In-Between: Temporary Chaos

I’m back this week taking you through the chaos of the past month and a half. **if you only knew the REAL truth**  

Here’s what we’re catching up on!

• Updates on momma Cindy’s hip replacement recovery 
• The whirlwind of moving into our new house
• Humorous anecdotes about my excessive wedding registry – I clearly thought I was entertaining an army! 
• My fav – the ‘quirks’ of adulting **melts on the floor**  
• Hiring someone to quit your job for you, apparently that’s a thing now

More importantly, I delve into advice on letting go of control. YES I KNOW! A triple Taurus giving actual advice on letting go of control. It’s important though. 

I also reflect on how to handle overwhelming life changes. Not as much advice on that one because I’m currently navigating that in-between myself. ;) Tune in for a mix of humor, personal experiences, and life lessons as I walk you through my recent hectic but exciting journey.

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Transcript

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Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of the in between. I'm your host, Elizabeth Cheney. Oh man, it's been a whirlwind. I feel like the past. Maybe not quite two months, but a month and a half. Uh, it's been a minute since you and I, since me and you had a heart to heart, a one on one. Uh, but before we go any further, hello to Kelly Mondora, last week's guest. I hope you enjoyed that episode as much as I did. She is awesome. Quite an incredible person, uh, really happy our paths cross. It was great to interview her. so yeah, check out her hashtag right in the fight campaign starting October 1st. Big shout to Kelly for making it on the podcast, but moving forward, moving on, moving down the road, if you will. If you're watching this or you're watching a clip Well, you wouldn't be watching a clip if you're watching this. You know what? I just I don't even you know what? I don't know where I was going with that thought. So we're just gonna stop right there I'm just gonna go ahead and warn you all there may be several moments of just utter chaos utter confusion utter What did she just say and not in like a little scandalous, but uh, is she okay? Did that make any kind of sense? Maybe she should get into politics. I'm just kidding, but I'm bummed. Uh, but if you're watching this, um, you're going to see a very sterile background. Uh, that's what I'm jokingly saying. All the books, all the art, all the color is gone. And I was wearing a white shirt because I feel like this is my uniform right now. Everything's packed this and that. I don't know where, well, I know where everything is, but it's just, it's chaos. We'll get into it. We'll get into it. But Um, it's so white, I sat down to get to record and I was like, Whoa, I, this, I mean, wow. Okay. And as I'm like talking, I can actually hear a slight echo. So hopefully that doesn't translate too much on the audio. Uh, didn't realize how much all my shit buffered the sound. Go figure. But, uh, all by background, very hospital feeling, very, uh, clean, sterile, opposite of my vibe. I was like, I need color. Well, as I am going through all my clothes, like all five pieces that are still here at this apartment, I'm like, I have nothing really that I could throw on. So I am wearing my wedding robe. The really nice robe that I bought myself on my bridesmaids on my wedding. It's a kimono robe. Kim and Ono. Kim Ono. it's called Kim and Ono. But anyways, I think it's these sisters, two sisters that own the brand, and they make really nice, uh, kimonos and robes. So, that is my pop of color today, my robe. So, fun fact, this was part of the wedding, so there's a little, like, history of Liz. I'm sure you all care so much about that. You know, one day down the road, you're gonna go to Liz Trivia. They're gonna say, who made her wedding robe? And you're gonna know the answer. I'm just kidding. I hope that's never a question on trivia, because that's freaking creepy. But moving on, moving on. So, it's been a minute. I feel like so much life has happened, yet, at the same time, I have to keep grounding myself that, nope, nope, we're taking one day at a time. It may feel like a year, but it's really only been a month. Man, what I would give to be back in NYC. And yes, I know I owe you all an episode on that. Mama Cindy's doing good after recovery, you know, and all the chaos that has ensued in my life the past month and a half. You know, my mom got surgery in the process. It was, uh, her hip replacement. I think I've talked about this before. And also don't worry, this is not a HIPAA breach because she said I could talk to you about it. Okay. Okay. But anyways, she is a trooper. She's a fighter. That's where I get it from strength, Cindy, the strength, but she is recovering really well. And she is hoping to get the other hip done later this year, like in November. And the therapist, because like PT comes like the day after you know, they said, hey, it's a little ambitious, but we'll see how today goes and how the rest of your therapy goes for the next 12 weeks or however long it is. And we'll go from there. Well, after the first session, they're like, Cindy, you're doing so good. I don't see why you can't get that hip in November. So. Shout out to my mom for being a badass, love you babe, and, uh, shout out for her recovery going well. So we are aiming for that second hip and then gosh darn, she's going to be like a bionic woman. It's really cool though because, um, my, I've mentioned this several times on the podcast, my mom is handicapped and part of her handicap, like what causes the handicap, so to speak, Is, was going to be replaced by this hip replacement. So, well, it's replaced the right word. Like, you know what I mean? Whatever causes the hip, the, the handicap is getting replaced. That is the right word. Okay. Someone's going to stop explaining myself now. So awkward removes her books and background. And I feel like a fish out of water. I don't even know what to do. I have a podcast. I feel like I'm in court. Court is in session. God, this robe definitely actually gives that vibe. Anyways, Cindy's doing great. Love that. I was able to take care of her, get away for a few days. things at the house are moving along splendidly. When this episode comes out, it'll be the day that our internet, fingers crossed, is getting installed. So, let us hope! That we are, we are rejoicing, we are celebrating the freaking AT& T fiber being installed because there has been the hold up in getting there and it has not been fun living in two different places. Wait, let me just stop right there. I haven't lived in my home at all. I've been living in my apartment, but going back and forth, honestly using my car. My SUV to take loads over, but I gotta say me and Stan, we've done some work and we got to get all of our wedding gifts out of storage, which was like Christmas all over again. It was so exciting we just put so much in storage. I have long forgotten what all we got. Plus we haven't used it. You know what I mean? Cause it's been storage. So getting to, yeah. Unpack and set up the kitchen was actually so much fun because it was all new stuff. I was like, oh, oh But I will just pause there and tell you just some interesting fun facts about me apparently as I was registering for these items, so go any further, we all know that I was very depressed in the year 2021, 2020, you know, all that shit I've talked about. If you're new here, just go back to some episodes or just keep listening because I'm sure at some point in the near future I'll talk about it again. But anyways, I digress. We went through our mental health battles. And even though I did not know it at the time, when I got married I was actually very depressed. So, I find everything that I'm about to say very funny. Uh, well, funny but also like, we're not gonna say sad, we're gonna say hopeful. So even though I wasn't in a great place, clearly I was hoping for the best. So, the amount of serveware, the amount of dishware, if I'm being honest, the amount of stemware that I now own, that is now in my home, is Unreal. It is not okay. It is, are you birthing an army? Are you planning to host every soiree and every party known to man for the foreseeable future? I mean, I got I don't even know, like 18 plates, like 18 sets of your setting plates, like plates, bowls, silverware, mini plates, salad bowls. Uh, 48 pieces in total of stemware. Now granted some of that included a little bit of my own that I already had, but I mean, I got eight glasses of one wine glass, eight glasses of another, eight of champagne flutes, and I'm just like. Who do I think I am? Let me ask you guys a question. How much wine do you think I drink in a week? Actually, let's just stop right there. How much wine do you think I drink in a month? I'll tell you right now, maybe a glass, and it's never at my own apartment. It's normally out or at a friend's. So, I, yeah, I don't know. I just kept opening boxes, and it was more stemware, more dishware, more serveware, bowls, trays, I don't know. Spoons, spatulas, forks, I just It's, you know what? All I gotta say is, the barbecue is at the stater's. I'm hosting everyone, we're gonna have a party. It's gonna be a great time because guess what? I have all the serveware and dishware to serve you. To let you eat comfortably. To give you a great time. Yeah, my aunt was joking. She was like, well, you could like gift some of these things to people since you have so many and I'm like, I don't even know who gave me what. Wouldn't that be just absolutely hysterically embarrassing? I'd laugh about it later, but I'd probably want to die if it actually happened, where I give somebody, you know, four of these said 2, 700, 000 glasses of wine I have. Glasses of wine? There's no wine in it. I don't even know why I said that. Wine? Glasses? My god, my brain is going everywhere. But anyway, they get in, they're like, uh, this looks oddly familiar. And then I'm like, hmm, I'm gonna go, I am gonna just slowly evaporate out of your presence. I digress. Wow. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's like the empty space or maybe it's the robe, but, or maybe you know what, it's just the fact that I haven't been here in what feels like weeks. It's just nice. I'm feeling a little hyper. Last time I felt like this on an episode, I feel like I was all over the place making weird comments and talking about who, what, where, when, why, to what extent. So we'll see where this goes. Uh, part of all the craziness though, is just the fact that, I bought a house and, uh, there's a lot to be done and a lot to do and, uh, you know, the biggest theme in this whole motherfuckin process that I have learned other than this is not, uh, buying a house is not for the weak and buying a house is so freaking complicated but that's a whole different conversation that I am not smart enough to talk about even though I just went through it, but let me tell you. I don't know if I trust it. Anyways, I digress. I digress! The point I was going to say is one thing that I have had to just accept and I have channeled and led this entire process with is letting go. I said it, letting go. And as a triple Taurus, that feels like sacrilege, but, You just gotta let go of control, and you have to ride the wave, and you have to just let every other thing pause. One might call it surviving, and you know, I too, especially a year or two ago, would have definitely called it surviving. But it's not surviving, it's honestly self care. I said, you know what, I got to pause this podcast because why am I going to force myself to make content that honestly is probably going to suck because I'm so stressed out and just, you know, it is what it is. Try to post content here and there, but don't worry about the episodes right now. The internet, that's been the biggest thing because that really weighed on, well, what do we do about moving in? Well, like I speak, how to stay at the apartment cause we got to work and then this, this, that, that, and it's like, Oh, let go of control. We're just going to slowly start to move shit. And then as I look around and as you can see, clearly we have moved some shit. And you know, we're, we're donating a lot of furniture cause we're a lot of it's stuff that we've had for years, some hand me downs, whatever. And now we're getting our nice adult stuff. We're getting our grownup stuff. Cause apparently I'm a grownup, even though like I feel like the biggest fake out there, man, yeah, I'm like, mom, did you feel like a grownup when you were grown up? You're still a grown up. And she's like, looks at me like I'm crazy and I'm like, Alright, moving on. But, We have done a lot and I'm proud of us because in the midst of all this crazy, I've had baby showers, I've had bridal showers, my mom had surgery, work, we're planning this huge work event, and I'm like, Wow, gosh, I had a bachelorette, I have another bachelorette this weekend, yes, hurricane's coming through and we're going on a bachelorette, so that's gonna be fun, and then I go straight into said work meeting, but then guess what? I get to enjoy my home. yeah, I may not get to enjoy it quite, uh, quite now, once we get this internet tomorrow. But I'm gonna get to enjoy it in a week. And then the real magic gets to happen. we get to move in. We get to live there. I can tell you, after each visit, I feel like the momentum and excitement builds. Every time we take a load to the house, do this, do that, whatever. It's like, ooh, this is our house, and we have a couch now, and like a really nice bed, and it's, I'm not going to say it's starting to come together by any means. No, girl, we got to pay. We're going to have so much color. All I got to say is the whole maximalist style. That's how ours is going to be like, you're going to walk in going, Ooh, nice wallpaper, wall, love, color, love, color, ceiling. Yes, yes, yes. Uh, it's all on my head and on my Pinterest board, but can't wait to see how it turns out. But to reach visit, it's like, It's starting to feel more like it's ours, more like it's our home, more like I want to be here. I don't want to be at the apartment. I just want to be here. We've met all of our neighbors and they're so nice and it's so cool and like you can sense the community and I have been craving that for so long and The magic that's going to happen with the podcast. Oh, the podcast. I don't even know what I'm going to do yet. Like, do I want some really cool eclectic, not eclectic. I don't know where I was going with that, but some really cool bookshelves and things where I kind of want to do a wallpaper wall with like a bunch of different art and then like a neon sign up my logo. And now saying that out loud, I'm like, yep, that's it. You know what? Not even going to pull that's a jury's not out on that because she hasn't made a decision. Court adjourned. So many exciting things. And so, in the letting go of control, I have had to, weirdly enough, not worry about the future. Oddly enough, all my racing thoughts, although I am combating them and dealing with them, it's just quieting the noise more than I have in my entire life. It's telling myself, hey, why are we concerned that we're gonna drop the ball? We don't ever drop the ball. And I don't mean to say that I always freaking do it. Sometimes I do fail, but I never dropped the ball because failing like whatever the situation is or whatever the failure quote unquote is, you know, failure could be just not working out. You know what I mean? I deal with it, but I'm never, never on my ass. I always land on my feet. I was better myself. I never dropped the ball. So I had to keep Kind of reframing this like overwhelming narrative of intrusive thoughts because there was only a bajillion of them because there was so many things to do and there still is, are so many things to do. I was just like, mm, man, there's a lot to do, but I'm going to focus on one thing at a time because I can't do that because, well, I can't move in quite yet. Well, I can't do that because I don't have internet. Well, I can't do that because I can't cancel my lease until the 20th. Well, I can't do that because, well, that hasn't started yet. What can I do? And quit worrying about all the things that still have to get done but they can't be done at this moment. And it's been so freeing, it has been so freeing, it's been so relaxing, it's been, um, relaxing. Why the fuck did I use that word? Um, hmm, looks like I'm starting a daydream over here. It has been freeing though. Maybe I want to say relaxing, it's relaxing for me because normally I'm used to my brain She's firing off on all cinders at every single second of the day, what it feels like, but she's been doing it and, uh, I'm not beating myself up. You know, a little bit earlier today, actually, I was kind of in my head about things cause like I had a moment of peace, like packed a lot. Okay, I was going to do this. I have my plan for the day. I'd done this for work. I was going to record this, this, this, and then it kind of set in like. How I haven't been as consistent with the podcast, how I haven't posted as much as I was getting really good at and the cadence of and this and this and that and that and and then I had this thought like thinking back to last week's episode with Kelly when she was talking about Ilios and how she started it and like you know sometimes you take six steps forward or you take one step forward take six steps back It's so true, and as I was thinking about that this morning, or earlier today, where, whoo, you know, starting to get a little imposter syndrome for a moment, because, you know, when my brain's not stressed about all this move shit, it's like, what else can we feed on to make Elizabeth insecure? Uh, and that's when, you know, my, my Jiminy Cricket side goes, uh uh, no, we've done better here, don't know why I made him a, with a British accent, but there we are. And so I just, pause and I'm like, it's okay. You feel like you're taking steps back because you haven't been as consistent, and sure, the engagement, the algorithm, these social media apps are mad at you, why don't you use us? yes, But really it's like seven steps forward because it's this house, what I've been manifesting and hoping and praying for. And now it's here and it's like the foundation, the, the build, the grounding that I need and I've been craving and to have this cool ass space that's completely my own and huh. That is going to be exciting. And then also to have a place where I can invite people as guests to come if they want to. You know, if we can't make it somewhere to a studio or something, like, it'll be a legit studio home office where I could invite them in and it's not weird. It's not cramped. It's not, where are you going to sit? You want to sit on the floor? So, I don't know what's going on in your life, but I'm sure we all have our own can of overwhelming worms. And my advice, unsolicited advice at that I guess, if you're in a situation of just oh, there's so much to do, what do I do, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, maybe you just feel anxious in general. Work on letting go of control and reminding yourself it's all gonna work out, I always get it done. What can I focus on right this moment? If it helps, make a list of all the things you've got to do, but then like prioritize what's the most important thing and then block everything out. Make a new list if you have to. That's what I did. I like made a list of everything so I felt good getting it out of my head, like better, more comfortable, more comfortable with myself. And then I made a list of the things that are most important. And then each day I have just pulled apart from the original initial list, making the priorities of the day. And then sometimes I'm like, you know what, this requires too much bandwidth for me. This needs to go back on the list, to deal with like once we kind of get more settled in the house. And that's okay. And so, really, the biggest difference I think is, is just reminding myself, hey, you got this. It's okay, you don't have to be freaking out, worrying about every single nickel, dime, penny. Like in your head, you're gonna figure it all out. You always do. You need to trust yourself more. I think it comes down to that because as much work and, you know, progress as I've made on myself, I think there's one intrusive thought that I, I don't really think I've really combated too much, which is that you gotta get all done. Oh, you're stressed. You gotta get all done. If it's not gonna get done. And I never, like, interjected that thought to be like, Mmm, but you always get it done, so why are we so stressed? Life would feel so much better if you weren't stressed about stupid shit that you always get done anyway. And I've just kind of adopted that and it's been thriving, so. She says that with a mechanical laugh. I have a migraine. I have a, I've had a migraine for four days now. Um, I think it's like lack of sleep. I had a global entry interview at 6 30 in the morning, Monday, I scheduled it that early. So that is me, myself and I, I'm the only problem for that. this was like months ago and I mean this appointment cause like that's how far in advance you get through this. And I woke up at five 30 and I was like, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. We are going back to bed. I cannot function. Like I don't even think I'd be able to drive at that point. I was so exhausted. I think collectively the past month and a half I've, I've gotten, I don't know, three full nights worth of sleep. As you can see these beautiful bags and yes, you know, this is the real authentic me. I'm not even going to like hide it with makeup. Also I keep my kimono, my kimono, whatever the heck it's called. Keeps getting caught in the stupid. Handle, so excuse me if I look like, awkward. Another thing I can't wait to have with the podcast, like cool, cute little chairs that also don't like, you know. If you're listening and not watching this, you're like, what is she having a seizure right now? What is happening? Don't worry. We're not, we're good. We're healthy ish. Um, we're doing good. but that is essentially a 22 minute spiel of what's been going on in my life. Where have I been mentally and how am I doing? So we're surviving, we're self caring, we are letting go of things that we can't control and we are not worrying about getting everything done right this moment. Oh man, maybe I'm just burnt out too. Like today I was talking to one of my coworkers and I was like, you know, I don't even think I'm overwhelmed. I think I'm past that. I think I'm just. Burnout. But, burnout also, I don't know. What is burnout? Like, I'm talking like I frickin know these things like I'm a psychologist. Not that burnout is an actual, like, psychological term. But, uh, you know, I, I think it's exhaustion, but also I think it's just, you are focusing on what you have to focus on, prioritizing what you need to prioritize, compartmentalizing what you might need to compartmentalize, and it's going to be fine. It's going to be great. even if I had that one lapse moment earlier today where I was like, I'm a failure and that posted a lot of content, ignoring all the things in my life that are causing me to be distressed. So we're doing good. We're doing good. Even though it's been chaos, I did work with one of my friends who is a brilliant writer to help me come up with some copy for our speaking of some keynotes and things that I want to pitch myself in the new year to like different groups, companies, networking events. I think I've mentioned this before, but we got together like two weeks ago, week and a half ago, and I'm not going to say anything yet in the podcast. It's still in the incubator, in the brainstorming session, in the draft mode, well, it's not brainstorming draft mode is better. But with that said, the things that we came up with, they are so freaking good, like wisdom, wisdom, good. I need a trademark that, but you know, I just, I just want to humble brag. It's going to be amazing. It's going to be a huge, huge. I'm just kidding. Well, I'm not just kidding. I'm sure it will be, but I'm just wanting to brag on my girlfriend, Rebecca. She is such a genius, a creative genius. She's such a whiz, but she came up with some marketing gold keynote gold. I cannot wait. Also shout out to my friends, Rosa and Brittany for always encouraging me on the speaking path. Okay. Okay. Um, Let's see. What else? Oh, remember how I'm always like talking about T Mobile? Fuck you, T Mobile. Screw me over with my bill each month trying to get it handled well. Long story long, I adulted so well, I ended up switching to Verizon and I'm now saving 45 a month. month. I'm very proud of myself on that. And I'm bragging because like I said earlier in the episode, I still feel like I am an imposter adult. So it's nice to, you know, recognize when I've done adult things and, uh, stuck it to the man kind of thing. No more screwing me over T Mobile. No more. Bridesmaids 2 apparently is happening. That is exciting. one of my top five favorite movies, Bridesmaids is definitely up there. I was so obsessed with that movie when it first came out that I actually googled the, uh, the script and read it completely. So when you watch that movie with me and you're like, wow, you know, almost every line, I just need you to know that I'm not weird. I just read the script and I was obsessed with it. I have no idea what it's about. I just saw the movie poster, so hopefully it wasn't like AI and fake, cause that's gonna suck. It was like a reputable, like legit site, so. But now that I say that out loud, I don't even remember what it was. I just saw the poster and I was like, wow! But, uh, no, I think it's happening. I'm pretty sure it's happening. Because I asked some people and they said it was happening. So I think it's happening. lots of new TV coming out. Speaking of TV, one of my girlfriends, Anna, she was like, you need to watch Unsolved Mysteries. And I'm thinking, I don't need to watch that because with my imagination and paranoia and anxiety, that is a recipe for, uh, nightmares and I'm not going to go to bed. And I just bought a house. So, even more so, I don't need to go do that. Well. I watched the episode, She Tells Me, and the episode is about someone being murdered in their basement. And I watched the whole thing right before I went to bed. I mean, who am I? Maybe I'm desensitized right now because like I'm overwhelmed and burned out, right? Right? Oh, wait. No, I'm not overwhelmed. That's what I said earlier. I'm letting go of control. So maybe I'm letting go of my anxiety and inhibitions. Release your inhibitions. The rest is still unwritten in the words of Natasha Bendingfield. Uh, but anyways. Unsolved Mysteries, Body in the Basement. Uh, it was very bloody, I'm not gonna lie. I, I can't, I didn't know they could show that kind of shit. I don't, I don't know, whatever. I don't watch this TV, so maybe they do. But it was very fascinating. Uh, don't wanna get too much into it, but, Let's just say it went from like the husband to somebody intruding to did she do, like, was it suicide? Then it was like did the husband hire somebody to kill her? I don't, it was, it was wild. So if you want a very perplexing, case, which I guess that's why it's unsolved mysteries. Go check out body in the basement. I think it's the most recent season. again, let me preface, I do not watch this kind of TV. So take that with a grain of salt. But I thought it was very interesting and then I listened to a podcast about it and it was very rewarding to have my assumptions and like things that I noticed and picked out, agreed upon. So. Not saying I'm a detective, but I am saying I'm perceptive. Wow. That should be some PI slogan. If that isn't already, if you're a PI person, give me a call for all your marketing needs because Dan, that was good. She's still got it. She's still got it. And she still hasn't done improv, but she can be funny. Okay. That's enough of that. looking at the rest of my notes. For today's episode. Oh, big shout out to friends who check in on you. I made a funny video earlier this week about, well, I think it was funny again. I think I'm funny, but a video of just like, Oh, life is chaos. And I don't know what sleep is and these bags are nuts, but I am surviving. And my girlfriend Tiara, uh, reached out to me and she's like, so make sure you're okay. And I was just like, Oh, you know, I'm eating like shit. I feel fab because like in the middle of all this chaos, I have decided to see a new doctor to rehabilitate my shoulder. So I am like, you know, Learning how to use it again because apparently I wasn't using it correctly. Oh God. pray for the day my body feels normal again. It's going to happen though. It's going to happen because I am only 33 years young. I have a whole long life, so I'm going to get better. Anyways, I digress. With that said, I haven't been able to work out as much as usual, so that's probably adding to my stress because I don't have that outlet, you know? And she was like that all of this is temporary the bad eating that this that it's all temporary just remind yourself of that Even though it's overwhelming even though it feels like chaos, even though again a thousand to do's it is temporary You have to remind yourself of that. And I say this out loud to remind myself, you know, like that is how you ground. That is how you do it. It is temporary. You're going to get through it because you always do. You made it this far. That is powerful. But I tell you what, I'm exhausted. Adulting is just, not what I thought I was going to be as a kid. I'll tell you that right meow, right meow, but to close things out, remember how we used to have like in between the innerwebs, what's going on around the, around the world? I don't know. I, I couldn't even tell you what's going on in my city or my state, let alone the country, other than it's an election year and yikes. But, I get this newsletter every morning. It's like a business tech newsletter they had a very interesting, cover story. Well, cover story is probably the wrong word, but, like, top story for their, their newsletter. And I think this was, like, a few weeks ago. And I printed it out, because I was like, this is just, wow. I know the job market sucks. Uh, I know I have definitely like put a pause in my search. Cause again, life is chaos. Why am I going to throw another, another chaos bomb in the process in the mitts? I am not, that is again. Boundary and letting go of control. I can't deal. I can't manage but you know what in a month Maybe I can and that's okay because a month is not that far away So with that said even though I and everyone I know looking for a job think it sucks Apparently an industry that is thriving is companies that you pay to quit on your behalf. Yes, you heard that, right? Would you pay a company to quit your job for you? So I just want to read a few of the highlights and things from this article So they start off by saying anyone who's had a bad job is fantasized about screaming I quit before storming out of the office But quitting in reality can be an anxiety producing process filled with uncomfortable interactions This is the hustle daily newsletter, by the way, and whoever is their writer is just really good I love reading. They are very conversational, very funny, very comedic, very smart, very articulated, but, uh, shout out to the Hustle Daily. Probably should have given them credit before I just turned to reading. But anyways, um, I digress. So, for workers who just can't cope, resonation agencies that promise to make quitting more painless have emerged, per the Wall Street Journal. So, there's a company called Exit, which quits on behalf of 10, 000 clients a year for like around 140, and offers 50 percent off for repeat customers, and then Moe Murray, which means I can't do this anymore in Japanese, has received 11, 000 ish inquiries from clients in the last year. So for about 150, they will help you, um, they will help full time workers quit their jobs and negotiate with employers. So, interesting. Right, like talk about anxiety. you know, I'm not saying I've ever enjoyed quitting a job, but I definitely ain't gonna spend that kind of money to quit on my behalf, if you know what I mean. But then it goes into another part of this whole weird quitting debacle, which I thought was interesting too. So group work. Quitting isn't the only unpleasant corporate task that employees are looking to offload. Workers are finding creative ways to call in backup. Quote, shadow stand ins are being employed by workers who are secretly outsourcing parts or all of their jobs. Um, interesting. So You, I mean, Hey, like more bang, more buck, I guess, so to speak, then it says that Microsoft's 2024 work trend index found that 78 percent of AI users are bringing their own AI tools to work. However, I want to point out the time of AI users. So this is like the thing that like statistics are so stupid about. It's like, Oh, this is a really high statistic, but like what they failed to mention is like, it's a very low statistic that they're actually surveying or pulling this from. Granted, I have no idea the metrics of this said statistic, but I'm just giving. Thank you. My two cents on statistics. You still with me? Okay, the last thing I want to call out or point out from this article they meant to say. One in four Gen Zers said they've brought a parent to a job interview. And one quarter have had their parents apply to a job on their behalf. Um, according to a resume templates. com survey that surveyed 1. 5 thousand people. Again, it's not a very big population. However, I am curious how many of you have ever had a parent quit on your behalf? Anybody, trust me, I, I will get my mother to do as much as I can get away with on my behalf. Well, can you call them? Well, can you deal with it? Can you, can you pretend to be me? You know, I knew I, I leveled up when I had to get my own dentist and make those appointments.'cause there's just something about, graduating from your childhood dentist and you're like, oh man, I'm leaving the nest. I'm getting my big girl dentist. But, uh, man, gosh, quitting my job. Hell, I wish Cindy would work for me. I digress. I digress. So that's what's going on now. everybody is miserable. I'm just kidding. No, everyone loves each other. No, but apparently the job market sucks and people are still paying People to quit on their behalf. I wonder what that means like I guess like are you paying for them to write the email for you the resignation letter cuz like that parts the easy part the hard part is the face to face All right, we're gathered here today to give you my resignation like I don't think they're doing that for you And if they are well damn that is my hats off to you, that's that's pretty badass pretty baller pretty ballsy this is where I can't help myself. I have to say, Don't burn bridges. Just FYI, you never know. I'm not saying you have to keep the bridge, but be careful that it's a bridge worth burning. You know what I mean? but hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. So, on that note, I'm gonna go, gotta go take a load to the house, you know, getting closer and closer. We're manifesting that friggin internet getting installed tomorrow because Girl needs it. My husband needs it. We need it. It's time to be in this house because obviously this background is boring and You know, you know, you know Clippy clap, clippy clap, clippy clap Anyways, I wish you the best. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode I'm gonna try to get one out next Wednesday, but it might be next Thursday because of that work event But hey, it should be from the house, even though it's not gonna be like set up or anything like that yet You It'd be cool, right? It won't be a white background, I'll tell you that right now, and maybe I might not be wearing a robe, I might be wearing like regular clothes, normal clothes, colorful clothes, I don't know, now I'm going crazy, now I need to go. So on that note, I wish you all the best week, weekend, be safe, especially if you were in that Hurricane Helene's path, not looking too good out there, and I will see you next week on an all new InBetween.

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