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"A sharp he donna. It's one of those dogs with all the wrinkles. So long as i moved through my spiritual psychology master's I began playing the consciousness. I really began to understand how plastic are thinking as how we have a lot more power to direct this everywhere invisible energy than we think we do and it came to my awareness that like. Oh my god. I've been doing this writing my own story my whole life throat. I just didn't know it and so we're always writing our story. It's just a matter of how much awareness we bring to that story. So we're either created by design or were creating by default correct. Yes so once. I realized fault mode other people are inputting into that story to like yeah internet and tv and news trump by military. Yes all those people yes anyway. All those people. Yeah so that's why it's important that we picked up. Then we gotta take dominion over our own thinking and like steam our thoughts. Yes that's awesome so other people were writing your story but the thing is you always have to like like you said something earlier. Something that i agree with was your free will is perfect so even when someone influences you writing your story you're still signing off on it. You're just going okay. Yeah all right. That's what's happening next at some level. You're still writing it but you want to make sure that the words are yours and you know you get your sharp okay. So this has been a blast We are going to have to wrap up. i guess. What a bummer you. There should be around to around three because this was just a lot of fun. And from donna bond so talk a little bit about how people can best connect with donna bond. Donavan dot com. I wanna keep saying yeah actually. I've got some gifts for your listeners. They go to donald. Bond dot com forward slash podcasts. And i've got actually four ways to get unstuck. So if people are in their life right now and they're looking for a way to move forward that will give you some really good intel as well as some usable tools you can apply to your own life and If you're interested in my book original wisdom harness the power of the authentic you. You can find more information there as well. Jeff thank you spend really fun. It's been oblast. let's do it again sometime. All right okay. You have a good day. Thank you all right. Thanks for taking the time to ride along with us. Another episode of Veer for podcasting info in show notes. Be sure to head over to veer dot com. That's triple double e. r. dot com. Man that's fun to say and we'll catch up with you next time here on vroom via..
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"So i think part of it is certainly that bad. I think it's being reminded of mortality. It is literally watching numbers. Go up and at first. It was really slow one year and this one here and then we get to the white whereas like willow a thousand war today. I mean it just starts to ramp up on and the fact that we're all in it together because that's the other thing it's communal and everybody's at a different place with this. you know. Some people were way more isolated than have some people had to get up every day and still go do everything they had to do before we heard about this novel. Which makes it sound like. It should be a fun thing. It's not it's not a good novel is really bad novel So so that's the only thing that's been challenging is. We've all been unruly different shirts. Reject juries but i think part of it is just you know not being able to see people's faces not being you know having to have a moat around you when you go to buy lettuce it's it's a loss is one big giant loss of the life that we were used to and everybody dealt with it differently so i remember this going to paint a picture of my mental state in like probably january february. I guess of twenty twenty so my wife and i spent way too much time in line at the base. Bmx waiting to buy a gun. Not a gun guy. Never wanted to own a gun. Thought i better do it now. I kind of regret that choice now. But that's what i did a lot. Obviously no no longer buy that gun. Yes but the other thing. There was a humongous run on everything in the grocery store the area and the base was just overrun. You know and this was before any of the.
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"I thought i'm gonna walk out to the river. I just was just a random thing. I did and i walked out to the river and i just stood there and as i shared in the book i listened to the sound of the water in the way water goes over the rocks and I could hear a little wind in the trees and birds that were probably up there for the night. Little shuffles and i just stood there from and all i did was to stand there and listen and then i kinda turned around as i'm walking back to the house. It just dawned on me that in that little space that i was standing there just sensing and feeling what was happening around me the coolness of the night online on my literally on my arms and the skin on my arms. I realized i had taken a break from greece and over time. What i realized is those sensory breaks mindful home as we just focusing on a sense or a sensation. Or what's happening in the environment around you. You give your mind break you give your motions of break and you do take a break from greek and in that little break if you can increase those little breaks you can actually begin to invite joy back into your life So that's that's where it came. the idea. is you know when. I started sharing this with other people who are struggling on. I don't have time to go standby river. And i said you really three minutes. Do you have three minutes. And it doesn't have to be a river. it can be anywhere else. Mind you find what that is And that's why call a tiny come back to your senses ritual because it actually is tiny but it's really powerful in your ability to shift And be able to move through grief A more with greater well-being enjoy..
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"Those people. You know when you come back from school in the in the september and they say what did you do this. I always had something to report. So i did not want to be caught left with. What did you doing during the book. You gotta have something something to say understood. I was one of these people that would do like things. I didn't want to do just to have something to say that i did. You know. I remember skiing downhill skiing in japan. After i had done quite a few times i was kind of over it. But i kept doing it because it was always an exciting thing to say on monday. What did you do game well. Where'd you go to hell code. Oh what's it just the exciting. I guess i'm a little too honest. Sometimes that's what people wanna hear right but yes okay. So let's talk a little bit about this tiny comeback to your senses ritual because that sounds neat so people are really so to me. I saw this movie. I can't remember the name of it. Oh wait madly deeply sadly briefly. There's like these three letters anyway. i'll get it. You know what. I'm talking about and love in there somewhere right. Yes yes yes yes. I'm not sure that it actually see the movie. But i've heard the title because just because the titles kind of cool we can't remember yes. It's so cool. We can't remember it's so cool. It's like deeply madly lovely. Yeah i'll look it up and put it in the show notes but basically a guy dies and his ghost hangs out right but they just of it. I think my take away was that grief is a process. And you're gonna feel things that you don't think are okay to feel one of the big things you're gonna feel is angry at the person who died and left you alone to deal with earth. That's not a thing that i had heard before so that was interesting to me but anyway we can get into that later. I just wanted to not forget so. Let's get into this tiny. Come back to your senses ritual. So what does that and what. What's the goal here. Well when i first Sort of stumbled into tiny comeback. Your sensory impact. Your senses rituals is totally by accident. As i mentioned a few minutes ago Just before my mother died. My mother had the Small cell lung cancer trend just before she died..
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"Right trying to get them the read. Yeah and you can't be with them. He's gonna know if you read it. Are you did right right right so they were. They were like Having this conversation where this captain was drilling him like trying to get him to give him clues and she's like but what is i. I don't get it. And i was like forty two. And he's and he's giving me looks like shh. Don't tell anyway connection right that sense. There's actually acted actually got me out of trouble. Knowing that reference got me out of trouble. I would have been in more trouble when i screwed up with. 'em had i not already had that connection so yes never never bad thing to read a book. Okay so let's get into this whole grief gig that you've got going on and maybe we'll probably laugh a little bit less. Not i don't know so you're right this book and this grieving us thing you said. It's sort of like germinated during the pandemic so talk a little bit about the origins of the book right. Well you know it's interesting i I worked in philanthropy and have worked for a lot of years and right before the pandemic really became a thing. I did my last. I did a trip to visit. With some donors doing some end of life charitable gift planning in that kind of thing and came back sick and it was up in seattle. I was one of the first areas where they were identifying community spread and back then people still didn't really believe all that's just something you haven't been to china you're fine. You know that kind of thing but it was really sick. I got really sick. I kept testing negative for every kind of flu that they had and the kobe shots were difficult to get an in this area. I live in a very rural part of northern california. They weren't all that accurate. People aren't really doing much of them. I did not want at that point. We had just the beginning of the early test which trying to prove to not be all that accurate either way positive or negative. I finally did get one. I tested negative. But the bottom line wasn't since very very sick for the better part of a month and then you're watching what's happening in the world and you know i like to read Things that are a little off target. So it's not just necessarily the mainstream like picking up all these stories of people unusual places turning up with kobe. That's like balloon not supposed to have it. According what everyone's saying what was also happening is colleagues. I was working with Donors i was working with people in my universe by phone. Zoom people were struggling with it. I mean the pandemic put death right front and center for..
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"Thankfully the pitch the pet shop in hawaii there took them back. I was like. I'm a bad owner. Please take them for me. And they're like okay. So that was that was my guinea pig journey. I suppose okay. So how did you end up becoming a poet. I didn't even know that that was a job title anymore. Well let's say it's not really a job title. Because i think it's yet live off of poetry writing unless you live in ireland. Where they they. Poets have to pay income tax on they having esteem status as i understand. Ireland occur in my country of the us. No if you're gonna make a living as a poet you're going to be living in your parents basement most likely so But you know being a politics sort of iowa for me. It wasn't a choice. Like i didn't wake up one day and i'm going to be a poet. You know i just didn't you just start writing. It's just something you do And then you know then you discover that about yourself And he started focusing on a more. I mean so. I definitely took courses to learn more about it. Puts things some income context and then you know the best way to be really good poet in really good writers. Just read veraciously. Anybody else throw. It also fed another habit right of bipolar. Okay yeah totally. I get that you know and i've been reading for a long time so like once you get a reading habit and you know this but so many people just don't read. I mean i couldn't imagine not having i usually have two books like one nonfiction and fiction going on like simultaneously of kind of dialed back and the nonfiction kind of done. Probably not done. Maybe just life. Let's advantage maybe taking a pandemic break action reasonable. I could not stop reading nonfiction. Just couldn't happen know good nap and i love it. You know it's like a you'll be in a conversation with people and a word will just come out of you and they'll be like backup genius. I don't know if that word which in the military can get you in trouble so but it's still there were. Yeah and they probably the person i'm talking to is like outranks me and went to college is supposed to be smarter than me. So if he doesn't know word that. I said that's not making me look good right. I can tell. Have you ever read any of the Douglas adams science fiction books. I have not tried the galaxy. I'm familiar. I've never is on my reading. Lists never have rented so gotten there yet. My commander in hawaii was a big fan to say the least. So there's this inside joke in that book series about the answer to life the universe and everything is forty two and that's supposed to be funny..
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"Five years jail time pending the consequences. Were not remote they were you know firmly on top of me and this time again the thing with my son but it would be very easy to go. Well you know. I knew my wife was there. It was fine Those consequences were not the same. I wasn't going to your eyes. I wasn't but i just so it made it harder because it was. Yeah you're which was difficult. But i was no more Out of control. The second time that i was the first time the truth was at both points i was at a point where you know. Drinking and drugs were the most thing in the world. They were the thing that i would probably work is over everything else and so even though from the outside it looked very like. Oh these are very different. Things they weren't at at at the core core. Was you know that was the most important thing to me so that was. That was the second sort of. I've i've roomed my way back into drinking and and and spent several years. Doing it convince it trying to convince myself. It was fine You know in that mind mindlessness and then occasionally having moments of like well. I don't know which i would shove back down into mindlessness as quick as i could and And then you know the next big ear was to was to get sober again right right. Wow but you know this have you ever. this is kinda sounds like tangent but When we talk about these things the the thing that i keep thinking about was. I don't know how i found it but somebody on facebook linked me to this website called your brain on and it's all about how modern internet porn really really messes with your brain hormones and chemicals and dopamine mostly And it's like this you know there's no actual research because who's going to pay for that but there's this one guy i think he's like a schoolteacher and he did a ted talk and he does this webpage and it's all about the really really.
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"I'm raising a son. You know i go make a decision makers are down here yes exactly. I've been through a lot of therapy. Yeah i just thought. I could handle it. I thought that for me it was. I thought i. Would i making enough to deal with this. Yeah i was making good decisions in most areas of my life. And i thought you know what i can make a good decision about this and And it started off. Okay for a little while. I went back to drink in. The world didn't end the next day But slowly over a period of time over several years it got worse it got worse and nothing. It never got anywhere near on the outside. What had happened to me before. I wasn't doing heroin. I wasn't living in the back of van. Matter matter of fact. I was making more money than i ever had. I had better jobs than had ever had so you started. You went down the road of being a functional alcoholic. Basically i mean it. Yes i could still pull it together and go to work and just barely i am and i had people around me who were way worse than me that i could look at it and go like those guys. Those guys are alcoholics. Me you know. I i go to work every day now. Never mind that. I might have gotten up and taking three volume and smoked a joint to get over the hangover to go to work right but i was there right And but a certain point just came where you know the people. There are people around me who were kind of like. I don't like this. I don't like this part of you anymore. You've got a problem and whatever and But my son has been the one thing in my life that i've always It's just the most important thing to me and i. I made some bad decisions with him. While i was while i was drinking. I look back on some of them. I go well. Maybe you know i. I shouldn't have done some of those things but by and large. I don't think my parenting Suffered a great deal. But there was one night where i was on like a three day. Binge drinking like crazy. And i went out with a friend of mine and i passed out and I didn't go home and now my wife my second wife was there with my son and so it was fine. She got him up and got to school. But that was the but that was normally my job and that was the first time that i had just blown it like that with something like that. That had never happened. He was always you know to school on time. I was always sporting events we always did all that stuff. He could count on. Yeah he could count on me. And in that moment i realized oh my god he can't and so i think a combination of coming off a really bad Binge being sick physically. Just you know mine over from hell. Yeah my wife at the time just harping at me and my shock it. What happened. I went back to a And i went back very begrudgingly and i stayed sober for about six really miserable months like it just never went away. All i wanted to do was drink the whole time and that had not been my experience the first time right so somebody who changed it. Yeah just would not go away. And i finally broke down and drank two nights in a row. One night was at my My wife's Parents house and I drank beer in the bathroom. Until i nearly passed out and the next day was at my house back here and i went from sober to Throwing up and passed out in about fifteen to twenty minutes..
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"An it's it's some days it's just kind of pushing past one more day one more minute one more hour. Just keep going this. This is where the present moment sort of mindfulness sort of saturation. I guess sort of like got me around to some really fundamental decisions about how i was like living my life. I think i had this delusion that you can be. You can finish right. You know what. I'm talking about. Though i know what you're talking about right and at some point i can just relax and i don't have to deal with ex right and that is a fallacy if that's a psychological fallacy. That's got a name. Or i wish it did because I guess the lesson go ahead. Yeah comment while. I was going to say i heard once. There's a book out. There called the tools which is written by a couple of psychiatrists and it's pretty interesting but the thing. That was most interesting to me about it. As they describe that phenomenon they call it exoneration which is an interesting word But it's it's that idea that the day will come where. I will have done what i need to do. In life should be easy moving forward and you know that that we all have this idea like i will arrive and life will be a struggle and i won't get you know i just do enough. Self-help will never be sad again or and and that is a that is hardly fallacy. Buffy the vampire slayer someday. I'll be cookies. But now i'm just oh i think we stay dough until they put us in the ground or burn us i th. I think we are channel change and and we're a process so and i think that was the thing for me was that i'm never done and every day is i can get better. You know can get better every day. But i can't wish for no life without problems because that's just death that's being debt you know. That's it's a it's a it's a fallacy..
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"Yeah. Exercise is really important when you're feeling negative also that state of gratitude gratitude and freer or zaidi. Anger can't exist. no they can't exist in the same space. So it's about flipping at forward of idea to all chemistry. I'ma science so i do all of this and the platform of science and i love it because when you know that when you know what's happening with your brain and you know the concept of neuro plasticity or epigenetics. You could shift all this behavior. You don't have to your perception of of a disease or an outcome is so important because you changed the chemistry but you also change these receptors in your body for that disease that pain or whatever it is so it's really important in. It's a lot of fun to get into that and learn to manage it. Oh for sure. Yeah i felt like way better so anyway i got over. My treble is so that's good for you to me gets a little easier. So when you're having those moments when or negative self talk or you have a certain behavior something you can do is drop in. Take some deep deep breaths and ask that part of that behavior. Why are you here. Why are you showing up. And when you quiet. And i run. You're so conscious. Mind is always trying to talk and help. It'll give you it will say i'm just here to protect you or i just here to make you happy because you know you hate traveling and you and you don't get to do what you wanna do in japan right you'll get answers or whatever it is now you can do that reprogramming but you have to argue for your truth and you have to just ask that part of the behavior. Why are you here. What is your intention and listen. You'll be amazed at the answers that you get. Yeah yeah that you know. The the first thing that comes to mind is a lot of times those emotions..
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"Selva from worst of all design. And you are listening to room here with jeff. Smith's and you are a bad ass awesome and i'm leaving the wilpon about us brand. You can say whatever you want you can say. Ps over dumb. I'll leave all of this on there so we hit everything. How's that sound. Okay okay all right. i'll be right back. I have to hit stop. And then i'll be back. Are you ready to thoughtfully. Steer away from your revved up frenzied and far too often scripted. Life than welcome to room room veer with jeff smith where he guides you down. The road differently traveled by sharing unique experiences with guests who have managed to shift away from a life stuck on cruise control and veered their way into a more authentic and fulfilling one in all sorts of interesting and kind of remarkable ways. Get ready to remove room beer with your differently. Traveled road chauffeur. Jeff smith brandt. Thank you so much for being on from beer. Welcome to the show. How's it going aac. You jeff smith. It is an amazing day for me here in orlando florida orlando. I've been the orlando orlando's fun. It is fun it really is Is a great place to raise kids. It's a it's a happy place. I'm all about happy. Although i very seldom boats you Dizzy unless it's a low census day Here i really do one. Trick i learned is if you're not interested in the super bowl one year for whatever reason like it's not your team you don't think it's gonna be fun. Go to like a theme park during the super bowl there. You go because there's no lines and you're just running a little. A little hint is a great time to come to orlando For disney the week before thanksgiving people are saving up for the holidays. Sure is really nice. It's a great time to be here if i'm going to disney. That's where i'm going so just a little added bonus for listening good tip. Yeah okay so. I know about practice. Happy practice happy now dot com right a little bit about what you got going on in your business so i am a clip have been registered nurse for Over thirty years..
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"I think i played one time in the past. Maybe ten years that was on a airplane where the entertainment part was working so he could play the game a lot of top-flight fighters. They definitely play chess interesting. Are you good at it. You like it. I would not be able to compare to those guys like i was saying. Do you enjoy it though. You have played in ten years so probably and the thing is. I'm so competitive. Now as i don't know i have no clue the maybe you know my next trip to new york i might. I might do step out of the comfort zone i think. What is it in a central park where they have all those For speed chess. I didn't like that you'd like that because it's super competitive. Yeah kicks just. It'd be a challenge. Yeah yeah. I like to do stuff like that for brain challenge. Let's talk a little bit about how you did. Second city groundlings. Because i'm a big fan of the noticed. And what's his name. Chris hartwick and i think he's him and his buddies were in groundlings. So did you actually attend ground links. Of course yeah graduated multiple levels. Wow so how he got into. That is so in college. Back to college is in my freshman year. I was supposed to select a course long story short. I ended up having to take a theater course in there. Like look at these theater nerds. They're looking at either like this stupid jock and we're all labels now right at from there is kind of where i got the acting bug. Okay so after taking that. Course i got the acting bug and i remember it was. My teacher had suggested or star professor had suggested. Hey you know. Have you ever thought about taking improv. Because you do improv. As one thing like one form but it doesn't nearly compared to lakewood. Second city or uc groundlings does right rush more in depth So i said yeah sure you know what i think i will try it so i just threw myself into the fire so i started off at second city and i loved it because especially for the first two levels not not i do like the first level. You're really just playing drinking games. Because he's so quick on your feet right yet be so quick so i love that because that was giving me ammunition to be real with you. That was giving amunition going by next year at school. I have all these games. Which i've been mastering this it now. You're really good at beer pong exact but you know what i mean. Yeah at king's cup for example. So that's pretty much how i started the second city and being me i you know. Continue to progress. So i went through a through e and then i got accepted conservatory. Level and from there was just an expansion where i was like you know why after second city okay. What else is out there. And then i saw the ground legs. And i know will farrow. Is one of the most famous graduates there so there are addition for the class. I got in..
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"So as soon as i saw your site i was like man. This would have been so much better for me. Because i'll tell you like you know. I went through like three phases of training over the course between say from like february and tell October okay where. I was like in sort of like total lazy mode when i first bought it and i'm just sort like casually reading shit right and then and then i'm more into. Oh i'm here. I gotta get going i real so i really got into this study mode where i'm like at the point of making my own mind maps on this website that i found right and now i always thought okay. This is a really great website. But wouldn't it be cool. If these mind maps were already made for me just like studying like a whole chapter in one. Big mind map. That i can sort of like zoom in on of thing. That's just yeah. It's like visually out like brett. Seat like breads. Here's something like that yeah. I'm not familiar with that one. But yeah i just downloaded. Free mind mapping software and made my own mind maps than grab a pitcher those thrown my ipad right and that makes studying a lot easier right so i'm pretty sure something you like what you just said i. What was the name of that site. Pret- setting well pres- president's it's like a slide. It's like slides. But you know more mine. Mappi way way out or my note i i use my for mind. Mapping on the phone. It's great. I know i know you meet your reformatting something that you've already bought. The company provider didn't do that right. Well while i mean let's face it all. This stuff is just boring of companies. That are doing it. Up for compliance reasons or people are doing it for continuing education so that stifled innovation to create something. That people actually enjoy. Imagine that if you could experience that aligned with where human behaviors. I mean if you send people to computer to consume digital content. You're you're kind of doing the visit. Where the usually consume content which is their mobile right. So there's there's a lot of disconnects with how stuff is happening that you know really. The world needs to wake up because this is a multibillion dollar industry. I mean it's crazy. You know boring stuff up and so well and the other thing is. I think you figured this out is that you know you can put like a all the content in the world onto a site but if it's not in that sort of like fun easy to adjust e- easy to digest and almost like a game kind of format. Then you know most folks are gonna really struggle like even me you know. And i'm forty eight right. So i came to the school of buckle down and get shit done i still am now like okay but i wanna list so i can flip through. I'm reformatting too so there has definitely be something to this as an improvement. So it's not bad news for that guy that has that website that and to not beat him up too much. Pass my test on my first try. So what he doing with his with his site is effective. It could just be sure much better. Because there's there's something you want another end which is to. I want want to certificate so so again but if you let let's just real the tapes on that real quick what if there was no certificate what if it was just something you wanted to learn example then you would be dr less committed to finishing because even though i want to learn it. If it's boring me. I'm going to bail right. And and and so this is why you have you know information marketers. Downing two million dollar product launches selling videos the just talk at them on a website and maybe they get two percent of people to finish their thing. They sold two million dollars worth so are they really impacting the world right now. So so so so all these. These companies are like we got a trainer people on this and we want to impact. We want employee engagement rick culture. We want to write these influencers. Have this amazing content. And i'm going to sell it. Well it's no longer okay. This is what i believe is is no longer okay to sell something that a very small percentage of people actually consume. You can't just go well. That's their deal. They need to consume it or not okay but if you're less engaging than you know some basic actually for sale then you're in trouble if if you're make people use technology inferior to the iphone you're in trouble and you can't you can't you can't say oh we're going to you know have great culturing employee engagement and then totally tell your employees that i don't cure if you're learning on simple totally than what you do every single day You just can't do it. There's such a big disconnect to so that's that's what we did we just looked from the ground up we go. Where's human behavior at. We didn't look at what is. Hr want look what what is. What is the information marketer. Want we i looked at what is the learn need to be retained and actually enjoy this experience and then we worked backwards and go okay. How do we make this also worked for the influencer in hr and companies and all that but at the ground floor. It's like we created a learning path in learning experience. They can enjoy and another thing. That's really interesting. I thought about this. But if if you create something that calls free to produce really elaborate videos highly edited videos by the time you've finished or maybe a few months afterwards. Something in that training courses irrelevant already. Right yeah and so now so now the more money you put into it and the more you produce it. The more resistance. You've already created to editing that piece that needs updating right. And so we're so it's all different. Yeah i the other thing that i wanted to say is on that very specific what you just brought up. Because i took a well. We probably all done this but like where they do like even say like a fifteen minute video right that about a thing you know. That's still like it's really hard to find a specific bit of information that you want to go back and review in a minute video right so i know it's like i'm hoping you need like it. Sounds like your platform. Let's your information be like highly granular right. And so it's presented in a fun way. But i would hope that like if i have a question. It's easy to go back and ask right the material. Yeah we'll we'll think think about this. I mean it's just it's just everybody listening totally gets this already. That's what's so funny about. This is that you have to people have to accomplish something within five to seven minutes and they have to be recognized for it and it has to go on a leaderboard and you know otherwise. They're not gonna come back just to think about it. When you think about like learning something do you think oh. I have an hour right now. I'm going to go do that. Real quick there's no that doesn't make sense. Oh i have thirty minutes right now. I've twenty up ten minutes. Maybe five minutes five minutes now. I'm going to go in that locally. And if i get recognized for it in a game applied were on a leaderboard with other people. Then i wanna go back to it often. I'll give you an example. This is fascinating. Actually i think people find this interesting is we are one of our beta users..
Junior Golf Blueprint
"jeff smith" Discussed on Junior Golf Blueprint
"Here. we are again today's episode. I've got my man. Jeff smith from indiana mentor. Mind that looked up to a lot for different things. He's got the creative mind. Beyond that. I can understand but he's been super helpful for me in understanding where my career should be going at how i should be. Coaching is a constant source of information for me. And i can't wait to have back on the last time he was on the show. We had a lot of technical problems and it was awful. And i apologize episode. Iv obviously huge learning curve. Doing this on my own coach. But we're up and running now. Got it all figured out somehow technical problem. But you'll see we have just fine. The computer jim. Just don't wanna cooperate. Fairways let's get the episode. Desperate has awesome insights about teaching online instruction. Because this is the year to do that if you have to do. So the up in this episode and talk about what's going to need to be better coaches online. And how can you you be a better student. If you're trying to get your assumption on islas.
Vroom Vroom Veer with Jeff Smith
"jeff smith" Discussed on Vroom Vroom Veer with Jeff Smith
"Re totally. Can we can do armaments to make it happen. A yo have and that's gonna be other rich people. And maybe we can get those multinationals to see like one hundred. You're playing billionaires. Giving a damn. But i mean look we're going to go for an anonymous. No no no. No just convinced them that they wanna keep making money into the future like a thousand ten thousand years from now and if there's no planet well there there's always going to be a planet. The planet will be fine. Were fucked but the planet will be fine but you can't sell to like rocks you can't sell anything the rocks so they can't make wants to bring us tomorrow and then minutes can go to mars just now it. That's all about being trillionaire or something because there's all the resources out there that the fact of the matter is like society whether we like it or not is organized through governments. That's where the power is vested. That is where it is wielded and until we get control of our government away from these rich people that invest our money and stuff like going to mars instead uses the power away from them in these corporations trying to fix the world. I i a congressional discipline. I do this where it's just like me can't control a thing that we know nothing about pissing you off because it's awesome. It's not hard either back. Oh you're mad. You're really get mad about stephanie. More when you break here. I always laugh because he is my favorite because remember in two thousand twelve the movie. Twenty twelve element junkies ridiculous movie but watching the world. Burn so i i love how i can do my job. Woody harrelson's way of dealing with it is he gets an rv. He goes to the top of the hill and he goes. I watched vern. He has the best. You'll get a bunch of beer. And we'd i'm going to write this. Change this horrible. But you know what i'm gonna watch in. There's cool stuff happening like highway. One in big sur washed out yesterday in the star abby about it. But it's cool. Yeah that happened to me when i lived in La ish there was a big ass. Sinkhole out by san pedro. Oh really yeah took out like just this guy. Gigantic chunk of road like right on the coast. Who isn't the java sea. Like the stuff that we built is so.
Vroom Vroom Veer with Jeff Smith
"jeff smith" Discussed on Vroom Vroom Veer with Jeff Smith
"Damage. Where's my time machine. But anyway i met you after that. So i found john lee dumas and podcasters paradise and all that stuff like as i was working temp job. Lax i think i was doing a computer migration or something like that so i was like just floundering around thinking. Okay maybe i can make podcast doing very little and make money you know. Maybe maybe that's possible turns out it's not can make money on podcast but it's still work. It's oh my gosh. It is so much so much work. Few interesting thing that i learned about working with john and kate they worked their asses off. Oh my god. I just never stopped working. They don't they would emit got a ton of money. I i know break grand rolling. They they love it and they've really kind of figured out a formula that works for him. But i will say that it has been interesting because a lot of the people that have come to be from entrepreneur and fire to help them with design stuff. I actually kind of stopped working with entrepreneurs while ago. Because like i. I only work with people now. Who have like a fool business running rather than people who are trying to start going. Yeah yeah i mean you know you can't be a startup that's fine but you need to have a business plan you need. Yeah or so. Yeah i mean just because experience with all these people who quit their jobs right you know and like me and investment. I mean you're lucky because you like a housing allowance and stuff but these are people and my wife was working fulltime so we need that job really great could screw around for forever and ben fine. You had good is. That sounds like my husband's. I've been the sugar mama for years. That's right but no so. I get all these people who would who would come to me and they'd be like listen. I just spent thousands of dollars on this like personal development. Saying i did all this stuff and none of it's working and i don't know what to do please healthy and i'm like design doesn't do that but i also work in marketing and like try to help them but then you know in an example business idea. Yes so so when. I hired some marketing. No some branding people right. And they're designed guy. There was a branding guy in a design guy and they were like a husband husband team. Okay and the brain. The design guy said. Do you have a business idea. And i literally did.
Vroom Vroom Veer with Jeff Smith
"jeff smith" Discussed on Vroom Vroom Veer with Jeff Smith
"Because it was like i thought i was like required to just almost like read joke. I learned that if you wanna do prepared material. It doesn't just come out the first time you actually have to work it right you have an idea and then you write some stuff down and then you try it with an audience and then tune it and see what works and then practice that and i think i could probably do that It just feels like lot of were when it's not you'll slow. It's wrong fee. Yeah i would rather just get up there and just say. Hey what's up. We're just gonna talk what's going on with you guys something like that anyway. So yeah so. I get it and you know. It's amazing that you said what you said about the energy flow for an introvert versus an extrovert. Where like the first time. I heard that it. This lady was giving a little talk And she said how i define. Introversion is an introvert can speak in front of people speak in front of groups. Do anything in an extrovert can do. But doing so draws energy out of them where an extrovert is energized. By it right. And that. And that i was like well. Then it's like this polarity really. Which way is the flow going. Solo solo soda panels battery. It's gonna look looking. You look at you and your metaphors okay. That was awesome. Good good digression and on almost on point so okay. So now you've got this work from home recruiting gig and that's gonna lead somewhere else very soon. I bet so it did so. I did it and it was fine. They didn't really have enough work for me. And i'd ask the work i did. I did the good thing. I did the good fight i ask for work and we have enough but stopping efficient at it bold. No that was a hundred. So what can you get bored..
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
World Fuel Services COO Jeff Smith
"Terms of operations where we're global And so for me. You know a good chunk of what I do is related to technology because technology has a place you know from the initial customer experience ordered a cache procure to pay record to report so that plays a big piece and that's the the people and the process and the tech strategy goes with that but then there's overall financial operations and shared services for. How do we support our line of business segments when when they conduct their business and and how can we run those kind of back office functions a lot more efficiently and in the right locations with the right skills and it's really you know the the guts it's the engine room You know that enabled us to go out and attract business and and you know executed efficiently. That's really my my core role and can you talk a bit about the form that digital transformation takes an organization like yours. I mentioned a moment ago. That said clearly part of what excited the executive team about your abilities in in bringing you on board talk a bit about the formats taken across the now as I say to. Nearly two and a half years so that you've been enroll it's quite pervasive because the digital transformation is everything from the systems and technology that allow you from the very beginning of you know just doing looking at the opportunity. So that's in your your crm systems. It's in your data systems that allow you to you. Know Ingest customer and supplier information that's in portal strategies its self service increasingly because a lot of our supply base is third party it's creating API's and more of an ecosystem to allow different participants to play without having to make it so complex and and build Point to point integrations or do it manually. So in one sense that's one piece of the digital transformation on the other it really is around the efficiency and and in using robotics Cr and different Technologies so that every piece of data that comes and hopefully we can bring in digitally. We could process it. Digitally we can analyze it did Chile and make more sense out of all the data that we're collecting. You know to make better business decisions and and that can be in in pricing. We buy an awful lot. You know we're buying and selling you know. Forty billion dollars worth of energy in one way shape or form and it doesn't take you know a you know a bit of an intelligence we can use that data you know. Apply some a and machine learning to a can. We actually improved you know our operating margins but also improve the experience back to the customer so that it really it entails everything from the very very beginning from opportunity all the way back to you know how we close the books and do our our analytics on the back yet. No doubt a lot of what you just described Were things that either were in nascent forms or perhaps in some cases were were already up and running. I'm curious when you join the organization. How much change was necessary. wraps the changes continuing in order to realize the vision of what you just described. I think one thing I learned Who wore wounds pass rules and stuff as well as your strategy and tactics have to manage the town? That's you have on the pitch so if you WanNa you know you want to move to the cloud aggressively and use and use digital technologies You know you have to have the skills to do that. So a good chunk of my very first year was really taking a look. You know from the bottom up you know what our core skills. We need. How those roll up into roles? How do we create an Agile Organization? We did something quite different that I experienced And my last couple jobs as well as rather than doing an orange strategy top down. Go from the bottom up. Look at what work needs to be done. What's do that? Well and apply more of spotify model of grouping people into small self directed teams that are kind of loosely coupled tightly aligned into tribes tribes into a domain so that you run a leaner management structure unless levels. But in order to do that. You've gotTa have the talent to bring that in so we went on. You know you know really strong. Assessment training bringing new skills in and I would say over the last two years. We've turned over You know about a third of our workforce you know you needed that amount of replenishment to bring the skill base up because there is no You know there's no compression algorithm for experience. You need to have done it before so we needed to bring people in that. Could you know others could could learn from at an accelerated pace and pick the right partners and ride their way? And so I think that's the other key strategy of being ready as you know you're only as good as the people you surround yourself with sweets that you have ever principles. It's pick our partners based on the company I product second. Because your company's you leading indicator your product features you're lagging we spent. The first year was an awful lot from you. Know who we need at the executive level. What kind of practitioners do we need? What kind of special skills and analytics and digital and cloud and and replenishing to the point that we could execute strategy that we really want to really like that pick people based on company I products second for the reasons you articulated as you thought about the people that were the worst of this replenishment the replacement of the third. Or so of folks who changed over. How important was experiencing the type of work that you foresaw as important or more or less important than experience in the industry. You need that you need experience in the industry and we had a a decent amount of that but it variance in the the technologies and how to solve problems in different ways. You need a mesh need this kind of diversity of thought in any great organization and and that's in addition to gender and race so you need the industry piece but my piece my history experience would tell me that attitude is is more important than an aptitudes you need to create the right culture and and people have a much larger capacity to learn then they get themselves credit for but you have to have the right people to create the right environment and then set high expectations and the better people will come up to speed more quickly that we have a capacity to learn whether it's a business domain or technology domain far greater than we think and but you have to have enough congestion of talent and leadership. You know just to enable that to happen they have very interesting indeed. I'm also curious. You talked about the need to build a better set of partners a broader ecosystem. My Word Not Yours but how on translating what you were describing who curious what sorts of changes you made from that perspective as well. Clearly you've been thinking about the mix of people the internal as well as extra. What sorts of changes did you make as a result of that analysis? Why think on the on the partner side we had a few business objectives and I think this is probably the other thing at least good advice for. Cio's that went to you. Know take on other broader business roles look at it in terms of what's the business objectives and the business outcome. You Really WanNa get in one of the things that we needed to do. To connect people across the world in a more effective way was to create a strong productive environment for them so that they could collaborate and learn from each other at a faster pace so we looked at. Who are the best companies in collaboration? And we're GonNa make you know hard. I would call student body right. Turns and get on those companies because we knew that in addition to the products they sold we could learn different things from them so three companies. We used in what I would call. The employee. Collaboration environment were box. Zoom in slack and their three. You know great run companies. They've got they've run it's interesting. They run similar management systems with okay ours which are from John. Dora and how you do a objectives and key results and you know box for content management zoom or video and PBX and communications And then slack for collaboration and all three of those companies have helped us Outside yes their technology is in use utilize them for the problems they've solved we've looked at their leadership techniques If you take a look at zoom one of the top rated companies to work for actually all three of them are looked at their leadership techniques. We looked at their engineering practices at at box. We sit on their advisory boards to to you know. I think one of our other key principles. Both parties should benefit outside the commercial relationship. And so we use those which. Reiki changes. I'd say in the collaboration environment and the we had a very big goal to Closed down our data centers and Migrate Everything to the Cloud. So we partnered with. Aws than they try. They train onsite even help us recruit at universities. When we're looking at undergraduate hires and really help us become better company. By looking at some of the things that they do in their leadership system and And even how? The recruiting practices things like that. So those are four partners that we have gotten measurably better at a faster taste because we were relying on your good skills internally but also hiring what's needed but also partnering with the People that are measurably better than the ones we
Back To Work
Comics for kids
"Her a chapter book. She loves ambulant. There's a new one coming out this month. I'm trying to think of the other comic ones. There's a lot of good ones out there. I mean, I think this is another one of those things where it helps to have a rabbi. So if you go to a comic shop and finds somebody who's down with like kids stuff and understands kick kits, comics, you can get some great recommendations. The only one I'd throw in beyond the ones that you've suggested is a comic by Jeff Smith called bone. Oh, yeah, right there big thick addition to that. Yeah, my my kids loved that one, and it's not superhero style. It's more comic strip style, but it's really, really good. And and I, I've known lots and lots of people have recommended this to come back and said that their kids really, really enjoyed it. There's nothing in it that would ever be considered even remotely adult, and it was serialized since like the early early nineties to the early two thousand. So it went for a long time. Well, and and the artwork is great. Stories are cute and it's just a fun, relatively wholesome type type of book for kids. So and parents to well one, I don't know why always feel so reluctant because to recommend this just because I'm. A weird liberal from the left coast. But if you think it's okay for your kid and you think kids ready for it? Lumber Janes is very good, especially for girl child, lumber jeans is real good. It's just about about a bunch of girls at summer camp and it's got some both medically, woke stuff in it, but it's also just really funny and super cute. And so for your tween or teen out the lumber Janes, it's really good media. I make sure it's okay with your, you know how you feel about the world, but I love it and it's full of messages I'm more than happy to put in front of my kid. Yeah, so that's really good what this is really good less adventure time? No, we haven't seen it yet was, was it sad or happy or what was what's gonna talk about it. She refuses to watch it really. It's like trying to get her to lie to watch the last Matt Smith doctor who she just she refuses to acknowledge that it's over how man? Yeah, I got to get into Stephen universe. I'm kind of in the Steven universe. I'm just not super into Stephen universe. I don't know that like all the Stephen universal. Please save yourself an Email by telling me, I really, really need to watch this. I know I really need to watch this every new episode of Steven universe. My daughter is literally screaming from another room. There's a lot happening right now in Steven universe. You wear Steven universe. I know about it. I've never. Uh-huh. Gyms is reason that lady has three is long story.
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Florida bridge collapse: Victim's family demands explanation
"Townhall dot com ause congress had working in a massive flooding bill this week called an omnibus it's called an omnibus because it combines funding from several different government agencies and departments into one big spending bill senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says first and foremost the bill funds defense it will provide our armed forces with stable funding they need to meet emerging challenges but that's not all they will also strengthen our fight against the scourge of opioid addiction an issue the president has already declared a public health emergency after the house axum omnibus the senate will take it up with aim toward meeting a friday night deadline to continue government funding linda kenyon washington tornado davidge buildings and down trees in a northern alabama county jeff smith bend the alabama emergency management executive operations officer says monday storms are just the start of the tornado season march is the first month is expect expect more to come for this season this is just the beginning and it is the the first wants everyone needs to really focus on this one and and develop your plan and implement it plaintiff's attorney matt morgan says they are gathering information in support of a lawsuit on behalf of a victim the desperate bridge collapse at florida international university if there's a crack in the bridge and if there's post tensioning work going on why is the motoring public still able to travel underneath the bridge and that's a fundamental question that needs to be answered in this case the bridge collapsed onto the busy six lane highway crushing cars and killing at least six people and a tragedy now under federal investigation authorities say the brother of the teen charged with killing seventeen people at a florida school has been arrested for trespassing at the same school eighteen year old zachary cruise was arrested monday afternoon at marjory.