company is always interesting to see what their brand stands for, and what when you hear the word or the words, what it relates to in my life, my power. Our goal with it is to help people understand that they can own their power in their life. There's so many people out there that don't believe in themselves, that don't understand how to love themselves. They don't understand how to care for themselves. And so I believe that everybody has a choice. Maybe they don't know how to do it yet. And so we started mine with my power in 2010 as a nonprofit impacting communities around the world. anti bullying, drugs, gangs, suicide, sex trafficking immediately made amazing network of people, whether law enforcement educators, community groups, and then from there we started our private schools, our preparatory academies two years ago, 18 months ago. And Jen has led with the accreditation, the academics. We have two other partners on it, and they just rock these kids lives. Our Dean's are amazing, or teachers are rock stars. And our goal is to create the most amazing humans in the world. For the last hundred 200 years, we've created people that sit down and read a book and take a test. And I believe the future of the world is to create better humans, not just humans that can bypass a test or have a career. Because most of our kids they're growing up with so much debt after college, credit card debt, they don't have a budget. They're not learning the basics. Things that are not a cook, they don't know trician their mental health emotional. So we help these kids starting in sixth grade, understand their emotional health, their belief, intelligence, social emotional learning, and we build these humans from inside out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That Jennifer, one of the acronyms we're using there quite a bit was Sal, can you describe what that is? And really what what that means?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So, yes, that social emotional learning, it's, you know, it's used in school. So you base it on like emotional intelligence is kind of like IQ versus EQ. In schools, they focus on the IQ and your EQ is, you know, learning how to communicate and understand yourself as well as, as well as understanding others. So, you know, we incorporate that and all of the things we do in our school system, as well as through my life, my power and the trainings that we do, but it's just, it's just the way to really empower youth and empower adults to understand themselves to understand others better.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And EQ is really becoming of this latest wave, right? If you look at business books and business leadership, it started with management. I mean, everything was about management. And then john Maxwell came along and a lot of people started to go towards leadership, then there was kind of a big coaching, boom. And now it's a lot of conversation around EQ, although it's not new. Most people are really, and is that Daniel because of the school systems as well that we weren't really just exposed to this. It's not something that we really should have known about. I mean, why is EQ getting so big now?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So EQ is not the foundation emotions are not the foundation of why we do everything. our emotions are created based on our beliefs, and that's called the belief intelligence. And our beliefs are formed from being in our mother's womb, to about seven years old as as a core foundation of the subconscious within our brain. That is, our beliefs are created based on sounds, experiences, actions, thoughts. What we hear in TV, what our mother does fitness and even our physiological intelligence, which is really when we're in our mother's womb for nine months or so, how we get built as its cellular structure. And so I find that the schools are doing something that's simple that everybody can do, what we do is something a little more difficult. We do believe intelligence, it's the deepest foundation piece of why somebody does something, or why somebody's emotions are a certain way. And what I find is, is that it's not easy to do that. It takes a lot of training, we have a whole entire system, three experiences we call our black belt, emotional belief, intelligence training, and it's three trainings that the first one's fun. Second one gets really deep into self reflection and, and accountability. And the third one, if you're not ready for life, and you're not really ready to own it, which is the my life my power side of it, then get ready to get blown out of the water cuz you're not gonna lie. A day and so we've created this because we want to create the best humans and so humans today believe aren't taking accountability responsibility. They're not being authentic or aligned with who they really are supposed to be. They don't understand their vision or purpose and so we help them understand in a deep dive, really how to own own who they are, um, emotionally mentally, physically, spiritually, whatever makes sense to them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, it's it's just a my my mentor, one of my mentors Paul Martin, how he talks about believing your own Bs and Bs really means belief system, right? You can you can use whatever you want to hear, but but believing your own Bs and in coaching, what we have to do a lot of times is break down that Bs, for instance, your belief system is that all money is bad, right? That everything, everything when you start to earn money or start to earn money that comes back, it has negative consequences. That was a belief system he grew up with, versus being able to change that belief system into understanding if he had funds. You could fund them. He's like your Academy and fun things like, you know that that really could give back to the world. But one of the words you said a couple of times there Daniels one of my favorite words, which is accountability. And I think that there's a lack of accountability both on the parents side and on the student side a lot as we start to see some of the failures in our current education crisis. But why you? I remember, I was having difficulty with my daughter and I wanted her to read an article on accountability. It was just something I just wanted her to learn how to own her emotions, own her outbursts, those types of things. And she goes, Dad, I'm not going to read something that that tells me that I'm a bad person. So talk to me a little bit about why kind of how you guys get accountability, kids.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So So number one, I think everything comes comes down to a value proposition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">There's two different scenarios I always ask people that are having a change in their life, I'm like, I'm like, so you go 80% of the way to the bathroom? Are you committed in your life? And they're like, What do you mean? I'm like, if you take a poop in your pants 80% of the way like you walk 80% of the way, take a poop in your pants. Are you really committed to our bathroom? Like, they're like, no. I'm like, would you ever do that? They're like, No, I'm like, so why would you if you were a pro athlete, go out and drink alcohol and get drunk and do dumb stuff and get into a fight? Or why as a mother, would you smoke cigarettes? Or why as a father, would you hurt your family? Or why like there's all these why's and so I look at this and a lot of times people just don't know what is in front of them. That's their norm. That's what they've been trained or that's what they've grown up with. That's what you know, whether the abuse or the you know, the the hurt or pain or fear, and so showing them what's possible. Sometimes they either have to lose A lot or lose everything, like attics. Sometimes they have to go to rehab a few times, and they have to be having near death moment. Or sometimes, you know, mother and father, they have to go through major, you know, financial challenges to come together and have a vision. And so I think there's always a value proposition, which showing people and helping them create a vision and understand the purpose are the two major foundational pieces of what they can see. Because I believe you can't see what you can't. You can't be what you can't see. And so first visualizing, understand what you want to create. And then the second step is is putting the right team and commitment together. And so, everybody or a lot of people think that they can do everything on their own. Definitely these kids today, and they learn from their parents, obviously, he comes somewhere. And so I believe that I am more influential and powerful and make more impact, not just because it's me it's because my team, it's because Jennifer Cramer worked 16 hour days, and, you know, puts together the best accreditation the country with sacks invented, which has not caught me up on where we can open up as many schools we want in the world. It's because of our one of our partners, Michael, because he used to work into DJ Jason. And so I think a lot of it comes from our ego, of being wronged. Because that's our own self projection. We're, we're reflecting on what other people have said, or what we've seen. And then we don't want to feel bad or wrong for doing something. And so I think that people that get other on head and go, Hmm, I can take advice. And I'll give you the kind of that how it relates to me is when I was a MMA fighter, I used to get punched in the head. My coaches, they told me keep my hands up and I didn't guess what, I get punched in the head. And so I went into a world kind of like the military now. Law enforcement where I can get shot. If I don't do what my captain says, I can get dead. I can get paralyzed. I can. A couple of our guys just got shot in St. Francis County, Arkansas. And so I think there's a lot of challenges in the real world. What happens is is you lose a job, you fail out of school, like nothing is like death, right like that. Nothing is getting punched in the face. And so I think there's different levels of extreme and how you learn or how I've learned. And I've learned how to learn very quickly because I had an ultimatum of either getting punched or dead or injured for life. And the kids today, they don't play video game, they press reset, they play video game, press reset, and that's what they think life's about. Same thing with adults. But just to you know, different time period.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, I learned I actually took a couple of MMA fights early years ago and I learned how flexible my neck was going backwards. Was was what I learned from that that little thing, but what I really We want to do we're going to take a break right here. But when we come back, Jennifer, I really want to get into some of the challenges that we're seeing in the youth today and start really going through what they're faced with especially now. You know, we're talking right now during the COVID-19 stuff in a we're just in a world of uncertainty. So I'd love to hear about some of the challenges you guys are seeing what you're doing to solve them. We'll do that right after the break here with Daniel pewter Jennifer Kramer and this is Rick Morris talking to work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance to reach Rick A. Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at our Morris at r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back to this Friday afternoon of the work life balance. were meeting with Daniel pewter and Jennifer Kramer. We're talking about my life, my power and of course they're coming atomies as well ml MPI for some reason I'm getting tongue tied on that. But ml, MPI, academies and Jennifer, that's really coming from you guys. We're seeing a lot of challenges and youth and challenges in the current educational system. So what are those challenges that you're seeing? And why did you guys really create this academy?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So like with Daniel has experienced, you know, going around speaking and working with the schools and foster care and the juvenile justice system in the K 12 system, and I come from a traditional private school where I worked with LD ADHD students, and I left it because I wanted to do something bigger. And when I met Daniel, he really wanted to create a change. And we were the first literally the first time we talked, we both had the same vision of literally shifting the educational system, because the traditional educational system really focuses on you know, if you excel in math, science, social studies, and it focuses on your labs. If you look at report cards, if you look at things you teach, you know, they worry about if you're doing well on a test, not as you're doing as a whole student. So, you know, him and I have been doing lots of different things with emotional intelligence, space things, I write curriculum, he has a program as well, too, that we utilize in our schools called GPS for life. And then what a spin off on that was GPS for success. And we were really finding, you know, the traditional school does not focus on the life skills and the emotional intelligence things and if you think about it, you know, Dana and I talk about this all the time in our training, you know, when you're from ages zero to, you know, three, your parents are telling you get up, go explore, go look, you know, go look around, go do this. And then after you know, from ages like four to 21, it's sit down, look forward, pay attention, and then go be you know, go release you out in the world and be productive citizens, or we're not really equipping our youth with that today. That's what we're trying to do with our school systems is be very out of the box and find unique ways using mentorship using speakers coming in using you know very different ways of approaching education because you can still teach the same things to the kids you can just teach it in a different way. So it's better equipping them with just life skills.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And in our in our write up for the show as well though you were talking around bullying you were talking about suicide talk to me how this helps either help or equip or or prevent some of those issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I have Daniel addresses because I want him to talk about his unique way about how he started MLSP</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">because it has to do with bullying. So I got on TV TMZ and said I'll come to your school if you're being bullied. And you can look it up Daniel pewter TMZ. And what I was seeing was there was so many kids being picked on bullied we got over 10,000 emails in the first eight weeks from 12 countries, and then some three different types of people. One were kids, when were the parents, the one that I didn't expect were the adults. And the adults said, I wish you were in my life because they knew I was a undefeated MMA fighter. I wish I really, I wish you were in my life when I was a kid to protect me. And I looked at what was going on in our beliefs. And I looked at what was going on in our bullied kids, what the average public school system has done, or the average school system period, after school program, anything related around the country, is they tell the bullies the bad, which the bullies are hurt more, and they're just taking their anger, their frustration, their hurt out on other people. They don't even understand what they're doing. Because it's a it's a it's a, it's a response to something they've never been trained about. It's kind of like, if I were to give you a car, when you were four years old, and say go take it around the block. You've seen somebody do it, but you don't understand it. And so Their own emotions. They've never been trained. And when a lot of the systems say, Oh, we train our kids with social emotional learning, it's very, very, very low level training. It's very content heavy, and context light. And so, if a teacher is getting frustrated in a class, and they're trying to teach emotional, social emotional learning or emotional intelligence, then we have a challenge. And so I think there's two sides of it with schools is I look at I look at two different pieces. We either live from love or we live from fear. As a context, the fears create anger, they create hurt, they create pain. A fear is only based in our ego, and we create it to be to give us the ability to stay alive. A fear creates the Right emotions when we need it. Obviously back in the day a line would run after us we would have, I think</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">when I talk to kids about their girl hurt or pain, we have our psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, counselors, when we talk to talk to our students about or staff, a lot of them don't know the foundation of where it's coming from. And for them to start self reflecting, and start looking at their past experiences in either two worlds is how I break it down. One is I'm blessed. And I'm thankful that an experience of my past happened. And the other one is, is I'm gonna blame somebody else or blame myself because they're bad and wrong. And so many people are scared of the bad wrong, but they're still doing it every single day. They're still doing it themselves. They're still doing to other people. And so it's interesting to watch people Say I want this result my life. And they can't even get past the gate. They can't even get past the start line. Because they don't know the fundamentals to be able to let they're like they're walking around like this all day they walk around with a hand, you know, a blinder on. And if we can just help push that out a little bit and go, Oh, wow, this is a hand. Okay, let's take that. Let's really see life. And so we've created and we've seen what doesn't work, and we want to see what does work. The challenges is what does work. Like Jen and I trained cops in multiple states, this last summer educators and what people would say, oh, cops aren't being nice, or, you know, my teachers not being kind and I'm like, Okay, hold on, let's let's, let's break this down. Cops are never trained on how to be nice. They're never trained to understand their emotions. They're never trained to understand their beliefs. It's like our military. They're never trained. It's like average entrepreneur is not trained on maybe they have the content, the business content on how to start a business when they've never actually been through the business. So how are we supposed to create an expectation of somebody else's life? If we can't even own our own? And how are we supposed to own our own, we don't even know what it entails to do it. And so with the kids that are being bullied, and drugs, and gangs, and prostitution, and suicide, and sex trafficking, all these different things that kids are trying to find love, and trying to experience life. That's what they know, right? And so when we can show them something different when we can show them what's possible for them in their family, we can help them break down. why they do what they do every single day, their real purpose 99% of time, it's taking care of their family, taking care of a loved one taking care of their mother. And if we can get them to identify that and see that we can help them get out of the rut that they're creating every single day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So is that your A typical students that your Academy serves or like how, how does how does that piece work? How does someone find the academy? How does somebody enroll? What markets are you in right now? How does that stuff work?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So, our schools serve kids that are challenged in one way or the other. I think every student today growing up, it's very challenging. They add some benefits. Our generation, my parents generation, they grew up in front of a TV plant, you know, eating bonbons. This generation sits in front of video games, interacting with people around the world,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">playing as a team, but they're spending like 18 hours a day on video games. So it's interesting to be able to see</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">you know, where kids really live, what makes them excited, what makes them enjoy life, and so many of them love to disconnect then connect to this world. And so showing them what's really possible it takes time and so yeah, A lot of these kids that are failing the school system we take and we support and then we have straight A's honorable students that come into our schools and just want to get ahead and want to change their life for the better because they just don't get it yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, so we we serve kids, you know, with academic challenges, attendance, challenges, behavioral challenges, and, and we take them through our programming and basically help them graduate. We, you know, we like Daniels been saying this whole time we we show them that there are other opportunities because these are in very low socio economic areas, high crime rates, and you know, we show these kids a different opportunity they that they never would have had. So that that's typically our demographics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And so how many schools do you have right now?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So we have one in Liberty City Miami, and we have one in Oakland Park, and and Kobe. All these are in South Florida,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">in South Florida, okay. But when we go ahead, Daniel God,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">yeah. And what's great is we're building these schools, we're building a millionaire's model where we can do the same thing with kids that are, you know, higher social, economic, we're doing a one in about three years a billionaires model, because every billionaire wants their kids to not be on drugs because they have everything, there's no value in life. So we're looking at these different models on how we can support every type of kid long term, but it's it's really understanding that type of kid and and relating connecting to where they're at today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Perfect. So we're gonna take another break right here. When we come back, I do want to talk about how that works financially, how somebody in a community that they say, Wow, my community really needs something like this, how that kind of works financially, what it looks like. And again, funding options for these challenge kids, how does it How does it get funded? How do they, how do they find an academy like this and start something like this? So those are the things that we'll talk through. When we come back. You're listening to the work life balance records,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You are tuned in to the work life balance. To reach Rick Morris or his guest today, we'd love to have you call into the program at 1-866-472-5790. Again, that's 1-866-472-5790 if you'd rather send an email Rick can be reached at r Morris r squared consulting.com. Now back to the work life balance. And we're back to</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">the work life balance on this Friday afternoon. We're talking with Daniel pewter and Jennifer Kramer cofounders of the my life my power International Academy. I think I said something inappropriate and not inappropriate, but I said it wrong. Let's not get inappropriate here. Really, really quickly that Daniel, how many fights Did you have at the MMA?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I had a professional 20 amateur. But the amateur was different back in the day. So you know wasn't counted. It was very interesting. I was in the sport before the sport was really what it is today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">But still 28 No. And we all know there's that one lucky shot just just right here on the chin. Just catch it just right and lights not. Not from you, bro. No, no, definitely not I'm saying what it is, is to go 28 fights and win them all is my point is I I've had the lights out, happen and it's not fun. I'm just gonna throw that. Yeah, not a whole lot of Yeah. I'm coming back to the getting me up. So we're leading into how does this get funded? Like, how is this financially work? What, even better? I have a lot of entrepreneurs that listen to the podcast like what's what's really in this for you guys?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So what I looked at with the nonprofit side is it said, relying on grants relying on contracts that I was doing, and there were smaller contracts, if it's not built in as a system as a budget line item somewhere. Then long term. It's all sustainable. So I was looking at, there's so many groups that are out there that help people. But helping people doesn't necessarily solve the problem. And so I don't see as many people solving problems today because it'll put them out of business. And I'm excited if I don't have to do any anti bullying, like we don't even do that much anti bullying stuff anymore. Because we're about helping the human which is growing acumen, not just the bullying side, because I said, I thought that was the future, the future, that's not the foundation. If you tell a kid Don't bully, then they're probably gonna go bully someone. And so we built a system. It's a for profit model, that we get to go out and build schools and their state funding. And through this system, the challenge between private schools and private public schools which are called charter, is charter schools get more funding to build their initial school they maybe get land they get a property they get, there's there's things they get depending on the city. We hit none of that. So we have to put up our own dollars to be able to get into locations to then be able to rent. And then from there long term we can make, you know, we put a lot of money back into the kit. And so we created a system where it can be profitable. Because we, we have so many resources and we can bulk buy, and we're doing things internally. And we're setting up the company, right? we own our own curriculum. We're building our own curriculum right now from six through 12th grade for math, science and social studies. We're doing some amazing stuff. And so it's cheaper than and we're putting the money up front to be able to build the foundation so that we can create more revenue, create more profit to open up more schools. And so we look at how do we put as much impact within our kids every single day as possible, and we're doing it and then we're stay fun till we get contracts with the state. In the state of Florida, there's there's a couple handfuls of states that are going to a model called school choice or they call a voucher scholarship. And from there, the students apply, we get awarded the scholarship, or they get awarded the scholarship, and then they come to our school. And so it's an amazing system that's been created in Florida. I want to thank the people out there, they've been doing this. It's not just Republicans, people always say, oh, Republican, this role, it's Democrats to both sides are winning, because guess what, a lot of the democrats that are getting elected, they have smaller base schools that are helping their community out where they have impoverished, financial challenges, generational poverty, jails, foster care, and their people are really getting taken care of. And so I want to thank you know, the the legislation and and our politicians to be supportive of this and it's amazing to see what's happening.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So, essentially, Then from that perspective, then the voucher system is how that kind of helps from a state funding when you say your state funded is through vouchers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Yeah, that's correct. So this state is funding it from from when we got the contracts and our accreditation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So this is technically our second year. So year one. We started with just our Liberty City campus, and we started with six students. We literally opened the doors with six students, and we ended the year with 52. And then this year, we have three schools. So we added two more, and we have currently about I think, like 320 or so around that number is the current number that we have in all three schools. And, you know, we've seen the kids really grow But there's one in particular student from Liberty City. His name is Sebastian and he started with us year one. And he was kicked out of his school. He was dealing drugs. He was homeless. He got kicked out of his mother's house then kicked out of his father's house, and then it was living with his aunt. And I remember he went to I believe it was Daniel and or Daniel or Michael, I can't remember exactly who it was. But I think it was Daniel. And he went to him and said, You know, I don't there's not enough beds in the house because there's too many kids. And so you know, us being a private school, we have the autonomy to do things. So you know, Daniel went out we bought him about a bunk bed for the room so he could have enough beds for his room and Sebastian has come so far, and he's graduating this year and and Daniel my like he said, we we also have the opportunity to train law enforcement. So we have a government contract with high to high intensity drug trafficking areas, which is through Oakland do CP in the White House. The Office on National Drug Control Policy. And Daniel and I got the opportunity last summer to train law enforcement and educators in four states. It'd be Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and then Florida. And we went through and did it for 10 days. And we invited Sebastian to come because he likes to do filming. And he had never been out of the state of Florida. never done anything like that. And he came and Daniel and I run hard. We are 16 hour days, we don't stop because you know, you know, Daniel, one of his greatest strengths is connection and building teams. And he's built a great team and we're all super dedicated to what we're doing. And Sebastian didn't know what hit him. So when he was with us, literally for 10 days, we wore him out, but he did so amazing. And he's this big kid. He's like a giant teddy bear. He was here in Atlanta with me and my daughter here and, and he's just we're so proud of him. He's come so far, and he's one of my most favorite success cases. Quite a few others too, but he's close to my heart because he's such a sweet kid. And he's his come from he shouldn't be. He shouldn't project what he is. But you know, I think us emulating and giving him mentors and showing them opportunities and creating things for him. We've got him a job. He recently was homeless again, and we found another home for him. So, you know, we, he's one of our great success stories. So</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">one of the keys to that though, even though that you had some some slight assistance here, and there is is really back to the accountability, accountability. Mm. Right. So he's somebody who's really working the program, and understanding he has to be accountable to himself in order to grow forward, right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh, yes, for sure. I mean, you know, he loves to learn but people, you people sometimes get stuck in the learning phase, they don't realize they need to evolve and transform. So that's one thing that Sebastian has been doing. He's like a sponge, he soaks up things and he really wants to be better and do better and broaden his horizons and he's really Daniel's really taken him under his wing. Daniels, you know, one of probably the greatest mentors that I think Sebastian has probably ever had in his life. So</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">outstanding, Daniel, any any favorite stories you have really quickly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Um, so, you know, it's interesting, because about three months, two months ago, he did come back again. And he said, I now got kicked out of my aunt's house, I tried to reconcile with my dad, my dad's dad, and he literally called me because I have nowhere to go tonight. And so we got him into a place he went out and got himself a better job, paid more surgeons and part time work for our schools. And we helped him financially and then one of my buddies at one of the companies that that we use a CH It's our it's our, our HR HR company. In Florida, they sent they said, Hey, we want to sponsor one of your kids. And so I with me paying out money, I said, Hey, why don't you sponsor this kid, it'll cover his first couple months getting off the ground. And it basically got him living and a bicycle and the right clothes he needed, and you know, just the right setup. And so it's a blessing in my life to have mentors that are like, Hey, where's the money really needed? Not, hey, you're gonna go spend like 20% of that administrator 100% winter, we're, I think, you know, right now, he owes me like four or 500 bucks, and he's got the cash and I just haven't met up with him and I and he goes, Hey, I need this and I need that. I said, take somebody's cash and you know, let's do payments. So the kids becoming more responsible. He's accountable to who he is. And until what I love is that he follows up with me every week. And he's just a big blessing. Like he's he, when he shows up to school he's got, he's got a lot of happiness. And he's got a lot of drive. And he's also got a lot of anger from from past stuff. And it's amazing to watch him grow over the last year,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">that's phenomenal, especially learning how to deal with that anger, because, unfortunately, that can come out with very negative consequences for anybody, but a lot of to, you know, hurt people hurt people, essentially. And so having them learn not to hurt is really how you get them to prevent the hurt. So we're gonna, we're gonna take our final break right here. I'm glad because at the beginning of this segment, you were making sure I wasn't, I wasn't saying I could knock you out. I was saying the right shot on the chin. So I'm glad we're back to square one You had me so that</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Oh my goodness. So I'll sleep much better tonight for sure. So we'll come right back with the work life balance Daniel Peter, Jennifer Kramer and we'll do our final segment you're listening to Rick Morris on the work life balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And we're back for the final segment of the work life balance visiting with Daniel pewter and Jennifer Kramer. They are both co founders of the my life my power International Academy and so how do people find out about the academy How do they find you guys? How do they fund it? Right? That that millionaire that's listening right now that wants to fund their own school and put their name on it? How do they find you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So you guys can email me directly if you're super interested dp, my life my power.org if you want to look at more information, just Google My life, my power, international preparatory academies, or my life, my power, you can email you can google Daniel pewter, go on our YouTube or Instagram. You can see Dr. Oz Les Brown, we have some amazing people coming together to make impact to these kids. And so we're looking for people that want to make a little bit of profit, but also invest and have a legacy project for their life. Some people put their name on it, some people don't. We have different setups for you know, people that just want to support us on getting something going and get their money back. I mean, at the end of the day, I want to build more schools. I want to impact kids We're able to do this together, we're going to change the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Outstanding. So, I'm going to go to Jennifer first, Jennifer, what's some of the best advice you've ever received?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I guess it comes from like having my parents were the most amazing parents and they are heavy influence in my life and, and they're so kind and I think that they taught me two major things, which is just being grateful for what you have, and always leading with kindness. Because those are two two things that I believe that if you if you truly are grateful, not just say that you are but actually understand, you know, look around you and see all the beautiful things that you have and the friends and family and, and even all the stuff going on with, you know, the pandemic and COVID-19 all this is kind of making all of us kind of take a step back and realize, you know what we do have and then, you know, my parents are just so kind and generous and loving and I think that's one thing that They've always taught me it's just to lead with kindness because you can't really go wrong with that. So that's some great advice, I guess that I received.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">And then Daniel other than don't get hit in the face, what's some of the best you've received?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">When Keep your hands up? Um, I think the biggest thing in life is love yourself. If If you really internally care about yourself, and not the things that you have, or the people you have around you, or like, people come and go, and I see so many people get off track with, oh, I lost this or I lost this ring or I lost. Okay, so it comes and goes at the end of the day, life is not about to me, life is not about things per se. It's really how do I live? How do I build my team? How do I impact the world? And how do I just enjoy who I am and am blessed with life every single day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So where did you find your power?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">getting punched in the face when I was angry? I mean, I mean, I didn't I didn't go into depth. You know, when I was a kid I was picked on and bullied for being in special ed, they labeled me learning disabled. And so I understand how it feels to feel pain, how people hurt people hurt people, like you said, and, and I, I saw a lot of that, but I didn't understand that I was never taught that. I was able to go home and cry on my mom's lap when I was a kid or express something, and then I got angry. And so really understanding how I chose that I wanted life. I mean, it's called freewill. That's the best part what we have is the ability to make a choice. And so getting to make that choice and understand what choices that have are valuable, but really diving deep into myself and getting rid of some of those past blame and shame things in my life was was one of the biggest transitions over the last 510 years of working with other people seen it. Then I started seeing it in my</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Jennifer, any final words for the audience or anything that maybe we missed during the interview?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">No, I mean, we're Dana and I are just very grateful to be talking with you and the opportunity to kind of discuss, you know, what we're doing within the school systems and then with the, you know, educators and the, the drug prevention curriculums and everything, we're just we're very grateful for the opportunities that we have. And you know, Daniel and I have been building connections and relationships for many years. And we realize that, you know, in order to, you know, we have to start somewhere, and then the school system is where we're starting, and we're going to really create impact in the educational system. So we're just very excited.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Is there a connection you've been searching for trying to get to that maybe haven't achieved yet? Is there somebody in particular you're going after?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">You know, I think my biggest thing at this point is two parts. One is obviously funding schools and getting People with bigger foundations and bigger pocketbooks ago I see the vision I want to part of the legacy. I'm excited. And the second part is, is we're looking at really building our legacy with with land, because it's very hard to find the right properties to put schools and get them permitted. Get them zoned. And so we're, we're talking to some people in the land world, where we can, you know, real estate owners, people that want to and there's a lot more that's coming up right now, because of COVID-19. But we're looking for people in that world. We're starting to put a fun together right now. And we're gonna start buying properties. So people are interested in this, I just want good humans that say, hey, if you spend a couple hundred bucks on a bunk bed, change kid's life, you know, go for it. I you know, because because our partners right now, that invested, they don't care if I spend a few hundred bucks here, a few hundred bucks there, because it's changed the kids lives. They're in this for the life and they know that the bigger we get, the more we do, the more impactful Gonna make a huge legacy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">That's fantastic. Well, thank you so much for being a part of the show and coming on and sharing your vision and sharing your passion with us. If anybody out there knows of that big real estate person knows for that big person with a huge heart, maybe the person that's got the personal cell phone number of Bill Gates, you know, who knows, right? We never know who's listening. But this, this is the time for action. This is the time to really I mean, when we start talking legacy, we impact one child who then gets to impact 10. And those get to impact 1000, and so on and so forth. This is how you do it. So for those of you that are searching for a cause or searching for a way, I'd say look no further than, than this academy. It's been a blessing to meet you guys work with you. And look forward to lots and lots of success in the future.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you, brother. Have a blessed week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">So coming up next week, we've got the the formidable Ingo rock is coming on ingos a dear friend of mine, she actually has built a huge huge organization overseas and is now starting to bring that practice in business here to the United States. She's a powerhouse, motivational speaker, just in not only that, but she's just really, really fun person to be around. So we're going to have iraq on next week, we're going to want to make sure that you tune in right here every Friday, four o'clock on The Voice America business network that's for central five, Eastern to Pacific. And of course, we always hope that you live your own work life balance, and we'll talk to you next week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Thank you for joining us this week. The work life balance with Rick Morris can be heard live every Friday at 2pm pacific time and 5pm eastern time on The Voice America business channel. Now that the weekend is here, it's time to rethink your priorities and enjoy it. We'll see you on our next show.</span></span></div>
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