Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to kf I Am six forty
wake Up Call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. That's Monday, man,
it's time to rise and shine. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your morning wake
up call. I would like to say good morning to the fourteen of you
who are out there driving this morning. This is one of those days where
you're driving in It reminded me of a pandemic morning where nobody is on the
road and I can I can literally have a stretch of the two ten or
the one thirty four by myself. And it's a little eerie because I think
you're you know, you get so used to the congestion on the road,
so then when you don't have it, you're like, hey, what's going
on here? But you know what I did like about that is that meant
that all of you, who are maybe just now waking up, have Memorial
Day off. And I think this is such an important holiday because what it
does is if you take that moment to take a breath and think about why
we are getting a day off, why we get to go to barbecues,
why we get to go swim in the neighbor's pool whatever. There's a reason
for that. And it's not just because you got a day off. It's
because somebody sacrificed for the freedom for you to go to that barbecue or that
pool party, or whatever it happens to be. And so to all of
the families out there who lost a loved one fighting for our freedom, and
honestly to all of you who fought for our freedom so that we could have
this Memorial Day, I say thank you and God bless you. We'll get
into the history of Memorial Day coming up. And also we're gonna do Memorial
Day by the numbers, because I can't have a holiday and not play with
it a little bit. So while we're commemorating today, I also know we're
eating hot dogs and that kind of stuff. And how many we are eating
today we'll get into a little bit later. Also, LA Mayor Bass is
set to attend the first public event for Memorial Day at the LA National Cemetery
since twenty nineteen. Also, we'll talk about an officer involved shooting at a
home depot in Burbank. And wait till you hear how much Disney's remake of
The Little Mermaid took in on its opening day weekend. Remember how I was
saying to it really needed another Little Mermaid. Apparently we did, according to
most of you. So we'll get into that in just a moment, but
let's start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The California Attorney General's Office is investigating an officer involved shooting at a
home depot in Burbank. State investigators were called to the scene of the shooting
that happened in the parking lot during business hours. Burbank police say on Saturday
afternoon, a man sitting in a car had been threatening to shoot people,
then he assumed the shooting stance prior to being shot. Police wouldn't say if
a weapon was recovered or even if the man opened fire, but under AB
fifteen oh six, the Attorney General's Office will not investigate officer involved shootings or
fatal uses of force unless the person killed was unarmed. Steve Gregory Camfie News,
I'm just getting a story now off of KTLA that apparently there was a
robbery at a taco truck on Sunday night, So sometime last night, there's
video now of this taco truck parked near the intersection of one hundred third Street
in South Avalon Boulevard. That's kind of the Willowbrook area. When you see
these two suspects go up to the taco truck just before midnight, I think
it was around eleven forty five. There's a guy in a blue hoodie and
he looks like he's holding a gun. He grabs one of the employees,
pushes him up against the van, holds the gun to his neck, and
at one point the suspect punched the employee and continued to hold onto him while
getting into the taco truck and pulling out cash. Now, it looks like
the robbers also may have taken in the cell phone videos and wallets. Now
police are looking for these guys who got away in what was described as a
newer model white Honda Accord, and we're trying to get let's see maybe one
of the guys might have been Are they saying that this was a blond man.
Maybe I'll get you more details on what the people look like the robbers
look like, but man, you just come on now. People are trying
to make a living out there, and then this happens to them. Lamare
Bass is set to attend the first public event for Memorial Day at the LA
National Cemetery since twenty nineteen. She's expected to recognize the service of fallen military
members and talk about the public and how it can do more to help veterans
they need so. The ceremony this morning will also include a speech from the
commander of the Air Force Test Center that's at Edwards Air Force, based music
by the three hundredth Army Band, and displays by Buffalo Soldier and Civil War
reenactors. Also, a ceremony is being held in Long Beach to read the
names of the more than seven thousand US service members who have died in combat
or during training exercises and humanitarian efforts since nine to eleven. Organizer Laura Herzog
tells NBC four gold Star Family members, active duty military, police, first
responders, and veterans will all help read the names. What will happen at
five thirty some active military members and some first responders will come, and they're
going to come in shifts throughout the day today and we will begin with reading
the name of the first following service member since nine to eleven and we will
conclude with the reading of the thirteen that were killed in Kabul. The ceremony
at the honoring our Fallen Memorial Wall at Rosie the Riveter Park is expected to
take hours. So what is the history of Memorial Day? Tyler? Do
you have any idea what they called Memorial Day originally? I actually don't.
I'm curious. Decoration Day. So apparently it was the early tradition of decorating
graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, so that's why they called it that.
Now, it was first widely observed in eighteen sixty eight May thirtieth,
eighteen sixty eight, and it was to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers.
And now, during the first national commemoration you had former Union general and
sitting Ohio Congressman James Garfield make a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which
five thousand people helped to decorate the graves of the more than twenty thousand Union
and Confederate soldiers who were buried there. Well, this event sort of seemed
to galvanize these kind of piecemealed efforts of remembering fallen soldiers. And it was
in May. It was May first, eighteen sixty five, there was a
gathering in Charleston, South Carolina that was organized by freed slaves to pay tribute
and give proper burial to Union troops. In eighteen seventy three, it was
actually New York which was the first state, I guess, to designate Memorial
Day as illegal holiday. And by the late eighteen hundreds you had more cities
and communities observing Memorial Day. Several states even declared it a legal holiday,
but New York was the first. Then it was after World War One that
it became an occasion to honor all of those who would died in America's wars
and more widely established than as a national holiday throughout the United States. But
it wasn't until nineteen seventy one. And I think that's fascinating to me that
it took a hundred years for Congress to pass the Uniform Monday Holiday Act and
established Memorial Day as a commemorated day on the last Monday of May. Now,
Memorial Day is commemorated at Arlington National Cemetery every year. You've got that,
you know, laying of the wreath, which is usually from the President.
Traditionally it is the president or vice president that puts that, you know,
the wreath on the tomb of the unknown Soldier. If you've never or
if you have never been to Washington, DC and gone to Arlington National Cemetery,
I ask you to do that. So my dad, you know,
my dad's a paper or he was a paper he's retired now, but he
worked for JFSHA Construction, which actually is based right here in Walnut. So
my dad worked there for I don't even know, since he was like eighteen,
so fifty years, I guess. And anyway, he worked on the
tunnels in Washington, DC. And when I was like twenty one or twenty
two, Mom, dad, and I my brother, we all went to
DC and my dad wanted to take us there just so that we kind of
see history. But then also he wanted to see whatever happened to the tunnels
that he worked on when he was young. So we went and it just
so happened that one of the tunnels and one of the entrances that he was
working on was the one that goes to Arlington. And I'm twenty one years
old and I don't really you know, I'm not super into history or anything
like that, and we get you. So you get off the subway and
you go up this giant escalator. So we're on the escalator, do you
the four of us. We get to the top, and I'd read a
little bit about Arlington, so I knew what it was obviously, but you
know, in school. But for whatever reason, when we got to the
top and you see nothing but graves of the men and women who died for
our country, I bawled like a little baby. I don't know what it
will. It's like this wave of oh my gosh. It's not that I
didn't believe it until I saw it, but I don't know that I understood
how impactful that was. And it was just, oh my gosh. Talking
about it right now, I have goosebumps. So you guys, I can
still remember that moment and I look over. My brother was little, he
didn't really impact him, but Mom and Dad both had tears in their eyes.
It was, Oh, I just please, I recommend you do it.
If you haven't, it is really well worth it. Now you've got
veterans in Orange County who say they still don't have a cemetery for a fallen
service members. Army veteran and OC resident Ezekiel Garcia says lawmakers should have designated
a final resting place for vets to go a long time ago. To be
able to have a veteran cemetery here locally would mean a law and would mean
a law to the local veterans here to be able to know that they have
a space. Governor knew some sign legislation last year approving a local site,
but people who live in OC say they still don't have a place to visit
loved ones this Memorial Day. That's could have chosen a site in Gypsum Canyon
where the cemetery could be place, but the land will have to be evaluated
to make sure that it is suitable. It finally happens. Preached the bipartisan
budget agreements, President Biden announced an agreement has been reached with how Speaker McCarthy
to raise the debt ceiling and avoid defaults. It a threat of kind of
stopt to fall off the table, protects our hard earned and historic economic recovery,
and the agreement also represents the compromises means no one got everything they want.
Did you really think that it wasn't going to happen? Really? I
agree The ninety nine page bill includes provisions to fund medical care for veterans,
change work requirements for some recipients of government aid, and streamline environmental reviews for
energy products. Biden has urged Congress to pass it. Some Republicans say the
compromise doesn't cut future deficits enough. Democrats say they're concerned about proposed changes to
work requirements and programs like food stamps. All right, Tyler and Nick,
it is your chance to do Memorial Day by the numbers? All right?
Are the three of you ready? I'm ready. Let's go. Let's go.
Anne's never played before, well, first time, all right, So
how about them this morning? Anne gets to go first? All right?
How many hot dogs are consumed every second in the nation on Memorial Day?
And so in one second, how many hot dogs do you think are consumed?
One point five million? Okay? Nick? Every second? No?
No, every second? Yeah, one point five million seems a bit extreme.
She's people like hot dogs, right, I love hot dogs. I
think even Neil would scoff at that. One second. Tyler, hold on,
I gotta do some quick math. Carry the three four ten. I'm
gonna say sixteen thousand hot dogs per second? On Memorial Day? All right,
Nick is the winner closest to eight hundred eighteen. However, eight hundred
eighteen are consumed every second, which means a total of seven billion hot dogs
consumed today. Wow, that's all what are you talking? Well, I
don't know. Oh that's right. M hmm yeah, because that's what you
were implying for sure. All right, Wait, how much money do you
guys think is spent on sales of meat for Memorial Day? And I'll start
with you. At all, meat, including hot dogs, including hot dogs,
hot dogs are cheap. Remember that for this one day, one day,
five million, five million dollars. Okay, Tyler, sixty million dollars
Nick, Nick closest again, it's whatever, Nick, one point six cheating?
Do you have a cheat sheet? One point six billion dollars spent on
that's a lot of wheenies if you're buying them. Let's see. How about
how many Americans plan to travel over the Memorial Day weekend? And I will
tell you this. It's in the millions. So you first ten ten million,
okay, Tyler? Thirty million? Okay? Nick? Okay, Oh
well the way the price is right? Okay? Then Tyler, this is
you forty two point three million. There you go, put them on the
board. I think period. Anybody, Yeah, anybody traveling. Okay,
let's totally that's what I think too, But I guess a lot of people
are flying. Speaking of that, can you guess which city is the most
popular domestic destination for Memorial Day weekend? It is? Uh, let's see,
okay, so yeah, domestics, so city in the US, and
I will tell you it's on the eastern side of the country. Okay,
who are you going to? First? An? Um, Miami? Okay,
Tyler, Nashville, Tennessee. Okay, Nick, yeah, I think
that's that was That's Upper East Coast, isn't it? Unless it was the
first are you talking about the first one? That was Miramar right here?
Remember remember how he goes You're going to Mirramar she said, She said,
Okay, it's it's the country, but she don't care. Okay, Actually,
Anne, you are the closest closest because it's Orlando. So everybody's going
to Disney World. Nice, all right, let's see. Uh how about
this? Um, oh my god, a score check? We got a
score check? I still think, Nick, and then like Nick three,
and then an each one each one. Yes, let's see. Um oh,
I'm trying to find one that's not a downer because we have a lot
that are like how many traffic fatalities on this Uh? Oh? How about
this one? What percentage of our major roads are in mediocre or poor condition?
And this one? I went, I don't know about that? What
major? Yes, highways, major roads? Yeah, so highways in our
states are poor or mediocre condition. Okay, so fifty you're going fifty percent?
Is it a percent? Yeah? Percent? What percent? Oh?
No, that's too high. I'm gonna go twenty two okay, Nick,
Okay, Tyler, I'm gonna go on the higher side and go twenty five
percent. All right, Tyler, there with the win closest without going over
forty percent. Yeah. Wow. If I had guessed that one, I
would have said, like seventy five percent, don't. I mean every road
around here sucks, right, it's potholes? Is I mean? So?
Anyway? I thought that that was actually a little bit low. Okay,
you gotta have at least one more I do. Okay, what percentage of
Americans are planning a summer trip this year? Oh, that's a lot.
That's how you first a go ahead, Um seventy okay? Nick? Okay,
Tyler, Oh man, I feel like those are really good numbers.
I'm gonna go middle sixty sixty eighty five percent, So Nick, you're still
winning this one. I'm gonna do one last one just because why hasn't he
pulled away with it? Though he were? He has, but still it's
just fine, all right? Fine, one last one? Okay? What
percentage of companies close their offices on Memorial Day? I am doing this just
for us, you guys. Yeah, we clearly have an outlier, all
right, So what percentage here? Well, yeah, I don't know where
we fall in, Okay, So go ahead and last one for you?
What percentage? I'm gonna say sixty five okay, Tyler? Seventy okay?
Nick, Tyler actually with the win on that one. But here's what sucks.
Ninety five percent of companies close their offices on Memorial Day, which I
think is wonderful. The sucky part is we are in the five Yeah,
totally. Other than that, do Memorial Day the right way. Everybody go
to some observance to something, put flags out this morning, whatever it is,
to show that you know why we get today. And then go to
your barbecue. How's that sound fair? Thanks guys and congrats nick again.
Who um, well, I don't have right. We'll slap on the shoulder.
Nice work, kid, Way to go, kiddo the job. Nick
La Mayor Bass will be at the first public event for Memorial Day at the
Los Angeles National Cemetery since twenty nineteen. She's expected to recognize the service of
fallen military members and talk about how the public can do more to also serve
the veterans in need. In Canoga Park. Today, we've got the Memorial
Day Parade returning for the first time in three years. The opening ceremony will
include a wreath laying at the Wall of Honor and honorees from the Korean War
and World War Two. Among them is a one hundred year old Navy machinist
who witnessed six Marines raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwajima in nineteen
forty five. Remember that iconic picture. That guy got to see it,
you know. And it's it's men like him that as I get older,
I start to understand, like I wish that I had been able to ask
my grandparents more about our family history. Things like that. Or a man
like that. That's the guy that you want to go seek out in the
crowd and say, walk me through what you saw that day. I just
wish that, you know, I wish I knew then what I know now.
And oh another Toby Keith song that I was referencing there, But no,
seriously, I wish that I asked more questions of older people who got
to experience things like that. I wish I could be out there today,
would be asking him. Let's talk about some of these stories we've got in
our biz bites this morning, on this Memorial Day, markets are closed,
but I do have some news for you. State Farm Insurance has stopped except
accepting applications for property sales in California. The company says it's just too expensive
to operate in the state because of wildfires and construction expenses. State Farm says
it will continue to cover existing customers and the change does not affect car insurance.
I wondered when I saw this story, if this is a sign of
things to come. So you know that it's already hard enough if you're in
certain areas in California to get any type of fire insurance for your home,
right you have to go with one of the state plans, the supplemental plans.
But in this case, now you have insurers who would just say,
no, not going to do business in California anymore. We'll stick with those
of you that we have, but after that that we're out. Anyway,
I just I wonder if that's a sign of things to come. Oh bang,
bud Light. Budweiser have not tweeted anything over a month as this backlash
over transgender influencers, you know, go on. So it was Dylan mulvaaney
and there apparently the company last tweeted April fourteenth with a picture of a bud
light can caption tgi F question mark. That tweet sparked thirty two thousand replies,
largely critical of its partnership with Dylan mulvaney, who rose to fame after
detailing three hundred and sixty five days of girlhood. Now apparently somebody even tweeted
just bought my first case of course banquet in decades, and they said no
more Budweiser hashtag get woke, Go broke, which actually is this hashtag that's
gaining, you know, big momentum lately. But I was looking at the
changes in just what the company gets as far as that its shares go.
And it looks like it's down in some cases point one six percent, point
three eight percent. Yeah, it's not good. And I think a lot
of people I don't see. Here's the thing, though, I don't know
how long this will last. People get oftentimes very upset and they go out
and they'll you know, they'll speak with their money or lack thereof, as
the case maybe when it comes to buying bud Light. How long does that
last? Though? Are we getting over it? Does bud Light have to
come back and do something to acquiesce to the people who say, now we're
not going to buy it anymore because we don't like what you're doing. I
don't know. I don't know how they're going to get away from that one.
And finally, if you have a southern extent, which Tyler, I
thought of you last night, and how you tease me violations a lot,
lib Yes, I have a hell of a time with IA's. That's where
my little redneck writingness comes out. So if you hear me say violations liable
lawyer, yeah, Tyler teases me. Anyway, there's a study that says
if you have a Southern accent, it could cost you twenty percent wage penalties,
which I think is crap. One said that it was a study by
this company called Writing Tips Institute that found people with a Southern accent where the
fourth most likely to try and change their voice. And I don't know,
I'm not one hundred percent sure why. It just showed that there is a
wage penalty of up to twenty percent compared to people who speak with a standard
accent. I don't know what a standard accent is compared to a Southern accent,
but they say at a lot of people are trying to do what they
call soften their voice so that they don't have that I guess when they're applying
for a job interview. But you know what I say, you be you.
You'll be proud if you say things like violation or lawyer. I remember
when Scott and I first got together. He, you know, my ex
husband, being from the South, he's got this, you know, incredible
Southern accent and especially if he's tired for whatever. And he said he was
going to carry me to get my all changed. And there was something else
to it, Oh, I know what it was, And then it was
something about and then we'll go to the store because we need some blah blah
and some foal. I did not know what oil or fool was. That
was oil changed and we needed some foil. And when he said he was
going to carry me, I thought I'd smush him. I don't know how
he's not going to carry me. That just means take you. But in
Southern speak, I did not understand for a while. They need a Southern
dictionary, really, they do. Nick Paliokeney, you spoke Horgi over the
weekend. I saw the videos that you have up there, and I wish
I could have been out there for it. Sanna Anita Park, it was
amazing, so we had a great time. This took place in the green
center field. So there were horse races going on around a little short legged
corgy race. Oh you're kidding. While you guys were there, right,
So we went back and forth, back and forth, so we'd have one
heat of the corgis and there were ten heats, ten racers and eat so
one hundred corgies we saw yesterday and there were in the thousands of corgies that
had applied, so they had to do a lottery system. We talked to
Kelly last week. Here you talked to Kelly last week. Who created Kelly
and Dan? They are thank you. I was, yes, I was
gonna say I couldn't remember that. Dan announces Kelly is a aboost and she
is running that event super tight and having a great time and running around doing
that. But it was wild to see it. So we would do the
Corgis in the center grass area and then it would go over to whatever racing
was going on in sant Anita Park for the ponies, and then it would
come back to us, and then at the end it moved onto the track
after the ponies had rapped for the day for the finals. Oh, I
love it. Who won? So it was as we talked about em at
the Corgi did come in first again, Tony was second and Oliver was third.
Oh, and it was really wild just to see them and they had
some seniors that raced, and yeah, it was having done. I don't
know I'm becoming Jennifer Jones Lee or maybe producer Michelle truly, because I'm all
about the dogs these last two weekends, and I forget somebody asked me,
oh, do you want to go to this was like, Wow, I
guess I'm becoming that person officially you are. Now I'm gonna I'll be working
with Westminster Kennel Club next, you know kind of things. Oh, Nick,
if you get to do that, please let me be your field producer.
Oh my gosh. If I get to do that, I would be
like, you really should talk to Jennifer Jones. No, no, you
can. I can pass the baton to you if you can get that.
Oh my gosh, you can be the dog guy and I will just like
I'll hold your equipment. I'll go to all the events with you. No,
no, I always love a plus one and you would be the best
person to have in my back pocket. Oh my gosh. Well, thank
you for covering the Corgis and super fun. Tell people where they can see
your video. You can see the video on This Weekend with Nick. That
is on Instagram. It's easiest place to track it down. Also, Nick
Poliochini on Facebook you can find me. That's a little bit more challenging,
but you can also see some of it over with the Mandus. Mondo from
Gary and Shannon was also with me yesterday, so he actually talked to Dan
and did an interview that he'll be putting up a little bit later on today.
So it was kind of a Cafi family weekend, if you will.
So we had a great time, and again, thank you to Dan and
Kelly for having us out there. All right, that's awesome. It was
fun. Yes, check out the videos. Super cute. I mean,
anytime you get dogs and then dogs are racing each other for fun. Come
on, now, that's a good day. Amy Menaya who is joining us
this morning about burnout? Amy, I am telling you I know so many
people who say they are burned out in some portion of their life, but
usually it's their job. Amy is the author of the Path to Break Free
from Burnout and the host of Life on My Terms podcast. I love empowerment
like this. So Amy, tell us a little bit more about how we
can break free of burnout. Yeah, oh gosh, you said it when
you said everyone you know is suffering from burnout. We are like, we're
in a hustle culture ideology, right, yes, yes, we are like
chasing productivity and go getters are like, man, if I keep chasing this
productivity, I'm going to get what I want. And the truth of the
matter is they're going to get burned out every time. I think when we
think about burnout, we think of three things that come up all the time,
and my coaching and in my own experience with burnout, and it's not
protecting our time, not protecting our energy, and not putting ourselves first.
So we see these three things and they usually lead to the same five symptoms
and their exhaustion, isolation. We tend to have escape fantasies too. I
don't know, folks listening that are burned out. You always have this feeling
of like I should run away, or I feel stuck. Irritability and frequent
illnesses and health issues, and so burnout is really really a deteriorator of the
physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing, and so it's really serious. You
know, I'm glad that you brought up to that sort of chasing whatever you're
chasing, and that you're going to get burned out along the way, because
I think a lot of people feel like if they could get to whatever they
deem the pinnacle of their career, if they could just get there, then
they would be on some or in some mecca like that's it. I would
have made it, and then everything those those feelings of isolation and those you
know, my health issues will all go away because I'll be so happy that
I achieved whatever it is, and that's not necessarily the case. No,
no, no, you know it's funny in my own burnout story, when
he looked in hindsight, you are constantly chasing what's next, and there will
always be what's next, because a lot of times when we are in this
mindset of life, I'm chasing the next to do, I'm chasing a monetary
figure, I'm chasing the next promotion, we oftentimes are like actually leaving our
authentic self on the sideline somewhere, and we are stripping ourselves and losing our
identity. So a lot of times when you talk to like folks that have
reached like six some milestones, which I'm saying what society deemed successful, like
really wealthy folks for instance, they tend to be not fulfilled. And the
reason is that they often are chasing the wrong metrics. And so when we
can pull folks out of burnout, when we can move them away from like
to tell them to just slow down, and they start to reconnect with what's
important to them, they might realize that, Okay, you know what,
I actually have enough right now, but I don't have enough of this facet
of my life, and I need to go put time there. And so
they start to realize that while the career progression was like that was so important
to them for so long, they sacrificed their kids, you know, games,
they haven't spent enough time with family, They've not traveled without working for
five years, and so we really start to see a real imbalance happening in
other facets of the life. How do you press pause? Though, once
you're in that sort of race, I guess, to get to wherever you
want, it's very hard to just stop or to pull the car over and
say I've got to re evaluate. How do you do that? Yeah?
So, you know, I think I wrote the book because I actually am
trying to help folks realize that they could be in some stage of burnout before
they hit rock bottom. For me, I had to hit rock bottom to
realize that I needed to slow down. But I think you can do simple
exercises, like, for instance, if you're starting to realize that there is
chronic stress in your life, you need to take a moment to be a
little bit more self aware. I think if you can even tap into the
self awareness to say, okay, what are the what are the stressors that
are going on every single day? You know, you don't want to take
people's goals away, but oftentimes, like I said before, if we think
about the person that's reaching trying to reach the next milestone in their career,
if you can even examine the stressors, maybe they actually have no boundaries at
all, and they're letting people put any meat on their calendar, they're taking
calls at eight pm. They just have no structure boundaries. Just putting boundaries
in place can give them that little bit of breathing room so that they can
still chase the goal to get to that next promotion, but also take a
break from the computer. You know, not have meetings back to back for
eight hours. And so when I work with clients that they recognize that they're
struggling and they're very stressed out, they might notice some health issues have started.
We really start with identifying the stress triggers and then we prioritize them where
can we get the biggest bang for our buck, And then we put the
boundaries in place, and that can allow a go getter or an overachiever to
still keep reaching for the stars, but also protected and have a little bit
of bandwidth for other facets of their lives. God, I love that.
I wish I'd talk to you sooner so I could put that into place.
But I think when you talk about some of the physical stressors, I know
for me, anytime that I I start to get to that burnout point,
I can feel myself starting. The anxiety starts to kick in, the insomnia
starts to kick in because I can't slow my brain down because I'm constantly pushing,
pushing, pushing. Yes, you know me too, And I would
say ninety percent of my clients are the same way. Again, this is
just a boundary exercise. I think. One of the best, the best
waves that I just I think I recently helped someone is you know, just
simply putting time limits on their apps on their phone. At eight pm.
The phone shut down, no more checking email, no more doing anything.
They have a post it note right by the side of their bed, and
if their brain starts to run wild, they can write down anything on that
post it note then they just go to sleep. Right. It helps.
It helps knowing that like it is time to shut down. And I think
It's so funny because we criticize the nine to five for so long because we
wanted flexibility, and now we have folks working from home with no boundaries around
their work hours. And so it's funny because I'm trying to like help my
clients get back to that boundary of work hours, you know, like it
can still be flexible, but you still have to have boundaries, like you've
got to shut it down at some point. Oh my gosh, I am
so glad we talked this morning. Amy. Amy Mengetta is the author of
The Path to Break Free from Burnout and the host of Life on My Terms
podcast. Amy, You're amazing. I'm getting this book because I need that
help. Thanks so much for having me. Absolutely see you later. I'm
telling you you guys there. I think that's one of the things that I
noticed recently in my life, you know, after my dad got sick,
and after Scott and I split, it's you know, it's me and the
dogs down here. And I think that that's one thing why I've been going
home so much, is because I need that work life balance. Right,
I'm down here. One wake up call is kicking ass. To be perfectly
honest, I never dreamed I would get this far in my career. However,
I have no boundaries. I work at home every night. I get,
you know, pretty bad sleep, to be perfectly honest, But when
I do go home and I see my parents, and I see my friends
and the people who are special to me, it does an amazing job of
sort of mending those parts in your heart where you're thinking, Wow, you
know what, I'm doing really good in my work life, but my personal
life, I need to prioritize some things. And I'm telling you sometimes go
into whatever your happy places, or you know, whatever is kind of your
zen or where you feel like, this is where I came from, this
is where I belong. It goes a long way. I'm just saying.
So if you're feeling that burnout, take that pause, take that step back,
because everything Amy said was totally right. We lead Local live from the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Jennifer for jones Lee. This has been
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