Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on w b Z Boston Radio,
Speaker 1: the Iike's One to Day on Wall Street, and the
Speaker 1: the Red Sox. It's salvage a win, but barely. Uh anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's and the weather is really cold. Spring has
Speaker 1: not sprung. We're like a third of the way it
Speaker 1: seems to me, well not a third, maybe a quarter
Speaker 1: of the way through the spring. But that's okay. We're
Speaker 1: gonna cheer with Betty up tonight, that's for sure. My
Speaker 1: name is Dan Ray. Thank you very much. Nicole rob Brooks,
Speaker 1: the producer of Nightside, is back in the broadcast to
Speaker 1: center in Medford, Massachusetts. He's all set to begin to
Speaker 1: take your phone calls beginning at nine o'clock. In this hour,
Speaker 1: we have four very interesting guests. Each of them have
Speaker 1: a story that you should be aware of, and and
Speaker 1: we will get to all of them, I promise. And
Speaker 1: later on tonight at nine o'clock, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: that that MBTA train collision with a tractor trailer truck
Speaker 1: yesterday and Canton. I'm sure that we'll figure out what
Speaker 1: happened or how that happened there. But I got some
Speaker 1: questions and We're going to raise those at nine o'clock,
Speaker 1: and then we will talk about the roller coaster ride
Speaker 1: of the stock market which continue today. Yesterday they climbed
Speaker 1: Killimajaro and today they get right down the other side,
Speaker 1: just up and down like a literally like a yo yo.
Speaker 1: So we'll get to all of that, but first let's
Speaker 1: get back to something we can all agree upon, and
Speaker 1: that is the Stepping Strong Center at Brigham and Women's
Speaker 1: Hospital with us as Cheryl Lang. She's the program director
Speaker 1: for the Stepping Stone Stepping Strong Center at Brigham and
Speaker 1: Women's Hospital. Easy for me to say, Cheryl Lang, Welcome
Speaker 1: to night Set. How are you this evening?
Speaker 2: I'm great, Dan, how are you? Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for having me.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a wonderful organization that came out
Speaker 1: of the the horrific events of the marathon bombing. Now
Speaker 1: it's going to be, believe it or not, twelve years
Speaker 1: ago this April. It just doesn't seem possible that the
Speaker 1: twelve years have passed. But how did this start? There
Speaker 1: was a young woman who was injured. Her name Jillian Rennie.
Speaker 1: Is that how her name was pronounced?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. Jillian Rennie was unfortunately, one of the
Speaker 2: survivors of the marathon bombing. She was cheering on her
Speaker 2: sister at the time at the finish line with her family,
Speaker 2: and she unfortunately suffered traumatic injuries to her legs. Thankfully,
Speaker 2: she was treated at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where the
Speaker 2: doctors and nurses were able to save her life and
Speaker 2: both of her legs. And as a result of learning,
Speaker 2: you know, just how underfunded and neglected the field of
Speaker 2: traumacare is, and being a trauma survivor herself, her family
Speaker 2: really wanted to give back to the brig down and
Speaker 2: so they started this incredible center that I'm so fortunate
Speaker 2: to be a part of, called the Jillian Running Stepping
Speaker 2: Trauma Center for Trauma Innovation at Brigham.
Speaker 1: Now, my understanding is that as many great charities do
Speaker 1: you folks actually have a running team raising money for
Speaker 1: the center. You've done it how many marathons in a row? Now?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. We started in twenty fourteen, a year after
Speaker 2: the marathon bombing, and it is our largest fundraiser for
Speaker 2: the year. It is critical to the work that we do.
Speaker 2: We basically we fuel a lot of trauma research and
Speaker 2: really advance the field of trauma care through innovative treatments
Speaker 2: and discoveries. We do educational programs for both clinicians and
Speaker 2: the general public to prevent trauma or treat trauma, and
Speaker 2: also improve recovery of trauma. Really critical to all of
Speaker 2: the work that we're doing, and we are so fortunate
Speaker 2: this year to have about one hundred and fifty three
Speaker 2: runners on our team all fundraising for trauma care.
Speaker 1: What do you think you raised this year? I'm sure
Speaker 1: you have some idea of what you want to raise.
Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty three runners, that's multiplied by all
Speaker 1: of the people who support each of those runners. What
Speaker 1: have you raised so far? And well, what did you
Speaker 1: raise last year? And what are you trying to do?
Speaker 1: What are you going to try to do this year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are trying to raise at least one point
Speaker 2: seven million. We are at our one point four million
Speaker 2: mark right now, which you know, again is super critical
Speaker 2: because trauma research only receives less than two percent of
Speaker 2: federal research funding, and so we really do fuel all
Speaker 2: of our funding towards trauma research, and we have given
Speaker 2: about eight million so far over the decade that our
Speaker 2: center has been around towards trauma research, and we really
Speaker 2: couldn't do it without the fund from the marathon, so
Speaker 2: it is essential if you've raised eight.
Speaker 1: If you've raised eight and you're going to try to
Speaker 1: get to one point seven, you're getting close to the
Speaker 1: ten million dollar mark, or hopefully get close to the
Speaker 1: ten million dollar mark, and I'm sure we'll exceed that
Speaker 1: next year. What can listeners do? I assume that the
Speaker 1: running team at this point is well formed, so you
Speaker 1: probably can't get any more bibs to run, But what
Speaker 1: can listeners do if they'd like to support a runner
Speaker 1: or support the program?
Speaker 2: Generally, Yeah, we have a website it's the Brigham and
Speaker 2: Women's Stepping Strong Marathon Team where people can go and
Speaker 2: donate and support runners who are obviously working really hard
Speaker 2: to get to their fundrais and goals and otherwise. Like
Speaker 2: our center also does the five k and the ten
Speaker 2: k and other running running fundraisers as well, if people
Speaker 2: want to get involved, We're always looking for ways to
Speaker 2: increase our running community and really help advance the field
Speaker 2: of trauma care and breathe awareness about it.
Speaker 1: So if people aren't ready to run a marathon but
Speaker 1: like to participate in a five k or a ten k.
Speaker 1: Is that throughout the year. That's just not a marathon weekend?
Speaker 2: Is so no, not just marathon weekend. We do. We
Speaker 2: have teams with the Boston five k, the Boston ten
Speaker 2: k which is in June, and then also the Falmouth
Speaker 2: road Race, which is in so many opportunities.
Speaker 1: Let's do that website one more time, nice and slowly,
Speaker 1: so everybody can write it down. And we have a
Speaker 1: lot of runners in the Boston area. I think most
Speaker 1: most people realize the running heritage and the running legacy
Speaker 1: that exists in this community. Going back to you know,
Speaker 1: Johnny Kelly and the first marathon was at eighteen ninety
Speaker 1: seven here in Boston. Tell us, how give us that
Speaker 1: website nice and slowly one more time?
Speaker 2: Sure, so it is run? Are you U N stepping
Speaker 2: strong s t E P p I n G strong
Speaker 2: s t r O n G dot org run steppingstrong,
Speaker 2: dot org perfect perfect.
Speaker 1: That's nice, short, simple words that everyone can spell. And remember, folks,
Speaker 1: it is a dot org. Well, I just say again,
Speaker 1: what odd of that horrific tragedy of twenty and thirteen
Speaker 1: has come so many great works of so many good people,
Speaker 1: and you folks are right in the forefront of this.
Speaker 1: Ye're at the tip of the spear. So the congratulations, Cheryl,
Speaker 1: wish all the all the best, and I hope that
Speaker 1: some of our listeners, if they can't participate as a runner,
Speaker 1: maybe they can participate as a donor and I get it.
Speaker 1: Get in touch with you at run steppingstrong dot org.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time tonight, Cheryl, and best
Speaker 1: of luck on Monday, April twenty.
Speaker 2: First, thank you so much, appreciate.
Speaker 1: It, welcome, have a great night, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: When we get back on to talk about another event
Speaker 1: that is a great event, it's called Hot Stove, Cool Music.
Speaker 1: They celebrate twenty five years of a star studded CONCERCT
Speaker 1: in Boston that features everyone from former Red Sox players
Speaker 1: to a rock and roll Hall of famers. We'll be
Speaker 1: talking with the CEO and director of the foundation to
Speaker 1: be named later right after this break. My name is
Speaker 1: Dan Ray, and you're listening to Nightside on WBZ ten
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Speaker 1: the world, anywhere in the world, literally three hundred and
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Speaker 1: only be a finger tip away, or you'll never be
Speaker 1: more than a fingertip away. When we get back, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about music, Red Sox and Rock and Roll,
Speaker 1: Hall of Famers, Hot Stove, Cool Music, twenty five years.
Speaker 1: Where's the time gone? Back?
Speaker 3: Right after this, you're on night Side with Dan Ray
Speaker 3: on WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: Well, we have a big event coming up this weekend,
Speaker 1: actually this Saturday night, and with us to talk about
Speaker 1: it is the executive director of the Foundation to be
Speaker 1: named later Elise Now, Jimmy Alease, Welcome to Night'side. How
Speaker 1: were you Dan?
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me. I love your show.
Speaker 4: I'm doing very well.
Speaker 1: Thanksane, thank you very much. I think most people know
Speaker 1: that Hot Stove Cool Music is a great charity that
Speaker 1: is involved with the Red Sox organization. I think Peter
Speaker 1: Gammons and Theo Epstein may have actually started this, but
Speaker 1: it's amazing to think that it's been now around for
Speaker 1: twenty five years. Say it ain't so that. Where is
Speaker 1: those twenty five years gone?
Speaker 4: Where have they gone? It's so true. So yeah, So
Speaker 4: here's the story. Peter Gammon's started Hot Stove Cool Music
Speaker 4: in two thousand. This is before CEO and Paul even
Speaker 4: started the foundation to be named later, because Peter wanted
Speaker 4: to give back, so he didn't want to do a
Speaker 4: golf tournament. He wanted he loves music and he loves baseball,
Speaker 4: and a lot of baseball players loved playing music, so
Speaker 4: he started it and THEO actually back then played guitar
Speaker 4: in a band, so THEO used to jump in and
Speaker 4: play with them. And then after, of course, you know,
Speaker 4: we won the World Series in two thousand and four
Speaker 4: and THEO was the general manager helping with that. He
Speaker 4: and his twin brother Paul decided to harness all the
Speaker 4: love of the Red Sox fans and turn it into
Speaker 4: good in the community. So they created the Foundation to
Speaker 4: be named later, named after you know this, but some
Speaker 4: people might not realize it. They didn't know what to
Speaker 4: name it after they created it, and Paul said, let's
Speaker 4: name it later, and THEO said, let's just name it
Speaker 4: after a player to be named later. The Major League
Speaker 4: Baseball trade term when he goes to trade a player
Speaker 4: and they don't know who they're going to get. So
Speaker 4: that name stuck. And they started this twenty years ago
Speaker 4: and Peter decided to give the Foundation to be named
Speaker 4: later hot Stove Cool Music, so that it would be
Speaker 4: our signature event. So we have had Hot Stove Cool
Speaker 4: Music as our signature event that we run since since
Speaker 4: Paul and THEO started the foundation.
Speaker 3: And Peter, you've got.
Speaker 1: Carrying along the baseball theme here. You have quite a
Speaker 1: line up on Saturday night. Their tickets are still available,
Speaker 1: but this is going to be a big event. It's
Speaker 1: at the Paradise on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Uh you
Speaker 1: got you know, as we mentioned, Peter THEO, Sam Kennedy,
Speaker 1: the president of the Red Sox. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: many of these folks are going to be playing, but
Speaker 1: who's who of Boston Sports. But you even have a
Speaker 1: former New York Yankee star who is a standout musician
Speaker 1: center field of Bernie Williams.
Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 4: Bernie is a big part of our family and has
Speaker 4: been for a long time. Lenny DeNardo is going to
Speaker 4: be playing, and you know Josh Cantor the organists from
Speaker 4: the Red He'll be playing and headlining. The whole show
Speaker 4: is going to be cheap trick. They are Hall of
Speaker 4: famers as well. We have a lot of Hall of
Speaker 4: famers coming. And then the guys from the Cars Greg Hawks.
Speaker 4: Sadly we lost w'k okasik, but the Cars guys are
Speaker 4: going to do a whole set of Cars songs for us.
Speaker 4: And then we have k Hanley from Letters to Cleo,
Speaker 4: Bill Janovitz from Buffalo Tom. They are some of the
Speaker 4: founding musicians of Hot Stove. And yes, tickets are still available.
Speaker 4: It's all a donation. We want you to have as
Speaker 4: much fun as possible and do as much good as possible.
Speaker 4: So the tickets are on our website at Foundation to
Speaker 4: be named later dot org or ft b NL dot org,
Speaker 4: which is the first Letter of our name Foundation to
Speaker 4: be named later, and all the money goes to our
Speaker 4: Peter Gammon's College Scholarships for young people who are overcoming
Speaker 4: mendus obstacles to get to college. We pay their tuition gap,
Speaker 4: we give them a mentor who stays with them all
Speaker 4: through their college journey. We help them with internships, and
Speaker 4: we also help them get jobs. And all we ask
Speaker 4: is that they turn around and help mentor the next
Speaker 4: generation of Gammon scholars. So we're really really lucky that
Speaker 4: this concert helps us do that. And we have the
Speaker 4: best people in attendance and the best people on stage,
Speaker 4: and the best people promoting it like you.
Speaker 1: Well, my pleasure, that's for sure. So it's the paradise
Speaker 1: on Comwealth Avenue. It's this Saturday. The doors open at five.
Speaker 1: I know it's supposed to be a rainy day Saturday,
Speaker 1: but what a great way to spend Saturday night indoors
Speaker 1: listening to some Greek music. The concert starts at seven
Speaker 1: pm and the tickets available at Foundation to be named
Speaker 1: later dot org or if you just want to do
Speaker 1: the acronym FTBNL dot And I know over the years
Speaker 1: you've had some great current place. Of course, the Red
Speaker 1: Sox are going to be on the road, so no
Speaker 1: Red Sox players will be in attendance, but the former
Speaker 1: Red Sox will be represented very well there. And as
Speaker 1: they say, even to just to show how open minded
Speaker 1: this this foundation is, you're even allowing a former Yankee
Speaker 1: to participate. I guess Bernie Williams is quite the musician.
Speaker 1: I mean he was. He was a musician in center
Speaker 1: field with the Yankees. He was a great player with
Speaker 1: all those Yankee championship teams. And is he doing this?
Speaker 1: Is he? I believe, and I'm shooting in the dark here,
Speaker 1: but tell me if I'm wrong. I believe that he
Speaker 1: actually now makes a living at that, and that he
Speaker 1: does albums and he tours and he is a full
Speaker 1: time musician. I hope I'm not overstating it.
Speaker 4: No, you're one hundred percent right. Bernie actually went after
Speaker 4: his baseball career. He went to music college and he
Speaker 4: became reallyized and educated in music and performance. And now
Speaker 4: he does it all over the place. He does a
Speaker 4: lot of it for charity, but he's in high demand,
Speaker 4: even in Boston. There's nothing better than watching Bernie Williams
Speaker 4: and Bronson Arroyo play together. On stage and backstage talk
Speaker 4: about how they opposed each other on the fields. It's
Speaker 4: just such a fun night that all these really magical
Speaker 4: things happen. Especially, you know, when you're at this event,
Speaker 4: it's a small venue.
Speaker 1: It's less as long as Bernie doesn't bring a rod
Speaker 1: along with him, because a rod will try to knock
Speaker 1: the guitar out of Bronson's, Broun's and Arroyo's hand. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you know that story back from the playoffs where
Speaker 1: a rod tries to knock the ball out of Arroyo's
Speaker 1: hand as he's he's going to try to tag him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it's great combination baseball in music, best
Speaker 1: forms of entertainment that you could possibly have Saturday night
Speaker 1: at the Paradise nine sixty seven Commonwealth Avenue. Doors open
Speaker 1: at five, concert starts at seven. Again, tickets available at
Speaker 1: the Foundation to be named later dot org or ftb
Speaker 1: NL dot org. Great job, thanks thanks so much, Elise.
Speaker 1: Now Jimmy the executive director, and you did a great
Speaker 1: job tonight and we'll have you back anytime. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 4: Oh you're so kind. Thank you for having us and
Speaker 4: have a great night. I hope to see everyone there.
Speaker 4: Take care, there'll be a lot.
Speaker 1: Of people there, I'm sure. Thanks, thanks so much, Elise.
Speaker 1: All Right, we are hit hit the bottom of the
Speaker 1: hour here, So we got a newscast coming up for
Speaker 1: a few minutes, and then we will be back, uh,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about the long standing tradition
Speaker 1: of take a child to work day and beyond, and
Speaker 1: a little later on I'm going to talk with a
Speaker 1: gentleman about what is calling the Great detachment, meaning a
Speaker 1: lot of people are going back to work or are
Speaker 1: back and worth but they're kind of detached from work.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but we will find out. So
Speaker 1: we have two more guests, and then, as they say,
Speaker 1: after nine o'clock, I want to talk about that accident yesterday.
Speaker 1: I just still don't understand how this happened, and i'd
Speaker 1: like to, you know, talk about that. We'll be back
Speaker 1: on Night's Side right after the news at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour.
Speaker 3: It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Porry. Welcome back everyone. We are going to talk about
Speaker 1: a tradition in this country which is a great tradition. Frankly,
Speaker 1: I have known about it forever, but I certainly don't
Speaker 1: know when it started, and that's going to be one
Speaker 1: of the jobs that my guest, Edgarhouski is going to
Speaker 1: explain to us. Explain to us. It's a take a
Speaker 1: child to work and beyond. Ed, I probably have butchered
Speaker 1: your last name here. I'm guessing it's Grachoalski.
Speaker 5: It's Korhalski, but works too.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the sea is silent, so it's Kwhoalski. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got it right. Yeah, well yeah, why do you
Speaker 1: make the C silent there? I mean, that's a great letter.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's an important letter of the alphabet, one
Speaker 1: of the most important twenty six letters there are. So
Speaker 1: you're you're the chief marketing officer of Junior Achievement USA.
Speaker 1: I remember Junior Achievement. That's been around while?
Speaker 5: Yeah, actually where Junior Achievement has been around for one
Speaker 5: hundred and five years and.
Speaker 1: It's a while.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been quite a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I remember when I was a kid back
Speaker 1: in the last century. So us tell us about take
Speaker 1: a child to work day and beyond. I know it's
Speaker 1: almost self explanatory, but it's Thursday, April twenty four to
Speaker 1: twenty What you tell us about it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so take a Child to Work Day and beyond
Speaker 5: it's really the evolution of take your daughter to Work Day.
Speaker 5: You'd mentioned it goes backways. It was actually nineteen ninety
Speaker 5: three when it started. I was originally with the MIDS
Speaker 5: Foundation and then kind of had some different iterations and
Speaker 5: now Junior Achievement is leading the effort in partnership with
Speaker 5: our friends over at Staples. And as you mentioned April
Speaker 5: twenty fourth, there'll be young people going into workplaces across
Speaker 5: the country to see what the world of work is
Speaker 5: like up close. So again we're happy to continue this tradition.
Speaker 1: Now April twenty fourth is a Thursday. Is that a
Speaker 1: legitimate day kids can skip school? And yeah, bomb or Dad,
Speaker 1: what's going on there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, so typically schools will give permission. We do
Speaker 5: have actually on our website. If you go to take
Speaker 5: take a Child to Work Day and search that with
Speaker 5: Junior Achievement, you'll find a website we have forums where
Speaker 5: you can actually get permissions from school so you can
Speaker 5: bring your child in for the day or more importantly,
Speaker 5: these days, we actually have opened it up so all
Speaker 5: kinds of kids can go. And so if you don't
Speaker 5: have a child and then have an opportunity to go
Speaker 5: to work with a parent. Through Junior Achievement and other organizations,
Speaker 5: you can partner up and have them get a job
Speaker 5: shadowing experience, either on April twenty fourth or really year round.
Speaker 5: That's where that beyond comes in.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that then does explain it. How important is
Speaker 1: it in your opinion that whether it's someone's child, meaning
Speaker 1: a son or daughter, or for that matter, a niece
Speaker 1: and nephew, or I guess in theory it could be
Speaker 1: a neighborhood a neighbor's child. It doesn't matter what the
Speaker 1: parent does, whatever they do for a job, it's important.
Speaker 1: And I think that every parent. I can remember as
Speaker 1: a kid getting a chance to go to work with
Speaker 1: my dad occasionally. You've got a sense of what a
Speaker 1: job was like, responsibilities, whatever the job is, whether your
Speaker 1: parent is selling cars, fixing cars, building cars, you know,
Speaker 1: a greenskeeper, to golf course, anything, you could imagine that
Speaker 1: those Every job is important. Is that part of the.
Speaker 5: Message, Yeah, it is. Every job is important. It also
Speaker 5: gives young people exposure to again, either what their parents
Speaker 5: doing or just different jobs in the workplace. You know,
Speaker 5: kids really only know what they see and you know
Speaker 5: right now you have a big proportion of kids out
Speaker 5: there who all want to be influencers because that's what
Speaker 5: they see. But we know we can't all be influencers.
Speaker 5: So it does give them an opportunity to see what
Speaker 5: different jobs there are, what kind of winds up with
Speaker 5: their interests and talents, and gets them to start thinking about,
Speaker 5: you know, this might be something that I want to do,
Speaker 5: you know, in the future, and how from an education
Speaker 5: standpoint can I get there. So that's really the intent
Speaker 5: of the program.
Speaker 1: I also want you to explain Junior Achievement how it
Speaker 1: has evolved over the years, because there may be people
Speaker 1: who are listening to again, parents or grandparents who are
Speaker 1: involved in Junior Achievement and have lost contact with it.
Speaker 1: What's the status of Junior Achievement these days and how
Speaker 1: can families or how can kids participate?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so Junior Achievement is a thriving, growing organization. We
Speaker 5: reach four and a half million young people a year,
Speaker 5: including in the Greater Boston area, and really we emphasize
Speaker 5: work readiness, financial ordercy, and entrepreneurship. A lot of people
Speaker 5: may remember Junior Achievement for our after school program, the
Speaker 5: Company Program, where kids would start companies and go door
Speaker 5: to door selling stock and products and services and things
Speaker 5: like that. That was the foundation of our program up
Speaker 5: until the mid seventies, but since then we've expanded into schools.
Speaker 5: We have programs for grades K through twelve and really
Speaker 5: just all kinds of great exposure for young people in
Speaker 5: terms of understanding how the world works. Frankly, it's real
Speaker 5: critical life skills. And so anyone who is interested in
Speaker 5: finding out more about DAY, then good to our website
Speaker 5: j dot org and you know, learn about the organization
Speaker 5: in general. And also if they want to connect with
Speaker 5: JA locally, there's there's ways to do that through that website.
Speaker 1: I will bet you that there's a lot of pretty
Speaker 1: well known Americans who can trace the beginning of their
Speaker 1: exposure to the business world or to adulthood through junior achievement.
Speaker 1: I'm shooting in the dark hair because I sometimes ask
Speaker 1: questions that we don't script our questions here on Night's side.
Speaker 1: So I'm just wondering, are there individuals who most of
Speaker 1: my audience would know, who participated in junior achievements as
Speaker 1: young people and have gone on now to become pretty successful.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, Mark Cuban is a name that comes up.
Speaker 1: He was in jay and actually Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 5: Dallas Mavericks, Yeah, and you've seen him on Shark Tank,
Speaker 5: but he Yeah, he was involved with Junior Achievement in
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh when he was a teenager and actually has said
Speaker 5: that junior team had taught him, you know, everything he
Speaker 5: knows about business. So that's a that's a great testament.
Speaker 5: Doctor Sanje Gutta on CNN, who you know, he's a doctor.
Speaker 5: You wouldn't think that, he said, jay A really taught
Speaker 5: him how to be confident in presenting himself because he
Speaker 5: had to go in front of people and talk. And
Speaker 5: so we've got lots of stories like that from different
Speaker 5: different folks, and not just not just notable folks like that,
Speaker 5: but really millions of people who've gone through the program
Speaker 5: who credit j for helping them really discover their potential
Speaker 5: and succeed in life.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's been a story in the newspaper
Speaker 1: up here in the last few days. We haven't talked
Speaker 1: about it much on the air, but it made the
Speaker 1: point that I guess this year. The story came out
Speaker 1: of the Harvard Crimson newspaper that at Harvard University, they're
Speaker 1: actually teaching remedial math to some of these the freshman
Speaker 1: students at Harvard. Now, you would think that Harvard would
Speaker 1: as always accept the best and brightest, and to think
Speaker 1: that remedial math is being taught to kids who are
Speaker 1: being accepted at Harvard points out that there's probably a
Speaker 1: lot of kids who can benefit from these programs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go to school, you know, attend classes, get your grades,
Speaker 1: all of that. But when you when you're spending so
Speaker 1: much time in front of computers again maybe aspiring as
Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier, to become influences, you're missing out on
Speaker 1: great programs, you know, whether it's Scouting or whether it's
Speaker 1: Junior Achievement where you learn how to you know, how
Speaker 1: to market something, or even better yet, how to market yourself,
Speaker 1: which is you get comfortable talking with other people. And
Speaker 1: I just think that a lot of parents and a
Speaker 1: lot of grandparents maybe have forgotten that the groups like
Speaker 1: Junior Achievement are available to help their children and their
Speaker 1: grandchildren apart in a way from the video screens. And
Speaker 1: you can get lost in those video screens. I know
Speaker 1: sometimes I'll get lost in those video screens and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, you know, okay, that's enough. I've seen
Speaker 1: enough old time hockey fights, or I've seen enough, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, great moments in baseball. Let's let's let's get
Speaker 1: back to work. It can be, it can be really
Speaker 1: a real temptation there. And I just think kids miss
Speaker 1: a lot by not being involved. I'm kind of old fashioned.
Speaker 1: I think about the idea of kids having paper roots
Speaker 1: and how many kids who had a paper route that
Speaker 1: was what laid the foundation for their sense of how
Speaker 1: the economy runs, what newspapers are. You know, we've gotten
Speaker 1: away from a lot of that stuff in the last twenty,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty or so years, And I think to
Speaker 1: the detriment of young people. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: agree with that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's one of those things.
Speaker 5: I'm a gen xer, so again, I grew up in
Speaker 5: that environment where you were interacting with other kids and adults,
Speaker 5: and what we find as kids are today. It's a
Speaker 5: real eye opening experience to be in a situation where
Speaker 5: you're kind of thrown in with kids that you don't know,
Speaker 5: with a mentor and you kind of work together on
Speaker 5: a project or an activity it's an origining experience and
Speaker 5: a lot of kids who you know have been in
Speaker 5: front of screens. I mean, technology has its place, but
Speaker 5: it can't replace the interactivity that happens when you're having
Speaker 5: conversations with other people and kind of discovering really had
Speaker 5: to have that communication and problem solving. And so that's
Speaker 5: one of the reasons why we do have the support
Speaker 5: we do as an organization because you know, employers across
Speaker 5: the country see that. I mean, those are the top
Speaker 5: concerns that express when they have new employees is you know,
Speaker 5: they don't get along with other people, They're not able
Speaker 5: to communicate, they can't manage time, they have a hard
Speaker 5: time processing things from a critical thinking standpoint, and so
Speaker 5: programs like Junior Achievement, where there's that interactivity and that
Speaker 5: mentorship and that hands on learning experience are really important
Speaker 5: for that and.
Speaker 1: All great points. So give us the web side one
Speaker 1: more time. I guess it's pretty simple. Ja dot org.
Speaker 1: Is that it ja dot org.
Speaker 5: Yes, you're going to find out more information on junior
Speaker 5: Junior Achievement and take a child to work day and
Speaker 5: beyond that's that's where to go.
Speaker 1: Perfect, so Ed Groholski, Thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 1: I hope that a lot of my listeners, even if
Speaker 1: you're a grandparent, think about your grandchildren. If your parent,
Speaker 1: think about your kids, get them involved in junior achievement
Speaker 1: and other organizations like that. It lays a foundation for
Speaker 1: a successful life. Edgar Groholski, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time. I really enjoy talking with you.
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Very welcome. We get back. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: what's called the Great detachment. Seventy nine percent of employees
Speaker 1: are disengaged at work. Going to talk with Dennis Holland,
Speaker 1: an expert on employee engagement. Right after the break here
Speaker 1: on Nightside.
Speaker 3: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WAZ Boston's
Speaker 3: news Radio.
Speaker 1: Some of us have heard the phrase the Great detachment.
Speaker 1: The Great detachment is not about some couple of railroad
Speaker 1: cards being separated. No, no, no, no. The seventy nine
Speaker 1: percent of employees are disengaged at work. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk with Dennis Holland, he's an expert on employee engagement.
Speaker 1: Sounds to me, Dennis, like you're working in a field
Speaker 1: that is diminishing. Even as we say.
Speaker 6: Oh, well, thanks for having me on DAN.
Speaker 1: You talk about a talk about a growth industry, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the opposite of that is. So look,
Speaker 1: what is this based on. This is based on some
Speaker 1: sort of a big survey that was done by a
Speaker 1: group called My Perfect Resume. I'm still looking for my
Speaker 1: perfect resume. If you find it, let me know, will you.
Speaker 6: I will, I'm looking for mine too. But yes, it
Speaker 6: is based on a survey, and the fact that seventy
Speaker 6: nine percent of employees are disengaged only becomes really interesting
Speaker 6: with the next statistic in that survey, and it says
Speaker 6: that seventy six percent of employees say they're manager's engagement
Speaker 6: affects their own. So it's the connection between the employee
Speaker 6: and the manager that really matters here. That's the story.
Speaker 6: Because companies have been focusing on engagement DAN for more
Speaker 6: than a decade. So if we've been spending this much
Speaker 6: time on it, why is it at record highs? And
Speaker 6: the answer is simple, Well, we think it's simple. It's
Speaker 6: because we're focusing on the wrong thing. Engagement is just
Speaker 6: a symptom of a bigger problem. Employee turnover is a
Speaker 6: symptom of a bigger problem. And when large research houses
Speaker 6: like Gallup come out and tell us that more than
Speaker 6: fifty percent of employees say they first of all disengage
Speaker 6: and second of all leave a company because of their boss,
Speaker 6: their relationship with their boss. What we're dealing with here
Speaker 6: is not disengagement. It's a crisis of connection in the workplace.
Speaker 6: Does that make me believe me?
Speaker 1: I believe me. I understand what you're saying, and I
Speaker 1: realize that when you break this down according to this study,
Speaker 1: categorize some characteristics. They say the lack of motivation is
Speaker 1: the result of I guess thirty three percent of the
Speaker 1: people say that it's low pay. Another group say that
Speaker 1: primary source of apathy, followed by misalignment and values. Not
Speaker 1: exactly sure what that means. That's kind of a broad
Speaker 1: but then unclear expectations. I get it. Let me tell you,
Speaker 1: I've worked in my career in this business for many
Speaker 1: and it's a great business to work in. I worked
Speaker 1: in television and radio and now work in radio for
Speaker 1: eighteen years, television of a third one years before that.
Speaker 1: And the best bosses are the ones who know, you know,
Speaker 1: set out some clear expectations. What they expect, they share
Speaker 1: your values, pay, is always the lowest of the motivation
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. And the other thing that
Speaker 1: is interesting that I have seen only in my career,
Speaker 1: maybe other careers, but human resource individuals are disappearing, you know,
Speaker 1: faster than the midwinter snow. I don't know what have
Speaker 1: they ever done a survey as to what sort what
Speaker 1: percentage of companies have to actually have a human resources
Speaker 1: person on the ground as opposed to being somewhere, you know,
Speaker 1: one hundred miles away or halfway across the country.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that would be a great survey to have,
Speaker 6: is what is the support group for employees and that
Speaker 6: that is able to help make those connections. And so
Speaker 6: you said, I'm the expert. You sound like an incredible
Speaker 6: expert on it. And the biggest challenge right now, though, Dan,
Speaker 6: is that we're working in this extremely complex environment. In
Speaker 6: any team, there's a possibility there's five generations of people
Speaker 6: of individuals working in a team. Some of those people
Speaker 6: are working from home, some of those people are working
Speaker 6: from their office, some of them do both. We've got
Speaker 6: team members who are halfway across the globe, different cultures,
Speaker 6: different languages, different values. We don't know how to bring
Speaker 6: people together anymore. We've got this huge macroeconomic trend of
Speaker 6: disconnection from a personal standpoint entirely, but isolation too. And
Speaker 6: so when you've got when you're a leader in an
Speaker 6: organization and you're d with this tremendous complexity, what's happening
Speaker 6: is people don't even know how to talk to each
Speaker 6: other anymore. They don't understand how to give somebody expectations,
Speaker 6: how to talk to them about you're doing a great job,
Speaker 6: I appreciate you, and you're bringing such great value to
Speaker 6: the company, or I need you to I need to
Speaker 6: really work with you to help you grow in this area.
Speaker 6: We don't have those skills anymore because we are also
Speaker 6: spread apart. The work situation, not to mention every all
Speaker 6: the economic factors happening, is becoming extremely complex. We have
Speaker 6: to find a way to bring people together better in
Speaker 6: the workplace because dan as human beings, we were born
Speaker 6: hardwired for the need for human connection. We all need
Speaker 6: to be connected and our friends, our spouses and partners,
Speaker 6: but we spend a third of our life at work.
Speaker 6: How can we effectively run organizations when people are disconnected
Speaker 6: from one another and they have no basis for building
Speaker 6: that connection. That's why people are disengaged because they're checking out.
Speaker 6: They're not seeing by anybody, they're not heard by anybody,
Speaker 6: and they just they just resign while they're still in
Speaker 6: their chairs. And that's what's happening to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the That is the concept of detachment, what
Speaker 1: I think is so important. And I have seen this
Speaker 1: in myself with my own eyes. That you work in
Speaker 1: a building, and I've worked in plenty of buildings, and
Speaker 1: the people come in at night to clean the buildings,
Speaker 1: and a lot of my colleagues would never even say
Speaker 1: hello to those people. It would not even almost acknowledge
Speaker 1: their existence. And I like to talk to the to
Speaker 1: the cleaning crew and say, hey, how you doing. What's
Speaker 1: your name, just to find out what because they're the
Speaker 1: people who cleaned the who cleaned the restrooms, They're the
Speaker 1: people who moped the floors and all of that. And
Speaker 1: when I was in college one year that I cleaned
Speaker 1: bathrooms one summer and I was twenty years old, and
Speaker 1: no one would look at me, and I never forgot
Speaker 1: how I felt walking around. I felt like Bill Murray
Speaker 1: and Caddyshack actually, and people, people need to have that
Speaker 1: connection no matter what they is. Oh, when the boss
Speaker 1: walks in the room, everybody jumps up and says, oh, hi,
Speaker 1: mister Jones, how are you today? Nice? And so you
Speaker 1: mister Jones, don't you look lovely today? And that person
Speaker 1: you know is the biggest phony in the company, but
Speaker 1: they ignored you are I can write a book, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, maybe I will sell.
Speaker 6: Well you should. Let's collaborate on it, because welcome we
Speaker 6: might you know, take that, Take that metaphor or that analogy.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I'm a little bit late. He take that
Speaker 6: further and think about the fact that sometimes uh employees,
Speaker 6: your your your peers who are on the team. Maybe
Speaker 6: they only show up into the office two days a
Speaker 6: week because they're hybrid, or maybe they sit on a
Speaker 6: zoom call. It's that same effect of well, I don't
Speaker 6: really see you very often, and I don't really know
Speaker 6: who you are. It's the same thing. It's why people
Speaker 6: don't talk to the to the cleaning crew.
Speaker 1: It and I. They don't know this. Dennis. Let me,
Speaker 1: we're running out of time, but let's do this. Maybe
Speaker 1: I can have you back at some point in the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks and we'll do an hour on it,
Speaker 1: and we'll give people a chance to complain anonymously about
Speaker 1: the companies they work for and tell us we can
Speaker 1: we can run our own little survey. Would you be
Speaker 1: up for that?
Speaker 6: I would I would be so up for that. That
Speaker 6: would be would you.
Speaker 1: For an hour? And we'll take phone calls. I'll have that.
Speaker 1: We'll make this happen, Dennis, I really enjoyed it. I
Speaker 1: think we can't connected here, buddy, Okay, Dennis an expert
Speaker 1: our employee engagement. Thank you so much. We'll get you back,
Speaker 1: I promise. Thanks Dennis. Good night. All right, nine o'clock
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