Stressed Out? Discover the Art of Letting Go: Say Goodbye to Perfectionism! With Valerie

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conditions apply. Welcome to another episode

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of Crazy Fitness Guys Healthy Living Podcast.

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Today, I have my friend Valerie here. Welcome

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to another episode of Crazy Fitness Guys Healthy

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Living Podcast. That's a mouthful, especially

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on a Friday. Holy moly. Today, I have my friend

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Valerie here. It's funny. I usually have people

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fill out a form to be on my podcast, but I don't

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know what happened to it. Maybe I got lost in

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the shuffle of switching tools. Knit yourself.

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Don't do that again. Welcome, Valerie. Thanks

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so much for having me, Jimmy. I'm glad to reconnect.

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So tell me a little bit about yourself. Yes.

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So I host the podcast Future Proof Career. I

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call myself a recovering career stressaholic.

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combat and squash that career anxiety and take

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control of their futures. And what made you want

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to get into that kind of career? Yeah. So yeah,

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like I said, I'm a recovering career stressaholic

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and I still am recovering from that. Um, just

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the sense of, oh my gosh, I could lose my job

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any day and what's going to happen to me. I'm

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not going to be able to support myself. I have

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a family now and how am I going to support them?

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And I've just been noticing that regardless of

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what industry you're in. If you work for the

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government, if you're a teacher, if you're working

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for a large corporation, a small company, everyone

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seems to be anxious now about their livelihood,

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about the futures. So my show is helping listeners

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combat that and give them the skills they need

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to take back that control of their futures. So

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we talk a lot about soft skills that you need.

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A lot of jobs are being automated by robots.

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That was... um expedited with covid of course

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and what can you do to compete with these robots

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you know can you analyze data can you improve

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your communication skills um improve your relationships

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and your network so i have a lot of guests on

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to talk about that and i do some solo shows where

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we really dig into to those different aspects

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of it now when you say robots do you think maybe

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some Jobs are OK being replaced with robots like,

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you know, let's say sometimes customer service,

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depending how well that robot is trained. I know

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like for sometimes like with Amazon, they have

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a robotic chat bot and it can pretty much get

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all your order information. So if you would just

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want a refund, you can just do without even.

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talking to anyone on the phone. Yes. But sometimes

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when you're talking to, I don't know, Comcast

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customer service, the lovely name brand and everything,

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and no one, you can't understand the person on

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the phone. And it's like, man, why do they have

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customer service again? I know. Is it really

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customer service? Because I don't really sense

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the service part. Yeah, I totally agree. But

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I think automation is a great thing. I mean,

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really, if it makes jobs safer, if it allows

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human beings to have the opportunity to make

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an impact in a different way, I think that's

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a great thing. And from the business perspective,

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it makes sense. You can't fight it. A lot of

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jobs can be automated and should be. So they

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should do that. It's just a matter of the individual

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who's in that role to be aware that that's a

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risk and to be, I guess, self -aware enough to

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know what to do, to have an alternate plan if

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their job was to be eliminated. And what are

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some of the tips that you go for? What are some

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helpful strategies? Anything that makes you a

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human is a good thing to focus on. That's kind

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of been the trend. So that's communication skills.

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Can you speak directly and clearly in a way that's

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not necessarily going to offend somebody? Can

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you make your point? In a way that makes it clear

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so that person knows what you need to do. Can

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you lead that individual or can you lead a group

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of people and mobilize them to want to reach

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the same goal that you're wanting to reach? You

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know, a robot's never going to be able to be

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a leader in that sense. Maybe some people could

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argue with that, but, you know, most likely in

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our lifetime, that's not going to happen. I've

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seen. A lot of people, which is it's kind of

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interesting, a trend of speaking in terms of

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like being on stage. So there's a lot of like

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I had a politician who had an acting background.

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So people who are sort of more in tune with the

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arts is a trend that I've been seeing. So, yeah,

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I mean, like I would say, probably the best way

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to sum it up is just be be a human being and

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be an authentic person. And that's going to make

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you stand out. Well, that's what I try to do

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on social media every single day to be human.

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I'm messed up on quite a few things. I even admitted

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it on social media. Oh, what did you mess up

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on? Well, surprisingly. I messed up the date

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of when the Golden Globes were. Oh. Well, I mean,

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to be honest, it used to be in January, but then

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COVID came and now they moved it all the way

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to the last weekend in February. And it's like,

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how am I supposed to stay up on top of all of

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this? I haven't watched in years. I'm not going

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to watch it again this year because, yeah. horrible

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movie music uh have you heard of the movie uh

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oh music i haven't heard of that yeah it's a

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it's a really uh let's just say it's they portray

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autism to be like the worst thing in the world

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uh and i'm not buying a movie ticket to that

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and has a thousand bad reviews and it has two

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um nominations for Golden Globes, and I hope

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it does not win. But have you heard the drama

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about Emily in Paris? I don't think so. Yeah.

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So this made headlines because I don't know if

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you've seen Emily in Paris. I have. It is not

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award worthy. I think most people would agree

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to that. And it sounds like the showrunners flew

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out all of these people from the Golden Globes.

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I don't know what they're called, whatever they're.

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organization is and treated them to like really

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fancy hotels and food and whatever so people

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are like well that kind of it's a little bit

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sketchy you know like are they just getting this

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nomination because they got all this great treatment

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so you know who knows maybe with the movie music

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that happened to you never know so uh how many

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people do you help people one -on -one or do

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you just help people uh through your show Yeah,

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I help people one -on -one too. I've helped a

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few clients that are earlier stages in their

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career. Because I think when we think about people

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who have career anxiety, you think of people

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who have been in a position for a long time and

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maybe their job's being phased out. But I'm seeing

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that career anxiety happening earlier too, which

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makes sense. So people who are in probably year

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one to five in their career, I'm helping them

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mostly at this point. Have you ever had a motivational

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speaker? Be one of my clients? No, I haven't.

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Do you think they would be a good client to have?

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I don't know. I'm just asking for a friend. Or

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me. Well, yeah, Jimmy, let's make it happen.

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So how many years have you been up and running

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for? Not years. It's been months since September

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of last year. And I do three shows a week. So

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I'm really hitting the ground running with it.

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Gee. Yeah. I don't think I could do that. That's

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what everybody says. But I was inspired by Jenny

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Blake. She has a show called Pivot. And she did

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for a while. She did daily shows. And she said

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that it helped her overcome her perfectionism.

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And when I started the show, it like I was so

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sick about it, like just the pushing publish

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button. I was so stressed that it wasn't perfect.

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It took me hours to edit it. It was not sustainable.

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So doing it three times a week has helped me

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immensely with that perfectionism. For me, I

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just know. I know I can't do it because it's

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not because I'm lazy. It is I run my own website.

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I have my own blog. I guess I'm still in school.

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Yeah, you have a lot going on. Yeah. And I speak

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on many different podcasts as guests and conventions.

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And it's like, no thanks. Yeah. Well, that's

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a good point, though, too. And that's something

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that can help people future -proof themselves

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is knowing how to manage your time and to spend

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your time in ways that strategically make sense.

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And if it doesn't make sense to you to do three

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episodes a week, and I think you do once a month,

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I mean, if that's fine, then that works. I got

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1 ,500 total plays for once a month. That's awesome.

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Oh, total plays. Well, that's still good. I mean,

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if you think about it, this was the advice I

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was given. If you think about 1 ,500 people in

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a room, that's a lot of listeners. Yeah. Again,

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I don't know my total subscribers because it's

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only an estimate. Yeah, it's not good. People

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out there who are innovators, this is an opportunity

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for you to come up with better podcast metrics.

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Yes, in this case, you need a human to figure

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this out. How can I know my total RSS subscribers,

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newsletter subscribers, social media followers?

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Podcasts, we've fallen short. Yeah, it's strange

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because you would think it would be a lot easier

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than it is. Yeah. And you know the total number

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of people visiting your website, but you can't

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know the total number of people who's listening.

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Yeah, it doesn't make sense. You have an estimate

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of 133. So you mean there could be more or less?

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How do you market this? Yeah, it's tough. What's

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people's interest? Well, this show is doing a

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lot, have a lot of plays. I don't know. Speaking

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of podcasts, are you on Clubhouse, Jimmy? No.

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Do you know what Clubhouse is? I've heard about

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it. I heard that they also got a data breach

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the other day. Oh, they did? I did not know that.

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Yeah. It was like a huge data breach. Now government

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is looking into that. And I'm like, really? How

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do you get a data breach already? That's quick.

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I was wondering, too, what data do they have?

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It's all audio. People's voices? I guess, maybe.

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I don't know. Well, anyway, Jimmy, I was going

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to tell you I love Clubhouse. Maybe I shouldn't

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go there. Yeah, it's nice. It's kind of like

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podcasting, but you can speak back and forth.

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As the listener, you can engage, which is pretty

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cool. Yeah, someone invited me to Clubhouse,

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but I told them, I can't be on one more social

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media platform. I feel like you'd be good on

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it, though, especially as a speaker. I think

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that would be a good fit for you. Yeah, maybe.

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I'll try it in the summer. I don't know. Yeah.

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Yeah. If it's still around, it sounds like it

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might be going through a rough patch. Look what

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they say about Facebook when they first started.

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Yeah, that's true. Now people either love it

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or hate it. Yeah. I'm in the middle. Do you use

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Facebook much or what social media tool do you

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use? I use a lot. I use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

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I use LinkedIn, pretty much every podcasting

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platform. Yeah. Maybe not a hundred, maybe not

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all of them because there's so many gosh darn

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podcast platforms. Yeah, there are. And they

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pop up and it's like, wait, I've never heard

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of this. Never heard of this? I heard of Hydrogen

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a little while ago. I was like, okay, that's

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new. I mean, maybe they have better analytics.

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Maybe I should look into them. Is it free? Right.

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Yeah, it's a good question. I don't know. I might

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have to check them out now. I'll send you a link.

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You put it in the show notes. Yeah, show notes.

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So if somebody was struggling and I don't know,

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let's use me as an example. Somebody was struggling

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for looking to get more speaking gigs and whatnot.

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how would I go about doing that? I mean, may

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not necessarily speaking opportunities, but if

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I'm afraid, did I just do my last one or is anybody

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ever, am I becoming dry, stale, boring, et cetera?

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Yeah. Yeah. So I, the pillars of my program are

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stamp. So savings have savings. And that has

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helped me a lot. You know, if you're worried

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about not getting your next gig, maybe you're

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going to get laid off. If you have a buffer,

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a financial buffer, that's really going to help

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you feel better about that. So, you know, stock

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up on some cash, have a little have more than

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what some of the experts say. I would suggest

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having it. at least 10 ,000 per what your salary

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is per month. So if you make like 50 ,000 a year,

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try to have at least a five month buffer in addition

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to whatever else you're going to need. So have

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savings, work on your transferable skills. So

00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:23.960
for you, Jimmy, that might be like your networking,

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your sales, your marketing, you know, work on

00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:28.960
those skills. That's going to help you get your

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name out there a little bit more. Amaze your

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employer, continue doing great work, you know,

00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:36.019
follow up. send follow -up emails, send thank

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yous. So I think a lot of people get so stressed

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out that they forget to do the work that they're

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supposed to be doing. So keep doing awesome things.

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And then I think a big thing for this would be

00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:53.100
mindset. That's the M in stamp. So why do you

00:16:53.100 --> 00:16:55.919
think you're done after every gig? You know,

00:16:55.940 --> 00:16:59.120
that's not a healthy way to be living. That's

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not really a mindset of abundance. So, you know,

00:17:04.570 --> 00:17:06.069
continually reassess that. Why do I feel like

00:17:06.069 --> 00:17:08.769
that? This is this reality, or is this just my

00:17:08.769 --> 00:17:12.829
anxiety sinking in? And then P is have a plan

00:17:12.829 --> 00:17:16.390
B. So I know speakers were hit hard with COVID,

00:17:16.509 --> 00:17:19.210
you know, that's reality. So have some sort of

00:17:19.210 --> 00:17:21.250
plan B for you too. So, you know, like, well,

00:17:21.309 --> 00:17:23.869
if speaking doesn't work out, I can do this other

00:17:23.869 --> 00:17:27.490
thing. I, I don't know. I have a course or I

00:17:27.490 --> 00:17:31.799
do. physical training or athletic training or

00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:33.920
whatever it is. So that kind of helps too, to

00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:35.960
know like, Hey, if this thing doesn't work out,

00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.019
I'm mitigating my risk. I have this other thing

00:17:38.019 --> 00:17:39.680
that I can push on a little harder if something

00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:45.539
does happen. So good tips because I mean, I don't

00:17:45.539 --> 00:17:50.400
feel that way. I just, I just thought of some

00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.420
weird example. I don't know. Well, and I think

00:17:54.420 --> 00:17:57.640
for the mindset piece, too, is and what's tough

00:17:57.640 --> 00:17:59.480
for me, it's like put it out into the world.

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Just say like on all your social media, hey,

00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:04.480
I'm looking for more speaking gigs. Anybody know

00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.119
anyone, you know, and just start putting yourself

00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:08.599
out there more. And it may not result in anything,

00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.279
but it might. And just by you like putting it

00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.680
out there more, you might see more opportunities

00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:18.140
come to you. I also noticed that there's just

00:18:18.140 --> 00:18:24.180
by. I know for myself that, maybe not even for

00:18:24.180 --> 00:18:26.759
myself, but I know there's some days where I

00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:31.339
do feel kind of nervous about certain things.

00:18:31.339 --> 00:18:34.980
Just like, am I doing enough to get my name out

00:18:34.980 --> 00:18:45.920
there? That's funny. Yesterday, I had one of

00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.259
my blog posts that was recently published a week

00:18:49.259 --> 00:18:52.940
ago. Yeah, a week ago. It feels like a lifetime

00:18:52.940 --> 00:18:59.480
ago. And I was using a new tool for my researching

00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:06.519
process because I like to... My one main focus

00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:10.140
this year, and I have many different focuses,

00:19:10.220 --> 00:19:12.839
but my most important one is to work smarter,

00:19:13.099 --> 00:19:17.680
not harder. Yeah. Because I want to be able to...

00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:21.440
provide great value i want to keep showing up

00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:25.440
but if it's going to take me 10 hours to do this

00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:30.160
one thing i hope it's not yeah but it could sometimes

00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.960
it does yeah and i'm not saying that i don't

00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:36.099
enjoy what i do but i'm thinking it's like is

00:19:36.099 --> 00:19:38.240
there a smarter way of doing this instead of

00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:43.359
just doing everything manually because there's

00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:45.599
so many questions that could be asked in google

00:19:46.430 --> 00:19:49.329
And you have no idea what you can cover. And

00:19:49.329 --> 00:19:54.450
you want to have a thorough post. And so I found

00:19:54.450 --> 00:20:00.869
this tool. And the other, I think it was this

00:20:00.869 --> 00:20:04.690
year, beginning of this year. And they were doing

00:20:04.690 --> 00:20:08.450
this like one -time purchase thing. Their regular

00:20:08.450 --> 00:20:13.089
plans cost like $5 ,000, $500 a month. And it's

00:20:13.089 --> 00:20:16.269
like, holy crap. And it's like. Maybe I should

00:20:16.269 --> 00:20:25.069
get one of these codes to try it. In the worst

00:20:25.069 --> 00:20:29.470
case, I get 60 days money back guaranteed for

00:20:29.470 --> 00:20:33.829
any reason. And what's funny, one of my articles

00:20:33.829 --> 00:20:39.289
was shared on a Facebook page from this company

00:20:39.289 --> 00:20:43.430
that has 69 ,000 likes and followers on it. I'm

00:20:43.430 --> 00:20:47.730
like, That's the first time ever that my blog

00:20:47.730 --> 00:20:51.630
post has gotten shared on a company's Facebook

00:20:51.630 --> 00:20:56.089
page. Wow. So it worked. Yeah. I'm like, I love

00:20:56.089 --> 00:20:58.710
eTool. It's like the best thing I've ever purchased.

00:20:59.210 --> 00:21:01.089
Oh, wow. Do you know the name of it? What is

00:21:01.089 --> 00:21:07.690
this thing? It's called Market Muse. So far,

00:21:07.750 --> 00:21:12.339
I've found it helpful. It's kind of cool. And

00:21:12.339 --> 00:21:15.920
again, for people who's listening to this, I'm

00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.400
not an affiliate pro marketer for it and I'm

00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:23.279
not a partner with it. I've used it twice so

00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:27.279
far. And just because of my weekly blog posts

00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:35.119
and I do it once a week, researching for my posts.

00:21:35.460 --> 00:21:37.599
And what's kind of cool with it too, they tell

00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:42.180
you, hey uh here's what your competitors are

00:21:42.180 --> 00:21:45.960
ranking for here and like and the color codes

00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:49.480
stuff for you and it shows you it's like here's

00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:52.079
what they haven't covered and i think the red

00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:56.980
one uh is that it i think the red means that

00:21:56.980 --> 00:21:59.960
they either covered i forget the color coding

00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:03.279
uh yeah you can use people can use like google

00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:06.000
it and what the color coding means but But it

00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.440
tells you what the competitors covered and what

00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:13.799
they haven't covered. And even if they covered

00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:16.740
something, you can still cover it, but make it

00:22:16.740 --> 00:22:19.779
your own because Google likes people making their

00:22:19.779 --> 00:22:23.980
own. But just including it helps a little bit

00:22:23.980 --> 00:22:27.400
to get your name out there and say, hey, look,

00:22:27.579 --> 00:22:31.900
I know what I'm talking about with this topic

00:22:31.900 --> 00:22:35.299
and here and there. And I have my own experience

00:22:35.299 --> 00:22:40.640
with this topic. And so I find it pretty helpful.

00:22:40.740 --> 00:22:43.259
And when I saw that, I was like, I don't know

00:22:43.259 --> 00:22:45.839
if this is because of this tool, but what I was

00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:50.400
doing before was not really working. But I saw

00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:54.440
a difference. I haven't yet pinpointed this tool,

00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:58.599
but hell, if anything's working, sure, it's worth

00:22:58.599 --> 00:23:02.039
the money for me. Yeah. It sounds kind of like,

00:23:03.210 --> 00:23:06.230
TubeBuddy on YouTube, you can type in your keywords

00:23:06.230 --> 00:23:09.109
for your YouTube video and it tells you if that

00:23:09.109 --> 00:23:11.910
keyword is strong or not based off of the demand

00:23:11.910 --> 00:23:16.710
of that phrase that you're using and how saturated

00:23:16.710 --> 00:23:20.289
it is. So like I looked up like business school

00:23:20.289 --> 00:23:22.509
is overly saturated, but business school right

00:23:22.509 --> 00:23:25.519
out of undergrad is a better one to use. But

00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:28.680
yeah, I like that. I've heard some tips for podcasters

00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:31.740
that to grow your audience, you need to figure

00:23:31.740 --> 00:23:34.400
out what your audience wants by looking at Google

00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:37.019
search metrics and things like that. And I wasn't

00:23:37.019 --> 00:23:39.559
sure how to do that. So I'll have to check out

00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:44.000
that tool. It saves a lot of hours of Googling

00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:50.279
stuff. I even have a keyword research tool. I

00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:55.980
still use that. just to find my main topic. But

00:23:55.980 --> 00:24:00.359
then when I find, oh, here's what I want to rank

00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:04.119
for and what I want to go after for, then I plug

00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:07.400
into this tool and say, oh, it gives me so many

00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.240
different alternatives of what I can put in the

00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:16.640
copy and whatnot. I hit the jackpot. Awesome.

00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:20.759
I'll have to try it out. Yeah, I can send you

00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:24.720
the link to it after the show. Sure, yeah. And

00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:26.200
I think you should reach out to them to be a

00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:31.940
sponsor too. Yeah, I probably should. Right.

00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:36.240
No, we don't do sponsors. Yeah, you never know.

00:24:36.940 --> 00:24:41.019
Mindset. Companies don't want us to pay extra.

00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:45.900
Yeah, yeah, I know. But they've got budgets,

00:24:46.059 --> 00:24:51.700
so. Yeah. Get your customer service first, depending

00:24:51.700 --> 00:24:54.960
on if they're bad or not. I'm not going to name

00:24:54.960 --> 00:25:02.559
any names. Sorry, I just sneezed. Yeah, I don't

00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:09.900
think they're known for that. So do you enjoy

00:25:09.900 --> 00:25:13.359
what you do? Do you enjoy helping people for

00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:20.180
your career? Yeah, I do. I do enjoy that. And

00:25:20.180 --> 00:25:23.960
with podcasting, I think it's brought on so many

00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:26.619
other things too. Like personally, I've grown

00:25:26.619 --> 00:25:29.480
my network. We wouldn't have met without podcasting.

00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:32.400
I think that's awesome. And it's also helped

00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:36.400
me with my own personal confidence too. I just

00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:38.769
talked to... Another guest and I'll, I'll be

00:25:38.769 --> 00:25:40.849
sharing it soon. And we talked about how, you

00:25:40.849 --> 00:25:43.890
know, we feel like now our, our voice is out

00:25:43.890 --> 00:25:46.170
there into the world and our voice matters. And

00:25:46.170 --> 00:25:48.890
I think that's a huge personal win for me as

00:25:48.890 --> 00:25:52.630
well. So yeah, some personal things as well as

00:25:52.630 --> 00:25:55.589
just the excitement of helping other people too.

00:25:56.589 --> 00:26:01.750
I agree with you as well. I've, I know for myself.

00:26:03.579 --> 00:26:08.420
I like the feeling that I get to know that, hey,

00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:18.160
people want to know what I have to say. I know

00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:26.559
for myself, I know I get tired of watching the

00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:32.849
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00:26:32.849 --> 00:26:36.269
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00:26:36.630 --> 00:26:42.369
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00:26:42.650 --> 00:26:48.930
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why do I want to piss off half of my audience?

00:27:54.730 --> 00:27:58.730
Yeah. Yeah. It's like what Johnny Carson said,

00:27:58.849 --> 00:28:03.349
the talk show who used to be around and he has

00:28:03.349 --> 00:28:05.470
to say, why would I want to piss off 50 % of

00:28:05.470 --> 00:28:10.609
my audience? I wouldn't. I think that that's

00:28:10.609 --> 00:28:12.849
true, but sometimes there may be a point where

00:28:12.849 --> 00:28:16.890
it's worth pissing off some people too. You know,

00:28:16.910 --> 00:28:19.529
like you were talking about how that movie, you

00:28:19.529 --> 00:28:22.289
know, maybe wasn't, really portraying autistic

00:28:22.289 --> 00:28:26.230
people in the correct way you know you might

00:28:26.230 --> 00:28:28.430
offend somebody like i love that movie i've worked

00:28:28.430 --> 00:28:30.789
on that movie you know and and it's okay it's

00:28:30.789 --> 00:28:33.690
worth it to you just to say something like that

00:28:33.690 --> 00:28:36.609
i think so just kind of knowing yourself and

00:28:36.609 --> 00:28:38.950
knowing when it's worth the fight and when it's

00:28:38.950 --> 00:28:44.150
not well uh i forgot to mention about the movie

00:28:44.150 --> 00:28:49.150
it's also uh 45 ,000 people signed a petition

00:28:49.150 --> 00:28:54.710
from the autism community, and no one liked it.

00:28:55.309 --> 00:28:58.890
Oh, really? It just generally wasn't a good movie

00:28:58.890 --> 00:29:04.970
either. Yeah, I mean, people want this to be

00:29:04.970 --> 00:29:09.029
even considered for the two Golden Globes that

00:29:09.029 --> 00:29:13.539
it's nominated for. And they put it in the movie

00:29:13.539 --> 00:29:18.099
category slash music slash comedy. If that's

00:29:18.099 --> 00:29:22.339
a comedy, that's very sick. Really? Yeah. I'm

00:29:22.339 --> 00:29:27.380
like, that's a stretch. Maybe you should just

00:29:27.380 --> 00:29:31.359
put it in the category called music because perhaps

00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:33.819
it did have really good music in it. I don't

00:29:33.819 --> 00:29:37.500
know because I'm not watching it. And I'm not

00:29:37.500 --> 00:29:40.380
going to. uh, pay for a movie ticket that somebody

00:29:40.380 --> 00:29:43.259
has a strong opinion that I need to be fixed.

00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:47.019
Yeah. Yeah. I think that this though, is what

00:29:47.019 --> 00:29:49.319
makes you have a good platform though. You know

00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:51.599
what you stand for and you stand for it. You

00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:54.079
know, you don't agree with that movie. I think

00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:55.720
people want to hear that. They don't want to

00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:58.119
hear someone who's sort of wishy -washy about

00:29:58.119 --> 00:30:00.460
things like, well, maybe it's okay. I don't know.

00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.099
You know? So I think to have that conviction

00:30:03.099 --> 00:30:06.160
about what do you believe makes people want to

00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:10.130
listen to the show. And I also tried to, I even

00:30:10.130 --> 00:30:13.609
tell people, I was like, if you, if you like,

00:30:13.769 --> 00:30:17.410
I was like, if you have a different opinion than

00:30:17.410 --> 00:30:21.089
me, sure. I was like, I don't mind. And I was

00:30:21.089 --> 00:30:23.829
like, tell me what your thoughts are. Tell me

00:30:23.829 --> 00:30:28.279
how you're feeling. And I was like. I was like,

00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:31.039
we don't need to fight about it. I'm open to

00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:33.779
discussion. I can see different people's points

00:30:33.779 --> 00:30:37.579
of views on stuff. I'm an open -minded person.

00:30:38.299 --> 00:30:40.480
Yeah, be open -minded, but then still stand for

00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:42.960
something. Yeah. I'm not one of those people

00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:45.559
that's like, la, la, la, not listening, la, la,

00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:50.500
la, la. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, I have a newsfeed

00:30:50.500 --> 00:30:52.480
reader. I can read from different perspectives.

00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.700
Like, one person says this. The movie music is

00:30:56.700 --> 00:31:00.519
awesome and people should go see it. 45 ,000

00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.119
people absolutely hate the movie, but I'm in

00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:07.380
the middle of, I'm just not seeing it. Uh -huh.

00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.660
Yep. I can't say I physically hate it because

00:31:10.660 --> 00:31:14.660
I told people on my last episode, never seen

00:31:14.660 --> 00:31:18.039
it. Try to think of a movie that I've refused

00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:20.980
to see. Probably scary movies. I hate to watch

00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:23.470
anything like that, horror movies. What about

00:31:23.470 --> 00:31:27.710
one of the scary movies that is a spoof off of

00:31:27.710 --> 00:31:31.750
a scary movie? Like Scream back in the day. Did

00:31:31.750 --> 00:31:34.069
you ever watch that? No, I never watched it.

00:31:34.130 --> 00:31:37.990
But what about the movie Scary Movie? I've never

00:31:37.990 --> 00:31:40.089
seen it. I never gave it a chance. Should I?

00:31:40.609 --> 00:31:43.109
Yeah, they're funny. It's like Scary Movie 3

00:31:43.109 --> 00:31:49.569
is funny. They based it off their ring. And it's

00:31:49.569 --> 00:31:54.210
just really funny. And sometimes it's kind of

00:31:54.210 --> 00:31:59.470
like, if you're first seeing it and it's kind

00:31:59.470 --> 00:32:03.869
of, I wouldn't say dark, but you might feel off

00:32:03.869 --> 00:32:05.730
about it. But then when you're watching it with

00:32:05.730 --> 00:32:09.069
a friend or you've just seen it multiple times,

00:32:09.210 --> 00:32:12.410
you just know which part's coming next. And it's

00:32:12.410 --> 00:32:14.849
like, oh, that's funny. Yeah, right. You have

00:32:14.849 --> 00:32:21.250
to be in that right headspace, maybe. So do you

00:32:21.250 --> 00:32:25.309
have any other tips that might be useful to the

00:32:25.309 --> 00:32:31.390
listeners? Yeah, I would say never stop learning

00:32:31.390 --> 00:32:36.049
and to be really conscientious of how you're

00:32:36.049 --> 00:32:39.450
learning, if that helps. So I know a lot of people

00:32:39.450 --> 00:32:41.930
right now, I just did an episode on MBAs and

00:32:41.930 --> 00:32:46.710
the application rates are soaring for MBAs right

00:32:46.710 --> 00:32:50.400
now. People are losing their jobs. They're worried.

00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:53.579
They're trying to pivot. So a lot of people are

00:32:53.579 --> 00:32:55.539
running into some of these master's degrees.

00:32:55.819 --> 00:32:59.720
And I would just caution people to really think

00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:03.839
about what your goals are and don't make decisions

00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.539
based off of fear. Maybe an MBA is the right

00:33:06.539 --> 00:33:09.799
decision for you, but... Really look at how much

00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:12.720
it's going to cost and what are you hoping to

00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:15.180
get out of it? You have to have a purpose. And

00:33:15.180 --> 00:33:17.559
we talked a lot about MBAs on my show this week.

00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:19.819
And I just that's something on the top of my

00:33:19.819 --> 00:33:23.559
mind right now. How much does it cost? Like six

00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:26.819
billion dollars a year? Pretty much. Well, the

00:33:26.819 --> 00:33:29.759
high the the top tier schools are between like

00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:31.660
one hundred and fifty thousand, two hundred thousand.

00:33:32.539 --> 00:33:35.039
So it's pretty expensive. And then if you look

00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:37.440
at the salary coming out of those schools, it's.

00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.200
like an average of 150 ,000, which is a high

00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:43.099
salary, but I actually expected them to be higher

00:33:43.099 --> 00:33:45.059
coming from like a Harvard or something like

00:33:45.059 --> 00:33:48.859
that. And then you can get, I found that the

00:33:48.859 --> 00:33:52.740
lowest MBA, lowest cost MBA program that you

00:33:52.740 --> 00:33:55.799
can get is from, I think it was called like Georgia

00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:58.880
Southeastern University. It's online and that's

00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:03.500
$7 ,000 for the entire program, which is amazing.

00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:06.779
And so, just really look at the cost of things.

00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:09.460
If you're trying to go to a top tier school,

00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:14.739
do you want to be like a C -suite corporate employee

00:34:14.739 --> 00:34:16.940
at one point? Is that why you're doing it? Are

00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:18.639
you just looking for the name? If you're looking

00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:20.940
for the network, that's great. They have a great

00:34:20.940 --> 00:34:23.179
network, but there's other ways to do that too.

00:34:23.340 --> 00:34:26.760
So just be smart right now. Just be strategic

00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:29.980
because it is stressful. Like career anxiety

00:34:29.980 --> 00:34:34.039
is at a peak right now. So take a second, step

00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:36.860
back. Journal, do whatever you need to do to

00:34:36.860 --> 00:34:42.000
really come up with a plan. Wow. You know, here's

00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.820
an idea for Zoom. You know, they need one that

00:34:44.820 --> 00:34:48.260
I don't know. Have you ever seen maybe called

00:34:48.260 --> 00:34:52.659
a mask with Jim Carrey? A long time ago. Yes.

00:34:52.940 --> 00:34:56.079
Well, you know, I think they should have like

00:34:56.079 --> 00:35:01.199
some kind of I would say a Zoom background, but

00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:06.400
some kind of like. I don't know, you know, like

00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:08.980
on Facebook and social media, you can have like

00:35:08.980 --> 00:35:12.320
those funny faces to your face, but you should

00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:17.519
have like one for the mask. And so just the one

00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:20.800
where this jar just dropping open, like every

00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:26.380
time it says a dollar amount, like. That'd be

00:35:26.380 --> 00:35:29.000
good in like a really stuffy business meeting,

00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:32.000
you know, to do that. We just lost this amount

00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:38.420
of money. Have you seen the, it's like a viral

00:35:38.420 --> 00:35:40.940
video where there were some attorneys and they

00:35:40.940 --> 00:35:44.320
were in court via zoom and he was a cat. Have

00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:47.480
you seen that? And it was like this really serious

00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:49.980
meeting. And he was like, I'm not a cat. I cannot

00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:53.139
get the cat off of my screen. And everybody just

00:35:53.139 --> 00:35:55.719
being really serious. It's funny. You should

00:35:55.719 --> 00:36:04.820
check it out. Yeah. Yeah, for me, I know I always

00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:09.139
try to learn new things every single day. I read

00:36:09.139 --> 00:36:15.099
a lot of books. In total, so far, I've read like

00:36:15.099 --> 00:36:20.739
248 books. Wow. That was not a year. Your whole

00:36:20.739 --> 00:36:25.719
life? Okay. I don't know how I would do that.

00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:29.989
Yeah, unless it's like cat in the hat. And books

00:36:29.989 --> 00:36:34.309
my kids read that has like one word on each page.

00:36:35.269 --> 00:36:41.150
I finished. Yep. The cat jumped. Right. Yep.

00:36:41.929 --> 00:36:44.690
And if only I could write a book like that. I

00:36:44.690 --> 00:36:46.889
know. You know, it seems easy to write a kid's

00:36:46.889 --> 00:36:48.650
book until you actually try to write a kid's

00:36:48.650 --> 00:36:51.489
book. I don't think I could do it. No, it's not

00:36:51.489 --> 00:36:53.389
as easy as it looks. There's definitely a lot

00:36:53.389 --> 00:36:58.559
of bad kid books out there. None comes to mind

00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:02.480
at the moment. For me, it's usually ones that

00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:07.219
have like unnecessary name calling and stuff

00:37:07.219 --> 00:37:08.699
like that. And it's like, why? You know, it's

00:37:08.699 --> 00:37:11.800
usually from a few decades ago where it seemed

00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:15.500
like the norm for kids behavior was different.

00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:18.239
You know, when you look at old Disney movies,

00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:22.159
it's definitely changed a lot. That's for sure.

00:37:23.260 --> 00:37:34.210
Yeah. So so how many how many people do you normally

00:37:34.210 --> 00:37:38.849
help in a day? Oh, goodness. Well, I do still

00:37:38.849 --> 00:37:41.269
have like a regular full time job, a corporate

00:37:41.269 --> 00:37:44.590
job. So I like to think I'm helping in a different

00:37:44.590 --> 00:37:50.690
way in that role. Probably like I'm still starting

00:37:50.690 --> 00:37:54.869
out. So one on one clients, I've only. I had

00:37:54.869 --> 00:37:59.030
a few of those at this point. And then I like

00:37:59.030 --> 00:38:01.829
to think I'm helping people when I do my interviews

00:38:01.829 --> 00:38:04.690
too. So I don't know if I had to quantify it.

00:38:05.010 --> 00:38:07.710
Maybe I reach out to individual people like five

00:38:07.710 --> 00:38:14.150
times a week, five individuals. And do all of

00:38:14.150 --> 00:38:19.989
them accept or? Oh no, no, no, no. Like my guests

00:38:19.989 --> 00:38:23.989
definitely don't. Yeah. I would say the hit rate

00:38:23.989 --> 00:38:29.989
for guests is like 30 % maybe say yes. Yeah.

00:38:30.110 --> 00:38:31.969
And this is another thing with podcasters. I

00:38:31.969 --> 00:38:34.090
think there's some who only reach out to warm

00:38:34.090 --> 00:38:36.110
leads and that's a lot easier. So if you already

00:38:36.110 --> 00:38:38.130
know the person, you know, like what we're doing,

00:38:38.170 --> 00:38:41.460
that's. a lot easier of an interview, but sometimes

00:38:41.460 --> 00:38:43.719
I'll see an interesting person or a celebrity

00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:45.460
and I'll be like, Hey, can you be on my show?

00:38:45.579 --> 00:38:47.539
And I never hear back. And then I follow up and

00:38:47.539 --> 00:38:50.539
I still don't hear back. So that happens, but

00:38:50.539 --> 00:38:53.139
I still think, you know, trying to be an optimist

00:38:53.139 --> 00:38:56.480
30%. That's pretty good. You know, that's 30

00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:03.420
% that said, yes, glass 30 % full. I would take

00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:13.130
30%. I take anything. I. For me, I think ever

00:39:13.130 --> 00:39:19.150
since one of my friends kind of just had a friendly

00:39:19.150 --> 00:39:21.909
bet with me about getting as many podcasts as

00:39:21.909 --> 00:39:26.769
possible before Thanksgiving last year. I mean,

00:39:26.789 --> 00:39:29.289
I was still doing quite a bit of shows, but I

00:39:29.289 --> 00:39:32.650
cranked it up because it's like, are you kidding

00:39:32.650 --> 00:39:37.699
me? I was like, no one should bet me. Did you

00:39:37.699 --> 00:39:40.079
have any favorite shows or any shows that stood

00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:45.840
out? I don't know. There was a lot of them. I

00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.079
would say they were, it probably would sound

00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:52.199
very corny if I said that they were all my favorite.

00:39:52.980 --> 00:39:55.820
I had to say it kind of is all my favorite. Yeah.

00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:57.599
Well, that's good though. That's good that you

00:39:57.599 --> 00:40:00.780
didn't have any like notably. Bad experiences.

00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:06.539
I mean, I know some of the ones where I had poor

00:40:06.539 --> 00:40:10.679
lighting on the show. And then I had to move

00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:16.619
to my dad's office in the house. And I finally

00:40:16.619 --> 00:40:19.460
got my own ring light, which is pretty good.

00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:27.289
And I guess it changes colors. That's cool. Give

00:40:27.289 --> 00:40:31.909
you a tan. Give me a nice tan. Yeah, I'm at the

00:40:31.909 --> 00:40:34.710
beach. I would love to be at the beach. Yeah,

00:40:34.769 --> 00:40:38.090
that would be nice. You're in Pennsylvania? Yeah.

00:40:38.510 --> 00:40:46.429
Not a beach area. I'm in the cold Arctic area.

00:40:47.510 --> 00:40:49.750
Same here. It's warming up, though, in Wisconsin.

00:40:50.050 --> 00:40:52.969
So hopefully spring is on its way. You know,

00:40:52.989 --> 00:40:55.469
I used to go to Wisconsin every single summer.

00:40:56.090 --> 00:41:01.489
Oh, nice. But that changed. I can't say that.

00:41:01.630 --> 00:41:06.530
Why it changed. Hopefully Wisconsin didn't do

00:41:06.530 --> 00:41:10.190
anything to you. So I don't represent the whole

00:41:10.190 --> 00:41:17.570
state. No, not yet. Yes. Mindset. That's true.

00:41:17.690 --> 00:41:20.090
I don't represent the state yet. I like that.

00:41:23.230 --> 00:41:28.050
So. Where can people follow you on social media?

00:41:28.610 --> 00:41:32.469
Yeah, so I'm on Future Proof Career. It's my

00:41:32.469 --> 00:41:36.070
podcast. And you can find me on LinkedIn, Valerie

00:41:36.070 --> 00:41:40.849
Zarek, Z like zebra, A -R -I -C. And that's my

00:41:40.849 --> 00:41:43.630
handle pretty much everywhere. LinkedIn, Facebook,

00:41:44.010 --> 00:41:47.289
Instagram, Twitter, Clubhouse, if you're on Clubhouse

00:41:47.289 --> 00:41:54.289
as well. And do you have a website as well? Yes.

00:41:54.349 --> 00:41:57.469
Valerie's Eric .com. And you can listen to podcasts

00:41:57.469 --> 00:42:00.590
on that site as well. You can apply to be a guest

00:42:00.590 --> 00:42:03.269
if that's something you're interested in. And

00:42:03.269 --> 00:42:05.289
there, I think there's a link to like leave the

00:42:05.289 --> 00:42:07.630
show or review too, which is always helpful for

00:42:07.630 --> 00:42:13.309
us in podcast land. That's for sure. I'm always

00:42:13.309 --> 00:42:17.650
looking for reviews, always finding them, trying

00:42:17.650 --> 00:42:21.760
to find them. Yeah, I heard a theory that what

00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:24.980
gets podcasts ranked is not necessarily reviews.

00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:27.119
Like I've always been told that, but it's actually

00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:31.059
subscribes. So, you know, subscribe to the show

00:42:31.059 --> 00:42:32.579
too. I'll just put that out there. Subscribe

00:42:32.579 --> 00:42:34.199
to all the shows you like. I think that does

00:42:34.199 --> 00:42:39.559
help us. And it's really funny. I don't know

00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:46.360
how those platforms know how to... How many people's

00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:49.079
subscribers that they have, because if it's all

00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:51.559
an estimate, then we should all be at the top.

00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:56.460
Yeah, that's a good point, too. Well, so I listened

00:42:56.460 --> 00:43:01.099
to a podcast and they did some testing and they

00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:06.099
outsourced this service from on Fiverr. Do you

00:43:06.099 --> 00:43:07.840
ever get these services where they say, hey,

00:43:07.860 --> 00:43:10.619
I can promote your podcast for you for five dollars

00:43:10.619 --> 00:43:13.760
or whatever? Probably like twenty five hundred

00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:17.389
a day. Oh goodness. No, this is like an inexpensive.

00:43:17.469 --> 00:43:19.909
And they basically have like, this is my impression,

00:43:20.030 --> 00:43:23.690
like computer farm where people are just subscribe,

00:43:23.849 --> 00:43:25.469
subscribe, subscribe through all of their iTunes

00:43:25.469 --> 00:43:28.130
accounts. And they said, that's what gets you

00:43:28.130 --> 00:43:30.849
up in the charts. So like the top 100, and that's

00:43:30.849 --> 00:43:33.190
going to get people to find your show, but it

00:43:33.190 --> 00:43:36.050
is against the terms of service to do that. So

00:43:36.050 --> 00:43:38.690
yeah, I'm, I'm scared to do anything like that.

00:43:38.690 --> 00:43:43.769
That could get my show in trouble. So I don't

00:43:43.769 --> 00:43:45.780
think I'm, I don't think I've gotten into trouble

00:43:45.780 --> 00:43:51.159
yet with Apple. Not yet. There's always that

00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:56.239
maybe. You rebel. I probably ticked them off

00:43:56.239 --> 00:44:01.219
a few times. Let's just say it was not my glorious

00:44:01.219 --> 00:44:06.699
moment. Got to hear the story. Okay, fine. I'll

00:44:06.699 --> 00:44:12.960
tell it. Let's just say I was trying to get onto

00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:17.820
their news platform. They gave me kind of the

00:44:17.820 --> 00:44:24.039
worst response ever. And I called them out multiple

00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:28.079
times for it on social media. I didn't like their

00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:31.800
response. I was like, come on, that's ridiculous.

00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:36.920
And then their PR person actually reached out

00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:41.199
to me. Oh, wow. And they said, And I was like,

00:44:41.260 --> 00:44:43.579
I'm so sorry for the response that we gave you.

00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:47.119
You deserve more than what we gave you. Oh, nice.

00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:52.139
And I actually still kind of keep in touch with

00:44:52.139 --> 00:44:55.059
that person just to have a relationship with

00:44:55.059 --> 00:44:58.579
Apple. Nice. And I was like, this is the first

00:44:58.579 --> 00:45:01.159
time a company actually apologized to me. That's

00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:03.179
pretty good, though. So, see, you're probably

00:45:03.179 --> 00:45:07.719
not on the bad side. That was pretty, I don't

00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:11.969
know. good of them to do that yeah i was like

00:45:11.969 --> 00:45:14.230
wow i was like now if only i could get some other

00:45:14.230 --> 00:45:17.489
companies to do that yeah right right it would

00:45:17.489 --> 00:45:21.050
be nice you know i have to quote my in one of

00:45:21.050 --> 00:45:23.800
my One of my favorite shows called The Blacklist.

00:45:24.380 --> 00:45:28.900
And I don't know. Have you ever seen it on NBC?

00:45:29.059 --> 00:45:30.780
Yeah, I had to quit, though. It was too much.

00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:33.719
Is he the dad? Is he not the dad? Is he her father?

00:45:33.900 --> 00:45:35.719
Is he not? I'm just like, oh, my gosh, I don't

00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:38.480
care anymore. I watched like seven episodes or

00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:42.659
seven seasons and I was out. So I'm going to

00:45:42.659 --> 00:45:45.820
get back into watching it because I just love

00:45:45.820 --> 00:45:48.639
all the lines and I want to know who he really

00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:53.000
is. And I actually watched behind the scenes

00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:57.199
of it. I mean, like, of some of what the director

00:45:57.199 --> 00:45:59.500
said. And he was like, you're not going to know

00:45:59.500 --> 00:46:02.659
who he really is until the show is completely

00:46:02.659 --> 00:46:06.579
over. And I was like, unless it gets canceled,

00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:09.920
you'll know who he is. You're talking about the

00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:14.599
James Bader character? And I was like, I want

00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.360
to find out who. It's too much. I don't know

00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:19.699
if I can. I can't. I can't do it. It's too much

00:46:19.699 --> 00:46:22.639
of a commitment to make it to the last episode.

00:46:24.179 --> 00:46:29.440
I've done it on a few different shows. But one

00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:33.039
of my favorite quotes, I think that would be

00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:36.840
appropriate, was it's like something along the

00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:42.199
line of. Oh, geez. There's so many good quotes.

00:46:43.219 --> 00:46:45.039
Now, of course, when I'm looking for it, it doesn't

00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:51.880
come. But anyway, it is a funny, well, I wouldn't

00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:54.699
say funny, but it has some funny lines in it.

00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:58.880
It was written well. It is, I would give it that.

00:46:58.980 --> 00:47:01.320
I enjoyed the seasons I watched. It was just

00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:05.739
time for me to part with it. But yeah, I definitely

00:47:05.739 --> 00:47:07.619
think I'm going to go back to it because it just,

00:47:07.619 --> 00:47:13.190
just don't. funny lines and i was like yeah so

00:47:13.190 --> 00:47:16.929
some of them was like uh i was like why do something

00:47:16.929 --> 00:47:19.469
if there's not fun in it or something like that

00:47:19.469 --> 00:47:24.409
and yeah like when i i actually used one of the

00:47:24.409 --> 00:47:27.570
gifs uh one of their gifs on facebook yesterday

00:47:27.570 --> 00:47:31.889
and uh Like I was getting all these emails every

00:47:31.889 --> 00:47:33.989
single day by this person saying, hey, can you

00:47:33.989 --> 00:47:36.630
add a link to my website and everything? I'm

00:47:36.630 --> 00:47:38.489
like, if I haven't answered you the first three

00:47:38.489 --> 00:47:40.949
times, let's try four or five, six, seven, eight,

00:47:41.010 --> 00:47:43.349
nine, ten. Yes. Well, at least they're persistent.

00:47:44.610 --> 00:47:47.670
And I was like, why can't email be smart just

00:47:47.670 --> 00:47:51.150
to get rid of these people? Yeah. Yeah. Dream

00:47:51.150 --> 00:47:54.210
world. Having an assistant to take care of that.

00:47:55.720 --> 00:47:59.139
People, the companies that make email super smart

00:47:59.139 --> 00:48:02.500
and is like this person is abusing the system

00:48:02.500 --> 00:48:05.380
and abusing this email address automatically

00:48:05.380 --> 00:48:11.900
get rid of block. Yeah, right. Yeah. I hate email.

00:48:12.659 --> 00:48:15.320
Yeah, I know. It's hard to keep up with it. And

00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:18.960
there's so many places you. can get emails or

00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:20.900
whatever you call it now, messages. There's like

00:48:20.900 --> 00:48:23.119
LinkedIn messages, Facebook messages, Instagram

00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:25.840
messages. And it's like, do I have to like really

00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:28.639
check all of these different places? It's, it's

00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:30.739
a lot to keep up with. And I liked all the sponsors

00:48:30.739 --> 00:48:34.400
messages on LinkedIn and say, Hey, did you know

00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:36.599
you can do this? And it's like, Hey, did you

00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:43.760
know, I don't care. Now you're, you're going

00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:48.210
to get a apology note from LinkedIn. Well, I

00:48:48.210 --> 00:48:50.070
mean, it's not even from LinkedIn. It's just

00:48:50.070 --> 00:48:52.750
from a bunch of companies and people sending

00:48:52.750 --> 00:48:56.650
me sponsor messages. It is a lot. I feel like

00:48:56.650 --> 00:49:00.030
it. But, you know, I said my 30 % hit rate was

00:49:00.030 --> 00:49:03.150
good. Maybe they get a 10 % hit rate of people

00:49:03.150 --> 00:49:04.949
who actually open the emails. And that's probably

00:49:04.949 --> 00:49:07.789
a lot of people for them. I just ignore it all.

00:49:08.030 --> 00:49:12.369
Yeah, I usually do, too. The only time when I.

00:49:14.219 --> 00:49:17.079
Either don't ignore it as I'm looking for something

00:49:17.079 --> 00:49:22.039
specific from someone, but unless that's not

00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:28.260
the specific person, done, trash, ignore. Yeah,

00:49:28.380 --> 00:49:29.940
you don't have time for that. You have too many

00:49:29.940 --> 00:49:33.380
things going on, Jimmy. Especially when people

00:49:33.380 --> 00:49:36.960
just message me and say, hey, never hear back

00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:39.360
from them again. It's like, who the hell is this

00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:42.039
person? Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully I haven't been

00:49:42.039 --> 00:49:44.119
guilty of that. Hey, Jimmy. And then I failed

00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:48.400
to follow up. Well, some person messaged me like

00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:52.460
the other day asking me if I still want to be

00:49:52.460 --> 00:49:54.780
like, I mean, didn't even ask me, like just sent

00:49:54.780 --> 00:49:56.800
me a calendar link. And it's like, who's this

00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:59.519
person? And I didn't even introduce them. And

00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:02.239
it's like, hey, I'm from so -and -so group. I'm

00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:04.239
in like 20 different Facebook groups. And it's

00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:09.579
like. who the hell are you and then i i had to

00:50:09.579 --> 00:50:12.460
ask the person like are you legit and it's like

00:50:12.460 --> 00:50:14.559
yeah i'm legit and i was like i'm just making

00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:17.260
sure i'm not trying to be offensive but there's

00:50:17.260 --> 00:50:20.219
a lot of spam so i got like the thousands of

00:50:20.219 --> 00:50:23.380
spam messages a day and email and facebook and

00:50:23.380 --> 00:50:27.599
instagram and linkedin i'm like yeah yeah it's

00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.360
a lot can i have a filter that says legitimate

00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:34.260
only Oh, really? I'll have to check that out.

00:50:34.539 --> 00:50:37.119
I mean, like, I would love this. Oh, I was like,

00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:38.940
that's kind of funny that LinkedIn would offer.

00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.179
That would be nice. Yeah. Hey, opportunity, app

00:50:44.179 --> 00:50:50.579
opportunity. Exactly. So before we wrap up, do

00:50:50.579 --> 00:50:54.579
you have any other suggestions? Probably my final

00:50:54.579 --> 00:50:57.980
suggestion. I think that there's a point where

00:50:57.980 --> 00:51:00.679
career anxiety is kind of normal. You know, everyone's

00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:03.849
a little bit. curious about the future and very

00:51:03.849 --> 00:51:06.309
few people feel like excited about the future

00:51:06.309 --> 00:51:08.710
every single day. So there's some level of anxiety

00:51:08.710 --> 00:51:12.309
that's normal. And if it's not normal, you know,

00:51:12.329 --> 00:51:15.110
if you're feeling, you know, like physically

00:51:15.110 --> 00:51:17.190
distressed, mentally distressed at all, then

00:51:17.190 --> 00:51:19.809
definitely get some help. There's so many resources

00:51:19.809 --> 00:51:22.750
now, especially with COVID, you know, virtual

00:51:22.750 --> 00:51:25.309
resources that you can utilize if that stress

00:51:25.309 --> 00:51:29.489
is getting to be more than what you think is

00:51:29.489 --> 00:51:37.570
healthy. And, yeah, one more thing. I know for

00:51:37.570 --> 00:51:42.329
myself that writing in a journal has helped me

00:51:42.329 --> 00:51:45.250
deal with some of the stress. I even have a blog

00:51:45.250 --> 00:51:49.230
post that a company shared on their Facebook

00:51:49.230 --> 00:51:53.269
page. So they must really like that post as well.

00:51:53.690 --> 00:51:56.710
Nice. It's not like I told them to share it.

00:51:56.769 --> 00:52:00.460
They just mentioned my... brand name, crazy fitness

00:52:00.460 --> 00:52:03.619
guy, along with the post. And it's like, wow,

00:52:03.780 --> 00:52:08.260
I guess you got shared on the 69 best and likes

00:52:08.260 --> 00:52:10.900
and followers Facebook page. And it's like, yeah,

00:52:10.900 --> 00:52:17.199
exciting. I'm going up in the world. I hope that's

00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:20.900
where I'm going or I don't know. I would suggest

00:52:20.900 --> 00:52:24.780
for you too, is like doing some outreach to press

00:52:24.780 --> 00:52:28.340
as well, you know, being. You know, you can reach

00:52:28.340 --> 00:52:31.019
out to press with pitches of different stories

00:52:31.019 --> 00:52:33.019
and articles to get your name out there as well.

00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:37.400
You mean like the local press? You could do local

00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:39.039
and then work your way up to some of the bigger

00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:43.380
press. How would you go by doing that? Yeah.

00:52:43.579 --> 00:52:47.440
So I did a boot camp class about how to do this.

00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:50.219
There's people you can hire to help you with

00:52:50.219 --> 00:52:53.099
it, but you can just send a pitch. So say like

00:52:53.099 --> 00:52:57.420
whatever your pitch is. like movie music, or

00:52:57.420 --> 00:52:59.380
was it, is that what it's called? Music? The

00:52:59.380 --> 00:53:02.900
movie doesn't represent the autistic community.

00:53:03.079 --> 00:53:05.199
It could be your pitch and then send it out to

00:53:05.199 --> 00:53:07.760
different outlets and see if someone picks it

00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:10.019
up. You might get a 1 % hit, right? You know,

00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:12.619
you never know, but just like pitch some different

00:53:12.619 --> 00:53:15.880
story ideas out there. And then when you're doing

00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:18.360
that, then you say, Hey, and I'm crazy fitness

00:53:18.360 --> 00:53:21.820
guy. Check out my site. I might try that. Yeah.

00:53:22.349 --> 00:53:24.550
I would try that. And the other thing you could

00:53:24.550 --> 00:53:28.150
do, there's HARO, Help a Reporter Out, H -A -R

00:53:28.150 --> 00:53:31.250
-O. Are you on that? Yeah. I haven't done anything

00:53:31.250 --> 00:53:34.210
in a while with them. Yeah. I haven't had luck

00:53:34.210 --> 00:53:36.250
on there, but a lot of people have. And then

00:53:36.250 --> 00:53:39.429
there's another tool called Quoted, Q -W -O -T

00:53:39.429 --> 00:53:41.590
-E -D. You're going to have to send me that link

00:53:41.590 --> 00:53:44.170
to that one. Yeah, yeah. And that's kind of like

00:53:44.170 --> 00:53:47.030
a HARO where you connect with reporters. But

00:53:47.030 --> 00:53:50.449
you have such a good niche that I think there's

00:53:50.449 --> 00:53:54.469
opportunity for you. I hope so. Yeah, I think

00:53:54.469 --> 00:53:59.809
so. And thanks for being a guest on Crazy Fitness

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