The Causey Consulting Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sara Causey
Are you an entrepreneur, solopreneur, or a small business owner? The Causey Consulting Podcast is designed especially for you! Our episodes are guaranteed to ALWAYS give you valuable insights that you can use in your life and your business immediately. You'll never walk away from an episode without learning something new. Your host, Sara Causey, is a business consultant for Fortune 500 companies and a coach for solopreneurs and small business owners Sometimes Sara flies solo with her own insights and experiences, and other times she interviews a fantastic, bad-a$$ guest with expertise in topics like work/life balance, financial freedom, marketing, social media management, business communication, etc. Connect with Sara on LinkedIn and visit her website at causeyconsultingllc.com for more. Like our theme music? It's "Rainbow" by Scandinavianz. Show them some love at: https://soundcloud.com/scandinavianz. Need music of your own? Check out https://www.free-stock-music.com.
In this episode, I'll cover what I learned from Weeks 8, 9, and 10 of Julia Cameron's wonderful book, The Artist's Way.
✔️ Recovering your senses of strength, compassion, and self-protection.
✔️ A blockage doesn't automatically mean lazy. It often indicates a sense of fear.
✔️ In any business, how can you turn loss into gain? What can you learn from it?
✔️ What happens if you pour your heart into a project and it flounders?
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252
My award-winning biography of Dag is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Decoding-Unicorn-New-Look-Hammarskj%C3%B6ld-ebook/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
My forthcoming project, Simply Dag, will be available next summer
In this episode, I'll cover what I learned from Weeks 6 & 7 of Julia Cameron's wonderful book, The Artist's Way.
✔️ Recovering a sense of abundance. This one is huge for a lot of us, especially in tough economic times.
✔️ Julia's assignments involve "archaeology." Where did your ideas about scarcity come from? I argue that, in many cases, they aren't even your own.
✔️ Criticism stings. A jerk who leaves a nasty comment hurts your feelings. You can't allow those things to derail you forever.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8eUaabL1UA&pp=ygULZGF2aWQgYmF5ZXI%3D
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
In this episode, I'll cover what I learned from Weeks 4 & 5 of Julia Cameron's wonderful book, The Artist's Way.
✔️ Week 4 = reading deprivation, which was incredibly hard yet also highly rewarding for me.
✔️ Possibilities. You gotta believe in them, even if you are blazing your own trail without a firm role model.
✔️ When you journal, are you being honest with yourself? Don't tiptoe around your feelings. Drag it out onto the paper.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
In this episode, I'll cover what I learned from Weeks 2 & 3 of Julia Cameron's wonderful book, The Artist's Way.
✔️ Beware of the wounded birds and drama queens who wish to siphon your energy and attention.
✔️ Synchronicities happen for a reason. You don't have to play hard and be a cynic about everything.
✔️ Who are you spending time with? Is it enriching or draining?
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
Back in 2022, I warned you that influencers can leave you broke if you listen to random idiots. And here we are again.
I'm taking a short interlude from my experiences in The Artist's Way to repeat myself: listen to goofballs with bad advice at your own risk! The career you obliterate may be your own. 💥
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/episodes/10689626
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
In this continuation of my journey through Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way, I'll cover my own experiences with Week 1, which focuses on recovering your sense of safety.
✔️ Many parents don't say, "Experiment. Try it out. See what happens." A toddler making a finger painting? Sure. But teens ready to decide what to do in life? Nope. It's all about money and the ability to find a job.
✔️ Early criticism can stay with us if not properly exorcised.
✔️ Shadow artists are frequently found attached to practicing artists.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
In this continuation of my journey through Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way, I'll cover my own experiences with Morning Pages and Artist Dates.
✔️ Sometimes art can be highbrow and cerebral. Other times we just wanna cheer the protagonist and boo the baddie.
✔️ We're skeletons in flesh suits on a rock in space. You can afford one night a week to do what YOU want to do.
✔️ Taking the time in the morning to sort out your own thoughts is more important than we give it credit for.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
Please note: I am not looking for guests for this podcast. If you message me from ihustleandgrindalldayeverydayandobsessovermoney.org, it's an automatic no. You clearly haven't listened to this series or absorbed the point!
How does someone go from the corporate world to fully embracing life as an artist? I can only speak for myself and this is my backstory.
In this initial kick-off to my miniseries "From Hustle to Flow: My Artist’s Way Experiment," I peel back the curtain on how I got into staffing & HR work in the first place, what made me good at it, and why I ultimately walked away from the corporate burnout.
But this isn’t just about me. This is also about you.
Because here’s the deal: if you’re still clinging to the idea that creativity is optional—that it’s only for “artists” with paint under their nails—you’re setting yourself up to fail in the modern economy. The people who thrive now are the ones who can pivot, innovate, and create. Doesn't matter if you're an accountant, a doctor, a carpenter, a barista, etc.
Whether you’re in business, tech, HR, or something that doesn’t even have a label yet, creativity isn’t a luxury. It’s survival.
In this miniseries, I’ll share my journey through Julia Cameron's book The Artist’s Way and show how unlocking creativity isn’t just about making art—it’s about reclaiming your life.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
Do artists have to starve before they "make it?" Are all creative jobs drying up? Is Gen X having a "career meltdown?" Or is everyone having a career meltdown?
Key topics:
✅ The world itself has changed so much since the 90s. How could the job market NOT change in that same span of time?
✅ Are you doing the same thing because you're stuck in a rut? Do you even enjoy what you're doing? Or is it like a familiar safety blanket?
✅ Are you living a cliche because you have bought into the stereotypes and limiting beliefs of others?
✅ Do you have a game plan if your corporate job disappears?
✅ The human resources department is finna ta be the robot department.
✅ If you are not your source, you are not free. Period.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPyLvi2gvxE
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/style/gen-x-creative-work.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k4.8hhO.hoNk3A21vFg0∣=url-share
https://medium.com/minds-without-borders/make-more-money-by-not-caring-f1c93b84c138
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
When you're standing at the edge of a big life change—finding a new career, launching a creative dream, starting over—do you go all in and burn the ships, or do you build a long, sturdy bridge to ease the transition?
In this episode, I'll explore both approaches to change: the bold, no-turning-back leap and the thoughtful, strategic phase-out. Which one is braver? Which one is wiser? And is it ever really that black and white?
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Meant-This-Mindset-Strategy-Impossible/dp/1098351169
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
🔴 Is the dream of a stable, high-paying job with benefits really over? Entrepreneur and Shark Tank investor Robert Herjavec recently posted that the traditional $100K career path is “dead and gone.” In this episode, I break down his claim, what it means for the future of work, and how you darn well better adapt in this shifting economy.
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robertherjavec_the-days-of-a-secure-lifelong-job-with-steady-activity-7300693366332133377-Vn0H/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAg_dycBIFdR4Ml0hP3epObGLSzd5JODvIk
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly-twice-much-wealth-rest-world-put-together-over-past-two-years
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/20/silicon-assassins-condemn-humans-life-useless-artificial-intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz3HKkVrJE4
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
Are you playing too small without realizing it? In this episode, I'll dive into the dangers of aiming too low—how it limits your growth, keeps you stuck, and leads to hidden opportunity costs. Whether it’s fear of failure, imposter syndrome, or just playing it "safe," setting the bar too low is one of the biggest threats to success.
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
Have you ever wished you could go back and change a past business failure, a bad deal, or a financial mistake? What if I told you that you can—at least in your consciousness? In this episode, we’re diving into Neville Goddard’s powerful concept of revision and how it can reshape your business mindset, boost your confidence, and help you rewrite your story.
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
For updates, please visit: https://decodingtheunicorn.com/.
You can also follow my author journey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saracauseyauthor.
Have you ever been tempted by an offer that seemed too good to be true? Maybe it was a promise to fast-track your success, help you find love, build your dream career, or solve your problems overnight . . . for a price. In this episode, I'm diving into the murky waters of cottage industries and exploring how predatory tactics are used to exploit vulnerable individuals, from indie authors and small business owners to creatives and entrepreneurs.
We’ll uncover:
- Common Predatory Tactics: From high-pressure sales pitches to vague promises of success.
- Universal Red Flags: How to spot scams across any industry, no matter the disguise.
- The Psychology of Scams: Why we’re drawn in and how predators prey on our emotions.
- Empowering Solutions: Practical tips to protect yourself, including what questions to ask and where to find trustworthy resources.
Whether you’re navigating the self-publishing world, running a small business, or simply trying to make informed decisions in your personal life, this episode will empower you to spot the red flags and safeguard your time, money, and energy.
Links:
David Bayer's podcast episode that I mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI6eCcD09kk
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
For updates, please visit: https://decodingtheunicorn.com/.
You can also follow my author journey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saracauseyauthor.
Have you ever been let down by someone who promised big but failed to follow through? In this episode, we’re diving into the psychology of flakiness—why people overpromise and underdeliver, and how it affects relationships, trust, and your own energy. We’ll explore whether it’s insecurity, avoidance, or something deeper. Plus, I’ll share my personal experiences with overpromisers, how I’ve learned to let go of false promises, and why surrounding yourself with sincere, “yes” energy people is a game-changer. Tune in for an honest, relatable discussion about recognizing flaky behavior, setting boundaries, and reclaiming your peace of mind.
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Decoding the Unicorn is live on Amazon! Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCS5PZT
For updates, please visit: https://decodingtheunicorn.com/.
You can also follow my author journey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saracauseyauthor.
2024 is gone. We're leaving that energy in the dust. It's time to level up, to be seen, to make a splash.
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/12/02/from-isolation-to-belonging-finding-your-tribe/
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Decoding the Unicorn will go live on Amazon on January 7th!
I am the author of the forthcoming book, Decoding the Unicorn: A New Look at Dag Hammarskjöld, where I explore Dag's leadership style and his personal journey in greater depth. For updates, please visit: https://decodingtheunicorn.com/.
You can also follow my author journey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saracauseyauthor.
...it's just probably not gonna happen through the "new year, new me" stuff.
Every late December / early January, millions of people set New Year's resolutions, only to watch them fizzle out by February. But what if there’s a better way? In this episode, I dive into why resolutions so often fail and how to create meaningful, lasting change instead.
Let's examine:
- The common pitfalls that sabotage resolutions.
- Proven strategies for making change stick.
- Why focusing on who you want to become matters more than the goals you set.
Whether you’re looking to improve your health, grow in your career, or cultivate deeper relationships, this episode is packed with insights to help you transform intentions into sustainable habits.
Join me as we move beyond fleeting promises and step into real transformation—because you deserve more than just another resolution.
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
I am the author of the forthcoming book, Decoding the Unicorn: A New Look at Dag Hammarskjöld, where I explore Dag's leadership style and his personal journey in greater depth. For updates, please visit: https://decodingtheunicorn.com/.
You can also follow my author journey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saracauseyauthor.
In this episode, I will explore the unexpected realities of freelancing. Many of us leave the 8-to-5 grind searching for freedom—our own schedules, creative control, and the dream of being our own boss. But what happens when freelancing turns into another exhausting hustle? In this episode, I share my journey of leaving corporate life only to find myself caught in a different kind of trap. We'll discuss how to break free from the relentless hustle and redefine what true freedom looks like—so that your work can be meaningful, joyful, and sustainable. Tune in and discover how to turn freelancing into a lifestyle that works for you, not the other way around.
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
I am the author of the forthcoming book, Decoding the Unicorn: A New Look at Dag Hammarskjöld, where I explore Dag's leadership style and his personal journey in greater depth. For updates, please visit: https://decodingtheunicorn.com/.
You can also follow my author journey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saracauseyauthor.
In a world that often settles for "good enough," what does it mean to go the extra mile? This episode dives into why being "extra" is not just a personality trait but a valuable approach in business. I'll explore how adding value beyond the bare minimum can set you apart, especially when others are raising their prices without raising the quality of their service.
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
I am the author of the forthcoming book, Decoding the Unicorn: A New Look at Dag Hammarskjöld, where I explore Dag's leadership style and his personal journey in greater depth. For updates, please go here: https://sara-causey.kit.com/2d8b7742dd.
You can also follow my author journey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saracauseyauthor.
People want to project their stuff onto you. Perhaps not for long, but it can derail your attempts to find freedom if you let it.
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/11/04/welcome-to-opinion-city/
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
I decided I just didn't wanna! And it felt great. 🤗
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Concepts like freedom and independence are abstract. Bob Proctor taught that if you want to make money, you can't simply say, "Well, I want a lotta money." You need to set an amount. Saying "a lot" or "plenty" is too vague. The same is true for freedom - financial freedom, workplace freedom, etc. What does it truly mean to you?
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Limiting beliefs and gloom-and-doom predictions are more powerful than we care to admit. However: YOU CAN bust through these roadblocks.
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Greg Behrendt has a program about refusing to take "stuff" from jerks. Right now it seems the job market is rife with weirdos, con artists, and general goofs. So what to do?
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
The market is crazy. We don't know what will happen in the coming months, so the onus is on you to be careful with prospective jobs or freelancing gigs. If it seems too good to be true or if you're getting sketchy info, BE CAREFUL.
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/08/28/more-intense/
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Are you in scurrying mouse mode, expecting everyone else or some guru to solve all of your problems? Or are you working for someone like that? "At 9am do this, at 2pm do this, at 4:55pm get on the phone with me and talk me off the ledge..." 😵💫
➡️ You don't have to allow someone else to disturb your peace.
➡️ If you think everyone else is responsible for solving YOUR problems, you're gonna have a bad time.
➡️ Be careful of energetic chokeholds. If you frame a situation as the last lifeboat off the Titanic, you're probably gonna sink.
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
I talk often about nightmare freelancing clients. Sadly, there are a lot of them. However, as the job market worsens, more people are turning to gigging out of necessity and some of them have no clue what they are doing. They're happy to take your money and ghost you, which is something you don't need. How can we avoid this?
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Companies and industries that are typically insulated from recessions are laying people off. It's scary out there and I don't see it getting better in the near term. Please do not wait for a crisis to prepare yourself.
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Have you ever been in a meeting where the loudest, shoutiest extroverts won the day? Or ever been told you'd "fit in" a lot better if you socialized more and gave up your time on the weekends to hang out with coworkers? Stinks, doesn't it? In a world so very full of noise and bragging and posturing, how much would change if we used a sense of quiet diplomacy?
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0307352153
https://themanhattanherald.com/finding-dag-hammarskjolds-quiet-in-noisy-political-times/
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/its-all-about-control-always
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/23/tim-gurner-speech-unemployment/
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Three meetings at once? Constant emails? Shuffling papers? Is this really what "knowledge work" has been reduced to?
Links:
https://medium.com/@amandaclaypool/are-knowledge-workers-producing-value-in-the-economy-err-not-really-53f53303ca47
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/07/02/this-is-not-a-copilot-i-want/
https://www.amazon.com/Markings-Dag-Hammarskjold/dp/0571060153
(Every introvert should own a copy of Markings, IMO.)
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
The economy is in the dumper. In spite of the MSM's efforts to gaslight us, we know things are bad. A Catch-22 emerges: clients have less money to spend yet it takes more money to live. Some folks are trying to overcome this by issuing a minimum charge. Is this a good idea? Or does it turn too many prospects off?
Links:
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/america-is-full-of-flakes
https://clairecoxtranslations.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/minimum-charges-should-you-shouldnt-you/
https://www.markupandprofit.com/articles/a-minimum-price/
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/business-services-charge-how-much-30158.html
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
I'm not sure how else to describe it, but that's what I'm seeing in real time in the job market: short, cheap bursts of hiring.
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/the-job-market-is-strong-but-competitivehow-to-land-a-role-right-now.html
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/i-dont-even-care-to-live-at-this-point
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/15110791
https://www.businessinsider.com/college-graduates-cant-find-jobs-earn-less-strong-labor-market-2024-6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7XddJ5OW_U
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/college-graduates-stepping-tougher-job-170701571.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/applied-hundreds-jobs-struggling-get-hired-bridge-job-2024-6
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-doesn-t-want-181936555.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/14323130
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2289560/15096820
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Yeah, I bet they have cuz lil boi got rolled. Did he do this on his own or was he prompted to do this? For me, it's tone deaf and I have to wonder what the thought process was. I'm sure he had no negative intent, but good grief.
Had I been allowed to comment, I would have reminded everyone of the time when Phil Gramm told the US that we were in "a mental recession" and not a real recession back in 2008. 🤦🏻♀️
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7200937587908227073/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/06/05/thats-cause-no-one-can-afford-to-buy/
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202403/11/WS65ee5cfba31082fc043bbcd3.html
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-gdp-growth-head-fake-number-larry-kudlow-says-grain-salt
https://budget.house.gov/press-release/families-crushed-as-bidens-total-inflation-breaks-17
https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KcTY8W6MXo
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/ha-ha-the-numbers-were-lies
https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/i-dont-even-care-to-live-at-this-point
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/like-the-house-crony-capitalism-wins
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/04/04/when-the-pendulum-swings/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12513883
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12975283
https://consaracytheories.com/f/your-dollar-has-lost-99%25-of-its-value
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
➡️ Some areas are still without power post-tornado. Some of those folks have been told, "You need to call an electrician for yourself." 😐
➡️ I saw people even younger than me at the heart hospital. I think we have a pretty good idea what is going on here.
➡️ Pre-tornado, we were seeing a decline in properties. Houses where no one was putting forth any effort.
➡️ "A sign of labor marketing weakening." Uh, the job market is in the toilet, dude.
➡️ Civil unrest & November.
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/job-openings-report-april-2024-job-openings-fell-again.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13606864
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htVewx5YxgU
https://consaracytheories.com/f/of-course-theyre-not-concerned
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Subtitle: this is why you absolutely MUST be a prepper, IMO.
➡️ Could you make it through a grid down situation?
➡️ Even in small, homespun communities you can have crime and looters.
➡️ The authorities decide the priorities, not you.
➡️ When the stores re-open, you may be surprised at how little is there.
➡️ Are you prepared for mandatory curfews and members of law enforcement and the military ensuring you obey the edicts?
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13781130
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No, it isn't a joke. The Fed was pretty clear in 2022 that it intended to crash the job market. Were you listening?
Links:
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/the-targeting-of-smalls-mids
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-interest-rate-hikes-unemployment-increase-layoffs-inflation/
https://youtu.be/Ml2mKROvpUA
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/i-dont-even-care-to-live-at-this-point
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"I am God of my employees." -Aaron the Arrogant
Not only is the job market a hot dumpster fire (like the broader US economy) - the hiring process itself is as broken and absurd as it was pre-Great Resignation, if not more so.
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/04/04/when-the-pendulum-swings/
https://washington-mail.com/a-great-backlash/
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I often talk about bad freelancing clients (and how we can hopefully avoid them). However, this is a two-way street. With the job market being as it is, there's so much bad behavior and chicanery on BOTH sides of the equation. This does not have to be you!
🔮 Prediction alert: the freelancing market is only going to get more crowded as we continue with layoffs, company closures, inflation, etc.
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/14323130
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Job hunting right now stinks. I get it. For that matter, responding to RFPs and placing bids as a freelancer is no walk in the park either. If you are speaking to a prospective client or a potential employer and the interview process is: weird, rude, disorganized, combative, protracted, overwhelming, etc., can you expect this behavior to improve if you accept the job or the project?
In my experience over the years: no!
Links:
https://hbr.org/2022/06/10-red-flags-to-watch-out-for-in-a-job-interview
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Experts say . . . Economists say . . . The nightly news says . . . Professors say . . .
😵💫😵💫😵💫
You can buy anyone. Whatever the narrative the corporate overlords want to push, they will push.
Links:
https://consaracytheories.com/f/you-can-buy-anyone
https://survivingtomorrow.org/jp-morgan-bribed-profs-to-endorse-a-private-central-bank-and-americans-have-been-debt-slaves-since-907499db88cc
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/economists-say-%F0%9F%98%92
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/14478588
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FsbJiL0bxc
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Crossover Episode for both The Causey Consulting Podcast and con-sara-cy theories.
"I'm the one who taught the Pentagon how to use economic weapons." 😐
➡️ Does America believe it's an empire?
➡️ Is there any way out of the debt we're in?
➡️ "the myth of dollar permanence"
➡️ "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways: gradually, then suddenly."
➡️ Massive food inflation = riots.
➡️ "We used to be a manufacturing nation."
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3sgPs66-OA
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLynetteZang
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2289560/14229543
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12468460
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/world-july-dec11-food_09-07
https://consaracytheories.com/f/turkish-inflation-the-praise-of-paul-volcker
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/05/15/the-common-sense-of-carl-fox/
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In May of 2023, I published a podcast episode to warn that I felt we were moving out of the Opening Act into Act 1 of this economic nightmare. I believe the November election will usher in Act 2. What exactly will this look like? I dunno. Quite frankly the information I'm hearing is not good.
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12885167
https://consaracytheories.com/f/of-course-theyre-not-concerned
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/like-the-house-crony-capitalism-wins
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Once you've done all that you can, what's the point in panicking or getting super pessimistic? Anything we accomplish starts with a thought. If we get into a negative thought loop and we expect disaster all the time, guess what? That's what we'll get.
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/22/chrysler-parent-stellantis-laying-off-400-salaried-us-workers.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/03/27/unprecedented-uncertainties/
https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Afford-Luxury-Negative-Thought/dp/0931580242
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"40-year-old homeowner says economy doesn't add up: 'I'm making the most money I've ever made, and I'm still living paycheck to paycheck'"
-https://fortune.com/2024/03/15/why-economy-bad-making-most-money-ever-living-by-paycheck/
IT DOES ADD UP. IT ADDS UP FOR THE FAT CATS IN THE CRONY CAPITALIST SYSTEM WHO PROFITEER MERCILESSLY OFF OF EVERYONE ELSE!
If this is new news to you, who have you been listening to?!?!
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/03/24/actually-it-makes-perfect-sense/
https://fortune.com/2024/03/15/why-economy-bad-making-most-money-ever-living-by-paycheck/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12752459
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/economists-say-%F0%9F%98%92
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly-twice-much-wealth-rest-world-put-together-over-past-two-years
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/03/12/there-will-be-bank-failures/
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With layoffs and a less than stellar economy, prospective employers expect candidates to go through longer and more frustrating hiring processes. Likewise, some clients will expect freelancers to jump through hoops to gain a project. So what to do? Should you go along with this? If so, how far?
Links:
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/
https://washington-mail.com/a-great-backlash/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/07/02/death-by-interviews/
https://www.makeuseof.com/signs-to-drop-freelance-client/
https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/8ayhbu/jumping_through_hoops_to_get_paid/
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When you work 1099, providing a notice on either side is typically not necessary. However, let's be honest: it stinks when someone abruptly cancels a contract and leaves you high and dry. So what to do with flaky, disappearing act clients?
Links:
https://timdenning.com/freelancing-is-dead-simple-dont-take-on-shtty-clients/
https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-recognize-and-avoid-bad-clients-4eb86d2a0ba
https://www.awai.com/2017/01/the-taac-rule-for-dealing-with-flaky-clients/
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Crossover Episode for both The Causey Consulting Podcast and con-sara-cy theories.
I recently watched the documentary Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve. Depressing? Yes. Surprising? Not really. We hear all sorts of outrageous claims from the fat cats who claim they want to protect us.
Links:
https://tubitv.com/movies/506544/money-for-nothing-inside-the-federal-reserve
https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve/dp/091298645X
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/02/24/gordon-gekko-tried-to-tell-you/
https://consaracytheories.com/f/when-all-else-fails-they-take-you-to-war
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Y.O.Y.O. - aka: you're on your own
If you still have your head in the clouds that there will be some miracle, some Hail Mary Pass that will save the economy - or maybe some amazing, honest, decent politician will be elected in November and that person will save the day: you better get real clear, real fast that Y.O.Y.O.
Links:
https://consaracytheories.com/f/yoyo
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11131724
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13781130
https://consaracytheories.com/f/as-tensions-rise
https://consaracytheories.com/f/well-that-didnt-take-long
https://consaracytheories.com/blog/f/disease-x
https://consaracytheories.com/blog/f/humanoid-mice-cvd
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Or do you want a "yes man" to tell you that everything you do is perfect? If you're not improving, you're sliding backwards, especially in this economy.
Links:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/08/make-money-in-business.asp
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"They took our jobs!" -South Park
According to the IMF, 40 to 60% of jobs could disappear globally due to the influx of AI. But hey - I'm sure that's nothing to worry about. sarcasm
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/01/16/ai-to-hit-almost-40-of-jobs-worldwide/
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2024/01/14/ai-will-transform-the-global-economy-lets-make-sure-it-benefits-humanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7km4EHgkQiw
https://consaracytheories.com/f/a-new-super-cycle
https://youtu.be/vz3HKkVrJE4
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Making the decision to sell or close a business is a big one. Likewise, if you've been freelancing professionally, it's a big decision to close the operation and go back to a full-time 8 to 5 job.
➡️ Is the whole business in shambles? Or are there particular aspects that can be changed in order to make things better?
➡️ Are you relying on freelancing websites and, by extension, nightmare clients?
➡️ We live in an age of constant screens and distractions. Take the time to get still and quiet and figure out what you really want.
Links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/kmm92c/freelance_websites_suck/
https://medium.com/swlh/freelancing-websites-to-avoid-like-the-plague-7db694ed7293
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Crossover Episode for both The Causey Consulting Podcast and con-sara-cy theories.
I recently read Why England Slept and it sounds like it could be a playbook for how the public is led into conflicts, changes, social engineering, etc.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_England_Slept
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/justin-trudeau-s-foolish-china-remarks-spark-anger-1.2421351
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There are plenty of articles about backstabbing coworkers, office gossips, and nightmare bosses. But what happens if we as business owners or professional freelancers onboard a client who turns out to be a backstabber or a giant gossip? What then?
My experience with "Billy" the Backstabber taught me some important lessons.
Links:
https://spp.co/blog/bad-clients/
https://mattolpinski.com/articles/avoiding-difficult-freelance-clients/
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What's your why? Why are you doing what you are doing? If you are thinking about starting a business - or you already have - why? Why did you choose that specific line of work? If you don't have the answers, you may not make it.
Links:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/archdevops/episodes/Sara-Causey---Embrace-the-Splat-eb9itk
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Some commentators and fat cats have admitted that inflation is permanent. So if you are counting on a magical politician to save the day and bring back 2018-2019 prices... you're probably not gonna make it.
Links:
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/do-you-feel-overpaid
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly-twice-much-wealth-rest-world-put-together-over-past-two-years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyu89gjMhec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYI9rnCGxpE
https://thebostoncourier.com/new-year-new-job-market/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/12/17/i-woke-up-and-it-was-no-longer-a-company/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12468460
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One common question I receive from coaching or advisory clients is: how do you know a business is doomed to fail?
Key topics:
✔️ Ownership sets the tone. If you are lazy yet you expect your employees to work hard, you are: a) a terrible boss and b) probably not gonna make it.
✔️ Does rejection crush your entire soul? Do you fly off the handle in a rage or burst into tears at the slightest rebuff?
✔️ Do you need the money or are you a spoiled housecat who won't even bother to catch a mouse?
✔️ If you don't believe in yourself and believe in what you're doing, no one else will either.
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I am in the process of launching a new podcast called con-sara-cy theories to serve as an after-hours spot to ask the questions and find the information we shouldn't. The Causey Consulting Podcast will remain a daytime broadcast to cover the economy, the job market, business issues, etc.
Enjoy your holiday time! ❄️
You'll be able to find the spin-off podcast here: https://consaracytheories.com/ or https://consaracytheories.buzzsprout.com/
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Or in this case: multiple wrongs do not make something right.
"Rethinking Camelot is a thorough analysis of John F. Kennedy's role in the U.S. invasion of Vietnam and a probing reflection on the elite political culture that allowed and encouraged the Cold War. In it, Chomsky dismisses effort to resurrect Camelot—an attractive American myth portraying JFK as a shining knight promising peace, fooled only by assassins bent on stopping this lone hero who would have unilaterally withdrawn from Vietnam had he lived. Chomsky argues that U.S. institutions and political culture, not individual presidents, are the key to understanding U.S. behavior during [the] Vietnam [War]."
-https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/629-rethinking-camelot
Let's assume Chomsky's analysis is correct and that he has no agenda of his own in writing this book. What justifies these intell!gence agencies operating with no oversight, no accountability, and no mercy? Even if we assume JFK was as much a warhawk as those before and after, which is possible, how does that absolve these agencies from their sins? Also, how does it change the litany of people who did not like Kennedy and benefited from his absence?
NOTE: After this episode, content like this will live on my new, upcoming podcast, the con-sara-cy theories.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Crossfire-Plot-That-Killed-Kennedy/dp/0465031803
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13979216
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jamiekirchick/seymour-hersh-assassination-of-jfk-was-form-of-l-55m2
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/30/reviews/971130.30powerst.html?module=inline
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/galbraith-exit-strategy-vietnam/
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/chomsky-galbraith-letters-vietnam-jfk-kennedy/
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This was one of the craziest documentaries I've ever seen. It's simultaneously a murder mystery, investigative journalist effort, purveyor of insane theories (and possibly truths), and dark comedy all at once.
➡️ "This could either be the world's biggest murder mystery or the world's most idiotic conspiracy theory. If the latter is the case, I am very sorry."
➡️ "Conspiracy theory for senior citizens" 😆
Why does this still matter? For one thing, do you think these huge corporate interests and governments that seek to dominate and exploit others are a thing of the past? GET. REAL.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=nSW6CMndAeI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/15/750812549/an-unreliable-narrator-a-trail-colder-than-pickled-herring-cold-case-hammarskj-l
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Mini%C3%A8re_du_Haut-Katanga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(South_Africa)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/20/south-africa-weird-sinister-apartheid-mercenary-saimr-keith-maxwell
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/south-africa-apartheid-aids-saimr-plot-infect-hiv-virus-black-cold-case-hammarskjold-documentary-a8749176.html
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"We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again / And by that destiny to perform an act / Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge."
-The Tempest
I recently read Ravi Somaiya's The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld. The implications are staggering, even all these years later.
Key topics:
✔️ "Draw your own conclusions."
✔️ "We did it" is really tantamount to, "Yeah, we did it. And what are you gonna do about it? Nothin'!"
✔️ "our motivation for Balkanising their country"
✔️ "he should drop the matter"
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Thread-Mystery-Surrounding-Hammarskj%C3%B6ld/dp/1455536547
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/22/deconstructed-jfk-files-cia/
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n07/letters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/14/if-trump-shot-someone-dead-fifth-avenue-many-supporters-would-call-his-murder-trial-biased/
The photo I mentioned: https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2015.90.9
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Subtitle: Did they exist in the first place?
Was there some utopia, some golden age where no one was exploited by Corpo America? 😒
Links:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzJkmw-OK3r/?igshid=ZWI2YzEzYmMxYg%3D%3D
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-coontz/the-way-we-never-were/9780465098835/?lens=basic-books
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Called-Work-Reason-Success/dp/159240281X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/20/meat-packing-plant-child-labor-fines/11304311002/
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- Persistent inflation is the fault of John & Jane Q. Public.
- The recession is back on again.
- A sea lion wants to know what "motive" the state and the cronies have for lying to us.
- Hit pieces are made, reputations are ruined, and then quiet revisions are made that no one hears about.
😵💫🤡😵💫🤡😵💫🤡
Links:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/inflation-prices-buying-habits/676191/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/11/21/everything-is-terrible/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/investing/jamie-dimon-recession-jpmorgan-economy/index.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/10/28/actually-yall-told-everyone-the-recession-was-cancelled/
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/ha-ha-the-numbers-were-lies
https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/job-numbers-have-been-revised-down-for-seven-straight-months/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8EfI4XoqxU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Clay_Shaw
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I think by "vibes" you mean "exploitation."
Key topics:
✔️ You're there as long as you lick the corporate boots and entice others to do the same. Encouraging the presence of a toxic environment to your peers doesn't make you a hero.
✔️ If your environment is so bad that you need to hire someone to play the role of clown or hypebeast, mightn't it not be a better idea to determine WHY the place is so bad?
✔️ The day will come where you need skills to pay the bills.
✔️ So much boils down to: are you gonna go along to get along or are you gonna be a problem, pal?
Links:
https://nypost.com/2023/11/18/lifestyle/gen-z-workers-say-they-should-be-hired-for-their-personality/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tiktok-personality hire_l_62bb3559e4b0187add18eec4
https://blog.ttisi.com/debunking-personality-hires-how-to-recruit-the-right-way
https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Buddha-Pilgrimage-Psychotherapy-Patients/dp/0553278320
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"While we are dreaming / This little island disappears / While you are looking the other way / They'll take your right to own your own ideas..."
"Inside Job" by Don Henley
And take away your right to own anything. Go live in an abandoned strip mall and be happy! 😖 During the throes of the Cold War, what westerner would have imagined хрущёвка style living coming to America?
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/04/03/i-mean-the-real-estates-already-there-and-everything/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/07/18/hey-remember-when-i-predicted-this/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxlCUbddTc4
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/biden-administration-encouraging-conversion-empty-office-space-affordable-104424145
https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/resources/repurposing-underutilized-strip-malls-create-multifamily-housing
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/27/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-action-to-create-more-affordable-housing-by-converting-commercial-properties-to-residential-use/
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/this-is-the-agenda-folks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnevka
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Today marks the 60 year anniversary of JFK's death. For me, this is not about lionizing any politician. It's about understanding just how powerful the powers that be truly are. If they would lie to you about something monumental, they would lie to you about the state of the economy and the job market, too. Wakey wakey, folks.
Links:
https://www.sho.com/titles/3507963/jfk-revisited-through-the-looking-glass
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/joseph-kennedy-american-fascist/
https://nypost.com/2016/10/23/sexy-accused-spy-had-a-fling-with-jfk-and-stole-hitlers-heart/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29702876/
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-14/the-job-market-slowdown-is-getting-hard-to-ignore
https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp91-00901r000500050029-0
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Crossover from today's blog post: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/11/19/what-golden-age/
Where is this golden age? Where was the party? Were middle class, working class, and working poor people all having some Great Gatsby soiree for the last three years? I don't f**king think so!
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/11/19/what-golden-age/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/10/remote-work-and-return-to-office-whats-next-for-workers-and-bosses.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/05/14/the-digital-panopticon/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/10/21/productivity-theater/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/05/19/if-you-like-wfh-lord-elon-thinks-youre-a-moral-reprobate/
https://slate.com/technology/2023/11/elon-musk-antisemitism-twitter-x-advertising.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/black-ibm.html?_r=1
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/its-all-about-control-always
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/23/tim-gurner-speech-unemployment/
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Have you heard commentators say that propaganda is necessary because the "other side" (whatever than even means) isn't guaranteed to win? To me, this either misunderstands or intentionally obfuscates an important purpose of propaganda.
Key topics:
✔️ You get hyped up and wild when you're supposed to. You sit down and watch the boob tube when you're supposed to. You ignore conflicts and problems when you're supposed to. The emotional reactions are carefully orchestrated.
✔️ If you lobotomize yourself, the fat cats and their cronies can do whatever they want without interference. Ray Bradbury explores this concept in his novel Fahrenheit 451.
✔️ IMO, one function of controlled oppo is to convince you that even if things are bad and it appears the hyper elites are plotting something nefarious, fear not - people are waking up. The power brokers are shaking in their boots! 😒 Riiiiiiiight.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-50th-Anniversary-Bradbury/dp/B004TLVDKW
https://www.mgientertainment.com/2015/06/entertainment-is-the-greatest-form-of-propaganda/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Mountain_Air_Force_Station
https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/surveillance-under-patriot-act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13918832
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One of the most dangerous statements you can make is: "Well, that would just neevvvverrrr happen to me." Similar to people telling you that it's impossible for 2008 to ever happen again. 😒
Key topics:
✔️ After all the FOMO & YOLO in the markets of 2020 & 2021, what did you think was gonna happen?
✔️ Could a number of realtors be replaced by technology and FSBO scenarios? Yes, probably so.
✔️ Knowing your market and being TRUTHFUL about your market = you staying in business and having loyal clients when others are folding. Lying, cheating, maneuvering, getting out during a bust cycle, etc. = going under.
✔️ In some respects, the death knell rang when the internet was released to the public. 🤷🏻♀️ Sorry, not sorry.
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11959824
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12016015
https://www.reuters.com/legal/missouri-jury-hits-nar-real-estate-companies-with-18-bln-damages-2023-10-31/
https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/modern-internet
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Who are you listening to and for what reason? If you have been caught in a layoff or a company closure and you thought finding another job would be "easy," WHO HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO?
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7127317632172589060/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/business/wework-bankruptcy.html
https://nypost.com/2023/11/06/business/citigroup-reportedly-mulling-deep-job-cuts/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/companies-say-demand-is-weakening-5535161/
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$40 billion in unrealized losses hitting the major big name banks. A deposit problem hit the big name banks as well. A small town Iowa bank has failed and been taken over by the FDIC.
Stay aware! This does not sound to me like the banking crisis has ended and all is well.
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/11/03/with-the-swiftness-of-a-lightning-strike/
https://riabiz.com/a/2023/10/30/with-the-swiftness-of-a-lightning-strike-charles-schwab-corp-fires-as-many-as-2000-employees-with-no-public-announcement-affecting-legacy-schwab-as-well-as-td-ameritrade-staffers
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/03/14/ideally-on-friday-night/
https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/nypd-called-to-silicon-valley-bank-branch-as-depositors-attempt-to-pull-cash-report/
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bofa-notifies-customers-temporary-industry-wide-deposit-delays-2023-11-03/
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/11/03/40000000000-in-unrealized-losses-hits-jpmorgan-chase-as-bank-of-america-wells-fargo-and-citigroup-face-exposure-to-us-treasuries-report/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/11/01/whats-ole-jamie-up-to/
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/11/04/fifth-bank-failure-of-2023-declared-iowa-bank-insolvent-due-to-significant-loan-losses/
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A favorite jibe at "conspiracy theories" - often used by neolibs, I find - is the idea that someone would talk, someone would squeal, someone would spill the beans. They just can't bear the idea that drinking their pro-state kool-aid might be a bad freakin' idea.
The thing is: yes, people talk. And those people are then either "discredited" as kooks or done away with. It's funny to me that we get the same narrative in 2023 that Clay Shaw offered to Penthouse in 1969. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12975283
https://tedbauer.medium.com/could-the-government-truly-cover-up-a-conspiracy-theory-for-years-cbb9c9bf96fe
https://www.jfk-online.com/penthouse.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_Boggs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Russell_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sherman_Cooper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._McCloy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lee_Rankin
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Wealthy people are making some big money moves. It's tempting to say, "Oh well, good for them. That doesn't affect me." Unfortunately, what they see on the horizon WILL impact you.
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13606864
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-20/economists-boost-us-growth-projections-reduce-recession-odds
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/us-jobless-claims-fall-to-198-000-lowest-level-since-january
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20231021270/us-budget-deficit-swells-to-17-trillion-in-fiscal-2023-as-revenue-tumbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9MEpwsN20&t=216s
https://apnews.com/article/jpmorgan-dimon-bank-stock-8bf2366793488eed0c0b5327a7ad19a3
https://unusualwhales.com/news/walton-family-sold-4-39-billion-worth-of-walmart-shares-during-2023s-first-half
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/economy/jamie-dimon-7-interest-rate/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/investing/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-7-percent-interest-rate-recession/index.html
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4022122-market-investors-arent-as-worried-about-the-state-of-the-world-as-they-should-be-paul-singer
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Filming in locker rooms and bathrooms? Getting mad if someone jogs by in a public park? Good grief, people. Unfortunately, what I call "scurrying mouse mode" can lead people to disreputable influencers, so-called gurus, and even cult leaders.
Key topics:
✔️ I've given my $ to people to did eff all to actually help me. Doing that was one of the things that torpedoed my first business.
✔️ We live in a world where dietitians can be paid to recommend sugar, sodas, cakes, candies, etc. I mean... wow.
✔️ The #treatyourself mentality can lead to all sorts of unwanted consequences from ill health to debt.
✔️Be thoughtful about who you're listening to and for what reason. Are you listening to the hot air & hopium crowd because it makes you feel good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSUCIggRwGc
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10689626
https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-top-news-elections-social-media-technology-4086949d878336f8ea6daa4dee725d94
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/10/08/influencers-can-also-leave-you-sick/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/13/dietitian-instagram-tiktok-paid-food-industry/
Alarm sound by: Sound Effect from Pixabay
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"While you were sleeping / They came and took it all away / The lanes and the meadows / The places where you used to play / It was an inside job / By the well-connected / Your little protest / Summarily rejected"
- "Inside Job" by Don Henley
Key topics:
✔️ While everyone is distracted with war, conflicts, possible wars, etc., what else is going on that we aren't paying attention to?
✔️ I've warned before that Corpo America wins. Like the house in Vegas, Corpo America wins. Whether they bring in scabs or AI, they'll always figure out a way to stack the deck in their favor and their Washington cronies help them.
✔️ More on UBI, jobs disappearing, etc., that Harari openly and plainly elucidated in 2016.
✔️IMF had its meeting 10/9 through 10/15. Do you think they're focused on fiscal responsibility? Or do you think they want to generate even more debt and continue firing up the currency printing press?
Links:
https://www.worklife.news/leadership/managing-a-workplace-in-flux-is-causing-chaos-for-hr-professionals/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13312020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1kwtdOzGAg
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/covid-19-universal-basic-income-social-inequality/
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/newsom-health-care-minimum-wage-00120492
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/microsoft-owned-linkedin-lays-off-nearly-700-read-the-memo-here.html
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/healthcare-in-2030-goodbye-hospital-hello-home-spital/
https://apnews.com/article/california-minimum-wage-increase-fast-food-newsom-69c26b7f07f2647149c37677446cea30
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/bro-just-pay-people-more-internet-disbelief-white-castle-chipotle-spending-500-000-month-robots
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/10/18/there-is-no-labor-shortage/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/14/key-takeaways-from-the-imf-world-bank-meetings.html
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Whether you freelance or you work a "stable" 9 to 5 job, I think everyone should have some degree of preparedness. Not zombie apocalypse or absolute worst case scenarios, but, as a starting point, could you float along with no assistance for 2 to 3 weeks?
Key topics:
✔️ When you freelance, you give up the illusion of three-hots-and-a-cot. If you want a day off, you have to pay for it on your own.
✔️ If the warhawks decide we're going to war, we're going to war.
✔️ Even in the absence of a hot war, could you make it through a natural disaster or a power outage?
✔️ "Amid growing global instability"
✔️ Yes, we've always had conflicts and uncertainty. This is true. Is that your excuse for not prepping?
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13445451
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10851581
https://nypost.com/2022/06/19/uk-army-chief-britain-must-prepare-to-fight-amid-ukraine-war/
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/raf-fairford-air-force-b-8822027
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Has the aftermath of The Great Resignation turned into a giant psyop? Are you being manipulated by "influencers" who are giving you bad advice on purpose?
Key topics:
✔️ Why would you want to hasten your own demise?
✔️ The show Rabbit Hole portrays a financial fixer who can engineer corporate espionage, market manipulation, blackmail photos, etc. Sounds like art imitating life, doesn't it?
✔️Misinformation/disinformation includes left and right wing propaganda. IMO, controlled opposition is easy to spot if that person or group is leading you into danger, giving you false hope, playing the martyr whilst making big $$, etc.
✔️ The cronies have not been shy in saying they want the job market to crash. They want high unemployment to get the serfs back in line. Unpopular and contrary opinion here: PLEASE STOP PLAYING INTO THEIR HANDS.
Links:
https://washington-mail.com/a-great-backlash/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/12/04/its-being-trapped-full-stop/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-gates-buys-bud-light-anheuser-busch-stocks/
https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-top-news-elections-social-media-technology-4086949d878336f8ea6daa4dee725d94
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/23/tim-gurner-speech-unemployment/
https://www.amazon.com/MindWar-Michael-Aquino-Ph-D/dp/1535199563
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OTT = over the top. And especially in the job market, behavior seems to be pretty OTT. 😒
Key topics:
✔️ I'll say it again: don't cut your own throat. The one who has to live with it is you.
✔️ Making random changes to your resume is not helpful. You want to be strategic rather than throwing darts with a blindfold on.
✔️Are you applying for roles you're qualified for or are you mass applying / rage applying for anything and then acting mad that no one is calling?
✔️ If someone calls you about a role you applied for, are you prepared? Or do you respond with, "Uh, I applied for everything and I don't even remember what this was. Can you, like, read the job description to me?" 😣
✔️ Instead of getting focused on a commission check, recruiters should be less willing to represent people who act like rude a-holes.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdtE4iQxKTQ
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/recruiters-say-these-4-red-flags-will-cost-you-a-job-offer.html
https://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/ask-the-readers-bad-behavior-from-job-candidates.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12975283
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Has The Great Backlash led to bad behavior on both sides, i.e., employers and job seekers behaving in crass ways towards each other? I say yes.
Key topics:
✔️ Don't cut your own throat. The one who has to live with it is you.
✔️ Transactional ≠ no one will remember a rude jerk. This is true for both hiring managers and job seekers.
✔️If you mistreat the person on the frontlines, upper management will hear about it. I guarantee it.
✔️ Job hunting is tough. Don't make it worse by ruining your chances through crummy behavior.
Links:
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/a-sad-reality-but-not-really-news
https://washington-mail.com/a-great-backlash/
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a) if so, what does that mean? b) what could someone actually do at this point?
Key topics:
✔️ "Go woke, go broke" 😂 And then Bill Gates buys $95 mil of cheap stock. One of these days y'all gonna figure out that the system is rigged for the cronies and the elites, not for you and me.
✔️ Just because we're not in an agrarian society with people living in a room with a dirt floor doesn't mean it's impossible to have an economic depression.
✔️I go back to my original thesis: Gordon Gekko tried to tell you.
Links:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-gates-buys-bud-light-anheuser-busch-stocks/
https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2020/02/11/the-silent-depression-trundling-is-the-new-booming/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/09/05/viral-tiktokers-claim-the-us-is-in-a-silent-depression-worse-than-the-great-depression/?sh=49c381a15fe7
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
https://news.yahoo.com/posts-claiming-us-economy-silent-202247784.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12468460
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We live in a predatory system. It's designed for the hyper elites and the cronies, not for us. This puts the onus on us even more to caveat emptor and use good critical thinking. Get out of the FOMO and the YOLO as well as the victim mentality.
Key topics:
✔️ "Marry the house, date the rate." 😣
✔️ The cronies get bailed out. You and I do not. There is no magical safety net coming for you unless you are a huge corporation or a Wall Street power broker.
✔️ If you are job hunting, how do you behave? Are you acting like a rude jerk in interviews and then saying it's everyone else's fault?
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11044511
https://themakingofamillionaire.com/they-traded-1-800-rent-for-a-4-150-mortgage-now-theyre-having-panic-attacks-c903c96a7970
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/young-couple-rushed-buy-730k-113000742.html
https://medium.com/p/1eae41476c27
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Do you have a job loss survival plan roughed out? Please keep in mind that the govt is quietly "revising" its job numbers and backing off on how supposedly "robust" the job market was and allegedly still is. So what's it gonna take?
The narrative is "oopsy daisy, who could have known? 🤪" Uh, well, anyone with common sense knows! I told you and warned you repeatedly that these numbers could not possibly have been true.
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/06/20/a-tragic-science/
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/ha-ha-the-numbers-were-lies
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/08/23/jobs-report-employment-down-306k/70658639007/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/job-growth-cools-in-august-5435681/
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There is a difference!
As I have said many, many times: by the time you hear something in the MSM, you've waited too late. IMO, it's too late to meaningfully prepare by that point. More people are cluing into the reality that petitions and strikes have not reversed RTO edicts. Well, that's fine and dandy but here's the deal: for me, there's no brownie points for observing the obvious. I'd rather know ahead of time what's coming down the road. Someone stepping outside and saying, "Hey, there's a tornado out here" is different from a meteorologist telling you, "Your area is under a tornado watch. You need to be prepared to take cover quickly over the next few hours." 🤷🏻♀️
Links:
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/ya-think
https://fortune.com/2023/08/14/great-reshuffle-is-over-welcome-big-stay-careers-linkedin-data-employment-job-market-linda-cai/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/goldman-renews-its-5-day-rto-push-5736436/
https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/employment-expert-explains-why-remote-work-wont-last
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As I've said before, IMO, if someone hasn't prepared already for an economic downturn, if they think The Great Resignation is still going on and will do so forever, they really believe 3.5% unemployment rate, there's nothing I can do. 🤷🏻♀️ I started the Saturday Broadcasts when I saw the storm clouds coming and I feel like I've done what I can do. If someone is not awake, good luck.
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNKgTrUdbg
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/13-8/18.
✔️ While y'all were losing yer minds over a country song and a movie, Fitch was talking about downgrading more banks, maybe even JPMorgan Chase. Does it ever seem like these neocon vs neolib stories are meant to be ridiculous distractions from real news?
✔️ Developers want to scoop up Hawaiian lands post wildfires. I can almost hear a sound in the background... "You vill own nozing und you vill be happy..."
✔️Maxed out credit cards, pay debt or buy food, etc. Does that sound like a resilient economy to you?
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/13/56-percent-of-student-loan-borrowers-will-have-to-choose-loans-or-necessities.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/young-adults-are-more-reliant-on-credit-cards-than-ever-before-172038233.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-are-still-ransacking-their-retirement-savings-134840735.html
https://survivingtomorrow.org/hyper-elites-are-desperate-for-a-recession-because-they-want-to-buy-your-assets-for-cheap-1e8800f836
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/apple-maps-looks-to-post-car-future-6389410/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/07/18/hey-remember-when-i-predicted-this/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/14/retail-earnings-preview-wmt-tgt-hd-to-report-q2-results.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/goldman-rate-relief-finally-coming-5731812/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/14/kraft-heinz-picks-new-ceo-carlos-abrams-rivera-to-replace-miguel-patricio.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/14/ubs-to-pay-1point4-billion-for-fraud-in-mortgage-backed-securities.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-plans-replace-nearly-8-174052360.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-broke-robert-kiyosaki-warns-155155342.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/regular-rich-are-feeling-poorer-5419505/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/15/fitch-warns-it-may-be-forced-to-downgrade-dozens-of-banks.html
https://tinyurl.com/yuhaypzh
https://tinyurl.com/2s4485n3
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-pre-pandemic-economy-may-never-come-back-morning-brief-100020697.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-resilient-us-consumer-could-complicate-the-feds-path-forward-093037908.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cracks-starting-show-kevin-oleary-161152429.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/us-economy-continues-to-surprise-6399234/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQIoWu19O5w
https://tinyurl.com/mrm6fdfz
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/another-challenge-for-homebuyers-more-investors-are-snapping-up-homes-and-40-of-them-are-using-cash-f979e772
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/investors-are-betting-its-1998-not-2007-morning-brief-123335648.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/savings-depletion-signals-slowdown-5413225/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fed-still-hawkish-on-inflation-5419529/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/us-plans-imported-food-can-tariffs-5743324/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-how-4-retail-ceos-are-feeling-about-back-to-school-shopping-181742759.html
https://tinyurl.com/2xvcusd5
https://tinyurl.com/2s3wtj8p
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-sachs-no-longer-expects-us-home-prices-to-decline-in-2023-122047056.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hotels-tours-feel-us-travel-slump-5739900/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/death-entire-financial-monetary-social-180841464.html
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/7-8/11.
✔️ 401k hardship withdrawals. Record debt. But hey: people'r'doin' great! 😵💫
✔️ Zoom called people back, LOL. If that doesn't say something to ya, I don't know what will.
✔️ Is inflation abating? Is it time to go back to QE and easy money? Really? 😵💫😵💫😵💫
Links:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/scotland-snp-labour-scottish-labour-bank-of-england-b2388598.html
https://fortune.com/2023/08/05/black-swan-hedge-fund-mark-spitznagel-interview-taleb-credit-bubble/
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4138653-trump-claims-he-only-needs-one-more-indictment-to-win-2024-election/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/04/astra-lays-off-25-of-workforce-reallocates-engineers-in-an-effort-to-fight-dwindling-cash-reserves/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/whos-listening-when-you-type-5725516/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/managing-student-loan-payments-as-credit-card-debt-tops-1-trillion.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/economy/401k-hardship-withdrawals/index.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/moodys-downgrades-10-us-banks-032059270.html
https://www.aier.org/article/the-fed-hits-3000-percent-inflation/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/cpi-inflation-report-for-july-high-prices-are-still-a-problem.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cpi-preview-inflation-expected-to-have-ticked-slightly-higher-last-month-185526103.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gas-prices-are-higher-again-hitting-consumers-very-directly-and-very-profoundly-142018507.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-mortgage-rates-spike-highest-152158993.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wework-stock-plunges-after-company-raises-substantial-doubt-about-its-future-163844077.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/remote-work-over-zoom-ordered-employees-back-to-office
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/china-falls-into-deflation-5728220/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/july-inflation-data-shows-convincing-signs-price-pressures-easing-taking-heat-off-fed-155410903.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inflation-consumer-prices-rise-32-in-july-as-inflation-slowdown-stalls-123122066.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/are-high-prices-here-to-stay-6384602/
https://www.axios.com/2023/08/04/biden-end-remote-work-federal-employees
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/80percent-of-bosses-say-they-regret-earlier-return-to-office-plans.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/30/job-interviews-are-getting-longer-heres-why-it-could-be-a-red-flag-.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFyECzKnVKE
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/why-americans-are-struggling-with-car-loans.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/08/08/slow-time-to-hire-which-any-job-seeker-could-tell-you/
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/the-dream-is-fading-fast
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 7/31-8/4.
✔️3.5% unemployment rate. No recession coming. Now, defaults are on the rise and credit card debt is the highest it's ever been, but people'r'doin' great! 😵💫
✔️ Maybe if we use adjectives like soft, smooth, resilient, and robust often enough, you'll believe it.
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/feds-kashkari-sees-smooth-landing-5384505/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12468460
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/banking-turmoil-arrives-in-small-town-usa-with-heartland-tri-state-failure-191454443.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/08/01/stupid-butt-things/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13312020
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/01/job-market-is-cooling-says-economist-but-pockets-of-heat-remain.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/01/jolts-june-2023-job-openings-layoffs-both-declined-in-a-positive-sign-for-the-labor-market.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/job-openings-slip-to-2-year-low-5713644/
https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/personal-finance/articles/billionaire-ceo-says-remote-workers-just-need-a-nice-little-recession-to-return-to-the-office/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fitch-ratings.asp?hid=b73b603d72bcd3f47ade8267397398f51e717cde&did=9855109-20230802&utm_campaign=term-of-the-day_newsletter&utm_source=investopedia&utm_medium=email&utm_content=080223
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/02/the-fitch-analyst-behind-the-us-downgrade-breaks-down-the-decision.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mohamed-el-erian-on-fitchs-us-debt-downgrade-why-now-180659135.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/cvs-earnings-up-amid-layoff-news-5715636/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retirement-low-wage-older-workers-no-savings/
https://medium.com/surviving-tomorrow/hyper-elites-are-desperate-for-a-recession-because-they-want-to-buy-your-assets-for-cheap-1e8800f836
https://fortune.com/2023/08/03/michael-bloomberg-billionaire-return-to-office-federal-agencies/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/bosses-confront-flex-work-realities-5386649/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jobs-report-us-labor-market-growth-set-to-slow-further-in-july-163440335.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/did-bad-vibes-ward-off-a-recession-5377569/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/04/google-offers-on-campus-hotel-special-to-lure-workers-back-in.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/04/heres-where-the-jobs-are-for-july-2023-in-one-chart.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/04/jpmorgan-backs-off-recession-call-even-with-very-elevated-risks.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-owe-a-record-1-trillion-in-credit-card-debt-205759223.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inflation-is-still-walloping-wallets-just-ask-americas-diner-dennys-181216576.html
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Recently, I watched Deutsche Welle's documentary, "Poverty in Britain - Why are millions of Brits so broke?" which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK68yyrKUOA&t=2s.
In this film, the UK's Universal Credit program is discussed and I couldn't help but wonder: is this a glimpse into life with a UBI?
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK68yyrKUOA&t=2s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Credit
https://www.vice.com/en/article/zn7gaj/ashton-under-lyne-jobcentre-protests-universal-credit
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 7/24-7/28.
✔️Middle-income Americans are stressed about inflation but somehow, Barbenheimer had a blow out box office weekend. WTF, people.
✔️Things are wonderful and people are doin' great yet: further cost cutting measures and layoffs and protracted job searches. Seems like one of those narratives is false.
✔️GDP goin' up. No recession coming, not even one that rises from the mist like Brigadoon. ALL IS WELL. 😵💫
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/barbenheimer-rules-the-box-office-6365026/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-worried-middle-income-americans-are-about-inflation-7c178f33
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/office-occupancy-creeping-back-up-other-happenings-world-borden/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/25/general-motors-gm-earnings-q2-2023.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmorgan-some-reasons-to-be-bearish-on-the-red-hot-stock-market-120053446.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/deep-recession-force-full-percentage-140024511.html
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7089249233882472448/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/banks-told-to-revise-deposit-data-5363569/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/austins-rto-rates-are-falling-5364241/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjKXsHOduo&t=1109s
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-2023-dreadful-surge-in-bankruptcy-filings-44b41f523837
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/gdp-growth-speeds-up-to-24-5365721/
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/housing-recession-market-nar-pending-home-sales-economist-mortgage-rates-2023-7
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/07/26/what-will-be-the-impact-of-indias-rice-export-ban
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-next-dilemma-union-jobs-or-pricier-diced-tomatoes-53be693e
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/28/pce-inflation-june-2023-.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-interest-earn-1-million-150000229.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/how-a-rolling-recession-or-a-richcession-could-spare-the-rest-of-the-economy-from-a-downturn
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 7/17-7/21.
✔️Digital currency is comin' whether you're ready or not.
✔️No recession to see here, people. Move along, move along.
✔️$7000 mortgages and AI taking jobs. What a time of sunshine and roses. 😎🌹
Links:
https://fortune.com/2023/07/17/i-dont-expect-recession-janet-yellen-economy-good-path-inflation/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-janet-yellen-wrong-treasury-secretary/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/conagra-ceo-notes-hunkering-down-behavior-grocery-shoppers
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/employers-renew-push-for-rto-5349545/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/boston-tests-office-conversion-plan-6352202/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/heres-how-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-may-impact-your-taxes.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/households-struggle-to-borrow-6361402/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/big-banks-upbeat-on-us-economy-6357242/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUDXfWBDtFY
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/forced-retire-60-firefighters-finances-040129459.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/lost-job-chatgpt-made-me-obsolete-copywriter-2023-7
https://fortune.com/2023/07/19/remote-work-commercial-real-estate-distress-24-billion-second-quarter/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-launches-new-payments-system-that-lets-you-send-money-in-seconds-140305052.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-olfLz6AgE&t=1127s
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/loan-officer-m-seeing-middle-000641114.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-seth-klarman-says-everything-140349429.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/20/june-home-sales-drop-to-the-slowest-pace-in-14-years.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/some-bosses-oppose-return-to-office-6355858/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/blackstone-hits-1t-milestone-6362170/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/something-very-strange-explains-why-224230549.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/recession-coming-its-a-toss-up-6362866/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fed-launches-instant-payments-5701348/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/home-sales-slow-even-as-prices-fall-6355874/
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 7/10-7/14.
✔️The big banks made money off of debt and interest rate hikes? Wowee, what a surprise. 😒
✔️Inflation is still going up but supposedly it's going up less high, so, like, people'r'doin' great.
✔️The cracks in the job market are becoming too big for the MSM to ignore completely. So if you're still burying your head in the sand, IMO, you are way behind the eight ball on this.
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/10/american-banks-face-more-pain-huge-shift.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-earnings-recession-is-here-and-its-about-to-get-even-worse-174057805.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12760014
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/01/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-first-republic.html
https://fortune.com/2023/05/01/jamie-dimon-first-republic-banking-crisis-over/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/07/10/yes/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/are-employers-regaining-control-5680020/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bofa-to-pay-250-million-for-double-dipping-and-fake-accounts-161721705.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/harvard-study-why-a-record-number-of-americans-are-struggling-to-pay-rent-151135917.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/rural-businesses-face-financial-woes-5689204/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fed-eyes-midsize-bank-reserve-rules-6343138/
https://survivingtomorrow.org/summers-here-for-the-sake-of-human-kindness-please-don-t-use-airbnb-793cb10870a2
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-june-in-one-chart.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/more-employers-are-cutting-hours-6348794/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/shopify-puts-price-tags-on-meetings-6344554/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7085001205780819968/
https://fairmontpost.com/should-job-hoppers-leap-one-more-time/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yolo-spenders-propping-economy-says-111451321.html
https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-monetize-any-hobby-skill-or-passion-128c7a806b58
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jobless-claims-show-market-strength-5357241/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/wfh-crushing-office-building-prices-5351937/
https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-illness
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/14/biden-forgives-39-billion-in-student-debt-for-some-800000-borrowers.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ai-big-stay-biggest-work-trends-5346033/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/gig-workers-pay-hike-skids-to-halt-6346106/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/rate-hikes-boost-big-banks-5347457/
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As I've said many, many times: IMO, if you wait to be "officially" told, you're waiting too late. The cracks in the foundation that have been obvious to some of us are only just now being reported on in MSM sources.
Links
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/07/10/yes/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hidden-recession-red-flag-hidden-100000573.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gen-zer-sparked-quiet-quitting-160844170.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10776383
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 7/3-7/7.
✔️Somehow, some way, the job market is still doin' great and wages are goin' up. 😆
✔️Early retirees are not all wealthy and retiring to live on a yacht? Really? Who'da thunk it. (Anyone with common sense.)
✔️Global power grabs and more "surprises" to come.
Links:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jobs-report-and-july-4th-what-to-know-this-week-133121420.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/inflation-wont-dampen-july-4-5682676/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/05/heres-how-much-the-10-highest-paid-us-ceos-earn.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/its-not-just-tech-other-stocks-are-hitting-52-week-highs-155801819.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-virus-could-still-surprise-us-former-white-house-covid-czar-jha-190258670.html
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/04/the-u-n-is-planning-to-seize-global-emergency-powers-with-bidens-support/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/adp-jobs-report-private-sector-added-497000-workers-in-june.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/job-openings-fall-by-half-a-million.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-job-market-shows-fresh-132112192.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/07/heres-where-the-jobs-are-for-june-2023-in-one-chart.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/07/jobs-report-june-2023-.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/june-jobs-report-july-7-2023-123312752.html
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/continued-job-market-hopium
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/workers-are-still-raiding-their-retirement-savings-at-record-rates-210945047.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/07/older-uk-workers-retired-early-pandemic-forced-into-poverty-ifs
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How can we keep a positive attitude and an expectation of good news in the midst of an economic downturn? Where's the balance between Pollyanna Sunshine versus Chicken Little?
Links:
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/07/02/death-by-interviews/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/4639328
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Erroneous-Zones-Step-Step/dp/0060919760
https://www.amazon.com/Feel-Fear-Do-Anyway/dp/0345487427
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 6/26-6/30.
✔️The recession has been cancelled. We are now in a bull market. So go back to sleep, little baby. All is well. 😒
✔️Job cuts, corporate defaults, food costs still going up - but hey! Looky at that stock market, y'all.
✔️More flashbacks to The Great Recession.
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/24/high-interest-rates-economic-uncertainty-boost-corporate-defaults.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/federal-reserves-message-to-the-bullish-stock-market-we-will-break-you-130024015.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/fed-reserve-catastrophe-markets-finance-economists-business-money-housing-mortgage-2023-6
https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/amendment-introduced-to-limit-remote-working-in-ohio/
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-cut-jobs-us-canada-2023-06-27/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/28/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-us-economy-is-a-lot-stronger-than-wall-street-thought-164449700.html
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/29/wfh_rto_survey/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/30/most-investors-believe-we-are-in-a-new-bull-market-and-there-will-be-no-recession-in-2023.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inflation-gauge-tracked-federal-falls-123837598.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/just-miss-few-payments-screw-172747688.html
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I recently read Arlie Russell Hochschild's book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. Hochschild was one of the commentators in the Essential documentary and I was curious about her book. One of the things she discusses is the idea of someone jumping the line - while people are waiting on the American Dream that gets more distant, they look for someone to blame.
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12990192
https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning-ebook/dp/B074CMNKDQ
https://www.amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corporation-Expanded-ebook/dp/B00AGIDA8A
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 6/19-6/23.
✔️If you live in an area prone to natural disasters, do you have an emergency preparedness plan in place?
✔️"IMF working on global central bank digital currency platform" BuT thAt'S a CoNSpirAcY ThEorY! 😒
✔️Jobless claims at a high but job market still doin' great. Just a churnin' and burnin'. Right. OK. Sure.
Links:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/imf-working-global-central-bank-124500521.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/san-franciscos-downtown-struggles-6337402/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/svbs-overseas-clients-on-hook-5329121/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/nikola-lays-off-270-employees-6336010/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-americans-getting-auto-loans-120000916.html
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jun/20/mortgage-ticking-timebomb-i-warned-of-has-exploded-says-martin-lewis
https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/foreclosures/attom-may-2023-u-s-foreclosure-market-report/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/20/heres-how-to-tell-your-company-has-layoffs-planned.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/recession-likely-necessary-jpmorgan-just-182811331.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jobless-claims-at-20-month-high-5339601/
https://fortune.com/2023/06/22/record-number-ceo-exits-may-research/
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/2019-had-the-most-ceo-departures-on-record-with-more-than-1600.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fun-flation-to-cause-hangover-5338969/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mortgage-crisis-wipe-savings-1-175129923.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/disturbing-trend-real-estate-investors-130711393.html
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By the time you write an email like the one that recently appeared on Slate.com, it's too late.
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/05/24/a-cautionary-tale/
https://slate.com/business/2023/06/remote-work-layoff-personal-finance-advice.html
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52 weeks' worth of Saturday Broadcasts and we are STILL getting breadcrumbed about a recession that hasn't "officially" started yet. Good grief.
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 6/12-6/16.
✔️I'm not sure what kind of pro-state kool-aid these neolibs are drinking these days, but wow. Just wow.
✔️More anti-remote work hit pieces / pro RTO fluff pieces.
✔️How are you planning to deal with people in your life who didn't prepare for this economic downturn?
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/10/quiet-luxury-may-be-americans-most-expensive-trend-to-date.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/multimillionaire-swedish-pop-star-ripped-111616884.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paul-graham-says-remote-does-225728000.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/13/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-may-2023-in-one-chart.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inflation-report-points-to-fed-pause-at-june-meeting-economists-say-the-fed-is-getting-what-it-wants-171059338.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/homes/affordable-homes-nar/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/15/you-do-have-a-bit-of-a-bubble-developing-with-ai-expert-says-.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-economy-shows-more-signs-of-strength-than-weakness-in-latest-data-deluge-160030799.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bosses-fed-remote-4-main-193500794.html
https://nypost.com/2023/06/15/atts-return-to-office-mandate-forces-9000-to-relocate-or-resign/
https://medium.com/@tedbauer/could-the-government-truly-cover-up-a-conspiracy-theory-for-years-cbb9c9bf96fe
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/16/retailers-start-preparing-for-a-deeply-discounted-down-holiday-season.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-factory-boom-is-finally-happening-190048801.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/charlie-munger-said-healthcare-providers-190014911.html
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I recently watched "Essential -- A Documentary about America's Working Class and the Challenge of Income Inequality," which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1eZd2hjxVs. The film explores unions, income inequality, the declaration of "non-essential" during the pandemic, etc.
Key topics:
✔️At 8:54 we learn that the American economy has transitioned from 70-80% production work to 70-80% service work.
✔️Low wage jobs = survival public benefits. But hey, as long as the corporations can make out like bandits, what else matters? 😒
✔️The juxtaposition between the middle class life of yesteryear with the gold watch and the pension versus working poverty and no pension.
✔️Neocon narrative: "everyone is lazy and wants stimmy checks." Neolib narrative: "the government will figure this out and save us." IMO, both are incorrect.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1eZd2hjxVs
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-pandemic-created-a-perceived-new-class-division-the-laptop-class-vs-everyone-else/
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 6/5-6/9.
✔️This recession is like Brigadoon - it will one day simply rise from the mist as if from a mystical land. 😆
✔️It's easy to say, "I'll quit and go elsewhere" when you're employed. But if you get out on this job market with no prospects, you may find out you've bitten off more than you can chew.
✔️The cronies scratch each other's backs and take care of each other, not us.
Links:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-earnings-recession-is-coming-and-stocks-arent-ready-for-it-morgan-stanley-170622490.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-trader-made-7-041821572.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-ackman-wants-jamie-dimon-173000287.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/more-doctors-embrace-gig-work-5655532/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dave-ramsey-faces-150m-suit-190820460.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/farmers-group-ceo-faces-workers-fury-after-reversing-remote-work-policy
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/06/07/you-believed-a-lie/
https://washington-mail.com/a-great-backlash/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/remote-work-reversal-sparks-anger-5306217/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-investor-stanley-druckenmiller-warns-200255702.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/google-doubles-down-on-rto-5314433/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/la-times-cuts-13-of-newsroom-6324122/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/lululemon-takes-heat-for-firings-5313793/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/09/what-the-federal-reserves-expected-interest-rate-pause-means-for-you.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/09/irs-cracks-down-on-small-business-tax-break-that-could-lead-to-audit.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-economists-are-increasingly-less-worried-about-a-2023-recession-093041009.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stocks-waver-after-sp-500-enters-bull-market-stock-market-news-today-133419898.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jobless-claims-up-most-since-21-5306257/
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"I'm breakin' rocks in the hot sun / I fought the law and the law won..."
- "I Fought The Law"
Over the weekend, I watched Oliver Stone's JFK. I'll probably always have nightmares about the physical appearances of Joe Pesci and Tommy Lee Jones, but it certainly drives home an important point: you're not gonna beat the system. You can LARP and play games if you want to, but when it all boils down, you're not gonna beat the system.
Links:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/05/24/a-cautionary-tale/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_(film)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/12/fbi-satan-mobplot-kill-ted-kennedy-097180
https://vault.fbi.gov/anton-lavey-part-01-of-01/anton-lavey-part-01-of-01
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11110
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/battle-of-wills-over-rto-5301905/
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/everyone-wrong-future-remote-141709381.html
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 5/22 - 5/26.
✔️Lord Elon's brain chip has been approved by the FDA. What a surprise! 😒
✔️"Entering a brutal era for housing." Yeah and a brutal era for the job market, too. That's what happens with bubbles - they pop.
✔️If it boils down to the needs of John & Jane Q. Public or the wants of Corpo America, Corpo America is gonna win.
Links:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-americans-are-feeling-lousy-about-their-finances-fed-study-finds-143121337.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatgpt-hiring-ghost-interviews-job-search-weird-labor-market-2023-5
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/itll-cost-us-system-know-192430167.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/were-entering-brutal-era-housing-180200646.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/neuralink-cleared-for-human-trials-5649044/
Housekeeping note: the podcast will be on hiatus next week. New episodes will resume the week of June 5th. Please have a safe Memorial Day weekend.
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I've been reporting that I think we've moved from the Opening Prologue of this mess into Act 1. These "early" warnings about a recession causing millions of jobs to vanish and how white collar workers will be hit the hardest may be the only warnings you get from MSM sources.
By the time we reach Act 2, it may be too late to adequately prepare. Do you have an RTO Survival Plan? Do you have a Job Loss Survival Plan? If not, what are you waiting for?
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/recession-may-put-1m-jobs-at-risk-5297681/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-19/even-a-mild-us-recession-comes-with-steep-price-in-lost-jobs
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/white-collar-jobs-now-more-elusive-6309418/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-interest-rate-hikes-unemployment-increase-layoffs-inflation/
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 5/15 - 5/19.
✔️The amount of conflicting news we get is just absurd.
✔️If you like WFH, Lord Elon thinks you're a moral reprobate.
✔️Recession forecasts are hazy? WTH? Is this a recession forecast for Mars or what?
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/entering-the-era-of-the-big-stay-6294042/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/the-rto-debate-is-far-from-over-6300330/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/vice-media-files-for-bankruptcy-5637756/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/high-costs-weighing-on-consumers-6301714/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/americans-snacking-appetite-grows-6291946/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/what-home-depots-poor-outlook-means-for-the-stock-market-and-economy.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/homebuilder-sentiment-may-2023.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/26729bd1-a9d1-363a-bd06-b280c0141115/%E2%80%98wall-street-is-bracing-for.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/elon-musk-work-from-home-morally-wrong-when-some-have-to-show-up.html
https://bilderbergmeetings.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/recession-forecasts-remain-hazy-5292761/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jobless-claims-drop-most-in-2-years-5288577/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/audio-exposes-free-range-fib-6299650/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-calls-grocery-inflation-the-biggest-issue-facing-consumers-160745354.html
https://news24hours.in/2023/05/16/sara-causeys-search-for-job-market-truth/
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Key topics:
✔️ The news that small businesses are pulling back on hiring the most since June 2020 should be a major headline. Everyone needs to know this information.
✔️ Who is still buying based on Jim Cramer's advice?!
✔️Financial manipulation is a very real threat. Not everything is about obvious shows of force.
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/04/11/disposable-narratives/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/05/01/more-disposable-narratives/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/09/jim-cramer-betting-on-home-depot-could-be-a-win-right-now.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/cramer-home-depots-miss-shouldnt-surprise-anyone-it-could-be-much-worse.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/small-biz-owners-hit-brakes-on-hiring-5292737/
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 5/8 - 5/12.
✔️Are wealthy Americans hit harder or are they pulling back precisely because they don't want to go broke in the middle of this mess?
✔️Profiteering from bank failures?! Say it ain't so. 😒
✔️The fat cats will also find a way to profit from this debt default mess. Whether The Fed turns on its fiat currency printing press yet again or we're allowed to default (which I doubt), someone at the top will make a boatload of money from it. 'Twas ever thus.
Links:
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/warning.html
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/slack-coming-back-labor-market-other-happenings-world-taylor-borden/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthy-americans-are-getting-hit-hardest-by-the-economy-slowing-down-160522161.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-lender-that-made-nearly-10-billion-from-silicon-valley-banks-failure-170338489.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-are-worried-about-the-economy-that-could-make-a-debt-default-even-worse-181551172.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/prime-age-workers-are-flooding-back-into-the-workforce-older-workers-are-staying-home-131339316.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-america-nation-caregivers-expert-131304883.html
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Hopefully, none of this is a surprise to you. If it is, I imagine it's like being tossed out of a warm bed into a bathtub of ice water.
Key topics:
✔️ By the time someone on an MSM outlet is "allowed" to publish anything bordering on truth, it's too damn late. Sorry. 🤷🏻♀️
✔️The key is to recognize the market changes quickly and remain nimble.
✔️ It's not pleasant to acknowledge that a boom cycle is finished, but failing to do so puts you at risk.
Links:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/07/employees-employers-upper-hand-small-business
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/05/10/hopefully-you-saw-this-coming/
https://thejobmarketjournal.com/
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 5/1 - 5/5.
✔️"The worst of the banking situation is over." Two days later: oops, ha ha.
✔️ Somehow, in the face of so many layoffs, budget cuts, and hiring freezes, we now have an even lower unemployment rate. What an absurd bunch of utter nonsense.
✔️ C*v!d is over. And I guess in no way is that related to RTO, mayors asking you to crosspollinate downtown, rideshare companies wanting you carpooling again, etc. Totally a coincidence! 😉
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/01/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-first-republic.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/a-quarter-of-jobs-set-to-change-wef-5620204/
https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023
https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/jolts-march-2023-.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/half-america-banks-already-insolvent-133000968.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/morgan-stanley-eyes-another-3k-cuts-5625932/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/jenny-craig-tells-employees-it-will-shut-its-doors.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/uber-wants-you-to-share-rides-again-5622332/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/deposition-of-jpmorgan-ceo-dimon-in-jeffrey-epstein-lawsuit-set-for-late-may-sources-say.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/close-190-banks-could-face-163717073.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/05/jobs-report-april-2023-job-growth-totals-25300-in-april.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/05/biden-say-goodbye-to-job-growth-if-debt-ceiling-isnt-lifted.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIcnCaVsYFI
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Key topics:
✔️Making a blanket statement that remote work is "bad" and "everyone knows it" is absurd. This type of thing is opinion masquerading as fact. And it's a lousy opinion in my opinion!
✔️However: scare tactics and corporate-shill-esque op-ed pieces are pretty irrelevant because, as I've said before, I do not think most people will sit at home unpaid to have a quixotic battle against RTO.
✔️Conformity is so important to the system. Believe what you are told. Sit down, shut up, and go with it.
Links:
https://medium.com/illumination/working-from-home-is-bad-48ad0cdc3196
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 4/24 - 4/28.
✔️I can tell you: there are more and more conversations going on behind closed doors about layoffs, budget cuts, trimming the fat, how to spin company shrinkage in a way that doesn't scare people, etc.
✔️Is remote work BS? According to corpo real estate investors, LOL.
✔️Of course more people are using the gig economy. It's called survival.
Links:
https://fortune.com/2023/04/23/remote-work-bullshit-real-estate-legend-sam-zell-office-situation-will-change/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/04/24/can-this-possibly-be-true/
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/internal-faq-what-amazon-is-telling-employees-before-they-return-to-the-office-next-week/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-worst-both-worlds-high-150424787.html
https://medium.com/@sara_causey/maybe-just-learn-to-code-wasnt-the-answer-cc2cfe18566
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/business/layoffs-2023/index.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gig-economy-is-much-larger-than-thought-a-key-development-for-these-workers-171909854.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/more-young-workers-just-scraping-by-5622284/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/smaller-pay-bumps-for-job-switchers-5257817/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fdic-to-take-over-first-republic-5627076/
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And other great government "solutions" to problems. 😒
Key topics:
✔️Always look for the money trail. The French say, "Cherchez la femme." Well I say, "Chercher l'argent."
✔️Looking at the AAA and how it helped industrial agriculture tells you a lot about how the system actually works.
✔️Replace the traditional family farm with giant behemoths and put industrial corn in everything. Cheap, quick food = most people are now overweight or obese and on pharmaceuticals. Chercher l'argent!
✔️Is the food system as rigged as the broader economy? 🤔
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RwIWGkMxrE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/29/usda-farmers-conservation-program-507028
https://theconversation.com/industrial-corn-farming-is-ruining-our-health-and-polluting-our-watersheds-39721
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbc2MeaU_Xo
https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 4/17 - 4/21.
✔️Debt is not always about FOMO and frivolous spending. It's taking every dime most people make just to survive these days.
✔️The LARPers are the ones who will get steamrolled the worst in the coming crisis. It's sad but true, IMO.
✔️A fortune teller might be about as accurate as some of these so-called "economists."
Links:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/state-street-tumbles-as-it-loses-key-deposits-122940909.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/in-office-work-has-benefits-poll-6235258/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/are-more-turning-blind-eye-to-debt-5240937/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/economists-wary-on-inflation-6248530/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/public-pessimism-on-the-economy-hits-a-new-high-cnbc-survey-shows.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/companies-are-paying-workers-to-relocate-to-discourage-remote-work-%E2%80%94-and-it-can-cost-them-up-to-dollar97000-per-employee/ar-AA19YydE?li=BBnb7Kz
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/19/meta-started-latest-round-of-layoffs-focusing-on-technical-employees.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/grocery-shoppers-buy-now-pay-later-6263922/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3gy8/the-pity-city-ceo-is-sorry-now
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/20/buzzfeed-will-lay-off-15percent-of-staff-shutter-its-news-unit.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/where-are-the-rural-grocery-stores-6260450/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/21/googles-80-acre-san-jose-mega-campus-on-hold-amid-economic-slowdown-.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/el-nino-to-bring-record-temperatures-5616596/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/money-trickles-out-of-smaller-banks-5249369/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/home-prices-fall-most-in-11-years-5249353/
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IMO, going into a downturn in the best shape possible is to your benefit. Obviously financial health and wellness are important in an economic crisis, but I think it's also important to be in good shape physically, mentally, and spiritually as well.
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 4/10 - 4/14.
✔️Bankers and fat cats made huge profits in Q1, which should surprise no one.
✔️Retailers and fast food are having layoffs and turning to automation but supposedly: 3.5% unemployment rate and hey, if you're hurting for a job, go work in fast food and retail. 😣
✔️Where is inflation slowing? I'm certainly not seeing it!
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/10/outlook-for-credit-access-hits-record-low-while-inflation-expectations-jump.html
https://fortune.com/2023/04/10/gen-z-2023-grads-accepted-fully-in-person-jobs/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/theres-one-job-every-two-applicants-right-now-other-world-borden/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/banks-creating-downside-risks-for-global-growth-imf-chief-economist-.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/70percent-of-americans-feel-financially-stressed-new-cnbc-survey-finds.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/walmart-warehouse-automation-powers-higher-profits.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-march-2023-in-one-chart.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/walmart-retreats-from-chicago-5607492/
https://www.businessinsider.com/remote-jobs-return-to-office-outsourcing-to-cut-costs-2023-4
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jpmorgan-nixes-wfh-for-directors-5229129/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/wholesale-inflation-slows-sharply-5608252/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/other-things-break-legendary-investor-182507977.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/big-banks-report-bigger-profits-5241625/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/exxon-ceo-gets-record-raise-5244425/
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Subtitled: Listen to it at your own risk.
Key topics:
✔️ This one person quit over RTO and you can, too! said in the manner of "Champagne wishes & caviar dreams" on the old Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous.**
✔️It's not 2021 anymore. The FOMO & YOLO of the markets we saw then is gone now.
✔️"Productivity paranoia" is not going anywhere. Watch that creepy, nightmare-inducing video from the WEF if you think otherwise.
✔️"'You're going to end up losing them anyway,'" she said." No, you won't. I stand by my track record of accurate predictions. Too many people live paycheck-to-paycheck and have debt for everyone in the US to sit it out with $0 pay. Not gonna happen.
Links:
https://www.businessinsider.com/remote-work-return-to-office-quit-job-micromanager-boss-salary-2023-4
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/09/the-coming-commercial-real-estate-crash-that-may-never-happen.html
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 4/3 - 4/7.
✔️You are digits on a screen to Corpo America and by their own admission, they are looking for a "pretty quick payback."
✔️Wages and open jobs are cooling off yet we still have no "official" proclamation of a recession. You already know - if you wait to be officially told something, you're waiting too late, IMO. By the time they admit that unemployment is not 3.6%, how bad will it actually be? Allegedly, we now have a 3.5% unemployment rate. 😒😣
✔️As the job market worsens, you have to consider how you behave on interviews. Are you a no show, no call 90% of the time and then blaming everyone else?
✔️Employee hoarding and bubbles.
Links:
https://tinyurl.com/3y2m98za
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wsj-mcdonalds-close-offices-briefly-061814814.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/google-to-cut-down-on-employee-laptops-services-and-staplers-to-save.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/04/jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-says-banking-crisis-is-not-over-yet.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/04/jolts-february-2023-.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/05/adp-march-2023.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-got-5-000-workers-093900703.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/06/layoffs-are-up-nearly-fivefold-so-far-this-year-with-tech-companies-leading-the-way.html
https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2023/04/06/walmart-automation-layoffs-inflation
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/302277e1-d908-362b-9b2c-ebb0399bf844/bosses-want-hard-workers%E2%80%94so.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/imf-head-warns-world-economy-is-set-for-weakest-near-term-growth-since-1990-144205510.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/07/jobs-report-march-2023.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/07/federal-reserve-fed-inflation-jobs-report-unemployment.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-us-economy-is-still-creating-problems-for-the-fed-161620642.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-tech-workers-say-they-were-hired-to-do-nothing-762ff158?mod=hp_lead_pos2
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Subtitled: "Elite Immunity" and the Abandonment of the Working Class
I recently watched "The Rise of the Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else" on ENDEVR's YT channel. In this episode, I will discuss that documentary as well as Glenn Greenwald'sbook With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.
Key topics:
✔️The neocons and neolibs work together as part of the same elite class? Say it ain't so!
✔️The elites break the law and then pardon themselves. How could we be surprised by that? At this point, it would be more shocking if they obeyed the laws they expect the rest of us to follow.
✔️"These guys are making up to $1 billion a day."
✔️Governments as instruments of the wealthy super elite.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMjalPFSzU
https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality-Powerful/dp/1250013836
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I recently watched "WORKPLACE LOYALTY IS DEAD - 10 REASONS I'LL NEVER WORK ANOTHER 9-5 JOB" and one of the comments the author makes is that the modern office is like a high school. I won't bury my thesis: I agree.
Key topics:
✔️ Why have offices become this way? Why do they so often feel like introvert hell?
✔️"Karens & Darrens" in the customer base. Backstabby colleagues. Authoritarian bosses.
✔️Your metrics can be outstanding but if you're not "one of us," that often does not matter.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G31i6NA3Pho
The story of Bob: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/8902952
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 3/26 - 3/31.
✔️As RTO becomes clearer, we see more Johnny Come Latelys jumping on the bandwagon. 😒
✔️Companies are talking about existential threats and laying off like it's 2008 but hey: labor market is still red hot and people are doin' great! 😣
✔️"Paring back CapEx, paring back hiring."
✔️Attention is an important currency, too. Who are you listening to? As companies are shedding jobs, it seems more people are turning to social media to grift.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14067
https://www.thestreet.com/breaking-news/look-the-brutal-layoff-email-disney-ceo-bob-iger-sent-employees-today
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165559810/npr-layoffs-cancels-podcasts-invisibilia-rough-translation
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/nearly-half-of-workers-have-side-gig-6202074/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/investors-pulling-deposits-from-banks-5599604/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnQAUCIk1vw
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/lucid-to-lay-off-1300-employees-in-restructuring/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20230315a.htm
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-companies-watching-remote-workers-184015079.html (Vindicated yet again. They even use the term panopticon!)
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Meanwhile, if you actually talk to candidates who are out on the job market, you'll have more than a few who say, "I applied all over town, and I only got one callback," or "I went in a restaurant with a help wanted sign in the window, and the manager told me, 'Well, actually, we can't afford to hire anybody right now, but we can't take the sign down for optics.'" It seems like there's a lot more to the story than what we're being told." -"Bonus Episode: Housing Market ➡ Job Market" published on July 4, 2022
"Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake
In an uncertain economy, companies post ads for jobs they might not really be trying to fill" -https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-plum-job-listing-may-just-be-a-ghost-3aafc794?mod=mhp
I TOLD YOU SO!
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"When a boom cycle ends, it can be tough to accept reality. People want the band to play forever. Realtors who tried to convince us that home prices would only go up and we were not in a housing bubble are looking for work outside of the industry. Some of the people in HR trying to hype you up about the job market will find themselves in the same boat as we go further into this mess. You can try to fight The Fed and ignore the broader economy if you want to, but I sure wouldn't recommend it. And on that note, apparently you are supposed to believe that a petition or an angry Slack channel will somehow be enough to stave off RTO forever. Sorry, I don't buy it!"
-"IMO, a petition will not stop what's coming" https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/02/23/imo-a-petition-will-not-stop-whats-coming/ published on February 23, 2023.
"In a leaked message, Amazon's HR chief flatly rejected an internal petition against the new return-to-office policy signed by roughly 30,000 employees"
-https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-hr-boss-rejects-employee-remote-work-petition-2023-3
NO DUH!
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 3/19 - 3/24.
✔️The whisper in the wind I heard about deposit withdrawals that I reported on in the last broadcast has proven true.
✔️You're supposed to think this is a great time to buy a house. IDK why, but apparently, you're supposed to think so.
✔️What good is a "guarantee" if it's not worth the paper it's printed on?
✔️The system is totally fine and totally sound. 😉 wink wink
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/18/blackrock-is-working-on-a-rival-takeover-bid-for-credit-suisse-financial-times-reports.html
https://www.rt.com/business/573141-us-banks-borrowing-crisis/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/18/midsize-us-banks-reportedly-ask-the-fdic-to-insure-all-deposits-for-two-years.html
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/american-elite-planning-escape-starts-120011462.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/nervous-bankers-swarm-recruiters-5194849/
https://fortune.com/2023/03/23/laid-off-workers-calling-out-former-employers-social-media-non-disparagement-clauses-rule-careers-labor-steinhorn-scorah/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xw6zkKvknc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grDjUQzNEms
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/working-remotely-is-it-enough-6204186/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/accenture-cuts-19000-staff-globally-5587156/
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"'The Fed is facing a difficult task on Wednesday, but it is likely already past the point of no return,' JPMorgan strategists led by Marko Kolanovic, the bank’s chief global markets strategist, wrote in a note to clients Monday. 'A soft landing now looks unlikely, with the airplane in a tailspin (lack of market confidence) and engines about to turn off (bank lending).'" -https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/already-past-point-no-return-171434984.html
But remember how many times you were told:
- Inflation is transitory
- The job market is blazing hot
- Labor shortage 🦜
- We can't be in a recession because look at the job market
- Soft landing
- Slowcession
- Rolling recession
- Bad news is good news
If you haven't already prepared a job loss survival plan, it's probably too late. I hate to say that, but IMO, if you wait to be "officially" told that the economy is in a hot mess, you're waiting way too late.
Links:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/already-past-point-no-return-171434984.html
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3908515-the-fed-circumvented-the-debt-ceiling-to-borrow-billions-for-failed-banks/
https://www.finder.com/americans-borrow-friends-and-family-household-debt
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
"The most valuable asset they have is their job." -Neel Kashkari, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Then he goes on to say that the odds of people losing their jobs is not remote.
"What the Federal Reserve does is provide the blood supply for the body of our capitalist economy. And what happened in 2008 is all the veins and the capillaries and the arteries collapsed. So every financial function had failed. It had collapsed and we had to restore them." "It's almost like alchemy! You can create money out of thin air if you're at the central bank." -Richard W. Fisher, former President & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
"Buddy, it's not a question of enough. It's a zero sum game, sport. Somebody wins and somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. Like magic. That painting cost $60,000 10 years ago. I could sell it today for $600,000. The illusion has become real. And the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it. Capitalism at its finest." -Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
Key topics:
- Did the system die in 2008? Have we been limping along with duct tape and baling wire all this time? On borrowed time?
- "Mixed signals about the economy." As I've said before: if you assume someone is lying, the economy is not so difficult to figure out.
- "The Federal Reserve seems to have our economic fate in its hands."
- Why would a so-labeled capitalist system need a central bank to pump the blood through it? Makes no sense. Unless you assume it's crony capitalism or socialism in disguise. And pepper in some fascism as well.
- The Scorpion and the Frog. "Are these executives greedy or stupid?"
- "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!"
- "But in reality: it played out differently." Rather than hiring and building new facilities, these CEOs enriched themselves and the shareholders. Say it ain't so!
- "We're like a giant bloodsucker."
- Unregulated shadow banking.
- March 2020 and the D word: depression.
- "There's no barometer of moral hazard."
- The Fed points fingers at the state; the state points fingers at The Fed; and we are supposed to forget the incestuous relationship between them.
- "I'm a good person. I've always paid my bills before."
- "A once-in-a-lifetime financial transition..."
Links:
You can watch the full documentary here:
"Age of Easy Money" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMLAQbSYAw
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/benbernanke.asp
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shadow-banking-system.asp
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/moralhazard.asp
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-interest-rate-hikes-unemployment-increase-layoffs-inflation/
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At some point, you gotta learn the important lesson that some of the people in the media are cons. They are paid corporate shills who are directed to push a particular narrative. They are controlled opposition designed to do whatever their corporate puppet masters advise them to do. If you listen to them, you are doing so at your own peril. ⚠️
"It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America and that is The Business Party." -Bill Hicks
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PavcYPcmc
https://app.hedgeye.com/insights/70141-remember-this-jim-cramer-bear-stearns-is-fine-do-not-take-your-mon
https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/cnbcs-jim-cramer-touted-silicon-valley-bank-stock/
https://fortune.com/2023/03/15/winner-silicon-valley-bank-collapse-bank-of-america-jpmorgan-goldman-sachs-deposits/
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 3/13 - 3/17.
✔️"FDIC official warned 4 years ago that uninsured regional bank deposits were an ‘underappreciated risk.’ No one listened and we’re now paying the price." This is a theme we hear over and again. Nomi Prins warned about this in her 2004 book.
✔️Back in January, I warned you about the historical precedent of the state taking bailout $ from Corpo America. (It also confiscated gold.)
✔️The mother ship is coming, apparently.
✔️"Central bank digital currency is inevitable."
Links:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ken-griffin-says-svb-depositors-091757594.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/new-layoffs-tyson-cuts-1700-jobs-6188026/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/food-giant-plans-5-million-daycare-5189153/
https://tinyurl.com/bdz833sc
https://tinyurl.com/2he4ebew
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12045662
https://historydaily.org/panic-of-1893
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fed-mulls-new-banking-rules-5582860/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/concerns-mount-over-credit-suisse-5576548/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-krispy-kreme-more-6188026/
https://tinyurl.com/s6jhkap4
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/yellen-tells-senators-us-banking-system-remains-sound-2023-03-16/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/03/14/ideally-on-friday-night/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/could-we-be-seeing-the-end-of-cash-digital-currency/
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"Here’s how the second-biggest bank collapse in U.S. history happened in just 48 hours" -https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-how-it-happened.html
"Things happen slowly until they happen very fast." -Lynette Zang, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y8yh1HnA5s
"If you wait to be 'officially' told something, in my opinion, you are waiting too late." -Sara Causey, repeatedly, to anyone who'd listen
"Expert warns stock market crash could come in a matter of days" -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwHjl9iGgiQ
Additional Links:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/svb-collapse-could-lead-contagion-221110997.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/svb-ceo-sold-stock-before-collapse-6198490/
https://twitter.com/nickgerli1/status/1633536085308366866
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/nypd-called-to-silicon-valley-bank-branch-as-depositors-attempt-to-pull-cash-report/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11131724
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I've been reading Nomi Prins' Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America, which was published in 2004. (My paperback version has an update from 2006.) So the material pre-dates The Great Recession and provides an important remembrance of the insanity that was the late 90s/early 00s.
From page 7 of the paperback:
"Robert Schiller of Yale University and Irrational Exuberance fame spoke after lunch. His cautionary talk, supported by slides depicting graphs of lowered profitability and other financial health indicators, was challenged by the room. A series of grilling questions poking apart his argument followed. Though Schiller delineated clear reasons why the market was overinflated, no one really wanted to listen."
Sound familiar? For some people, you could present all the evidence in the world and they'd still argue to be wrong. To quote Dr. Stuart Woolley, "The turkeys don't even realise that they're voting for their own Christmas."
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Other-Peoples-Money-Corporate-Mugging-ebook/dp/B0041G6RTW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12031473
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/
https://themortgagereports.com/61853/30-year-mortgage-rates-chart
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/02/24/gordon-gekko-tried-to-tell-you/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/04/old-rich-white-dudes-think-youre-a-bunch-of-whiners/
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/071603.asp
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 3/5 - 3/10.
✔️I feel like Corpo America is gonna look at people filming themselves working and say, "If you want that level of surveillance, c'mon back to the office and we'll happily give that to you." 😣
✔️Crypto, bank runs, and collapses. Implosions in less than 48 hours. SMH.
✔️Low interest rates + hyped stock + M&As followed by a deflating Big Tech bubble. Where have we seen this before . . . sounds like the late 90s/early 00s.
✔️Do you understand bank bail-ins?
Links:
https://tinyurl.com/mrpu2nxt
https://tinyurl.com/3c5w97fy
https://tinyurl.com/mvs3kcf3
https://tinyurl.com/5n7x3arr
https://tinyurl.com/4z9s3z8f
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1632043244040192003
https://tinyurl.com/4s3fmpyu
https://tinyurl.com/2uvuj3tf
https://tinyurl.com/4xyvtxwp
https://tinyurl.com/yckphfmr
https://tinyurl.com/2p886x3c
https://tinyurl.com/yc3vw7x5
https://tinyurl.com/3rbup943
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-one-size-fits-plan-150000623.html
https://tinyurl.com/ycy592cy
https://tinyurl.com/2p9be9e7
https://tinyurl.com/4udrsehb
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-boss-sundar-pichai-says-125653701.html
https://tinyurl.com/bddu9jwt
https://tinyurl.com/5n7zs6au
https://tinyurl.com/2p8f9jz3
https://tinyurl.com/4w6wz4d3
https://tinyurl.com/msscr22c
https://tinyurl.com/2p9546xs
https://tinyurl.com/bdfu8rus
https://tinyurl.com/rrzy5r4z
https://tinyurl.com/yk65czuv
https://tinyurl.com/4beaxbt6
https://tinyurl.com/2p8vxd5a
https://tinyurl.com/y5hznnm3
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"Work-From-Home Regulations Are Coming. Companies Aren’t Ready. The growing compliance costs of remote work could push more employers to bring workers back to the office." -MIT Sloan, https://tinyurl.com/2p9atbmh
On October 27, 2022, I published the episode, "Cronyism, Collusion, & RTO: Do Not Be Naïve!" The fat cats work together to enrich themselves.
"Where I think we have to be careful is ignoring the collusion of Crony Capitalism. So it's not that Corpo America is blaming Powell or that Powell is blaming Corpo America. This is where I leave the neocons and the neolibs in the dust to play their partisan games of red versus blue. No, see, I think they COLLUDE TOGETHER TO ENRICH THEMSELVES. The Fed does not surprise Corpo America, nor does Corpo America surprise The Fed. They work together, IMO, to ensure a particular outcome that enriches the fat cats. If you need a refresher on this, remember all the warnings Gordon Gekko gave you about wealth transfer and greedy bankers." -https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/03/02/what/
🔮 Prediction alert: if you don't go back willingly, you will go back by force and/or total lack of other choices.
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"In political jargon, a useful idiot is a term currently used to reference a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause—particularly a bad cause originating from a devious, ruthless source—without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically being used by the cause's leaders. The term was often used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and manipulation." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
"Give the public the false illusion of choice by presenting a political party or organization that superficially speaks to the desires or frustrations of the people but whose actions do not further the stated goals of the organization." -https://www.facebook.com/reform2025/photos/a.1098774270262629/1669867339819983/?type=3
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897
https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality-Powerful/dp/1250013836
https://www.amazon.com/Other-Peoples-Money-Corporate-Mugging-ebook/dp/B0041G6RTW
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/17/corporations-gave-millions-donald-trump-inauguration/98056554/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 2/27 - 3/3.
✔️So which is it? Are people financing groceries and high utility bills or people are going wild on spending sprees at restaurants and car dealerships? WTH?
✔️Remote ➡️ Hybrid Hell ➡️ Full RTO. If you don't hold it, you don't own it. If you don't own the company, you don't make the rules!
✔️Increasing bankruptcies, auto defaults worse than the Great Recession, companies going broke ... but hey! People'r' doin' great! 😒
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/pfizer-mulls-30b-biotech-deal-5159137/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/buffett-optimistic-about-economy-6181674/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hybrid-work-hurting-city-eateries-6178170/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/new-layoffs-cerebral-poshmark-more-6157626/
https://tinyurl.com/3h5bur3t
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/challenger-job-cuts
https://tinyurl.com/4tunw9uz
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/mortgage-demand-falls-interest-rates-rise.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/new-layoffs-waymo-eventbrite-more-6157626/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/from-spac-to-bankruptcy-5561588/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/car-debt-delinquencies-are-spiking-5565060/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/gm-to-cut-500-jobs-6178970/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mortgage-rates-surge-closer-to-7-170022384.html
https://tinyurl.com/4wru5yam
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/zoom-suddenly-fires-its-president-5565156/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/when-remote-jobs-becomes-hybrid-6186010/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-citi-cnet-and-more-6188026/
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bankruptcy-filings-2022-company-personal-epiq/
https://tinyurl.com/43vtm8nc
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If you've ever visited a movie studio, it may have surprised you to see what the sets actually look like. In some cases, a set can merely be a small 3D model that looks good on camera. The idea of Потёмкинские деревни or Potemkin villages is similar: create a shell that looks good in order to obscure the unhappy or dangerous reality behind it.
Key topics:
✔️Although the legend behind the Потёмкинская деревня may be false, the concept itself is true. Paper over problems and put on an act to keep everyone calm.
✔️ As I always say: IMO, if you wait to be "officially" told something, you've waited too late.
✔️Negative equity, the debt ceiling, multigenerational living, nations ditching the dollar, mass layoffs . . . yet you are supposed to think a recession is still just somewhere over the horizon. SMH.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality-Powerful/dp/1250013836
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"Eventually, that ends with us probably leaving the planet and colonizing the stars, or living forever, or downloading our brains onto silicon chips. It’s a kind of technological rapture that sees time in a linear fashion rather than in a cyclical fashion." -Paul Kingsnorth to Emergence Magazine
Key topics:
✔️Refusing to have conversations about economic slavery only benefits the fat cats and their politicos. It does nothing to help the disenfranchised.
✔️ Is progress merely a story we tell ourselves and then cling to?
✔️Is quiet quitting a reflection of the serfs feeling fed up? If so, do we believe this will spark a revolution against Crony Capitalism?
✔️How many people will last in a giant walkout if they are hungry and facing eviction? This is all the more reason to me why we NEED to have these conversations rather than shoving them in the corner on the grounds of "Well, someone somewhere might get offended." Is this system not offensive itself?
Links:
https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/the-myth-of-progress/
https://www.amazon.com/Metahistory-Historical-Imagination-Nineteenth-Century-Europe/dp/0801817617
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metahistory:_The_Historical_Imagination_in_Nineteenth-century_Europe
https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thomas-Kuhn/dp/0226458083
https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ready-for-brain-transparency-english
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
https://cherokeehistorical.org/trail-of-tears/
https://glenhendrix50.medium.com/modern-corporate-wage-slavery-is-so-instilled-in-our-culture-we-dont-recognize-it-for-what-it-is-39aa9fb7b529
https://www.yahoo.com/now/back-broke-americans-racking-debt-100000378.html
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly-twice-much-wealth-rest-world-put-together-over-past-two-years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T501LHx0R_Q
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 2/18 - 2/24.
✔️Some of these mansplainers and finance bros who want to convince you that up is down and left is right are gonna get steamrolled by what's coming.
✔️You're only just now being told that inflation is far from over. No duh! But you're still expected to believe that the recession is not here yet. 😒
✔️Negative equity = when you owe more than something is worth. This is happening in the auto market already. Do you not think it could happen again in the housing market? Wait and see.
Links:
https://tinyurl.com/24daevhy
https://tinyurl.com/296ab43v
https://tinyurl.com/yj79fdd3
https://tinyurl.com/bdhc2p7n
https://tinyurl.com/2p923knr
https://tinyurl.com/5n6j3f3y
https://tinyurl.com/4mr3vanw
https://tinyurl.com/53ykrrk4
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tip-negative-equity-iceberg-record-173000474.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/quitters-spark-the-great-return-5566316/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/quiet-quitting-trend-over-140008899.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/the-fed-cant-tame-inflation-without-more-hikes-paper-says.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-cooperating-sec-probe-investment-234407660.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/new-home-buyers-are-backing-out-of-deals-why-185403276.html
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2022-12-15/california-public-utilities-commission-rooftop-solar
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-ericsson-ey-more-6157626/
https://londondailypost.co.uk/stagflation-the-labour-market-and-you/
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Key topics:
✔️ Who benefits from the promotion of hot air, hopium, and total nonsense?
✔️ Some influencer or wannabe influencer who gives you toxic positivity is NOT gonna show up and bail you out of an economic crisis.
✔️If someone has been in their chosen field for all of five minutes, do they have enough expertise for you to rely on what they say? (Spoiler alert: not IMO.)
✔️When toxic positivity is promoted and truth is suppressed that should speak volumes to you.
Links:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10689626
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11131724
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11328447
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11044511
https://medium.com/surviving-tomorrow/hyper-elites-are-desperate-for-a-recession-because-they-want-to-buy-your-assets-for-cheap-1e8800f836
Please don't rely on social media to tell you when I have posted! The algorithms are not very fond of people who aren't pacifying you into a coma these days.
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On February 5, 2023, The NYT Magazine published, "Walter Mosley Thinks America Is Getting Dumber." In this interview with writer Walter Mosley, Walter says, "We’re living in a dumbed-down culture because the education of most people in America is sad and not useful. There are people who don’t know how to spell, they don’t know how to think. They don’t even teach kids how to deal with money in school — the one thing you think they would teach in America."
Is this true? Are we living in a dumbed-down culture and if so, is the education system failing people?
Links:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/06/magazine/walter-mosley-interview.html
https://spyscape.com/article/pop-culture-spies-how-the-cia-fbi-shape-movies-and-tv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Mountain_Air_Force_Station
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 2/11 - 2/17.
✔️The official narrative is now shaping up. Pandemic ➡️ Unprecedented times. ➡️ Zoom boom & WFH. ➡️ Red hot markets & overhiring. ➡️ Market is now "normalizing." ➡️ Don't worry about it because this is just a normal market correction and NOT a bubble popping or a market crashing. 😒
✔️The MSM needs to quit LARPing that everyone can go get a job in a hospital or a fast food joint and all will be well. That makes no sense.
✔️More UFOs. Are we in a MindWar now?
Links:
https://tinyurl.com/yspvna69
https://tinyurl.com/2p9dy7es
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/layoffs-come-for-biotech-too-6166714/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-jobs-report-red-hot-182815798.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etO8RH4JCV0
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1624536743969185792
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/12/heres-where-the-jobs-will-be-during-the-rolling-recessions.html
https://tinyurl.com/bdezkwec
https://www.yahoo.com/now/goldman-sachs-ceo-david-solomon-230457780.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T501LHx0R_Q
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1625241477642088454
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-companies-making-cuts-6157626/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ClS8OELu1o
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/many-realtors-now-need-second-jobs-6172394/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/walmart-plans-rto-closes-hubs-6171074/
https://tinyurl.com/ycy7yz92
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-docusign-kpmg-more-6157626/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fidelity-defies-trend-hiring-4000-6173890/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/disney-staff-push-back-on-rto-5556620/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/making-sense-of-the-jobless-rate-5554620/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/quiet-quitting-trend-over-140008899.html
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"We want them to have full faith and confidence in the banking system... there's a select crowd of people that are on the institutional side and if they wanna understand this, they're gonna find a way to understand it." -Gary Cohn at the FDIC SRAC meeting, November 2022.
Key topics:
✔️No more bailouts = bail-ins. Guess who the unsecured creditor is? You!
✔️Rather than using the abstract idea of taxpayer money and God knows what else, let's just clearly shift the risk to John & Jane Q. Public.
✔️"Now, Wall Street really has full access to your deposits." So that's great. 😣
✔️"Bank of Cyprus depositors lose 47.5% of savings."
✔️At 12:35, the Kitco video shows you exactly what the elites think of the general public! You don't need to know. The public is ignorant. They get financial info and news from tweets like total idiots.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY1ECavKSJU
https://infinitebanking.org/banknotes/from-bailouts-to-bail-ins-understanding-the-dodd-frank-act/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/29/bank-of-cyprus-depositors-lose-savings/2595837/
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090716/why-bank-bailins-will-be-new-bailouts.asp
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In a recent video, Russell Brand jokes about robots escorting you back to your dead-end job. And it certainly made me wonder: is the future filled with dead-end jobs? Is that what we all have to look forward to? And what constitutes a dead-end job in modern times?
Links:
https://rumble.com/v28jtxi-here-we-go.html
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dead-end-job
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/signs-of-dead-end-job
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/01/uk-benefit-changes-have-pushed-people-into-dead-end-low-paid-jobs-says-ifs
https://medium.com/surviving-tomorrow/you-will-own-nothing-including-books-8b69fd0b827e
https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/new-at-mckinsey-blog/new-research-the-surprisingly-high-value-of-on-the-job-experience
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 2/4 - 2/10.
✔️What's going on with the "spy" balloon?
✔️Are bail-ins on the horizon?
✔️"You don’t have a recession when you have 500,000 jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years." 😂
✔️Supposedly, hiring is still robust and the menfolk are still to blame for the labor shortage.
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/04/us-military-prepares-to-take-down-suspected-chinese-surveillance-balloon.html
https://tinyurl.com/22vbpwfw
https://www.risk.net/regulation/7955777/cost-of-bank-bail-in-rules-lower-than-expected-eba
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090716/why-bank-bailins-will-be-new-bailouts.asp
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-autodesk-okta-more-6157626/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/dell-latest-to-plan-job-cuts-5544124/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-companies-making-cuts-6157626/
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/02/credit-suisse-job-cuts
https://tinyurl.com/299mya2v
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-so-many-jobs-are-going-unfilled-165522107.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/02/08/sometimes-the-story-writes-itself/
https://tinyurl.com/4wk4y4jn
https://tinyurl.com/4w4wfnex
https://tinyurl.com/2tc8jthr
https://tinyurl.com/2pvy4stt
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/surprising-culprit-behind-mass-layoffs-114553327.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/is-this-a-remote-renaissance-6159154/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/remote-works-diehard-fans-finally-gain-some-cheery-news-george-anders/
https://tinyurl.com/3fpkb77x
https://tinyurl.com/4w4wfnex
https://tinyurl.com/mr386v4b
https://tinyurl.com/4b4jwfdj
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In 2014, Glenn Greenwald published No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. The book became a NYT Bestseller but now, almost a decade later, does anyone care?
Links:
https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ready-for-brain-transparency-english
https://www.amazon.com/MindWar-Michael-Aquino-Ph-D/dp/1535199563
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On January 28th, Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen published the video "Stop Celebrating Stupidity | The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism," which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmFn619GnrI.
Are we celebrating stupidity? Have we descended into anti-intellectual madness these days?
Key topics:
✔️ At 7:28, I believe he hits the nail on the head when he talks about the attitude of curiosity.
✔️If we are celebrating stupidity, who benefits from that? Because you can rest assured: someone does.
✔️It seems like the media plays fast and loose with the term "expert." IMO, the notion of an expert or even an economist has become: this person is willing to say what we want them to say and nothing more. 😣
✔️"The world is a magnificent place." Yes, it is!
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/
https://news.gallup.com/poll/388541/americans-reading-fewer-books-past.aspx
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 1/28 - 2/3.
✔️Layoffs and more layoffs. And no, they aren't all in Big Tech.
✔️Oil companies are raking in record profits, so hey, we got that goin' for us.
✔️The war hawks are fiending for conflict.
✔️Tons of open jobs! (Supposedly.) Now, they're in leisure, fast food, hospitality, and health care, but TONS OF OPEN JOBS FOR THE WORLD!
Links:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-four-star-general-warns-war-with-china-2025-2023-01-28/
https://tinyurl.com/44f6d8yv
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/car-repossessions-grow-as-inflation-slams-consumers
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bear-down-frugal-baby-boomer-130000334.html
https://tinyurl.com/4c2wf9tw
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/workday-lays-off-employees-but-will-grow-head-count.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/why-the-case-is-growing-for-a-fed-rate-cut-before-year-end.html
https://tinyurl.com/2p89nmsy
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/80percent-of-workers-who-quit-in-great-resignation-regret-it-new-survey.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/where-next-for-tech-workers-6155530/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-okta-pinterest-more-6157626/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/02/01/moneys-too-tight-to-mention/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/03/heres-where-the-jobs-are-for-january-2023-in-one-chart.html
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/job-hunter-psa-employed-people/
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/7bcf0c16-cd1f-3d87-9ba6-5cf6122c3f33/jobs-report-tells-markets.html
Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/
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I've reported for months and months that RTO was and is an inevitable conclusion, IMO. I don't agree with it, but I don't think it's fair to put out hot air and hopium just to get likes and shares.
Key topics:
✔️ With more and more layoffs, how long can people hold out for a fully remote role? Let's be real here.
✔️ You're being told that remote work = bad and companies still "allowing" it are in financial trouble whereas companies that have demanded RTO = good and still thriving.
✔️The issue is not productivity and never has been, IMO. With that said, it certainly has not helped that people will go on social media and brag about goofing off. Doing that is like loading a cannon and pointing it at yourself.
✔️There are areas of childcare and eldercare deserts. Depending upon where you live, certain facilities that were open in 2019 may not even exist anymore. How would you handle that scenario?
Links I discuss:
https://fortune.com/2023/01/26/ken-griffin-credits-citadel-16-billion-success-office-return/
https://medium.com/illumination/remote-work-destroyed-americas-most-profitable-industry-7777faf8c9a7
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/remote-worker-issues-psa/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
On January 25th, Russell Brand published the video YOU WILL OBEY. As I've said before - in my mind, living situation feudalism + workplace feudalism = feudalism. It's being trapped, full stop.
The attitude appears to be: sit down, shut up, and just do what you're told. Go back in the office, sit in the cube farm, and hush. Are you paying attention to the things that will truly matter in your life or are you goofing off with silly nonsense? Wakey-wakey. 👀 Stay alert.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml5lwBBPAqk
https://rumble.com/v264p0c-mainstream-or-misinformation-whats-the-difference-061-stay-free-with-russel.html
https://nrf.com/blog/charles-schwab-chief-investment-strategist-talks-rolling-recession
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 1/23 - 1/27.
✔️Back in Saturday Broadcast 6, I warned you about PIPs and employers who want to shove you out the door. Now the MSM is finally telling you!
✔️Shadows of the 2008 housing market? Say it ain't so!
✔️More and more layoffs. We're getting weird, conflicting stories of: workers' market and tons of open jobs yet ha ha, not really. 🤦🏻♀️
✔️Around here, when there's a knock at the door or the bell rings - is it a person or is it livestock? One never knows. 🐏
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/recession-to-be-worse-than-previously-thought-experts-say/ar-AA16Diim
https://www.yahoo.com/now/boss-might-hoping-quit-because-100000436.html
https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/goldman-sachs-sees-a-crash-for-home-values-in-these-4-cities/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/great-resignation-fueled-workers-obsession-194656913.html
https://dailysiliconvalley.com/interview/pips-layoffs-and-quiet-firing-whats-happening-these-days/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-companies-making-cuts-6121322/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
A market "glitch." The rich folk moving their money. Central banks buying up gold.
Strap in, put on your tinfoil hat, and let's take a look at this. Because to me: it doesn't seem good.
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/some-nyse-listed-stocks-briefly-halted-trading-after-market-open-2023-01-24/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/banks-see-exodus-of-wealthy-clients-5096881/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rich-customers-pull-money-from-banks-offering-paltry-interest-rates-11674515636?st=hfp97rbm3lhwbk9&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-20/gold-owes-much-to-central-bank-buying-ld4i1wde?leadSource=uverify%20wall
https://americandeposits.com/brief-history-us-bank-failures/
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
"Zwei, drei, vier, one, two, three, it's easy to see / But it's not that I don't care, so / 'Cause I hear it all the time, but they never let you know / On the TV and the radio..." -"Der Kommissar"
As I've said many times: IMO, if you wait to be "officially" told something in the MSM, you have waited too late. Apparently Monday, January 23rd was the day you were finally allowed to know from a mainstream source that- Ruh-roh. Um, well, uh, ya see, perhaps that labor market ain't so red hawt and uh, maybe, um, you should like look into unemployment benefits. If you've tuned in here and/or read my blog, you knew this was coming months ago. Or did you wait to hear it on the TV and the radio from Der Kommissar?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/its-taking-longer-to-get-hired-6140962/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/it-is-an-employers-market-tech-layoffs-may-have-turned-the-great-resignation-into-the-great-recommitment-11674511211
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dont-settle-workers-market-newest-110000824.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/layoffs-in-corporate-america-tech-to-conglomerates-3m-morning-brief-102338744.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bofa-warns-us-economy-start-170000414.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/remote-layoffs-become-harsh-reality-5536332/
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We've nosedived right into Idiocracy. Bad news is good news. Slowcessions. Soft landings. The labor market will stay red hot and you can job hop for more money forever . . . 😵💫
The flow chart looks something like this:
Deny there are problems and tell people that layoffs are not coming. ➡️ Even as layoffs start, turn a blind eye. Have "economists" tell the public that mass layoffs are not coming in Q4 of 2022. ➡️ While layoff announcements litter the news, keep squawking about The Great Resignation and tell people it is STILL a workers' market! ➡️ Tell people that even if it takes a few months to find employment again, it's OK. That's still really good. 🤦🏻♀️
IMO, it is so very important to rough out a job loss survival plan. I hope you never need it, but I think it's better to be prepared than scared. If you freelance or operate a business, have you created a Plan B on how to generate revenue in a serious downturn?
Links I mention:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/18/a-workers-market-really/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dont-settle-workers-market-newest-110000824.html
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/dont-feel-too-bad-for-laid-off-tech-workers-more-than-half-end-up-earning-more-in-their-next-job.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/despite-google-amazon-microsoft-layoffs-its-a-good-time-to-get-a-job.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-interest-rate-hikes-unemployment-increase-layoffs-inflation/
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 1/16 - 1/20.
✔️ Davos, debt ceilings, and a big ole mess.
✔️Is the job market going to "normalize" or any other soft-sounding word? I wouldn't personally count on that.
✔️Jaime Dimon is perpetually on one at this point. 😣
✔️So in the midst of more layoffs, you are still asked to believe the unemployment rate is 3.5%. What?!?
Links I discuss:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/workforce-leverage-to-normalize-5531196/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ceos-veer-into-negativity-survey-5535428/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/18/a-workers-market-really/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-government-just-hit-31-190000536.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/treasury-begins-special-measures-avoid-150732979.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/citi-ordering-low-performing-remote-120000361.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jpmorgans-dimon-slams-wfh-5108465/
Reminder - you can always find my blog posts here: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/the-blog/
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No, I mean, seriously: WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Key topics:
✔️ Jamie Dimon walking back his prediction of an economic hurricane... Why? What has actually changed to create a sense of optimism?
✔️ The Wall Street bankers like to show up hat in hand and ask for a bailout. But what about that time when the government showed up to the bankers and asked for a bailout?
✔️ A lot of cash can fly out the door quickly. Is it all taxpayer money? How is all this currency even in existence?
✔️ The CEOs at Davos aren't feeling excited but apparently, somehow, you should be. Also you should still think that The Great Resignation is going strong and people can job hop across the market for pay raises forever. 😣
✔️ These boom/bust and inflation/recession cycles happen and happen. So have bank failures and bank runs. Yet each time we have a downturn, people act like they simply can't believe it's happening.
Links I mention:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/01/jamie-dimon-says-brace-yourself-for-an-economic-hurricane-caused-by-the-fed-and-ukraine-war.html
https://tinyurl.com/y3nyc26t
https://fortune.com/2023/01/10/jamie-dimon-economy-hurricane-storm-clouds-recession-2/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/davos-pw-c-survey-finds-bleak-ceo-outlook-for-2023-174505340.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dont-settle-workers-market-newest-110000824.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/richest-1percent-amassed-almost-two-thirds-of-new-wealth-created-since-2020-oxfam.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/how-much-wealth-top-1percent-of-americans-have.html
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
https://historydaily.org/panic-of-1893
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/godfather-frank-sinatra-mario-puzo-johnny-fontane-character.html/
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There's an old movie On Borrowed Time in which Sir Cedric Hardwicke plays Mr. Brink, a reference to the brink of death. It seems more than one economy finds itself on the brink these days. How many are truly on borrowed time?
Key topics:
✔️ People choosing between food and warmth in the winter.
✔️ "The forgotten people."
✔️"Survival for only 19 days" following a job loss.
✔️"Running faster to stand still or even move backwards."
✔️"Many people have cut back right down to the bone."
✔️$20/hr jobs and still homeless.
Links I mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v_aC1ZTlOg (even Russell Brand is warning you about the "just sit down and shut up" attitude we're seeing from the power brokers)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/what-to-know-today-51673427144
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/banking-panics-1930-31
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson
https://www.cnbc.com/2008/07/22/paulson-were-gonna-be-alright.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndyMac
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bernanke-assures-investors-that-top-banks-are-solvent-7639rkcvrnh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0VJXwr3KEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5t2dufNkvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czmJvQCEnbE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O58wklTuwwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjE5mBXDKIU
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 1/9 - 1/13.
✔️ More companies going from the carrot to the stick on RTO.
✔️The WEF will have its annual meeting next week, so I'm sure they'll come up with great solutions and truly help all of us peons.
✔️Jaime Dimon is on one. Grannies got taken in crypto? The economic hurricane he predicted is not gonna be so bad? Wut? 😐
✔️If we just keep using words like "soft" and "mild," perhaps you'll be lulled into a sense of security and no one will worry.
Links I discuss:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/employees-managers-key-disagreement-one-120813345.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ripple-effect-of-layoffs-questioned-5100657/
https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jamie-dimon-retirees-grandmothers-lower-income-folks-have-been-hurt-by-crypto-223952501.html
https://fortune.com/2023/01/10/resistance-attrition-quiet-quitting-drop-diversity-forced-return-to-office-gleb-tsipursky/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ Part 1 can be found here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11959824
✔️ Stimmy checks.
✔️"Discouraged workers" not counted in the unemployment numbers.
✔️Remember H1N1?
✔️The Fed will handle it all. Just sit back and don't ask questions.
Links I mention:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/stimulus-bill-turns-5-years-old-still
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/discouraged-workers-definition-causes-and-effects-3305514
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/10/powell-stresses-need-for-feds-political-independence-while-tackling-inflation.html
https://nader.org/1975/09/16/fed-needs-auditing/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke
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The IMF and the World Bank, both of which are functions of the UN, are telling you what's on the horizon. So are the fat cats and corporate raiders.
But hey - I'm sure that two-bit realtor still trying to convince you to buy an overpriced house or that hustler encouraging you to "buy the dip" is probably a more accurate resource than the power brokers who are literally communicating the agenda to you. she said, sarcastically
Links I mention:
https://www.yahoo.com/now/world-bank-warn-global-recession-123450363.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64142662
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession#:~:text=At%20the%20steepest%20part%20of,and%2011%20in%20Q4%E2%80%912009.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 1/2 - 1/6.
✔️ Old, rich white guys say you are a whiner who doesn't really know hardship. Hmm... I'm having a massive flashback to 2008 when Phil Gramm said the same thing! We know how that movie played out.
✔️If the NFL hadn't postponed the game after Damar Hamlin's injury, that would have been the last game I ever watched. You cannot expect players to play after a five-minute break not knowing if their teammate is alive. I normally expect that kind of cruelty from Corpo America.
✔️You owe yourself. What's being done to the economy sucks and it is not the fault of working class folks. At the same time: you still gotta deal with what's coming and it doesn't look good.
✔️If you have a realtor, broker, pay-cash-for-house place, etc., blowing up your phone and you want it to stop, get into a discussion with them about '08. They will lose your number hella fast!
Links I discuss:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-week-ahead-2023-new-year-jobs-report-114724649.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/things-were-way-tougher-charlie-150000169.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5835269&page=1
https://fortune.com/2023/01/03/tech-layoffs-2022-pandemic-dotcom-bubble/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shopify-axing-meetings-involving-more-171802803.html
https://tinyurl.com/ynf67hv8
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/04/old-rich-white-dudes-think-youre-a-bunch-of-whiners/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/the-blog/ (Please bookmark my blog - do not rely on social media to tell you when I have published something new!)
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/remote-work-may-be-past-its-prime-6117210/
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Anytime I see some идиот in the media reassuring us that we could just never have another 2008 ever, ever again, I realize we're going to see something similar or perhaps even worse.
Let's take a little stroll down Memory Lane and reexamine what that time was like and what kinds of shenanigans and chicanery happened. I think you'll find that history is repeating itself in a pretty eerie way.
Links I mention:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/12/29/this-isnt-2008-%f0%9f%98%92/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/how-severe-would-a-recession-be-5515020/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11775961
https://money.com/jobs-barack-obama-presidency/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/great-recession.asp
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8249181/Deepening-crisis-traps-Americas-have-nots.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-real-jaw-dropper-at-the_b_791091
https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2010/01/12/fed-posts-record-profits-for-last-year/
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-inequality-fueled-the-crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-01-28/secret-banking-cabal-emerges-from-aig-shadows-david-reilly
https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2011/06/nytimes-a-secretive-banking-elite-rules-trading-in-derivatives/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
While you were mistletoe'ing and hopefully enjoying a good holiday, the power brokers were power broking. You think THEY take a break from money in December? 😆 If only.
Key topics:
✔️ BlackRock out here talking about "a new regime." Not a new economy, a new circumstance, a new challenge. REGIME.
✔️ A lot of corporate fat cats' fingers are going into some important pies. I hope you are paying attention to this.
✔️ The average working class person is going to generate wealth from investing in hit songs and expensive art? On what planet?!?
✔️ Investors are going to hop in and "rebuild" Ukraine? Uh... you mean Зеленский didn't just come to the US to thank us for the taxpayer funds and then ask for more? You mean there might have been more going on?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-world-largest-asset-manager-223000827.html
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/att-blackrock-form-commercial-fiber-optic-platform-2022-12-23/
https://money.usnews.com/financial-advisors/articles/all-eyes-on-private-equity-for-long-term-returns
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/capital-markets/cre-funds-may-be-forced-to-sell-buildings-if-investors-keep-pulling-out-their-capital-116686
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reit.asp
https://survivingtomorrow.org/hyper-elites-are-desperate-for-a-recession-because-they-want-to-buy-your-assets-for-cheap-1e8800f836
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/28/zelenskyy-blackrock-ceo-fink-agree-to-coordinate-ukraine-investment.html
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 12/19 - 12/23.
✔️ So many shenanigans are going on in the job market. PIPs. Changed metrics. Lower performance scores. Relocate or quit. Keep your head on a swivel!
✔️Whether you're looking at the job market or the housing market, Q4 of 2022 looks a lot different than Q4 of 2021.
✔️You mean forced groupthink sucks and being on constant surveillance apps is stressful for people? Well no duh!
✔️Are you listening to hot air and hopium or do you feel prepared for whatever is on the horizon?
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/dangers-of-too-much-collaboration-5517884/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/google-tells-employees-higher-risk-of-low-performance-ratings-in-2023.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hundreds-of-tyson-workers-to-exit-6119914/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Programming note: The podcast will be on hiatus until Tuesday, January 3rd. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!
People who say they've never had a project go sideways or never had a client from hell are either lying through their teeth or they haven't done much business. The anagram QTIP, i.e., quit taking it personally, can help us leave the 💩 we sometimes deal with at work, at work. In this episode, I want to talk about not taking it personally as well as the freelancing pitfalls that the toxic optimism and fake positivity crowd ignore.
Links I discuss:
https://caseyzeman.com/7-ways-to-stop-attracting-the-wrong-customer/
https://theempowermentdynamic.com/q-tip-quit-taking-it-personally-2/
https://www.floatoncounseling.com/self-improvement/q-tip-quit-taking-it-personally/
Brian Scott's videos I mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgkqffZVSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmMAzf6F8a4
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Asking for a friend. 😇As we said back in the day: eww, grody.
Marc Benioff of Salesforce sent the following Slack message to employees on 12/16:
How do we increase the productivity of our employees at salesforce? New employees (hired during the pandemic in 2021 & 2022) are especially facing much lower productivity. Is this a reflection of our office policy? Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture? Are our managers not directly addressing productivity with their teams? Are we not investing enough time into our new employees? Do managers focus enough time and energy on onboarding new employees & achieving productivity? is coming as a new employee to salesforce too overwhelming? Asking for a friend. (Im leaving this open ended to get the broadest level of response.) -from CNBC
I sort of expect Maximus Decimus Meridius to pop up from Gladiator and shout, "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!"
Is this the beginning stage of the hybrid hell-of-half-measures model transitioning to full on RTO?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/bret-taylor-steps-down-as-co-chair-and-ceo-of-salesforce/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/report-indicates-friction-prior-to-bret-taylors-resignation-from-salesforce/?cx_testId=6&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/16/marc-benioff-says-newer-salesforce-employees-are-less-productive.html
https://doctorow.medium.com/this-inflation-is-different-248b8538371b
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 12/11 - 12/16.
✔️ Hybrid workers are the most loyal? What goofy пропаганда is this?
✔️Are remote opps dwindling away? Yep. And I have warned you this would happen for quite some time.
✔️1 in 4 people who took out a govt backed mortgage in 2022 are now underwater? Holy crow!
✔️Lord Elon not paying rent and may back out on severance pay... Wow.
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/stellantis-to-cut-jobs-idle-plant-5507444/
https://www.barrons.com/articles/economy-recession-interest-rates-fed-51670622600?siteid=yhoof2
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/impromptu-meetings-are-on-the-rise-6106386/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hybrid-workers-are-loyal-workers-6103618/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/workers-starting-shelter-place-other-happenings-world-taylor-borden/
https://www.eenews.net/articles/attacks-on-grid-infrastructure-in-4-states-raise-alarm/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxS7gPvaJH0
https://tinyurl.com/ym9upw7p
https://news.yahoo.com/remote-jobs-disappearing-full-return-120040722.html
https://tinyurl.com/yzhx57mx
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-companies-making-cuts-6109906/
https://tinyurl.com/3k3dn962
https://tinyurl.com/bdemhcpb
https://www.yahoo.com/now/4-benefits-women-demand-workplaces-130100538.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/whos-least-worried-about-layoffs-6121714/
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
Regardless of the topic, when it comes to the job market, any and all problems will be blamed on working class folks. The power brokers will not blame themselves. They will twist themselves into pretzels trying to find absurd arguments about how average Americans caused this mess. It's sickening.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/millions-missing-workers-making-job/story?id=94480152
https://fortune.com/2022/12/08/robots-jobs-long-hours-less-pay-new-study/
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But just as the market can't sustain obscene real estate prices, I don't think the job market will remain so heavily candidate-driven forever either. In the event of a recession, I think we will see the job market change much faster than if we don't have a recession. To return to my 2008 comparison, if you had a job you could even halfway tolerate at that time, you did whatever you had to do to keep it. The fear of being unemployed and having no options was palpable.
-https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/04/04/when-the-pendulum-swings/
Published on April 4, 2022
It's like the cliché: history may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme.
We've reached the point where workers looking for fully remote positions is higher than available fully remote positions. The competition for those roles is intense. Hiring managers seem to be increasingly stubborn about demanding RTO. I understand this will sound quite cynical indeed, but: who do you think will ultimately win the battle? Workers beleaguered by layoffs and a recession or Corporate America?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.axios.com/2022/12/04/remote-jobs-linkedin-supply-demand
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/27/remote-jobs-economy/
https://belmontstar.com/a-bear-market-jobs-what-you-need-to-know/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/07/04/the-great-resistance-may-cost-you/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 12/5 - 12/9.
✔️ So... people are shoplifting and doing "buy now, pay later" for food, yet we're also supposed to believe that people are still flush with cash. What?!?
✔️Even Jim Cramer is telling people to expect layoffs now.
✔️More articles of men and Millennials being blamed for the current economic mess.
✔️RH CEO says, "The housing market is collapsing at a level I haven't seen since 2008." Oh but remember the realtors and brokers who assured me we would just NEVER have another 2008.
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/05/spacex-unveils-starshield-a-military-variation-of-starlink-satellites.html
https://tinyurl.com/34mtcw3e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcCLAO2PyoY
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/more-remote-workers-than-work-5073937/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-companies-making-cuts-5068209/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/where-are-we-in-the-labor-cycle-6103522/
https://tinyurl.com/mrxers2c
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/06/pepsico-layoffs-headquarters/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/walmart-warns-of-shoplifting-crisis-5510860/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/dimon-details-scenario-for-recession-5071889/
https://tinyurl.com/3zashk32
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/06/jim-cramer-says-he-expects-many-layoffs-at-companies-after-christmas.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/where-are-all-the-working-aged-men-6104290/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11775961
https://tinyurl.com/49r8me9j
https://tinyurl.com/3vk3j8sj
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/07/mortgage-demand-falls-again-interest-rates-decline.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rh-ceo-the-housing-market-is-collapsing-133624128.html
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
👻 Ghosts and bad hiring managers and lack of remote work, oh my.
Allegedly, the job market is still BLAZING HAWT! Yet simultaneously, job seekers are looking for back-up employment, side hustles, and/or part-time jobs. So... what's actually going on? If the job market was really that robust and we still had a so-called labor shortage, then why would people feel nervous and look to hedge their bets?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/us-adds-263k-jobs-more-than-forecast-6093074/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/workers-are-seeking-back-up-jobs-6090914/
https://tinyurl.com/2kc2dmhj
https://tinyurl.com/3rt2fyvh
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-danger-ghosting-job-youve-accepted-get-hired-by-linkedin-news/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/unconventional-way-to-get-a-raise-5062025/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Not content to settle for generational clickbait, now we need to point fingers based on gender. 😒
On November 13th, I published the article, "The poop storm is your fault" because that's where we're at. The fat cats who created this mess are NOT gonna blame themselves. But they and their corporate shills are more than happy to blame others.
According to Mike Rowe's podcast, "It's Worse Than You Think. The workforce participation rate that is. The number of able-bodied men choosing not to work is a crisis, and Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, can prove it." This spawned an amusing video Dave Ramsey produced titled, "7 Million American Males Refuse to Go to Work (Here's Why)."
Naturally, we MUST ask the question: is this even true?
Key topics:
✔️ Is it important to try something new and fail? Yes, of course. But using that as a justification for staying in a crappy job that you hate rather than finding a better one seems like a pretty bizarre notion to me. We're getting really close to: "sit down, shut up, and do what you're told, dammit. Now, we're not gonna do that and we haven't worked for a boss in 20 years, but you had better obey, peon!"
✔️ Is it accurate that 7 million men (specifically) are not working and are not even looking for work? Well, we can find literally THE SAME story going back to August of 2016. See for yourself! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-7-million-american-men-063039864.html / https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/08/15/men-not-at-work-why-so-many-men-ages-of-25-to-54-are-not-working/
✔️ So even though this statistic is 5+ years old, we're now seeing it recycled as the cause of the so-called labor shortage. Essentially, the argument is: stop watching TV and playing video games and go to work instead, you 7 million dudes. If you took these jobs, we wouldn't have inflation and we wouldn't have a labor shortage! Never mind The Fed's policies or the printing up of fiat currency like it was candy. Ohhhh noooo. Now we're gonna resurrect an old story and use it for the blame game!
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWRpb2Jvb20uY29tL2NoYW5uZWxzLzUwNjAzMTMucnNz/episode/dGFnOmF1ZGlvYm9vbS5jb20sMjAyMi0xMC0xNzovcG9zdHMvODE3NjM0MA?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj4v9bE4dH7AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg5CrDj1VC4
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 11/28 - 12/2.
✔️ Forced fun is not fun? Wowee, ya don't say!
✔️Some candidates will apply to a job they don't actually want in an effort to get a raise, a promotion, etc. IMHO, if you are commanding everyone to RTO and you're getting ghosted or your hiring funnel is relatively empty, well, you're playing yourself.
✔️Layoffs via Zoom were bad enough but now layoffs via text?
✔️We're told that adult loneliness is at an all-time high and people feel they have difficulty making friends. It seems like they've forgotten the old rule: in order to have a friend, you have to BE a friend.
Links I mention in this episode:
https://nypost.com/2022/11/25/united-furniture-industries-lays-off-off-its-2700-workers-while-they-were-sleeping/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/your-manager-might-admire-musk-6093562/
https://medium.com/@sara_causey/dealing-with-twitter-loyalists-688979bda884
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/11/18/work-long-hours-at-high-intensity-or-gtfo/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ai-behind-amazon-recruiter-buyouts-5502516/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hiring-may-stay-high-despite-downturn-6096434/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/enforced-fun-is-never-fun-5071609/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/snap-orders-staff-to-rto-80-of-week-5073705/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/job-quits-rate-hits-17-month-low-6097938/
https://www.yahoo.com/video/great-remote-mismatch-workers-looking-201735856.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/04/04/when-the-pendulum-swings/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/02/heres-where-the-jobs-are-for-november-2022-in-one-chart.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/12/02/dwindling-remote-opportunities/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/job-cuts-at-cnn-gannett-wash-post-6093050/
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
It would be nice if those Progressive Insurance commercials where you could ask for an official review/replay in life actually existed! Unfortunately, in the business world, you may occasionally encounter someone who behaves like Jon Lovitz as the Pathological Liar. Hence we add to the Hall of Infamy Lenny the Liar, who can also be a gaslighter, too.
Key topics:
✔️ Beware of the phrase, "I AM THE CLIENT!" It's akin to "the customer is always right" even though every business owner knows that is not true.
✔️ If you left Corporate America to avoid liars, backstabbers, micromanagers, etc., if you do not carefully guard your own practice, you can duplicate the same nightmare you sought to escape.
✔️ Lenny types can also try to use you as a scapegoat. They know their project is probably doomed to fail and they want to point a finger of blame at someone other than themselves.
✔️ Do you have a rainy day fund set aside? If you have some money put back in savings, it can make things easier if you need to fire fast.
Link I mention in this episode:
https://abovethelaw.com/2020/03/how-to-deal-with-a-lying-client/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Even people with little or no expertise in the job market have started to look around and say, "Uh-oh. Maybe, um, things are not so great after all... maybe these stats we're hearing are complete nonsense..."
Yet we still have so-called experts telling people, "Just go get another job. Go stir up a side hustle. Just get yerself over-employed and you'll be fine." Riiiiiiight. OK. Sure. 😒
People who thought that The Great Resignation would last forever are on the same wavelength with realtors who thought the FOMO & YOLO of 2021 would also last forever, too. Now those folks are going bankrupt and dealing with layoffs.
Link I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX3wRssu8Ug
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 11/14 - 11/18.
✔️ More six-figure earners are shopping at Walmart because they have to. We're also finally allowed to know that credit card debt is going through the roof.
✔️Are there people who game the system and lie? Of course. But not everyone does that. IMO, any boss who feels like Covid is just a lame excuse to stay home can go straight to hell.
✔️Is Lord Elon going to learn some big lesson from people walking out of Twitter? Nope. I think this is all about weeding out people who are non-compliant.
Yes, I sound like a frog with a 2 ciggy pack a day habit. This too shall pass. 🐸🚬
Programming note: I will be taking a podcasting break next week. I hope you all have a wonderful & safe Thanksgiving!
Links I mention:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/how-tight-is-the-labor-market-6083754/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-tells-twitter-staff-opt-115236558.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/amazon-offering-voluntary-buyouts-5503828/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-household-debt-jumps-most-160000475.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/call-in-sick-covid-get-paid-leave-bosses-excuse-2022-11
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
According to Fortune.com, "The Great Remorse takes over the Great Resignation as most workers who quit their job are having a hard time finding a new one." And so it begins...
Back on April 4th, I published the blog post "When the Pendulum Swings..." because I knew it would.
"Just as the pendulum will swing away from being an extreme sellers' market with buyers willing to waive inspections, overbid, offer based on photos without even going to the house, etc., this will happen with the job market as well. It's only a matter of time."
Now here we are.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.yahoo.com/video/great-remorse-takes-over-great-133000047.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmorel/2022/04/19/why-the-great-regret-is-actually-the-great-reality-check/?sh=30033ca52e3d
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/why-employees-really-call-it-quits-6069714/
Sound Effect by Charlie_Raven from Pixabay
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 11/7 - 11/11.
✔️ Post midterms we see a tale of two economies. People'r'doin' great and inflation is coming down - but ha ha not really.
✔️Also: mortgage rates are going down but banks are looking for a bailout. So which is it? Things are improving now but they're not?
✔️Lord Elon hath told the Twitter staff that work from home forever is done-zo. Do you not think other companies won't do the same thing?
✔️That guy down the hall might get caught in a layoff but it won't happen to me! Really?
Links I mention:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/recession-talk-could-be-overblown-morning-brief-103035628.html (save this as a PDF and let's see how it ages)
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/meta-preps-large-scale-layoff-wsj-5488444/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/200k-pay-ranges-under-new-nyc-law-5487852/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-meta-lyft-and-more-another-wave-of-layoffs-hits-tech-182545675.html
If you need telehealth in the middle of the night, this is an option to potentially consider: https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/virtual-care (as always, do your own research and make your own decisions)
https://www.businessinsider.com/redfin-lays-off-862-employees-and-closes-home-flipping-business-2022-11
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/job-seekers-wish-they-started-sooner-5491252/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ceos-now-freely-saying-recession-6061386/
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/05/housing-market-lobbyists-washington-00063859
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/read-elon-musks-first-email-to-all-twitter-employees.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-layoffs-workers-reactions-155447842.html
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
Last week, a couple of important yet relatively unnoticed articles popped up on MarketWatch: "Hedge-fund giant Elliott warns looming hyperinflation could lead to 'global societal collapse'" and "A U.S. labor shortage is planting the seeds for lots of layoffs. Here's how." Even though the topics may seem a little different, they are not unrelated, IMO.
Key topics:
✔️ I believe it's important to pay attention to what the fat cats and hedge fund managers say PRIVATELY. Watch what they do and watch what they say to the investors, board of directors, etc. When they are telling investors that we may be in for the worst conditions since WWII, I think that's worth a listen.
✔️ The state and/or The Fed won't blame themselves. The memo from Elliott even admits that. Oh no. They blame working class people instead. Quelle surprise. 😒
✔️ If someone is still goofing around with their head in the clouds, I truly don't know what it's gonna take.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-fund-giant-elliott-warns-looming-hyperinflation-could-lead-to-global-societal-collapse-11667470081
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-u-s-labor-shortage-is-planting-the-seeds-for-lots-of-layoffs-heres-how-11667607221
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On September 1st, I published the episode, "Whatever Happened to the Middle Class American Dream?" Apparently now, even the MSM is asking that question. Better late than never, I guess.
Key topics:
✔️ "The American middle class is experiencing the biggest wealth drop since the Great Recession." -Fortune.com Well, at least we're allowed to bring up 2008. I think back to all the people on their soapboxes, "Oh we would just neevvverrrr have another 2008..." Really?!?
✔️ We're still getting the narrative, however, that people are going into this downturn flush with cash. Plenty of money in savings, low personal debt, all that stimmy cash from 2020. 😒
✔️ At this point, if someone still has their head buried in the sand, I think it's probably too late. By the time we're told a recession hath hit, we may be in an economic depression.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11214103
https://fortune.com/2022/11/02/american-middle-class-losing-wealth/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 10/31 - 11/4.
✔️ So... wait a minute. Is it a buyout for "underperforming" people or is it just an attempt to get rid of workers 55+? Let's be real about things.
✔️A 3.7% unemployment rate? 😆 OK, sure.
✔️On Monday - Twitter layoffs are just a rumor. By Friday - they are a reality. Yet another reason why I advocate for critical thinking and common sense over listening to talking heads.
✔️The economists who said we wouldn't see mass layoffs in Q4... how are their predictions looking now?
Links I mention:
https://survivingtomorrow.org/this-isnt-a-real-estate-crash-1e6e4bc78450
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ford-offers-underperformers-severance-5038625/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/twitter-sued-by-employees-after-mass-layoffs-begin.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/october-jobs-report-november-4-2022-202231255.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/big-tech-hit-with-hiring-freezes-cuts-6060618/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/layoffs-are-picking-up-3-steps-to-take-after-losing-your-job.html
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
"The war for talent is over. Talent won, says PwC U.S. chairman Tim Ryan."
Uh... OK.
"Companies are moving back to mandates, anywhere from two days to five days in the office citing the need for connection, but Ryan said what is important is redefining what connection means in the workplace, and mandates no longer make sense for today’s workforce. " -CNBC
Have you ever heard the expression, "If 'ifs and buts' were candy and nuts we'd all have a wonderful Christmas" ? That's how I feel about this.
🔮 Prediction alert: if talent had actually won this talent war in the long-term, wouldn't the economy look quite a bit different? Would we see leaked memos about how the balance of power needs to go back to Corpo America? Would The Fed want to see unemployment going up? To use the phrase du jour: c'mon man. This feels like the calm before a sudden rabbit punch knocks you out.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sucker-rally.asp
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/26/the-war-for-talent-is-over-talent-won-says-pwc-us-chairman.html
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/6/23388247/layoffs-recession-labor-market
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11166348
https://www.bankrate.com/banking/federal-reserve/whats-next-for-great-resignation-in-a-recession/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/80-employees-problematic-level-debt-172452658.html
https://survivingtomorrow.org/mortgages-are-the-biggest-ripoff-on-earth-61fe0c7795e3
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
It's easy for someone else to tell you what to do. Ya know, like "rules for thee, but not for me." I heard it a lot when I was running my business that failed. "Well, I mean, I wouldn't go work an overnight shift at the DG for $8/hr but, I mean, you could." The same thing has gone on during the peak FOMO & YOLO of the housing market as well. "Oh, your house is a major investment. Probably the biggest one you'll ever have. Don't you want this? Can't you pick up 5 more jobs to afford it?" Reminds me of the mortgage broker who told me, "I'd never take out an ARM, but, I mean, you could if you want to." 😠
I've been ringing the alarm bell for months now. The Fed wants to crash the job market. They want to see unemployment go up. So what would you do if picking up another job is not an option? What if you can't work a full-time job and then operate 2 or 3 side hustles to afford something? What then? Personally, those are questions I would want to seriously contemplate before making any type of major purchase.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtLiCatmVsY
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/housing-market-buyers-remorse-homeowner-regret
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 10/23 - 10/28.
✔️ The Dollar Tree is the $1.25 tree with some items now $3, $5 & $7. Even the discount stores are not very discount anymore.
✔️More and more neighborhoods showing economic distress. I drove by a neighborhood that was built around 2006 or 2007 during the 125% loans + no money down fiasco, and some of the houses are falling apart.
✔️ Lots of articles going up against remote work - will they be fired first, remote work is disappearing, out of sight out of mind, etc. It's not a buried thesis. They want you back.
Links I mention:
https://medium.com/@sara_causey/how-can-this-be-surprising-d85892ed9228
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-whats-really-hurting-the-economy-100027920.html
https://www.barrons.com/articles/jobs-hiring-layoffs-cuts-labor-market-robert-half-earnings-51666373299
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/24/more-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-outpaces-income.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/not-time-greedy-home-flippers-110000999.html
https://tinyurl.com/3a6nthvr
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/juul-reportedly-discussing-bailout-5021881/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/the-lasting-effects-of-remote-work-6039074/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKibtKuSe8
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6988501096616861696/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/remote-work-ads-are-disappearing-5020553/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/08/23/i-told-you-so-%f0%9f%8e%b6/
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-10-26/remote-workers-may-be-the-first-let-go-in-recession-related-layoffs
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxcVdTNR9r6iqa81-V35NQ8JGMFACeDD7T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfXxmRvxLoE&t=1239s
https://tinyurl.com/ytdzesp4
https://tinyurl.com/59hnmuzb
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On September 28th, I bucked the social media trend and told you that GM walking back its RTO mandate was temporary. It didn't represent a total capitulation on RTO in favor of WFH. Instead, IMO, it was a temporary stop-gap for people to either warm up to coming back or leave. And now we're here: "GM employees will be back in the office next year. Not all of them are happy." Told ya so!
Key topics:
✔️ More predictions from me: 3 days in the office will eventually transition to 5 days in the office. I do not believe hybrid work is being set up as a permanent model for most companies. Many people who work that way don't even like it and I just don't see it being a permanent thing.
✔️ Workplace feudalism as well as just gestures broadly feudalism in general is becoming too obvious to ignore. Is it really about "in person collaboration" or is it about compliance and obedience?
✔️ Be wary of people on social media who want to give you hot air and hopium. They might be lulling you into a happy coma that won't end particularly well.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/09/28/imagine-that/
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2022/10/22/gm-employees-will-be-back-in-the-office-next-year-not-all-are-happy/69581964007/?gnt-cfr=1
https://survivingtomorrow.org/not-content-to-destroy-affordable-housing-investors-are-now-buying-trailer-parks-and-jacking-rents-f1e9b5d2a60b
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11368300
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Let's kill the notion of forced corporate fun. You know what I'm talking about. The kind of bull 💩 that strikes fear in the heart of every introvert working for you...
Happy Hours... Team Building Events... Trust Falls... Lunch'n'learns... Saturday BBQs at Bob's house... 🙅🏻♀️
A recent viral TikTok where not even the person who organized the event showed up says a lot.
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/viral-tiktok-proves-no-one-wants-to-go-back-to-the-office/437278
https://medium.com/@sara_causey/company-culture-bull-ff84efe99d3d
https://medium.com/codex/company-mandatory-fun-please-stop-30fae048df77
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 10/17 - 10/21.
✔️ 1 in 4 Americans say they will skip Thanksgiving this year due to the costs. But on the same day, CNBC is telling us how great the stonk market is. Uh, is that helping any of you in any real way?
✔️"Credit reporting agency Equifax has turned its own employment record tracking tool on its own employees." IMAGINE THAT! Corpo America using a tool against you? Why, clutch my pearls, I can't hardly imagine such a thing. 🙄
✔️ TRAPs to trap you into not quitting a job prematurely? The only thing that surprises me about that is how surprised the general public seems to be. I mean... did you really think Corpo America wouldn't pull some 💩 like this?
Links I mention:
https://tinyurl.com/3fx8z5mr
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/will-holidays-bring-big-spending-5009905/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/goldman-sachs-in-huge-reshuffle-5007825/
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2022-10-17/its-time-to-say-so-long-to-inflated-wages
https://www.tastingtable.com/1056373/why-walmart-is-laying-off-almost-1500-employees/
https://tech.co/news/equifax-fires-overemployed-second-job
https://tinyurl.com/yc43vwrt
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gary-cohn-on-inflation-relief-were-going-to-have-to-see-job-destruction-100417449.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/19/heres-what-the-wells-fargo-cross-selling-scandal-means-for-the-bank.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/workers-handed-big-bills-for-quitting-5005297/
https://tinyurl.com/4wppwuk6
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/
https://tinyurl.com/2paw49uz
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/workers-not-too-worried-about-layoffs-6044578/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/10/18/ding-ding-ding/
https://www.bankrate.com/banking/federal-reserve/whats-next-for-great-resignation-in-a-recession/
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
"It's all about money, not freedom. Nothing to do with freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money."
" Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again... You are free to do what we tell you!"
-Both quotes from Bill Hicks
I recently watched the documentary "Neuromarketing: How Brands are Manipulating Your Brain | Consumer Decisions Documentary" on Java Discover. One of the training modules I have used in my coaching practice is titled, "Humans Are Emotional Creatures" because, well, we are. Even though people might love to think they make business and financial decisions using cold, pure logic... ❌ nope!
In this documentary, they use the dictionary definition of manipulation as "shrewd or devious management, especially for one's own advantage," particularly when the other person does not know that's what you're doing.
So what happens and what are the ethics involved when companies intentionally use neuroscience as neuromarketing? In other words: is it ethical when you are manipulated into making certain decisions without the knowledge that you are being manipulated?
Links I mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbDw4NUf-Q
https://www.smh.com.au/national/rewriting-the-rule-book-so-dining-out-doesnt-leave-a-bad-taste-20130608-2nx3d.html
https://hbr.org/2019/01/neuromarketing-what-you-need-to-know
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy
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Recently, Orlando Miner published a great video titled, "The Housing Market Bubble Just Popped." Someone needs to tell greedy sellers here in the Midwest LOL. A lot of them haven't gotten the memo yet.
At about 8:30, he makes the comment about "sitting out with purpose" and that concept is amazing, IMO.
Key topics:
✔️ My friend, Eric, likes to say, "You're not waiting. You're persisting. There's a difference."
✔️ Even as these markets are changing, there are still brokers and realtors who will tell you to overpay for a 💩 house. It reminds me of the dog sitting in flames saying, "This is fine."
✔️ Ultimately, you gotta do you. Because when the dust settles, everyone else walks away. That broker or that realtor is not gonna help you make the monthly payment if things get tight.
Link I mention in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ujEelk8Lk
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 10/9 - 10/14.
✔️ The war hawks want war and they're not being shy in saying so. As soon as you drop the term "regime change" in the media, your agenda is really obvious.
✔️ The yard sales and garage sales seem totally empty, even when it's sunny and 75. Unfortunately the window of time to sell unwanted stuff to make extra money may have passed.
✔️ More and more houses seem to have the look of economic distress. This is clearly not a good sign.
✔️ As Billy Currington once said, "God is great. Beer is good. And people are crazy."
Links I mention:
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/10/putin-must-go-now-is-the-time-for-regime-change-in-russia/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/blasts-kyiv-russian-missiles-putin-ukraine-crimea-bridge-attack-rcna51418
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/asia/north-korea-missile-launch/index.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/10/11/good/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/act-scores-are-lowest-in-decades-4995305/
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
As I've said many times before: IMO, naivete is coming at too high of a price these days. BoA is warning: "US economy will soon start losing 175,000 jobs a month." They also predict job losses all through 2023. Do you have a job loss survival plan? Who is your first job-related phone call after a layoff? A good rule of thumb: 3 is 2, 2 is 1, 1 is none.
This information is not coming to you from weird fringe media outlets or banks no one ever heard of. You are literally being told by CNN and BoA that job losses loom large on the horizon. If you know of someone who needs to hear this, please share this episode with them.
Links I reference:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/economy/jobs-recession-unemployment/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-interest-rate-hikes-unemployment-increase-layoffs-inflation/
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In the same way that real estate websites are FINALLY starting to admit the housing market is a hot mess, we're seeing the early wave of reports that the labor market isn't quite so hawt either.
IMO, the new narrative appears to be: Yeah, OK, the job market is slowing down but, like, you don't need to worry about layoffs. Really?!?
Article I reference:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/6/23388247/layoffs-recession-labor-market
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О Боже! Not unlike Kevin O'Leary's napalm on LinkedIn about quiet quitting, Dr. Phil has weighed in on the subject. On Thursday, 9/29, the episode "Quiet Quitting: Lazy Employees or Taking a Stand?" hit the air waves and it featured people on both sides of the topic, including Attorney Ryan who has become a social media sensation on this issue.
Key topics:
✔️ According to Dr. Phil, "quiet quitting is bull." So is he right? Or not?
✔️ Are there people who advocate for quiet quitting while they're working their tails off? Are they giving you bad advice? 🤔
✔️ Is this just more generational clickbait? Trust me - Xers heard the same message of "Y'all are just a generation of slackers" all through the 90s. I was there and I remember it.
✔️ An entrepreneur on the show talks about running her business and the passion she has for it. But see, that's the thing - is it realistic to expect an employee to have the same level of commitment and buy-in that YOU have for your own business? No, it's not. That's not to say they should do nothing at all, but that the company owner ought to have realistic expectations.
Link I mention in this episode:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 10/3 - 10/7.
✔️ CBS News is telling you outright that The Fed wants to crash the job market and increase unemployment. Please, please do not ignore this info.
✔️ Housing prices are set to decline across the country. I'd love to print that article out and mail it to every arrogant realtor and broker I encountered last year who INSISTED we would never see a decline in prices ever again. 😒
✔️ FB is reportedly doing PIPs and quiet layoffs. I told ya so!
Links I mention:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-interest-rate-hikes-unemployment-increase-layoffs-inflation/
https://www.yahoo.com/video/wall-street-u-housing-market-093741575.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/04/jolts-august-2022.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/professor-fired-over-hard-class-6018546/
https://nypost.com/2022/10/04/facebook-to-purge-thousands-of-workers-in-quiet-layoffs/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/amazon-halts-corporate-retail-hiring-4984097/
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/6/23388247/layoffs-recession-labor-market
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/another-big-company-exits-illinois-6032362/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/07/jobs-report-september-2022.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/gen-z-getting-too-much-sway-at-work-6024698/
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
Cue N'Sync here.
Oh, the treasure trove that is Fortune.com these days. Yesterday, they published an article titled, "Bosses admit they’d start with remote workers during a layoff. How to make sure it doesn’t happen to you."
IMO, we're moving from the dress rehearsals to the opening night of whatever this economic 💩 storm is about to be. Corporate America is emboldened and they know what's coming down the road. Ya know, things like layoffs, hiring freezes, PIPs, and a demand that you RTO. I have warned you about this for months now. So many Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and have personal debt. I find it hard to believe that in a recession, most people will be able to say, "Hell no, we won't go" for very long. I'm not saying it's right - I'm just telling you reality as I see it.
Link to article:
https://fortune.com/2022/10/05/remote-workers-likely-cut-first-in-layoffs-recession/
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When CBS News reports that The Fed wants to crash the job market and INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT, it's worth taking note.
"With an additional million or two people out of work, the newly unemployed and their families would sharply cut back on spending, while for most people who are still working, wage growth would flatline."
In other words: a lot of people will be unemployed and those who still have jobs will see their wages stagnate. IMO, you have a window of time to prepare for this reality and being naïve about it is not a great idea.You can read the entire story here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-interest-rate-hikes-unemployment-increase-layoffs-inflation/
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And if so, is it really because of the pandemic?
Not to let us down, Fortune.com gave us another gem: "The ending of the pandemic is revealing an America full of bad behaviors, in and out of the workplace."
Key topics:
✔️ Is this even true? Is it true that the end of the pandemic has revealed an America full of bad behavior?
✔️ And if so, is it really because of Cv!d, or is it because people are stressed out by inflation and economic uncertainty and they're mad as hell? 🤔 You put people in a hot summer with prices exploding and you're gonna get a pressure cooker.
✔️ Things I do not miss: offices, cube farms, long commutes, the digital panopticon, business lunches at bad restaurants, schmoozing sessions, etc. We need to stop this narrative that Gen Z is the only generation that doesn't want RTO. Get real.
✔️ So... once we're "officially" told than unemployment is not at 3.7% with 2 open legit jobs for every 1 unemployed person, do you really think Corpo America and fat cats are gonna care about workplace morale and mental health? Really?* This is like the idea of "do gooder fatigue." LOL.
Links I mention in this episode:
https://fortune.com/2022/09/25/ending-of-pandemic-revealing-america-bad-behaviors-in-and-out-of-workplace/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 9/26 - 9/30.
✔️ Russell Brand is moving his content to Rumble. I predicted on Saturday Broadcast 16 that he'd be slapped down and censored soon. Happened even faster than I thought. (And yes, I finally got a hype man to announce my accurate predictions. 🤣)
✔️ Home sales cooling, wages not keeping pace with inflation . . . some of the goofballs who tried to deny the reality of bubbles and artificially manipulated markets are gettin' awfully quiet now.
✔️If we can't coax you back to the office, we'll tell you that you'll be outsourced and made obsolete for staying home! 😒
Links I mention:
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/facebooks-30-day-list-was-recently-extended-to-strong-performers-that-could-devastate-employee-morale-especially-for-people-who-get-rehired.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/gm-delays-return-to-office-mandate-after-employee-backlash.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/economy/economy-inflation-savings/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bN3U69Nm_E
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/white-collar-workers-face-new-threat-4981841/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
Where is the threshold for when positive thinking and optimism become toxic? Or perhaps worse than toxic - downright cruel ?
Key topics:
✔️ Lauren Berlant's book Cruel Optimism.
✔️ What if a dream of "the good life" is actually holding you back from living a good life? Or what if the promise of that good life is totally bogus?
✔️ "An attachment to a significantly problematic object." That's how I felt about my real estate quest and why I decided to strategically quit.
✔️An interesting argument is made for méconnaissance causing us to project certain traits onto other people or things only to discover they may or may not have those qualities after all. We can see this in relationship hopping, job hopping, love bombing, political hoopla and rah-rahing, etc.
There are a couple of places where I had cellular interference with the microphone. Sorry!
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.amazon.com/Cruel-Optimism-Lauren-Berlant-ebook/dp/B005Z53MG4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cruel+optimism&qid=1663290855&sr=8-1
https://www.yahoo.com/now/feel-used-rise-friend-bombing-053000357.html
https://news.uchicago.edu/podcasts/big-brains/why-chasing-good-life-holding-us-back-lauren-berlant
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/
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Recently, I read the article "Why Successful People Don’t Teach Success: Gurus, income experts, and business coaches preach personal success systems" by Jim Clair. Unfortunately, some of these personal success systems don't actually help you achieve that success... they mostly just take your money and leave you empty-handed.
Key topics:
✔️ Con artists use a formula. We can see this in many cases of snake oil salesmen and pyramid schemes.
✔️ Some of these gurus rocket to the top with a gimmick and then find themselves bankrupt almost as fast. If their system truly worked, why would that happen?
✔️ Can you really work a four hour work week and make a living wage? Does anyone still believe that anymore?
✔️ In his article "Tim Ferriss's Scam Framework and the Rise of Fake Gurus," Pete Williams calls out the model of fake expertise that he believes Ferriss advocates for in his book. He also calls out the model of starting a business to not run it - essentially just starting a "hollow enterprise."
Links I mention in this episode:
https://medium.com/the-bad-influence/tim-ferrisss-scam-framework-and-the-rise-of-fake-gurus-40d96283f02c
https://jimclair.com/billcomplete1-why-successful-people-dont-teach-success/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 9/19 - 9/23.
✔️ It's funny that these cities are telling people to have bug out bags but then at the same time acting like "nothing to see here, no big deal, no need to worry." What?!
✔️ It's also funny that the "pandemic is over" once Corpo America wanted everyone to RTO and sit in the Cube Farm again. What a coincidence.
✔️ I warned you about weaponized PIPs and performance reviews earlier this summer. Now we're here.
Links I mention:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10851581
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/rto-rates-highest-since-covid-4960393/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/didnt-get-the-job-was-it-fake-4956233/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/politics/biden-pandemic-60-minutes/index.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mega-banks-dimon-jpmorgan-congressional-testimony-112113206.html
https://kdvr.com/news/local/what-is-a-bug-out-bag/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/the-return-of-performance-reviews-5440044/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-meeting-.html
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In my 🔮 Prediction Alert: We Will See More Rip-Off Artists episode from September 8th, I talked about: "Jean Anouilh said, 'What you get free costs too much.' Touché. Sometimes what you give for free also costs too much." In this episode, I will pull the curtain back and discuss why I chose to quit the free and low cost platforms. As always: this is not advice. Just me opining for your entertainment only.
✔️ Why I unpublished my free educational courses.
✔️ Why I unpublished my Patreon page.
✔️ How I used the Pareto Principle to regain more time... and sanity!
✔️ The idea that if you give the whole candy store away for free, it will automatically draw people in and gift you with paying customers, has not been highly accurate in my experience. Sometimes it feels more like you are pushing things out at a financial loss. Not to mention the time drain involved.
Link I mention in this episode:
https://barbsotiart.com/2022/03/14/why-i-left-patreon/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
https://www.nataliecoombe.com/single-post/stop-giving-your-time-away
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Another prediction vindicated. Sadly.
I have been warning you for months on my blog and on this podcast (as well as anywhere else that will listen) that, IMO, the labor market is being used as a straw man. Looky over here at this hawt job market! Why, we couldn't possibly be in a recession, right? Right? RIGHT?!
Now here we are. Yesterday, CNBC published the video, "Will This Recession See Massive Layoffs?" which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUJsts5qvoc
This is why I say repeatedly: I believe you are playing a dangerous game if you are waiting to be "officially" told that the economy is in trouble. This video is such a depressing yet elegant example of why I have said that.
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Siren courtesy of Pixabay.
Do Gooder Fatigue? 😆
Key topics:
✔️ How many managers have you had that you felt were a true breath of fresh air and a bright spot in your day?
✔️ If you made a job change during The Great Resignation was it more about money or was it because you worried about the company's ability to prioritize your emotions? I'm willing to bet it was the former, not the latter.
✔️ "Back to school vibes" for grown adults. 🙄
✔️ Larry Winget's book It's Called Work For a Reason doesn't really account for what happens when Corpo America doesn't live up to its side of the bargain, IMO. I mean . . . gestures towards the Enron scandal
Links I mention in this episode:
https://fortune.com/2022/09/09/bosses-done-caring-about-worker-well-being-do-gooder-fatigue/
https://medium.com/@sara_causey/laying-down-the-law-da5487157cb3
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/goodbye-summer-hello-rto-5417772/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/09/14/the-fat-fire-fyre-festival/
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 9/12 - 9/16.
✔️ Corporate America is rapidly transitioning from the carrot to the stick. No more free coffee or niceties. Git'cher butt back in that cube!
✔️ Is a white collar recession coming? Looks around Is it not already here?
✔️ $1400 is the new $400.
✔️ A slight decrease in gas prices is not nearly as impressive to me as seeing the prices of daily necessity items like, ya know, food starting to decrease. And I do not see that so far.
Links I mention:
https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/goldman-sachs-yanks-free-coffee-perk-as-bankers-return-to-five-day-week/
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/398306/quiet-quitting-real.aspx
https://tinyurl.com/22s3zn5v
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/where-are-the-missing-workers-4955361/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/nyt-and-nbc-workers-refuse-to-rto-4958121/
https://tinyurl.com/29ddv7ew
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/is-white-collar-recession-coming-6005514/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/15/how-to-save-money-as-food-inflation-jumps.html
https://www.pymnts.com/economy/2022/how-did-1400-become-the-new-average-emergency-expense/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_VxecAWFxA
https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/dems-spending-on-maga-republicans-belies-just-how-cynical-their-threat-to-democracy-cries-are/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/16/economy/umich-consumer-sentiment-september/index.html
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On Monday, August 29th, CNBC told us, "Fewer Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck as inflation begins to ease." Meanwhile, Jerome Powell's speech at The Fed's Jackson Hole meeting was published on August 26th and it tells a rather different story . . .
Key topics:
✔️ "Inflation is easing" yet that's not what Jerome Powell is saying, nor does it reflect the experience of parents who can't buy a $25 backpack.
✔️ When he's talking about a softening of the labor market, do not be naïve about what he truly means.
✔️ "The burdens of high inflation fall heaviest on those who are least able to bear them." He's not wrong there.
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/29/fewer-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-starts-to-ease.html
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20220826a.htm
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/business/back-to-school-expenses-struggle/index.html
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In the midst of economic and geopolitical uncertainty, how do we avoid the extremes? Things like total cynicism and pessimism versus toxic positivity / toxic optimism? Avoiding reality versus watching 24/7 news?
In this episode, I discuss preparing for the future and setting your intentions for how you want each week to go. (Standard boilerplate here: this is not advice of any kind. Simply me opining for your entertainment only.)
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 9/4 - 9/9.
✔️ A zero down mortgage? What could possibly go wrong! Gestures towards 2008
✔️ I had a disappointing experience of prices going up so fast the store employees couldn't keep up with changing the stickers on the shelves. CNN published a story about a $25 backpack being unaffordable. But oh yeah - people'r'doin great! 😣
✔️ IMO, it's important to watch what the fat cats do. Not so much what they say, especially to the general public, but what they DO.
Links mentioned in this episode:
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/housing/2006-01-17-real-estate-usat_x.htm
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/homes/bank-of-america-zero-down-mortgages/index.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mortgage-rates-tiptoe-perilously-close-130000339.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/census-bureau-3-8-million-110000669.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bed-bath-beyond-cfo-accused-215540458.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ceo-does-not-regret-rto-mandate-5975154/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20220826a.htm
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/business/back-to-school-expenses-struggle/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/harvard-fellow-using-bnpl-for-food-shows-personal-desperation.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/job-seekers-proceed-with-caution-5978106/
https://fairmontpost.com/should-job-hoppers-leap-one-more-time/
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/0f50d41c-d925-3acc-b502-d40f69b42fcb/junk-loan-defaults-worry-wall.html
https://nypost.com/2022/09/06/bear-market-lows-likely-arrive-in-4th-quarter-morgan-stanley/
https://tinyurl.com/muehwvpv
https://news.gallup.com/poll/400565/inflation-causing-hardship-majority.aspx
https://fortune.com/2022/09/07/housing-price-crash-canada-australia-new-zealand-goldman-sachs-research/
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Unfortunately, economic downturns create an opening for scammers. Par exemple, there are already warnings about student loan forgiveness scams popping up. In this episode, I predict that, as we see more people treading into the insane waters of coaching, we will also see more con artists trying to take advantage of the desperate.
As always: this is not advice! This is me opining for your entertainment only.
✔️ On June 30th, I predicted: "I would also not be surprised to see an influx of HR/staffing/recruiting folks turning to 'coaching' without understanding how saturated that market already is and how insane the industry can be." Every day on LI, I see exactly that happening.
✔️ There are so many people trying to make a go of the coaching world that a variety of weird little cottage industries have sprung up around it. IMO, we will see even more of it.
✔️ I personally would be very wary of spending money I don't have. I would also be wary of anything that seems too good to be true.
✔️ Jean Anouilh said, "What you get free costs too much." Touché. Sometimes what you give for free also costs too much.
Link I mention in this episode:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10858972
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Today is Labor Day in the US. It feels like we all need a break from the bizarre-o world we've been in lately.
A pump-and-dump scheme in the stock market is when a stock is artificially pumped up through promotion. The stock is sold while the price is high and then the buyers are left holding the bag once the price drops.
Does any of this sound familiar? Gestures broadly Does it not seem like that's what's happening, well, everywhere these days?
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/061205.asp
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/consumers-rack-up-bnpl-debt-for-food-4930665/
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/29 - 9/2.
✔️ Media still on that "labor shortage!" train. 🦜
✔️ Rich folks are spending and not feeling the pinch of inflation. Meanwhile, we're given contradictory information that everyone else is doin' better, not living paycheck to paycheck as much, yet also they are using buy now/pay later for FOOD. 🤦🏻♀️
✔️ Thus far, I am batting 1000 on my job market predictions.
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/29/fewer-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-starts-to-ease.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/some-luxury-consumers-are-utterly-immune-to-inflation-former-lvmh-exec-122236963.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fednow-payment-system-launch-2023-194814075.html
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/08/29/federal-reserves-fednow-set-for-mid-2023-debut/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fed-up-junior-bankers-flee-goldman-5421852/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/30/jolts-july-2022.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/corporate-landlords-blackstone-gobbling-mobile-174500027.html
https://tinyurl.com/4ryph8hd
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinolearytv_quiet-quitting-cancer-to-culture-activity-6970765978871758849-n1yf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
https://youtu.be/vHvTU8m3ees
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/freelancing-is-in-5976482/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10858972
https://tinyurl.com/ys258w76
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11205137
https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/goldman-sachs-lifts-covid-protocols-urges-workers-back-to-office/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10642417
https://tinyurl.com/4ynctdxe
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IMO, we are in a K shaped economy. The ultra-rich aren't suffering from inflation as meanwhile, there are people who never fully recovered from 2008. So whatever happened to the good, old-fashioned Middle Class American Dream?
Key topics:
✔️ As a schoolkid in the 1980s Midwest, we heard it alllll the time: as long as you behave and work hard, you can be anything! You can be an astronaut, the President, a scientist who cures cancer. Later on, you're told that actually, no, not really and all that hopium is on par with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
✔️ "Just like everything else, those old crazy dreams just kinda came and went..."
✔️ Instead of the little house in the burbs with a white picket fence, is it now the 375 sf box home?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://americansongwriter.com/billy-joel-allentown/
https://genius.com/John-mellencamp-pink-houses-lyrics
https://www.amazon.com/Squeezed-Families-Cant-Afford-America/dp/0062412264/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1661635970&sr=8-1
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Harry Angel: Louis Cyphre . . . Lucifer. Even your name is a dime store joke.
Louis Cyphre: Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan, Johnny...
-From Angel Heart, 1987
Mephistopheles might be a mouthful in Manhattan. Or maybe Mephistopheles is already in Manhattan.
For those of you in the, "We could just neeeevveerrr have another 2008" crowd, the documentary "Money, Power, Impunity: The Bankers Who Stole The World" should be mandatory viewing. If you get a bit of gray in your hair (silver, in my case), you'll realize you've lived long enough to see these "we could just never" events happen multiple times. Funny how that works.
In a shining example of cult-like tactics used in Corporate America, the CEO of Lehman Brothers is shown in an internal (or perhaps infernal) video salivating over the idea of ripping out hearts and eating them in front of the victims. I mean . . . WTF?
Link to the documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFpFP8o1o8
Other links I discuss in this episode:
https://features.marketplace.org/why-no-ceo-went-jail-after-financial-crisis/#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20executives%20jailed,one%20banker%20went%20to%20jail.
https://www.reuters.com/article/baker-hedgefund-plea/chicago-hedge-fund-manager-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-idUSN1E77N1UI20110824
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/22 - 8/26.
✔️ "Apple employees claim they’re doing ‘exceptional work’ remotely as Tim Cook orders them back. They’re probably wrong." WOW. Ignore the RTO fluff pieces / WFH hit pieces at your own risk, IMO.
✔️ Most recent homebuyers feel buyers' remorse about their real estate purchases. This is another example of times when a delay in your process can turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
✔️ If you're out there doing "revenge spending" that you cannot afford in order to impress randos on social media... what are you thinking?!
Links I mention in this episode:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-employees-claim-doing-exceptional-153727824.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/23/why-recent-homebuyers-have-regrets-about-their-purchases.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/20/shoppers-spend-over-300-a-month-on-impulse-purchases-despite-recession-fears.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/laid-off-workers-finding-jobs-fast-5412092/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/dimon-not-backing-down-on-rto-5418356/
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"The idea that 'work sucks' is everywhere. It’s been the subject of ancient philosophers, world leaders, your colleagues and even pop culture. Comedian George Carlin once quipped, 'Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.'"
-From the Gallup State of the Global Workplace Report
"Late night, come home. Work sucks, I know." -Blink 182
In this episode, I will discuss the findings of Gallup's State of the Global Workplace Report for 2022. Most people report that they are stressed out and emotionally detached. So how do we make sense of this in light of The Great Resignation? If people hopped across the market to find better money and better conditions, then why are a majority still reporting that work sucks?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace-2022-report.aspx
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/09/majority-of-workers-who-quit-a-job-in-2021-cite-low-pay-no-opportunities-for-advancement-feeling-disrespected/
https://www.spiceworks.com/hr/engagement-retention/news/40-percent-employees-who-quit-unhappy/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morning-brief-companies-lower-headcount-093038889.html
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"The sun shines
And people forget
The spray flies as the speedboat glides
And people forget..."
"Eminence Front" by The Who.
Whenever I publish anything about the déjà vu the current markets are giving me, I will have at least one troll - usually either a mansplainer, corporate shill, or bot - assure me that we could just neeeevvvveeerrrr have another 2008 again. Really?
The crappy thing is: Wall Street is right. The public forgets. I recently watched The Divide: The Real People Behind the Wealth Gap on Java Discover and one of the interviewees, a former VP at Deutsche Bank, recalls a conversation about the bailouts in which she was told, "Well, here's the thing: the public always forgets." Now here we are.
You can find the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1WvDqj1qzQ
Other links I discuss in this episode:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/08/17/wait-a-minute-i-thought-pplr-doin-great/
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/k-shaped-recovery-definition
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/15 - 8/19.
✔️ Jamie Dimon's desire to see everyone back in the Cube Farm this fall may come true.
✔️ Another real estate mansplainer tried to tell me that there is just noooooo way we could ever have a repeat of 2008. Meanwhile: Blackstone is gearing up to buy houses when the downturn happens. I mean... connect the dots.
✔️ According to Yahoo Finance, at least half of US companies are planning to reduce headcount. Ignore this data at your own risk.
Links I mention in this episode:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-rips-062715020.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/whats-your-productivity-score-4901137/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/apple-tells-workers-its-time-to-rto-4899025/
https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/walmart-sales-get-boost-from-higher-income-shoppers/
https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/six-flags-workers-call-for-ceos-ouster-as-attendance-plunges/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackstone-prepping-record-50-billion-150000581.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/17/target-tgt-q2-2022-earnings.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/18/jobless-claims-edge-lower-as-fed-looks-to-cool-labor-market.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/rto-deadlines-loom-after-labor-day-4908961/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morning-brief-companies-lower-headcount-093038889.html
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Agriculture is never an easy line of work. As JFK noted, "The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways." Farmers are expected to do more than that now. So what does this mean for you?
Key topics:
✔️ Farmers have been warning people for months about food and water shortages. People in agriculture are often on the frontlines of what's yet to come. If you ignore them, you're doing it at your own risk IMO.
✔️ I had seeds that did nothing. My corn was completely burned up in the flash drought. I'm hearing the same thing from other people around the country regardless of growing zone.
✔️ Hay prices are insane and that's if you can find any. Some fields are seeing a 50% drop in bales produced this summer with no second cutting.
✔️ People are so disconnected from nature, the food supply, and wheel of the year. There IS a time for sowing and for reaping, for planting and for harvesting, for basking in the sun and for storing food for the winter months. So what happens if there is little or no harvest in the summer and early fall?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article264446131.html
https://www.foxnews.com/media/national-black-farmers-president-issues-dire-warning-biden-admin-heading-food-shortage
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/12/mass-crop-failures-expected-in-england-as-farmers-demand-hosepipe-bans
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I'm hearing across the board from people in the emergency preparedness community about people - irrespective of age, geography, personal situations, etc. - who want everything done for them. "Hey, could you just like rough out a survival game plan for me? K, thx!"
Who is gonna do that for you? Or are there people in your life who will expect that from you?
I saw this years ago when I ran a CSA-style side hustle and had customers tell me, point blank, "I know you can't customize these produce boxes for everyone else, ha ha, but make an exception for me." 😒
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/8 - 8/12.
✔️ The push for RTO is getting more and more obvious.
✔️ More layoffs. Risk analysts are warning businesses that food shortages could lead to civil unrest.
✔️ Gas and food prices are expected to go up even more, but hey: transitory! 😒
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11095219
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/did-hiring-just-get-easier-5951122/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/sweetgreen-stock-plummets-after-salad-chain-cuts-forecast-announces-layoffs.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/companies-productivity-wells-fargo-192212880.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/assume-laid-off-suze-orman-200500669.html
https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/us-gas-prices-will-jump-back-to-4-35-soon-because-supplies-are-running-low-goldman-sachs-says/articleshow/93432209.cms
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/tyson-raises-prices-chicken-demand-shifts-expensive-beef-cuts
https://fortune.com/2022/08/09/ceos-say-remote-work-hurting-businesses/
https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/08/10/nutanix-layoffs/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23297637/snap-snapchat-layoff-plans-weak-q2-earnings
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/vedanta-ceo-blames-challenging-environment-biotech-laying-20-staff
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d39mq/business-is-booming-for-layoff-specialists-never-seen-anything-like-this
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-weekly-jobless-claims-rise-second-straight-week-2022-08-11/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/businesses-should-prepare-for-risk-of-civil-unrest-from-food-scarcity-11660210202
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In last Thursday's episode, I added the Tattletale and the Blame Gamer to the Hall of Infamy. Now I would like to add the Dictator.
Key topics:
✔️ Sadly, there are plenty of companies that learned nothing from The Great Resignation. IMO, this is why I am seeing more Dictator types emerging from the shadows: they feel emboldened to behave that way.
✔️ How much micromanagement do you want to tolerate? Only you can decide.
✔️ If you can suss out that a manager is a dictatorial type BEFORE you take a job or you start a project, so much the better.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.inc.com/jayson-demers/7-types-of-clients-who-will-take-your-patience-to-the-brink.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/business/return-to-office-battles.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11034023
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11058329
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On August 5th, the NY Post published, "Malcolm Gladwell slams working from home: ‘What have you reduced your life to?’"
The very first line reads, "Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks that remote work is hurting society and that a recession will likely drive employees who are 'sitting in their pajamas' back into the office."
I've been warning you for months now that Corporate America would use an economic downturn to its own advantage, including a demand for RTO. Welp, now we're here.
Link I discuss in this episode:
https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/malcolm-gladwell-slams-working-from-home/amp/
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Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 7/31 - 8/5.
✔️ Apparently, August 2nd was the day we were allowed to know that more people are relying on credit cards and debt is crazy-high. But hey: remember when we were constantly told that people are doing great and have plenty in savings!
✔️ Some companies learned nothing from The Great Resignation.
✔️ 3.5% unemployment rate! Wowee!
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/31/cramer-dont-get-fooled-by-the-bears-sometimes-good-news-is-actually-good.html
https://app.hedgeye.com/insights/70141-remember-this-jim-cramer-bear-stearns-is-fine-do-not-take-your-mon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1g0zJRncIk
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-chief-warns-bloated-staff-151416718.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/business/return-to-office-battles.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2021/08/25/exclusive-telehealth-startup-calibrate-notches-a-100-million-series-b-from-founders-fund-and-tiger-global/?sh=629c54aa3732
https://www.businessinsider.com/calibrate-mass-layoffs-zoom-call-healthcare-isabelle-kenyon-restructure-jobs-2022-7
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/02/4point2-million-people-quit-in-june-despite-recession-worries.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/03/these-charts-show-why-we-may-not-be-in-a-recession.html
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/06/coinbase-layoffs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-29/blackrock-s-kapito-says-scarcity-inflation-is-driving-economy
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-an-arkansas-town-could-provide-a-grim-road-map-for-america-if-car-repos-blow-up-11659549234?siteid=yhoof2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkpu6749w
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
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Last summer, I talked about people like Teddy the Tailgate Negotiator and Ned the Needy. In this episode, I add a couple of new ones to my Hall of Infamy: Tammy the Tattletale and Blaine the Blame Gamer.
Key topics:
✔️ Here's an uncomfortable reality about freelancing or consulting: sometimes, a client hires you to be the scapegoat. 🐐
✔️ No matter how hard you try to avoid a nightmare client, on occasion, someone will fly under the radar and surprise you in a bad way.
✔️ One of the infuriating things about tattletales is that they often wish to have a whine and moan about things you cannot control.
✔️ People are still ghosting and dropping out of a hiring funnel if they lose interest. This is reality.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.inc.com/jayson-demers/7-types-of-clients-who-will-take-your-patience-to-the-brink.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/9074681
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In this bonus episode, I want to tackle the question: what do I mean when I say, "There are some people IMO who aren't gonna make it" through whatever economic situation is a'brewing?
Key topics:
✔️ Disclaimer here: this is not advice. I cannot tell you what to do and each person listening to this episode will have a different set of circumstances. This is for your entertainment only.
✔️ What I don't mean: zombies out in the streets eating your brain or anything else that looks like a Hollywood horror movie.
✔️ If you go to Java Discover and watch their documentaries about people who became homeless during The Great Recession, no one said, "Oh yeah, I saw this coming. I pretty much always imagined I'd be living out of my car."
✔️ If even the "upper Middle Class" is suffering right now, what is happening to the working poor?
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/c/JavaFilms
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-upper-middle-class-is-getting-squeezed-11658741402?siteid=yhoof2
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Saturday broadcast, 7/23 - 7/29.
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news.
✔️On June 30th, one of my job market predictions was that we would see more zombie companies propped up by hot air, debt, and VC money going under. That's already happening.
✔️More layoffs & hiring freezes.
✔️ Cannibalism, new "definitions" of a recession, get yer "to go bag" ready in case of emergency, etc.
✔️The BoA leaked memo vindicates what I've been telling y'all for months about the balance of power in Corporate America. Would that it were not so. 😖
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-9qlwSmm0
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1550864590560546816
https://businessinsider.mx/stock-market-outlook-jpmorgan-marko-kolanovic-sell-off-fed-rates-2022-5/
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/07/credit-suisse-layoffs
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/tech-unicorn-whoop-reveals-lay-offs-4869505/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10858972
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/06/21/the-bitcoin-bull/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/sales-of-beer-smokes-signal-shift-5918802/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/07/21/how-do-economists-determine-whether-the-economy-is-in-a-recession/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/zuckerberg-ramps-up-pressure-at-meta-5917602/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/us-economy-slips-into-recession-4872457/
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/
https://twitter.com/nycemergencymgt/status/1551975637795176452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
In my episode comparing the housing market to the job market, I talked about eating the dirt sandwich from time to time, i.e., having to stay in a job you dislike just for the salary and benefits.
✔️ This is not advice - it's just an op-ed. Personally, I do not think the dirt sandwich should involve anything illegal or immoral.
✔️ Rage quitting feels great in the moment. But when you're sitting at the kitchen table looking at your stack of bills and you have $50 left to your name, it may not feel as good then. IMO, it's not wise to laugh now, cry later.
✔️ Do you have a nest egg or emergency fund of some kind? In the event of a layoff or job loss, do you have a sense of how long you could float without a job?
✔️ Do you have a personal code of conduct or rules of engagement that guide you on what you will or will not put up with?
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In this bonus episode, I want to tackle the question: if I lost my job, what would my first step be?
Key topics:
✔️ Disclaimer here: this is not advice. I cannot tell you what to do and each person listening to this episode will have a different set of circumstances. This is for your entertainment only.
✔️ Would I count solely on recruiters or staffing agencies to help me out? Nope.
✔️ Would I assume that every "success story" I see online about weird side hustles that turned into million-dollar enterprises will naturally happen for me, too? Nope.
✔️ There is often a gap between the loss of one job and the start of another. I would want to devise a plan for how best to fill that gap. And I wouldn't personally do that with hot air, nonsense, and unicorn toots. 🦄💨
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10858972
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/21/swimply-side-hustle-making-money-renting-backyard-pool-to-strangers.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07SvHeo8ozs
https://michigan-post.com/the-us-job-market-is-a-contradiction/
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Saturday broadcast, 7/17 - 7/23.
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news.
✔️I know I'll be labeled an Eeyore, but I gotta be honest: some people are not gonna make it. 🤷🏻♀️
✔️I feel like I'm in a bad 2007-2008 time loop here. Food banks are overwhelmed. The housing market has been insane. Layoffs and hiring freezes are on the rise. Sound familiar?
✔️ A large number of people are working more than one full-time job to make ends meet in the face of inflation. But hey: people are doin' great! 😒
✔️At the end of the day, you can only do so much. If someone has ears to hear and they're not listening, it is what it is.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.coffeeandquinoa.com/2013/04/moosewood-cookbook-borscht/
https://apnews.com/article/hungerfoodbanksinflation-4fd5d6fb5879eaecc3000fe2b73df006
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-world-war-western-nations-putin-ally-serbia-aleksandar-vucic-1724605
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/more-americans-hold-down-two-jobs-4845041/
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings
https://www.newsweek.com/geomagnetic-storm-coronal-mass-ejection-this-week-1725502
https://apnews.com/article/explosions-nevada-climate-and-environment-39d99d8c144d208f4e437d69b8f9fa98
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/04/04/when-the-pendulum-swings/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jobless-claims-climb-amid-layoffs-4845209/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstone-puts-finishing-touches-on-record-real-estate-vehicle-11658349652
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/want-a-job-drop-off-your-resume-irl-4848065/
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In today's episode, I want to get a little more woo-woo and talk about Reality Transurfing.
Key topics:
✔️ Be careful of pendulums and energy vampires. Constantly thinking about negative outcomes will suck any positivity out of you. And that's not the goal!
✔️ Are you giving excessive attention or importance to certain things in your life?
✔️ Preparing for difficult economic times does not mean that you have to assume the entire world is going to hell in a handbasket. There is a balance between toxic positivity and Chicken Little.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianScott1111
https://chengeer.medium.com/transurfing-of-reality-in-a-nutshell-a73b162fff85
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I'm not sure why, but I felt strongly that I needed to hop on and create an emergency broadcast to push the word out. Layoffs are not somewhere off in the distance. They are in the here and the now. Please, please do not be caught off-guard.
Link I mention in this episode:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/layoffs-latest-companies-making-cuts-4830593/
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In this bonus episode, I will answer some viewer mail about the job market and why I say if you wait to be "officially" told, it's too late.
✔️ During the TP shortage of 2020, how did people behave? Did they form an orderly line and wait patiently or did they flip out?
✔️ During The Great Recession, we saw not only high unemployment but high long-term unemployment.
✔️ What skills do you have? What would your first phone call be if you experienced a job loss? Do you have a game plan put together?
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/financial-crisis-review.asp
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2018/article/great-recession-great-recovery.htm#:~:text=Source%3A%20U.S.%20Bureau%20of%20Labor%20Statistics%2C%20Current%20Population%20Survey.,-View%20Chart%20Data&text=During%20the%202007%E2%80%9309%20recession%2C%20these%20relationships%20changed%20dramatically.,years%20starting%20in%20November%202007.
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Saturday broadcast, 7/10 - 7/15.
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news.
✔️5.7 million unemployed people were not counted in that June Jobs Report that sounded so good but hey: everyone's doin' great! Also: "maybe remote work is not forever." Warned y'all about that.
✔️Meta is telling coasters and slackers to exit. Warned y'all about that, too... trying to game the system and hippity-hop across the market is not a viable recession survival plan IMO.
✔️Man, some of these media outlets are gonna keep pushing that "11 million open jobs, 3.6% unemployment rate" stats til the bitter end. 😣
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millions-get-jobs-as-gdp-falls-155824972.html
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/what-if-remote-work-isnt-forever-5906418/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/11/millennial-and-gen-zs-days-of-remote-working-could-be-numbered.html
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/06/01/the-great-resistance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5d7V4Sbqk
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/12/canoo-walmart-deal-for-4500-vans-sends-ev-stock-jumping.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-targets-slowdown-recession-economic-uncertainty-2022-7
https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/meta-tells-managers-to-exit-employees-who-are-coasting/
https://www.patreon.com/saracausey
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10898050
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/new-wave-of-layoffs-fueling-anxiety-4830593/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/recruiters-give-gen-z-a-bad-rap-5901690/
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"Your employees hate being monitored... but here's how you can do it anyway!"
✔️ IMO, if you feel like all of your employees are awful and won't do anything without your thumb on them, YOU are the problem. Something has seriously gone awry.
✔️ Some locations require disclosures, e.g., if a company is monitoring its employees, they are required to say so. A lot of places do not. If you have employer tech in your home, be careful. Assume at a minimum that your keystrokes and screenshots are being logged. Don't be naïve, people.
✔️ Is there a "humane" way to sit and watch everything your workers do all the time? It certainly doesn't feel very humane to me. It's gross.
✔️ The term "productivity" seems to be thrown around as a way to paper over all sorts of bad behavior. Well, if we're doing these awful things in the name of productivity, then it's all OK. Is it?
Link I mention in this episode:
https://www.inc.com/rebecca-deczynski/employee-monitoring-work-asynchronous-remote-hybrid-workplace.html
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Labor shortage! Labor shortage! No one wants to work! 🦜
How many times have you heard that? Is it even true? In this special bonus episode, I interview job seeker John Doe (not his real name, obviously) for his perspective.
To protect his privacy, I utilized voice distorting software.
✔️Think ahead. In the event of a layoff, how long would it take to replace your job?
✔️ Is it true that there are two open jobs for every one unemployed person RN? 🤔
✔️ Is anyone moving quickly? It doesn't seem like it!
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Saturday broadcast, 7/2 - 7/8.
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news.
✔️Jobs are plentiful - 2 for every 1 unemployed person! Gas prices are down! No recession at all! Inflation is transitory! Suuuuurrreeeee. Does your personal economy feel like it's rip-roarin' and doing awesome?
✔️Zuck says if you wanna leave, go right ahead. "Self select" out the door. 😳
✔️Based on the 4th of July sales that I saw, it kinda seems like Big Retail thinks you're either not gonna have much disposable income soon and/or you're not gonna be WFH anymore.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/mark-zuckerberg-meta-wants-to-oust-workers-who-shouldnt-be-here/
https://fortune.com/2022/06/23/zombie-companies-stocks-to-zero-david-trainer-new-constructs-peloton-carvana-freshpet/
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/amazon-cancels-or-delays-plans-for-at-least-16-warehouses-this-year
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/05/luxury-car-buyers-pay-more-than-ever-as-prices-and-loan-costs-rise.html
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a40341556/monthly-car-payments-average-rising/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/remote-jobs-have-strings-attached-5370268/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/05/27/playing-the-rto-game/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bosses-offer-midyear-raises-to-retain-employees-as-inflation-takes-toll-11657013401
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/job-market-stays-hot-as-economy-cools-5370308/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/07/jobless-claims-edge-up-to-highest-since-january-trade-deficit-hits-2022-low.html
https://medium.com/@sara_causey/they-changed-their-tune-8c22fbf04101
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/look-both-ways-before-quitting-5365660/
https://fairmontpost.com/should-job-hoppers-leap-one-more-time/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/business/economy/jobs-report-june-2022.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10898050
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One common question I'm getting is: how to prepare without the panic? How to get ready for a tough economic time without being Chicken Little?
Key topics:
✔️ Personally, I don't think we're headed into Mad Max or World War Z territory. Some people like to stir up panic because it gets views on YouTube.
✔️ You can find people on social media who'll say anything and everything ranging from toxic positivity to total fear porn. If you can imagine it, it's probably online somewhere!
✔️ Consume the news but do not allow it to consume you. Don't ignore the great things in life and focus on doom & gloom.
✔️ Do you have a household budget set? Do you know your own financial profile? As GI Joe would say: knowing is half the battle.
✔️ If someone wants to judge you for setting a budget and calculating your groceries in the store before you reach the register, oh well. They're not coming home with you and their snotty attitude does not matter.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgkqffZVSM
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The pendulum is swinging away from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Honestly, this should come as a surprise to no one. Here's the deal: what do you think is happening in the job market RN?
✔️ Elon kicked the door open and told you, "RTO or leave." Now Zuck is telling you, "Hey, if you wanna quit, it's totally fine by us."
✔️ The CEOs and power brokers know what's coming. They have not been shy in saying so.
✔️ If no one has ever told you that there may be times in life when you gotta work a job you dislike in order to have a salary and benefits, well, wake up up up up up. IMHO, this downturn is gonna really separate the real ones from the social media panderers.
Links I discuss:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/quickly-tables-turned-falling-mortgage-140000312.html
https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/mark-zuckerberg-meta-wants-to-oust-workers-who-shouldnt-be-here/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-01/johnson-weighs-50-year-mortgages-that-children-can-inherit
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Saturday broadcast, 6/25 - 7/1
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news.
✔️Empty shelves, fronting, stores keeping lights off and AC barely on.
✔️A lot of people working side hustles just to make ends meet but hey: everyone's doin' great!
✔️IMHO, I am sus regarding anyone who says the entire job market is still red hot and even the beloved tech sector isn't slowing down. What planet are they on?
✔️Lagging indicators are exactly that. By the time you're "officially" told there's a problem, it's probably too late to do more than react.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-25/us-layoffs-hiring-freezes-are-tip-of-labor-market-slowdown
https://www.fox4news.com/news/canceled-for-convenience-north-texas-family-loses-home-after-builder-backs-out-without-warning
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the-fed-wants-corporate-america-to-have-a-hiring-freeze-morning-brief-100055174.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/25/tech-job-market-still-very-hot-despite-isolated-layoffs.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/27/wall-street-layoffs-are-coming-as-deals-boom-turns-to-bust-insiders-say.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/27/44percent-of-americans-work-a-side-hustle-to-make-ends-meet.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/key-financial-steps-to-take-after-a-layoff.html
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108109505/job-cuts-layoffs-economy-recession
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/design-firm-modsy-abruptly-shuts-down-5370204/
https://fortune.com/2022/06/23/zombie-companies-stocks-to-zero-david-trainer-new-constructs-peloton-carvana-freshpet/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/the-blog/
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To be totally clear: this is not advice! This is me opining for your entertainment only.
Several people have asked me offline as well as frequent podcast listeners to make some conjectures on where the job market is headed.
✔️ I don't know. I'm not a power broker or an economist. I have no idea where things are headed and for what length of time. If anyone is telling you they are 100% certain, I would personally be skeptical.
✔️ I would not be surprised to see an influx of people using the gig economy not so much because they want to, but because they feel like they have to in order to make ends meet.
✔️ I would also not be surprised to see an influx of HR/staffing/recruiting folks turning to "coaching" without understanding how saturated that market already is and how insane the industry can be.
Spooky music by Charlie_Raven from Pixabay
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Saturday broadcast, 6/18 - 6/24
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news.
✔️Possible 10% unemployment rates, possible land war in Europe, possible anger explosion around the 4th of July, ARMs, foreclosures, layoffs, etc.
✔️ Teve Torbes.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-9qlwSmm0
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/steve-forbes-recession-economy-federal-reserve/2022/06/18/id/1075025/?dkt_nbr=6F0112jf8yid
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/20/heres-why-this-housing-downturn-is-nothing-like-the-last-one.html
https://www.fool.com/real-estate/2022/03/22/foreclosures-are-up-700-is-this-a-red-flag-for-the/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19MZgRxo9vo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjiACakvt2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1g0zJRncIk
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/companies-botch-remote-layoffs-5369964/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-recession-does-mean-your-job-heres-everything-gen-prudente/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jim-rogers-warns-worst-bear-220000086.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rogers
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/22/demand-for-adjustable-rate-mortgages-surges-as-interest-rates-jump.html
https://nypost.com/2022/06/19/uk-army-chief-britain-must-prepare-to-fight-amid-ukraine-war/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/23/why-peoples-job-offers-are-getting-rescinded-days-before-they-start.html
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6945428512585510912/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/will-recession-kill-wfh-revolution-4837177/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-says-banks-could-withstand-10-unemployment-55-stock-price-drop-in-annual-stress-test-11656016376
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/unemployment-claims-fall-slightly-to-229-000-but-labor-market-might-be-cooling-off-11655988191
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IMHO, it's time to get selfish. Be thinking about what's best for yourself and your family.
Key topics:
✔️ As I've said before: influencers can leave you broke. If you take questionable advice from someone online, are they going to help you out if you get fired? Nope.
✔️ I would also recommend being strategic and careful about who you're listening to. Someone who's been in recruiting for all of five minutes and who thinks it's a wise idea to ride out a recession by doing the bare minimum is prolly not your friend. Just sayin.
✔️ I had a friend who tried to ride out the dot com bust by surfing the internet at work and doing, well, basically nothing. It was all fun and games until she got fired and had a tough time rebounding from it.
✔️ There's a middle path between hustle culture and total DGAF. You don't have to work 16 hours a day or sell your soul to a company to be productive. Get out of all-or-nothing thinking.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5YfJV12Xyo&t=195s
https://www.youtube.com/c/JosieNaikoi
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At this point, Saturday broadcasts will continue. Too much news, too much 💩hitting the fan.
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news from Mon-Fri.
✔️ On Wednesday, The Fed bumped up interest rates by 0.75%, which is the largest hike we've seen since the 90s. Meanwhile, inflation is more like the early 80s. And shows no sign of slowing down.
✔️ With more and more layoffs and hiring freezes, do you really think unemployment is less than 4% nationwide? Cuz I don't! There's a lag between what's happening in real time versus what gets reported.
✔️ It's getting more important than ever to be strategic about who you are listening to and where you're getting information. Personally, I'd be careful of toxic positivity and people on LI telling you, "This is fine. Everything is fine. It's all OK." Uhhh, is it tho?!?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inflation-bumming-us-out-other-economic-happenings-taylor-borden/
https://belmontstar.com/a-bear-market-jobs-what-you-need-to-know/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ev-startup-elms-to-liquidate-5360020/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/workers-lose-pandemic-superpowers-5892218/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/millennial-lifestyle-subsidy-ends-4832121/
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/most-ceos-see-recession-poll-shows-4836353/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkkxCk4uW9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogaeyi94WhM
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/06/17/toxic-positivity-your-li-feed/
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I guess it didn't take as long as I thought it might for the WFH Window to start closing. Yikes.
Key topics:
✔️ Elon Musk blew up the interwebs after a leaked email re: no more WFH if you're with Tesla or SpaceX. He didn't even wait for a full-tilt recession or major market contraction. He just blazed the trail for everyone else.
✔️ People can zone out in a cubicle at the office just as easy as they can zone out at home. If someone is determined to do the bare minimum, do you think they can't cheat the system in a Cube Farm? Get real.
✔️ One form of toxic company culture is punishing everyone for one or two bad apples in the group. Make everyone suffer, buuwaahaahaa!
✔️ Caveat emptor. Pay attention. Stay alert.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/06/01/elon-musk-tesla-employees-remote-work/7469930001/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/06/03/well-yes-but-actually-you-are/
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Well, here we go again.
Key topics:
✔️ It's not hidden anymore. Corporate America wants you back butt-in-seat in the office.
✔️ Is it possible that corporate-owned "news" might not be fair and balanced journalism? Hmm, I wonder. What a conundrum!
✔️ A lot of companies still own over-priced corporate real estate... are they planning to sell that off or let it go? Probably not.
✔️ Now we're expected to believe that, after working successfully from home for all this time and being more productive, it's all falling apart and everyone needs to RTO. 😣
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.patreon.com/saracausey (new content drops every Sunday morning)
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/is-the-wfh-revolution-fading-5358564/
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/05/work-from-home-elon-musk-remote-office-meetings
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grantfeller/2016/06/14/this-is-the-real-reason-microsoft-bought-linkedin/?sh=5a37588f04a5
https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/business/dealbook/companies-return-to-office.amp.html
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Recently, the BBC published an article asking: "Is the ‘remote work window’ about to close?" Certainly, this question merits investigation.
Key topics:
✔️ Will WFH last forever... or is Corporate America planning to take back control?
✔️ To me, 100% remote should be exactly that: 100% remote, 100% of the time, 0 exceptions. Be sure you read the fine print of anything you sign!
✔️ Beware of the "rules for thee, but not for me" feudalistic managers.
✔️ Could there be a huge national rebellion against RTO? Maybe, but I'm not sure I believe that would be sustainable for a long time.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220519-is-the-remote-work-window-about-to-close
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/05/27/playing-the-rto-game/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/05/24/are-you-ready/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/05/31/shady-people-who-want-your-money/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cooling-housing-market-enters-great-080538605.html
https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-savings-account-balance/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/08/as-prices-rise-64-percent-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck.html
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/14/boris-johnson-urges-more-people-to-return-to-office-working
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At this point, the power brokers are warning you that a storm is coming. Ignore that information at your own risk!
Key topics:
✔️ This is about preparation, not panic.
✔️ Be careful of normalcy bias, which tells you that everything is fine and will continue to be exactly the same. Well, not necessarily. If you were out in the workforce during The Great Recession, you know better.
✔️ Don't play 24/7 gloom-and-doom news, but DO pay attention to the markets and what's happening in the world.
✔️ When in doubt, talk to a professional financial planner or advisor who can assess your personal financial profile and goals, and help you with your decisions.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-03/corporate-america-is-sounding-the-alarm-on-the-economy
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/time-to-ditch-single-family-homes-5355172/
https://nypost.com/2022/05/11/goldman-sachs-backed-firms-buy-entire-florida-community-for-45m/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOrS6buynAk
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People like influencers, gurus, and self-helpers can leave you broke. Even though they may promise you that if you spend money (sometimes money you don't have) on their programs, you will become rich and famous, 'tisnt always so.
Key topics:
✔️ What is the actual criteria of an "influencer" anyway? The barriers to entry seem pretty low.
✔️ LinkedIn has become a hub of fake pathos, outright lies, self-aggrandizement and humble-brags. I would be leery of anyone who promises to make you millions of dollars solely by using LI.
✔️ Psychopathic manipulators have 0 issues with taking your last dollar. And they will do it if you let them.
✔️ Don't be blinded by a large number of likes or followers. These interactions can be bought and they can also be bots. (No pun intended.)
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://aninjusticemag.com/linkedin-is-a-toxic-capitalist-meme-generator-ee7afdf695ac
https://chantellglenville.com/gary-vaynerchuk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi2aMqXKo1Y
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeroenkraaijenbrink/2019/07/05/why-self-help-books-dont-work-and-how-to-nevertheless-benefit-from-them/?sh=7a560b705f91
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I recently received some viewer mail from a person trying to make a decision on whether to keep going with a decision or call it a dead-end. It's not always easy to know if you're in a temporary dip or at a full-on impasse.
Key topics:
✔️ With my own real estate quest, I realized, "This is nucking futs. But the market will change." FOMO is not your friend, generally speaking.
✔️ Treating anything like it's the last lifeboat off the Titanic is usually a bad omen. Whether it's a relationship, job, house, etc.
✔️ Strategic quitting doesn't always mean you totally quit and walk away forever. Sometimes it can mean that you put your own best interests in first place and you wait for a more favorable situation to arise. Waiting is not always a dirty word!
✔️ A rejection or a delay is sometimes a form of protection. "Not right now" can be a means of keeping you from jumping off a cliff without a parachute.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.inc.com/david-finkel/seth-godin-says-to-be-successful-you-should-quit-heres-why.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOK2E70aXCM
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/miller-ranting.html (His commentary on Gen X is found in Chapter 2.)
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What is quiet quitting? And why do I think we will see more of it in the coming months...
Key topics:
✔️ Quiet quitting ≠ ghosting. They sound similar but are different things.
✔️ If layoffs and hiring freezes continue and we start to see a recession taking shape, I believe we will see more quiet quitting essentially out of financial necessity.
✔️ Sometimes in life, we have to do what the crisis demands. And that's OK.
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Sadly, this seems to be a topic that multiplies rather than goes away.
Key topics:
✔️ The WSJ recently published an exposé about TikTok. It was a very disturbing read.
✔️ 85 hours of meetings per week?!? What in the actual F is that all about??
✔️ It's important to remember that high arousal techniques and working you to exhaustion are tactics used by cults.
✔️ Eating a lot of dirt because you're hoping for a golden parachute one day is playing an iffy and dangerous game. What if that ship never comes in?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktoks-work-culture-anxiety-secrecy-and-relentless-pressure-11651848638?mod=e2li
https://www.businessinsider.com/wsj-tiktok-employees-face-enormous-stress-on-job-2022-5
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/05/08/more-on-corporate-cults/
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Throughout The Great Resignation, the market has rewarded job hoppers more than job stayers. While that may be lucrative, you still need to look before you leap.
Key topics:
✔️ Do some research. That new job with the flashy paycheck? Yeah, it might be a toxic cesspool.
✔️ Unless it's a newly created position, someone left the role you're about to step into. It's worthwhile to question why they vacated.
✔️ Being super thirsty for a job while someone else is still in it is kinda bad karma IMHO. This story of John and Amanda (not their real names) shows you why.
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"It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club." -George Carlin
Oh boy. If you're still not convinced that Workplace Feudalism is real, buckle up.
The internet recently raged against a leaked email that speaks volumes about the conversations that happen behind closed doors.
Key topics:
✔️ Will Corporate America keep wages high to help you cope with the coming recession? 😆 Hell no.
✔️ For every icky conversation we learn about, I bet there's hundreds more we don't hear. And that should scare you.
✔️ In many companies, the so-called "culture" is a veneer. It may be bandied about to get you in the door, but it's important to find a place that practices what they preach.
✔️As with cults, poo poo companies and poo poo managers don't always roll out a neon sign that says, "Hey there! This is a bad friggin' place to be. You wanna come in?" Caveat emptor.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/applebees-wayne-pankratz-email-reddit-gas-prices-lower-wages.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/tmpey2/wayne_pankratz_of_applebees_says_that_higher_gas/
https://www.businessinsider.com/applebees-franchise-exec-fired-saying-higher-gas-prices-less-pay-2022-3
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/6785926
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/04/22/thx-wayne/
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Last week, I talked about Strategic Quitting & Radical Acceptance. So what do we do with these moments in the business world?
Key topics:
✔️ Recently, my friend Joe felt incredibly burned out and had to decide if it was temporary or permanent.
✔️ Taking a break can be so important to both mental and physical health. We were not meant to work constantly. Or to worry about work constantly.
✔️ Don't make huge, sweeping life decisions in a HALT moment: hungry, angry/anxious, lonely, tired. Something that may seem like a good choice when you are exhausted may feel totally different after a two week vacation.
✔️Whether you are B2B or B2C, you will face your own set of challenges. This is reality.
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Facing an impasse? Wondering if it's a temporary roadblock or a total dead-end? It's important to know when to quit or when to persevere.
Key topics:
✔️ Seth Godin talks about strategic quitting in The Dip. But how do we know if we are in a dip or we are at a dead-end?
✔️ Sometimes, waiting for market conditions to change while you try something else is a smart move. You don't have to give up on your dreams - you just wait for more advantageous circumstances.
✔️ It pays to be honest with yourself and have those "at what point" discussions. At what point do I change? At what point would I go broke? At what point would this just not be worth it? Be real with yourself.
✔️Radical acceptance is not the same thing as saying you approve of bad behavior or that you aren't willing to stand up for yourself.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.inc.com/david-finkel/seth-godin-says-to-be-successful-you-should-quit-heres-why.html
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-radical-acceptance-5120614
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLTDdmMObFE
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No one wants to work anymore.
We run ad after ad but get no applicants.
These younger generations have no work ethic.
If your hiring managers are wallowing in self-pity and making these excuses, they are cutting their own throats.
Key topics:
✔️ I recently had a conversation with a person who shared with me that, after applying at many different retail stores, only one actually called her. But yet, I bet the hiring managers at the companies that ghosted her whine and moan that they can't find anybody.
✔️ How often do you check your own ATS or the ads you have posted? Do you really, truly have no applicants at all or are you being so insanely picky that no one meets your criteria?
✔️ What is your hiring process like? Does it take five different interviews over two months to get a verbal offer? Do you require some ghastly one-way video interview or force the applicants to take an unpaid skills assessment first? Don't be afraid to question your sacred cows.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/03/04/j-o-b/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/03/21/rto-employers-who-dont-care/
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Feeling like your email or InMail campaigns are going almost nowhere? You're not alone.
Key topics:
✔️ Most sales & marketing jobs (staffing & recruiting definitely included) will attract people who want to pose and posture: "Oh, my business is great! Every sales email I send out gets a response." Bull 💩.
✔️ We are still very much in a candidate-driven market and you may have to send out more messages than usual to get enough potential applicants in your hiring funnel. This is reality.
✔️ This is a good time to test and beta test. You can't get stuck on the way things worked pre-Covid or pre-Great Resignation.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/covid-19-benchmark-data-edition2#:~:text=Sales%20teams%20are%20sending%20about,marketers%20are%20having%20more%20success.
https://www.gmass.co/blog/average-cold-email-response-rate/
https://woodpecker.co/blog/cold-email-statistics/
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Is the Great Resignation fading away? Not that I've seen. In fact, according to a recent survey, more people are considering resigning in 2022 than in 2021!
Key topics:
✔️ Job descriptions or corporate propaganda trying to convince you that the Big Quit is ebbing = not the case.
✔️ Gen Zers and Millennials might be leading the charge, but they are not the only ones participating in The Great Resignation.
✔️ People are also not keen on RTO. Most workers who have been working remotely want to continue doing so.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/millennials-gen-z-eye-new-jobs-4715953/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millennials-or-get-z-who-is-doing-the-most-job-hopping-112733374.html
https://www.fastcompany.com/90731547/microsoft-second-annual-work-trend-index-employees
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/03/16/were-outta-here/
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In last week's episode, I asked if the old school two weeks notice is dead. Is there a happy medium somewhere between resigning on the spot versus offering a full two weeks notice?
Key topics:
✔️ One option is to make the resignation process transparent and easy. No need for a knot in the stomach or fear of reprisals.
✔️ An open transition plan acknowledges that an employee's time at the company does not have to last until retirement... and that's OK.
✔️ As with many things, an open transition plan only works if the company promotes honesty and dignity. Sadly, there are still a lot of companies that don't.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.robertglazer.com/eliminating-two-weeks-notice/
https://www.accelerationpartners.com/blog/help-employees-leave-gracefully
https://www.uhhospitals.org/Healthy-at-UH/articles/2015/07/the-top-5-most-stressful-life-events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV2Qfj0ft0o
https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_glazer_it_s_time_to_end_two_weeks_notice
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Is the old school two weeks notice dead? Are more people saying, "See ya later, bye" instead of tendering a resignation?
Key topics:
✔️ Open, honest communication only works if employees do not feel threatened. Can you truly say that your company can accept criticism or feedback without retaliation?
✔️ Now that so many people are WFH, the furtive cloak-and-dagger of faking dental appointments and car trouble aren't necessary anymore. People can easily attend a phone interview at lunch or before/after work.
✔️ Employment is more transitory now than it has been for several decades. There's no 30 year career at one place with a gold watch and pension at the end. So why is there still a stigma about resigning?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://hbr.org/2019/04/the-two-weeks-notice-approach-to-changing-jobs-is-bad-for-companies-and-employees
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2015/02/05/no-more-two-weeks-notice-how-to-end-the-employee-disappearing-act/?sh=3ce1f5395d81
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/18/these-workers-quit-their-jobs-without-giving-two-weeks-notice-heres-what-they-did/
https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/02/23/lack-of-mentoring-or/
https://time.com/charter/6149918/generation-z-workers/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/magazine/anti-ambition-age.html
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Finally, some companies are reevaluating their hiring processes and trying to eliminate needless steps in order to find people amidst The Great Resignation. 🙌 So what is second chance hiring?
Key topics:
✔️ Is that the same thing as "boomerang hiring" and inviting a former employee to come back? No. Second chance hiring refers to hiring people with some type of criminal record.
✔️ Does your hiring process have tests that don't make any sense? Be relentless about improvement.
✔️ Are you asking a candidate with 10 years of accounting experience to take an Accounting 101 test as "proof" they know their stuff? Doesn't that seem condescending and unnecessary?
Links I mention in this episode:
https://www.uschamber.com/co/run/human-resources/second-chance-hiring
https://www-bostonglobe-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/13/business/with-job-vacancies-high-employers-seek-out-workers-they-might-have-previously-passed-over/?outputType=amp
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/overlooked-fix-to-worker-shortage-5250004/
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Two or three weeks ago, a social media post about salary lowballing went viral and, well, the interwebs blew up.
Key topics:
✔️ It's way past time for salary transparency. Many cities or states have outlawed the practice of asking a candidate what their current salary is. Others are requiring employers to post a range in each job description.
✔️ It used to be common practice for employers to make a subpar offer and see if the candidate accepted it or haggled. This is a bygone practice from a bygone era. It wasn't fair then and it isn't good now.
✔️ Just as the phrase "caveat emptor" applies to buyers, it truly is important to know your own value. Whether you are a freelancer bidding on gigs or you are a W2 employee looking for a salaried role, know your own worth.
✔️ In the same way that you might research a company on Indeed or Glassdoor, don't be afraid to do market research on current salary ranges as well.
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Do you understand the difference between someone who freelances or works on a 1099 basis as an independent contractor versus an employee? If you're rolling your eyes like, "Well, yeah, duh. It seems self-evident," I get it. Yet you might be surprised how many people don't actually understand the difference.
Key topics:
✔️ Someone who works freelance or as an independent contractor is not an employee of your company. Periodt. Expecting them to function as an employee even though they cover their own benefits and taxes is dirty pool.
✔️ If you are an HR professional, it is important to explain to your hiring managers that someone freelancing for your company is not an internal, W2 employee. The onus is on you to educate the team.
✔️ If you are freelancing and find that you are attracting clients who expect you take their equipment, camp out on Slack channels, be butt in seat from 8 to 5, and that is not what you want, you have to speak up for yourself. You are not obligated to function as an employee when you freelance!
✔️ Your time is valuable as a freelancer and you have every right to run your desk as you see fit. It's OK to acknowledge that some companies don't deserve your skills.
✔️ I would humbly suggest that if you feel that you need someone to "plug in" and "integrate into the team" on a temporary basis, find a temporary employee through a staffing agency. You will probably have to pay a mark-up, but you may have a better chance of finding someone who is willing to give you the temporary employee experience.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freelancer.asp
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/independent-contractor.asp
https://www.findlaw.com/employment/hiring-process/part-time-temporary-and-seasonal-employees.html#:~:text=Temporary%20employees%2C%20sometimes%20referred%20to,gaps%20in%20a%20company's%20workforce.
https://mattwilliamscreative.medium.com/warning-signs-of-sucky-clients-part-i-acb9259c5b7f
https://mattwilliamscreative.medium.com/how-to-avoid-sucky-clients-part-ii-98ecfc5f85b6
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In this bonus episode, I'll answer viewer mail I received from Debbie. (Not her real name.) Debbie escaped Corporate America and utilized a freelancing site that she now wants to eliminate. And with good reason. But... how do we do that?
Key topics:
✔️ Not every potential client on a freelancing site is garbage just as not every potential client who enters your funnel some other way is pure gold. But it definitely seems like freelancing sites are the Wild West of 1099 work and are rife with bad behavior. Everything from ghosting to terrible pay to biased scoring systems.
✔️ As with Debbie's situation, companies pushing employees to "come on back to the office now" are facing quite a bit of backlash. If you are considering a way out, getting some fast cash and proof of concept from a freelancing site is not a terrible idea. It just may not be the way to build your business for the long term.
✔️ I advocate for planning your exit strategy in advance rather than ripping off the band-aid. You may decide to keep a presence on a site as an "in case of emergency, break glass" plan. Or you may decide to transition away from those sites over the course of six months. If you are risk averse, do not delete all of your profiles at once and then regret it five minutes later.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/escaping_upwork/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/9087607
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/9237063
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Are you still cyberstalking your prospects? Sending out 10,000 follow up emails? Recording cheesy "personalized" videos for people? If you hate doing these things and you aren't making enough money, it's time to stop using outdated techniques.
Key topics:
✔️ The number 1 thing on my list is anything involving a bait and switch or fraud. Don't, just don't.
✔️ Creating a "personalized" video for someone does not have the cool factor it did several years ago. In fact, it feels like you are intruding on my time and trying to give me one more task on my to-do list for the day. So how likely am I to watch your video? 0.
✔️ It's important to understand your Customer Acquisition Cost. Doing a lot of high touch, major time-suck activities = you staying broke. Likewise, sending 1000 follow up emails to someone who is not interested = you staying broke.
✔️ Things like newsletters, blogs, and yes, even podcasts, are not the right avenues for everyone. If you hate blogging or you've been podcasting and the only people listening are your mom & dad and grandma at the nursing home, is that really worth your time?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.cmswire.com/digital-marketing/5-marketing-techniques-to-dump/
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/336544
https://corktreecreative.com/376-leave-these-marketing-strategies-in-the-past/
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Last April, I recorded an episode called Ghosting, Reconsidered where I asked the question: is ghosting always a negative thing? As you know, I'm not afraid of making bold statements or bold predictions. And for my money, I'd rather hear nothing than receive an email that's rude, weird, or cringe.
✔️ Several years ago, job seekers were very vocal about, "Tell us anything, even if it's just a form letter. But for the love of all that's good and holy, don't ghost us." Is that still accurate now in the midst of The Great Resignation? 🤔 People get so many emails and calls from recruiters and an active job seeker will probably have applied to dozens if not hundreds of roles so... is that form letter still necessary?
✔️ A rude, tacky response will alienate good candidates. And probably show up on social media for everyone to lampoon.
✔️ Just as some people like to play games in romantic relationships, some people want to play games in the business world, too. That doesn't mean we need to participate.
✔️ A boilerplate email like this:
"Thank you for your interest in X. While your skills and background impressed us, we have decided to proceed with other applicants who more closely fit our needs at this time. We appreciate your time and effort. We encourage you to apply for other positions at X in the future."
seems out-of-date, impersonal, and silly to me. Again, maybe it's just me, but I'd honestly rather hear nothing than receive something I find condescending.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://medium.com/the-dot-non-fiction/in-defense-of-ghosting-when-no-response-is-the-right-response-f426e8114972
https://thedipp.com/relationships/id-rather-be-ghosted-than-receive-this-text
https://breezy.hr/blog/job-rejection-email
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
In Part III of my take on The Great Resignation, I want to explore the question of what's become of the people who said, "Take this job and shove it!"
Key topics:
✔️ Are the quitters still living off a $1200 stimulus check from 2020 and hanging out on the couch in grandma's basement? No. Are they all crypto millionaires? Also no.
✔️ I remember in my early days in staffing & recruiting, hiring managers were so geeked up on longevity. "Don't send us anyone who can't prove they'll stay for at least 5 years." 🙄 If you're still hiring like it's 1985, you're doing it wrong. (For that matter, if you're still hiring like it's 2015, you're doing it wrong.)
✔️ Your interview process, onboarding process, and new hire orientation should not suck. If they do, the odds go up exponentially that candidates will drop out of your hiring funnel and move on to a better option. You may not like that reality, but that's where we're at. Likewise, you should create both an exit interview process that doesn't suck and an employee retention process that actually works. People often give a secondary or tertiary answer about why they are resigning, but may not feel comfortable divulging the REAL reason why. You have to cultivate an environment of transparency and honest communication.
✔️ Please stahp shoving your "perks" down everyone's throats. We're not living in the 1990s Dot Com Boom. I was there, I remember it, and that time has gone. Advertising that you have a slide instead of a staircase in the office or a foosball table or Margarita Machine Mondays = NO ONE CARES. These so-called perks will not paper over a crappy culture, awful management, and subpar pay.
Special intro music: "My Generation" by The Who.
Links I discuss in this episode:
Logical Finance videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waIsIZrrKtM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdrww--SWR4
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Recently I watched Sundance's series "Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo" and it was quite disturbing. Not only because of how insane the behaviors of Tony and Susan Alamo were, but also because some of the same tactics are used to manipulate people in Corporate America.
Trigger warning: this episode will cover some pretty dark and disturbing subject matter.
Key topics:
✔️ When we see absolutely outrageous actions-- keeping a dead body in the house, proclaiming yourself to be God's mouthpiece, marrying child brides-- it's easy to say, "Oh well, yeah, that's a cult." Yet many of the same techniques used by cultists are also used in Corporate America. Be careful of "outrageous overshadowing."
✔️ As with the NXIVM cult, members of the Alamo organization were made to work long hours and had to engage in high arousal activities. Doing this keeps you in survival mode and prevents you from stepping back to really ask the question, "WTH are we doing here?!?"
✔️ Tony told his acolytes that he needed surveillance tools in order to protect himself from outsiders. In reality, he was also watching all of the organization's members to be sure they were complying with his wishes. Sound familiar? Sure sounds like the Digital Panopticon to me.
✔️ Some people are incredibly talented manipulators. They have already sized you up and figured out exactly what you'd like to hear the minute you walk in the door. In an interview situation, for example, if it seems like you are getting love-bombed and everything is super intense, be careful.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ministry-of-evil-the-twisted-cult-of-tony-alamo-review-hell-on-earth-11550785714
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-04-26-1993116210-story.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/6785926
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Introverts, ambiverts, and extroverts who actually hate forced socialization and fakey-fake team building activities make up more of the population than people who want to mandate togetherness and silly kindergarten style party games. So why are we still allowing those types to create job descriptions?
Key topics:
✔️ If your job description is getting little or no traction out in the marketplace, you need to take an honest appraisal of why that is. Rather than blaming the entire workforce, the economy, and/or whole generations of people, look inward.
✔️ Why on earth would you require your staff to be filmed on Zoom every single day? WHY?!?!
✔️ If a company feels the need to drive a pin with a sledgehammer on togetherness and how "tight knit" they all are, ask yourself, "Does this sound like cult-speak in Corporate America to me?"
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"We're not just a company... we're like a family here!"
😱
Do you hear words like that and immediately feel tempted to run away? If so, I don't blame you. Is your employer your family? Nope. It seems like "we're a family" is a very popular form of corporate cult-speak.
Key topics:
✔️ Be careful of companies that operate like the mafia. No, your boss is not your parent and your coworkers are not your siblings. Give me a break.
✔️ Loyalty is a two-way street. So often the companies that preach about how tight knit everyone supposedly is are the most toxic and deceitful!
✔️ In The Firm, Mitch is plied with lots of money, perks, and benefits. LOTS of money. It turns out that it was hush money as well as "we own your a$$ now" money. The more dependent you are on Corporate America, the more they own you.
✔️ There are companies who tell employees, "You will post the official narrative or there's the door." So can you trust shiny-happy-people-holding-hands social media posts? I don't recommend it.
✔️ If the company asks you illegal questions during the hiring process, please, please do not ignore that huge red flag. No matter how much money they offer you, please be careful.
Special intro music: "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring.
Links I discuss in this episode:
Dr. Phil & Rick Alan Ross on cults:
https://www.drphilintheblanks.com/podcast-episodes/episode/2f8e2e4f/the-dangers-and-warning-signs-of-cults-part-1
https://www.drphilintheblanks.com/podcast-episodes/episode/3d9fcdc5/the-dangers-and-warning-signs-of-cults-part-2
If you want to buy the books for yourself:
https://www.amazon.com/Firm-Novel-John-Grisham-ebook/dp/B003B02O0K/
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Advocate-Andrew-Neiderman-ebook/dp/B0067M00T6/
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Subtitled: Like I needed yet another reason to detest Zoom. 😒
I'm a bit late on this, but I couldn't not record an episode about the bizarre mass firing that took place via, what else, a frickin' Zoom call back in December.
Key topics:
✔️ I understand that during the pandemic, no one is going to fly in George Clooney à la Up in the Air to sit down with people in person and blow a bunch of smoke. But a mass firing via video call? Really? Seems pretty raw.
✔️ The tone seemed monotone to me. I'm not sure that someone shedding crocodile tears would have been any better, but the whole mise en scène struck me as a robotic.
✔️ Be leery of any company that still relies on outdated sales metrics. They will set you up to fail and then blame you when their outmoded tactics do not work. Phone time is a great example.
✔️ Worrying about what kind of food and beverage is in each office while referring to your own employees as "dumb dolphins" is screwed the hell up.
Special intro music: "Better Now" by Post Malone.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/better-com-ceo-fires-900-employees-on-zoom-call/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Over the past month, LinkedIn has posted several articles questioning how working from home impacts everything from developing a company culture to making new "friends" at work to whether a right to disconnect will ever come to the US.
Key topics:
✔️ If the only way in your life to potentially meet new people and make some new pals is by being butt-in-seat at an office, you need to take a hard look at why that is. I understand that Covid has impaired the ability for people to go out and about; with that said, there are still a plethora of ways to connect with new people that don't involve forcing social activities on your colleagues.
✔️ Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. If you're working, then work. And after work, step away from the laptop. Turn off that Slack channel. Do not tell clients that you're available 24/7.
✔️Who are the people pushing so hard for a return to the office? Who are the ones bleating the loudest that the company won't have a culture anymore if everyone stays remote? Well, typically, it's micromanagers and lonely extroverts who want to corral everyone back to the office whether it's actually safe to do so or not.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Statistically, it's impossible to be sure how many people in the general population are truly psychopaths. Yet I wouldn't be at all surprised if you have encountered a workplace psychopath at some point in your career.
Trigger warning: I will be treading into some very dark and disturbing content here, including abuse. If at any point you are concerned this could be triggering for you, turn this episode off.
Key topics:
✔️ Some people use "psychopath" and "sociopath" interchangeably, but this is not correct. I am using the term psychopath intentionally in this episode.
✔️ Psychopaths can be superficially charming and they can be talented liars. They can also be One-Eyed Jacks: many people may be fooled by their façade but what if YOU have seen the other side of their face?
✔️ Don't allow yourself to be gaslighted, either by yourself or others. Also use caution. If you are worried that someone might try to harm you, make sure you stay safe. Psychopaths can lash out if they are worried that you might expose them for who and what they are.
✔️ Someone may have a carefully constructed persona that includes charity work, volunteerism, constant church attendance, etc., yet still be engaged in horrible activities in secret.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.drphilintheblanks.com/
https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/Psychopath-vs-Sociopath
https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/american-crime-story
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/27/how-bbc-star-jimmy-savile-got-away-with-allegedely-abusing-500-children-and-sex-with-dead-bodies/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/psychopathy
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A quick episode to wish you all a wonderful holiday, whatever you may celebrate. I also encourage you to use this time for rest. 2020 and 2021 have been strange years; this is a good time to recuperate and do things you enjoy simply for their own sake.
The show will be on hiatus after this as I will be following my own advice and indulging in some dolce far niente. 😊 New episodes return on Thursday, January 6th when I will be talking about Workplace Psychopathy. If you suspect you have been the victim of a workplace psychopath or you know someone else who could be, it's an episode not to be missed.
Special intro music: "Christmas Time All Over The World" by Sammy Davis Jr.
Special outro music: "By the Fireside" by Jo Stafford.
Part II of my take on The Great Resignation. Some folks are proposing that we stop calling it "the Great Resignation" in favor of something warmer and fluffier, but I disagree. I think we need some of that "I'm a person, not a robot" energy in Corporate America. No one rules if no one obeys. ✊
Key topics:
✔️ Here's a dirty little secret: all these video conferences and video interviews can be and sometimes are used for discriminatory purposes. If some company is browbeating you about showing up on video when there seems to be no coherent reason for it, ask yourself why that might be.
✔️ The same people who act like jerk managers to their employees within a company do not deserve to be in your freelancing business either. They will make your life a living hell, too. They need to stop being jerks!
✔️ Running on the hamster wheel of consumerism and "keeping up with the Joneses" will keep you trapped in Corporate America. I've lived long enough to see Gordon Gekko go from vilified yuppie who demonstrated 1980s excess to hearing him give the most cogent explanation of the burst housing bubble of the late 00s I've ever heard. And be aware: we're headed for the same territory again. More on this topic in a future episode.
✔️ The magic salary number of $75K for happiness is 10+ years old. Adjusted for inflation, it's more like $95K now. Some companies want to pay yesteryear's wages and then wonder why no one is interested.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2020/05/07/3-ways-video-conferencing-can-unintentionally-cause-bias/
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/are-our-new-virtual-workplaces-equitable
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danpontefract/2021/11/22/the-great-resignation-isnt-really-a-thing-something-else-is/?sh=6c796be423e5
Logical Finance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88Lkr-TzjI&t=416s
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Take this job and shove it!
More people are deciding to quit rather than putting up with a micromanager or jerky boss, working constantly, having to get on 58 Zoom calls a week, etc. So what's'a'goin'on with all of this?
Key topics:
✔️ In the same way that no one cares if Billy Bob's Staffing Agency won't represent them if they decline a job offer, guess what - the same is true now with actual hiring companies. The days of ghosting candidates and acting like an a-hole during the interview process yet still expecting to attract in talent are gone.
✔️ Likewise, acting like a jerk to your employees and expecting them to stay and obey = not gonna do it.
✔️ People are getting tired of trading time or labor for money. Let's examine the results and stop obsessing about the process.
✔️ "But, but, no one wants ta work now!" Really? A person applied to 60 jobs he was qualified for, got 1 offer and it was a lowball. Companies are the candidates now. Job seekers want to know what you have to offer them and it ain't foosball tables in the break room or unlimited sodey pops in the fridge.
Links I discuss in this episode:
Russell Brand's episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_32hy0FLoec
Logical Finance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88Lkr-TzjI&t=416s
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/great-resignation-accelerating/620382/
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2021/10/20/a-florida-man-applied-for-60-entry-level-jobs-in-a-month-to-prove-the-so-called-labor-shortage-is-a-myth
https://time.com/6106322/the-great-resignation-jobs/
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Here we are in the midst of The Great Resignation and yet: so many companies don't get it. I still see job descriptions and terms that make me wince.
Key topics:
✔️ "Hungry" may mean you'll go hungry if you work there. Or that you'll be fired if you don't work 80 hours but get paid for 40.
✔️ I remember turning down a job offer when the manager told me, "I want you scared. I like employees who are scared. If you're scared you'll lose your house or get the car repossessed, you'll be a top producer." HARD PASS. 🤮
✔️If the company feels the need to say, "No one likes a jerk," ask yourself why that might be. It's such a silly statement of the obvious that it makes you wonder if they have a higher jerk-to-nice-person ratio on staff already. Or if they assume anyone who thinks for themselves is a jerk.
✔️Anything that sounds like cult speak should be an automatic red flag.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://medium.com/@katipierce106/job-ads-for-young-and-hungry-f9067fcdd47
https://www.trustradius.com/buyer-blog/annoying-business-buzzwords
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Just a quick episode to express how grateful I am for all of you! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday.
Special intro music: "Autumn Leaves" by Frank Sinatra
Special outro music: "Early Autumn" by The Four Freshmen
Last December, I recorded an episode called "Cult-Like Tactics Used in Corporate America & Why Self-Help Often Doesn't Help" after watching the Starz documentary on NXIVM. Now here we are about a year later with the LuLaRich documentary on Amazon Prime recounting the turmoil of LuLaRoe.
Key topics:
✔️ Yes, MLMs and pyramid schemes utilize the same tactics as religious and sex cults. So does Corporate America. The more the culture tells you, "You must be one of us... one of us... one of us..." the more you're in a freakin' cult.
✔️ Be careful of environments where you get love-bombed and people are required to talk about how the place is "like a family." Those love-bombs can turn into a lot of malice if you step out of line.
✔️ Know your own rights. If you suspect that your employer is engaging in discrimination and/or placing requirements on you that go against the EEOC or Civil Rights Act, consult with a legal professional for help.
✔️ When we are in the thick of something, we may not always understand just how dire the situation is. Trust your gut and use good judgment. If something sounds too good to be true...
Special intro music: "How to Be a Millionaire" by ABC.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/lularich-docuseries-lularoe-mlm-cult-1228224/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-corporate-america-is-_b_2171040
https://www.mandatory.com/living/1567161-17-signs-youre-in-a-cult-or-just-working-for-corporate-america
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/multi-level-marketing-businesses-and-pyramid-schemes
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/job-opportunity-mlm-scam-pyramid-scheme_l_5e30c62ec5b6e8375f647a5e
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
blessed
livingyourbestlife
Always find a silver lining!
🤨 What do we do in situations where we aren't #blessed? Or where we've faced a senseless tragedy and there is no silver lining?
Key topics:
✔️ In 2015, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. This was after spending a chunk of her career researching the American prosperity gospel, the "#blessed" culture, and the "living my best life" crowd. So what happens when tragedy visits?
✔️ In the same way that "love and light only," "only good vibes allowed" can become a prison of toxic positivity, rushing to find some silver lining in the face of grief can morph into toxic optimism.
✔️Using phrases like "well, at least..." or "I guess it's good that..." to someone who is grieving is not helpful. Even if well-intentioned, it usually doesn't help.
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_bowler_everything_happens_for_a_reason_and_other_lies_i_ve_loved?language=en
https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/how-to-avoid-toxic-optimism.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10089201/Positivity-POISONOUS-says-author-KATE-BOWLER-provocative-new-book.html
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Trigger warning: In this episode, I will be discussing grief, loss, and bereavement as well as other potentially triggering topics (abuse, depression, suicide, etc.). If you feel that any of these topics could be overwhelming for you, please skip this episode.
Key topics:
✔️ There is more acceptance and open discussion now about mental health in general, as well as anxiety and depression. But what about grief? Grief/Loss still seems to be the hairy, unwieldy beast in the corner no one wants to discuss.
✔️ By and large, we are not taught much about grief and the grieving process. Unless you have religious and/or cultural traditions around it, you may feel as though no one has ever told you what to expect. Or where to even begin.
✔️The "stages" of the grieving process are not linear and, for that matter, may not encompass the experience you have. Please do not listen to the Grief Police who want to tell you what you are and are not allowed to feel. 😡 It is YOUR journey and your experience.
Links to things I mention in this episode:
https://www.onecommune.com/blog/the-sixth-stage-of-grief-with-david-kessler
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
https://www.samhsa.gov/
https://www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/outreach/pet-loss-support-hotline/resources-grieving/faqs
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
It's hard to believe that October is almost over. And Halloween/Samhain is Sunday!
Key topics:
✔️ Looking for something scary to watch? I can definitely make some suggestions. I always say I won't watch horror movies at bedtime and then 100% do it anyway. 🤷
✔️ Modern films rely too much on cheap jump scares and loud noises for my money. It might be startling but it's not scary.
✔️ However you choose to celebrate, I hope you have a safe and fun holiday!
Special intro music: "Witchcraft" by Frank Sinatra.
Special outro music: "That Old Black Magic" by Frank Sinatra.
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The most downloaded guest episode to date featured Scott Grayson talking about cubicle zombie life. This topic is now even more germane than when we discussed it in June of 2020. 🤔
Key topics:
✔️ Updates on what Scott's up to these days. Spoiler alert: a lot.
✔️ If you weren't ready last year but you are ready now to escape the cubicle zombie life... how do you do it?
✔️ If you are Mike the Micromanager and you feel that you need a digital panopticon of surveillance to suss out who is working hard versus who is goofing off all day: you got bigger problems, man.
✔️ Plan ahead. Think about your own future and what's best for you and your family. Corporate America will always take care of itself. Who's looking out for you? (Hint: it had better be YOU yourself.)
✔️ Do you have valuable, marketable skills? If not, do you know how you could acquire them?
Links to find Scott online:
https://strengthandreason.com/
https://www.mentallyunscripted.com/
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Episode 99! Hard to believe. Today I'll be answering some viewer mail from the last episode, i.e.: OK, the social media outage scared me. How can I not be so dependent on it?
Key topics:
✔️ I don't recommend going cold turkey, especially if a huge amount of your income is predicated on social media. Instead, create an exit strategy BEFORE you need it.
✔️ This is not insane. Don't think for one second that your business could not survive without social media. Yes, even in 2021, this is true.
✔️ Is your marketing plan based mostly or solely on spamming other people? Well, if so, plz find something else to do with your time. Sending out 500 LI InMails each day trying to pitch yourself is probably not the best way to make money. Ironically, it might also get you banned from the platform one day.
✔️ There are other ways to obtain positive reviews and testimonials without relying on star reviews through social media. If you're viewing social media as the only means for proof of concept, you'll stay stuck forever.
Links to articles I discuss:
https://www.broganmicallef.com/articles/quitting-social-media-guide
http://www.alexandrafranzen.com/2021/01/30/marketing/
Special intro music: "99" by Toto.
Special outro music: "It Keeps You Runnin'" by Michael McDonald.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
On Monday, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus went down. Was your business impacted by it? Did you hardly even notice?
Key topics:
✔️ As I've said repeatedly: the future is now. Censorship. Banning & shadow banning. Was the outage really caused by a network problem or was it something else? I dunno, but I do know that if you're still out there basing your entire income on a platform you don't own or control, you're playing with fire.
✔️ Do you have access to your own data? If you've been talking to JKTheButterfly82634 on social media and don't know her actual name and email address, how would you reach her again if that platform died?
✔️ Nothing is too big or too popular to fail. Remember the mess with Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers? Or Enron?
Link to Verge article I mention: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22708989/instagram-facebook-outage-messenger-whatsapp-error
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Wu wei can be defined as "effortless action," which may seem like a contradiction to the American mind. Busy, busy, busy. Always on the grind. Never stop hustling. Yet what happens when we run out of F bucks in our daily F budget?
Key topics:
✔️ Too often we prioritize other people's agenda for our own time rather than asking the simple question: does this even matter?
✔️ So Karen is mad that her apple cinnamon candle wasn't perfectly balanced but rather did not have enough apple scent to satisfy her. WHO CARES.
✔️ We have a series of decisions to make before we even start work for the day. As time goes on, the brain gets weary. If you want to have gas left in the tank for family, friends, charity work, etc., you need to be mindful of your own F bucks and the overall F budget.
✔️ I LOVE how Sarah calls social invitations and extroverted hoo-ha "impositions" because that is precisely what they are. If you want to go and you give an F buck for it, cool. But if you don't, the world will not end by saying, "No thank you."
Special intro music: "Forget You" by CeeLo Green.
Link to Sarah Knight's TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwRzjFQa_Og
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
In this episode, I answer some viewer mail with a common problem we encounter as solopreneurs, freelancers, and small business owners: when I started out, I did whatever I had to do in order to succeed. Now how can I do what I want to do?
Key topics:
✔️ Jane recounts a story of someone who wanted her to FILM HERSELF working. Cuz that's not hella creepy or anything. 😲
✔️ Sometimes we work with less than ideal clients to get that first burst of cash or a few positive testimonials. So how do we move from the less than ideal to the ideal?
✔️ The level of micromanagement and nitpicking you will get is the level you are willing to tolerate. This is true across the board in any industry.
✔️ Constant monitoring may be some control freak manager's fantasy but you don't have to accept it in your own practice. Nor should you be perpetrating that on your own employees.
Special intro & outro music "Jell-O" by Egozi.
Links discussed in this episode:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/30/work-from-home-surveillance/
Michael Sealey's meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1On9pr7y4
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
In this episode, I discuss my rediscovery of real food. Yet what does that mean? What is real food versus fake food or Frankenfoods?
Links to the books I discuss:
Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Michael-Pollan/dp/1594133328
Nina Planck's Real Food: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Food-What-Eat-Why/dp/1632864584
Gina Mallet's Last Chance to Eat: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-Eat-Finding-Taste/dp/0393344843
Key topics:
✔️ My weight loss and health & wellness journey has been slow, which is completely different from crash diets.
✔️ Our eating and exercise habits can re-trigger emotional trauma. Be aware of that.
✔️ Most fad diets recommend food consumption below the threshold of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment! Don't believe me? Google it and read about it for yourself.
✔️ As I said in the last episode: Always talk to your doctor FIRST before you make any changes to your own eating habits and/or exercise routine. Don't get in a hurry and cause more harm than good.
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In March, I recorded an episode called "No More Dieting... So Now What?" After reading Dr. Aamodt's book, Why Diets Make Us Fat, I wanted to figure out that million dollar question for myself. If I don't want to yo-yo diet and punish myself anymore, what do I do?
Key topics:
✔️ The Buddhist idea of the Middle Path is so useful here. Too much asceticism makes life dull and restrictive yet too much indulgence can make us feel sluggish and tired.
✔️ I focused on one habit at a time and truly worked on not doing too much too soon. Yes, progress is slower that way but it also tends to be long lasting.
✔️ Keeping a food journal can be very helpful. Sometimes we tend to graze mindlessly or eat little snacks that we brain-dump later.
✔️ Fake foods are usually highly processed and don't make me feel full for any significant length of time. Yes, they may be convenient but at what cost?
✔️ Always talk to your doctor FIRST before you make any changes to your own eating habits and/or exercise routine. Don't get in a hurry and cause more harm than good.
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You dream of leaving Corporate America behind. No more cubicle life for you! It's time to set yourself free. So you get started on a freelancing site and wait for the cash and the great opportunities to roll in... but WTH is actually going on?!?
Key topics:
✔️ Sites like Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer.com can be a decent place to get started and/or to garner some positive reviews and testimonials. They can also suck the life out of you and ding you with fees.
✔️ At some point, when you are ready to truly grow and scale your business, you will look around and realize: it's nigh on impossible using one of these platforms. You'll probably also feel a tremendous sense of burnout, too.
✔️ These sites often promise to have the freelancer's back. If you work, you'll get paid on time every time. But is that the reality?
✔️ Customer support is often terrible. Freelancers and clients sniping back and forth at each other on the feedback pages accomplishes nothing and looks tacky.
✔️ Pricing is usually a race to the bottom. The clients shopping on these platforms are often not your ideal prospects either. Why? Well, TBH, some of them are downright abusive.
Links to articles I mention:
https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/escaping_upwork/
https://medium.com/swlh/freelancing-websites-to-avoid-like-the-plague-7db694ed7293
https://www.proteusthemes.com/blog/why-you-should-avoid-freelance-marketplaces-at-all-costs/
https://web-crunch.com/posts/how-not-to-freelance
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Teddy is a tailgate negotiator. You agree on terms up-front, sign necessary documents, and begin the project. But then... Teddy decides to renege, ask for items not agreed upon, insist on endless revisions, etc. Ned is needy. He wants to micromanage you and he has 50,000 questions to ask before he can hire you for the project. Ugh.
Key topics:
✔️ You always have to consider the cost. When you are looking at the money, don't focus on the gross. Focus on the net. When all the expenses and taxes are deducted, how much will you actually net from this? Sometimes looking at the true bottom line is enough for you to decide that a Teddy or a Ned is not worth it.
✔️ Your business needs to function well for YOU. The customer is not always right and you should not put them up on a pedestal.
✔️ The Buddhist idea of a middle path is useful here. A good client usually has sensible questions and doesn't rush through the process of hiring you yet also does not drag it out or ask an excessive number of anxiety-laced questions.
✔️ You have to weed out clients who expect that, because you are a freelancer, solopreneur, or small business owner, you will be at their mercy. They hold all the cards and you hold none. Nope. Huh-uh. Inaccurate.
Link to the article I discuss in this episode: https://www.inc.com/jayson-demers/7-types-of-clients-who-will-take-your-patience-to-the-brink.html
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One of my coaching clients asked me, "When are you done with testing and beta testing? When can I just kick back and let things run on auto-pilot from here on out?" NEVER. Unless you sell your business or want to allow it to run itself into the ground, you are never done with testing.
Key topics:
✔️ A more appropriate analogy is a bicycle with training wheels. As you gain more knowledge and you feel more confident, you can take the training wheels off the bike. But this is different from thinking you never have to test ideas or that you'll lock a system in and it'll work forever and ever amen.
✔️ Your target audience may change over time. Likewise, your own personal goals and/or business goals may change, too. A friend of mine sold his business to travel the country in an RV. And then when his son got married and started a family, he decided he no longer wanted to be a rolling stone. Stuff changes. That's life.
✔️ Part of practicing alchemy in your business involves refinement, sifting and sorting, choosing and leaving alone. If this is something you hate, you may have to determine if entrepreneurship is the right choice for you.
✔️ You should say "no" to more than you say "yes" to, especially once you're past the early days of your business. In the same way that I do not work with very small, very young start-ups in the middle of pure chaos and confusion, I also don't work with people who want Signs, Wonders, and Miracles. Turn this water into wine in five minutes or else! Umm, no thanks.
Special intro music: "All I Need is a Miracle" by Mike + The Mechanics.
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I recently heard an episode of Jenn Stevens' podcast entitled, "Emotional Alchemy: Turn Sh*t Into Gold." I enjoyed it and it inspired me to record this episode about how you can turn poop experiences in your business into gold.
Key topics:
✔️ In business as in life, sometimes 💩 is gonna happen. This is part of the human condition. No one gets a perfect life or a perfect business.
✔️ It's good to perform an autopsy when something goes awry, BUT you need to do it in a way that is not punitive or blaming. Trying to figure out how every negative thing in the world is your fault is a waste of time and it makes you feel awful. I've done the leg work. I know!
✔️ Spiritual and emotional alchemy will invite you to do shadow work. One of the easiest ways to get started is to pay attention to your triggers. What are the things that get you hot under the collar?
✔️ Business is tough. The love & light only crowd might tell you that it's gonna be bliss all the time but no, no, it is not! You will have challenges to deal with and problems to solve. We don't have to walk into the office each morning saying, "Great. What fresh hell awaits me today?" But when something we dislike occurs, it's a waste of time and emotional energy to decide it's all your fault for not staying super positive about everything all the time.
Link to article I discuss: https://spiritualgangster.com/blogs/news/the-art-of-spiritual-alchemy
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One of my coaching clients asked, "What do we do with 'meh' clients? Clients who aren't horrible but yet are definitely not ideal either. What then?"
Key topics:
✔️ It's easy to make a decision with people on either side of the spectrum: amazing, wonderful clients you want more of and awful, rude dumpster fires who need to gooooo. It's more difficult in the gray areas.
✔️ It's important to consider what you are willing to deal with. Firstly, assess the money. Is this "meh" client paying you well, on time, and in full? If not, that massively tips the scales in a negative direction. From there, you have to decide if it's worth the physical, mental, and emotional effort involved to deal with that person.
✔️ Trying to either change or guilt trip a selfish jerk is a fool's errand. And sadly, you will bump into selfish jerks from time to time in the business world. Sometimes dealing with them is worth the money and other times it is not.
✔️ Getting involved in a confrontation is generally NOT the way to go. Some people are unhappy and they are spoiling for a fight. They want nothing more than to pull you into unnecessary drama. You don't have to take the bait!
✔️ As Bob Proctor says: you need to be the star of your own show. This is your life and your business. Not someone else's. Don't place your happiness and well-being in someone else's hands.
Special intro music: "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel.
Link to article I discuss: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ambigamy/201905/nine-tips-when-youre-tempted-tell-someone
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I received an outpouring of responses from last week's episode about Bob getting stabbed in the back by his boss, Rick. Sadly, a lot of us have been Bob and have had at least one (often more than one) horrible experience like that at the hands of either a terrible boss, toxic company, scheming colleague, or some combo of all of the above.
Key topics:
✔️ One of my coaching clients asked me if I had any Bob experiences and yes, I do. I recount a couple of them in this episode.
✔️ There are signs that the times are changing, though more needs to be done. The days of companies being able to treat people like garbage with no repercussions and no accountability are coming to an end.
✔️ The Devil Wears Prada turned 15 this year. Yet the Miranda Priestly-es of the world are still in Corporate America, make no mistake about it. More women are rebelling against mantras of "lean in" and "girlboss" yet managers from hell are by no means a thing of the past. Or a thing purely of fiction.
✔️ The old school notion of success having to be the corner office with a fancy title is obsolete. Ya know, kinda like how the idea of a corporation giving its retirees a pension, full benefits, and a gold watch no longer exists. We can debate whether that dream died with the Enron scandal, but we know now that it's gone. The onus is on you to look out for yourself and not swear fealty to a corporation.
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What happens when we have been so hurt, so betrayed that we can't let it go? Part of toxic positivity is trying to pick yourself up and dust yourself off too fast. Or feeling guilty if you need to take a significant length of time to process pain. In this episode, I relay the story of Bob and how his boss, Rick, stabbed him in the back with no apparent remorse.
Key topics:
✔️ Bob and Rick: not their real names, just to be clear.
✔️ Have you ever noticed that the more you try to force yourself not to feel angry or sad about something, the stronger the emotion blows out of you once you allow it?
✔️ Know thyself. In Bob's case, he knew he needed to leave a toxic situation immediately.
✔️ Rushing through the process of grieving a loss is a form of denial. "Maybe if I just hurry up, I can get this over with." Human emotions don't operate in such a tidy fashion. Embrace your own journey.
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Sometimes it feels like we fall into a loop of bad luck or weird encounters. Other times when we are introspective, we may realize that these people or situations keep showing up due to toxic patterns. In this episode, I discuss ways to help you break those toxic patterns in your business.
Key topics:
✔️ There are a lot of tips out there for breaking toxic patterns in relationships, especially for dating. But what about business? Toxic patterns lurk in the business world, too.
✔️ Really FR being done with something means that, when given the chance to repeat a toxic pattern, we turn in a different direction and make a different choice. If we fall into "same ole, same ole" then we're not actually done with it yet.
✔️ Not all money is good money. Sometimes the amount of stress and nightmarish nonsense a client wants us to accept is not worth it.
✔️ Consider the costs all the way around. What is this costing me emotionally, financially, physically, etc? Sometimes as business owners or freelancers, we only focus on how much money we'll net, but don't think about what we'll have to do to get to the money. I've heard it said before that work is deciding how much of your life you want to trade for money and I felt that in my soul. So how much life do you want to trade? Be judicious about it.
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I've heard the entrepreneur Dan Lok say that most business issues are 70 to 80% mindset related and 20 to 30% tactical issues. I agree. But how do you know? How can you tell if it's a mindset issue, a tactical problem, or some combination of both? One of my coaching clients asked me that question recently and it's an important one.
Key topics:
✔️ I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you can get sucked into the "always hustle, always grind" culture and still be broke. Intentional, strategic action beats randomly running around in a state of panic.
✔️ Taking "massive action" is not likely to work out well if your mental monologue loop is filled with pessimism and sour grapes. This may also sound unfair, but it's true. I should know-- I lived it before!
✔️ Pay attention to how you feel day in and day out as you operate your business. Does every little bump in the road make you mad? Do you feel energized and revved up? Peaceful and tranquil? Angry and burned out? Do you find yourself having fantasies of escape or being rescued from yourself?
✔️ Are you able to pay yourself? So often we focus on paying the employees or freelancers, paying the bills, and taking care of everyone else but are you able to pay YOURSELF through your business? If not, that is a major red flag that must be addressed.
Link to Brian Scott's meditation I discuss in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hgQftvsqWM
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It's pretty easy to find articles, chats, and support if you're a client wishing to kvetch about a freelancer. And I get it: I've been on that end of the transaction, too, waiting and wondering if someone is actually going to submit the deliverable or if they fell off the face of the earth. It is def frustrating to pay good money and then feel like the person either gave you subpar work or no work at all. But what about the difficult, unpleasable clients? What's a freelancer or a consultant to do?
Key topics:
✔️ An ounce of prevention is worth about 20 lbs of cure in this case. Do what you can to filter out the bad apples ahead of time. Not all money is good money. Your sanity and mental health matter, too.
✔️ Have a game plan. If someone slides under the radar who seemed great but turned out to be a nightmare or some major change occurs and a good relationship goes sour, have a plan. Figure out how you could extricate yourself if you needed to hit the escape hatch.
✔️ Always set the rules of engagement from the beginning. In order to run your own business or run your own freelancing desk, you need to have a good backbone.
✔️ Know when to say "no." If someone is trying to run you over and/or be rude and crass during the intake process, that is a major red flag. The dynamic won't change once you are freelancing or consulting for them!
Link to article I discuss in this episode:
https://www.and.co/freelancersblog/freelance-knowledge/dealing-with-difficult-clients/
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If you ever feel like you're floating through life, not really sure about what you want or you look around at other people and feel envious... "Why do they have that? Why are they experiencing life so much better than me?" this is the episode for you. Or maybe you've just gotten your feet wet with setting goals or manifesting what you want but you're ready to level up and go further, faster. This is also the episode for you.
Key topics:
✔️ BHAG = big, hairy audacious goal. A BHAG can be shorter term, maybe 6 to 12 months, or it can be longer like 3 to 5 years. But it damn well has to be a stretch. It needs to challenge your imagination's muscles.
✔️ Moonshot goal = something monumental that may take 10 to 20 years to achieve. Perhaps you're 30 now and you want to retire early at 50 as a multi-millionaire and you have no clue how you'll get there. That's a moonshot goal.
✔️ If your BHAG makes you feel excited and giddy but also kinda sick and nervous at the same time, that's a great sign.
✔️ It's like the old phrase, "You can either get busy living or get busy dying." Do you want to participate in deliberate creation in your life and indulge your inner desire towards creation and expansion, or do you want to stagnate and gripe that everyone else has it good and you don't? It's your decision to make.
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I received great responses to the last episode about Toxic Positivity. I wanted to take some time to address a few of the viewer mail questions now.
Special intro music: "Spirits in the Material World" by The Police.
Key topics:
✔️ It's unrealistic to expect every moment to be total bliss. But how can we avoid extremes? Not being a downer Eeyore but also not being toxically positive either?
✔️ As the scriptures say: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." I've heard Wayne Dyer lecture on this topic before. There's a time for comfort and discomfort, for work and for rest, for heat and for cold. This is nature itself. Toxic positivity tries to hijack the system and tell you that you damnwellbetter be happy 24/7.
✔️ If someone close to you is dumping toxic positivity on you, how can you handle it without booting them out of your life? Or if you tend to be sunny and effervescent, how can you avoid perpetrating toxic positivity onto others?
✔️ Right before sleep and upon waking in the morning, your brain is in a good place to receive positive affirmations and statements. These times are excellent for implanting the kind of programming YOU WANT inside your head. Don't fall asleep listening to things like the news, talk radio, politics, violent movies or TV shows, etc.
Links to videos mentioned in this episode:
Esther Hicks' Good Morning Rampage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmczMP1gQzk
Five Reiki Principles Meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_gIaVvOKi0&t=128s
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The other day, I saw a t-shirt that said "No Bad Vibes Allowed" and I think my eyes did a complete 360 revolution in their sockets. Toxic positivity is so ubiquitous it is now t-shirt fodder. Oy.
Key topics:
✔️ Guess what - sometimes as a human being, you will feel sad, angry, frustrated, upset, etc. There is no way I know of to be positive about every single moment every single day.
✔️ Even though we are all existentially alone, it is so healing to be heard and understood by another human being. Getting slapped down by toxic positivity robs you off that catharsis.
✔️ As my wartime consigliere told me, "A lot of these people who say they work in 'love and light' all the time are actually seething with unresolved rage." WORD.
✔️ Providing a healthy outlet for your anger is better than bottling it up or ignoring it. Go to the batting cages. Punch a punching bag at the gym. But don't hold it in and paste a fake smile over the top of it under the guise of "love and light only!"
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Recently I was talking to my friend, Will, and he said something that inspired me to record this episode. He works in the healing space and expressed frustration with people who want to eat junk food, smoke cigarettes, and get drunk but then come to him to be "healed" so that they can begin the cycle of trashing out their bodies all over again.
Key topics:
✔️ Sometimes in life: you are your own worst enemy. No cavalry is coming to save you and you need to build your own ladder out of the pit you put yourself into.
✔️ Trying to make someone else God Almighty and looking to them to save you from your own mess is not a great idea. It's too much pressure on both you and them.
✔️ There are times when you need to be able to give yourself the closure or apologies that someone else will not. Some people are jerks-- they will wound you deeply and never apologize for it. You have to be willing to give yourself that nurturing that you need.
✔️ If you're in the pit right now, it probably didn't happen overnight. Likewise, as you are building your own ladder out, it will probably not happen overnight either.
Special intro music: "Jacob's Ladder" by Huey Lewis & The News.
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"Whenever feasible, he preferred to eat the rude." -Barney on Hannibal Lecter's philosophy
My client "John" told me that he's had a lot of trouble with rudeness and he's fed up with it. But what does that mean?
Key topics:
✔️ Rudeness means different things to different people and it has different degrees of severity. What is your boundary line of acceptable versus non-acceptable behavior?
✔️ In John's situation, he felt disrespected and marginalized... by everyone. Clients, prospects, and candidates alike. So what was he doing to put himself in that position?
✔️ If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will. Clients and prospects will follow YOUR LEAD on how you view yourself. This doesn't mean no one will ever occasionally test your boundaries (and your patience) but it helps to screen out the obvious problem children.
✔️ Dr. House always said, "People lie. Everyone lies." This may not be true in every single situation, but you ultimately want to protect yourself and your business. Don't allow yourself to go off on wild goose chases hoping maybe one day you'll get paid for it.
✔️ If most of the projects or jobs you're working on disappear and blow away, it becomes frustrating not only for your pocketbook but also for your mental health and well-being.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
What happens when you're not stuck with nothing... you're just getting that which is unwanted? Sometimes getting 💩 feels worse than getting nothing at all.
Key topics:
✔️ Sadsacks and wounded birds tend to attract more of the same. If you're saying, "I don't want a wounded bird in my life" yet you yourself are a wounded bird, you're putting out a contradiction.
✔️ You don't need to give everything away to strangers from the jump. If you go into a job interview and say, "Every job I've ever had sucked butt" or you go on a first date and say, "Dating sucks. All I attract are lousy liars and catfishers," a happy, high caliber person will run.
✔️ Are you desperate? Narcissists and manipulators can spot a sad, desperate person from 10 miles away. Don't play into their hands! Heal your traumas and practice good self-care.
✔️ Get your mind right. I once published an ebook called Get Out of Your Own Way because so often in life, the person standing in the way of a goal is the self. Not the other.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
I received some Viewer Mail from "Eddie" who is struggling with ads. The types of ad strategies that work for others in his space aren't working for him. So now what?
Key topics:
✔️ Eddie has hired a few "experts" who promised to help him and blow up his social media... yet nothing happened and they really weren't accountable for that.
✔️ If your business is tanking and you want someone else to bail you out, everyone in that situation is in trouble.
✔️ A coach can't fight in the arena for you. The image that comes to mind for me is Proximo in the movie Gladiator. He's a gruff mentor but he doesn't fight Maximus' battles for him.
✔️ Just because your competitors are dropping hellafied money on social media ads DOES NOT MEAN you must do the same thing! If you don't know what you are doing, you can throw massive amounts of cash away.
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We've all had times when we wanted something to show up in our lives but... where is it? How do we handle the impatience and frustration?
Key topics:
✔️ I think of Charlotte in SATC saying, "I'm exhausted! Where is he?!?"
✔️ We intuitively know that when we try to put a stranglehold on something, we're not doing ourselves any favors. When we chase after someone or something, what typically happens? It runs away.
✔️ Don't admonish yourself for having emotions. We will ALL have times when we experience frustration, impatience, anger, etc. Welcome to the human condition.
✔️ Challenge your own thoughts and fears. You are not your thoughts! You do not have to buy into every fear that pops into your head. "What if I never find a job? What if I never find love? What if I never find a nice house?" Zip that crap up. You do not have to believe it just because it came into your head.
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Is ghosting always a negative thing? In times past, we tended to think that there was never an acceptable time or circumstance to simply vanish. Yet technology has changed the culture so much and, like it or not, a lot of our interactions and more fleeting and transactional than ever.
✔️ How much do we owe other people? If you had one date with a person, do you need to write them a doctoral dissertation on why you'd rather not see them again?
✔️ Some situations will be painful and awkward no matter what, whether you rip the band-aid off quickly or you write a treatise about it.
✔️ We live in an era of hook-up apps and transactional everything-- partners, jobs, friends, purchases, etc., etc. We can either lament that and cry in our beer or we can accept reality.
✔️ Ask yourself this: will this change anything? You don't necessarily need to walk away without saying anything at all, but in my experience, people are who they are. If you try to sit someone down and say, "I feel neglected by you" or "I feel like you ask a lot of me as a friend but don't do much in return," they may shape up for a little while, but they often revert to their previous behavior because... people are who they are!
Link to the article I mention in this episode: https://medium.com/the-dot-non-fiction/in-defense-of-ghosting-when-no-response-is-the-right-response-f426e8114972
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In this episode, I'm discussing some viewer mail I received from "Cindy." She is looking to attract clients who treat her with dignity and respect rather than being pains in the neck, micromanagers, unpleasable 💩s, etc.
Key topics:
✔️ In her email to me, "Cindy" uses the term dignity, which I think is perfect. Your clients SHOULD BE treating you in that way and if they are not, something's gone awry.
✔️ When you freelance or own your own business, you get to set the rules. If you do not want to be treated like an employee by someone, then don't put up with it. It's like the old saying: no one rules if no one obeys.
✔️ The way that some people are treated in Corporate America stinks. It's not a reflection of being treated with dignity; it's all about surveillance and existing in an office version of a police state. No thanks.
✔️ Focus on that which is wanted not that which is unwanted. Set your satellite signal to attract the people you want. Dwelling on people who grind on your nerves will not help to repel them.
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An hour worked should be an hour paid. Yet so many small business owners, solopreneurs, and freelancers feel like they need to give entirely too much away. In this episode, I discuss my client "Jeff" and his desire to work with better prospects and improve the cash flow in his business.
Key topics:
✔️ If someone says all the right things during the intake call and then turns into a bugaboo, stalker, weirdo, etc., what do you do?
✔️ Working for free or putting everything on the line in a contingency-based business model will break you. You're not gonna have solid, dependable cash flow if you keep operating that way.
✔️ Don't get happy ears on a sales call. Detach yourself from the outcome and develop safeguards that rule more people out than in. Not everyone on the planet is an ideal client for your business and that's OK.
✔️ Your rules of engagement are utterly meaningless if you do not require compliance to them. You may as well save your breath if you let people treat you like a doormat.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Back in March, I recorded an episode about Making the Price Leap, which is when your business is surviving and you want to kick it up to thriving. I received some requests to discuss the first big leap, i.e., leaving your corporate job in order to step fully into your business or freelancing career.
Key topics:
✔️ Full disclosure: there is no one way to make the leap. Everyone's situation is different. This is simply my experience with what has worked for me and what has not.
✔️ Testing and beta testing are crucial. If you can suss out ahead of time that your business idea or business model is not gonna work, it is so much better than going into debt or blowing up your corporate career.
✔️ Know thyself. Some people respond well to financial pressure. Others fold. Some people like a hard-driving environment and others loathe it. Which are you?
✔️ Even if you hate your day job, once it's time to resign and move on, you will be nervous. There will some part of you that is anxious and scared half to death. It's normal and it has happened to all of us.
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It's April Fool's Day, but this is no joke. insert wah wah horn here
Recently, I had a conversation with one of my clients about "almost" clients. What do we do with people who got 4th & Goal but never made the touchdown?
Key topics:
✔️ Avoid the "close all deals by any means necessary" mentality. Not everyone you talk to is meant to be your client.
✔️ You cannot crawl inside someone else's brain and change who they are. Likewise, if your sales techniques are predicated on you having to always light a fire under someone's butt to close them, you're playing a dangerous game.
✔️ Ideally, people need to be ready to roll before they ever get on the phone with you. I understand that won't always happen, but you should aim for ideal prospects who consume your content regularly and pre-close themselves.
✔️ Your prospects also need to have a coherent "why." They need to have their own motivation. Do you want to drag them across the threshold of change kicking and screaming? Do you want to constantly have to re-close them and convince them to continue with your product or service? Hell no.
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Last November, I recorded an episode about Sandra Aamodt's book Why Diets Make Us Fat. This episode is a sort of next chapter to that. In other words: no more dieting, so now what? If you've done battle with the Quarantine 15, you'll understand why I'm asking this question.
✔️ A lot of us are getting back into the kitchen to cook, but sometimes, that has led to more comfort food and rich desserts.
✔️ We live in a society that's pretty conducive to yo-yo dieting. Gain some, go on a diet, lose some, burn out, start the cycle again.
✔️ If your eating habits are making you feel less than optimal but you don't want to go on a restrictive diet, what next? What are the other options?
✔️ Be careful of all-or-nothing thinking. Every workout does not need to culminate in breaking a personal record or feeling like your heart is about to explode out of your chest.
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It really is true that you teach people how to treat you. In order to have respect from others, you must respect yourself first. There's no getting around it.
✔️ In this episode, I discuss my client, "Bob," and his struggles as a small business owner. He left a sausage grinder company only to find that he was still working way too hard and feeling undervalued.
✔️ Boundaries are meaningless if you do not demand adherence. There has to be consequences for breaking the rules.
✔️ Being direct and incisive does not mean being a tyrannical boss or getting in someone's face. I think people tiptoe around entirely too much these days. You can be candid without being hateful.
✔️ Even in the digital era, so much communication is non-verbal. People pick up on the energy or the vibe you bring. If you are not confident or you don't feel there is true value in what you do, your clients and prospects will feel it. And some will exploit it.
✔️ How would it feel both in your life and your business if you had a great state of flow-- if your employees and clients respected you and everyone treated each other well?
Special intro music "Respect Yourself" by The Staple Sisters.
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Video may not have totally killed the radio star, but the game sure changed. LPs to 8 tracks to cassettes to CDs to MP3s to streaming... Is the global gig economy killing third party, contingency-based staffing? Honestly, I say yes.
✔️ I'm not afraid to make bold predictions and my ability to spot impending failure is highly accurate. Staffing firms still using the "carrot-and-the-stick" style of marketing have maybe 12 to 24 months left at best.
✔️ There's nothing disruptive or revolutionary about providing the same service as everyone else but trying to dress it up in different clothes. We can all see the emperor is naked!
✔️ Candidates have more legit choices than ever before. The days of candidates standing in the corner hoping a staffing agency can represent them so that they don't have to represent themselves are already over.
✔️ The global gig economy means that large service providers can serve as a "middle man" in a way that's much faster and cheaper than most contingency-based agencies can. If you work for one of those firms and you've seen the writing on the wall, you owe it to yourself to think about your own future.
✔️ Recruiters deserve to get paid for the work they do, periodt. This contingency-based crap of doing all the work upfront and then hoping you get paid for it later (in some cases much later) is bullsh*t. It jacks up your cash flow and puts you in an automatic space of disrespect.
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The first big leap is transitioning from corporate employee into full-time self-employed business owner, solopreneur, or freelancer. But what about the next big leap... How do you go from surviving in the business to thriving? How do you raise your rates?
✔️ If you Google "how to raise your prices," you're gonna get a lot of bad advice, IMO. If you don't believe me, try it out and see what comes up.
✔️ You are not a defendant in a courtroom. You should not approach a price increase by justifying yourself, the increase, inflation, etc. You also should not apologize and act like it's the end of the world.
✔️ If being direct with customers scares you, practice in the mirror or with a friend/family member/coach until you can feel the fear and do it anyway.
✔️ You have to understand your own value first. You cannot expect your clients or prospects to understand it for you.
✔️ Weigh and measure your own motivation. How badly do you want more disposable income? To retire someday? To take the kids to Disney World? To get a new car?
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Earlier this year, I recorded an episode about the 7 Deadly Sins of Money Mindset. One of those deadly sins is listening to cynics, naysayers, and frenemies who put you down and trash-talk any idea you have on bettering your life or business. I received some emails and DMs about that topic and in this episode, I will expound on the question: what even is a frenemy? How would I know if I have one?
✔️ Pay attention to how you feel after you've had an interaction with someone. If you felt sunny and happy before, but they sucked all the joy out of you, that's not a good sign.
✔️ Social media, catfishing, and digital "friendships" have made it difficult to know just how authentic someone new in your life actually is, especially if you haven't been able to ever connect with them in person.
✔️ Frenemies don't give it to you straight. They make passive-aggressive comments and snide little remarks, and they gossip about you behind your back.
✔️ If your friend always seems to speak unkindly of other friends and family members and enjoys sh*t-talking them in front of you, here's your sign. You can safely assume they do that when you are not around.
✔️ True friends who are down for you will be supportive and kind. They will comfort you when you are sad and they will applaud your victories. You won't have to wonder where you stand with them-- you'll know.
Special intro music: "You Get What You Give" by New Radicals. ("Frenemies, who when you're down ain't your friends...")
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Special Saturday broadcast. 🛰️ On Thursday, the NY Times published an op-ed about critical thinking and internet disinformation. In this special episode, I discuss my thoughts.
✔️ Con artists, grifters, liars, manipulators, etc., have ALWAYS existed and they always will. I hate to be the bearer of bad news on that.
✔️ In September of 2020, I recorded an episode called "Self-Sufficiency & Critical Thinking." I realize now that episode was more prescient than I thought before. You should not outsource your critical thinking to someone else!
✔️ Catfishing schemes are an excellent example here. If someone connects with you on Facebook claiming to be a prince trapped in a bunker and he says he's in love with you and needs $1000 to be released, does that seem rational?
✔️ More critical thinking not less is what we need. We also need to be taking breaks from all the digital vomit in the world. Pet your dog. Walk in the woods. Meditate. Don't stay attached to a screen 24/7.
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People who are out there selling based on a process are typically not making the kind of money they want to make. Do your clients care about your process or getting bogged down in minutia or having you explain every tiny detail to them? No. They care about whether or not you can solve their problems.
✔️ If John Doe is consistently failing to hit his sales metrics even though he's "got a lot of try," he can still be fired. Why? Because results matter.
✔️ Sometimes in life, we need to decide: do you want to fight to be right or do you want to be happy? Do you want to stay stuck in your old ways or do you want to innovate?
✔️ In the words of a former manager: "Some people like control more than they like money." Sadly, that is true. If you are running a business to make money, avoid the control freaks.
✔️ Beware of hope-ium and optimism porn! Do not let people convince you that changing directions or giving up on a business idea that's gone absolutely nowhere makes you a failure or a bad person.
✔️ The importance of the end results is not Machiavellian. It's not "win at all costs and screw the world." It's about not getting bogged down in irrelevant details and not getting so set in your ways that you refuse to make necessary changes.
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Insert the old David Letterman "Viewer Mail" song here I received an email from a listener of last week's episode and, with her permission, I am reading an excerpt of it in this episode.
✔️ How do you weed out 💩 clients when it feels like there's so much competition out there? Is there really enough business to go around?
✔️ When it's your business or your name is on the door, how do you keep everything from feeling so personal?
✔️ You can, unfortunately, recreate the worst elements of Corporate America for yourself when you start your own business or you begin freelancing. You must preserve your own sanity and work in the way that you see fit. Don't let other people run over you.
✔️ Is the customer always right? Nope. If the customer knew everything that you know, why would they hire you?
✔️ Fewer clients at a higher quality level and higher price point = a happier freelancer.
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January was a crazy month for me. My plans of just half-hibernating through the month went to the wayside and I had a couple of bizarre experiences. I am sharing them here (highly sanitized, of course) so that perhaps you can benefit from my missteps.
✔️ There is plenty of business out there. You do not have to engage with clients who behave like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. It will waste a lot of your time and energy and you may never be able to make them happy.
✔️ It's OK to be tired sometimes and it's OK to take a break. If you feel yourself wearing down, you don't have to push past the exhaustion.
✔️ Beware of clients who think they need to be the exception to all of your rules. If you set down the rules of engagement and they want to ignore them, you need to call them out on it.
✔️ If you are self-employed, a business owner, or solopreneur: you get to decide the ways and means you work in. Periodt.
✔️ Ensure you can hit the escape hatch. Be cautious about what you sign or what length of time you agree to work with someone.
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The other day, I read a post on social media where some poor (and probably well-meaning) guy was writing the same ole, same ole attempt at differentiation marketing in staffing & recruiting. You know the drill: "All the other agencies suck. Let me tell you why we're different." 🥱 Big yawns.
Key topics:
✔️ Is differentiation marketing dead? If not totally dead, it's on life support. So many businesses have very similar if not identical offerings. Sorry, but that's reality. Trying to clinch your fists at the sky and tell the world you're different is probably not making you the kind of money you want.
✔️ It reminds me of Wes Mantooth in Anchorman. Your clients are not gonna change your diapers and tell you that your hiney is special and different from everyone else's.
✔️ Your clients care about results. Can you solve their problems? Can you relieve their pain? Can you make/save time or money for them? Running down your competitors or trying to tout how f**king "disruptive" you are = staying broke.
✔️ Make sure the people you're interacting with are legit, ideal prospects for your business. Trying to market to the wrong folks is not gonna lead you anywhere good.
✔️ Tooting your own horn and making "how great we art" posts on social media might make you feel good in the moment and it may garner you some likes, comments, and shares... while leaving your bank account empty. You can have popular posts, a lot of followers, and even viral videos and still have an empty wallet.
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In July of last year, I predicted that censorship was the wave of the future. Now here we are. So if you didn't heed my warnings last year, cockadoodledoo. 🐓 Here's your wake up call.
Key topics:
✔️ I'll say it again: if most or all of your livelihood is based on a platform you do not own or control, you are playing a very dangerous game.
✔️ What would you do if your platform of choice disappeared suddenly? Or what if you were banned or shadow banned? (It's not relegated only to the world of politics and/or religion these days.)
✔️ The human touch still matters. Build relationships offline, too.
✔️ Back up and manage your own data! Do not leave all of your clients' contact info on an email management platform or in a CRM. Back up your data offline and keep hard copies if needed.
✔️ Websites are cheap and easy to maintain. If you don't have one, get one.
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If even the mention of the term "sales call" gives you heartburn, you're not alone. Especially if you had some hard-driving manager who monitored your phone time or gave you a call sheet every day to robo-dial people. 🙄
Key topics:
✔️ If you're shaming people, you're doing it wrong.
✔️ If most of the calls you're getting on are with the wrong types of prospects, there are 3 key things you need to check.
✔️ Being the Rolls Royce of your industry is cool. But getting on the phone with people who are looking to buy a bicycle is a waste of everyone's time.
✔️ When is "I can't afford it" a candid statement versus a blow-off excuse? And how do you handle it either way?
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If you're hearing this broadcast, congrats: you made it out of 2020 and into 2021. Unfortunately, I don't know that 2021 is going to be any better for us than last year was and it will be even more imperative that you have your mind right about money and finances.
Key topics:
✔️ You hafta hafta hafta know you can survive.
✔️ Just because news runs 24/7 does not mean you need to watch it 24/7.
✔️ Beware of frenemies. People who say they care about you, but put you down and naysay anything you try.
✔️ There are only so many hours in the day; make sure your money is working for you and not just you working for your money.
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Thank you to everyone who has subscribed and downloaded episodes regularly and people who've dipped in occasionally on Stitcher or Spotify to interact with an episode that was meaningful to them. I am truly grateful!
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✔️ I'm taking a break for the holiday season. New episodes will resume on Thursday, January 7th.
✔️ As we have gotten more disconnected from the seasons, we have forgotten how to properly hibernate. Nature is resting now... shouldn't we?
✔️ To me, part of Dolce Far Niente (the sweetness of doing nothing) is the relaxation of being your authentic self and doing whatever YOU WANT to do simply because you want to.
✔️ If ever there was a year to pray for or meditate on peace and joy, this is it.
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One important component in getting what you want in life is to focus on what you want rather than dwelling on what you don't want. Sounds so simple and easy... yet for many people, it's a struggle.
Key topics:
✔️ If someone asks you, "What do you want?" do you find yourself launching into a list of things you don't want instead?
✔️ Repeatedly thinking about worst case scenarios and nightmares come true is like putting a beacon out for those situations. Don't do it!
✔️ To paraphrase Wayne Dyer: if we realized how important our thoughts were and how much they impacted our daily life, we'd get much more careful of what we allow to go on in our heads all the time.
✔️ At a crossroads? Not sure what you want? Go general. Distill things down to the barest element and work from there.
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Recently, I watched the STARZ docuseries Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult. I learned many things about how NXIVM operated that I hadn't heard before. Fair warning: due to the nature of this discussion, this episode has an explicit warning and is not suitable for children. Also, if you believe any of it could be triggering for you, please skip this episode.
Key topics:
✔️ The profile of "Vanguard Week" reminded me so much of Corporate America that it hurt. Relay races, tug-of-war, volleyball games, songs and dances and tributes to the owner... yuck. But it's all being done to tire you out so that you don't ask questions about what's actually going on.
✔️ NXIVM operated a business/self-improvement course called Executive Success Program as a gateway to the rest of it. Sounds awfully benign and harmless, doesn't it? We can't afford to be naïve about the business world and the way it operates any longer.
✔️ Why did the leaders of NXIVM use the self-help world? Well, let's face it: if most of these self-help and self-improvement programs worked, people would be happier, more successful, and they wouldn't keep buying more and more of the products.
✔️ Always trust your gut. If you feel unsafe, don't try to talk yourself out of your own gut instincts or sixth sense. Always use caveat emptor. Do your own research and homework. Think for yourself and don't follow the herd just to conform.
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In one of my recent Tuesday Tips emails, I mentioned I have a friend who is getting job catfished. I received numerous responses, which included some people asking me what to look out for. What are some of the signs that I might be getting job catfished? Ask and ye shall receive!
Key topics:
✔️ Special intro music "We Close Our Eyes" by Go West. "We close our eyes, we never lose a game... imagination never lets us take the blame..." So true, isn't it? One of the most important things you can do is listen to your own gut instincts. If something feels amiss or you feel like you are being deceived, LISTEN. Don't close your eyes to signs of trouble.
✔️ One of the worst things you can do is treat something-- a friendship, a romantic relationship, a job, a business proposal, etc.-- like it is the last lifeboat off the Titanic.
✔️ The scarcity mentality is destructive for a plethora of reasons, not the least of which is when it causes you to stay trapped in an unfulfilling or even dangerous situation.
✔️ Special outro from Angel Heart. If you've never watched it, it is (IMHO) both a great example of 1980s neo-noir filmmaking and an interesting take on the Faust legend. The quote itself comes to us from Sophocles: "Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!"
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Feeling remorse because of something wrong or hurtful is normal. Constantly feeling bad about things you cannot control or a desire to be perfect is not. These tendencies often get magnified during the holiday season, perhaps more so now that Covid lockdowns are back on the horizon.
Key topics:
✔️ What is justified guilt versus unjustified or fake guilt?
✔️ How do these emotions cause damage to us?
✔️ As Wayne Dyer noted: guilt is living in the past and worry is living in the future. Neither one is helpful and both rob you of the present moment.
✔️ There's always an opportunity for change. You can always say, "I don't have to do that again," and move on with your life.
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The holiday season with its cakes, cookies, and pies is upon us. Are you already planning a food binge followed by a January of "paying for your sins" and working out like crazy? If so, I highly recommend Sandra Aamodt's book, Why Diets Make Us Fat.
Key topics:
✔️ My own experiences with bulking and cutting... and how it gets harder as you get older.
✔️ Some people have been on diets or eating plans for their entire adult lives. This cannot be sound for mental or physical health.
✔️ The items in the supermarket may have changed over the last few decades, but basic human biology has not.
✔️ I go back to the Buddhist idea of the The Middle Path or The Middle Way. No extreme behaviors or wild benders with food. Likewise no starving yourself either.
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In this episode, I share two pieces of advice that not only changed how I do business, but also changed my life.
Key topics:
✔️ Do you find you often have more month than money? And is your automatic response to tighten your belt and cut costs?
✔️ Don't confuse a resource with a Source. There is a huge difference.
✔️ You have to have faith and confidence in yourself. It's hard to instill those sentiments in others if you don't feel them yourself.
✔️ If one resource goes away, another resource will appear. Resources are like tools in a toolbox-- useful but they don't dictate your life.
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Saturday is Halloween... a full moon... and a blue moon. There's no way there won't be ghosts and ghouls and things that go bump in the night. 🎃
If you like a good ghost story or have an interest in the paranormal, this is the episode for you! 👻
Special nods to:
House on Haunted Hill, 1959
The Wolf Man, 1941
Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992
If you've thought about starting a family tree-- or maybe you have one that needs to be fleshed out more-- this is an auspicious time of the year to do it!
Key topics:
✔️ So many people had to couple up and survive harsh conditions for you to be sitting here right now, interacting with this podcast.
✔️ Enjoy the cultures. Cook recipes. Learn some of the languages. Listen to its music.
✔️ By Celtic tradition, the veil between the physical world and the spiritual world gets thin this time of the year. Who knows... could it be true?
✔️ Exploring the connections that helped to create you also helps you understand yourself better.
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The month is halfway over. If you have been using this time to fret over Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's... STOP. Enjoy this time for its own sake. The rest of the year will fly by. Once we are firmly in the dead of winter and craving Vitamin D from the sun, you'll be glad you celebrated October.
Key topics:
✔️ Autumn is its own season for a reason. Enjoy it and stop trying to rush headlong into who's gonna go where for Thanksgiving or Christmas. You'll have plenty of time to deal with that in the coming weeks.
✔️ Engage all five of your senses in the season.
✔️ As the old-timers say, "Don't wish your life away." If you have a job that makes you hate your life Monday through Friday, find a different line of work.
✔️ Special lead-in music "Early Autumn" by The Four Freshmen. Special outro music "A Sort of Homecoming" by U2.
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Lots of people advocate journaling. If you don't like writing or you don't want it to be a rehash of your daily activities, how do you actually use it to deliberately create your own future?
Key topics:
✔️ If you skipped your shadow work last week, DO IT.
✔️ The gremlins always find their way out, in one form or another.
✔️ If you focus on what is, you get more of what already is.
✔️ Instead of "hoping" for the best, create it for yourself.
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Welcome to Q4. 2020 will be over before you know it. The days are getting shorter as darkness overtakes the light. So what now? For the rest of October, I will be giving you homework assignments to answer that question.
Key topics:
✔️ How do you want to spend the rest of the year?
✔️ The holiday season will be here soon... probably not the best time to start family battles and drama.
✔️ Are there any projects you've left undone? This is a good time to finish them.
✔️ What habits would you like to reinforce and which habits would you like to break?
✔️ If you haven't done any shadow work before, this is an opportune time. You don't have to dwell on negative things or spelunk into the sadness. But you should take the time to drag your gremlins out in the cold light of day.
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The words that you use to describe yourself carry a lot of weight. And if you allow other people to speak negativity over you and you believe it, that carries a lot of weight in your life, too.
Key topics:
✔️ Other people's opinions and gossip do not matter. That said, if you internalize their negativity, you can poison the well for yourself.
✔️ If you are saying things like, "I'm bad with money. I spend it as soon as I get it. It just never lasts for me," CUT IT OUT NOW!
✔️ Are your beliefs about yourself your own? Or have you internalized things you were told by parents, grandparents, teachers, etc?
✔️ People will often follow your lead. If you command respect and do not accept ill treatment, the people in your life will either show up differently or will make an exit.
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Too much of a good thing is not a good thing. We can take generally good advice or a generally good principle to an extreme. Let's face it: 2020 has been an odd and often insane year. Be gentle with yourself. This may not be the most fun and amazing time in your life and that's OK.
Key topics:
✔️ If you are listening to "gurus" on YouTube screaming that you are a loser, turn that mess off. Offffffffffffffffffff.
✔️ "Living your best life" can turn into a cult if you're not careful. Sometimes we have to do what the crisis demands, which may not be the most glamorous solution.
✔️ There is a season. Some seasons may require you to be conservative and cautious and others require risks and leaps.
✔️ Let common sense prevail.
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In order to achieve victory, you have to understand the battle you're fighting. Are you treating an emotional issue with physical means? Are you using medication or alcohol to mask the symptoms rather than getting to the root cause?
Key topics:
✔️ Battles can be physical, emotional, or even spiritual in nature. Know which is which.
✔️ Numbing out may provide relief in the short term, but it is not a permanent solution.
✔️ Beware the Dr. Feelgoods of the world!
✔️ Rather than preparing to slay dragons every day, put your armor on and keep it on. Don't anticipate problems, but instead, understand that if the sh*t hits the fan, you can handle it.
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Nowadays you can outsource almost anything. But: the one thing you must do for yourself is critical thinking. That cannot and should not be left to someone else!
Key topics:
✔️ Caveat emptor. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
✔️ Who fact checks the fact checkers? How did we even get to this place?
✔️ You are free to act as you choose to, but not free from the consequences.
✔️ If ethics are a personal code of conduct, your self-sufficiency should be a code of how YOU will take care of YOURSELF.
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If you are a coach, consultant, or other service-based business owner and you work 1:1 or 1:few with people, this is an important episode. Trigger warning: I speak candidly about the dark triad personality cluster and the ways it can manifest. If you start to feel overwhelmed by this, please turn this episode off!
Key topics:
✔️ What is the dark triad personality cluster and why is it important to understand?
✔️ Protect yourself. This applies on every level: emotionally, spiritually, financially, physically, etc.
✔️ Narcissists and ego-maniacs are out for themselves. Your well-being or even an overall sense of the Golden Rule does not factor into their decision making.
✔️ The key is not to be paranoid, but simply to be aware.
✔️ TRUST YOUR GUT!
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Sometimes in life, things that irritate, annoy, and/or anger us can turn into catalysts for real change.
Key topics:
✔️ Irritations can motivate us to dream bigger and aim higher.
✔️ Money is not the only factor. Your time and energy are finite.
✔️ More than likely, you started a business or became self-employed to be FREE, not to make yourself miserable.
✔️ "A hard lesson is a good lesson."
✔️ Instead of getting bogged down in negative emotions, consider what you can do to make the situation better. What can you do to feel better?
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Have you ever heard the story of the 12 spies? 10 returned with pessimistic predictions and 2 returned with faith. Are you one of the 10 or are you like Joshua and Caleb?
Key topics:
✔️ Perception is key. How can people see the same event so differently? Perception!
✔️ You can be a Johnny Fontane who says, "Oh, there's no chance, no chance" if you want to, but I don't recommend it.
✔️ If 80% of the people around you are gloom-and-doom, you don't have to join them!
✔️ Sometimes in life, getting something you want is simple but not necessarily easy.
✔️ So many people get within inches of a goal and give up prematurely. This is not the same thing as strategically quitting for the right reasons.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
We tend to think of an anchor as a bad thing-- something that holds us down and keeps us from being free. This is not always the case.
Key topics:
✔️ Your anchor cannot depend on someone else or on your job.
✔️ It is so important to have something greater than yourself in life.
✔️ Your own internal motivation is a fickle friend. If you've ever started a diet, you know what I mean.
✔️ Knowing your own values and code of ethics can keep you from making some truly awful mistakes.
✔️ Life is full of changes and chances. It's good to have something you can rely on, no matter what.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Changing your mindset ≠ waving a magic wand. Your outlook does not change the outward circumstances; it changes YOU.
Key topics:
✔️ As Pink says, "You gotta get up and try."
✔️ Getting out of a funk helps you see more clearly and it gives you more oomph to dream bigger and aim higher.
✔️ The rain falls on the just and the unjust. We're all gonna have those 💩 happens days in life.
✔️ You may be an exceptional person, but don't assume you'll be the exception to every rule.
✔️ Many business strategies take time. It's like planting a seed and nurturing it. Some seeds sprout quickly and bear fruit. Others don't. But generally speaking, we don't reap the harvest on the same day that we sow the seeds.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Laughter helps to raise your endorphins, lower your stress level, and may even give a boost to your immune system. Plus it feels much better than being an Eeyore.
Key topics:
✔️ If you can laugh, you can start to heal.
✔️ Taking yourself super seriously all the time will not lead to throngs of clients beating down your door.
✔️ Life is tough enough. Especially in the midst of this pandemic, we don't need to look for reasons to feel sad.
✔️ If your other practices have grown stale, try adding in a laughter journal.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Sometimes in life, the best thing you can do is let go. Not everyone is going to be your cheerleader or your biggest fan and that's OK.
Key topics:
✔️ If someone is integral to you fulfilling your destiny, they won't leave you in the dust.
✔️ Nostalgia is not a good reason to stay in a toxic situation.
✔️ Feel what you need to and then move on. Don't carry grief, anger, or bitterness with you for the rest of your life.
✔️ Sadly, some people do not have much (if any) empathy. Hoping your anger will punish them is a fool's errand.
✔️ Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
If you place your self-confidence and/or self-worth on the material stuff you own (or any other external factors), you are playing a dangerous game.
Key topics:
✔️ Stuff comes and stuff goes. It can be destroyed in the blink of an eye.
✔️ Having an internal locus of control does not mean you can predict every event or avoid every hardship in life. (If only!)
✔️ Connecting with a spiritual or emotional practice you genuine enjoy is invaluable.
✔️ No one can repair the entire world on their own. But that doesn't mean you get to opt out of your piece of the puzzle.
✔️ You are worth the investment.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
In the last episode, I talked about a sound mind. Today, I want to discuss peace of mind. Sometimes people associate peace and tranquility with boredom. This is not true. If you are always chasing the latest and greatest or another shiny new toy, how does that relentless pursuit actually make you feel?
Key topics:
✔️ If you are living in a Jerry Springer circus of constant drama, ask yourself, "Why am I allowing this to happen? Why am I inviting this kind of turmoil into my life all the time?"
✔️ Stop believing, "I'll be happy as soon as_____ (I get that new car, that promotion, that huge McMansion...)"
✔️ Five minutes after you achieve your goals, your mind is already on to the next big thing. If you're not careful, you can turn into a bottomless pit.
✔️ There has to be a healthy balance between laziness and apathy versus working yourself to death or keeping up with the Joneses.
✔️ If you feel like you need a death grip on life, something is definitely amiss.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
Today's episode is a spiritual one, so if that's not your thing, you may want to sit this one out. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." What exactly is a sound mind?
Key topics:
✔️ Ruminative thinking is like running a bad program on auto-pilot.
✔️ How can I stay happy when things seem so turbulent?
✔️ Ways to self-soothe and find your own comfort.
✔️ We take so very many blessings for granted. Helping others often brings that point home.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
My guest on today's episode is Safety Sam Hawkins. Sam Hawkins is a safety speaker and consultant with more than 20 years of experience. He also coaches and manages professional boxers and he's the author of Jab 2 Win.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Sam's own entrepreneurial journey.
✔️ How he's paying it forward and helping others make good business decisions.
✔️ How to create a real culture of safety.
✔️ Misconceptions around safety that can damage your business.
✔️ How to reach Sam if you're interested in working with him.
You can find Sam online at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/safetysam1
https://www.amazon.com/Jab-Win-Technique-Inspiration-Fighters/dp/1513658190/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=jab+2+win&qid=1597077178&sr=8-3
Tired of the "give everything away for free and wait for someone to pay you" teachers and coaches? Yeah, me too.
Key topics:
✔️ I think it's time to replace "value" with wisdom.
✔️ Your time and expertise matter.
✔️ Watch what the crowd is doing and move in the opposite direction.
✔️ If it feels like a constant struggle or a constant uphill battle: something is wrong.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
A lot of us are weary of "the new normal." Summer travel plans were cancelled. The kids are stir crazy and want to be with their friends. Parents are trying to juggle work, home life, distance learning... it's a lot for everyone.
Key topics:
✔️ How can we cultivate happiness even in dour times?
✔️ If something could be an email or a phone call, please don't require everyone to get on camera just so you can use Zoom.
✔️ Gratitude is so important, even when we aren't feeling our best.
✔️ Please don't send me LinkedIn spam asking if I am "well amidst the current climes."
✔️ We all have a certain PSI; when you've reached your pressure limit, it's time to rest.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
My guest on today's episode is Gretchen Gleason, a Senior Account Manager with Maennche Virtual CMO. Maennche Virtual CMO is a marketing strategy and business growth consulting firm. Gretchen spent 10 years in the I.T. Industry in continuing education training, course curriculum design, software upgrade implementation, and I.T. Recruiting. Gretchen is also a volunteer with SCORE in Tulsa, where she is the Chairperson of the Women’s Leadership Committee. She is committed to helping women business owners through mentoring, monthly breakfasts, and the annual Women’s Leadership Conference.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ This Covid time: to market or not to market, that is the question!
✔️ Top current marketing mistakes Gretchen sees.
✔️ Your clients still need you. If you shut the doors, they WILL go somewhere else for help.
✔️ If you're thinking Maennche is hard to pronounce, you're not alone LOL.
✔️ If you need mentorship, check out SCORE.
You can find Gretchen online at:
https://myvcmo.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretchengleason/
There is real value in cultivating a devil-may-care attitude-- of knowing that even when you face a setback or a bad break, you'll survive it.
Key topics:
✔️ My "old school hippie" friends and how they approach life.
✔️ Having personal time to detach from your business is so important. You don't have to work 24/7/365 to be successful.
✔️ It really is true that when one door closes, another one will open.
✔️ You don't have to know "how." Worrying about how something will work out or how the next client is going to show up or the next business deal will emerge for you will suck valuable time and energy out of your life.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
My guest on today's episode is Victoria Woods, the Financial Diva. She's appeared before on the Today Show and Fox News-- and now of course on The Causey Consulting Podcast. :) Victoria is an internationally celebrated Investment Advisor to Millionaires and Aspiring Millionaires and leadership expert specializing in the fields of leadership, organizational change, productivity, communication and business profit growth. As a speaker and presenter, Victoria pulls from her unique upbringing, diverse experience to provide keynote presentations that are engaging and compelling, leaving the audience wanting more. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, cruising, spending quality time with her husband and dog, Reno, and philanthropic activities.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ You can't cover your eyes and ignore your own finances.
✔️ Don't. Take. Advice. From. Broke. People!
✔️ "What you fear comes upon you." (And it most definitely does.)
✔️ Financial limiting beliefs: scarcity mentality and the fear of loss.
✔️ There is so much information and misinformation out there. How do we even go about choosing a financial advisor for ourselves?
You can find Victoria online at:
https://www.financialdiva.com/
https://www.chappelwood.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtQpc3PQZAmeM9LFg9SUzzw
And on the radio at:
Oklahoma City NewsRadio 1000 KTOK, Saturdays at 1pm & Sundays at 6am
My guest on today's episode is Marisa Mohi, a writer, blogger, YouTuber, and Tarot reader. She is the creator of several planners and journals as well as eBooks and course bundles. Marisa is currently working on a novel set in her hometown of Edmond, Oklahoma.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Some of the limiting beliefs that hold people back from pursuing a creative career.
✔️ Marisa's own entrepreneurial journey.
✔️ How can we achieve work/life balance as everyone is cloistered together during the pandemic?
✔️ Your family quality time is very important; guard it jealously.
✔️ To my knowledge, Marisa is the first Tarot reader on the show!
You can find Marisa online at:
https://marisamohi.com
https://youtube.com/marisamohi
https://instagram.com/themarisamohi
https://twitter.com/themarisamohi
Are you the type of person who has to plan everything in advance? Or who has to have 100 questions answered before you can try something new? If so, you could be missing out on many great possibilities in life.
Key topics:
✔️ I can't say I've ever dissected a frog outside of biology class, but I have definitely relied on the skills I learned in speech & drama class.
✔️ Being able to think on your feet isn't important solely for actors or politicians.
✔️ No one is expecting you to win an Oscar, but you need to be able to say "yes" to new things without needing to think it over and rehearse for 2 weeks.
✔️ Sometimes, opportunity only knocks once. If you don't answer the door, you'll miss out.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
...til you know what you want!
Sometimes it's not easy to intuit when to go general and when to get specific. In this episode, I talk about ways to know which direction to take when you're planning a life change or setting goals.
Key topics:
✔️ Joe Jackson was right: you can't get what you want til you KNOW what you want.
✔️ Failure to specify your goals clearly enough can actually lead to pretty dire consequences.
✔️ Meditation is an important component in sussing out your desires.
✔️ You have to believe what you're asking for is possible. It will not show up in your life otherwise!
✔️ Instead of considering all the things you don't want (focusing on that which is unwanted), decide on what you DO WANT (focusing on that which is wanted).
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
My guest on today's episode is Heather Doering, the Owner & President of Ace Strategies. Heather is able to throw a LinkedIn Lifeline to professionals who struggle with maximizing the power of the platform to build strong relationships and personal brands. Heather is an active member of of her local Chamber of Commerce (which awarded Ace Strategies the 2019 Small Business of the Year), is on the advisory board of the Workforce Alliance Initiative, chairs the Federal Reserve Bank's Money Smart FemPreneur Summit, and loves living in metro Detroit. She also owns IN3 Network, which provides education and support to women entrepreneurs.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Properly harnessing the power and potential of LinkedIn.
✔️ Building your own brand-- be it personal or professional.
✔️ Top mistakes to avoid / things that harm your credibility.
✔️ Who likes to be hit with an immediate sales pitch after connecting? NO ONE.
✔️ The importance of becoming the trusted advisor or expert.
You can find Heather online at: https://www.kickacestrategies.com/
And of course on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherdoering/
Pat Benatar said love is battlefield, but what about your business? My first guest, Michael "Fritz" Fritzius, has returned and in this impromptu and very honest episode, we discuss:
➡️ Is business really meant to be an uphill battle? Is self-employment inherently built to be a terrorizing experience?
➡️ How should you prepare for your day?
➡️ What you expect is often what occurs for you.
➡️ As humans, we often tend to make simple things more complicated!
To find Michael online, go to https://archdevops.com/.
If this is a topic you've been grappling with yourself, email me and we'll talk about it: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
My guest on today's episode is Tim Gaynor, a certified coach, trainer and speaker whose passion is to partner with individuals and businesses that are looking to invest and find traction in their personal and professional lives. Tim has spent over 25 years leading, coaching, developing, and helping individuals identify and remove the self-limiting beliefs that have been holding them back from living the life they have dreamt of and were made to live.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Tim's journey to coaching.
✔️ His brushes with death and how it changed him.
✔️ Team communication can often be helped by not making assumptions!
✔️ You don't have to know the entire path to start the journey.
✔️ So many moments in life boil down to overcoming your fear and trying something new.
You can find Tim online at: www.coachdevelopinspire.com
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaynortim/
My guest on today's episode is Art Burns, a former advertising executive and stressed out parent who now works with parents and others to help reduce stress and eliminate overwhelm and reactivity through mindfulness practices.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Art's own "Mad Men" experience as an ad exec.
✔️ The day he realized he could not keep living the Don Draper lifestyle.
✔️ How do we reclaim health and happiness?
✔️ As parents are dealing with added stresses of juggling work, schooling kids at home, balancing family time with job obligations and Zoom meetings each day, how can it all be managed?
✔️ An easy exercise you can do right now to feel better and gain clarity.
You can find Art online at: artburnscoaching.com
And book a time with him here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-tame-stress-and-eliminate-reactivity-in-less-than-8-weeks-tickets-87354404375?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing
His Podcast: https://anchor.fm/art-burns5
And YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSNgJvAAIo7lak_3AQ0jldg
What/Who do you allow to live in your head rent-free? Are you reliving past mistakes or pains over and over? Are you living your life as a middle finger in the air to someone else? Your business is like a seed-- you want to plant it in good soil. Doing it as an act of revenge or spite leads to a lot of trouble for you, not for your enemies. I know it because I've lived it.
Key topics:
✔️ The things you think about show up in your life.
✔️ There's a difference between righteous anger that galvanizes personal or social change versus sitting around plotting revenge on someone else.
✔️ Are you carrying negative comments from years ago? How about leaving those in the dust and moving forward.
✔️ Analyzing a problem can be helpful; ruminative thinking is not.
✔️ Make sure you have a creative or physical outlet to blow off steam.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
I am currently running (unfortunately) at a 100% accuracy rate of predicting failure. Maybe it's a blessing, maybe it's a curse, I dunno. I recorded this episode to address signs of trouble that you need to assess immediately. Not tomorrow or next week but right now. Just yesterday, I saw that an almost-client had closed her business and gone back to Corporate America. I don't want that to be you!
Key topics:
✔️ Warning signs that go beyond the obvious.
✔️ You can't operate on a shoestring budget forever; at some point, you have to invest in yourself.
✔️ "Digital mentoring" on YouTube does not a coaching relationship make.
✔️ What we fear we often create.
✔️ Fear of making the "wrong" decision often paralyzes us into taking no action at all.
Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
My guest on today's episode is Micky Kerwick, a highly talented Corporate Training Developer who specializes in saving time and money for businesses by revamping their training materials and improving their employee engagement strategies. If you have Zoom fatigue or you're concerned about your company's meeting culture, this is the episode for you.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ How do your corporate culture and your meeting culture intersect with each other? It's one thing to tout corporate values with a sign on the wall-- it's different to actually live those values in practice.
✔️ Communication is key! Have you asked your team how they prefer to interact?
✔️ Maybe your team does not want virtual happy hours or a "let's meet everyone's dog on Zoom today" forced socializing. (Just sayin'. I know I never did.)
✔️ Micromanagement and death by incessant meetings = not the answer. Neither is suppressing creativity or pushing for groupthink.
✔️ If you can, schedule your necessary calls when you are fresh and have the energy for them.
You can find Micky online at: http://www.mkmetrics.com/
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickykerwick/
In the same way that employees can live paycheck to paycheck, business owners and entrepreneurs can live check to check or client to client. In this episode, I want to ask you: do you know you could survive?
Key topics:
✔️ Is your business built around only one revenue stream? Or have you built an entire business around a platform you do not own or control?
✔️ Do you have any passive revenue or investments to fall back on?
✔️ I hate to break it to you: but censorship is likely the wave of the future.
✔️ Internal security versus external security.
✔️ Starting over and knowing you can succeed.
✔️ Stubbornness and consistency are not the same thing!
Need more? Email me here: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
My guest on today's episode is Tami Crea, the co-owner of Launches Made Simple, a done-for-you marketing company that bridges the gap between coaches that are promoting their programs and the high ticket salespeople that are closing the sales (even if that closer is the business owner). If you're overwhelmed by all of the clutter and noise out there about what to do and not to do with FB ads, this is definitely the episode for you!
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Tami's own business experience and what led her to Facebook.
✔️ Her experimentation process and how she earned her stripes as an expert.
✔️ Are you a coach or consultant with low ticket offerings? You might be better throwing your money in the trash!
✔️ Sadly, if you don't know what you're doing, you can waste a lot of money on ads that do not convert-- and you won't even know why that's the case. :(
✔️ Who are Tami's ideal clients and why.
You can find Tami online at: http://launchesmadesimple.com/
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamibscm
To schedule a call, go to http://launchesmadesimple.com/apply
My guest on today's episode is Desiree Stafford, the owner of High Personal Impact. Desiree helps ambitious coaches breakthrough to their next level of income and impact without working harder
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Desiree's own entrepreneurial journey and her path to coaching.
✔️ The limiting beliefs she encounters most often.
✔️ The importance of confidence in yourself and the service you provide-- and why this is a key foundational piece you can't skip over!
✔️ Paid ads are not a cure-all for your business. (Amen and amen.)
✔️ Who are Desiree's ideal clients and why.
You can find Desiree online at: https://www.powerhouseonfire.com/nextlevel
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/desireestafford/
One of the most popular blog posts on my website to date is "It's OK To Have a Different Path." That's not surprising to me because I think a lot of people are hungry for authenticity and the space in life to be themselves.
Key topics:
✔️ Don't allow someone else to convince you everything in life is difficult and costly.
✔️ Perfect is the enemy of good. Sometimes in life, you just need to take the first step and get started!
✔️ I always revisit the words of Pete Leffkowitz: watch what the crowd is doing and move in the opposite direction.
✔️ My LinkedIn feed remains clogged with pre-recorded Zoom calls and video interviews. Why not do something different than the herd?
✔️ The ultimate decider is: does this generate revenue for my company?
Need more? Email me here: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/
My guest on today's episode is Marlena Compston of Harlow Recruiting. Marlena recruits nationwide and is both a representative to candidates seeking a position, as well as partnering with clients across the nation. Marlena is also involved with Oilfield Connections International. If you are currently on the job market, this is the episode for you!
Key topics we cover:
✔️ What's happening with oil & gas and the energy sector right now?
✔️ If you're caught in a layoff: now what? What's the first thing you need to do after your job goes away?
✔️ Have you taken the time to explore your passions? Do you know what other industries or options make sense with your transferable skills?
✔️ What goes down also rebounds and goes back up again. True with the oil market as with individual careers; you will get through it.
✔️ What are some of the most common mistakes that job seekers and interviewees make.
You can find Marlena online at: https://harlowrecruiting.com/
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcompston/
My guest on today's episode is Brian Czekanski, a Direct Response Copywriter for Mindset Coaches. Brian is experienced in email marketing and direct response copywriting for email campaigns and sales funnels, and he specializes in working with coaches.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ It's Sa-Can-Ski. (Не Чикански, despite my best efforts to Russian it up LOL).
✔️ What led Brian from Wall Street to copywriting? And did he throw hundred dollar bills around like the Wolf of Wall Street? (No, sadly. It was not Hollywood.)
✔️ Why transferable skills are so important.
✔️ What exactly is mindset copy and why does Brian work specifically with coaches.
✔️ What are some of the most common mistakes around sales copy or copywriting that Brian sees.
You can find Brian online at: https://www.mindsetcopy.com/
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-czekanski/
In today's episode, I discuss fear of change. Even though change is inevitable-- the world doesn't stay frozen in time-- people still experience fear around it. Also, the growth and the exciting possibilities in life happen OUTSIDE of your comfort zone!
Key topics:
✔️ In some cases, the brain processes change in the same way it processes mistakes.
✔️ Resisting change puts you in a bubble and limits your life.
✔️ Do you view "the unknown" as a place of delicious possibilities? Or a place filled with terror, fear, and turmoil?
✔️ Can you let go and allow for spontaneity in life? Or do you have to pre-plan every possible moment as you seek control?
✔️ In the face of change, your ego is going to flare up in an effort to protect you.
✔️ Can you feel the fear and do it anyway? If you want the kind of life and income you dream about, you'll have to.
Need more? PM me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sara-causey
My guest on today's episode is Julie Simbro, the founder of ACE Mystery Shopping. Their specialty is eliminating negative online reviews and managing your brand's reputation. If you have any online presence, this is definitely an episode for you!
Key topics we cover:
✔️ What is mystery shopping and how does it work in 2020?
✔️ How do you even keep up with all the different review platforms out there?!?
✔️ OMG, I have an awful review online... now what?
✔️ Your responses are not about the trolls or the Negative Nancy who left a bad review; they are really for the other people reading what you have to say.
✔️ Obviously: don't get into a cuss fight or a battle royale over a negative comment. If you made an error, take ownership of it and apologize.
✔️ You can turn negative ideas or comments into positive energy for your business!
You can find Julie online at: www.acemysteryshopping.com.
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesimbro/
My guest on today's episode is Christine Teh, finance coach, money queen, and resident LinkedIn superstar. If you like money-- and want to make more of it-- or you're concerned about your current financial situation, this is definitely the episode for you!
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Limiting beliefs and misconceptions about money.
✔️ Credit cards: friend or foe?
✔️ Do you have to work hard all the time to make money?
✔️ Are you spending too much? How should you go about making a sensible budget?
✔️ What ideas about money did you inherit from family and friends?
✔️ And yes: it's OK to have a fun budget!
You can find Christine online at: https://www.tehfinancialcoaching.com/
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tehfinancialcoaching/
In today's episode, I discuss misconceptions and limiting beliefs around hard work. If you've been working to exhaustion or you think that somehow working harder at anything is a magic bullet, this is definitely the episode for you!
Key topics:
✔️ It may not seem fair, but you can "hard work" yourself into staying broke.
✔️ The solution to all business problems is not to simply work harder and "make" things happen.
✔️ Strategic quitting / forming an exit strategy is not the same as mindlessly walking away from a business.
✔️ Life is not meant to be difficult all the time.
✔️ Forget about "I will be happy as soon as..." Be happy now.
✔️ Don't make it to the end of the line and realize you spent too much time being miserable.
Need more? PM me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sara-causey
My guest on today's episode is Sue Guiher, a coach and business communications expert with more than 20 years of experience. If you've been feeling overwhelmed in your business, you're struggling to find the right tone or the best way to communicate in these trying times, or you're curious to know more about how your own values and beliefs impact your business, this is definitely the episode for you!
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Discovering your own Core Essences-- and why it's like "an inner DNA fingerprint."
✔️ Why do people start strong and then lose motivation?
✔️ Are you taking responsibility and ownership for the wrong things?
✔️ What exactly is focus?
✔️ Are you a business leader who runs too hot? Or too cold?
✔️ What is marketing really? (And why it's not trying to be all things to all people.)
You can find Sue online at: https://thrive4success.com/
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sueguiher/
To find the bonus tool Sue mentions in this episode, please go here: https://thrive4success.com/core-values-audio/
My guest on today's episode is Scott Grayson, an entrepreneur and the owner/blogger at Strength & Reason. If you've been stuck in the 9 to 5 grind and want out or you've been displaced due to the pandemic and want to achieve personal and financial independence, this is a must-listen episode.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Freedom and controlling your own income.
✔️ Is the Mon-Fri, 9 to 5 job still stable? (Nope.)
✔️ Taking personal responsibility and not playing the blame game.
✔️ Are you working hard so your boss and boss' boss can get promoted?
✔️ The entitlement mentality - does anyone really owe you a living?
✔️ Scott's personal formula for success.
You can find Scott's blog at: https://www.strengthandreason.com/
His Twitter here: https://twitter.com/strengthreason
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-grayson-jd-mba-b8558719a/
In today's episode, I talk about my experience with the Dark Night of the Soul after I closed my first business. Trigger Warning: I speak candidly in this episode about my own difficult times with depression and suicidal thoughts.
Key topics:
✔️ Why it's so devastating when your business fails.
✔️ What is the Dark Night of the Soul? What are the signs you're experiencing it?
✔️ In order to get through it, what would you need to survive?
✔️ There is hope on the other side.
Need more? PM me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sara-causey
My guest on today's episode is Daisy McCarty, a brand message expert. I labeled this interview as "wall-to-wall value." If you're a business owner who's determined your target market isn't what you initially thought or you're trying to figure out what commonalities your best customers actually share, this episode is for you!
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Why is brand messaging so crucial
✔️ What is a buyer persona
✔️ How do you handle it if you can't suss out exactly what it is that all your best customers have in common
✔️ Personal brand = about you; business brand = about your customers
✔️ Root cause of why you're attracting all the wrong people or you're getting push-back on price
And yes, the outro music is really Daisy playing "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on the banjo!
You can find Daisy online at: https://brandmessageclarity.com
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisymccarty/
If you reach out to Daisy, she will send you a FREE copy of her Buyer Persona Worksheet, which I highly recommend you utilize.
My guest on today's episode is Michael "Fritz" Fritzius, the Owner & CTO of Arch DevOps in STL. Fritz is in the process of developing a program that will help both recruiters and job seekers alike.
Key topics we cover:
✔️ Not shotgun-blasting your resume all over the globe
✔️ Congratulations: you're in sales
✔️ Being respectful of everyone's time during the job hunting process-- including your own
✔️ The folly of the "easy apply" button (and why you shouldn't use it on everything you see)
✔️ Building your own personal brand regardless of the industry you're in
✔️ It's "Frih-choose," not Frit-zee-us. Or Michael Fritos.
You can find Michael online at: https://archdevops.com/
And on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fritzops/
Welcome to the Causey Consulting Podcast! Since this is the first episode, I wanted to take a little time to introduce myself and talk about what you can expect when you tune in. As promised, every episode will have valuable insights that you can use in your life and/or business immediately.
If you've been waiting for someone else to anoint you with a certain title or someone else to give you permission to call yourself a coach, a consultant, an expert, a project manager, whatever: stop it. Waiting on someone else to tell you that you are good enough may cause you to wait forever.
Need more? Find us online anytime at causeyconsultingllc.com!