remember that guy like almost everything else barber shops were closed a year ago and i was among millions of workers the prudent employers sent home new york times tech reporter and openly and contributor kara swisher observes how so-called knowledge workers have realized even with all the griping about being on zoom all the time that it can be both cheaper and more productive to have a workforce that is more flexible in terms of place and time and despite a number of impediments to virtual work including the very basic human need to connect in person the reams of data collected over the past year show remote work can be more productive 14 months later i'm still sticking close to home here in rhode island and i have no complaints about spending last summer in the ocean state

but i do miss the camaraderie of my colleagues at the america broadcast center in d.c. and i look forward to reconnecting with cohorts such as hillary ford which president of washington based straw market business development consultants if only virtually hilary it's good to see you know welcome back it's good to see you too and we miss you in washington d.c. . well hopefully will see a soon for a year now we have seen how nimble companies like the ones you work with subscribe to the timeless wisdom of peter drucker who coined the term knowledge worker he reckoned that the greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence it is to act with yesterday's logic march 2020 highways looked abandoned as life slammed on the brakes frightened we hunkered down accelerating existing

conveniences like e-commerce and home delivery hilary as we are now gradually more out and about what about the consumption economy is forever changed. some things are forever changed you're right helen it is want to make 2 comments you mentioned about things in doubt the c.e.o. of zoom eric he just mentioned recently he said i'm soon doubt that's a c.e.o. zoom for you but also you mention about an updating and keeping up with technologies going into the 2nd world war interesting lee enough the head of the u.s. cavalry said don't take off horses so you have to say our technology and it's amazing how quickly it's of old but now going to what has changed i think a couple of things number one real going to have a metrics oriented culture for many years insta card has actually been a pioneer of this they track the movements of the best off from the moment they check in and if they check in and clock in holland within one minute late they

receive a notice they are tracked every single movement during the day and it's even being reported by the chicago tribune that their workers have to schedule their bathroom breaks at certain intervals and they have that 10 minute paid leave because they kept so on the clock but a lot of corporations have taken note of this and they are now beginning to use this metric oriented statistics to monitor their stock and i think that is not going to go away even off the cove it secondly i think the delivery services have been perfected not just by all of the regular restaurants and businesses we know such as door dash cetera and eats but you see you're going to see the same thing in terms of drivers the department of labor and statistics has said there will be over a 5 percent growth rate year after year compounded until 2029 that is not going to slow down. yeah i see the sticker on

a lot of vehicles now that says business vehicles that says this is tracked by g.p.s. and a dozen years ago i remember reading how you p.s. had this down to such a science that the drivers would take 3 right turns instead of a left turn to save time so all of this stuff has been coming and like a lot else during the pandemic it was an existing trend that's been accelerated you mentioned u.p.s. just a good friend of mine and former client was one of the senior executives actually u.b.s. and i don't know if our audience knows but they were very innovative many years ago they're one of the few companies that have what they call drive for a day every single one of their senior executives would drive the u.p.s. truck during the day because this way they could see what their stock actually went through and that i think i would recommend that for all businesses because it really makes them be out of their late to what their employees actually face each

day in day out very efficient functional was a sense of what's going on despite the divisive daily chorus on the talk radio and the shouting match on cable t.v. hillary the pandemic has brought out the best in some ways hasn't. it has been many ways in fact actually mckinsey has recently reported that over 64 percent of customers are now choosing to go with those companies that have a socially responsible mission and socially responsible brands i think that's actually a very healthy shift that you're seeing and then let's name some brands for example forge they're built to lend a hand campaign was initiated to basically give 6 months of sort of you know like mentally free stress to those facing. pressures those who are eligible 'd to have their interest payments wait for 6 months and then ford would help with the other 3 months are you also seen campaigns like that with budweiser that recently

redeployed 5000000 that usually spent on sports and entertainment marketing and that actually was given to the american red cross and many companies have stepped up amex also waived all late payments and interest for the 1st month and even you saw some college students that had to vacate instantly their dorms companies like new 'd hall and other storage companies they gave free space to their students and i think to many students i think highland many companies let's say they've done a student coded in a in a good spirit but i think they've demonstrated themselves as companies that can it has helped their brand it's been a win win both for the customer and for the brands of those corporations as the american comeback on forbes just this week we've seen new polling data from the a.b.c. news ipsos survey 2 3rd of americans are very optimistic about the coming year this has got to bode well for business doesn't it hilary. oh it does

yes and i think what you see you see in a come fluence here you've seen the vaccine rollout which in the u.s. has been up in the top now 3 or 4 nations of course the u.k. and canada right up there so been we've been very good inefficient in terms of the distribution of the vaccines operation what speed even made them available to begin with and you're also seeing the states that remained open in florida the schools never shot west virginia the churches never shut and i think a lot of people now are hearing about what's happening in other states they visited those other states and that confidence across the board yes is building as well as showed immunity and an interesting little factoid i believe that the amish country in pennsylvania was the 1st community to reach immunity because they did not stop also their churchgoing also where this past week the governor of montana got a lot of attention because he slammed the brakes on unemployment since a lot of people were certain home making more money than they could if they went

back to work our new governor here in rhode island says not quite yet but the a think we're approaching a tipping point where we're making people lazy. well that's that's actually a strong term holiday and i met about making people lazy but yes when unemployment benefits are so high i think what we're also going to see definitely is inflation because what corporations are now going to have to do and all employers they will have to raise the salaries that they're offering to attract back employees and so that will actually be a catalyst to inflation as well as the amount of money that's being pumped into the economy very interesting the the holland that those unemployment benefits are right now planned to end in september and i'm wondering if at the very end of august and early september employers are going to be flooded with applications from all the people that have been on unemployment that are able bodied and do want to get back to work on the to get back to work so we need to talk about this back in early september to see if that's changed i will say that the help wanted ads across the

nation right now are at their highest levels in a bit since it's been tracked by the office of labor and statistics interesting lee also there is a tremendous shortage of truck drivers and we're actually purported to see a lot of delays now of many products including actually i just read recently chlorine chlorine due to the truck drivers but also the explosion of the plant down in louisiana sure if you have a simple bio chlorine upfront. it's interesting to note too that the debate over the $50.00 minimum wage has gone away because that's what employers have to pay to get workers hillary ford which drove our business development consultants thank you as always for stepping into the big picture now an update on a story we've been following ever since i came to our america 4 years ago the so-called 4 ever chemicals which never break down in your body and have been shown

to reduce the effectiveness of vaccines these chemicals are called p f a s n if you want to sound hip a cocktail parties say fasts which stands for per and poly fluoro alcohol substances that's a mouthful when we 1st looked into it melanie benish legislative attorney for the environmental working group a nonprofit nonpartisan washington watchdog group told us these forever chemicals have been around forever. fast chemical of have been in production since about the 1940 s. . decades that the scientists who have been making these chemicals 3 and dupont have been well aware that even some scientists but the news organizations raise the alarm saying that there are studies coming back showing their cancer there are links to reproductive harms there are. other toxic effects on the human body and these companies continue turning out those chemicals continue to diversifying the

ways that those chemicals were used so that we find ourselves in the situation we're in now where there are nearly 5000 different varieties of these chemicals that are still being used and are virtually on regulated by the federal government in march the kalamazoo battle creek regional airports spilled fire fighting foam that entered the city's wastewater treatment plant in april the wisconsin department of natural. sources and the department of health services issued a consumption advisory for brook and brown trout in monroe county silver creek due to p fast levels and nearly a dozen p. fast related bills have been filed in the north carolina general assembly now test results in the may issue of consumer reports revealed that in $118.00 of $120.00 locations across the u.s. a drinking water had detectable levels of lead and elevated levels of

arsenic and pee fasts what to do these tips filter your water if you shop organic and cook at home you sidestep food packaging some of which contains p. fass and when you shop at a farmer's market you're eating fresher food than food that has been packaged and trucked so you're also helping the environment and when you cook at home or void non stick pans coming up are you a chronic over thinker how do you let go of anxiety and free yourself from 0 press of rumination some great advice after this break this is the big picture on our to america.

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are you a chronic over thinker do you obsess to the point of feeling anxious hopeless angry stressed out well you're not alone especially lately how can you down shift from mental overdrive let's ask the author of the new book can't stop thinking how to let go of anxiety and 3 years self from obsessive rumination nancy collamer is a new york city based psycho therapist who has been of comforting counsel these past months as many of us were stressed out during the pandemic nancy welcome back thanks good to be here congratulations on your book aristotle confucius paul taylor among famous thinkers who reckon that perfect is the enemy of good in our parents always told us to aim high is it possible we're just trying too hard. well i think from the time we're born that we're

taught that trying is thinking right we're supposed to think our way to a better life and the only truly only way we know have it and that is today make the problem is that we never stop thinking we never calm the mind down and most of what we're thinking about is bad things were scaring our of us for catastrophising we're thinking about all the things that we don't like all our grievances all the things we don't like and the people around us this is the majority of our thinking but the reason that we are so addicted to thinking is that. from that. it is our goal to technique for everything every problem in our life we imagine can be

figured out through more thinking and what's unfortunate is that it's false most of our problems actually benefit from less thinking if we want peace the answer is not more thinking most of the things we're thinking about holland we all know this too we thought about our sins of time try the thing our husband does that drives us crazy their way the bus pulls up in the morning whatever it might be we thought isn't true we don't have an answer and that's never been an answer we're allowed to accept. you just mentioned the word which i have already dog eared in your book a minute ago when you talked about addiction and you made the point that we're careless the way we use this word during the last year for instance i've become addicted to netflix which cheapens the term of addiction and something else i

picked out in your book you said it's our relationship with thought that makes us suffer talk about that a little more. so the fact that costs are going on in our mind that's not a problem right just like the bank reus makes insulin or any one of our organs does its thing the mind makes thoughts that just a what is if we're going to be alive we're going to have thoughts yammering on but our mistake is believing that because we have a thought we have to think about it our mistake is believing that because we have a thought it's true or are we believe even we believe it. and that there's some deep meaning great importance in all of this nonsense going on in our mind you know 90 percent of scots are repetitive so we

turned them off before very few thoughts are really interesting even higher percentage are negative so it's a bad. not just falling out of love with our thoughts because we are so enamored with our thoughts we think they're just the most fascinating brilliant things that we have of course thought up where the authors are so we're to blame for them and we take credit for them but if we were to imagine it's more like a ticker tape that this kind of out of order computer in our mind it's your birth or it just keeps generating right we don't have to take them quite or seriously we don't have to believe them we don't have to entertain them we don't have to generally investigate everything that comes into awareness you know many people

holland have what we call random intrusive thoughts so one cry and every time he went to the theater when here you know yell out something it's a completely well adjusted terrific you know healthy human being another woman i worked with when she would stand on the subway tracks would hear jump jump or push someone not just i don't not not not even i'm happy and just because these crazy thoughts are appearing or redundant or whatever it might be just mean anything we know and best and with far too much value so what in the book i'm trying to help people do move is shift their identification from i am my current every thought that appears is fascinating in me to be a listener of the coffs who are the thoughts talking to when we make that really profound share then we start to have freedom in our life because we

can follow a thought if we want to but we don't have to we don't have to spend our entire lives being young. duran around with our moon and having to be consistent with the kind of thoughts our mind is perking up it gives us back control when we're in the witnessed seat rather than for the identified with we are not it's that's a good way to put it and we should always learn from our mistakes how do we avoid crossing the line into self-torture of regret how do we take something we wish we had done differently and put it on the shelf so it doesn't keep coming back at us such a good question so one of those sticky years kinds of thoughts if a pain card it is something we were grat something that caused some hurrying and in higher we want to understand that we keep rehashing these thoughts because we're

trying to make it come out a different way or trying to be in less pain with that situation and so we imagine with another replays with another maybe if i understand what happened there won't hurt so much at the same time we see green visiting these painful situations because it's our way of teaching chair of our pain. we are reluctant to move on from the pain because it feels like we're saying that what happened to us there doesn't matter we've we forgotten it so we keep repeating these painful situations in some sort of primitive way empathizing with them or not letting them go if we would be abandoning a dog on the side of our road with our very own pain but the problem is

is that rehashing them doesn't change anything about the pain it just keeps bringing it back into our lives and one of our fundamental misunderstandings you know there was a woman i work with whose daughter is the ultimate tragedy had died in a car accident and so every day she spent the day thinking through what had happened in that accident because she couldn't let go of her daughter and the only way that she knew how to do that was to rethink it into presents rethink it rethink it and what we don't accept pain changes us we don't have to think about our pain to have it be part of us it is part of. their answer it's a misunderstanding of how we take care of our pain. nancy collyer can't stop thinking how to let go of anxiety and free yourself from obsessive rumination it's a great read very relatable thanks again for your time nancy we're going to show

you some phone numbers at the bottom of your screen and if you're hearing this is a podcast i want to read these to you the national suicide prevention lifeline is 802738255 if you're a veteran you can reach out to the wounded warrior project at 888-997-2586 that's easy to remember as 888 w w p a llama and we're showing you these numbers because the number of suicides in the armed forces since 2003 has now exceeded all u.s. military lives lost in iran and afghanistan and the recent report that suicides in the armed forces rose sharply during the 1st year of the pandemic hitting

a record 571 in 2020 pentagon officials and others say stress during the pandemic is likely not the reason but for whatever reason if you serve or if you have served or if you have concern about somebody who has a veteran of any age please hear this from matthew hoh former united states marine pentagon and state department official matthew was a certified peer support specialist for mental health and substance abuse disorder these are the warning signs he start preparing when you store meat in the store. whether it be on paper or if it's just in your mind how you're going to actually not just this do it. in your own life. also preparations so that people they have your password so they can get into your account you know your affairs are in order how now you're going to notify people

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