Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. Unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
I'm not gonna step on anybody's toes about religion or
anything like that. But I think there was a time
in life where I was blind to the reality of
the realms of the moment. Is that too much? Is
that too poetic? In other words, I had blinders up
in my radio world where I was able to envision
people on the other side of this microphone. It was
in twenty twenty where a higher energy said, nah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You need to go out there. You need to walk
the streets. You need to listen to how people are
truly speaking. You need to embrace what is the real community.
See what they're paying for groceries. Hear what they're paying
for rent. Watch them as they try to struggle through
several quarters in a couple of pennies just so they
can get a black and mild, but they come up short.
And what are you gonna do? You're gonna go on
the other side of the cash register. Are you gonna
pay for it so they can do it again, again,
again and again. We are living some really weird times.
We openly admit that, and we have been saying that
uncertainty has become the king. And in these moments of uncertainty,
we're putting our energy into the hands of other people.
We want other people to make decisions for us. And
if we stand up and say no, do not treat
me this way, there's always gonna be somebody on the
other side that's ready to fight. This war about going
back to work. Going back to the job just continues
to get the attention of so many big name people.
Martha Stewart says, go to work. There are those that
are now taking on the great Martha Stewart. Hey, Sarah,
this is the daily mess, a chronological walk through in
everyday world. I am a daily I don't envision this junk.
It's happening. And we've got to be able to create
the conversations so that things that have happened and have
brought damage to people's dreams and ambitions. It goals and passion, compassion, unity,
It needs to be talked about so we can light
new fires. This is the daily mess. Paying bills is
a subject that hardly anybody wants to talk about. Don't
you talk to me about that. Literally, I'm gonna be
honest with you. When it's time for me to pay bills,
I walk into this office and I put on music
of meditation. It is just the softest, most mind blowing music,
because I've got to be able to go into a
moment of calm to pay the bills. It's an expectation.
I've been doing this since the age of fifteen. Pay
the bills, but it plays with my heart. It's still
a very important part of the process. To pay bills.
One must be available to work to earn what's being
called today's living. One look at that, and one look
at us. There's something wrong here because it doesn't match
what we're wearing, what we're eating, driving and watching. We
have one amazing, out of control appetite. When rent isn't met,
there's accountability, a price you're going to have to pay.
In most cases, that place of business is going to
fine you dollars and cents that you probably don't have.
Here's the part about being a grandparent that you really
don't read in books, and you sure in the hell
didn't pick it up while you're in high school or college.
Being a grandparent puts you too far from how to
teach the actions and reactions of those on the other
side of your children. We can mention and or suggest,
but ultimately the one generation difference doesn't have a platform.
This is the part of getting old that really sucks,
because when you're falling witness to your children's children entering
their own space without the requirements of survival. It's a
tough thing to swallow because you're standing over there afar.
We offer, but the wisdom of many chapters keeps itself
at bay because of a Star Wars energy force is
much bigger than I You want to write a book,
you want to get into that field, research the relationship
between grandchildren and grandparents in this modern age. I see
it every day at the essential job where the grandparents
are taking care of their children's children. But are they
teaching the valuable lessons of the requirements of survival. I
love it when they how the children to understand more
of what an ATM card is or what Apple pay is,
But it does ache in my heart when they say,
what's our phone number? Oh, I don't know, I got
to look it up. On the smartphone. I don't know
even parents do that. What's your phone number? I don't
know the requirements of survival in a modern age. If
one thing bad should happen, can you do it? I'm
not trying to be negative. I only want to help
open a door that will help you put together the
tools that'll be waiting for you when it does happen.
It's not if it's when sitting down to keep a list,
to keep an open face journal, having conversations with your
future self. Did you do this? This is what this
is like? Now? What will happen if you do do
this and we prepared for it. I don't want to
sound like your grandfather, but I think I probably sound
like a crimudgeon, don't I the grandfather that deserves to
have his tires flattened out there in the driveway. But
the goal is to reach to find that path to
teach because it's very difficult to listen in this modern age.
I just had a great conversation with sheriff Paula s
Dance from the A and E TV show Sixty Days In.
She had a brilliant quote. The quote was, in jail
is where we meet people, see the rest of us
on the outside, we meet them before the crime, but
the sheriff meets them for the first time on the inside.
And that's why they are doing everything profusely to get
them their GEDs, to get them to understand their skills,
to grow with them so that when they are set free,
they're not coming back. But how do they get in there?
What are we doing on the outside? That is basically,
what are we doing on the outside? What should we
be doing on the outside to keep them from going inside?
The physical act of survival comes with a price. Another
quote that I got I was with Newt Gingrich, former
Speaker of the House. I was with him about two
hours ago. His quote was, it's not what I'm saying,
it's what you're hearing. That's a life changer too, because
we could both be listening to the same story over
and over again and come up with two interpretations. Things
to think about as you build your tool kit to survive,
to be a leader. Words I wish I could share
with my grandchildren. On the other side of my daughter,
I'm Ril And that's the daily mess