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Favorite quotes of all time

We love starting off with a quote in every episode, and we’ll share which quotes have been our favorite. One of our favorite quotes thus far is “If you can dream it, you can do it.” by Walt Disney. Similar to this quote we’ve also liked “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” by Napoleon Hill. These quotes in particular helps motivate a lot of people achieve things they want in life. For example, if you go to the ocean and you see rich people with yachts, you’ll be that guy that says “If that guy can have a yacht, then I can have a yacht.” Here are some more quotes we love and it is “You’re the average of five people you associate yourself with.” and “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.”

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This next quote is “A person does not decide their future, a person decides their habits and their habits decide their future.” by FM Alexander. This quote in particular resonated with Bob. Bob was fat, alcoholic, and a drug lover. But changing his habits such as saving money every day or putting consistent effort on his diet and work, changed the way his future is unfolding.

Favorite quotes from our guests

Jason Selk gave us three quotes which were, “Self-image is determined by how we talk to ourselves about ourselves”, “Most people’s self-image is far below where it should be”, and “Most people are talking to themselves about themselves negatively.” These quotes have had an impact in how we view ourselves, and we often stopped talking negatively when we make mistakes in sports. We played differently, if not better, because of those quotes that stuck with us.

Favorite moments in Brofessional Development Podcast

Our favorite moments when having guests such as Andy Frisella, Bedros, and Jason Selk, were they looked as differently after the episode. At the beginning, we could tell that each person would think of the podcast as another boring interview. However, after the episode is done, they would genuinely look at us and say that we did a really good job. We think their thoughts have been rewarding and made us feel really good and that our time is worth something.

Another moment was in the Colorado trip where it has been a personal professional development experience. With all the masterminds that we’ve done and seeing that if not for us, making these and having conversations with people, then we they wouldn’t have made a move in their life. Tommy Holmes was in our last mastermind and his goal was to get more clients. Everybody suggested royalties and there was this whole debate about it. Three weeks later, we received a text that he signed a new deal that they were going to try it and offer some type of royalties for each sale of the course they’re doing. With that he found success and was thankful, and for us it was also rewarding.

The podcast gave us more awareness to what we do. When we started a book club, nobody showed up for that event. Over time, we started the podcast and all of a sudden there are 25 to 40 people signing up for the events. That’s very rewarding for us because the people are putting themselves in a vulnerable position in front of people they don’t know. However, they know that everyone is like minded and they are somehow going to help them and see better results.

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Worst moments since we started the podcast

There are times where we would have disagreements and that was some of the worst moments. This is because when starting the podcast, not all of us have the same mindset to make it work. Some of us were disengaged while others would put a lot of effort to make the podcast have value. Although we had some of these challenges, it improved our friendship and helped each other level up with our personal development.

What we’re looking forward to in the next 100 episodes

The next 100 episodes, the focus for some of us would be the masterminds because those gets more value to grow our business. If we can scale off our masterminds, then we can get to help more people grow and connect. For the podcast, we look forward to having more guests to inspire our audience to grow their business as well as their personal development.

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Bobby Hitting His 2 Year mark of Sobriety

Drinking can be addictive and can interfere with your business and lifestyle. You won’t often have the time and energy to work towards your business goals and achieve the success you want for your business. We are very proud of Bobby who has achieved his 2-year mark of sobriety. In St. Louis, the majority of people can’t achieve this goal because of what St. Louis is, a drinking city. It becomes tough for people to stop drinking because it’s on almost every occasion.

The 1-year mark when quitting drinking is always the hardest. The second-year can go by without you even noticing that you’ve already stopped drinking. Aside from achieving his second year of sobriety, 75 hard is also another thing he is continuing to accomplish, a great book on helping you get a healthier body and improve your mental health.

Airbnb is banning parties

Airbnb is banning parties

There are a lot of hosts on Airbnb that are going against parties at their estate which is why Airbnb decided to ban parties. Apparently, hosts are still encouraging people to rent out their places for parties. Banning parties has already started in 2019, but loosened the ban in 2020. This was because all the bars were closed due to the pandemic. However, they still did proceed with the ban after the pandemic continued to rise.

Recently they opened it back up and the issue wasn’t because of the pandemic, but because their neighborhoods were complaining about the parties. Nothing has really changed, but Airbnb has a zero-tolerance policy. So if they find that you planned a party after getting an Airbnb, then they are going to suspend you or remove you entirely from the app. We can’t really tell how Airbnb is tracking users and most high school graduates around 18-19 are booking Airbnb. If Airbnb did track and give that user a suspension or a ban, then the teens will probably just cycle to the next account.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr asking for Apple and Google to remove Tiktok from stores

FCC COMMISSIONER BRENDAN CARR ASKING FOR APPLE AND GOOGLE TO REMOVE TIKTOK FROM STORES

They want to remove Tiktok from Apple and Google stores for its pattern of surreptitious data practice. In their data practice, all the algorithms and data they collect from the US are stored. Tiktok is owned by a Chinese company ByteDance and it would seem that the app is similar to sheep’s clothing. They are harvesting all these data from the US and the government doesn’t like that.

The algorithm for what pops up and what rewards people on TikTok is very different in China than they are in the US. In China, the algorithm works to where what China wants its youth to do. This includes videos on engineering, chemistry, science, finance, and more interesting videos. Whereas the algorithm in the US, people would see the milk crate challenge or videos about dance challenges. People could scroll hours and hours and pick up nothing that can enhance the youth. This led to debates about whether this was an actual inadvertent attempt to sabotage the youth of America.

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison

This was a case that many people have been following but it was refused to be televised. Ghislaine was part of child trafficking or underage prostitution. She’s been involved in this for around the same length of years as she is about to go to prison for including countless other people involved.

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison

It raises the question, “How is she not in for life?” She was luring the children back and is basically the operations manager for the whole thing.

FCC Commissioner asking to remove TikTok, Airbnb banning parties

This week we talk about the latest current events, we’re also sharing personal events along with some very interesting news. Brofessional Development is a podcast where you can find informative topics on business and occasional news updates that may be interesting for you.

Facebook and Instagram remove abortion pill posts

Facebook also removed posts previously about how people posted saying COVID-19 is not real. This is the same for people who posted about anti-masks and Facebook also took those down. There will always be something that’s right and something that’s wrong when it comes to abortion pill posts.

Facebook and Instagram removes abortion pill posts

It is a free market so people should be able to post about it. Then people started to remake posts saying the exact same thing by replacing it with a different term, and Facebook didn’t really notice that.

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The story of Jillian Tedesco’s company

Jillian grew up to be an athlete which made her decide to start in the fitness industry when she was 22 years old. She was a personal trainer, had her own training studio, and continued to work for a decade. The first mistake that she did getting into the business was starting the business with someone she didn’t know. 3 years running the business, she did not have equity, wasn’t able to profit, and had a fall out with her partner. On Jillian’s 25th birthday, she walked out on the business.

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Jillian’s Passion

She had a passion for fitness but somehow she wasn’t able to the purpose or have a clear answer to why she is doing it. She found her real passion which is nutrition with the help of God in her time of struggling with trying to grow her business. Jillian loves to cook. She is a creative person and with cooking, she was able to express her creativity. She always wanted to go back to school but chose to continue her personal trainer business. The opportunity did present itself and she went back to school and got her culinary degree.

Jillian then started cooking for her clients because they didn’t eat well. When she started her fitness business, she knew her goal wasn’t to make money. Her goal was to solve problems, she wanted to help people and she was passionate about it. That became a driver for today where she uses her culinary excellence and put it with nutrition science to create the flavors. She pretty much became a personal chef for her clients which lasted for 3 and a half years. She opens up a brick and mortar and the business took off. In three years, she was able to open three stores and have a multimillion-dollar company with around 45 employees.

The company at one point did start to fail, they weren’t making the money. Jillian had lost track of what was important and eventually had to borrow money to continue her payroll. She knew that she was still on the right path, doing what she is passionate about. She figured out that she just needed to grow and innovate. She decided to go to Las Vegas to a package Expo, but she knew that they have to look for machines that package and label their meals. After 2 years, she was able to return and purchase 2 machines to implement in her production.

Jillian’s Faith encouraged her to continue

There were new challenges where she needed to restructure her entire company. The problem with this step is that people will get fired and there are workplace relationships that can hurt others. She needed to keep people that were there to help elevate her business and keep everyone on the same boat moving forward. Your employee culture is important because if you can’t handle it, then there will be changes that you can’t get back.

Working 6 more years without getting paid can make you feel less motivated to continue the business. For Jillian, her husband helped her by encouraging her to keep pushing forward and not be greedy. She went back to her faith because the Bible offers her a new perspective and what they’re battling that she can relate to. She knew that the times were changing and had to build an e-commerce.

How did Jillian innovate her business to success?

In 2017, they decided to rebuild their website and integrated Shopify with their website so they can build an online store. As the years continued with implementation, their online store started to grow at a steady pace. At the beginning of 2020 when the pandemic hit, everybody was shopping online. Everybody was looking for healthy food and at this moment, Jillian’s business was ready for this new change. She found her business in the right spot at the right time because they had innovated at the right time. Her business doubled during the pandemic and had to continue to adapt to keep up with production. Technology also helped her because meals that were fresh for 5 days would now be fresh for 10 days because of the machines.

Other Challenges the company faced

With the business you can never foresee the future, you can only try to work and continue making changes. Now, Jillian is working on her brand and has 5 locations in St. Louis. Her company is starting to build its reputation and she wants to be known for something. So when people think about fit flavors she wants people to think about the food that can help them get a healthy lifestyle. For this reason, they’re currently developing an app that is designed to direct people to where they want to go for nutritional needs and have their dietary restrictions followed. Anything related to health and diet, Fit flavors is the resource for healthy eating. When you’re building a culture in your company and you have people working for you. If they don’t feel like they belong to something that matters, they’re just not going to care like you are.

Pursue innovation and embrace change for growth. We would like to thank Jillian Tedesco for sharing her inspiring business story with us today. If you would like to know more about Jillian Tedesco, visit fit flavors.

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Market Inflation Update

Almost everyone in business are closely monitoring market inflation and just as every hoped that inflation prices has or had reached its peak, new numbers came in on Friday. We’re at a point of 8.6% inflation since May of last year, and this has been the fastest increase in inflation since December of 1981. Unfortunately, it seems we’re heading into a recession, which is essentially two consecutive decline in quarters of GDP. However, we can’t think that this recession will be like the last recession which was labeled the Great Recession. We have to keep in mind that there has been recessions in the past and many people didn’t even notice it happened. This recession is just a decline over two consecutive quarters and we can only hope it stops.

market inflation

Stock inflation can not only be directed to one industry. Inflation rates are looked at in every area for example, last month used car prices went down, compared to the original prices they were usually offered. People started to think that was a good sign, but then this month it went back up. In the used car industry, GDP is up by 16% last year. GDP is gross domestic product which is its total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during a year. They will get that value and based it off its dollar amount identifying how much it’s worth, and that’s where they get to the total inflation.

Coinbase workforce cut

Coinbase

Coinbase have recently laid off 1,100 employees and that’s around 18% of its total workforce. They did this via personal email. This is because they’ve blocked all their employees from using their actual work email before informing them that they were fired. After doing this, they then had to resend hundreds of offer letters to their recent recruits of people that had just given notice and were getting ready to work there.

Netflix decides to evolve

Netflix

Netflix has always been almost anti-live sports since 2018. Their co-CEO Reed Hastings said we don’t do live news, we don’t do live sports, but what we do is we try to do really well. After this, Amazon got exclusive rights to 15 Thursday night football games which starts in 2023. Disney added 75 Regular Season NHL on ESPN and Hulu. Peacock locked in the Premier League, the Olympics, and the AVP. Paramount Plus got the Masters in March Madness. Other channels have acquired these and more, this had an impact on Netflix stocks where it is steadily decreasing. Right now, Netflix is trying to get F1 or Formula One. They may have decided to bid for this and get the rights for it because of their popular series that came out F1.

Real estate market trends

One of the trends that is common is that people think that now is a bad time to buy real estate. This is because they have seen that the prices have gone up, and have found that most real estate are 100% more expensive. Prices of housing went up by 17%, and so did rent with the same amount around 2021 nationally. People think they should just wait to buy a house because we’re looking to maybe go into a recession and the stock market is currently tanking which will have an impact on the housing market. However, at the end of the day, the housing marketing is predicted by one thing and one thing only. It’s supply and demand. There is still a lot of people waiting to buy real estate, but there are not many houses for everyone. Prices of the housing market could go down by about 5%, but it still won’t be enough to crash the housing market. There are still people wanting to buy real estate which means the demand is high.

Market Inflation & Sports Update, Coinbase Workforce Cut

Brofessional Development Podcast brings you another update on trending events that are happening now. Topics we cover can be a mix of business, sports, and general current events. We also have a lot of opinions and ideas related to the trends that we love sharing with our audience.

Sports Update

Yadier Molina

Yadier Molina breaks the record for most put outs. This record means that he puts out more than any catcher in the entire Majors. Miles Mikolas came in within one out, he was done to a final strike for a no hitter, and Harrison Bader couldn’t make the catch in center. Goldschmidt shoots three home runs yesterday with eight RBI’s in the doubleheader. With all this that has happened it seems that the Cardinals are doing well this season and are currently first place with 2 and half games up on the Brew Crew.

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What it means to create a vision?

Having a vision for your business is similar to your life goals. For some, their vision is to get abs they’ve been working out for, while others is to see themselves looking at their account and say, “someday this amount is going to be millions.” Having a vision for your business is similar, it’s just about figuring out what you want, then chunking that into smaller pieces to create small goals that help you get to your vision.

Why is setting a vision important?

Vision is also about clarity, you need to have a clear idea of where you want to go before you attempt to push your business to achieve that success. A business strategy is also a good thing to have, but in won’t help you achieve anything if you don’t have an actual idea of where you want your business to be. If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur, you won’t be able to accomplish something until you have a clear picture of what your vision is.

You can’t only focus on the revenue your company will be gaining, but you also should try to see what role you’re going to play in the company you’re trying to build. Think about what strengths you have and why you enjoyed doing it in order to move forward with your plans. Set a vision that you want your business to be in the future because it’s your strength, it’s what you love to do, and enjoy your way to achieve great success.

What can you do to develop your own vision?

Here are questions you can answer by Andy Andrews:

  1. What do you really want to experience in your life?
  2. What are the most important things you would like to happen in your life before you die?
  3. Who do you want to become and what would you live for?

You may find that an answer that will revolve around your mind is freedom. You want to be able to do something that you enjoy doing and when you want to do them. Yes, you’ll need money or passive income to acquire freedom, but this is a type of vision you can put your mind to have in the future. This can be a reason why you’re pushing your business to be successful among other factors such as providing for your family or living a financially stable life.

Reticular Activating System (RAS)

Reticular activating system is network of nerves in our brainstem that filters out unnecessary information. This is so that only the important information gets through. This placed the science behind law of attraction.

Reticular Activating System

For example, you’ve been doing on research on something you’re interested in learning, eventually, you’ll see more information on that topic as you go along. When you put your daily intention and focus on something no matter what is, you’ll be able to find it. Unless you put your attention to real estate or your business, information that may help you build on it, then you’ll never notice those billboards, commercials, or advertisements about it.

RAS allows you to filter out information that will not have an impact in your goals or your interests. The more you put your mind towards your goals and vision, the more likely you’ll be able to see the answers that are presented in front of you.

How to Create a Compelling Vision

Vision casting allows you to set your business on course to succeed. The vision is a clear idea that shows where you want your business to be. Visions allow you to continue achieving goal after goal in your business.

What we’re doing for our vision?

Entrepreneurial operating system (EOS) is a popular way of how to run a business. A book called Traction talks about how you can use EOS and implement that in your business and make it a reality.

A big part of the book is about its visions, how to create a compelling one, and with successful visions you will more likely be successful in your business. We’re using this book to get a better view of how to create our own vision. These guidelines will define the culture you want, what’s your core focus, and the reason for being in your niche. There’s a 10 year target you must set for your business, and each year focus on creating quarterly milestones to measure your progress and reassess where you are.

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Mass Shooting at a Texas Elementary School

A mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas occurred killing 19 children and 2 adults. This is the deadliest school shooting in almost a decade.

Mass Shooting at a Texas

The lone gunman is an 18-year-old kid and had posted on social media saying, “I’m going to shoot my grandma.” Posted on Facebook after he shot his grandma. He then proceeded to crash his car, and posted to Facebook “I’m going to shoot up an elementary school.” The gunman had posted these things on social media prior to his actions.

Shooting at Texas

Social media is perceived as a bad thing because it has affected a lot of people’s mental health and people waste their time scrolling on their feeds. We hope that somehow in the future that Mark Zuckerberg could track things like this and help us prevent tragedies such as this. Something has to change whether it’s mental health or gun control, to try and prevent things like this from happening.

Airbnb Parties in St. Louis

Airbnb parties have been running rampant in St. Louis. This is happening all around the state and kids, often teens would book an Airbnb for a night. Once that’s done, the party starts at night, and landlords or homeowners will be the ones to clean up after. Most people can’t stand this and the rave parties can get real loud which will disrupt the entire neighborhood. Lots of teens are considering this because renting an Airbnb is much cheaper than renting a hotel room. In hotels, they would have to deal with security and the lack of space, while an Airbnb can provide all those benefits at a cheaper price.

Job Market Update

The Great Resignation in 2021 led to many people quitting their jobs. Grant Thornton did a survey on about 5,000 employees. 21% of American workers took a new job in 2021, and already, 40% out of that 21% are now looking for new jobs. LinkedIn data show that people having their jobs after being there for less than 12months, rose by 6.5% this year. It is a candidates market, this means that employees are the ones looking for better opportunities to earn more. Employers are the ones having a hard time finding good employees because everyone on the market is just looking at what employers can offer.

Cardinals Livening the Game Again

Yadier of Cardinals

After Albert’s pitch, Yadier got in and threw some innings after the Cardinals were up 18 and nothing on Sunday. Yadier gave home runs just like Albert did, and it’s getting better for the team. They can even make it better if Wayne got behind the plate closer to the end of the year. It’s good to see the Cardinals blow people’s minds out with these moves. It would make it really fun to watch if they would put people in positions they knew nothing about and see how it goes. Once they start doing that, people will start tuning into baseball more often.

Shooting in Texas, Monkeypox, Job Market Updates

Getting updated with the latest news that’s happening around us is important to find out if it may affect your business or not. Brofessional Development podcast covers trending news that should be brought to your attention. In this episode, we talk about the mass shootings in Texas, Airbnb parties in St.

Monkey Pox

Monkey pox virus

Monkey pox is not like covid-19 where you’re not going to get monkey pox just by going past the person that’s infected with it in the grocery store. This is coming from the CDC official Dr. Jennifer McQuiston explains. It spreads through continuous physical contact with a person who has an active rash.

You can do what you normally do but don’t rub yourself against another person who has any type of rash on their body. Monkey pox got its name in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research.

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What’s more important getting the most out of your employees or employees getting the most out of you?

As business owners, our business won’t run the way it should without hiring good employees. It’s important to take care of your employees, because your employees are unhappy with your work environment, then they may underperform and lose you money. Your vision for the company can’t be seen by everybody. The way you handle your customers can’t be carried over to your employees. This is why you should set the standards and care for your employees if you want them to perform well for your business.

Getting the Most out of Your Employees

Your employees has the right to get something out of you whether it’s money, benefits, work life balance, growth, or continued education, one of these will be important to them. Being able to offer what’s important to them will help motivate them to maximize their production in order to receive those benefits. Your business will benefit from their production and they will benefit from your offers for their work.

What you can learn from leading people?

One of the key things you can learn leading your employees is being able to understand their emotions. You can’t always see your employee happily working every day. There will always be a day where they can be down and that can affect their performance at work. People can have problems that arise such as family, health, and other issues. How you handle and try to have a conversation with them can have an impact. Employees knowing that you care about them more than just being an individual to make you money will help create a positive workplace.

Another thing you can learn from leading your employees is that, you can’t treat everyone equally. You can’t fully focus on top performers and provide them with more privileges just because you get more out of them. Check in with your lower performers and find out one of these three things:

  • Is something you can do to help them in improving their performance?
  • Are they not comfortable or capable of doing the job?
  • Or are they just refusing to work?

This is also a way of diving into their emotional side and understand how you can have a real relationship with your employees to help boost their work performance. Allow your employees to be able to reach out to you and you as their leader, be more open to conversations that not only focus on their performance but also their comfort of working on their job.

What’s better to have in an employee skillset or mindset?

A person with a good mindset of what they want to do and how they want to perform can acquire skills. If a person’s mindset doesn’t want to focus on the type of job they want, then even if they have the skills for it, they won’t be able to perform well. An employee with a positive mindset will be happy to be in the company and be willing to learn more skills. That’s a valuable type of employee, because in long-term employment that same employee with a great mindset can adapt to new trends and acquire the skills necessary to apply those trends to your business.

Some recruiters are caught up with the skill set an employee must have to perform in the company. These are essentially the qualifications required for the role a business is offering. A person with the skillset you need can still lack other skills which you might still take some time and resources to get them to learn it. If you’re training someone with a positive mindset, they will also take the same amount of time but may outperform the person with the skill set you set for the job role.

Getting the Most out of your Employees

If you create good systems as an employer or employee, then you can have a successful business. You define how well your employee will perform in your business starting from your hiring process, how you lead your employees and choosing the right employees that will match your business goals.

New tactics or methodologies to maximize production of people

One of the tactics you can try as a leader is to find out your employee’s personality traits. Personality testing is to try understand their traits that they show given a situation. Every individual has a different personality trait and each one will approach and accomplish your goals in their own way. If given a task, one employee can try to accomplish it through problem solving, while another employee can be innovative or improvise in solving it. Different personality types can be successful in the same role but have very different ways to do it.

The 90 day guarantee is when you should have some data within an employee that shows if he or she is going to be successful or productive to your business in the long-term. When you recruit a potential employee, you go through their references, skills, experience, and all the normal hiring procedures. You want to add another test which is the personality test to figure out if they are checking the right answers you’re looking for in an individual. At the end of the day, you want to hire someone who will benefit your clients and make a positive impact in your business.

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Rise of Inflation

Inflation is constantly rising and is affecting a lot of people and businesses. The rise in inflation also affects people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos since they have a lot of money. Although the government is planning to raise interest rates to try and keep inflation down, it’s still unavoidable. Jeff Bezos commented on this issue and said “You’re not going to cure inflation at all, you’re actually going to hurt the people that inflation hurts the most.”

Increase in inflation

Although there are a lot of factors that affect inflation, Economists also state that inflation isn’t anybody’s fault but the government alone. This is because at the end of the day, the government controls the value of the dollar. Another reason why inflation has been high is because the government printed so much money in the course of two years, because of the effects of COVID-19. Mitt Romney said that they’re applying a bill that is going to prevent Biden from being able to forgive any student loans. This means that students who’re unable to pay their student loans can’t be forgiven, because there are students who’ve already paid and are paying their loans. Making it unfair for those students repaying their student loans, because the ones that can’t pay their loans are just going to be forgiven.

Although there are a lot of factors that affect inflation, Economists also state that inflation isn’t anybody’s fault but the government alone. This is because at the end of the day, the government controls the value of the dollar. Another reason why inflation has been high is because the government printed so much money in the course of two years, because of the effects of COVID-19. Mitt Romney said that they’re applying a bill that is going to prevent Biden from being able to forgive any student loans. This means that students who’re unable to pay their student loans can’t be forgiven, because there are students who’ve already paid and are paying their loans. Making it unfair for those students repaying their student loans, because the ones that can’t pay their loans are just going to be forgiven.

Understanding Inflation, Johnny Depp & Amber Heard’s Trial, Elon Musk Twitter Deal on Hold

Getting updated with current events is important if you want to understand what’s going on in the country. This will also help you understand how the economy is being affected by these new events. In this episode, we talk about the current events that are affecting us in business.

Baseball Events – Pujols’ first time ever Pitching

Albert Pujols, St. Louise Cardinals brought him to pitch and the very first pitch he threw, the batter gets a hit on him. It was a three run home run, and then he gave up another home run right after. That was Pujols’ first time ever pitching, but it was quite interesting event. He’s played every position except for two. We’ve come to see a lot interesting events from the Cardinals and this is just one of them. Earlier that day Wainwright and Molina were pitching which got them the lead and continued their streak.

Walmart’s Huge Loss in Profits in Q1 Earnings

Although Walmart got this huge loss, their retail in April still increased for the fourth straight month. Walmart’s losses has to be coming from their supply chain issues. There was a time where they weren’t able to keep up their supply for the demand needed of their goods. People are prioritizing retail over actual food which somehow shows how Walmart’s retail continues to increase.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard

Statistically, more people are interacting with the news article about their trial, than topics such as abortion, inflation, Joe Biden, and Elon Musk. This is the biggest news that people are constantly tuning into and their traffic has jumped to 9%, 16%, and 22% in the last three months. We understand as this case is continuing on, Johnny Depp is the good guy and Amber Heard is the bad guy. However, it just seems people are wasting their time on an event that’s become a reality TV.

US Soccer Agreeing Equal Pay

If the women’s soccer team is winning gold medals and are succeeding in this sport, then they should get paid the same amount as the men that aren’t performing well. For this reason, they are pushing for this agreement to have an equal pay for both men and women in soccer. After they won the court case, they got paid 22 million which is what the men are getting paid for. US Soccer will also share a portion of its broadcast partner and sponsorship revenue with 50-50 split. This is equally divided between men’s and women’s soccer.

The main reason why men’s and women’s soccer game weren’t equal in the first place is because people would come watch men’s game verses women’s game. This is even though the men’s team don’t perform well, they would still get the attention of more people to come watch. The more people come to watch the more revenue it gets when the seats are being filled, and more people are there to purchase merchandise. All this revenue is gathered to give back to the players.

Elon Musk Twitter Deal on Hold

Elon Musk says the SEC reports said that there was less than 5% of bots or fake accounts on Twitter. However, Elon Musk things there is 20% to 50% of those are actual fake accounts. The CEO of Twitter could not provide that information to show that there is less than 5% fake accounts. For this reason, the deal will be hold until there is proof given.

An undercover video of a Twitter employee saying that Elon is trying to remove censorship. This refers to people being bullied, Elon thinks that this is freedom of speech. So the Twitter employee shows that with them fully censoring everything, they are not proving to be a freedom of speech type of company. In relevance to the fake accounts, there’s another topic that said Elon Musk’s followers, around 23% of them are fake or spam accounts.

Real Estate Housing Market Crash Issue

Real estate’s a very outstanding commodity right now and has been for a long time. From our research, there doesn’t seem to be a housing crash. If people are telling you that there’s a 100% crash, then they’re most likely trying to sell you something. However, we don’t actually know that it will happen unless it happens. People are comparing statistics from 2008, but the market right now is nothing like 2008.

In 2008, there was no demand and there was oversupply of real estate. Nobody is foreclosing right now and back in 2008, 50% of mortgages were FHAs or from Federal Housing Administration. These were higher risk for first time homebuyer loans. When you had an FHA, you don’t have a lot of equity in your house. But right now, it’s at 23% to 28% which means people have a lot of equity in their house. This means that if people took a downturn, then you would have options to cash out, and get bailed out.

Adjustable rate mortgages was up to 15% to 20% of the loans going out, which started out at a teaser interest rate of 2% to 3%. This could adjust based on the market, and when the market took a downturn, everybody’s interest rates were tripling and quadrupling after that making people unable to afford their mortgages.

Another thing to look at out for in housing crash when you’re thinking foreclosing or defaulting loans, is the job market. There will still be two jobs to every one person in the US as long as this is a candidate driven market, then people will not have issues getting jobs and have no issues paying their mortgage. Based on what we’re seeing right now, there’s going to be some course correct. This is where the prices will readjust and may probably go down to about 5%, but there won’t be a crash. There may only be a possible market crash but it will only be because of inflation.

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In this episode, we dive deep into what’s trending in business and entertainment.  From Drake’s versus Ceddy Bodwen roast on the internet, Drake getting revenge by sliding into his Wife’s DM, the Roe versus Wade debate on abortion rights, and the impact of the Fed announcing interest rate hikes by 50 points basis with the high inflation rate and GDP numbers being 1% on the negative.

Roe vs Wade, Fed Raises Rates, and BMI affecting Sexual Perfomance!

In this episode, we dive deep into what’s trending in business and entertainment.  From Drake’s getting revenge on an internet troll by sliding into his Wife’s DM, the Roe versus Wade deal, and the impact of the Fed announcing interest rate hikes with the high inflation rate and GDP numbers being 1% on the negative.

Besides, we look at Dave Chappelle’s attack on stage with a knife and how your BMI  and other factors might influence your sexual performance.

 Drake’s troll on Twitter

Somebody posted about standing up for dads that get mouthy and basketball games. Drake said, ‘it’s like a rite of passage, OG’s talk. I know I might be this way, even if my son is in a Rubix cube competition.”

Ceddy Bowden replied, “I bet your son plays with ghost riders.” In revenge, Drake replied, “I just followed your girl because she is probably miserable and needs some excitement in her life.”

The Roe versus Wade deal

What’s Trending in Business and Entertainment
What’s Trending in Business and Entertainment

There was a leaked document that the supreme court will look at the case. However, it was an interesting time when the document leaked just toward the midterms and aimed to divide the country further.

More conservative states will probably ban it, and more liberal states will allow it. This last happened in 1973, and 50 years later, the issue is being revisited.

If they tighten up women’s ability to get abortions, there’s a need for male accountability since there’s a huge problem with fatherless children.

“The US Department of Justice shows children from fatherless homes account for 90% of all homeless and runaway children.”

However, there have to be some exceptions, such as rape cases or any serious medical condition affecting the mother and child.

Fed announcing interest rate hikes

It announced a hike by 50 basis points. With everything going on with inflation, the Fed is trying to curb the interest rates and bring inflation down.

 The GDP numbers are 1% in the negative. So, if there are two quarters in a row where the GDP is down, it means we are officially in a recession. The Fed is in a weird place right now, and they need to balance the interest rates, inflation, and the dropping GDP.

In real estate, the housing process has gone up by 30% over the last two years, and doing this, will bring interest rates down. A high mortgage rate equals high borrowing costs for buying a house. So, less people will buy, making the prices go down.

“Low-interest rates shoot up, and the pricing of houses and higher interest rates shoot down.”

 Dave Chappelle getting tackled on stage.

Dave Chappelle got tackled on stage when somebody tried to spear him. Busta Rhymes and Jamie Foxxx beat up the dude, and he ended up with broken wrists and a dislocated elbow.

BMI and Sexual Perfomance

“Researchers in Turkey did a year-long study on BMI and sexual performance. So what it says is men with a higher BMI last, on average, 7.3 minutes. But men who are leaner hardly make it to 108 seconds.”

However, the are other contributing factors such as:

  • Blood circulation: If your body fat is super high and will pump so much to keep your vital organs, it doesn’t give much attention to your dick.
  • Working out
  • Foreplay
  • Age

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What better way to learn Customer Service with Expert Shep Hyken! Great customer service keeps your customers coming back and increases your referrals. It is one of the best strategies to increase your revenue and gain a competitive advantage.

Customer Service Expert Shep Hyken!

Improving customer service is a vital part of growing any business. After all, the lifeblood of any company is repeat customers. As many as 70 percent of customers say they’ll spend more with companies that provide excellent customer service. In a market where it’s easier than ever for customers to take their money elsewhere, how can you improve your customer service?

What are some tricks in customer service? How can you succeed in excellent customer service? Besides, what’s your role as a leader in implementing customer service?

This article expounds more on some strategies you need to succeed in your business and keep your customers coming back. If you are wondering how to handle that unhappy customer who keeps complaining, this is for you!

Tricks in Customer Service

  • ●Process Improvement
  • ●Listening to the customer
  • ●Getting Feedback from customers
  • ●Acting on that feedback

Why most organizations fail customer service

Some organizations aim to invest in customer service, but they end up failing. Where do these companies go wrong? Such companies tend to invest in customer service based on the competitors rather than their customer’s wants.

You can’t just say, let’s give great customer service. There are certain angles you need to hit:

  • ●Have it in your culture

“Customer service is not a department, it’s part of the culture. It is the philosophy of the company.”

  • ●Proper Training

Training is not one time. You can’t just watch the course once. You have to go through it over and over again.

“Training is not something you did, it is something you do. It is ongoing.”

  • ●Who to train

Instead of creating the culture and training people properly, most organizations think they only need to train front-line workers. However, it’s never the case. You have to recognize that you have internal customers, the people you work with. If you do not treat your internal customers the right way, you do not expect these people to go and do a perfect job for the outside customer.

Role of Internal customers in Customer Service

Whenever a customer comes into contact with any aspect of the business, they form an impression. Therefore, no matter how big or small the company is, every person in your company has some impact on the customer’s experience.

Always ensure that you have good customer service. Are your employees working for a paycheck or the company? Do you pay them what they are worth? Ensure you create an environment that is fulfilling for your employees.

“If you take care of people on the inside, they are going to take care of people on the outside.”

Customer Service Solutions

Teach your customers to use customer service resources such as customer relationship software.  Using this software enables them to resolve issues on their own within a short time.

“It is impossible to wow someone everytime they call. I’m calling to enquire my bank balance. Wow that’s amazing. It doesn’t happen.”

Although you cannot always wow a customer, you can amaze them all the time by ensuring every interaction they have is slightly better than average.

The unhappy customer versus the happy customer

If you get someone that complains and always has an issue, it is an opportunity to learn from that. How do you get to eliminate, mitigate, or train people to respond, so it does not happen again?

For both the happy and unhappy customer, you need to ask the reason behind it. If it is bad, what can you do about it and prevent it? If it is good, how do you operationalize it?

The role of leaders in great customer service

In a customer-focus culture, leaders have to demonstrate what they want everyone else to do.

“Wear it on your sleeve and have it in your heart. Walk the talk.”

As a leader, always stoop to excellence. Be willing to stoop to whatever level to ensure an excellent experience.

Communicating with your Clients

Good customer service involves communication with your clients. You can do this via personalized handwritten thank you notes, texts, emails, or videos. It does matter whether it is digital or handwritten. Just personalize it and do it right!

Hope you enjoyed our episode with Customer Service Expert Shep Hyken!

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